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Have we
destroyed the virtue of self reliance?
There's been a lot of debate lately on what generation of
Americans is the most to blame for the current failures of the U.S. economy and
the dismal life performance of millennials and Gen Z. Baby Boomers blame
millennials for being weak, lazy and entitled; millennials blame boomers for
ruining the system before they were ever born while enjoying the fruits of a
more prosperous economy. The real answer is that it's partially the fault
of both generations,
but not for the reasons often argued.
The boomer versus snowflake conflict is a controlled narrative
that deliberately avoids the greater issues at hand. Yes, the newest
generations of Americans have been utterly pussified, but I believe this is
part of a larger agenda, and baby boomer parents unwittingly and stupidly
played a supporting role.
In 4th Generation warfare, the concept is to destroy a nation or
civilization without using direct military confrontation, at least, not right
away. Instead, the goal is to destabilize the target society from within and
them the citizenry destroy each other. Then, once the population is in
sufficient chaos, you move in with your military forces and take over, meeting
minimal resistance along the way.
The strategy can also be used to undermine and control a
population by its own government or by elites within that government as a means
to stop potential rebellion against the establishment power structure. In other
words, use controlled chaos to create panic and weakness and then snatch up
more power while the citizenry is distracted and disorganized.
In order to create chaos and panic in a population, that
population must be completely unprepared to deal with crisis events. They must
be mentally soft, otherwise, they might become self-reliant and defiant rather
than fearful and easy to control.
I was recently studying psychological conditioning methods used to
prepare people for combat and crisis scenarios. The phrase "stress
inoculation" comes up often. In certain branches and units of the U.S.
military, there is an increased emphasis on stress inoculation as a means to
strengthen soldiers and their fortitude, so that when they do eventually find
themselves in a combat situation where they might die, they don't panic and
allow adrenaline to take over their motor and thought processes.
Department of Defense think-tanks like DARPA have published
extensive white papers on the subject, and stress inoculation is also used to
some extent to treat people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
The ability to perform calmly under stress is the key to combat
readiness. The most effective warriors, and the most successful people in life,
usually have the ability to manage stress and perform at a high level while
other people flounder in terror.
Historically, many civilizations have been very careful in how
they choose and train warriors for defense. Native American tribes, for
example, would carefully vet their warriors and make sure they chose men that
would not run
away at the first sign of trouble; rather, they picked men they knew would
confront trouble directly. Mentally vetting people for stress management skills
has been a common human practice for thousands of years.
Some people are simply born with a greater capacity for it, but
many others can be trained for stress inoculation using basic methods. The key
is for people to start learning stress management when they are children. This
requires them to go through experiences which cause short term acute stress,
rather than long term chronic stress.
Short term acute stress strengthens mental response time and
increases confidence and psychological stability by acclimating a person to
shock. Long term chronic stress does the opposite, never allowing the person to
acclimate and causing them to revert to a constant state of fear.
Acute stress events include physical exercise, competitive play,
being placed in unfamiliar surroundings and being forced to adapt, regularly
undertaking new and useful skill sets, sticking with a skill set until it is
mastered and even interacting with larger groups of unfamiliar people, such as
public speaking.
One could also apply the ancient philosophical concept of Zen to
stress inoculation, particularly the practice of mastering a skill so
completely that a person becomes "one" with that talent, and thus
"one" with themselves and their place in the world. If you have ever
met a person that is a true master of a useful skill, you know that they tend
to be extremely calm and confident people that do not panic easily regardless
of the situation.
While researching stress inoculation methods, it struck me, what
if a society was to do the exact oppostie of
this? What if an entire generation of children were deliberately sheltered from
all forms of short-term acute stress? What if they were encouraged to never
work hard at anything? What if they were not given any incentive to accomplish
any goals? What if competition was discouraged and children were taught to
despise it as "barbaric" and "debilitating?" What if
accomplishment was dismissed and the idea of "winning" was eliminated
in the name of "fairness and equality?"
What if a generation of kids were so thin-skinned and untrained in
stress management that they panic and run to the nearest authority figure for
help at the first sign of trouble? What if they were so spoiled that they had
never learned to take care of themselves? What if all of their life experiences
were in the form of a safe, insulated digital fantasy world where there is no
real risk?
No, imagine you then take this highly coddled and sheltered
generation and you suddenly expose them to a massive crisis event; such as an
economic crash or even the threat of a pandemic? How would this group of
children, now moving into adulthood without any practical skills or emotional
toughness, respond to the situation?
All of their actions would reactionary and rooted in panic and
terror. Because they have never trained to deal with acute stress events they
are now a walking time bomb of fear. They might respond by running and hiding,
or they might respond by lashing out violently, but in either case, they will
have no self-control and will be ruled by emotion and adrenaline rather than
logic and reason.
Wouldn't this be the most effective way to destroy or dominate a
nation over the span of a couple of decades?
In America today there is the more obvious trend of social justice
warriors among younger generations and their complete inability to function in
normal adult society without constant protection. What is the purpose of ideas
like "safe spaces," trigger warnings, forced diversity,
intersectionality, critical race theory, microaggressions, implicit bias, etc.,
other than to artificially swaddle people so that they never have to deal with
stress factors in the real world?
The only reason for the existence of so-called "victim
groups" is for people who have no stress management skills to continue to
avoid any and all acute stress events for the rest of their lives by making it
socially or legally unacceptable to criticize them, discriminate against them
as individuals or place practical demands on them. They become a protected
class with special privileges.
They deny the need to compete based on merit in the working world
because they claim competition is racist and creates inequality. Anything that
causes them stress is immediately deemed an "aggression" against them
personally, and all stressors are treated as equally offensive; meaning, an
insult or criticism becomes the same as a physical attack and they react with
the same level of emotional panic to both.
I believe this is a major contributor in the rush by some young
people to join the "trans movement," as it represents an easy outlet
to gain victim group status and thus attain protection from stress. The fact
that the social justice movement with all its Marxist underpinnings was funded
and managed directly by elitist organizations like the Rockefeller Foundation
and the Ford Foundation, it becomes clear that the pussification of America's
youth is not a natural progression but an engineered program.
This is openly admitted in Alison R. Bernstein's book Funding
The Future: Philanthropy's Influence On Americas Higher Education. Bernstein is the vice
president of Education at the Ford Foundation and the former Associate Dean of
Faculty at Princeton.
It's not just the SJW lunatics that are the problem, though. A
vast number of young people are finding themselves completely unprepared for
adult life and they blame boomers indirectly for their failings. Contrary to
popular belief, boomers had nothing whatsoever to do with the decline of the
U.S. economy; if you want to find the culprits behind you financial pain, I
suggest learning about the history of the Federal Reserve and how that
institution has systematically destroyed our currency's buying power and our
economy over time.
Where boomers are culpable is in their terrible parenting model.
They raised a generation of weaklings and rarely questioned the establishment
and media propaganda that told them that helicopter parenting was the best way
to raise their children. While perhaps done out of love, boomers spoiled their
own kids so completely and shielded them from all acute stress that as young
adults they now have no capacity to succeed in a world where survival instincts
might be required.
Consider the most common complaint among next-gen adults... that
boomers all enjoy homeownership while they will never be able to afford the
privilege because boomers ruined the economy. This, they claim, is the reason
why boomers should not be allowed to criticize the inactivity and laziness of
millennials. Yet, the majority of boomers had to leave home and become adults
at age 18 (some of them even sooner), while a large number of millennials and
Gen Z live with mom and dad well into their 30s, feeding off them like
parasites. Boomers started adulthood sooner, and thus they accumulated assets and
wealth faster.
Of course, boomers share the blame. Helicopter parents have helped
to ruin American culture, even though numerous psychological studies indicate
that sheltering children
from short term stress destroys their ability to cope as adults.
That said, boomers were encouraged at every moment to continue
this style of parenting by the media and elitist foundations. The Ford Foundation in particular was
a primary force behind the modern parenting and public education methodology of
stress avoidance. The foundation was key in the development of programs like
Head Start and has spent hundreds of millions on the training of public-school
teachers in social justice methodologies.
Ford was also the primary force behind the creation of National
Education Television Center, which later became PBS, and funded such prominent
children's shows as Sesame
Street and Mister
Rogers, both of which often promote stress avoidance rather than
stress confrontation and management. To this day, stress inoculation training
is becoming rarer and rarer among America's youth and much of the youth in
European nations as well.
If history is any indicator, the weakest generations when faced
with overwhelming crises will demand protection, as they always have, whether
it be physical protection or financial protection. And inevitably they will
turn to government and the money elites for a feeling of safety in exchange for
their freedom. They don't value their freedoms because they have never enjoyed
the feeling of independence anyway. The trade for comfort becomes easy for
them.
Stress inoculation is a lot like strengthening your own immune
system — sometimes you have to work through sickness when you are young in
order to improve your immunity to sickness later in life. By the same token,
you have to experience stress events when you are young so that you can better
deal with crisis later in life. Otherwise, you grow up as malleable as jello
and just as easy to devour. The good news is, even as adults stress inoculation
can be learned. As our world grows more and more unstable and uncertain, being
able to manage our own fears is becoming paramount to our continued liberty and
livelihood.
To truth and knowledge,
Bob & Bruce
Useful stuff
Many of us
experienced the shock of seeing empty produce bins and store shelves in our
local supermarkets this year. The scarcity of certain foods during the pandemic
may have led you to explore new ways to preserve and store food.
If you seek
long-term storage and foods that are light to pack and carry, you can’t beat
freeze-drying. In this article, we’ll examine what freeze-drying is, its
benefits and drawbacks, and some of the basics you need to know about using
this food preservation method at home.
Also known
by its scientific names, lyophilization or cryodesiccation, freeze-drying is a
dehydration process that involves freezing the food and then lowering pressure
before removing the ice by sublimation. Sublimation is the transition of a
substance from the solid to the gas state without passing through the liquid
state...
The Beginner's Guide to Freeze-Dried Food
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2 comments:
The LDS community in AZ & UT raise amazing, self sufficient children! Your posts are to be commended for the resources it provides.
Dems have been destroying schools for decades, making kids dumber by the year! Now they're destroying the Boy Scouts too w/ lawsuits.
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