People Are Falling for Noble Slogans
They Never Look Deeper than Slogans
Honestly, I'm so fed up with it. It is a curse of our generation which has SO SHORT ATTENTION SPAN that never even read full news articles, ONLY headings. Same behavior most people exhibit when it comes to modern social movements - they do NOT LOOK behind the slogans. So if the slogan is noble enough, they jump on the bandwagon no matter which fascist antihuman evil shit is inside.
Examples of it are multitude. BLM riots, trans radicalism, climate scam, COVID fearmongering, Ukrainian warmongering...Majority of people exhibit 100% childish views with regards to ALL of these issues. It looks like that:
'You're against BLM and Antifa? But WHY, they're AGAINST RACISM, so ARE YOU RACIST?
You're against trans activism? But WHY, are you against LGBT, are you homophobic and transphobic bigot?
You're against COVID policies? But WHY, they're SAVING LIVES, are you moronic 'conspiracy theorist'?
You're against perpetual proxy war with Russia in Ukraine? But WHY, it saves' our 'free' world from tyranny, are you Putin's supporter?'
Heh I really fail to understand HOW THOSE PEOPLE WITH THOSE VIEWS ARE REAL, and even HOW COME THEY ARE MAJORITY. Sigh.
I mean, only idiots believe everything they're told, especially by media and politicians, and only idiots join the movement just because of its slogan without even TRYING to look deeper, behind those 'noble slogans'.
I mean, do you really believe that people who wish you ill would HONESTLY TELL IT TO YOU and would frame their goals like 'we want to deprive you from all your basic freedoms and human rights so you'd be our complete slaves'? OF COURSE, they would disguise their real fascist goals with NOBLE SLOGANS. Ofc, they would talk of 'saving lives', 'saving the planet', 'preserving our democracy', 'protecting vulnerable minorities' and so on. But WHY ON EARTH DO YOU BELIEVE THEM? Words are wind, as GRRM had said. They could say literally ANYTHING to push for their shit. Only why are YOU AS DUMB as to believe it?
Again, just a VERY SUPREFICIAL GLANCE behind 'noble' slogans bares all uncomfortable truth. Look behind BLM slogan and you'd see billionaire funding and violent riots. Look behind trans slogans and you'd see child abuse, erasing of gays and women and even pedophilia. Look behind COVID 'saving lives' slogans and you'd see medical corruption, governmental overreach and Pharma fascism. Look behind climate 'saving planet' slogans and you'd see totalitarian, truly dystopian agenda and hypocrisy in addition when billionaires who want to deprive us from our everything to 'save the planet' themselves keep flying private jets and buy expensive properties on seaside...
Again, just a VERY SUPERFICIAL GLANCE behind noble slogans reveals all the dirty truth behind them. But the problem is that most people DO NOT LOOK BEHIND THE SLOGANS. They have too short attention span for that.
I think that these beliefs don't serve the same function as political ideas for you and me. I guess they do, somewhat, but they're also a way to identify people and signal virtue and gain status.
These CAN'T be serious beliefs because they are never applied personally. If you're white and you believe in white privilege then you should surrender some of your privilege to black people in your life... no? If you believe that carbon emissions are an urgent threat you should not buy many things on Amazon... no? Partly these are public goods problems but the people who believe these things don't do anything in the aggregate either. Their proposals don't make sense.
It's like watching a million people pretend to be religious. It has that same fake and demonstrative quality. Who cares if your beliefs are genuine or not when you don't live them?
I'm always amazed when people think evil is so easily recognizable. You make some great points. You mentioned, "do you think they are just going to come out and say their true intentions?" Of course, not. They will disguise their intentions through deception and put a nice pretty bow on top. I always remember the stories of The Pied Piper, the wolf in sheep's clothing and the fox and the hen house. The people running the show are extremely clever and cunning. It's absolutely stunning that after the past four years, so many people still trust them. Sadly, those who trust them, do so at their own peril.