Thread by @Doc_0

For decades we were told it was impossible to teach family values or abstinence. All we could do was give kids condoms and hope for the best.

Trans fascists roll in with heavy indoctrination in schools, pushing drugs and surgery. Boom, 500% increase in "trans" overnight.

Clearly it *is* possible to teach values to children, with a high rate of success. The people who told us otherwise for decades were lying. They just wanted to make sure it was *their* preferred values that got programmed into the next generation of kids.

We were told teaching kids positive values in school was impossible because parents weren't doing it at home. Parents were blamed for every failing by the billion-dollar education bureaucracy. And yet, trans indoctrination succeeds in open defiance of what parents teach at home.

That's the big story in education right now, isn't it? Furious parents discovering what the ed bureaucracy has been pumping into their kids behind their backs, and getting treated like al-Qaeda terrorists when they dare to raise objections at school board meetings.

None of that would be happening if parents were on board with trans fascism and were teaching that stuff to their kids at home, would it? So obviously values CAN be taught by schools and pop culture, without parental involvement - or even in direct defiance of it.

Pop culture is surely part of the mix. We played this game for many years where the entertainment industry would act shocked at the very notion their products might affect the behavior and morals of children. Have you noticed they rarely bother with that vaudeville act any more?

Movies, music, comic books, video games - their creators are now more likely to brag about how much influence they have over the minds and morals of children, how incredibly successful they are at teaching values to kids. Of course, it's THEIR values, or those of activist groups.

Virtually every quarter of pop culture is now expressly willing to lose mountains of money cranking out totalitarian "art," infused with the values of the ruling class. They'll lose millions on ten Woke projects in a row and then immediately greenlight the next one.

And if the public doesn't like the values infused in today's totalitarian art, creators immediately savage their own audience. Why aren't you knuckle-dragging primates running out and buying tickets to our brilliant shows that cleverly mock you as racist sexist homophobes?

What a far cry from an earlier era, when culture made more of an effort to transmit positive values - and was remorselessly mocked as oppressive, stultifying, and dreary for its efforts. Now we know those doing the mocking just wanted to control art to transmit THEIR ideology.

It turns out you CAN teach values to kids. You can change their behavior at profound levels. You can even twist them into bizarre new shapes, contrary to basic human nature. It just takes relentless effort by a titanic bureaucracy utterly devoted to transmitting those values.

In a media-saturated culture where every kid carries TV and the Internet in their pockets, pop culture is a powerful instrument for teaching values too. Entertainment today is written from the ground up for that purpose. Stories are written primarily to transmit ideology.

Nobody in the entertainment biz makes any great secret of that, do they? They just get red-faced with righteous anger when you call them on it. They'll happily tell you everything from plot points to casting decisions are made to transmit preferred values to the audience.

Of course, the people doing this are convinced they're intellectually enlightened and morally superior - just like every totalitarian in human history. It was always possible to teach values to kids. They always knew it, and always planned to do it. THEIR values, not YOURS. /end