One of the most disturbing episodes of The Twilight Zone was Season 3, Episode 8, It’s a Good Life.
In it, a little boy can read minds. He can destroy anyone who makes him unhappy, so the entire town lives in mortal fear of the boy, appeasing him at all times.
This is a nice recap of the episode on YouTube:
I bring this up because Axios published an article:
1 Big thing: How to deprogram America’s extremists
It will take an all-out national effort to dismantle the radicalization pipeline that has planted conspiracy theories in the heads of millions of Americans and inspired last month’s attack on the Capitol, experts tell Axios’ Kyle Daly.
Two key measures that could make a difference:
Keeping extremists out of the institutions where they could do the greatest damage — like the military, police departments and legislatures.
Providing help for those who have embraced dangerous ideologies.
The U.S. needs a “Marshall Plan against domestic extremism,” Daniel Koehler, director of the German Institute on Radicalization and De-radicalization Studies, told Axios.
“The spread of extremist conspiracy theories in the United States is the second most dangerous pandemic the country faces right now,” he said. “The damage that’s been to the U.S. in terms of community and social cohesion will be immense and will be lasting.”
The radicalization is happening in a multitude of online spaces and right-wing media channels, pulling people into an alternate reality that posits, among a growing swarm of other false ideas, that the 2020 election was stolen.
A key part of breaking extremists’ rising mainstream influence will be making it unacceptable for white nationalists, anti-government extremists and conspiracy theorists to serve in the military, in police forces or as lawmakers.
That is their suggestion, cancel culture all the time and forever.
What is their definition of extremism? Anything that stands in the way of the Left.
For example, the NHS in the UK has decided that breastfeeding is too gendered so it is now chestfeeding, breastmilk is now human milk, and mother is now birthing parent. Anything less is transphobic.
If you say “This is ridiculous. I don’t hate trans people, but some tiny fraction of society doesn’t get to erase the moment my wife becomes a mother and sterilizes it with ‘birthing parent’ in some Orwell/Huxley fan-fiction crossover,” congratulations. You get to be kicked out of the military and law enforcement and lose your ability to use banking or advertise your business on social media and are otherwise canceled out of society.
We are living in one of the creepiest episodes of The Twilight Zone and it’s horrifying.
The “extremists “ want to control America. Its almost insanely funny yet frightening….. ignore the group of extreamists screaming about America…
Meanwhile, the people who spread the lie that Cracker Barrel is named after a barrel of ships to be used on slaves don’t even get fact checked on Twitter.
Orwell was a prophet. Every time I read something like this I load another mag, buy another batch of supplies, and lose just a bit more faith that this nation will prevail.
I weep for our future.
https://unconstrainedanalytics.org/report-re-remembering-the-mis-remembered-left-the-lefts-strategy-and-tactics-to-transform-america/
“The Left uses dialectically determined political warfare concepts to drive a core set of narratives that inter-operate at the tactical level while integrating at the strategic. Narratives are associated with the pseudorealities (or second realities) they seek to establish and enforce. They are called narratives because they are stories—fictions—that seek to supplant the real with the unreal. These narratives are directional, they have velocity, and are always oriented on a target.”
https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/10/05/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset/
“But the further the reader progresses into the world depicted in Schwab’s books, the less of a laughing matter it all seems.
The truth is that this highly influential figure, at the centre of the new global order currently being established, is an out-and-out transhumanist who dreams of an end to natural healthy human life and community.
Schwab repeats this message time and time again, as if to be sure we have been duly warned.
“The mind-boggling innovations triggered by the fourth industrial revolution, from biotechnology to AI, are redefining what it means to be human,” he writes.
“The future will challenge our understanding of what it means to be human, from both a biological and a social standpoint. Already, advances in neurotechnologies and biotechnologies are forcing us to question what it means to be human.”
What “question what it means to be human” really comes down to is “we’re going to define a whole lot of people as not human”.
They are doing it for your own good.
Hate speech damages everyone.
Disenfranchising people has always worked great and never made them more extreme.
Domestic terrorist label will be used to describe all gun owners, and used to try to take the guns