Posted on 12/27/2023 5:42:14 AM PST by MtnClimber
Repetition of simple truths must meet the repetition of outrageous lies head-on.
I believe in the KISS principle: keep it simple, stupid. I do my best to boil events down to their essential truths and then hammer those truths again and again. Repetition is my weapon of choice.
The reason I stick to this strategy has nothing to do with who is reading. It has to do with the nature of the war we are already fighting. Never before in human history have people been so bombarded by lies and propaganda from their own political leaders. The information warfare that the U.S. government and other Western nations use against their own peoples is meant to conquer minds with direct programming instead of directed bullets.
How do you counter-program people who have been indoctrinated for years, if not decades? You KISS them, so that they’ll KISS others, and a steady flow of simple truths can begin to crack the glass of our invisible cage. The whole thing sounds quite dirty and promiscuous, but constantly reminding ourselves what is actually true in a blizzard of lies is an admirable pursuit. Crafty French diplomat Talleyrand, who managed to keep his head through both the French Revolution and the reign of Napoleon, observed, “Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.” The Marxist globalists who use censorship and propaganda as shield and sword are Talleyrand’s ardent disciples.
The size of the information war being conducted against us is astounding, and because the formerly free press has been conquered and conditioned to support the State, news outlets willing to report the truth are few.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The schools are no longer teaching children how to think, they teach what to think. It is difficult to convince them that what they have been taught to think is wrong.
cut the cable tv
to force them to offer a la carte packages
they have the technology
cable tv in other countries offer a la carte
Be a skeptic, consider multiple sources, use logic and reason.
Question assumptions. Very often, information warfare uses false assumptions to deceive us.
All sides of a war practice information warfare. Deception is intrinsic to war.
THIS is such a true statement,
“The schools are no longer teaching children how to think, they teach them WHAT to think.”
I’ve been an engineer for 30+ years and a principal engineer the last 10 years so I do have a bit of a clue about the skill of Critical Thinking.
Ever since about 2008 I’ve noticed companies and my own organization offering more and more courses on Critical Thinking. They were few and far between and now you can find them everywhere. Sadly I believe the Art & Skill of Critical Thinking is very close to being lost.
We will be so screwed if this skill is lost. Too many SiFi movies deal with the dumbing down of the population to the point they can’t maintain a modern lifestyle. 200 years of technological progress is in danger of going “poof” before our own eyes.
islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.
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