{"id":1069,"date":"2008-11-07T11:55:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T18:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/07\/deprogramming\/"},"modified":"2008-11-08T21:19:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T04:19:14","slug":"deprogramming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/deprogramming\/","title":{"rendered":"Deprogramming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great article, great analysis, right on the money<\/a>.To make a long story short, whether the context is local, statewide or national, regarding left\/right issues and races, the left’s polemics have become surreal.\u00a0 They’ve lost track of their own hyperbole.\u00a0 They no longer distinguish between a hyperbolic rant and a reasonable argument incorporating factual cause and effect.\u00a0 They’ve been consumed by cult philosophies based in Marxism.\u00a0 I don’t think this is a close call.\u00a0 They’ve pretty much gone over the edge.<\/p>\n

This is a deep problem manifesting itself in hundreds of ways.\u00a0 It developed over generations and spans many intertwined disciplines.\u00a0 From my observations of other cults, I don’t believe you can deprogram this degree of sophisticated brainwashing at the fully developed end of the spectrum.\u00a0 True indoctrinated believers have sophisticated defenses and devices to ward off challenges that could destabilize the world views they serve.\u00a0 For example, the fact that socialism has never worked is no reason to question its’ validity.\u00a0 They say it hasn’t been done right yet, many are versed in what went wrong in each case, and all are sure that next time they’ll get it right.\u00a0 Apparently, Robert Owens’ “united social” experiment of 1825 has proven a little more difficult to implement than originally thought.<\/p>\n

Collectively, leftist true believers account for an incredible quantity of raw brain power and IQ.\u00a0 So long as they remain devoted to their cult, however, their ability to advance real human capacity and efficacy–the human condition–is handicapped. Meanwhile, the need for the balance of humanity to figure out our collective survival, prosperity and advancement, goes on.<\/p>\n

Does this indicate a strategy?\u00a0 Maybe so.\u00a0 Maybe you have to engage the cult at a more fundamental level.\u00a0 In other words, don’t argue the broad thesis.\u00a0 Don’t argue conclusions that threaten them and raise their defenses.\u00a0 Argue the precepts and basics.\u00a0 Stay on the facts and perhaps let the conclusions take care of themselves.\u00a0 Let them find their own conclusions.\u00a0 You may as well since they won’t allow themselves to comprehend or accept any conclusions that originate outside of the cult anyway.<\/p>\n

\"Morning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great article, great analysis, right on the money.To make a long story short, whether the context is local, statewide or national, regarding left\/right issues and races, the left’s polemics have become surreal.\u00a0 They’ve lost track of their own hyperbole.\u00a0 They no longer distinguish between a hyperbolic rant and a reasonable argument incorporating factual cause and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-insanity","7":"category-politics","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}