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Originally Posted by URY914 View Post
This thread should have been in PARF from the beginning. I said early on that it will probably be moved. You're ignoring the elephant in the room if you think this subject doesn't have ties to the guy who was calling it the China Flu in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Baz
We're discussing the fact that some people are more easily influenced than others that takes them off their moral compass.
Now why does that happen?
Why has it happened to you, for example in this thread.
Like I said....what is the root cause?
I think parenting has a lot to do with it.
There are other reasons too, obviously.
And nothing is ever certain so there are variables.
Now with this is mind, Paul....if you'd like to make a comment - something substantial to the discussion - I'd like to hear it.
Thanks!
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Baz,
URY914 told you his so-called megaphone/ igniter theory (
A megaphone, speaking-trumpet, bullhorn, blowhorn, or loudhailer), and you told us your bad parents theory.
The path to radicalization can have parental influences, but it can also include social media, news media, peer pressure, mob mentality, and yes politics and religion.
In old world closed societies where the parents, usually the father had control over what ideas his children were exposed to, indeed parenting was of greater influence.
In the new world that most of us grew up in we had school teachers, time to socialize and play with friends (
traditionally prior generations children worked the farm or coal mines/factories) , radio, TV, newspapers, and maybe religion once a week.
Now there is even a newer world, and the influences are many and make pale any comparisons to the
Information Age we in this forum grew up in.
Sure prior generations have seen the rise of powerful leaders and movements, but they actually had to use megaphones, and were speaking in trumpets.
The rally to hate can be laid to one man's voice, but beneath it is the boiling pot he is tapping into and already poised to boil over.
The fact is, human beings are like rats in a maze, take the cheese away and they will strike out in frustration. Howard explains it better than me, see video below.
Howard Bloom Youtube Video
The Biology Of Blame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAjFBSNgo3s
The cheese is our freedom in this analogy, the denial of which has been executed via lock-down, and a tiny virus isn't biologically what we are wired to blame, humans make much easier targets, see video above for pecking order explanation.