Watch the full two minutes of this unhinged rant, and join me in a study of the cognitive battle-space.
I have compassion for this disturbed gentleman, whom I will call SAFETY GUIDELINES guy.
Don’t get me wrong, I still laughed out loud when I watched his video, especially at the end, but he brought me to a moment of clarity.
I am partway through Jonathan Haidt’s book The Anxious Generation, in which he expertly describes the cognitive impact of raising a generation on smartphones and social media. The results are disturbing but elucidate some very clear boundaries for parents.
Of course, because Haidt is focused on cognitive impacts, his work very naturally overlaps with our study of the cognitive battlespace in this fifth-generation war.
It’s easy to shrug SAFETY GUIDELINES guy off as an unhinged leftist, but if we are seeking to be of service to this awakening process, I believe there is worthy insight beyond the political shaming.
After all, to defend ourselves from the psychological operations that got us here, we have to have the insights to comprehend how a human being can become an anxious tool so dissociated from reality.
We know the enemy preys on our young and seeks demoralize them and create communist tools. What modern weaponry might have targeted this man as a child?
We have a worthy thought experiment on our hands.
Whether or not his personal history represents it, this guy is a poster boy for Haidt’s Anxious Generation.
In other words, he is behaving precisely as if he was raised on smartphones and social media.
He presents us with a disembodied adult whose nervous system can be easily programmed by what he consumes online.
Haidt describes two basic mindsets, explaining that children and teens who develop on smartphones and social media during their formative years get trapped in a “Defend mode” mindset.
I would put money on SAFETY GUIDELINES guy spending an unhealthy amount of time in left-wing digital spaces and having been socialized as a youth inside of the digital world. Everything he lists in this video exemplifies the Defend Mode mindset.
Either way, he represents a large group of people who are likely to be stranded, flailing in this state in a post-Trump-victory-America.
The point is that there are people out there behaving unhinged in this way, not just because they currently watch the corrupt mainstream media and attended a left-wing University, but because some of them were the first generation in human history to be raised by digital social engineering.
Not only was it a form of social engineering that raised them, but it was weaponized to exploit human psychology. These aren’t my thoughts or opinions, but those of the developers, listen for yourself:
If Haidt’s conclusions are as accurate as they seem to be, there is a level of mind control playing out inside of a whole generation that has them trapped living in defend mode, because they were socialized and culturalized into a kind of non-stop fight or flight state.
After watching SAFETY GUIDELINES guy, I still believe this man is personally responsible for his brand of paranoia and political nonsense, however, once I stopped to consider him as a small child… handed a smartphone when he was too innocent and vulnerable to comprehend its danger, my view of him softened.
It left me wondering not how to “wake him up,” or how to cleverly dismiss and demean him online for clicks.
It left me wondering:
How do we help a generation whose minds were merely tools for elites to shape the cognitive battle-space?
How can we, as citizens, learn to step out of our political identity to deeply recognize a generation engineered into designer madness?
How do we find compassion for a generation unaware that their anxiety was and is curated to serve an agenda to which their mental health was a willing sacrifice?
How do we responsibly deal with modern-day adults who were deprived of the richness of childhood and weaponized for war?
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