Snow White and The Lives of Others
Believe it or not, the contemporary Magic Kingdom and the old East German STASI have much in common.
The greatest loss to our contemporary society is the loss of trust.
It is there in the Snow White controversy at Disney - the kiss of true love that wakes Snow from her witchcraft induced slumber is somehow an offense, not a release from an evil spell, rather an invasion of her personal space and identity.
If one thinks through this premise and other woke expressions from Hollywood and elsewhere there is this commonality:
Nothing is pure.
That’s what has been bugging me about the whole woke concept.
Woke is built on suspicion. There are no pure loves, friendships, partnerships, principles, or motives. There is no true empathy, concern, or charity because anybody who expresses any of those or anything like them is just working an angle, seeking to oppress or take advantage of someone.
The star of the upcoming Disney movie, Rachel Ziegler (who to me, looks like a younger Scary Poppins of Biden Ministry of Truth fame), wants kids to know it was better for Snow to remain in magically induced slumber than to be awakened by Prince Charming because he didn’t submit an eight page consent form signed by himself and Snow and witnessed by the seven vertically challenged people with whom Snow had been cohabitating.
This concept extends beyond fairy tales, though.
What it does is cause people to start from a base the people are bad and have bad motives from the get-go:
No white person can ever be true friends with any minority because whites are only motived by racism and a desire to oppress.
No man can truly love or be a friend with a woman because men are inherently misogynists, only interested in sex and domination of women.
No religious person believes what they profess because they are only using religion to condemn and hate.
No one believes crime exists because the ideas of crime and punishment were invented by the powerful to protect their interests and keep the lower classes oppressed and in control.
No one believes in Constitutional principles because those are just used to frustrate the “good” people in government from creating outcomes that are equitable.
Rather than beginning with the premise that people can be good, fair, honest, and practice what they preach, one must assume that their only motive is to screw you over for their own benefit. People must always be scared, defensive, angry, distrustful and on their guard every second of every minute.
Trust no one.
Imagine a society in which nobody trusts, every motive is questioned, every action viewed through a lens of distrust, and every motive is deemed ulterior.
I guess we don’t really need our imagination, do we?
Even the law is being used to destroy trust. Politicized prosecutors are presenting cases that the public can recognize as ridiculous, absurd and targeted at specific people.
How can any society find unity in such a climate of suspicion?
The answer is that it can’t. If you want to understand what such a climate feels like, I recommend you watch the 2006 German film “The Lives of Others”, a look into East German life under the surveillance state before the wall fell.
Much to our detriment, Americans have come to believe that politicians lie as a matter of course - but accepting that premise subsidizes those behaviors and leads to even more lies. Over time, the lying metastasizes to the point elected officials lie directly and unashamedly to the public, using lies to explain away failures, or in the most egregious cases, simply telling the public that the government didn’t do what the public clearly saw, that they shouldn’t believe their lying senses.
In short, the government isn’t doing what it did, but it is a good thing they are doing it because they are doing it for YOU and you should be happy about it.
Do that long enough and distrust becomes ingrained in the culture. When the culture is totally immersed in distrust, people turn to authority as an arbiter of what is true.
John Locke wrote that “Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins…”
I would posit that wherever trust ends, that is truly where tyranny begins.
As I read your posting, I was thinking that 'they' took away the magic and replaced it with cynicism. We no longer look for the wonderment of life, instead we are taught to condemn our mere existence as being an evil plague upon the Earth.
Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown are reduced to being anti-woke and examples of racism, even a child's drawing of such could end the child's parents in jail for child abuse and sentence the innocent child to years of psychotherapy.
Is it any wonder our country, and its people are screwed up, disillusioned and are accepting of the next big lie coming from a politician's mouth?
All I can say is that if this is a dream then wake me up, if this is a merry go round, I am riding, pull its plug and stop this crazy nightmare.
My 2 cents.
Your bullet points are exactly the way the progressives feel. This is why they can lie so well; they actually believe that crap.