“You throw away your biggest opportunity, over a dog! And then you humiliate me by stealing my boss’s car!” – Kingsman, The Secret Service
I think, I hope, the base image is A.I. generated.
I had originally started writing a post about Trump, but I thought it would fit better in the Civil War 2.0 Weather Report. That’s where it fits, anyway. Instead, I thought I’d write indirectly about it for today. I’ll start with the words of Theodore Dalrymple:
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious likes, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is . . . in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
The GloboLeftElite does not care about being right, it cares about control. Dalrymple references political correctness, which is a way to control thought by controlling the language that can be used about a subject. What followed? Microaggressions, a manner in which any sort of normal patterns of speech can be considered inspired by the deepest hate. Soon enough we’ll have to stop calling them black holes and call them “BiPOC gravitational anomalies”.
They do this to break you down like a person might break a horse.
It then jumps into things like hiring. “Hiring the best person for the job” is considered a microaggression according the GloboLeft. Why? Some bafflegarb about history. The explanation didn’t make sense, but that’s part of the process – people are supposed to buy this nonsense.
YouTube™ even enforces it with a set of rules that are never shared that can be unknowingly violated and then the creator is silenced, often forever. Why? They won’t give a list. You’re guilty when they say you’re guilty, and the rules change over time so previously accepted speech is now verboten.
Vox Day wrote about the general process that they use to ostracize people in his Social Justice Warrior books. It is:
- Locate or Create a Violation of the Narrative.
2. Point and Shriek.
3. Isolate and Swarm.
4. Reject and Transform.
5. Press for Surrender.
6. Appeal to Amenable Authority.
7. Show Trial.
8. Victory Parade.
The point is only partially to humiliate the victim of the process. The most important part of the process is to scare other people who might take similar actions. There doesn’t have to be a formal recruitment to the GloboLeft, giving in is all that it takes.
I was a bit confused when I saw the GloboLeftElite attack Graham Hancock. If you’re not familiar, Hancock has a theory that there was a civilization older than what is currently accepted. Okay, he’s either right or he’s wrong. Instead of arguing about Hancock’s ideas, it was an attack on anyone who would give him a platform.
Hancock didn’t back down. But anyone who has any belief that is contrary to the narrative must be shut down – I was reminded of that today when I tried to find a story on Bing™ and Google© but was forced to use Yandex™. Why? It had to do with an alternative theory about an aspect of COVID. Even as these alternative theories are proven, they are suppressed. Why?
Because to the GloboLeftElite, these Narrative violations, no matter how small, leave deviation for thoughts. The frightening part is now the GloboLeft NPC foot soldiers are so easy to steer into a mob with pitchforks and torches, screaming words like “disinformation” or “dangerous to our democracy”. Hancock was even accused of racism, which is the word that seems to have lost a lot of impact when they define down “hiring the best person for the job” as racist.
This humiliation ritual is on full display – drag queen story hour and three-year-old “transgender” children are nothing more nor less than that, and “living in the pods and eating the bug” is more of the same. The reason that these exist is to humiliate society. They want it because they know you don’t want it, and want you to feel you can’t stop them, so that they can humiliate you.
Who supports those? Those who are weak and don’t think for themselves: the GloboLeft NPC. They’re programmed because they simply must follow the popular opinion. I don’t know how much of a proportion of society they are, but it’s not as much as the GloboLeftElite would like: Bud Light™ is an example of a brand killed by those who simply refused to be a part of the humiliation ritual.
Don’t think that the January 6 and Trump trials and convictions are anything less than this – they’re a humiliation ritual for Trump and the people put into prison for January 6, but they’re also meant to show everyone what punishments wait for them if they go against The Narrative.
However, the GloboLeftElite has not won, and won’t win. The Zoomers and Generation Alpha see what’s going on, and want none of it, swinging wider right with every poll.
And that’s a good thought to start the week with.
Notes: I had more memes, but thought I’d just let this one stand. Also, watching The Prisoner (a reader suggestion, which also explains Iron Maiden’s© song Back in the Village).
There are powerful photos of Chinese dissidents back in days of Mao forced to wear the equivalent of dunce hats while students shout at them. More humiliation. More recently, wearing paper masks or risking social ostracization. Standing on pieces of tape, following arrows around a store. All designed to see just how much humiliation people would endure. The answer was “A lot” and many people are pining for some new made-up crisis so they can put their masks back on and bark at people for not getting the jab.
John wrote:
“ Also, watching The Prisoner (a reader suggestion, which also explains Iron Maiden’s© song Back in the Village).”
Don’t know much about that song, but Iron Maiden literally wrote a song called “The Prisoner” which opened with the opening lines you will hear at the start of every episode – “ We want information , information.” Who are you? The new number two. Who is number one? You are number six. I am not a number, I am a free man! ( laughter).
I had never seen it before, but I had read the graphic novels back in the late 80s. So I watched it I think last year or could’ve been the year before.
Take away – man that 60s were weird.
Also, I don’t think it is only humiliation, but also cognitive dissonance. Most rational people can see that the stupid 2×4 plexiglass sheet and other stupid barriers did NOTHING, (Brownian motion anyone?) along with all the other made up shyte. But it’s like Winston having to accept that 2+2=5 if the Party says so. We stop thinking because the stupid burns. Pretty soon we’re telling ourselves that “ I’m so glad that I am a Delta, because it would be too hard to be otherwise” To paraphrase brave New World.
Yes, no matter how silly, the HOA is gonna HOA.
They actually called Patrick McGoohan on the phone to ask him for permission to use the dialogue on the Number of the Beast album. According to Bruce Dickinson, the response was: “Iron Maiden? A rock band, you say? Good, do it, do it!” Imaging that in McGoohan’s voice has to bring a smile.
That’s sweet! But what if McGoohan’s character in Scanners was just an older Number 6???
I hope you know the context: that Patrick McGoohan starred in a prior series called Secret Agent Man. I only saw one or two episodes, but I was impressed. There was something about it that seemed plausible, nothing played for laughs, no science fiction gadgets. Just a guy trying to do a job. Lots of loose ends left untied at the end (as in real life), but he did what he could.
Lathechuck
McGoohan was in a “Columbo” episode were he played the Sadisitic Headmaster of a Military School. Filmed on location at The Citidel in Charleston. Unless it was shot in Winter, wearing that trenchcoat must have been unbearable.
Have not seen “The Prisoner” remake but will pull it up. Loved the original.
I haven’t seen that one. Fan theory is that his character from Secret Agent Man was the guy imprisoned in The Prisoner.
Yup, that Iron Maiden song was the first place I heard of The Prisoner. Yes, the 60s were weird.
People like the made up rules of the latest crisis, because they could show 1) how good they were at really following all the rules which made them feel superior to the non rule followers.
2) some of them would then go so far as to make up new rules which they could be even better at following since they’re the only ones who knew about them.
3) The worst jack holes were the ones who not only did one and two but were able to relive their grade school days of Tattling on those who did neither one or two.
My wife and I were scolded by a couple of super obese scooter riders At our local Walmart during a shopping trip for ” going the wrong way“. I finally told the dude if he didn’t shut up, I was gonna flip him and he’d be stuck like a fucking turtle on his back in the middle of the bread aisle. Finally realized it really didn’t matter what he wanted to say, because my slow walk is still faster than the speed which the straining scooter could push his fat ass.
> stuck like a fucking turtle on his back
Hahaha! Good for you. I had a similarly pleasant encounter with some person with a full, curly dark beard who was wearing an N95 mask perched precariously over that hirsute testimony to, er, something. (Only I didn’t have nearly as good a comeback as you.) It’s June, high 80’s. I’m walking down an empty residential street. This guy runs past me, across the street, then turns around, runs back a couple of houses to stop about six feet away from me and starts literally screaming that I’m trying to kill him. By means of I wasn’t wearing a mask. Of course. (And I did it For Absolutely No Reason At All! Bwahahaha!)
In the same town I was in a Trader Joe’s (I know, sigh). The checkout clerk, obviously agitated, shouted at me when I pushed my cart up to the checkout. “Get back! Get back! You need to be in the square! It’s for my safety!” Apparently you were supposed to stand in a tape-marked 12” by 12” square while the clerk sidled up to your cart (doubtless with masked face averted) and dragged the cart himself to checkout. Because that’s Science, you know. I didn’t argue. I went back to the tape square, dropped to my knees and put my interlaced fingers behind my head. “What are you doing?”
“I’m assuming the position of compliance.”
Most places, if you pulled that, about half the people standing around would at least smirk, if not outright laugh out loud. Not this town. [Redacted] is full of multi degreed academics (including Harvard and Boston University Med School faculty). From the looks I got, I figured the onlookers wanted to kill me, only that would have required them to approach me too closely.
Huzzah! Well played.
The only way to top that would’ve been to get 4-5 fellow miscreants, wear monk’s robes, and whack yourselves in the head with boards while chanting suitable silliness in Latin, like the Brothers Of Pain wandering through scenes inQuest For The Holy Grail
I wish I’d thought of that. I already have the kit.
Another one of my (tonybaloney) classic Karen is going to lose her shit moments from the scamdemic —
At the end of 2020 I just needed to go somewhere and told the wife lets just get away for a few. With an utter lack of analytical and critical thinking I booked a hotel in … Boulder, CO!
The drive from KC was great! As we ventured down 70 westward through KS, everytime we’d stop to stretch, walk the pups and get gas, it just got freer and freer – I think by the time we had stopped in Hays or WaKeeney there were no plexi sheets in the convenience stores, no masking, no bullshit.
Boulder was a shitshow, with everyone trying to outdo each other. Saw the first outdoor dining “bubbles” there and shit was locked down tight. But, the trails were open and all I wanted to do was walk with Wifey and the pups in nature. Went on a trail near the flatirons and spent a glorious couple hours away from EVERYBODY!
Until… the trail we were on ended near a residential area and just as we were getting off the trail and headed back to our car, Karen runs up pointing and screaming “Zee masks, vee are all going to die!” I let her know that my dogs were on 6′ leads and if she didn’t social distance her ass they were going to help her recognize what 5’9″ looked like. LOL, my bullmatian boy and boxer girl wouldn’t hurt a bunny, but I think my wife gave her what I call her BIG IRISH EYES and she retreated toot sweet (I know, sic).
Never saw that, mainly pearl clutching and clucking. But I spent most of the Pandemic around Modern Mayberry.
You could tell when we left Modern Mayberry to visit Big City that the rules had changed. And not for the better.
Nice. I never did “have” to go out. I had several years worth of stuff (including TP) stored up well ahead of time. I just went out to F with people. Most often it was loading up a cart full of perishables, then getting kicked out of the store, forcing them to put it all back. Hopefully a few of the customers got hospitalized for food poisoning, and sued the store for being a dumb ass.
Yep. Without F U preps, that is your future.
You can tell how many BDSM fans there are by looking at how many have no preps at all, let alone F U preps.
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Authur, surprised you didn’t mention the Maoist destruction of the 4 olds.
Wikipedia entry pretty good, almost damning.
Sort of like re-naming confederate named bases, destroying statues and renaming streets stuff…
Where did I hear about that stuff lately?
There is a subset of people who want to control the behaviors of others – often they’re the ones on the HOA board.
Controlling thought by controlling language: it’s all in Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language.” For anyone who hasn’t read it, it’s a fine starting place.
Read that in 8th grade and it has always stuck with me – if you don’t have the words, it’s impossible to express the thought.
Over a quarter century ago, when the credits were rolling after the last episode of The Prisoner, my wife and I looked at each other and asked, “What was that?”
I just finished tonight and had the exact same thought. But, hey, he got his car back.
The Prisoner was one of the most amazing things ever produced for television. And we’re living through some of the story lines now.
There is 6 episode miniseries of The Prisoner (2009). The tone and ending are remarkably different (and much, much darker), but Number Two is played by Ian McKellan. The Old Man at the beginning is wearing the distinctive Number Six jacket in a nice homage to the original.
The Prisoner is indirectly referenced quite frequently in Babylon 5. Bester often gives the circle salute and “Be seeing you.” Plus every PsyCorps office uses Village font on all their creepy posters.
McChuck, now I’m gonna have to go back and rewatch the PsyCorps episodes! Did you like the miniseries?
Yes, humiliation is used frequently, like when you stood too close behind someone in direct violation of what the tape on the floor demanded. The glares, and outright rude comments weren’t intended to inform. They were to whip you into the correct position in line and show you how pathetic your personal opinions were, while they examined your mask for conformity.
Yup, the world under the rule of the Safety Patrol.
A correction: Prior to The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan starred in “Danger Man”. The theme song was actually “Secret Agent Man” (as recorded by Johnny Rivers, in one of three theme-song versions).
Lathechuck
“Danger Man” was the British title. It was “Secret Agent” in the US.
The ultimate aim of the humiliation is to demonstrate to you, and compel your willing agreement to the proposition that you, as an individual, were worthless.
Your time, wants, desires, thought, goals, and input, were all entirely worthless apart from their total willing subservience to those of The State.
The best response to that is a small sack full of a handful of lead egg sinkers, used to deliver a right cross to the jaw of anyone attempting to enforce that rule.
Break out their front teeth, and their hearts and minds will follow.
If they’re still slow learners, kick them in the crotch. It may or may not help them, but it’s glorious to enjoy life’s little pleasures when you can.
“right cross to the jaw of anyone attempting to enforce that rule.”
You quite sure you want to encourage that?
Yes. It’s the only known efficacious cure.
When are you going to do that?
Any time when fate graciously hands me the moment.
Luck = Preparedness + opportunity.
Anyone who’d rather grovel can collect data, and we can compare notes on which approach is most efficacious. Trust the science.
Saying no when they tell you “you must” is important. I wonder if any of them saw The Prisoner???
Agreed they won’t win but will damage the whole system trying. And enjoying that, as they want to bring everything down.
They’ll do everything they can take it down. Some of them will enjoy it. Some won’t feel anything at all.
Vox Day my ass…that is Alinsky word for word
Vox Day is well read.
No, Rules for Radicals is different, but the same general concepts, if even more Satanic.
I think they should do drag queen story hour for the vets at your local VFW, maybe while they are cleaning their firearms.
Yeah, makes me wonder – why is it always young kids???
John… “they” cannot “reproduce”; so, the only way “they” can “perpetuate” “their” “species” ((shudder)) is by… conversion.
– insert Mencken quote about black flags, spitting on hands, slitting throats… here –
Original Grandpa
Yup.