Electronic Ghettos Of Thought
In many ways, as much as co-operation is seen as a cornerstone of a successful society disagreement is equally imperative. Indeed, perhaps to an even greater degree, the world has been moved forward by the civilised challenge and debate of dogmatic principles. Unfortunately, in this modern age of Facebook and Twitter, complex algorithms are hastily dividing people into electronic thought ghettos here . These algorithmic ghettos cushion reality and pamper to the beliefs of the user. They pamper the belief systems and perceptions to such a degree that once outside these electronic padded walls many people are beginning to lack the mental capacity to civilly debate. Equally lacking the ability to empathise and listen to contradictory views. Within this process people have come to personally identify themselves as a multitude of externally created identities & labels.
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The Accommodation Of The Idealist
The funny thing is, that in order to accommodate the views of the identitarian idealist many within society are having their identities and their ability to express opinion stolen from them. Language is being altered and facts changed to accommodate opinion. The idealists are currently riding high on a wave of self perceived moral and intellectual superiority. Little do they realise that they are actually being used as pawns to stifle free speech and taylor the fabric of a fraying society.
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University Debate
Within many of the once exalted bastian's of debate we call universities, the art form is beginning to fade. Differences of opinion, free speech and the exchange of contradictory ideas are now beginning to be viewed as akin to personal attack. Facts are replaced with stereotypes and personal opinion, and debate replaced with safe spaces.
The personal is now political and it’s conveniently forgotten that opinion and feelings have no place in fact. Emotion, sentiment, and idealism are easier to manipulate than facts, and this is why I believe people have been deliberately trained to be reactionary and to react to predetermined emotional triggers. In truth, identity politics dehumanise anyone with an opposing view and as such it’s fracturing both universities, society and creating chasms of polarity. Indeed we seem to be moving towards an age where people are becoming content to live within an echo chamber of their oft externally manufactured perception.
The Appropriation Of Morality
It’s interesting to me how within the progressive mindset morality has become synonymous with minorities and diversity. Indeed why is it that the virtues of morality now seem to be garnished upon the few whilst the many are painted as immoral? There are good and bad within all walks of life and from my perspective, you're all my brothers and sisters. Every man, woman, and child deserves the right to be treated as an individual and to be handed no labels, but that works both ways.
Just as it shouldn't carry knee jerk negative connotations, being a member of a minority group does not automatically mean you become an instant paragon of virtue; alas within the cult of identity politics such generalised mindsets are becoming a popular misconception. Within certain thought ghetto's, diversification now seems to be related to the attribution of positive moral traits onto the minority. The voices of the minority are seen as holding a high moral value whilst the majority culture is often denigrated.
Slight Of Hand
Certainly within aspects of these movements, much of the anger that was previously focused towards the upper echelons of the power structure has now been re-directed towards heterosexual white males. This is a divisive sleight of hand that has been used against many races and cultures and indeed one that works within both the left and right mindset. For some within the progressive left, the aforementioned specter of the white male has now traded places with the elite crony capitalist vultures that are tearing this world apart. This suits the elite perfectly and allows them to continue nefariously in the background of our divided society.
Within this progressive mindset and along with the new oppressors (the heterosexual white male) minorities of every sex, colour, creed, religion and sexuality take on the role of the oppressed. People relish signaling their virtue and oppression in equal order, a strange badge of honour. We’ve even had white people pretending to be black in order that they can be viewed as oppressed! here . Whilst there are many within minority groups that are able to see beyond the illusion and faux division, upon speaking out they're heralded as Judas's and then tried and hung within the politically correct pseudo morality courts of social media.
The Erosion Of Free Speech
As we allow our world to be splintered into a vastly increasing array of labels and identities, there carries within these identities individual interpretations of both free and hate speech. If you take this to its logical conclusion then a time is fast approaching where you will literally be unable to say anything for fear of offending someone. Personally, I believe the avalanche of new identities is how our freedom of speech will be taken away. For example, there are now 72 gender choices here offered as part of the facebook signing up process, again each with their own perception of hate speech.
Put all the identities together and you literally have a potential impenetrable wall of political correctness and free speech definitions. Those that choose to wear an externally created badge of identity will be the architects of their own enslavement, the problem is (agenda 2030 nobody left behind) that we’re all in this together.
History and indeed biology is being rewritten to accommodate the idealism of identity politics. Anyone that disagrees with the tactics of those that hold the self-perceived moral high ground are quickly handed further negative labels and then mocked, doxxed and dehumanised. The question nobody seems to be asking is where this multitude of labels and divisions are coming from? I don't believe the advent of 72 genders has grown organically. Perhaps the cruelest twist of fate is that in an age where the words diversity and inclusivity have become so interwoven with politics and society, the world has never been more divided! I believe this to be deliberate.
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The Fall Of Constantinople
I’ve decided to give an example of the way our eyes are directed away from the fundamental issues that plague our society and focused upon (in context) relative trivialities. I’m going to take it back a few years, Obama was dropping over 26,500 peace bombs a year, legalising propaganda, and legitimising the murder of American citizens without trial (I could go on and on and on). It’s a world where children are being murdered, bombed, abused and killed with relative impunity. It’s also a time where the most pressing issue of the age is whether transgender men/women can use the bathroom of their choice. It was everywhere, drowning out the cries of children’s hunger and stifling their begging for mercy, and everyone fell for it. Whilst people toiled and raged at these issues, whilst Springsteen was canceling concerts in solidarity, the bombs were raining down and people were starving to death.
At this time I was soberly reminded of the fall of Constantinople. It's 1493 , as the city and way of life is falling around their ears, the “intellectuals” of the time were exerting vast sums of energy debating the most pressing issue of the day “whether angels were masculine or feminine”. This took prevalence over all else and the raging debates became extremely heated and passionate. And yet if were to rewind back over two thousand years before you would have found Thales of Miletus debating complex physics. You see, these cycles of history and ages of ignorance play out in perpetuity throughout the history of civilisation. It’s a sleight of hand that people have fallen for since the dawn of humanity, strangely it’s the ones that can actually see through the illusion that are themselves branded as crazy. In this age of technology and media society fools itself that this time it's different, but my friends this is a lie.
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I wrote the following in a previous post, but feel it’s appropriate in the context of my feelings on these issues
To An Extent We Are All Victims Of Mind Control
Our physical minds are incredibly powerful and as I have shown in previous posts contain the ability to alter both our biology and physiology. This is sobering when you think of the fact that the vast majority of our lives are spent running on subconscious programmes of thought. The vast majority of these subconscious thought programmes have been implanted by external influences, many of them negative. The human neocortex and it’s varying manifestations of consciousness and psychology have been intensively studied for generations. They know exactly what buttons to press and how to manipulate our hopes, fears and dreams.
This is the age of fear and terror, indeed even the word terror infects your brain on a subconscious level as do many key words and phrases. This is both known, understood and is equally prevalent in all forms of media. Our survival instincts have been used against us and manipulated to keep us in a state of constant and subconscious fear. It’s this fear that keeps us in a heightened state of tension and prevents us from entering and interacting with higher states of awareness and intuition.
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Conclusion
I have come to believe that identity politics empowers nobody and divides everybody. Why do the MSM and social media (pretty much) solely focus on what divides us? Why are people now taking up the mantle and becoming personal progenitors in our isolation and division? Instead of laughing at people's choices and opinions, I feel now is the time to engage them and at least attempt to comprehend why they made them. Yes, there are some complete arseholes and megalomaniacs in this crazy old world of ours, but there is still far more good than bad. If we engage people we may just find that the vast majority of us want the same things, we just have different perspectives on how to achieve them. Within that understanding, there is a foundation for a unity that can be built upon. Or we can just carry on exactly the way we are and see where this dusty old road leads us. The choice is in each of our hands.
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