Maybe its my own speciality in Psychology at work but I think both of these men missed something big. The ideology started on campus and spread outward as the faithful wokeists went forth. But why did indoctrination stick in the first place? Believe it or not you can’t brainwash someone against their will.
Maybe its my own speciality in Psychology at work but I think both of these men missed something big. The ideology started on campus and spread outward as the faithful wokeists went forth. But why did indoctrination stick in the first place? Believe it or not you can’t brainwash someone against their will.
Try to debate a Rabbi or a Catholic Priest into renouncing their faith. It won’t work. Try torturing them even, they might outwardly say they have changed to survive but even torture can’t make someone change their beliefs by force, it can only make someone keep quiet about them. With any cult the people that join do so willingly and willingly drink the ideological kool-aid. So what was it about college kids that made them susceptible?
I think elitism, pretentiousness, and narcissism are to blame. Any time there is a special club that not everyone is allowed into it will attract a disproportionate number of people with these traits. Right? “Because the stupid people don’t get into college and we are the smart ones”
Why do I have so many clients that drop $90,000 on for some type of humanities degree, going to an expensive out of state private liberal arts college. Then Experience massive financial distress for decades after and still sneer at blue collar folks as stupid? Because of elitism, pretentiousness, and narcissism. Mind youp not every college student is this way.
But when you come to college with this mind set. Ready to learn the sage wisdom that the plebs aren’t smart enough to know. You’ll drink down DEI with enthusiasm and when a plumber tells you it sounds dumb, you can stick your nose up in the air and ignore them because they’re just too stupid to understand it. No need to consider their point of view.
That I think is how it spread.
Hmmmm.... I think I need to flush this idea out more.
Jonathan Haidt shows in the excellent book "The Righteous Mind" that really the way most people change their minds is being around other people that think a certain way.
IE it's VERY difficult to argue someone into a different position. But if everyone around them has that position over time their own position will moderate.
Of course that assumes you already have a strong position on the matter. If you don't you are even easier to influence
Me: MPH in behavioral science. Successful indoctrination requires that dissent be silenced. At work st SF-Gov all dissenters were scared silent, except me and my loud mouth. So, they threatened my job - but I refused to be silent. These control mechanisms are important.
Maybe its my own speciality in Psychology at work but I think both of these men missed something big. The ideology started on campus and spread outward as the faithful wokeists went forth. But why did indoctrination stick in the first place? Believe it or not you can’t brainwash someone against their will.
Try to debate a Rabbi or a Catholic Priest into renouncing their faith. It won’t work. Try torturing them even, they might outwardly say they have changed to survive but even torture can’t make someone change their beliefs by force, it can only make someone keep quiet about them. With any cult the people that join do so willingly and willingly drink the ideological kool-aid. So what was it about college kids that made them susceptible?
I think elitism, pretentiousness, and narcissism are to blame. Any time there is a special club that not everyone is allowed into it will attract a disproportionate number of people with these traits. Right? “Because the stupid people don’t get into college and we are the smart ones”
Why do I have so many clients that drop $90,000 on for some type of humanities degree, going to an expensive out of state private liberal arts college. Then Experience massive financial distress for decades after and still sneer at blue collar folks as stupid? Because of elitism, pretentiousness, and narcissism. Mind youp not every college student is this way.
But when you come to college with this mind set. Ready to learn the sage wisdom that the plebs aren’t smart enough to know. You’ll drink down DEI with enthusiasm and when a plumber tells you it sounds dumb, you can stick your nose up in the air and ignore them because they’re just too stupid to understand it. No need to consider their point of view.
That I think is how it spread.
Hmmmm.... I think I need to flush this idea out more.
Jonathan Haidt shows in the excellent book "The Righteous Mind" that really the way most people change their minds is being around other people that think a certain way.
IE it's VERY difficult to argue someone into a different position. But if everyone around them has that position over time their own position will moderate.
Of course that assumes you already have a strong position on the matter. If you don't you are even easier to influence
Me: MPH in behavioral science. Successful indoctrination requires that dissent be silenced. At work st SF-Gov all dissenters were scared silent, except me and my loud mouth. So, they threatened my job - but I refused to be silent. These control mechanisms are important.