“Aber, wie ein englischer Autor geistreich bemerkte, derjenige, welcher dem Feinde statt des Pfeiles ein Schimpfwort entgegenschleuderte, war der Begründer der Civilisation, so ist das Wort der Ersatz für die That und unter Umständen der einzige Ersatz (Beichte).” - “Ueber den psychischen Mechanismus hysterischer Phänomene”, 1893
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I wasn't going to make a part two i was going to go on with my life maybe get into bird watching or soap making but here we are... because apparently when you post a video gently suggesting that the US might be collapsing under the weight of its own stupidity people have opinions a lot of them and some of those opinions are what's the word terrifying so if you haven't seen the original video I made titled The Death of Intelligence you can find it easily on this channel.
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okay let's buckle up. now look I I'm truly grateful for all the feedback i mean really it's been amazing even the guy who called me a soybased nihilist doom clown or whatever it was I'm paraphrasing. I mean hilarious i definitely laughed out loud but also inaccurate and kind of harsh i digress so this time we're going to go a little deeper this isn't just about the vibe of dumbness anymore we're going to dig deeper into where this anti-intellectual come anti-intellectualism comes from historically psychologically and systemically we're going to talk about the false equivalency thing the one where people said "How dare you imply that both political parties are contributing to this?"
Well you're right i mean they're not contributing equally but also that's not the point we'll get there and yes we'll address the people upset about the Reddit versus epidemiology thing i still believe science wins but I get it, greed ruins everything even truth. But more on that in a bit and finally we need to talk about the hundreds of people who dropped Dunning Krueger effect in the comments like they just discovered the holy grail of human psychology which to be fair they kind of did because it explains a lot but when everyone thinks everyone else is the Dunning Krueger person yeah we're still in a pile of trouble so let's rewind let's take this back not to the birth of civilization that's a different video but to the actual historical roots of anti-intellectualism because this isn't new. In fact, Richard Hoffadder Puliter Prizewinning historian wrote a book called Anti-intellectualism in American Life. He wrote this way back in 1963 which by the way I highly recommend reading so that was over 60 years ago this isn't some new Tik Tok trend where people think facts are elitist and everything smells like lavender vape and despair this has roots ugly tangled generational roots so Hoffadder traced anti-intellectualism through American culture like a coroner detailing the cause of death he pointed out how early American Protestantism already distrusted intellectual elites and the thinking was something like "We don't need your fancy Harvard degrees just give us the Bible and a pitchfork and we'll figure it out."
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Now in some ways that attitude of instinct over intellect it never really left and don't get me wrong instinct it's a very useful mechanism in short-term context but it doesn't really function as a long-term strategic intellectual system which is what you need for a functioning society so in the 19th and early 20th century the US industrialized but the working class wasn't exactly encouraged to think critically they were trained to obey repeat and of course consume and intelligence became a liability in factories and eventually in politics and when the Cold War era arrived intellectuals were even seen as dangerous subversive communist adjacent eggheheads people who thought too much were accused of being unamerican and God forbid you don't want to be unamerican that's worse than being French. Just kidding no disrespect to the French
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but here's the kicker this wasn't just a spontaneous cultural shift it was engineered propaganda media consolidation corporate influence you know these things didn't just accidentally make people stupider it was more efficient to keep people emotionally reactive and intellectually passive and critical thinking doesn't sell Bud Light or get you to buy five Snuggies at 3:00 a.m
so now we're swimming in that soup drowning in it really we have a society built on algorithms that reward anger echo chambers that reinforce our own ignorance and we have leaders who literally brag about not reading books it's not that people can't think it's that they're constantly punished for trying and that's where we are a culture that simultaneously demands expertise and then mocks it that screams "Do your own research" but never reads past the headline that hates elites but only the ones who read things.
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Okay so let's talk about the two-party system because apparently I touched a nerve last time by saying that both political parties are contributing to the dumbification of society some people said "Whoa whoa whoa false equivalency one side is clearly worse."
Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.
People like to play a screen game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.
We Are Currently at Surkov Stage 8 / Surkov Stage Eight
Counter Vlad Surkov techniques and methods
Introduction to the Kremlin media techniques of year 2014
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Peter Pomerantsev September 9, 2014: Russia and the Menace of Unreality. How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
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Adam Curtis, BBC, December 31, 2014: On The "Contradictory Vaudeville" Of Post-Modern Politics - "What this film is going to suggest is that that defeatist response has become a central part of a new system of political control. And to understand how this is happening, you have to look to Russia, to a man called Vladislav Surkov, who is a hero of our time. Surkov is one of President Putin's advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years, but he has done it in a very new way."
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Book reading from December 5, 2014 on the subject by Peter Pomerantsev
"Are you smarter than a 3rd grade school student?" .... Masturbatory Egoism of social media simulacra. Reactionary comment messages on social systems that boil down to: "I am smarter than Donald Trump", "I am smarter than Elon Musk", "I am smarter than Russia", "They have no clue", "those people are clueless", "they are so stupid-dumb-idot". Promoting anti-education, anti-learning, and total mockery of NATO / USA. The very low low bars of popular screen game show of people declaring they are smarter than others
... See Also: !BackTo1985@lemm.ee community.
You see the world through your cynical eyes. Sharon Stone Was Right in 2024.
YouTube video Time Index + 92 seconds
Counter Surkov Act Two
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Such A Sinister Plan is "OpM419"
3,108,460 views July 29, 2018
"Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohamed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone."
are playing out a storyline to keep you all distracted while they get their ducks in line to financially rape America
That's exactly what BBC's Adam Curtis called out New Years Eve 2014.
December 31, 2014
Time-index into YouTube video link at 185 seconds:
https://youtu.be/h9_L9GRRsQo?t=185
"But the real epicenter of this non-linear world is the economy" - Adam Curtis, 2014
Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.
People like to play a screen game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.
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NATO / USA lost the Hybrid War that was launched in March 2013 against the World Wide Web.
Kremlin brags that only 1% of the manipulation Hybrid War content has been discovered and removed. NATO has entirely been unable to defend, 99% flies under the defense radar of Five Eyes (FVEY).
Russian military was able to completely get past USA FBI, CIA, NSA, and whatever else the Pentagon has. Competely unable to defend the population against Russian Hybrid Warfare. "For years, AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacker group Cozy Bear. That's what de Volkskrant and Nieuwsuur have uncovered in their investigation." "the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD penetrated the computer network of a university adjacent to Red Square back in 2014, only to later realize they had tapped into APT29, aka Cozy Bear, one of the Russian government-affiliated organizations that penetrated the DNC and targeted other US government departments". "It was Dutch intelligence operatives that hacked into some of Russia's own institutions -- including their closed-circuit television cameras."
Putin and Surkov's "Operation Matthew 4:19" global manipulation of everyday people included turning social media consumers into Russian assets of the Hybrid Warfare who deliberately spread measles and COVID-19 virus during the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University validated evidence going back to year 2014.
Absolutely no defense has been found against this Hybrid Warfare since it was unleashed in March 2013. "At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations"