Thanks for beating me to it, even though I was thinking more along the lines that even China or Russia doesn't have this level of indoctrination. However, I must say that this type of training for young people will make the US the laughing stock of its adversaries; also it's a very clever way of going about Making America Weak Again.
What a horrifying collection of propaganda and assault on critical thinking. It reminds me of 2005ish Monsanto funded school books about the benefits of genetic engineering and why gmo crops are such wonderful scientific advances.. Monsanto and APA have a lot in common!!
I don't live in the US and I never heard about that. I almost want to ask you if you're kidding, but I know you're not. Whilst I'm not Christian, I went to a Catholic school with mostly lay teachers. My parents didn't mind that we had religious knowledge classes as they saw as learning positive human values but in the name of Jesus. Imagine if kids today were taught the values of the different cultures they live in, as ultimately they'd discover that human values are the same everywhere. It would be better than this Making America Weak Again rubbish.
I was having supper with my 38-year-old son and 13-year-old grandson last night and my grandson was talking about how bad oil (the energy kind, not the cooking kind) was for the climate. I mentioned how much the media talks about climate change and climate extremes, yet had not mentioned that we had set record lows twice this summer. I also mentioned "Global cooling" from back in the 1970s and neither of them was aware of that and how "Global Cooling" became "Global Warming" and now "Climate Change" so we can blame every weather event on something humans are doing. The brainwashing is strong.
Kids need to be shown the long history of the "world is going to end in x years" predictions to learn important lessons about "The Science" and media. They need context to defend against all of the fear mongering indoctrination.
When I was in college, my dad told me that in the 1970's, the big scare was that we were about to enter the next ice age. I thought he was joking.
Also, does anyone remember being shamed for using too much paper? As in, paper grocery bags were bag because they would destroy the rain forests. I haven't heard anything like that in a couple of decades, but I think about it every time I have to pay 5cents for a brown bag that will break before I get home and which I won't be able to reuse.
Are these books being distributed to schools? That would be my guess and if parents object they're accused of censorship. My youngest daughter started bringing home coloring books distributed at school about climate change, the rain forest (now forgotten apparently) and the dire consequences of ignoring it. That was 30 years ago and look where we are -- young people don't want children b/c "more people means more harm to the planet" and kids have been scared to death and discouraged about life. Greta Thunberg is a perfect example.
The use of "code-switching" in this way is a pseudoscientific appropriation of an actual thing that happens in language.
Everyone "code switches" when they're at work. It's called "being professional". Sure, race plays into that, but so does your threatening "person of color" boss who uses their disposition and "minoritized" status to manipulate everyone around them. So what is better then?
Banning the book would be as bad as what the book itself is doing. The right response, I believe, is to share this post, give it as a gift, and propagate rational objections to the lunacy it promotes. Its flaws are obvious, its intentions are clear. If we defy them creatively, and when possible, with humor, they’ll crumble under their own weight. Orf got it right.
The APA and its ludicrous DSM that tends to twist every psychological peccadillo, every norm-deviation, toward some drug-treatable diagnosis—in collusion with Big Pharma of course— is the last org I'd tend to take seriously about any topic related to clear communication of information. Hence, this is quite obviously ludicrous. Thanks for exposing it.
Please become a paid subscriber so I can get my $ back. That damn book cost me $30.
I already subscribe and would be happy to send you $30 you forked over for the book. Let me know where to send it.
This really is some ‘North Korea’ kinda
sh!t.
Thanks for beating me to it, even though I was thinking more along the lines that even China or Russia doesn't have this level of indoctrination. However, I must say that this type of training for young people will make the US the laughing stock of its adversaries; also it's a very clever way of going about Making America Weak Again.
What a horrifying collection of propaganda and assault on critical thinking. It reminds me of 2005ish Monsanto funded school books about the benefits of genetic engineering and why gmo crops are such wonderful scientific advances.. Monsanto and APA have a lot in common!!
I don't live in the US and I never heard about that. I almost want to ask you if you're kidding, but I know you're not. Whilst I'm not Christian, I went to a Catholic school with mostly lay teachers. My parents didn't mind that we had religious knowledge classes as they saw as learning positive human values but in the name of Jesus. Imagine if kids today were taught the values of the different cultures they live in, as ultimately they'd discover that human values are the same everywhere. It would be better than this Making America Weak Again rubbish.
I was having supper with my 38-year-old son and 13-year-old grandson last night and my grandson was talking about how bad oil (the energy kind, not the cooking kind) was for the climate. I mentioned how much the media talks about climate change and climate extremes, yet had not mentioned that we had set record lows twice this summer. I also mentioned "Global cooling" from back in the 1970s and neither of them was aware of that and how "Global Cooling" became "Global Warming" and now "Climate Change" so we can blame every weather event on something humans are doing. The brainwashing is strong.
Kids need to be shown the long history of the "world is going to end in x years" predictions to learn important lessons about "The Science" and media. They need context to defend against all of the fear mongering indoctrination.
When I was in college, my dad told me that in the 1970's, the big scare was that we were about to enter the next ice age. I thought he was joking.
Also, does anyone remember being shamed for using too much paper? As in, paper grocery bags were bag because they would destroy the rain forests. I haven't heard anything like that in a couple of decades, but I think about it every time I have to pay 5cents for a brown bag that will break before I get home and which I won't be able to reuse.
Brilliant compilation as always, Orf. Commissars are grooming kids into Red Guards. Teachers unions will lead the struggle sessions: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/struggle-session-parody-3bodyproblem-harvard
Are these books being distributed to schools? That would be my guess and if parents object they're accused of censorship. My youngest daughter started bringing home coloring books distributed at school about climate change, the rain forest (now forgotten apparently) and the dire consequences of ignoring it. That was 30 years ago and look where we are -- young people don't want children b/c "more people means more harm to the planet" and kids have been scared to death and discouraged about life. Greta Thunberg is a perfect example.
You are fucking stupid
Are you lost?
Are you fucking stupid too?
Well done again Orf! Keep up the content.
More garbage for young, impressionable minds. Thanks Matt for enlightening us to the propaganda from the demons @ APA.
Matt Orfalea - Keeper of receipts.
OUTSTANDING -- thank you !!
Welcome to Totalitarianism.
This is so Orwellian! I don't want to see kids indoctrinated into misinformation this way.
Orfellian?
Powerful investigative journalism, Matt. Well done
Gawd, I thought it was a joke but it’s horrendously real …
The use of "code-switching" in this way is a pseudoscientific appropriation of an actual thing that happens in language.
Everyone "code switches" when they're at work. It's called "being professional". Sure, race plays into that, but so does your threatening "person of color" boss who uses their disposition and "minoritized" status to manipulate everyone around them. So what is better then?
This is the kind of book that I’d happily ban. They’re grooming little Stasi agents. Ye shall know them by their bad grammar.
Where did the money come from to put the disreputable APA into this realm?
Banning the book would be as bad as what the book itself is doing. The right response, I believe, is to share this post, give it as a gift, and propagate rational objections to the lunacy it promotes. Its flaws are obvious, its intentions are clear. If we defy them creatively, and when possible, with humor, they’ll crumble under their own weight. Orf got it right.
The APA and its ludicrous DSM that tends to twist every psychological peccadillo, every norm-deviation, toward some drug-treatable diagnosis—in collusion with Big Pharma of course— is the last org I'd tend to take seriously about any topic related to clear communication of information. Hence, this is quite obviously ludicrous. Thanks for exposing it.