The Great Groupthink Reversal

Orwell Got It Backwards

In George Orwell’s epiphanic 1984, he got “groupthink” backwards. Orwell’s concept was that government institutions inaugurated and enforced the wholesale adoption of official doctrine through propaganda manipulation and psychiatric exploitation. He got it backwards.

In 2020, it is the mob that manipulates and exploits institutions, private and government, to the point of ideological capitulation rather than the reverse. We see CEOs, and elected officials acquiescing to and parroting the mantras of anarchical socialists and marxists intent on destroying the visual vestiges of history. Do not be deceived into thinking that the destruction of those images are the only targets. In the ideology of many of this ilk, society must be eradicated to eradicate institutional racism, and make way for a new power structure.

The Rise of the Social Justice Insurgent

We now see the rise of the social justice insurgency. Unlike “social justice warriors” (SJWs), who are largely a vocal group that seeks to “right the injustices in America,” social justice insurgents (many of whom are probably former SJWs) actualize their civil malcontent through “soft violence.” Examples of “soft violence” are the destruction of statues, and the defacing of plaques and other public tributes to figures of the past, which purportedly represent ideologies the social justice insurgents consider abhorrent, and deserving of eradication.

“Soft violence” is mostly tolerated, albeit with reluctance, by civil authorities. After all, the destruction of symbols of “white supremacy” and “systemic racism” is hardly a matter worth risking “real” violence (e. g., riots, looting, etc) over.