By Kerry Patton and Scott W. Winchell
Stand Up America presented an article only a short few months back entitled Enemy Infiltration by an Ideology. Within, it was noted that the United States has been infiltrated by the Soviet Union dating back to the 1960’s. The espionage tactic was not traditional; rather the concept was extremely unconventional to those understanding the art of espionage.
The entire principle of Russian espionage tactics used against the United States was simple; socially condition the masses with memes. A meme, is a unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena. Memes are akin to the human gene that physically transfers traits to offspring. The meme transfers a thought pattern that is adopted by others.
A great example is the fad of wearing clothing with the visage of Che Guevara imprinted on them. A man who was reviled by their grandparents, somehow became a status symbol among our youth.
The “Che” Phenomenon
Interestingly enough, a meme is only as strong as the human network it strikes as a social virus. Until recently, it was not easy to identify the memes that were sown ages before. Americans were taught to think for themselves. However, today, we seem memes manifested openly, and the result has become groupthink. The best example of that style of meme was the hope and change and fundamental transformation political statements of the Obama campaign. Our society swallowed the meme like a pill and in lock step, devoid of individual reasoning, voted for the man with the glib tongue who implanted memes throughout his entire campaign.
Take a second and ask yourself one very simple question. When was the last time you worked in an environment where a decision was made without going to the round table; a decision was made without group thought? The groupthink phenomenon has a certain underlying aspect that makes it impossible to think for yourself. If you do not agree with the group, then you are on the outside, the enemy, a freak, a racist. You must have nefarious intentions and therefore your thought is cast aside, and the meme has succeeded.
The premise of groupthink on the surface has numerous positives, however; the negatives far outweigh the positive but are not identifiable until it is too late. Another example may take place in your workplace. The CEO may gather you together to discuss a decision that must be made. It sounds like you have been invited into the inner sanctum by being invited, but what you don’t know is that the reason for the meeting is actually a method to see who disagrees. The decision has been made, but the meme needs to be fed. If you disagree in that meeting, you may as well pack up your office. Maybe you survive this time, but surely if you do it more than once, you are toast, for good.
In the United States today, we have been infiltrated with a meme that is corrupting our own thought process as individuals. The tactic used to promote this is known as social and cultural cognition. Cultural Cognition is a theory related to the shaping of our own individual opinions to conform to the views of the groups with which we most strongly identify. This theory is often taught in psycho-anthropological educational settings.
Today, the main stream media and entrenched politicians alike have conceptualized grand strategies based upon their own Marxist ideologies incorporating this cultural cognition principle, or meme. Don’t believe me? Why it is that today, anyone who speaks out against President Barrack Obama is immediately construed as a racist, or a mob, or a right wing radical? Why is it that today, that the NAACP viciously attacks the Tea Party as racists, yet their own allies in Eric Holder’s office do the very thing the NCAA purports?
More intriguing, what was the real story of the Russian spy ring caught inside America? If they were not seeking state level secrets as the publicly released affidavit states, what were they attempting? Were they attempting to ‘get close with policy makers?’ Was there an alternative meme in play?
America is rapidly losing its independent intelligence founded within “We the People.” More concerning is the fact that no one appears to stand up against this old Russian tactic of infiltrating and influencing our own individual thought and free will because the truth is, our most sacred freedom of individualism is rapidly deteriorating. Groupthink is now the norm, and anyone who does not agree will find themselves on some sort of list. Maybe the list John Brennan and the White House have tabulated of Americans to be assassinated.
Why don’t we “Stand Up America?” It is time to stand up against these memes of social and cultural principles. Let’s refuse to allow the indoctrination of these negative memes that are rapidly assisting a socialistic agenda within the corrupt Washington D.C. elite. Stand up and re-introduce individual thought. Learn how to think as an individual again by educating yourself, speaking truth to power and groupthink, boldly embracing the values we grew up with, and that our founding fathers gave us the opportunity to seek life, liberty, and happiness. It is the only true medicine to defeat the social and cultural virus of Marxism here within the United States.
