It’s been obvious to me for some time that a key element in brainwashing people is getting them to accept contradictions in logic and behavior. You say one thing, do something else, and act like it’s perfectly natural. Once people fall into this pattern of allowing this without conscious comment–whether they vocalize it or not–then everything is possible.
For all intents and purposes the only real psychological accomplishment of the Nazis and Communists was getting people to prioritize what they were told over what they could see, hear and feel for themselves. That’s all that’s needed.
And it feels to me like a rhetoric of kindness is being used for this hypnotic induction, for this mass trance formation. You can’t tell people “I want to teach you to be evil”. You tell them “I want to teach you to be GOOD, kind, loving, just, all the good stuff”, then you ACTUALLY teach them to be evil.
Do you see this?
Anymore in most corporate environments, I get the creeps. I know NOW that most of these people can be turned on and off like faucets, that someone saying or doing the wrong thing is liable to be HATED.
The niceness is superficial. The fear is very, very real.
And this is a complex process, but the most obvious step by which to teach someone to be evil in the name of the good is claim all goodness for your side, and all bad for the other. It’s an old dynamic, but it obviously still works well. You teach people to hate haters. And you are hating in this process, aren’t you? Of course. Of course.
And the more you teach people to feel these strong emotions the worse it will or would feel to be cast out. To be cast out is necessarily to now be the recipient of all that hate, and to now feel the shame of being one of “them”. People will die painful deaths before they allow that to happen.
This is all scary. I get that. But I will never stop seeing the world as well as I can, and speaking about it as honestly as I can, because I myself do not ever want to become one of the pod people. That, to me, would be worse than death.