I enjoy this resource of information and knowledge sharing that you've built at Brownstone. Thank you!
In that spirit I share a very interesting read I recently came across. It's fascinating to read how communist China intentionally used infectious disease to get their population they considered to be sick and backwards to obey the state using "discipline" (obedience training) and shaped minds with inescapable propaganda efforts. The writer's voice is approving of the process, reviews it as necessary, a beneficial endeavor. It describes how the operation was a considered a true success when it moved away from the earlier heavy-handed disciplinary state police force to when the propaganda process had created conditions where people *wanted* to obey and do their part as good citizens without needing to be disciplined, called "internal discipline." Using infectious disease as the doorway to reframe the role of collective governance over individual concerns in the people's ("national's") minds.
This is a template to transform society that worked for China. And thus far has been more successful in the West than even those who are following this template could've imagined. This isn't to say that China is behind this "reframing" of society. Rather, those in this society who have set upon the fundamental transformation of our society have read and learned from this template. As we must do in order to successfully oppose them.
With Brownstone Insights helping to share information hopefully this type of sunlight will build our opposition, inject us with mental and cultural immunity to this infectious reframing of our fellow citizen's minds.
Rural Health Care Delivery
The Patriotic Hygiene Campaign and the Construction of Clean New People
Brownstone and then Substack were my lifelines. If not life saving. Thank you.
Janet, seriously, I was about to type the exact same sentence.
Geert and The David Knight Show too!!!
I enjoy this resource of information and knowledge sharing that you've built at Brownstone. Thank you!
In that spirit I share a very interesting read I recently came across. It's fascinating to read how communist China intentionally used infectious disease to get their population they considered to be sick and backwards to obey the state using "discipline" (obedience training) and shaped minds with inescapable propaganda efforts. The writer's voice is approving of the process, reviews it as necessary, a beneficial endeavor. It describes how the operation was a considered a true success when it moved away from the earlier heavy-handed disciplinary state police force to when the propaganda process had created conditions where people *wanted* to obey and do their part as good citizens without needing to be disciplined, called "internal discipline." Using infectious disease as the doorway to reframe the role of collective governance over individual concerns in the people's ("national's") minds.
This is a template to transform society that worked for China. And thus far has been more successful in the West than even those who are following this template could've imagined. This isn't to say that China is behind this "reframing" of society. Rather, those in this society who have set upon the fundamental transformation of our society have read and learned from this template. As we must do in order to successfully oppose them.
With Brownstone Insights helping to share information hopefully this type of sunlight will build our opposition, inject us with mental and cultural immunity to this infectious reframing of our fellow citizen's minds.
Rural Health Care Delivery
The Patriotic Hygiene Campaign and the Construction of Clean New People
Springer, 2013
http://library.lol/main/DB87C08A174B849E1EB0476138787AED (link to 'Get' .pdf download)
Sections I focused on:
5.3 Discipline Imposed by Hygiene
8 State of “the People”
9.4 “To Combine Health Campaigns with Mass Movements”
10.3 The “Cleanness” of the State and Legitimacy Construction
11 The Patriotic Hygiene Campaign and the Construction of Clean New People
12 A Farewell to the “Sick Man of East Asia”: The Irony, Deconstruction, and Reshaping of the Metaphor
13.2 “The Higher the Education Level One Has, the Sillier He Is”
13.3 “Comments on Wearing a Medical Mask”
17.3 From “the Benevolent Medicine” to the “Formula for Money-Making”
17.4 One’s Life or Death Is Utterly Dependent on One’s Fate
19 A Public Country and Its Expansion
20 The Logic of Disease Politics
23 A Nation-State? A Democratic State?
Sounds about like Bklyn. And these people all credit themselves with being on the cutting edge of creative thought...
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