I'm not sure it's "irreversible" though. It may not be reversed by giving them the truth, but I think that exposing the system which is propagandizing and manipulating them can do some good.
I wrote more ideas in longer form here the other day:
If the social incentives for holding their beliefs were changed, many would come around eventually. At the moment, holding and expressing certain left-leaning, or even more importantly anti-conservative viewpoints can be beneficial or even necessary to fit into certain groups.
Most of the major media companies and educational institutions in this country, along with social media companies promote these views while attacking a caricature of opposing political views. This provides one group with social power, an ability to reward the like-minded while punishing dissenters.
If this social power, and especially social reinforcement of far left beliefs were somehow removed, many would change. Not that doing such a thing is necessarily easy.
As long as some people have power, they will use that power to push political perspectives and a system of social virtue that rewards followers and punishes dissenters. And the followers of that system will continue to provide those people with power as they try to fit into the social system created.
But it's not impossible either. If the power of some at the top began to crumble, we could eventually see a domino effect as there was no longer any fuel for the social power contained in these systems.
While some people are certainly in too deep to ever change their views, most people just go along with what's convenient. The good thing is that I do believe that it's possible for people's views to be changed. The bad thing is that they would still be very fickle people, just temporarily on the "correct side," so to speak.
If the social incentives were entirely reversed, it would not even be surprising for people to head straight through to other extreme views. Kind of like how you sometimes see people bounce back and forth between militant atheism and sanctimonious "holier than thou" displays of religiosity, some of the biggest supporters of "social justice" would likely become some of the most outspoken and vitriolic racists you've ever seen as soon as it was in their interest to do so.
Edit: It's important to remember that there are some people on the right who will also try to use political and social groups for their own social-elevation, even if it's more important on the left at this moment. If the right gains social power, that type of person will inevitably flock here as well, and they have the potential to poison whatever they are a part of.
Pain is the best teacher. If they lose everything because of the system they put in place, they may learn. It's why every Communist, Socialist, what-have-you eventually fails.
It's a damned shame that so many need to die before the few survivors realize how wrong they were.
I read a book about survivors of the Khmer Rouge Communist regime. There was one lady who was telling the local leaders that it wasn't real Communism because they weren't free and equal right before they killed her and ate her liver.
Yeah, they had a thing for that... "eat the rich" is literally Communist history after all.
Anyhow, we may not be able to reach some people, that's true, but we have to wake up those who we can to the ways they're being manipulated.
Like have you noticed that minorities (or at least women) are the heroes in about 90%+ of all movies now? White men have basically been relegated to antagonists. It's glaring once you notice it but it's easy to be blind to it.
Notice how they always talk about minority representation and whatnot? So why are they making it full-on anti-white instead of some even or realistic split?
It's intentional, they're propagantizing against white people to make whites the out-group.
Oh, of course I've noticed that. It's like how in the past 20 years, other than Hank Hill, every single Sitcom Dad, animated or live action, has had some real glaring character flaws and Mom was always right. I'm a straight "white" Christian Man, believe me, I've noticed how 95% of anyone with even ONE of those qualifiers is now an idiot, a villain, or entirely subservient to people who are NOT those things in Media these days.
The ideology of the enemy is really an ideology of fantasy, of unreality. It does not deal with real consequences, real facts. It's as though, it has a built in self destruct function. You can see this in the death spiral of the Democratic party, and many other ways. The doubling down we've seen, is just making this worse.
It's been said, "unsustainable trends tend not to be sustained". We just have to pick up the rubble when the PC insanity collapses. But I feel for the victims, so many of whom could have been functional humans if they hadn't been sucked in by it all.
I'm not sure it's "irreversible" though. It may not be reversed by giving them the truth, but I think that exposing the system which is propagandizing and manipulating them can do some good.
I wrote more ideas in longer form here the other day:
https://thedonald.win/p/4K7lbCz/exposing-the-propaganda-we-live-/
The ones I know, and unfortunately I know many, will never grasp the fact that they have been manipulated and brainwashed. Yuri was right.
If the social incentives for holding their beliefs were changed, many would come around eventually. At the moment, holding and expressing certain left-leaning, or even more importantly anti-conservative viewpoints can be beneficial or even necessary to fit into certain groups.
Most of the major media companies and educational institutions in this country, along with social media companies promote these views while attacking a caricature of opposing political views. This provides one group with social power, an ability to reward the like-minded while punishing dissenters.
If this social power, and especially social reinforcement of far left beliefs were somehow removed, many would change. Not that doing such a thing is necessarily easy.
As long as some people have power, they will use that power to push political perspectives and a system of social virtue that rewards followers and punishes dissenters. And the followers of that system will continue to provide those people with power as they try to fit into the social system created.
But it's not impossible either. If the power of some at the top began to crumble, we could eventually see a domino effect as there was no longer any fuel for the social power contained in these systems.
While some people are certainly in too deep to ever change their views, most people just go along with what's convenient. The good thing is that I do believe that it's possible for people's views to be changed. The bad thing is that they would still be very fickle people, just temporarily on the "correct side," so to speak.
If the social incentives were entirely reversed, it would not even be surprising for people to head straight through to other extreme views. Kind of like how you sometimes see people bounce back and forth between militant atheism and sanctimonious "holier than thou" displays of religiosity, some of the biggest supporters of "social justice" would likely become some of the most outspoken and vitriolic racists you've ever seen as soon as it was in their interest to do so.
Edit: It's important to remember that there are some people on the right who will also try to use political and social groups for their own social-elevation, even if it's more important on the left at this moment. If the right gains social power, that type of person will inevitably flock here as well, and they have the potential to poison whatever they are a part of.
Pain is the best teacher. If they lose everything because of the system they put in place, they may learn. It's why every Communist, Socialist, what-have-you eventually fails.
It's a damned shame that so many need to die before the few survivors realize how wrong they were.
I read a book about survivors of the Khmer Rouge Communist regime. There was one lady who was telling the local leaders that it wasn't real Communism because they weren't free and equal right before they killed her and ate her liver.
Yeah, they had a thing for that... "eat the rich" is literally Communist history after all.
Anyhow, we may not be able to reach some people, that's true, but we have to wake up those who we can to the ways they're being manipulated.
Like have you noticed that minorities (or at least women) are the heroes in about 90%+ of all movies now? White men have basically been relegated to antagonists. It's glaring once you notice it but it's easy to be blind to it.
Notice how they always talk about minority representation and whatnot? So why are they making it full-on anti-white instead of some even or realistic split?
It's intentional, they're propagantizing against white people to make whites the out-group.
Oh, of course I've noticed that. It's like how in the past 20 years, other than Hank Hill, every single Sitcom Dad, animated or live action, has had some real glaring character flaws and Mom was always right. I'm a straight "white" Christian Man, believe me, I've noticed how 95% of anyone with even ONE of those qualifiers is now an idiot, a villain, or entirely subservient to people who are NOT those things in Media these days.
The ideology of the enemy is really an ideology of fantasy, of unreality. It does not deal with real consequences, real facts. It's as though, it has a built in self destruct function. You can see this in the death spiral of the Democratic party, and many other ways. The doubling down we've seen, is just making this worse.
It's been said, "unsustainable trends tend not to be sustained". We just have to pick up the rubble when the PC insanity collapses. But I feel for the victims, so many of whom could have been functional humans if they hadn't been sucked in by it all.