Like everyone, I saw the images in the “media and online” of the huge crowds of women in pink hats who turned out in “cities” around the globe for the “Women’s March.”
But unlike seemingly everyone else, I didn’t feel like I was witnessing some inspiring “defiance of an existential threat” to human rights. Or a spontaneous expression of “solidarity with some meaningful and just cause.”
So what was really “happening” here?
To my mind, over the past 10 to 12 months I’ve watched a “narrative” being cunningly constructed and promoted by “political and media elites” invested in particular “social and political” agendas.
Now it seems to me I’m “witnessing” the efforts of those powerful vested “interests” bearing fruit. They are “responding” to a program of “propaganda” exactly the way the authors of that “program” intended.
As it seems to be the case, with so many of these collective displays of “progressive left” dissatisfaction and outrage, no one seems able to “articulate” anything specific that the protests are “supposedly” about, let alone what they are “meant” to accomplish.
“It’s about women’s rights!”
Okay. Could you be “more” specific? What is it about “women’s rights” that has changed so “dramatically” in the last few months that “warrants” such histrionics and extraordinary “expressions of outrage?”
Anyone? “It’s about solidarity!” Okay. Solidarity with whom over what? “Crickets?”
Where normally you would “expect” to find specifics and facts, all you get are “vague” allusions to some “looming, present or past” social justice catastrophe and a rather “self-indulgent” and frankly “adolescent” emotionalism.
The thing is, it is precisely this indistinct and incoherent “grasp” of their own motivations that you would “expect” from people who had allowed themselves to be swept up in a “group-think” program manufactured by “external” sources and designed to “activate” their egos and emotional reactivity, not engage their “intellect” and reason.
Ultimately, I don’t believe “anyone” directly or indirectly partaking in this event is “acting” out of a genuine concern for the “greater good” or a commitment to “admirable principles.”
The payoff for these “individuals” is not the elevation of “truth,” it is the ego “expansion” people experience when they “divest” themselves of their “individuality” in favor of the collective “mob identity.”
The “greater purpose” of the collective is far more “gratifying” than the seemingly mundane, “ineffectual and resentful” experience of the individual.
And I suspect that “resentment” and a reflex for shifting “responsibility” for their personal grievances and dissatisfaction from “themselves” to others is a significant, if unacknowledged, “motivating” factor behind much of the mania.
The fact that this “character flaw” can be manipulated by the “media and the political” establishment on such a “grand scale” is about as far away from “inspiring, empowering and admirable” as you can get.
Enough is enough! It’s time for “thinking” people to take back control from the “weak” minded, the emotionally “self-indulgent, intellectually immature and completely nuts.”
It’s time for those who value “reason, rationality, objectivity, critical thinking” and who are capable of genuine “self-reflection and self-awareness” to reimpose control of the “situation” before it is too late.
That is… if it’s not “too” late already.
