“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic, and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
- The “Big Lie” Theory by Joseph Goebbels / Nazi Propaganda Chief
It is now obvious that the power of our traditional institutions, i.e., family, legally elected officials, religious leaders, and the traditionally healthy avenues of teaching and public communication, are at the point of near irrelevance… Social Media and its largest channel, TikTok, is now the largest collective and scaled influencer of Millennials, Gen X, and whatever the new zombie generation that follows Gen Z has been ascribed.
It was just reported that "military influencer" Anthony Laster posted a video slamming the army for bad pay, bad food, disrespectful leadership, and discouraging enlistment and participation in the U.S. Military.
In 2023, The United States military predicts that it will fail to meet its recruiting goals by roughly 15,000 enlistees. This TikTok mutineer, with over 1 million followers, should be court-martialed and convicted of the maximum penalty allowable under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice, but he most likely won't be... Laster is both a symptom and cause of the social media disease that, if left unchecked and not reversed, will destroy all of America’s foundational institutions.
Laster's TikTok military niche is a microcosm for dangerously destructive disruption and serves as a clear example of the destructive disruption of institutional societal norms that have stood the test of time in protecting the necessary constructive workings of our civil society. For our foundational institutions to function and serve as the pillars of society and civilization, they must be recognized as having the legal and moral authority to do so. Examples of these foundational institutions are the Constitution, the Family, the Military, the Police, the Schools, and Religious Institutions. These are not an exhaustive sampling but constitute a basic list whose absence of respect is what welcomes and allows Antifa and the riotous BLM to our streets, allows for murderous Palestinian mobs and their fellow travelers on our campuses and in our streets to destroy the peace of our daily civil and civic life.
The disease of this ignorant, “Hate-America” mutineer allowed to spread his poison on TikTok and other social media is exactly what TikTok was designed for by Red China. Even though Mao banned Confucianism thinking and all non-communist Chinese cultural traditions, Red China knows and has always known that the Confucian aphoristic nugget that "the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" rings true.
The domestic brand of Chinese TikTok only allows their youth to view:
Content that promotes the state.
Learning and Educational content.
Nothing that will have an inimical effect on Chinese State interests.
Not so in America… We are now living in a diseased social media petri dish that has taken our American nation and convinced:
80% of those polled between the ages of 18 and 24 to advocate for the destruction of Israel.
To be indifferent towards the crimes of murderous Palestinian terrorists.
Roughly the same number to see America as a fundamentally racist, colonizer, and destroyer of the world.
Essentially, the parents of the youngest generation will have no input into their children's socialization, values, or view of the world. Mommy and Daddy will come to be known as Tik & Tok rather than Mom & Dad.
Guess what? That is exactly what the Left has had in mind and store for us…
TikTok is China's Trojan horse that has shown its power to transform big lies into reality. Our Republic will not stand unless we can get the Social Media genie back into the bottle. If the “Hate-America” Social Media brand of TikTok continues to be the tool of America's mass inculcation, within 10 years, all of our traditional institutions that made America what she is will either be destroyed or compromised to the point of complete dysfunction.
-Emes