The Great Stupidification. By the Z-Man.
If you were alive in 1985 it would have been perfectly normal for you to argue with your liberal friends about the issues of the day. … There were some limits, but for the most part everyone accepted that everything can and should be discussed. …
Then as now the people we call the Left in America controlled the institutions, but forty years ago they were more confident. The typical liberal person was fine debating a typical conservative, because they thought they were right. Both sides figured a good dose of facts and reason would bring the other side around. …
Today:
The people trying to purge the public square of normal debate are doing so out of fear. That fear comes from a lack of confidence and that is driven by a sharp decline in intellect. …
The great stupidification of America is obvious in the language. The great and good now salt their language with abracadabra words like “disinformation”. The fact that they regularly confuse “disinformation” with “misinformation” is the tell. The hair-hat on CNN wailing about “disinformation” on-line has no idea what the word means nor does he even care, because for him it just means “forbidden.” Like a chimp flinging his poo at an enemy, he flings the word “disinformation” at the audience. …
The hive now has lots of these words and phrases. They seem to think they just need to position one of these magic words next to the thing they fear and it will magically disappear from their presence. Alternatively, if they label someone with one of their magic words enough times, that person will disappear. …
This is not the behavior of intelligent and confident people. This is the mindset of a primitive man, terrified of the world around him, so he embraces various rituals and incantations to provide him protection from the unknown. Instead of chanting a magic phrase to invoke the gods, the modern progressive chants “racism” and “fascism” to chase away the evil spirits they are sure lurk in the shadows. This is why public debate has suddenly become impossible.
It has been said that the Eskimos have many words for snow. … Similarly, the modern progressive has many words for outsider. The reason is they are obsessed with the imaginary wall between themselves and the outside world. … The modern progressive is defined by that wall, so it is his obsession.
As average IQ sinks, 15+ points since 1880:
What appears to have happened within the managerial class is that the smart fraction is slowly being overwhelmed by the deranged faction. …
Work still gets done, but the capable are now dragging a massive sack filled with gender theorists and critical race theory workshop participants. The burden is becoming unbearable. …
The people who had to be protected from criticism because they were too weak cannot be challenged now, because they are too strong, so they will now define the managerial elite. The system will collapse under the weight of its own stupidification.
The midwits have taken over the left.
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