I found myself having an internal monologue this morning and eventually a question popped into my mind. "Do I care about the greater good?" I thought about it briefly but decided I wanted to write about it as I think about it. I am curious where it might go.

My initial thoughts are that once upon a time I did care about the "greater good". Now I can't say that I really do. I still care about the illusion that those words are manufacturing. If it were not an illusion it might have some merit but, then that is just caring about helping others. I don't think it actually helps others as is professed.

More often than not that phrase is used to manipulate others into going along with an action. They don't pause to consider alternative actions. They don't pause to consider long term actions. They simply take the easy path and go with whatever they are told is for the so-called "greater good."

I've seen what I now consider great evil enacted under the umbrella label of those words "greater good.".

Loaded Words

It seems to be more of that manipulation through the use of loaded words. Loaded words I know have a very precise definition but let's face it a dictionary while a useful tool is not actually an authority. It is a tool. Thus more often than not I go with my own internal definition. That CAN lead to conflict with people when having discussions and our definitions are our of sync. In such cases discussing definitions is beneficial. Hitting someone over the head with dictionary definitions is not. That is just an appeal to authority fallacy. Any company that desires to do so can write what is called a dictionary. They can define things in that book, website, or tool however they like. If there was consistency (mostly there is) then that is fine. Yet in areas that often engage in manipulation not only do the definitions vary they are often changed over time to fit the desires of those who control that particular dictionary. That corrupts its use as a tool and it turns references to it into even more blatant appeal to authority fallacies.

At this point I will explain what I mean by loaded words. Loaded words in my usage are words used to evoke an emotional or psychological response in the hopes of eliciting a specific outcome. They play with emotions such as fear, guilt, sadness, and sometimes hope. They can be the fear that by not doing something bad things will happen. They can be the fear that by doing something bad things will happen. It all depends upon the framing. The key is they are being used to manipulate and evoke an emotional rather than rational response.

Greater good is one such mechanism. Other popular ones these days are Homophobe, Transphobe, Racist, Fascist, Science Denier, and even the word Science itself.

All a person seeking to manipulate people and achieve their compliance and obedience need do in many cases is say "Trust the science" then if you challenge them they don't even have to discuss any rational reasons you may have offered they can simply call you a "Science Denier", dismiss you, and indicate those who are obedient to them should silence you as they show you the errors in your thinking. No wrong think allowed.

Yet the problem is if a person is operating their life simply in the mode of appeasing these loaded words they are not actually thinking. They are minions. They are robots. They are puppets. They are sheeple.

Pay attention

If you pay attention you may begin to notice that those that hide behind the loaded words will not actually engage you with reason, rational thought, or answer questions. They hope your conditioning is far enough along that they can control you by simply prodding you occasionally with loaded words.

This increasingly appears to be by design. It is one possible explanation for why we throw increasingly vast sums of money at education while producing lesser outcomes. Yet those outcomes are only lesser if you mean literacy, mathematics, history, science, communication, critical thinking, etc. They have actually succeeded in increasing obedience and conformity of thought. Memorize these things and do not question them. They have weaponized education by turning it into guns that shoot those they have been educating in the head an rot their minds. It has increasingly made them subservient to their own emotions. It has increasingly made them offendable by anything and made them think that being offended is a huge evil that must be fought. It has been making them into fools that are easier and easier to emotionally manipulate. It has been making them into a slave/zombie population that is easier to herd using loaded words.

Micro-aggressions is a good example of some modern teaching that is nothing but poison for the mind. It is something that should not be taught. In fact teaching it harms your thinking. It teaches people to be constantly looking for things to be offended by, and to constantly be thinking whether something they may do might offend someone. That is not only a waste of time it is destructive to society. It also doesn't allow a person to completely mature. Physically they may mature but they mentally do not actually ever get past some of the experiences that lead to maturity in the past. Those experiences would generally lead people to shrugging off trivial and inconsequential offenses. They wouldn't react as though a great assault had happened when someone offended them. The only offenses a mature person would react to were the blatant repeated examples where someone was obviously going out of their way to offend them. All other types of offenses would tend to be ignored except perhaps when they were intoxicated and "stupid".

Our education system today is mentally turning people into "drunk" people of the past who apparently have no inhibition or tolerance when it comes to little things that they might choose to be offended by. That is where all the increasing expenditure has been focused.

It certainly hasn't been on science, math, or literacy. They have been lowering the standards on testing there so people might pass and still they are not passing. It is hard to learn things that require critical thought, and focus if you are being conditioned to react to emotions as the most important thing that rules over all.

Critical Race Theory

CRT is definitely a topic of discussion these days. It is nothing more than the Marxist play book moved away from class warfare, and replaced with race warfare. It is the resurgence of segregation. Is the generalization and stereotyping of people based upon immutable characteristics such as race. It is even allowing people to identify and change their identification and then generalize and stereotype around that. It claims to be fighting racism while at its core it is strengthening racial division and racial identity. It is turning immutable characteristics into something of importance and to be discriminated by. Yet, it is also bringing discrimination back. It is actually doing the opposite of what those saying it should be taught claim it is doing. It is a cesspool of information. It is full of lies. It is a complete waste in the classrooms and it certainly is not going to improve any critical thinking, literacy, mathematics, science, or history skills.

At times it even pushes the most White Supremacy teachings of any out there. When they claim hard work is a trait of Whiteness. When they claim math is white. When they claim supporting families is white. It is an attempt to give an emotional escape hatch for people that may struggle with those things. The tricky poisonous thing about that is that ALL of us struggle in one or more of the areas they will bring up regardless of our "skin color". They catch people while they are young and ignorant and the emotion of them thinking "hey that is me! is one foot through the door into their mind. Then the emotions run high and they hear another example that fits them "that is me too!" and now they are through the door into the mind. Then they can start blaming others. They can spend increasing amounts of hours telling the person how to find who to blame. They don't actually spend that time instead helping them to overcome those challenges.

They don't stop to get people to pause that if whites are better at hard work, math, and supporting families wouldn't that mean they are superior? If the claims were true then yes they would be superior. The thing is these problems in life have nothing to do with skin color and focusing on that will not fix any of those problems in life. It is possible the person that follows these teachings will forever have those challenges in life rather than learning to overcome them.

You see it is the CRT that is pushing the white supremacy. Their claims would indicate they see whites as superior. It is a lie...

An answer...

Now there is an movement out there offering something to replace critical race theory with rather than simply attack it. I mean why attack a thing yet offer nothing to fill the void. This concern has been heard.

The answer is being called...

Critical Thinking Theory...

Simply bring critical thinking back as something taught from an early age. Teach people to ask questions. Teach people to think. Teach people to debate and discuss. Teach people logic and reason. Teach people to identify common logical fallacies and then over time eventually the less common logical fallacies. Teach people the Razors like Occam's Razor and Hanlon's Razor yet at the same time teach them that treating those like go to absolutes is also not reasonable. They are something to consider when struggling with a problem. They should not become the escape hatch go to because while the Razors often are true they do not always fit.

Replace Critical Race Theory with Critical Thinking Theory and we might begin the heal and strengthen the minds of the world. We might also get back to ending segregation, and discrimination.