The paper is very long and this is just an excerpt, but I urge everyone to save a copy and re-read it once a year as I am today. I posted this three years ago and many people responded that they thought it was the most important paper describing the left that they had ever read. I still think that it is for me. It is amazing how applicable it is to current events in society. I hope many will gain some insight from this paper in this new year. MC
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what the world is witnessing today can be summed up more simply in a single phrase, “modern society...where “never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups” meets “crazy people don’t realize they are”. L.Star
Only the really smart people know what is real.
For later.
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Abuse of Language -- Abuse of Power
https://ia801708.us.archive.org/25/items/abuse-of-language-abuse-of-power-josef-pieper/abuse-of-language-abuse-of-power-josef-pieper.pdf
Best wishes.
Extremely accurate…..for the 1940s.
True of Hitler and Marx and their true believers.
There are groups in the US who suffer from this.
The radical environmentalists. LGBTQ. Anarchists.
The criminals have risen to the top and control the Democrat Party.
The leaders of the Democrat Party are interested in the trappings of wealth for themselves, their families and their friends.
You do not see the Bidens or the Clintons or the Obamas or the Pelosi’s or George Soros living in one room apartments printing flyers calling for revolution.
They want wealth and immunity from prosecution for their filthy lifestyles.
This article goes hand in hand with Mattias Desmet’s work titled “THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALITARIANISM”.
~25% are the hard core brainwashed- they steadfastly believe, endorse and promote the lies.
~60% are the go along to get along-intuitively, they are aware of the lies, but are silent, not wanting conflict.
~15% are in absolute defiance to the lies- they are vocal in denouncing the lies.
The battle to defeat the lies is within the middle 60%. They are the ones, once activated to speak the truth, who prevent the liars from implementing totalitarian schemes. If they remain silent, the lies continue.
The first group will never change from their programming. EVER.
Despite all of his faults, he's the guy who takes delight in tearing down all of the artificial shibboleths they have created for themselves.
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All this work, going all the way back to 1945, leads to Bandy X Lee MD and her colleagues writing books about the dangerous craziness of Trump and MAGA people and how they all need forced psychiatric treatment.
It’s pseudoscientific nonsense.
The roots of Germany 1933-1945 were in Germany 1918-1933, not in psychopathology.
How America gets fixed, if she gets fixed, will require a lot of outside the box thinking, and the people who do the fixing will be attacked using these ideas.
Many of the greatest horrors of the history of humanity owe their occurrence solely to the establishment and social enforcement of a false reality.
Many of the greatest horrors of the history of humanity owe their occurrence solely to the establishment and social enforcement of a false reality.
Hopefully, I posted that enough times for folks to be able to absorb it. I have posted the following several times on Free Republic and will post it yet again:
It's not so much what you don't know that will get you in trouble, it IS what you know THAT AIN'T SO.
~ Mark Twain
Later read.
The recent CoVid debacle is a result of psychopathy at the highest levels of our defense industry.
If you refused the vaccine you were guilty of rejecting pseudo-reality, the unpardonable sin.
Our government has created and/or enabled an Inequity pseudo-reality that finds itself severely challenged by Trump, an even bigger sin.
Insurrection my reality-based ass.
This paper is pseudo-profound. The author has supported Democratic Party candidates, including volunteering for Barack Obama, and was part of the New Atheism movement.
So the bottom line remains, how does any well-meaning person distinguish between reality and propaganda? It’s not an easy problem to solve.
Pieper’s 1970 essay is worth study as well, though it is slow going in places. The whole phenomenon is the basis of Orwell’s 1984. We are living in it today.
Consider the spreading gender insanity, and the catastrophic manmade global warming scenario as prime examples.
They are totalitarian, and they are wrong, and we don't know ourselves because it's easier to complain about someone else.
One such recent example of this IMHO is the “Happy Kwanzaa” BS that certain businesses spout after Christmas. The particular business who posted this is Wegmans, the Rochester, NY based grocery store chain. When I pushed back against this charade, the chorus of virtue signalers couldn’t hold back saying in one case that this is an example of the “melting pot” that is America. When confronted with the fact that a black, socialist separatist started this BS in the 1960s, I was told by one erudite virtue signaler that I was “fucking stupid”. These people have bought the lie and NOTHING will convince them otherwise.
I got a lot from this; he is quite erudite.
I know this piece was only an excerpt, so I may be commenting from ignorance of some other statements he might have made. But I found in his use of the term “epistemic” a category which he never really filled. There was no definition of what is true-reality, and how it can be known.
I have a couple of terse additions:
1. True reality is that which is universal, necessary and certain, and it always conforms to what we call “logic”.
2. True reality is grounded in the Root of all Being, which is the God of the Bible.
Violate those two and you have a decapitated sense of reality, or, as the writer asserts, “pseudo-reality”.