I don't think Maddow realized in her below comment how revealing it was about her intolerance of those who hold views different from her. She bought into the idea that the faucist view was the only possible correct view and anyone who held a different view was evil.
Rachel Maddow on new CDC guidelines:
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) May 14, 2021
I'm going to have to “rewire” myself to not see unmasked people as “a threat” pic.twitter.com/Pd3QO793FU
-RW
Huh. I never saw the "unmasked" as a threat. Ever. I quietly applauded them as heroes.
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DeleteThis is perfectly in line with the Jungian idea of projecting the shadow self onto others. Rather than dealing with the evil inside of us, we project it onto the world and the people around us.
ReplyDeleteThis is what Buddha meant when he said all of life is suffering. By failing to deal with our own inner demons we live them out every day.
Rachel Maddow is merely speaking the aggregate ego of her viewers.
Incisive comment, thank you. I would also highlight the related Native American concept of wetiko, the "hungry soul." Having spent time this last week with family from another state, I now know their "state" is utter confusion.
DeleteBreak the nation/world into two, masked/unmasked, now break it again, mixing the "good" and "bad" pieces; strategy of tension.
I would argue it is worse than simply innocently sharing her personal feelings. She knows she has helped create a vicious faucist movement, and she knows she is a thought leader in this regard.
ReplyDeleteThe recent CDC "guidance" requires a new paradigm shift, and her roll is to amplify, direct and re-direct, or perhaps in this case dissipate the energy of the movements she has helped create to the regime's wishes. I think she fully understands this, and these personal tribulations she shares with the audience is a way of maintaining her status as a thought leader of the movement by sharing heartfelt projections of what she knows the audience she has created is feeling. With a 180 degree shift in the regime's message she knows she has to delicately maneuver the momentum of the mob while trying to maintain credibility.
Nicely dissected. It is low-rent gaslighting.
DeleteThe other problem is that the extreme left and Right are suffering from mild to moderate mental illness due to their fake/incorrect attitudes and inability to see through them with reason. The left are strong in feeling and horribly weak in self thinking. They simply find a popular opinion and make it theirs. This leaves them open to all sorts of putrid ideologues, which they parrot.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of projection is the single most important concept to the continued survival of the human race. And next to no one understands when they are projecting - their own - mental illness on to others.
The Left is strong in the feeling function with little ability to think for themselves - they clone and copy. The Right are strong in thinking, rationality and reason, often with little or no accord for the function of feeling- they often fake true emotion or empathy to offset the deficit. The left and right are opposites. The divide is getting worse by the day.
A balanced person lives in the middle of these two extremes. An unbalanced person is on the far reaches of either side marching to their own self destruction.
Frankfurt school, neo-Marxist, Father of the New Left, Herbert Marcuse defined, in his critical theory, “Repressive Tolerance,” his view of tolerance: “Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left.”
ReplyDeleteHe also argues that if violence is taken off the table, a priori, their movement is doomed to fail from the start.
It shouldn't be too hard for you to "rewire" yourself, Rachel Maddog, given that liberals are masters at cognitive dissonance and script flipping.
ReplyDeleteShould be Madcow.
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