New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 88
Compliance can be extracted by tyrants from a population through a straightforward method of creating enmity between segments of the population. First, the population is split into those who comply with the tyrant’s programs and policies and those who do not comply. If there are enough among the compliant, a demonization campaign we should call “hatecraft” is employed to pressure those dragging their feet to comply and to demonize those who refuse compliance. Perhaps no one in history was more skilled at these techniques, the politics of compliance, than Mao Zedong in CCP-controlled China. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay breaks down the politics of compliance in detail, exposing the malicious tool behind exactly what we have been put through over the last several years. Join him to understand this powerful weapon in the hands of tyrants and how to resist it.
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This is off topic but I think it is vitally important. Something to chew on and not act on immediately. Basically, there is a pattern of attacking a thing’s strength that I have noticed in many of the attacks on existing structures but I’ve never heard anyone talk about it.
A general example is a bear. It’s sense of smell is incredible. Like 7 times that of a dog. They can smell things through a car’s body and will tear a car apart to get a snickers bar. With this strength of smell comes an inherent weakness and this is why pepper spray is such a great deterrent for bear attacks. The pepper spray affects them like 100 or 1000 times more than a human. Attack their strength.
I have noticed that leftist attacks focus on weaponizing freedom. Freedom of speech, sexual expression, movement, national identity, etc… They can use freedom of speech to attack freedom of speech, they can use freedom of sexual expression to attack family structures, freedom of movement to attack national borders, etc… The great strength of the west, freedom, is also its weakness.
The political left’s primary strength is their sense of justice and equality. They have used this to destabilize many, if not all, institutions of the West. They can make everything about race, gender, sexuality and frame it so these are all matters of justice. They have used this very effectively but…the sense of Justice is their strength but also their weakness. How we can take advantage of this is to pit the various factions of the left against each other. At every possible opportunity, pit their contradictory views against each other. Islam, vs open sexuality. Islamophobia vs anti-semitism. Corporatism vs Independent business(this one has turned raw milk drinkers into right-wing conspiracy theorists). High achieving minority vs low achieving minority. Experimental family/sexuality or state family vs more traditional immigrant family and community structures. These are just off the top of my head.
I really think this is the way to break them down. Their breakdown would naturally occur after they have collapsed the current systems but it can be triggered now, especially as the factions are vying over power that the left is gaining.
The real tyrants forcing compliance today are:
“[A] uniquely American archetype: the affluent, white, female liberal — many of whom now sit atop our elite institutions.
The new CEO of NPR is a left-wing ideologue who supports wide-scale censorship and considers the First Amendment an impediment to her campaign to sanitize the world of wrong opinions.
[This powerful woman] is no aberration. She is part of a rising cohort of affluent, left-wing, female managers who dominate the departments of university administration, human resources, and DEI. They are the matriarchs of the American Longhouse: they value safety over liberty, censorship over debate, and relativism over truth.”
city-journal.org Christopher Rufo “Quotations from Chairman Maher”
“Thomas Edsall… in the New York Times[:] female approaches to conflict and competition have become normative among the professional class. Edsall quotes evolutionary biologist Joyce Benenson’s summary of those approaches:
‘From early childhood onwards, girls compete using strategies that minimize the risk of retaliation and reduce the strength of other girls. Girls’ competitive strategies include avoiding direct interference with another girl’s goals, disguising competition, competing overtly only from a position of high status in the community, enforcing equality within the female community and socially excluding other girls.’
Jonathan Haidt explains that privileging female strategies does not eliminate conflict. Rather it yields ‘a different kind of conflict. There is a greater emphasis on what someone said which hurt someone else, even if unintentionally. There is a greater tendency to respond to an offense by mobilizing social resources to ostracize the alleged offender.’”
http://www.firstthings.com “What Is The Longhouse?”
We have seen the New Tyrant of Compliance (“Girl Power! The Future Is Female!) and her name is TOXIC FEMININITY: The selfish, smothering, haughty, petty, vicious, vindictive, vain and puffed up Nanny State murderess of the Western world. The anti-mother.
Your characterization of the pandemic as having malign intent seems to me to be due, instead, mostly to simple ignorance and incompetence: The medical and political establishment was simply unprepared for what happened, although it should have been according to the lab leak hypothesis. So it turned out that many mistakes were made and the efforts toward compliance were often unjustified or counterproductive (not just here but in China and many other locations). So vaccinating kids and youth was wrong but vaccinating older adults, such as myself, was correct and saved many lives, likely including that of myself and my wife. Washing hands, etc., turned out to be unnecessary, but this was soon acknowledged, and masking and social distancing turned out to be quite helpful (though much more so with N95 masks): It took a few months to realize that the virus spread primarily through the nose.
It was a mistake to say that the first vaccines would slow the spread of the virus but correct to say it slowed the death rate (because they were acting as vaccines, if imperfectly). In retrospect studies concluded that the areas with higher compliance had lower death rates.