Like the fog, Brave New world continues to creep in on little cat feet. I was unexpectedly enveloped in a bank of it while reading, of all things, the Science Times supplement in the June 2 New York Times. The piece, titled “Study Suggests Sleeping One’s Way Past Bias”, begins, “It may be possible to reduce biases regarding race and gender while a person sleeps. . . ”
These “biases” are actually the recognition of facts. The two facts which are to be removed from people’s brains while they sleep are, in this case, the fact that men and women are different and the fact that both races and ethnic groups within races, taken as wholes, have different characteristics. Thesa facts are, of course, Politically IncorrectTM.
The short Times piece goes on to describe the techniques of psychological conditioning that appear effective in obliterating these facts.
Research had shown that biases could be reduced with a technique called counterstereotype training. . .
Study participants were shown images . . . of women and African-American men. When participants were shown images of women alongside scientific words, and African-American men alongside pleasant words, they were asked to press a button labeled “Correct” (i.e., Politically Correct). A sound followed.
Then, while study participants napped, the sounds were played back to them, and after their naps the hapless saps so bombarded “showed a reduction in bias,” i.e., a loss of ability to grasp reality.
This wonderful discovery comes straight out of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, where humans were reduced to mechanisms through a combination of genetic and psychological conditioning. The conditioning techniques are sufficiently effective that very few people escaped them. They were also all-pervasive.
But someone else was on to psychological conditioning in the 1930s, when Huxley wrote his book. Who? None other than the men of the Frankfurt School, those bright folks who gave us cultural Marxism, aka Political Correctness and multiculturalism. Realizing that their Marxist ideology had little future if it depended on reasoned argument, they decided that psychological conditioning would be their weapon of choice. Their disciples now practice endless conditioning techniques on us all, through the schools and universities, through the video screen media, and, it seems, through “scientific” experiments reported in the New York Times. Directors of North Korean prison camps, take note.
The cultural Marxists believe their ideology can, with enough conditioning behind it, overcome reality. It will not any more than other ideologies did. But the attempt has already done vast damage to Western societies, leaving them unmoored, forgetful of who they are and unable, on the moral level of war, to defend themselves. When reality returns, it will do so with a crash.
But what is repellant about the Times story is not just the ideological claptrap being shoved into the study’s subjects’ brains. What repels us, or should, is the whole idea of conditioning itself.
Conditioning is fundamentally dehumanizing. Man was created to be a reasoning creature. Reason may be the ability that makes men most like God. Conditioning cuts reason out of the loop. Someone who has been sucessfully conditioned cannot reason about the content of his conditioning. His own mind prevents him. A powerful feeling of doing something wrong, something bad, rises if he begins to question what has been planted in his head–in the case of the experiment reported here, even while he slept.
We see again why conservatism is the negation of all ideologies, and with them the hideous methods adopted for their inculcation. Conservatives know that truth is attained only through a combination of faith and reason. We believe that schooling and culture should teach people how to reason, how to reach valid judgments based on facts. It should not surprise us that all ideologies suppress facts and forbid reason at least on certain matters. It should surprise us that the New York Times welcomes another step toward Brave New World. 
“These “biases” are actually the recognition of facts. The two facts which are to be removed from people’s brains while they sleep are, in this case, the fact that men and women are different and the fact that both races and ethnic groups within races, taken as wholes, have different characteristics. Thesa facts are, of course, Politically IncorrectTM.”
I read the paper on the study mentioned above, it wasn’t done to elude the difference in gender or race, but to get rid of stereotypes about race and gender.
“both White and Black participants were more likely to shoot Black than White individuals, even when they held a harmless object rather than a gun”
“When hiring potential research assistants, both male and female faculty members were more likely to hire male than equally qualified female candidates”
Sounds like common sense.
too funny
Yes, The Frankfurt School was Cultural Marxist. I’m not seeing that model working in the US. In the US it’s Cultural Capitalism that is destroying the Western Christian Culture.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-milbank/liberalism-undoing-itself_b_7104638.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-getting-tired-funding-113000642.html
See here https://www.traditionalright.com/the-origins-of-political-correctness/
Yes, I’ve seen Mr. Lind’s video, it’s great, but the model is dated, and needs to be reworked. The cultural Marxists of today are not Marxist or want socialism. They want capitalism, globalism, and use liberalism (classical) of cultural to gain more markets.
I just don’t think their motivations are economic at all (at least beyond their own bank accounts). But cultural Marxism is exactly what it is. Maxims is egalitarian economics and cultural Marxism is egalitarianism in cultural terms.
Whether or not it all goes back to a small conspiratorial kabal I think is still up for debate.
http://www.culturewars.com/2014/Sin.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfMb_8YXkA
Interesting juxtaposition of faith & reason as the basic tenets of conservatism. In my experience, faith in one thing or another is the #1 tool of those who wish to justify and propel wars, crimes and other assaults on reason. Problem with faith is that it allows people to be intellectually lazy, blindly trusting what somebody else (or, worse yet, a body of people) says or said instead of observing reality and thinking for themselves. Jonestown, anyone? I’ll stick with just reason, thank you very much.
The Sufis have a long tradition of allegories involving a wise-guy personage named Nasrudin. In one of them, he brings in shoes for repair and is told they will be ready on a certain day “Allah willing.” The shoemaker keeps missing the deadlines, each time setting a new one “Allah willing.” A frustrated Nasrudin finally blows up and asks “How long if we leave Allah out of this?”