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Jan 4, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

It is amazing the delusions that people can live by and how words are used to help perpetuate the delusion. Being in deep sleep -- at a low level of consciousness is called being 'woke'. 'Thinking' is reduced to sound bites. When exposed to other points of view there is anger and name calling rather than rebuttal. It's as if to say, "You bastard, don't try to get me to think."

The Party trained who back their team no matter what, similar to a sporting event. History has shown us what The Party trained are capable of doing and it isn't pretty.

To be "well informed" through MSM and to shun information from outside the MSM zone.

Some can heal. Some are perm-mutated (permanemtly mutated).

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Jan 4, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Yes! First time I walked into the philosophy section of a book store many moons ago I walked out with 'think on these things'.

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Jan 4, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Great book. The original title was to be: This Matter of Culture.

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Brrrrrrr... and I thought I could write :-)

It will pass. It will come to an end. This ideology feeds on itself, it destructs itself. For what happens if intersectionality over intersectionality is applied to construct the hierarchy of victimhood? The individual remains. And it will turn out (as it should be) that the group is there only to further the individual, not the other way around. The phrase "team player" is also a good example of this newspeak. It presumes sacrifice. How much are you willing to give up to be part of the team?

As this goes on, more and more people will find that they have reached their limits of participation. They will realise that, no matter how great the sacrifice to the team, the team will not be there for them. Because eventually, the ideology is going to come for them too. They will find themselves out of the boat, either by coming to a realisation themselves, or being forced out. And it is only possible to reason and think independantly and critically once you're out of the cult. It will not take everybody, but it will take a critical mass.

It will end, there is no question about that. But alas, the better question is how much death, suffering and misery lies between now and then?

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Jan 4, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Amazing article.

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"All the maladjusted malcontents misanthropic easily duped humorless joyless cult loving blue haired neo Marxist bums of our beautiful world are in power everywhere and they quickly want us back in the caves." oh, thaaaat's gooood, Citizen. And it's only one of the many linguistic jewels embedded in your essay. Jane's second paragraph in her comment is its equal, I might add.

I don't like caves, and I won't dwell in one.

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Jan 4, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Holy friken crap! What a great article. No more coffee for me today.

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Great article. Right on the money. A reality few can see.

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Jan 4, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Great essay! Academia seems like a scary place to be right now, so for the time being it’s good to have someone smart and thoughtful as yourself on the inside.

The only other word I would add to your list that gets shouted often by these folks is misinformation. They are frequently “reporting” and tattling on others due to their problematic misinformation, right? 😂

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Yes, their favorite justification for censorship 'misinformation'. Weaponized by oligarchs and tech monopolies now to only keep 'official sources' and 'authoritative sources' as the basis for 'fact checking'. Corporate 'pravda'.

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Jan 4, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Caution! Speaking freely gets in the way of the illusionary World of Nice™️, and is to be avoided by those on the “right side of history”…..

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Jan 6, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

You are spot-on about the role of language. The following link is to the full essay but here are the first three of seven factors that are covered ( http://werex.org/a-general-theory-of-financial-relativity/ ) :

The following seven cognitive clarifications and adjustments provide the final perceptional tweaking needed to bring the reality of the global pretended-banking system [and most everything else] into focus.

1. Humans are highly cogno-linguistic. We perceive reality largely by the language that we use to describe it. Most everyone believes and presumes that you have to be able to think something before you can say it. The more dominant reality is that, above a certain base level of perception and communication, you have to have the words and language by which to say something before you can think it. Whosoever controls language – controls the mind.

2. The world is ever-increasingly controlled and administered by people who genuinely believe whatever is necessary for the answer they need. Administrative agents of the entrenched-money-power have solved the criminal-law enigma of mens rea or guilty mind by evolving or devolving (take your pick) into professional-schizophrenics who genuinely believe whatever they need to believe for the answer they need, and who communicate among themselves subconsciously by how they name things, and by how things are named for them. They suffer a cogno-linguistically-induced diminished capacity that renders them incapable of perceiving reality beyond labels.

3. Their core business model or modus operandi is the systematized delusion:

“A “systematized delusion” is one based on a false premise, pursued by a logical process of reasoning to an insane conclusion ; there being one central delusion, around which other aberrations of the mind converge.” Taylor v. McClintock, 112 S.W. 405, 412, 87 Ark. 243. (West’s Judicial Words and Phrases (1914)).

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Hope it helps. Tim.

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Jan 4, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

This time I am left wondering what is the point to all these words? I ignore so much talk and do what my conscience tells me and what I see with my own eyes. I am no longer in a classroom so cannot accept or reject what is claimed today about what is taught esp to kids. However, I am unclear if this is a racist rant or a rant against being felt compelled to act nice. I know there is injustice in where polluting industries are placed and in the attitude of many police towards people of color. I only feel compelled to be polite to everyone and learn their story by being aware than anyone of any color can have malintent. I have never felt compelled to believe anything regarding what you seem so worked up over.

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We should all be worked up about it if we care about liberty, autonomy, free speech, the pillars of a free, open tolerant society. It all started with critical studies in academia decades ago and permeates everything now under the guise of social justice and diversity, equity and inclusion. Equity is not equality. This is not the civil rights movement of the 1960s and judging individuals by the content of their character. This is Mao's little red guard infiltrating the west. It's all a lie that is illiberal in its claims of liberalism, exclusive in claims of inclusivity, discriminatory in appeals for equity, and un-diverse in claims for diversity - you can be diverse in skin color, but not ideas and opinions. It's the suppression of thought and speech by totalitarian tyrants and at the heart of our western meltdown for the past decade. This piece is for those familiar with this cynical totalitarian movement which is closely related to the cynical totalitarian covid policies across many western countries the past two years. Maybe start here if you're interested in knowing more about its roots.

https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Identity_and/dp/1634312023

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Jan 4, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

I suppose the piece should start with the disclaimer that it is only for those in the know. However, you have a lot of claims that are without solid examples of these claims being executed. Could you provide that?

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You're right, it does make a lot of assumptions for the reader. Assuming they have seen the intolerance on college campuses the past 7 years. The banning, censorship, blacklisting, protesting people that hurt their feelings, supported by administrators and faculty that has now leaked into private institutions everywhere including big tech monopolies. Tearing down dozens of statues of 'problematic' people across campuses and now cities including Theodore Roosevelt in NYC. Banning "problematic" books in schools that were staples of english and american literary traditions for generations. You familiar with Mao's cultural revolution and today's term 'woke' or 'cancel culture'? I could go on forever, the examples are now daily. Start with one of the foremost experts on the smoke and mirrors of 'social justice' today and maybe buy his book above if you want to know more in greater detail. I'll paste an excerpt...the last sentences sum it up nicely. It was once a noble aim that was easy to support before it got hijacked and derailed for nefarious ends.

https://newdiscourses.com/2020/02/naming-enemy-critical-social-justice/

"Still, the ideological movement that’s visibly more likely to carry pitchforks than water for the cause of social justice has become a menace and threatens to become a tyrant, and this is a shame. We risk losing a lot of progress at the hands of this abominable fumble. Something claiming to speak for social justice is rotten, and I am declaring that something the enemy of free, civil, and liberal societies. This may be seen as controversial, but the dispute is borne in ignorance. It, itself, openly and admittedly begins and ends with a ruthless criticism of liberalism and free societies, which it deems as inherently and systemically oppressive.

Critical Social Justice is a kind of religious worldview that seeks to enforce Critical Social Justice and produce more activists for Critical Social Justice. These will be critical theorists and activists who claim to be about social justice when they are, in fact, about critical theories. Rather than a God to worship and serve, the upside-down postmodern faith of Critical Social Justice offers an Enemy—systemic injustice—to destroy, and whatever remains or gets erected in place of what it deconstructs will then be subject to the same fate.

This probably isn’t what you think you’re defending when you, as a good and decent person who cares about people and the problems of society, defend social justice. Most of the people who support it have no idea because they, like most normal people, have never read the primary literature. The fact is, Critical Social Justice is not about social justice at all; it has stolen social justice from the people who care about it and need it most."

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Jan 6, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Good points from both and much appreciated. I have not read through the linked material but the part quoted piqued my memory of something I read and copied over about 25 years ago and which seems relevant here:

Author Eric Fromm addressed a similar problem in an Introduction to a 1960 reprinting of Edward Bellamy’s 1887 novel “Looking Backwards 2000 - 1887:

Three words are used in this introduction to which people react in an allergic fashion, i.e., utopia, socialism, and nationalism. It is interesting to see why in our time these words have lost their original meaning. All three have in common the quality of lost hopes and ideals: Utopia, in our materialistic world, means idle dreaming, instead of the ability to plan and change into a truly human world; Socialism has been betrayed by the reformist leaders of 1914, and by the communist leaders of the Stalinist and Khruschevist systems, while originally it expressed in a more realistic and scientific way the goals of the utopia; Nationalism has deteriorated to the idolatry of the nation-state, instead of retaining its original meaning of a free and truly human national life. It is necessary to consider the original of these concepts, and to recapture it.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

The left is using words to force their idea of progress down the throats of an unsuspecting mass that is far too compliant and "nice". They have a win by any means necessary and we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. See the problem yet? The nice, Christian conservatives will get rolled over by the any means necessary crowd and until the gas chamber doors click shut will be granting forgiveness and making excuses. Time to stop being nice and giving in to the madness. Time to stand up and fight back by any means necessary. Resist.

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Jan 6, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

I do use "so" and "like" on occasion, but not in the context you put them. Never heard the "like" thin until I met my future hubby (and he is anything but woke!). Plus my book characters do use in dialog "like" as they "grew up in the 70s and 80s. I guess "like" stemmed from that time, but now seems universal. As an author and a home schooling parent (and both my kids are anything but woke!), I do appreciate how you explained the "word salad" in use today. Thanks! https://omegabooksnet.com

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Twitter now blocking a member of the UK’s Vaccine Confidence Project. How ironic.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/twitter-police-censoring-a-member

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