The problem I nearly always arrive at is: How do you open the eyes of someone who is willfully blind? Facts and even pictures sure as fuck don't get through to them.
As others here have said, you inevitably get screamed at for being an agent of whoever the enemy du jour might be.
You must tell them stories. Story is more powerful than data. If the story is indirect, and a good story, they they take it in before they realize it is a lesson, and they learn the lesson will they nil they.
Unfortunately, they've heard stories. From a very early age: from school, from the footy club change room, from the pub with their mates and from Murdoch, the rest of the MSM and Hollywood.
They are deeply inculcated in the narrative and the Hidden Persuaders have a 70 year head start. I think it would take the skills and experience of those people who extract cult victims, which I don't possess.
"None so blind as them who will not see." How does one extract another from a cult? That is really the task we are facing. Indoctrination so deep that it may be the darkness, for some, is impenetrable.
But, many are here with us now, who were not, and would not have been, even two years ago. They have seen the truth of what is going on, acknowledged it, and have taken a stand against the slaughter. And there will continue to be others.
Indeed Joy, how do you get through to these cultists. Even with a diploma as a professional counselor, I have been unable to penetrate the indoctrination of even one person.
Yes some have been woken ( possibly why 'Woke' has become a term of abuse ) and more will likely be, but will it be in time?
Like Hedges, Sachs and Mearsheimer et al, I don't think we have much time left. At the age of 73, my optimism fizzled out some years ago.
The problem I nearly always arrive at is: How do you open the eyes of someone who is willfully blind? Facts and even pictures sure as fuck don't get through to them.
As others here have said, you inevitably get screamed at for being an agent of whoever the enemy du jour might be.
No force on Earth or in Heaven can save a fool from himself.
I just hope some force can save us from him.
You must tell them stories. Story is more powerful than data. If the story is indirect, and a good story, they they take it in before they realize it is a lesson, and they learn the lesson will they nil they.
Unfortunately, they've heard stories. From a very early age: from school, from the footy club change room, from the pub with their mates and from Murdoch, the rest of the MSM and Hollywood.
They are deeply inculcated in the narrative and the Hidden Persuaders have a 70 year head start. I think it would take the skills and experience of those people who extract cult victims, which I don't possess.
"None so blind as them who will not see." How does one extract another from a cult? That is really the task we are facing. Indoctrination so deep that it may be the darkness, for some, is impenetrable.
But, many are here with us now, who were not, and would not have been, even two years ago. They have seen the truth of what is going on, acknowledged it, and have taken a stand against the slaughter. And there will continue to be others.
Indeed Joy, how do you get through to these cultists. Even with a diploma as a professional counselor, I have been unable to penetrate the indoctrination of even one person.
Yes some have been woken ( possibly why 'Woke' has become a term of abuse ) and more will likely be, but will it be in time?
Like Hedges, Sachs and Mearsheimer et al, I don't think we have much time left. At the age of 73, my optimism fizzled out some years ago.