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There have been a number of such psyops perpetrated on the West. One of those was to always go along with the group, even if it seems foolish to you. Here is a blog from the guy who developed the 1980s TV show "Dungeons & Dragons."

"The kids were all heroic — all but a semi-heroic member of their troupe named Eric. Eric was a whiner, a complainer, a guy who didn't like to go along with whatever the others wanted to do. Usually, he would grudgingly agree to participate, and it would always turn out well, and Eric would be glad he joined in. He was the one thing I really didn't like about the show.

So why, you may wonder, did I leave him in there? Answer: I had to.

As you may know, there are those out there who attempt to influence the content of childrens' television. We call them "parents groups," although many are not comprised of parents, or at least not of folks whose primary interest is as parents. Study them and you'll find a wide array of agendum at work…and I suspect that, in some cases, their stated goals are far from their real goals.

Nevertheless, they all seek to make kidvid more enriching and redeeming, at least by their definitions, and at the time, they had enough clout to cause the networks to yield. Consultants were brought in and we, the folks who were writing cartoons, were ordered to include certain "pro-social" morals in our shows. At the time, the dominant "pro-social" moral was as follows: The group is always right…the complainer is always wrong.

This was the message of way too many eighties' cartoon shows. If all your friends want to go get pizza and you want a burger, you should bow to the will of the majority and go get pizza with them. There was even a show for one season on CBS called The Get-Along Gang, which was dedicated unabashedly to this principle. Each week, whichever member of the gang didn't get along with the gang learned the error of his or her ways.

We were forced to insert this "lesson" in D & D, which is why Eric was always saying, "I don't want to do that" and paying for his social recalcitrance. I thought it was forced and repetitive, but I especially objected to the lesson. I don't believe you should always go along with the group. What about thinking for yourself? What about developing your own personality and viewpoint? What about doing things because you decide they're the right thing to do, not because the majority ruled and you got outvoted?

We weren't allowed to teach any of that. We had to teach kids to join gangs. And then to do whatever the rest of the gang wanted to do."

https://www.newsfromme.com/pov/col145-2/

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Great piece. An eye for an eye was my first dissident right wing belief and the first philosophical principle I conceived of independent of authority.

My John Lennon Boomer parents taught me word for word: "If someone hits you and you hit them back you're JUST AS BAD AS THEM". Notice this goes beyond simply "don't take justice into your own hands" which I could understand might be a necessary rule for practical reasons and especially with children and their under-developed reasoning where you could be arguing forever about who "started it". No, this was not that, they literally taught me fighting back is the moral equivelant of starting the fight.

Even as a child I understood the fundamentally anti-moral, anti-life, self-hating cuck spirit behind this sentiment. This is in fact the first principle of cuck leftism. It preceeds even anti-whiteness, which requires pacifist fundamentalism as its foundation to stand on.

Let our first principle be "punish the guilty" and thus we are right wing

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