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Indoctrination is not the result of thought, analysis, or insight. It is the result of hissing at Emanuel Goldstein in "1984."
"It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for theTwo Minutes Hate....
The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck. The Hate had started.
As usual, the face ofEmmanuel Goldstein, theEnemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience."
The first defector from Stalin's 'paradise,' Victor Kravchenko, described the process:
The new history" became possible... "study" of the new version was made obligatory for all responsible Party people. History classes met nearly every night in this period and lecturers from Sverdlovsk came to our town to help hammer home the lies, while most of us fumed inwardly. .... But even the most gigantic lie, by dint of infinite repetition, takes root; Stalin knew this before Hitler discovered it. As I looked on I could see terrible falsehoods, at first accepted under pressure, become established as unquestioned "facts," particularly among younger people without personal experience to the contrary to bother them."
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Here is America's version:
“The federally funded “National History Standards” for elementary schools were released in 1994, cemented a revisionist view of American Communism for schoolteachers, as the guide mentions McCarthy over twenty times, while Edison and the Wright Brothers got no mention. “It …repeatedly condemns McCarthyism as an unmitigated evil…[but] the Hiss-Chambers and Rosenberg cases, the two dominant controversies of the anticommunist era, are described with bland, neutral language crafted to keep from implying guilt while not being quite so foolhardy as to actually assert innocence..’National Standards’…implies that the cases are part and parcel of the McCartyite horror.” From “In Denial,” by Haynes and Klehr, pg. 151
1. In a recent thread, an example of the depth and the indelibility of indoctrination emerged.
"Marxism had nothing to do with the murders of millions,..."
Thanks Trump, for destroying the GOP
It is so jaw-droppingly insane that it deserves a thread of its own.
It is difficult to conceive of a college educated adult American who can subscribe to totally inconsistent views, and incorporate these diametric opposites as the basis of his thinking....but that is exactly what happens, daily, on the Left side of the political spectrum.
The basic Liberal worldview is as follows: "Our side believes in goodness and virtue, and the equally of all men, yet embraces the most evil and pathological of political doctrines."
WHAT????
No, really....it's true. It's what passes for critical thinking among the masses of Liberals and Progressives.
One more example of the old saying "Sometimes, when you are a part of the masses, the "m" is silent.
Fact: Marx endorsed genocide, and his doctrine was subscribed to, and advanced by both Stalin and Hitler.....and by Franklin Roosevelt.
"It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for theTwo Minutes Hate....
The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck. The Hate had started.
As usual, the face ofEmmanuel Goldstein, theEnemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience."
The first defector from Stalin's 'paradise,' Victor Kravchenko, described the process:
The new history" became possible... "study" of the new version was made obligatory for all responsible Party people. History classes met nearly every night in this period and lecturers from Sverdlovsk came to our town to help hammer home the lies, while most of us fumed inwardly. .... But even the most gigantic lie, by dint of infinite repetition, takes root; Stalin knew this before Hitler discovered it. As I looked on I could see terrible falsehoods, at first accepted under pressure, become established as unquestioned "facts," particularly among younger people without personal experience to the contrary to bother them."
Text collection
Here is America's version:
“The federally funded “National History Standards” for elementary schools were released in 1994, cemented a revisionist view of American Communism for schoolteachers, as the guide mentions McCarthy over twenty times, while Edison and the Wright Brothers got no mention. “It …repeatedly condemns McCarthyism as an unmitigated evil…[but] the Hiss-Chambers and Rosenberg cases, the two dominant controversies of the anticommunist era, are described with bland, neutral language crafted to keep from implying guilt while not being quite so foolhardy as to actually assert innocence..’National Standards’…implies that the cases are part and parcel of the McCartyite horror.” From “In Denial,” by Haynes and Klehr, pg. 151
1. In a recent thread, an example of the depth and the indelibility of indoctrination emerged.
"Marxism had nothing to do with the murders of millions,..."
Thanks Trump, for destroying the GOP
It is so jaw-droppingly insane that it deserves a thread of its own.
It is difficult to conceive of a college educated adult American who can subscribe to totally inconsistent views, and incorporate these diametric opposites as the basis of his thinking....but that is exactly what happens, daily, on the Left side of the political spectrum.
The basic Liberal worldview is as follows: "Our side believes in goodness and virtue, and the equally of all men, yet embraces the most evil and pathological of political doctrines."
WHAT????
No, really....it's true. It's what passes for critical thinking among the masses of Liberals and Progressives.
One more example of the old saying "Sometimes, when you are a part of the masses, the "m" is silent.
Fact: Marx endorsed genocide, and his doctrine was subscribed to, and advanced by both Stalin and Hitler.....and by Franklin Roosevelt.
