The Grand Illusion of a Deceptive Kindness Narrative at Work.

Once again kindness has become a weapon of stealth as numerous studies found the best way to influence a community, was to tap into it's value system, whether with fear and coercion, reward and acknowledgement or shame.?Well, overtime we witnessed all of the aforementioned applied as celebrities and well-known public figures were showcased "doing and saying the right thing" to lay the foundation of the narrative from taking a vaccine to the most recent Nicole Kidman eating a three course dinner of worms and bugs..

I feel it necessary to state the obvious, Kindness has been Hijacked and weaponized to divide and conquer so we comply and unconsciously shame those who do not, while concealing the true nature and intentions of those in power. This is not a new phenomenon for those that seek to divide us through a campaign of fear and hate, have relied on humanity’s inherent nature to do "the right thing "i.e. “The Greater Good” to serve an agenda that is anything but that. Some see it coming, others will find themselves questioning as the level of discomfort of unreasonable compliance increases, and others, due to a long-term investment into an ideology / tribe and it’s indoctrination and needing to feel safe, may never see the truth having succumbed to the carrot and stick conditioning since childhood.

The first time we are scolded by an authoritative figure is usually when a child ignoring or worse repeatedly questioning the parent with "Why?" Only to receive a standard response, "Because, I SAID SO!!" This is our first experience of Love Being Withdrawn. Something we go to great lengths to never experience again, often compromising our own integrity as we worry about being left out or seen as a bad person. Advertising and Marketing people learn this in psychology 101 so understand the importance of promoting "The Benefits of Belonging"

According to Maslow, our sense of belonging is essential to our survival whether we are a child in the playground, a family member, or a member of a board of directors. Eventually there will come a time where we are conflicted and opt for the safety of silence allowing exclusion of a potential “troublemaker” who does not get with the program and engages in uncomfortable conversations that threaten the status quo.

Well-meaning families enforced rules at the table as good manners to never talk about religion and politics and as a result, the ability to have civil discourse and explore and share alternate perspectives has been eroded to a point that whenever these topics are raised they escalate. In fact many organizations in the kindness space preclude such topics from being discussed unless it complied with the narrative the mainstream media had been promoting 24/7 thereby themselves becoming complicit in the censorship model. The irony is that for over a decade it had been all about #thecouragetobekind yet the msm narratives are all about fear. I would suggest that anyone promoting kindness based on fear, afraid to publicly question any mainstream narrative, has been captured.

Ten additional banned hot topics in 2022, depending on the household or social media platform that I would welcome to be debated outside of echo chambers, in a safe kindness space can now include:

1.?????Election Integrity.

2.?????Abortion Rights.

3.?????Transgender in Sports.

4.?????Systemic Racism.

5.?????The 2nd Amendment Right To Bear Arms / Self Defense.

6.?????Climate Change, The Economy

7.?????Health Mandates Vaccines, Masks Social distancing, Lockdowns.

8.?????The First Amendment Free Speech / Censorship Big Tech.

9.?????MSM Ukraine / Russia Propaganda / Misinformation / Conspiracies.

10.?????Human Trafficking / Border Security / Illegal Immigrants / Epstein’s Client list of Elites.

Interestingly all the above are used to divide us by MSM to the left and or the right wing of the political agenda of the same bird. Silencing the opportunity to hear opposing views on the above gives us the situation we are now in, immediately second guessing the political views of anyone we meet outside of our echo chamber. This became evident when we politicized a “virus” or whether or not to comply to a mask mandate. Kindness was used to label those who did or did not comply. Subconscious shaming comes with every profile frame suggesting I Wear a mask Because I Care. So what does it mean if you choose not to? You don't Care?

The “Arena” of social media and division in the nation is clearly toxic with talk of inevitable mass riots and even potential civil war. Yet if the artform of civil discourse and debate is rediscovered and allowed to flourish then perhaps we will see things deescalate. I avoid echo chambers for this reason often, to my detriment posing a question on a popular thread. ie When do you think life begins? How many microns is a virus as opposed to a weave in a cloth mask? Or do you have any independent peer reviewed studies you can share to support this?

Succumbing to fear did not happen overnight, it has been incrementally affecting our behavior with the realignment of values which has, gradually inhibited our ability to think critically. Fear subliminally dominates us to comply without question if we think that by complying, we will be safer. In a world that has now become all about “self” it means that speaking the “truth”, which may go against a perceived popular narrative, could see one risking more than a much-valued personal brand. Speaking our truth could mean we are excluded from the tribe, becoming a pariah losing our sense of belonging, a job and ability to provide for a family. Cancel culture is alive and well and is the primary threat to independent thought.

I have argued for over a decade that “kindness” is a verb, doing something to benefit someone or something else, without expectation to receive. It is selfless with no expectation of recognition, reward, a feel good moment or benefit of any kind. In its purest form it’s doing something we may not want to do yet we are compelled to do it because on some deeper level than our personal brand, we know it’s the right thing to do. I have since amended this to include that there can be no “authentic kindness” without it being based on truth. And to find the truth we must use the “power of the question mark” thereby leaving the safety of echo chambers and group think.

Joseph Goebbels knew this only too well when he applied the fundamentals of propaganda, which form the basis of advertising and marketing campaigns. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Followed by another favorite “It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle.”

This was at a time of no social media, today one could be forgiven for thinking that Goebbels was alive and well and overseeing our MSM and big tech platforms as we only ever hear one side of the story. This link to a MSM journalist who this month resigned from a major news network describes how things dramatically changed in 2020 . Relinquishing the safety of silence, placing your career in jeopardy to do the right thing, is not only selfless, it is the epitome of "the courage to be kind"

It’s difficult to sort out what’s what with the 24/7/ media stream constantly repeating a narrative and or selectively editing data or spinning reports on everything from Health Mandates, SCOTUS constitutional rulings, to parents and teachers holding school boards to account, those questioning election integrity, supporting Zelenskyy and of course all aided by the weaponization of big tech and its use of bots as evident now with Twitter.

Indeed, there are some who seek to charge those who speak against the narrative, labeling them as domestic terrorists, racists, homo/transphobic, extreme right wingers, misogynists, conspiracy theorists and of course Nazis.

Chomsky spoke extensively on “manufactured consent” and even went as far to say, “Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”

My fellow Australian, disowned by our government, Julian Assange, a huge critic of the mainstream media stated, MSM are at the core of almost every conflict. “If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.”

Yet, even when lies are exposed a percentage of people prefer to not know the truth not because they don’t want to admit they were wrong but rather they are more fearful of admitting they allowed themselves to be deceived and became complicit in a grand deception. In addition to this they would remove a post from a kindness group page on a recent peer reviewed study of adverse vaccine effects because they are fearful it would escalate and perhaps members would leave the page i.e. lose friends. I would argue that if we can not discuss this in a kindness space then where can we? If the study demonstrates a real risk to children perhaps the kinder option would be to allow debate rather than saying searching for truth has no business in the kindness space.

So how do we overcome this? Some suggest we need to get to a point where we don’t care what people think and say it anyway. I would argue, care what people think and let that be the motivation for speaking up taking care how you say it, for this will be what determines whether humanity has any hope of freeing itself from the shackles of mass psychosis and predictive programing.

Determining the extent of the aftermath of the “information war” will be upon reflection, recognizing the legacy we leave behind on how we treated each other in humanity’s darkest days when we needed to be the best we can be. If we find ourselves using or seeking to pigeonhole or “label” others, then we have been captured.

If our actions are motivated by fear, then we have been captured. If we find ourselves attacking an individual rather than focusing on the topic, then we have been captured.

We can mask our actions as kind and compliant for the greater good but if we remain in denial by ignoring and refusing to even consider differing perspectives and evidence by not using the power of the question mark, simply because of the messenger, we have been captured.

On the other hand, if we host conversations, create safe spaces for independent thought, inviting alternate perspectives we are giving humanity a chance to pushback against the campaign of fear, hate and division?. If you found this of interest this article by Tristan Harris , on how big tech actually captures our ability to think critically, I would support everyone to read.