Intolly Coddlers

AITOOW thinks America is a land of tattle tales and nit pickers? It's like the whole country is a younger brother following you around ready to tell Mom when you do something you are not supposed to. Which would be great if we really knew what we are supposed to do. Philosophers have been arguing this point for millenia. It's almost as if a group of people tried to raise a generation of hall monitors and fact checkers/censors. Trading one type of intolerance for another. Sei You aren't possibly suggesting...? Seinfeld was right. Kids can't wait to use these terms. Racist. Sexist. Etc. However, I don't think it's innocuous. I think it's about power politics. Gaining leverage. A new crop of Children of the Corn. How does it happen?

You start by alienating them from other/competing support systems. Then you spoil them and make everyone feel necessary/important. You coddle them so they have an perverted need to be heard/noticed. You fill their minds with a dogma that benefits you. You begin by teaching them how to spot differences (without their non-indoctrinated parents realizing) using subliminal teaching tools like animation and games delivered through ubiquitous technology. You teach them that they need to accumulate points/praise to be successful. Then you give them real world points/praise for discovering non-conforming characters in real life. You justify the pursuit/behavior by making the end goal seem ethical (because the smarter/older ones will eventually question the program and some won't be satisfied with point accumulation). You call the goal - tolerance. You choose a pitiable/sympathetic group or groups (as your poster child) to be tolerant of. You can manufacture these in the indoctrination/game period if there are no naturally occurring groups that appeal to all. You align your group with them.  You justify the fact that your goal is hypocritical because it requires intolerance to non-conformists by saying there is no other alternative if you are to succeed (end justifies the means). You assuage lingering hesitance towards the intolerance by stigmatizing that group (just like the things in the games) and promoting "ends" philosophy. You keep the poster child groups from competing for control of the group by keeping their emotions stoked by pressing their hot buttons and fomenting division between the disparate groups. This leaves everyone "informing" on and policing each other. Now you have control of managed chaos. Think this alarmist? Think this Kafka-esque. Orwellian? Look around. Tell me we aren't in the middle of it.