I'm gonna go on a rant here. It really comes down to the balkanization of information that starts with the education system. John Taylor Gatto has some great work on this. Our society is based on the Prussian model of operant conditioning. School is divided into distinct "subjects" but these are never put together into a cohesive whole. The bells even delineate when one area of inquiry stops, and the students are shuffled to another area where a different area of inquiry begins. The origins come from when the Prussians were defeated by the Grand Armee of Napolean. The Prussians sought to stratify their society in a such a way that this could never happen again.
The Germans had a distinctive medieval and militaristic bend, due to 100 years of religious warfare and skipping most of the Enightenment. With the new behaviorist science of Wundt, Pavlov, and others they figured out that the best way to make people compliant in a system was to use reward/punishment rather than using the building blocks of grammar, logic, and rhetoric that was taught to the elites from the time of Hermes, through Plato, and on up through the Church. The aristocrats were on top, and then a 2% class of "managers" who were educated in the elite schools, and then a class of 98% that were "workers."
The complete shattering of the education system in this way, which the US and others have adopted, with a Marxist overlay on top of it that has destroyed the family and religious systems has made any real pushback impossible. What's left if you've blown out reasoning from first principles and the reinforcement from a society based on values? Seems to me it's mindless entertainment and base level fulfillment: if it feels good, well then it must be right. The complicated details of how to run a society are best left to that 2% managerial class that went to Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia, etc.
The masses lack of involvement in shaping values and thought has led us into this mess. Even the churches have been infiltrated by this madness since the Rockefellers created the World Council of Churches. The medical profession has the AMA, the CDC and others; law has the ABA, and academia has gatekeepers that hang tenure over wrongthinkers heads. This hasn't happened by accident: we are seeing the zombification of our society (and the entire world) on purpose. They want us to sit around talking about propaganda and mindless bullshit.
I would expound further on their "love" of Marvel and fantasy. Aren't they just recreating the archetypes (think Jung and Campbell) that religion used to provide? We've destroyed the sacred masculine/feminine and just replaced it with the profane. Look at the symbols in something like Wonder Woman. You are seeing the elevation of the feminine and the expense of the traditional masculine roles. It's the turning the archetypes upside down; it's replacing the sacred feminine with the unholy feminine. I just think of apotheosis. What did we used to glorify? What do we now glorify? It seems innocent in the micro, but in the macro it has profound consequences. As you've said, part of it is the deification of authority and status over actual substance.
You and I see the world through the same lenses, it seems. Joseph Campbell The Hero With a Thousand Faces. I highly recommend. It's really just an extension of Jung's work and the role of myth and the hero's journey.
I'm gonna go on a rant here. It really comes down to the balkanization of information that starts with the education system. John Taylor Gatto has some great work on this. Our society is based on the Prussian model of operant conditioning. School is divided into distinct "subjects" but these are never put together into a cohesive whole. The bells even delineate when one area of inquiry stops, and the students are shuffled to another area where a different area of inquiry begins. The origins come from when the Prussians were defeated by the Grand Armee of Napolean. The Prussians sought to stratify their society in a such a way that this could never happen again.
The Germans had a distinctive medieval and militaristic bend, due to 100 years of religious warfare and skipping most of the Enightenment. With the new behaviorist science of Wundt, Pavlov, and others they figured out that the best way to make people compliant in a system was to use reward/punishment rather than using the building blocks of grammar, logic, and rhetoric that was taught to the elites from the time of Hermes, through Plato, and on up through the Church. The aristocrats were on top, and then a 2% class of "managers" who were educated in the elite schools, and then a class of 98% that were "workers."
The complete shattering of the education system in this way, which the US and others have adopted, with a Marxist overlay on top of it that has destroyed the family and religious systems has made any real pushback impossible. What's left if you've blown out reasoning from first principles and the reinforcement from a society based on values? Seems to me it's mindless entertainment and base level fulfillment: if it feels good, well then it must be right. The complicated details of how to run a society are best left to that 2% managerial class that went to Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia, etc.
The masses lack of involvement in shaping values and thought has led us into this mess. Even the churches have been infiltrated by this madness since the Rockefellers created the World Council of Churches. The medical profession has the AMA, the CDC and others; law has the ABA, and academia has gatekeepers that hang tenure over wrongthinkers heads. This hasn't happened by accident: we are seeing the zombification of our society (and the entire world) on purpose. They want us to sit around talking about propaganda and mindless bullshit.
You are well over the mark, fren.
I would expound further on their "love" of Marvel and fantasy. Aren't they just recreating the archetypes (think Jung and Campbell) that religion used to provide? We've destroyed the sacred masculine/feminine and just replaced it with the profane. Look at the symbols in something like Wonder Woman. You are seeing the elevation of the feminine and the expense of the traditional masculine roles. It's the turning the archetypes upside down; it's replacing the sacred feminine with the unholy feminine. I just think of apotheosis. What did we used to glorify? What do we now glorify? It seems innocent in the micro, but in the macro it has profound consequences. As you've said, part of it is the deification of authority and status over actual substance.
You and I see the world through the same lenses, it seems. Joseph Campbell The Hero With a Thousand Faces. I highly recommend. It's really just an extension of Jung's work and the role of myth and the hero's journey.