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To: Dilbert San Diego

[[we aren’t allowed to say anything or have questions about any of this. ]]

It’s all an “in your face forced acceptance” that they are after- consider the words of the Theodore below

-——Theodore Dalrymple———

“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that
the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not
to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to
reality the better.

When people are forced to remain silent when they
are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced
to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense
of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become
evil oneself.

One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even
destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think
if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is
intended to.”

Written by Theodore Dalrymple


18 posted on 06/19/2023 8:03:43 AM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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To: Bob434

“When people are forced to remain silent when they
are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.”

But that’s not all they lose. As a form of brainwashing (forcing someone to believe something that is not true)... they lose their own identity, which is part of the goal of the brainwashing.

The Marxist left is torturing us with this brainwashing... and trying to eliminate our own identify by forcing us to accept any form of delusion as reality. Ironic, isn’t it. What they claim to be protecting is actually what they’re trying to destroy.


50 posted on 06/19/2023 8:32:57 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Bob434

I wonder if Mr. Dalrymple ever conversed with C.S. Lewis. The two seem to have a similar train of thought.

(i.e. This reminds me of “That Hideous Strength”...)


62 posted on 06/19/2023 9:32:48 AM PDT by Kommodor (Solzhenitsyn was an optimist...)
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