I have old, and have a negligible chance of influencing anyone or anything beyond my family and a few close friends. I appreciate your thoughts, and it helps me to understand that my mind and opinions are mine and mine alone. With the time remaining, I will endeavor to blow away the chaff and intentionally consider what is important enough to glean. An insightful and redeeming article.
Wow Jenny. Thank you so much for this, I really needed this on this very day. Your writing is part of what is helping me feel like their is hope and that it’s possible that the cultural ground will not completely crumble under our feet. . It’s an excellent description of why we are so exhausted on so many levels. I’ve got to keep working on the project of staying calm, protecting and fortifying my mind, and doing everything I can to keep myself and my family grounded.
The war for the mind is akin to the social pressures of the cliques and general atmosphere of middle and high school, and this is what I detested about school. To be accepted, one had to set the brain aside and agree with whatever the herd decided, otherwise you were an outsider. I was always devoid of the need to fit in and spent much time just getting my schoolwork completed and hanging out with the elderly in the neighborhood. It's very telling that men have reacted emotionally to your writing. While I've disagreed with many women, it's certain men (misogynists) who get hysterical when I don't agree with or bob my head to whatever they are shouting. This happens even when other men in the vicinity have disagreements without screaming at each other, but the female with her own expressed thoughts is apparently a danger that needs to be crushed. I believe the 5GW was able to slide its way through our population due to weakened family and social bonds, and I don't know how to wake up the half of the population that's in a coma.
Jenny writes that she began her cultural adventure analyzing the war on terror. I did too, though not academically. Soon after 911, I embarked upon an increasingly Islam-critical journey. Even a month after the 911 attacks, I was already asking the question, "To what extent is Islam a motivating factor to the attacks?" My question was immediately shot down and explained away by other members of the Eric Voegelin discussion forum I participated in -- a forum dedicated to a staunchly conservative philosopher, Voegelin! These senior members (all from Academe and some had personal memories of the great philospher) shot me down using the same memes & tropes I would eventually learn the entire Western Mainstream indulged -- both pre- and post-911 (perversely escalating in the defense of Islam after each terror attack that ensued over the years). During those 19 odd years between 911 and COVID-20, I became increasingly dismayed by my own Western Mainstream's weirdly stubborn need to whitewash Muslims and anxiously distinguish them from a Tiny Minority of Radicalized Extremist Wahhabist Salafist Islamists Who Have Nothing To Do With the Mainstream Islam of Nice Friendly Muslims Who Just Wanna Have a Sandwich (convenient acronym, TMREWSIWHNTDWMINFMWJWHS).
Through my years of increasing dismay at my own Western Mainstream, I consistently refused to go there girlfriend into the dread C word (Conspiracy). The 2020 Election and COVID -- not these phenomena themselves, but the Mainstream response TO them -- finally broke me. I am now officially a Conspiracy Theorist. That there is an international Cabal using all these Narratives (COVID, Climate, Ukraine, Trans, Race, etc.) seems a reasonable inference, and it seems unreasonable to reject it now. I'll soon send away for glossy business cards that emblazon it in gold letters on the masthead.
About a dozen years ago, I read a book called "What in the World is Going On?" by David Jeremiah which discusses biblical prophecy in light of present events. Without a biblical framework for analysis, we are at a loss to explain the cascade of events that we are witnessing.
Like Sara Bush, I too am old...er......😉maybe thus, the need for prescient ideas...like this morning...when I received notification of Jenny’s post I was quickened to “stop and read”...and when finished, I understood why...the reward...time seems to be flying, but what I’m noticing is that when immersed in thoughts of beauty, endeavors of Love, time seemingly stands still...much like this article!.....it’s a Magic thing...thanks Jenny for arriving in my inbox...Blessings to all!
Or "conspiracy inferrer" though that doesn't roll off the lips as nicely. My far Left friend whom I recently reconnected with after a few years is a fascinating specimen. He's old school socialist (even "Trotskyite"), anti-government, thinks all Western governments are "imperialists", thinks JFK was done by the government, etc. -- yet when it comes to COVID, he's suddenly a true blue submitter to the Mainstream Narrative, and even warned me not to bring it up again!
I very much appreciate your analysis of media, culture, and our brains. I’ve been feeling gaslit for some time now, and you’ve given me a better understanding of why. Fascinating that the idea of this warfare without violence dates all the way back to Sun Tzu. Coincidence that this is a Chinese philosophy?
Jenny, there is a term for what you are writing about - it's called psychological warfare. There is a great battle going on, beyond all doubt caused by Satan, the great deceiver. It's manifested through Marxism and Leninism. Psychological warfare goes hand-in-hand with terrorism, which is using violence as a means of causing fear. Terrorism is as old as the human race. It is a weapon, a highly effective weapon. It became the weapon of choice after World War II and the detonation of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Groups and shadow governments such as the Viet Minh in Vietnam in the 1940s-50s and the Malayan insurgents could accomplish great dividends by setting off a bomb in a restaurant or somewhere to kill and maim a few people but spreading panic and fear in the population.
The efforts you're referring to use words. One of the most effective use of words is that of black activists to attach something to the so-called N-word even though they use it themselves in normal conversation. Black activists found they could achieve political benefit by complaining about the word and thus turning it into a propaganda weapon. Black activism didn't just come along, it was promoted by white - many Jewish - leftists in the American northeast. White leftists set up training schools such as the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee where Rosa Parks was trained and where Martin Luther King was involved. The Highlander School, whose staff were Marxist and in some cases card-carrying Communists, was set up originally to train labor activists but switched its focus initially to training white sharecroppers than switched to black activists because they saw black activism as more effective. The school is now located in Knoxville where they can influence students at the University of Tennessee. LGBT rights came along after the civil rights movement proved so effective. The goal of those using these weapons is to establish "a new social order" and they use words as their weapons.
I have old, and have a negligible chance of influencing anyone or anything beyond my family and a few close friends. I appreciate your thoughts, and it helps me to understand that my mind and opinions are mine and mine alone. With the time remaining, I will endeavor to blow away the chaff and intentionally consider what is important enough to glean. An insightful and redeeming article.
Wow Jenny. Thank you so much for this, I really needed this on this very day. Your writing is part of what is helping me feel like their is hope and that it’s possible that the cultural ground will not completely crumble under our feet. . It’s an excellent description of why we are so exhausted on so many levels. I’ve got to keep working on the project of staying calm, protecting and fortifying my mind, and doing everything I can to keep myself and my family grounded.
The war for the mind is akin to the social pressures of the cliques and general atmosphere of middle and high school, and this is what I detested about school. To be accepted, one had to set the brain aside and agree with whatever the herd decided, otherwise you were an outsider. I was always devoid of the need to fit in and spent much time just getting my schoolwork completed and hanging out with the elderly in the neighborhood. It's very telling that men have reacted emotionally to your writing. While I've disagreed with many women, it's certain men (misogynists) who get hysterical when I don't agree with or bob my head to whatever they are shouting. This happens even when other men in the vicinity have disagreements without screaming at each other, but the female with her own expressed thoughts is apparently a danger that needs to be crushed. I believe the 5GW was able to slide its way through our population due to weakened family and social bonds, and I don't know how to wake up the half of the population that's in a coma.
Jenny writes that she began her cultural adventure analyzing the war on terror. I did too, though not academically. Soon after 911, I embarked upon an increasingly Islam-critical journey. Even a month after the 911 attacks, I was already asking the question, "To what extent is Islam a motivating factor to the attacks?" My question was immediately shot down and explained away by other members of the Eric Voegelin discussion forum I participated in -- a forum dedicated to a staunchly conservative philosopher, Voegelin! These senior members (all from Academe and some had personal memories of the great philospher) shot me down using the same memes & tropes I would eventually learn the entire Western Mainstream indulged -- both pre- and post-911 (perversely escalating in the defense of Islam after each terror attack that ensued over the years). During those 19 odd years between 911 and COVID-20, I became increasingly dismayed by my own Western Mainstream's weirdly stubborn need to whitewash Muslims and anxiously distinguish them from a Tiny Minority of Radicalized Extremist Wahhabist Salafist Islamists Who Have Nothing To Do With the Mainstream Islam of Nice Friendly Muslims Who Just Wanna Have a Sandwich (convenient acronym, TMREWSIWHNTDWMINFMWJWHS).
Through my years of increasing dismay at my own Western Mainstream, I consistently refused to go there girlfriend into the dread C word (Conspiracy). The 2020 Election and COVID -- not these phenomena themselves, but the Mainstream response TO them -- finally broke me. I am now officially a Conspiracy Theorist. That there is an international Cabal using all these Narratives (COVID, Climate, Ukraine, Trans, Race, etc.) seems a reasonable inference, and it seems unreasonable to reject it now. I'll soon send away for glossy business cards that emblazon it in gold letters on the masthead.
About a dozen years ago, I read a book called "What in the World is Going On?" by David Jeremiah which discusses biblical prophecy in light of present events. Without a biblical framework for analysis, we are at a loss to explain the cascade of events that we are witnessing.
Like Sara Bush, I too am old...er......😉maybe thus, the need for prescient ideas...like this morning...when I received notification of Jenny’s post I was quickened to “stop and read”...and when finished, I understood why...the reward...time seems to be flying, but what I’m noticing is that when immersed in thoughts of beauty, endeavors of Love, time seemingly stands still...much like this article!.....it’s a Magic thing...thanks Jenny for arriving in my inbox...Blessings to all!
Thank you, Jenny for summing up what's going on succinctly, giving the reality a virtual framework.
There is so much good to unpack in this essay.
The wife thinks the World changed when CERN turned on the LHC in 2012.
Or "conspiracy inferrer" though that doesn't roll off the lips as nicely. My far Left friend whom I recently reconnected with after a few years is a fascinating specimen. He's old school socialist (even "Trotskyite"), anti-government, thinks all Western governments are "imperialists", thinks JFK was done by the government, etc. -- yet when it comes to COVID, he's suddenly a true blue submitter to the Mainstream Narrative, and even warned me not to bring it up again!
I very much appreciate your analysis of media, culture, and our brains. I’ve been feeling gaslit for some time now, and you’ve given me a better understanding of why. Fascinating that the idea of this warfare without violence dates all the way back to Sun Tzu. Coincidence that this is a Chinese philosophy?
Jenny, there is a term for what you are writing about - it's called psychological warfare. There is a great battle going on, beyond all doubt caused by Satan, the great deceiver. It's manifested through Marxism and Leninism. Psychological warfare goes hand-in-hand with terrorism, which is using violence as a means of causing fear. Terrorism is as old as the human race. It is a weapon, a highly effective weapon. It became the weapon of choice after World War II and the detonation of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Groups and shadow governments such as the Viet Minh in Vietnam in the 1940s-50s and the Malayan insurgents could accomplish great dividends by setting off a bomb in a restaurant or somewhere to kill and maim a few people but spreading panic and fear in the population.
The efforts you're referring to use words. One of the most effective use of words is that of black activists to attach something to the so-called N-word even though they use it themselves in normal conversation. Black activists found they could achieve political benefit by complaining about the word and thus turning it into a propaganda weapon. Black activism didn't just come along, it was promoted by white - many Jewish - leftists in the American northeast. White leftists set up training schools such as the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee where Rosa Parks was trained and where Martin Luther King was involved. The Highlander School, whose staff were Marxist and in some cases card-carrying Communists, was set up originally to train labor activists but switched its focus initially to training white sharecroppers than switched to black activists because they saw black activism as more effective. The school is now located in Knoxville where they can influence students at the University of Tennessee. LGBT rights came along after the civil rights movement proved so effective. The goal of those using these weapons is to establish "a new social order" and they use words as their weapons.