Just watch. Well you can’t watch. Seems FoxNews has PURGED this episode from the Internets. Just figures.
I would not call the condition a brain virus. I would call it what it is. The loss of self-awareness.
It is permeating every segment of society. As Carlson points out it has reached the military in this country and that has serious consequences.
But so does the general condition of life for those who are so barely self-aware that they can be led to accept identity as something other than self.
A list of relevant reading resources is listed below. But I’m going to attempt to explain this in a simple manner.
If you did not know you were alive you would not be human. Its that simple.
But knowing you are alive is not the same as knowing you are uniquely alive.
As with anything in the Universe, there are degrees of value.
The bare minimum self-awareness that makes you human requires only an essential short circuit in the brain’s short term process that causes what you
have in short term to be loaded into long term and then loaded into itself. It is a processing loop that lasts around 7 seconds.
That is short term memory.
If you have nurtured that short term memory you will have fed into long term the actual memory of that memory. And it builds on itself. Meaning you will have supported the knowledge that you are unique. You will know. When you know that you know you are a working human. When you know that you know, that you know. You are self-aware.
If you have not nurtured the long term values of short term memory you will not have that higher degree of self-awareness and will simply react to anything and do so by the condition of consequence. IE you are becoming less and less human.
Carlson pointed this out in a different way. He focused on the left’s obsession with identity that does not include self.
“The woke brigade is entering the White House, and along with them is an ideology that puts race and identity first among qualifications for top government positions. They’re not trying to hide it, instead they are touting it as their goal.” [1]
“What if the current lunacy turns out to be more than a passing phase? What if woke race obsession is not a fad but is an incurable brain virus that’s infected our country’s entire leadership class?” [1]
“If that’s the case, then we’re in trouble. Our grandchildren won’t laugh about what’s happening right now. In fact at this pace a lot of Americans won’t have children.” [1]
“My tribe! No mine, mine, mine!” Carlson said, quoting the intention of those calling for racial qualifications for Cabinet posts.” [1]
“This is what late stage identity politics looks like once you strip away all the euphemisms. Notice that there was no mention of qualifications or expertise or anything else that might help the country. Got the relevant background to say run the energy department? ‘Who cares! You’re the wrong color, no dice.'” [1]
“This is the ugliest kind of race politics,” Carlson said, “dividing up the spoils along color lines: ‘If you want the job, you had better look like me.’ How did a country as impressive as ours get to a place this low? As with all journeys is slowly and then all at once. But we’ve definitely arrived.” [1]
“To our leaders, identity is all that matters. That’s official.” [1]
The left knows this weakness of humans. All it takes is dumbing down life.
Part of that is done by changing the goal from being aware (being mentally awake) to simply being ‘woke’.
“Woke (/?wo?k/ WOHK) is a political term originating in the United States referring to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice. It derives from the African-American Vernacular English expression “stay woke”, whose grammatical aspect refers to a continuing awareness of these issues. ”
Woke: being aware of issues but NOT being aware of the self while being aware of issues; makes the issues = self. IDENTITY. Sadly, one of the most egregious results of slavery in this country was the artificial withholding of awareness from slaves. Nobody (that would be Democrats in the South before the Civil War) wanted a slave who could decide not to be one. (Slaves were mostly owned by southern Democrats.) African Americans in this country were artificially dumbed down by their ‘owners’. That gave the entire American Black population a serious handicap that many have yet to escape. Democrats had experience with slaves and they use the same mentality to dumb down everyone else today.
This pattern in all of society has been brewing for decades and manages to do what nature has not been designed to do. GO BACKWARDS.
Until this generation, all human evolution has included the growth and enhancement of the awareness of self. It is the singular most important element of mental health for humans. The lack of self-awareness, the lack of knowing a self identity (in all of its various degrees) leads to depression and every other form of mental off balance.
Simply put the greater you are self-aware the less other things bother you, the more you can join with other self-aware individuals and create a unit of cohesion.
In 2010 Larry Anderson, writing in the American Thinker quoted Marx and Engels. [3]
“Abolition of the family! … The bourgeois family will disappear, in the course [of history] as its supplement [private property] disappears, and both will vanish with the destruction of capital.
– The Communist Manifesto, Chapter 2, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels.”
Abolishing the family has long been a goal of all tyrants and tyrannical regimes. Why? A family made up of self-aware individuals is where royalty came from. Families are the greatest threat to tyrants.
Early leaders of humankind were families. Those families became dynasties. Their form of government was oppressive but then again it was in a time when most humans were so low in self-awareness that a person who was self-aware was either a King, a royal or a heretic. The rest were useless bodies to give the leaders more power.
Today we have gone through centuries of awareness growth culminating in the different ages of human. Working from the iron age to the industrial revolution to the Renaissance to today’s technological focus.
None of that could ever have happened if individuals were not aware of self enough to know they were not what they looked like; not where they came from; not what color they were; not what job they had, not what sub-species of human (race) they came from, not their parents or their family. Nothing can be accomplished that is new if nothing new can be considered.
Being self-aware gives the person a deep sense that he or she matters.
“In his book, The Mind Game, Phillip Day gives this very revealing statement: “In times gone by, caring family members gathered around and gave the depressed relative the assurance and attention to talk things through. … Today, with the fracturing of the family unit, the denigration of religion, and the separation of many families from each other with the hectic pace of 21st century life, psycho-analysis has simply taken over the task of counseling that used to be carried out by caring relatives or the neighborhood minister. I strongly believe that this has had a deleterious effect on our society.” Phillip Day lists three factors that play into this: the fracture of the family unit, the denigration of religion, and the separation of many families from one another in the hectic pace of 21st century life—the pivotal factor being the fracturing of the family unit.
David Van Biema, commenting on this topic, said; “A generation unlike any other has come of age, one in which millions have been marked by a profound and early sorrow. They are the children of divorce. They are just the front rank of a seemingly endless phalanx.” Jim Conway, in his book, Adult Children of Legal and Emotional Divorce, describes in vivid detail the pain and loss suffered by thousands who have suffered the effects of a fractured family either legally or emotionally. One of the key attributes he describes is the insecurity and the constant question of “Who am I?” and “Am I worth loving?” These questions drive to the very source of the human dilemma—a sense of significance. Does anyone really care about me? Am I worth anything? ” [4]
The only way to know if you are worth anything is to know that you are you. You are unique. You are you! Of course you already do or you wouldn’t be human. But just because the water faucet leaks does not mean it can fill a bucket in time to cook dinner.
The generation unlike any other is a lack of the most important evolutionary gain of the species: not an addition. So Tucker Carlson’s Brain Virus is not accurate.
It isn’t something humans have. It is the most important thing humans do NOT have.
And that can only lead to a reverse of history; a reverse of fortune and a reverse of the species to extinction of its own doing.
That cannot be aloud to happen.
Resources:
[1] https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-tucker-carlson-calls-out-biden-for-making-identity-the-top-qualifier-for-cabinet-positions
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
[3] https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/04/the_abolition_of_the_family.html
[4] https://www.stepstolife.org/article/who-am-i/