Posted on 12/01/2022 9:42:37 PM PST by george76
Decades ago, KGB spy Yuri Bezmenov defected to America and exposed a four-step plan the Soviets engineered to bring down the United States: demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization. Demoralization was the first and most critical step, and it involved infiltrating the institutions upon which our society was built.
Although the Soviet Union is long gone, demoralization is still occurring in the United States, but it’s coming from within, especially from our academic institutions . I know this firsthand because I almost became another demoralized, nihilistic American youth until I learned to turn my left-leaning college experience to my benefit.
I attended the University of Colorado Boulder—in a place so far ideologically left that Coloradans jokingly refer to the town as “The People’s Republic of Boulder.” On the surface, it looked like a typical college campus with sororities, fraternities, and students busily rushing around campus trying to get to their destinations. Students had that adventurous attitude that comes with being away from home for the first time.
However, I was able to quickly pick up on the subliminal messaging in my introductory classes intended to push students toward the left. And the messaging became increasingly more blatant and extreme as my undergraduate career progressed.
For example, my Sociology 101 professor delivered his lectures as if he were matter-of-factly lecturing on various theories, thinkers, and ideas of the field, but he skillfully and ever so cunningly was steering 400 students to think as Marx did.
I specifically remember how he got almost the entire class to agree with his proposition that employees and employers are inherently in conflict with each other because while one group is interested in trying to increase its compensation, the other is actively attempting to lower it. Of course, there was absolutely no mention of thinkers such as Thomas Sowell who thoroughly debunked that Marxist viewpoint.
What was most alarming to me as a 19-year-old college student was just how unthinkingly my peers accepted the professor’s argumentation without much, if any, challenge.
By the time I became a senior in college , I witnessed a professor declare to the class his allegiance to Foucauldian ideology (i.e., an oppressor versus oppressed worldview expressed by power dynamics) by stating, “I’m a Michel Foucault fanboy.” When this professor suggested that being white automatically made a person a racist, my classmates simply nodded their heads, accepting such nonsensical statements as truth.
What solidified all this indoctrination in such young impressionable minds was when my fellow students were generously rewarded with high scores for their repetition and slow acceptance of the leftist worldview. This is how the process of demoralizing thousands of young people at just one of the many “places of higher learning” throughout our nation takes place.
With the nonstop bombardment of woke messaging coming at college students, how can they possibly hope to maintain the will to keep pursuing their degrees, let alone keep their sanity?
The answer lies within a human being’s power of interpretation. According to the ancient stoics, the only things in the world that we have total control over are our own actions, our reactions to outside stimuli, and the way we interpret our experiences. This wisdom is directly applicable to—and necessary for—the survival and thriving of an open-minded college student.
Although I had a choice to view my college experience as a dreadful slog through the thick mire of extreme leftist ideology with its divisive messaging, I decided to treat this experience as an opportunity to learn as much as I could about what makes people so possessed with such a negative worldview. In other words, I treated my college years as an observational research project.
I attended each class with this mindset, and, in a very short time, I was able to make my classes significantly more interesting—all because of how I chose to think about them.
This is what my advice is to students sitting in a classroom right now, trying to keep their eyes open because they’re so bored of being on the receiving end of incessant propaganda: Remain critically engaged without becoming sentimental about well-crafted messaging directed to arouse feelings of guilt or inadequacy. Also, view your experience as an opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the process of demoralization works in practice.
For those who reject this extreme ideology because of its destructive nature that divides people into “us versus them” categories, treat this as an opportunity to learn about how and what your ideological opponents think and what their plans for the future are.
In other words, do what the ancient Chinese warrior-philosopher Sun Tzu would do: The more you look at it from their perspective, the more you are preparing yourself to effectively counter your opposition—and the better you are preparing yourself to win on the ideological battlefield.
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My son graduated from The Ohio State University only 2 years ago and would tell me just how Lefist and Woke they have become. EVERY course outside the core STEM program that he needed was a lost cause. By the time he left, Architecture was drifting Woke so STEM was being contaminated too.
Problem was that he kept wanting to argue against the Leftist/Woke indoctrination. My advice was that he did not have to believe, embrace or accept the BS they were cramming down his throat. I said play their game, give them what they want, get your grade and GTFO. He is still recovering from the indoctrination, but his student loans are ALL PAID OFF and at least he has a real job.
Just learned the OSU president just resigned because SHE was an abject FAILURE as an administrator. Poetic justice at it’s best. The article says, “In its search that landed Kristina Johnson as president, experts say Ohio State paid for one of the most expensive searches among public universities.” GO WOKE GO BROKE. Yet another reason they are known as the Suck-Eyes!!
That, too. I worked for a conservative think tank in the early 80’s and we hosted him for two weeks.
Demoralization was the first and most critical step, and it involved infiltrating the institutions.
Many never notice the ring placed in their nose
Yuri Bezmenov was right..
The Left’s “long march through the institutions” is a deliberate attempt to create conditions right for the final overthrow of our private property society and freedom ~as advocated by Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci
Grown-ups accept today's Leftist indoctrination w/o thinking or challenging. I can't tell you how many people believe that all of Biden's policies, like shutting down drilling, have nothing to do with energy prices. They all say it's Putin's price hike and blame the "war" in Ukraine for that and inflation and high food prices etc.
Thank you.
The University of Colorado has been woke for some time.. 1980’s, the Boulder NAZIs tried to railroad Edward Rozek, a conservative professor, a WWII Polish Army veteran and former Resistance fighter against WW2 - NAZIs
Yup—I went to college in the 1970s as well.
At one point I got so disgusted I walked up to the Introduction to Economics professor and asked him a simple question:
“Have you ever heard of Ludwig Von Mises?”
He said “no”.
I said “You need to read him. He disagrees with everything you have said in this course.”
Agree Marxism socialism communism different names but the same company.
The only difference is their uniforms.. like different drug cartels or the bloods versus the crips.
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explained that to my kids starting in first grade..... believe the truth and love your country, God and family. “A bunch of losers are going to try and trick you... don’t fall for it. But tell them what they want to hear and move on.”
As they got older, I directed them to books and just sat and talked to them. Worked well.... family is the key... and that’s why they want the parents to be minimally involved in a student’s education.
The important point here is that the cost of education is way overpriced.
Throwing it back at the leftist professors, there needs to be price controls on how much a professor makes. Cut their salaries in half or maybe even down to a third.
Next up. A university should provide an education first. And that means, minimalist dorm and campus. You don’t need a billion dollar campus to teach students math and science.
Also, the education’s primary goal should be to prep a person for a career and give them the ability to make a living. Fluff degrees should be cut or at least not subsidized by the rest of the university. Make the gender studies majors pay more... but that would be sexist.
Woke college degrees are a waste of money and time.
Yes I believe Pat Buchanan wrote a fairly good coverage on the 3 Italian communists that came up with the idea of subverting a culture to allow communism to grow.
What I find most fascinating (in a morbid sort of way) is that communist movement in Europe where it started has died out more or less. Yet the indoctrination/subversive principles have lived on and grown of their own accord here in this once considered bastion of capitalism.
It’s almost like a tumor was found and removed (fall of the USSR 1989) but unknown to Doctors it metastasized and sent out little cells before it died and these are now spreading and killing the body (republic) again.
For those who 1984 or ‘We’ are ‘too difficult’ there is ‘Animal Farm’, which is , in its way, an even more powerful parable.
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