I think it's important to consider that the progressive endgame didn't happen overnight. When you look at Alinsky and his ilk's work, it is clear that the erosion of our culture and way of life was slow going. This got me thinking about the social programming aspect of it all and I noticed that it really got kicked into high gear during the 90's when the Millennial generation was growing up. Take almost any movie, t.v. show, song or book from that era and 3 dominant themes keep popping up. They are:
- The Sensitive Male. This figure is always extremely in touch with his emotions, a social outcast and underdog and generally made to be the hero. He is almost always weak, non-assertive and very passive-aggressive. He is directly opposed to the jock stereotype who always represents traditional masculinity in an aggressive, controlling and domineering way. The Sensitive Male competes with the jock to win the heart of the love interest and does so by using progressive tactics and ideals. The love interest almost always starts out with the jock but by the end of the story is swayed by the deeply emotional and intelligent, if not effeminate, Sensitive Male.
- The Empowered Female. This figure is always rough and tumble. She is more masculine than feminine and "doesn't need a man for anything." On the contrary, she often competes with and defeats men making them look foolish in the process. They are usually loud, obnoxious and spout third wave feminist tripe. This character is always opposed to the "traditional female" type. And is usually responsible for making the love interest see the error of her ways and join the progressive enlightenment. If the Empowered Female isn't overtly lesbian she is almost always covertly so.
- The Oppressive Dominant Culture. This takes form in several ways. The most common lines are drawn by racial inequality, religious oppression or class disparity between an abusive dominant (read Western) culture and a group of marginalized minorities. These subtopics show up in greater or lesser degrees depending on the theme of the overall story.
Now all three of these themes can be found to a lesser degree in the counterculture movements of the preceding decades, but I really noticed a spike in them during the 90's. It was everywhere. Most people who grew up in the 80's may have experimented with the deconstruction of the gender archetypes, but they didn't really stick. It seems to me that women still wanted "real men" and men still wanted "real women" as far as all of that went. However, they did latch on to the theme of the Dominant Oppressive Culture. But children who grew up in the 90's were indoctrinated with these progressive ideals from a very early age. There are a plethora examples of these three themes in children's programming of the time. Rugrats is one example that readily comes to mind. So not only did they latch on to the idea of a Dominant Oppressive Culture, they grew up thinking these post modern ideas about gender roles were the norm. They were encouraged to act out these roles by the education system and had them reinforced at home by parents too terrified by the thought of being considered "old fashioned" or supportive of the Dominant Oppressive Culture.
Social programming takes time. It has to be subtle and made to look like the natural development of society. And it always starts with the children. Our children. Now we are faced with a hard choice: either we give our children over to this new derangement or we raise them to be the new counterculture.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Couldn't agree more!
It's one of the reasons that I don't watch the Oscars anymore. Not only do I get nauseous by the constant virtue signaling by the celebrities who seem to think they have more insight than the rest of us, but it's clear that the movies selected as nominations has nothing to do with the actual quality of the movie. As long as it is a messenger of the prevailing progressive orthodoxy, it gets praised.
I knew there was a reason I enjoyed old movies.
Where's Clint Eastwood when you need him?!
Incajackson
Level 6
Mar 22, 2019
4
Talking of children's education, it is a very confusing world for children and worrying for parents. In Birmingham in England, an LGBT education program was introduced at one primary school (ages 4 to 10!) only to spark outrage among parents and guardians. Because the city has a rather large population of Muslims and therefore most parents protesting against the program are Muslims, it's all become a political struggle between Muslims and non-Muslims, spreading further to divide the whole nation. Amidst all this, I observe that no one seems to be talking about the children who are very much caught up in all this. I would argue whether they are Muslims or non-Muslims, they are still children. Parents and teachers should be discussing together if it is appropriate to give LGBT lessons to children as young as 4. They should be questioning the education system which promotes such a program at such an early stage of child development. They should be seeking advice of child psychologists, etc., and not getting sucked into identity politics. I find it very worrying.
Naomi
Level 8
Mar 22, 2019
2
Parents have to be more involved and voice their opinions and most importantly be engaged with their kids and not be distracted with their smart phones. Most importantly get involved with the school board and not be afraid to let them know what you think, we only have one life to live.
Conspiratorial thinking at it’s finest. There is no endgame for society, it’s a constant state of flux.
InternetDorkWeb
Level 6
Mar 22, 2019
1
Sure, sure. Hitler, Stalin and Mao were just examples of a "society in flux" I suppose.
Very well said. I appreciate you putting succinctly what I've been thinking about in the progression of social change that I've seen. I think it's very important to understand the methodology behind the left's intentional social disruption and cultural Marxism. I think understanding it and being able to analyze that allows us to then counter it in our own lives intelligently. I am deeply concerned for the direction of our country and culture and wonder at this point is the Titanic salvageable? Or through our own work, research and understanding of human nature and holding to the ideals of Athens and Jerusalem, as Ben Shapiro so succinctly put it in his new book, can we make enough of a difference?
CSmomma
Level 3
Mar 22, 2019
2
Thank you! I think you are right. We have to be able to see everything in action so we can push back against it. At this point I don't know if everything can be saved. But we can at least raise a generation of kids who will be aware enough to make a difference later.
So true, nowdays every tv show geared towards the younger generation has the gay or gender confused person who has a white male who is actively trying to bring them down, a person from each ethnicity represented, and usually a stupid adult character who is not as smart as the young kids and they are always fighting against some social justice cause. They even throw small things in like showing what the main characters last computer search was, oddly enough it was Planned Parenthood. Don't let you kids/grandkids watch this garbage.
Kam60463
Level 3
Mar 22, 2019
2
Very true. It's getting so bad the list of shows my young one can watch is getting pretty short. The other day, while visiting family, he was watching Nickelodeon. We don't have cable at the house so it's not a normal thing. Anyway, during a commercial break a spot came on about being "fashion forward" and it showed all pictures of men in dresses! I couldn't believe it! Needless to say, the television got turned off.
@LeftySinister That is ridiculous and scary, you would not expect that from Nickelodeon. They are trying to expose kids younger and younger to sexual and adult themes beyond their years. How about the programs that allow drag queens to read to kindergartners. Let kids be kids!
So true, nowdays every tv show geared towards the younger generation has the gay or gender confused person who has a white male who is actively trying to bring them down, a person from each ethnicity represented, and usually a stupid adult character who is not as smart as the young kids and they are always fighting against some social justice cause. They even throw small things in like showing what the main characters last computer search was, oddly enough it was Planned Parenthood. Don't let you kids/grandkids watch this garbage.
Kam60463
Level 3
Mar 22, 2019
0
It always starts with the thin end of the wedge, then you wake up one day and you realize that as a confident and self assured man you are now the enemy.
Beware of small incremental changes they all add up
marjon
Level 4
Mar 22, 2019
2
This is what I'm talking about! Frogs in a pot. I can remember this progressive endgame really kicked in when I was in college in the early 2000's. It was the first time Multiculturalism was a required course. I failed it. Twice. The third time, the professor passed me just so I wouldn't be back in the class. But now that I think about it, that really drove home all of the ideological programming that popped up in the 90's. Almost as if it were a litmus test to see how well it had worked.
If the progressives were indoctrinated when they were children but decided to follow a different path, why do you not expect today's children to do the same?
kingtet
Level 3
Mar 22, 2019
2
I can’t say I’ve known many “progressives” to follow a different path unless it was when they got well into their 30’s. Even then, a high percentage remained “progressive” ...
Personally I think this is a misuse ... or a “Leftist” use of the word “progressive”
@Bay0Wulf in the interest of good faith, I want to use terms whose definitions we can agree on. Let me give you a personal experience. I grew up in areas with exclusively Republican teachers and others authority figures. They taught us students well, but did inject their biases about communism (eg one student gets an A, another gets an F. In communism, they would both get Cs), religion (Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve), and patriotism (stand for the flag, US is the greatest country on Earth). I discovered more nuanced and varied arguments about religion, economics, politics, and sociology from the internet and books. Thereby, I resisted their indoctrination. Similarly, children today, many of whom being taught by bias injecting leftists, have access to media that can show them competing schools of thought. So I don't worry too much about groupthink in schools because it didn't affect me
I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you suggesting that indoctrinated children will somehow deprogram themselves? How will this be possible if all the other paths are obliterated? Lenin said, "give me four years to teach the children and the seeds I have sown will never be uprooted."
@kingtet
It seems like you might have been fortunate enough to have been actually taught to “think” ... “to self learn” ... unfortunately that has become all too rare.
Your next to the last sentence says pretty much all there is to say ...
“Similarly, children today, many of whom being taught by bias injecting leftists, have access to media that can show them competing schools of thought.”
There is very little media out here that isn’t simply upholding the nonsense they were infected/injected with. That doesn’t simply provide the same dogma.
In order to “find” those “competing schools of thought” One has to realize that there IS such a thing, Have the desire or curiosity to seek them out, the ability to think critically enough to know there’s something wrong with what you think you know.
Again, once these kids leave these schools at whatever level they usually haven’t the tools to do this.
I think this is a great post. My add-on is, if you can realize this has been happening, then others must see it, too. But if more of us are seeing this, then why do we - as a society, continue to watch the degradation of our moral ground with a "deer in the headlights" look on our faces?
I think you hit on an important point: the weaponization of the entertainment industry (including the mainstream media which has pretty much become mere entertainment) is a means to an end. I think our society at large has been lulled into an insouciant, hypnotized state where entertainment is consumed like so many bags of cheese puffs. Millions of people are living their lives vicariously through the Kardasians and much like the cheese puffs are poisoning our bodies - the entertainment industry is poisoning our minds and disrupting our well being.
It's just a way to keep us distracted from looking too closely at the game that's being played in our halls of government.
theanimalside
Level 6
Mar 22, 2019
3
Distraction has become paramount. Netflix is the worst. Every new "original" show they put out is loaded with progressive garbage. Every. Single. One. Even the kids shows are sketchy. There is one about a little boy with a magic paintbrush or something. His parents are cartoon versions of the Obamas. No joke.
i like this aspect of the disection of how things are being engineered. i would like to see you point to more examples. i cannot be in full agreement, though. your theory is very limited in scope.
have you considered the rise and dissemination of video games during this era and up through to today? training children to shout, cry, fight, resent, revel, boast, belittle, frustrate, glower, pout, pack and withdraw. all beginning within the confines of their rooms, often starting with easily digested and mastered operations, them building in difficulty, until at some point stubborn aggression is bred in, laying the foundations for simply pressing triggers within them as if they were the game controllers themselves.
atari had one button and a joystick, nintendo had 2 buttons and a direction pad.....we have become the imput devices of some unknown operators, possibly dead, of an operating system that may not be reprogrammable or deleted at this point.
this also does not include entertainment programming that is in itself designed to do what it does.
my mother watches crime dramas and every time a crime is shown, she gets upset and she goes"ohh, i can't watch this part." but she watches the dramas anyway.
manipulated programming with the label "reality"
do you remember mtv when it started its reality show "the real world"
your theory is interesting, but it is only a peice of the trivial pursuit pie.
broaden it and you will see the simulations for what they are.
you may not be able to reprogram the world, but you may be able to adjust your alarms and alerts in yourself and a few others around you.
Broad Spectrum Emotional Response Addiction Trigger Programming
it is like PTSD, General anxiety disorder, and Panic syndrome from fantasies.
CuriousFury
Level 7
Mar 22, 2019
1
The scope was intentionally narrow. All of my thoughts on this subject could fill a book. lol. I also have a lot to say about video games but I was trying to stay focused on entertainment industry for this post.
Yup--"Programming" is correct. They have received programming from the TV and Movies and from their smart phones. In addition, the culture has "advanced" so far that energy/power/food is available--via automobiles, gas and electric heat and cooling, housing, and available welfare for single mothers--that the male is no longer needed for much, the family structure is easily broken--and boys without a male role-model father are frequently a problem. In addition, the wide spread poisons of neurotoxins and hormone disruptors affects males more adversely than females.
MarPep
Level 7
Mar 22, 2019
3
Pretty good assessment and conclusion IMO. Look how far it has gone now. New counter culture you say? Tell us more!
James
Level 7
Mar 21, 2019
1
This idea of a new counterculture is something that has been germinating in my brain for a while now. But nothing really concrete has come forward yet. I have a little one I am raising so every day it seems there are new teaching opportunities for this. The most recent one is teaching him that sticking up for himself isn't a bad thing! Can you imagine? It boggles my mind that this is something that has been stripped away from our children. Ultimately I think we will have to come up with our own curriculum for our own schools.
We have had good experiences with a local Charter school in that regard. We teach kids to stand up for themselves, especially to bullies. We teach boys it is not okay to hit girls and that it is different for a boy to strike a girl than a boy to strike a boy. And for big brothers to take up for their little sisters. ...without going into detail let's just say that one can be contagious in a good way!
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