Orchestrated Consensus

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Another excerpt from the Preface of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (pg. xvii):

Orchestrated Consensus

In retrospect, I had just found out that the United States was engaged in war. People write important books about war: books documenting the battles fought, the names of the generals involved, the names of those who fired the first shot. This book is simply a history book about another kind of war:

• one fought using psychological methods;

• a one-hundred-year war;

• a different, more deadly war than any in which our country has ever been involved;

• a war about which the average American hasn’t the foggiest idea.

The reason Americans do not understand this war is because it has been fought in secret—in the schools of our nation, targeting our children who are captive in classrooms. The wagers of this war are using very sophisticated and effective tools:

• Hegelian Dialectic (common ground, consensus and compromise)

• Gradualism (two steps forward; one step backward)

• Semantic deception (redefining terms to get agreement without understanding).

In posts to come, we will look at these three tools in greater depth. Some of the information that she refers to here and later in the book she has explained in the part of the preface that falls between the quote I am giving here and the quote from the previous post. To get a better idea of her history and experience, please read the entire preface! I can not post it all here. To read the Preface and other parts of the book that I suggest throughout this blog (I will never stop pointing you to the book and encouraging you to read it! ), download the book at www.deliberatedumbingdown.com.