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TWENTY-EIGHT

INSTILLING FEAR THROUGH DIVISION

Why is cancel culture dangerous? 

Cancel culture was and is intended for four purposes in the “management system.”

1. To divide
2. To instill fear of doing wrong – being on the wrong side
3. To make wrong – publicly shame
4. Life is fair, and your feelings matter

To Divide:

The mass media is the main reason for division amongst us. 

It's to create you versus them – two sides – and you’d better pick their side or you're on “the wrong side.” The media is the one who draws sides, who divides the people – it is not the people.

To Instill Fear Of Doing Wrong:

Here comes the obedience training again – WHAT? How is cancel culture obedience training? This is a tricky one and very well hidden. It's training you in what not to do and to fear doing or saying anything. “Wait? But cancel culture points out bad behavior that isn't right?” Here is the fallacy. It isn't “right” right now. At this point in time. And this is where the fear enters – whether you know it or not, cancel culture is building the fear of doing or saying ANYTHING at all. How does it do that? 

Let's break this down: What is the common denominator in almost all cancel culture campaigns? The evidence is from the past. In all the stories, they aren't being canceled for current behavior. They are being canceled for past behavior – behavior in the past. Behavior they may no longer exhibit. This is dangerous. We cannot judge who they are today based on who they were ten or fifteen years ago. Think back ten or fifteen years – did you say or do anything stupid? Bet you did. I sure did. Did you do anything that was okay back then but is NOT okay today? Bet you did. Everyone did. This ties people to their pasts – and this perpetuates the message that people cannot change. That you are chained to who you were, and regardless of any work you do, you will be punished if you EVER did something. How are we, or the “judge and jury,” to know whether or not that person has done immense work and radically shifted their lives?

We don't, because they are publicly hanged and judged on past experiences without any thought to current efforts. Now, before anyone comes at me – I am not speaking about people who have violently, physically, or sexually harmed another. And I am talking about comments, chatter, and shifted ideals that are no longer social norms – yet once were. For every human and most animals, one of our core desires is to be part of the pack – to be liked and accepted by others. This ultimately stems from the root that every human's core desire is to be overstood. And this is what cancel culture preys on – our desire to be accepted by the community around us. Subconsciously, cancel culture is training us to never step outside of the box, because if you speak up and what you say is not well received, everyone could turn on you. Slowly, people become scared to speak up at all. I can't tell you the number of conversations I'm in where someone says something and then INSTANTLY backs it up with, “Oh, but I didn't mean [insert controversial issue here]." They are literally demonstrating in that sentence their fear of being excluded from the community based on what they said.

Life Is Fair And Your Feelings Matter

This is a false expectation that sets people up with false limiting beliefs as this does not parallel into real life. In the real world your feelings don’t matter, and let me tell you as a person who had crimes committed against them, don’t expect the justice system to be there for you. The justice system is not just and rarely ever gets justice for actual victims.

In life, our feelings will not be safeguarded or protected, and our goal is not to be offended and condemn those who hurt us or offend us. The only true solution is to learn to be okay, even if they do offend us, and go on with our happy lives.

The solution is to instead do the work to be able to have things happen around us and not shift our energy.

What Are Mirror Neurons?

Why and how these new ideologies and agenda messages that are harming us are spreading like wildfire: mirror neurons. What we see gets replicated, even if we don’t realize it on a conscious level. We all have mirror neurons – all of us – and they are firing even when we aren’t paying attention.

Mirror neurons fire when a person acts or a person observes the same act performed by another. These neurons mirror the behaviors observed, as if the person watching was the person acting. It then incites the particular behavior in the person doing the observing. In other words, when you observe a specific behavior in another, your brain will start to display the same behavior. For example, when you are kind, outgoing, and happy, individuals around you observe those behaviors, and others mirror them back to you. 

In metaphysics, this is an energy exchange that is directly felt and translated into action in the brain.

“These neurons fire both when a person performs an action and when they observe someone else performing the same action.” You can think of it like an automated imitation that you may or may not want to be playing a part in.

Our bodies and brains programmed themselves to those we are in social groups with and who are around us, adapting our behaviors and ways of thinking sometimes without us even realizing it.

This is a problem, as the herd is being herded in the direction of the participation badge era, where doing less is sold as acceptable with a false promise that real life will grant you the same courtesy. Here are some participation badges that have been introduced in elementary school:

• No marks
• Not setting humans up for the real world
• Delaying loss and losing costing time in the game
• Grooming you to think it's okay to not be the best instead of encouraging you to rise up and above

Have you ever noticed groups of friends or families often are similar in body size? It has been shown in studies over and over again that humans feel more comfortable eating more if their spouse or close friends and relatives do. This is because the level of food consumption has been normalized in that group. No different than if you sat down with five orders of McDonalds for yourself at a table with the healthiest people you know, and they all gave you the, “That’s not acceptable” look. They have normalized the opposite standards of consumption. Groups of friends dress the same, and hang out with someone long enough, and I promise you will pick up their lingo. I have a very specific vocabulary due to my research studies and I fall victim to language mimicking when I am around someone too often. Suddenly, I will adopt new words that do not fit with my vocabulary. Think about it: everything is normalized in groups.

Language examples of mirror neurons – mimicking and behaviors of GROUPS – are all around you. I remember the first time I heard the phrase thirst trap. I was at a dinner table with a bunch of what I call the “downtown” women I know. They are more “hip,” more culturally in tune with what's new and trendy. You should have heard them roar and start all trying to explain the meaning to me as if they couldn't believe I had never heard it. In reality, I spend more time with my mentors who are in their fifties and sixties and never leave their businesses. This is not a term I would hear, nor would I be greeted with a pleasant face if I were to use it in my “home” environment.  

What you see is what you get more of. What you hear is what you will hear more of. Behaviors and ways of being of those around you impact every aspect of your life and pull you closer and more locked into what is normal for that group.

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