I hadn't thought about it this way before. There's more than one reason why the mask cult persists, despite there being no scientific evidence that they work. I usually come up with reasons to explain how people are dealing with cognitive dissonance such as being too ashamed to admit they are wrong or succumbing to the sunk-cost fallacy. Maybe there is no cognitive dissonance to be soothed if they really have, via repeated ritual, come to believe that masks work. I guess the next question is - How do we get people to disregard what they have learned from the ritual? Also, how do we get them to see that ritual is a tool of the propagandist and they must resist future rituals that will be thrust upon them?
Ritual is one of the ways to explain why people who are by themselves wear masks. If they believe it is a matter of adhering to a discipline, they'll feel guilty whenever they pull the mask off. This feeling of guilt might even deepen when they are in a private setting. Perhaps it's a little bit like treating rosary beads carelessly, or letting a U.S. flag get dirty through neglect.
Want to talk about teaching power, then I think the union emails to the CDC is a good place to start.
I had a coworker tell me last week that he masks up because he trusts the scientists at the CDC, not politicians. Todays NEA email release won't change his thoughts
But, were he an honest man, then he would be forced to admit that if we all must obey technocratic rule of scientists who work for the Federal government, then the teacher's union had no right getting involved with the sacred scientists at the CDC. The NEA opinion is irrelevant to the science.
So we carry on with mask mandates for kids, as does my coworker for the 8-year old grandchild he is raising.
My wife has such an all consuming fear of it that asked this morning if we should remove our child from school because they have had three cases of it. It's a rhetorical question of course because the State has informally decreed the mother as the head of the household. Per the Duluth power model, any effort to husband her feral nature is defined as abuse and police are always only a phone call away to help women usurp headship. Yes, that's an aside, but the ritual is in service of the State, and since the State removed me as the effective head of my family, why not make sure kids are marked as wards of the State with that evil ritual of required mask wearing?
I hadn't thought about it this way before. There's more than one reason why the mask cult persists, despite there being no scientific evidence that they work. I usually come up with reasons to explain how people are dealing with cognitive dissonance such as being too ashamed to admit they are wrong or succumbing to the sunk-cost fallacy. Maybe there is no cognitive dissonance to be soothed if they really have, via repeated ritual, come to believe that masks work. I guess the next question is - How do we get people to disregard what they have learned from the ritual? Also, how do we get them to see that ritual is a tool of the propagandist and they must resist future rituals that will be thrust upon them?
Ritual is one of the ways to explain why people who are by themselves wear masks. If they believe it is a matter of adhering to a discipline, they'll feel guilty whenever they pull the mask off. This feeling of guilt might even deepen when they are in a private setting. Perhaps it's a little bit like treating rosary beads carelessly, or letting a U.S. flag get dirty through neglect.
"The teaching power of ritual."
Want to talk about teaching power, then I think the union emails to the CDC is a good place to start.
I had a coworker tell me last week that he masks up because he trusts the scientists at the CDC, not politicians. Todays NEA email release won't change his thoughts
But, were he an honest man, then he would be forced to admit that if we all must obey technocratic rule of scientists who work for the Federal government, then the teacher's union had no right getting involved with the sacred scientists at the CDC. The NEA opinion is irrelevant to the science.
So we carry on with mask mandates for kids, as does my coworker for the 8-year old grandchild he is raising.
My wife has such an all consuming fear of it that asked this morning if we should remove our child from school because they have had three cases of it. It's a rhetorical question of course because the State has informally decreed the mother as the head of the household. Per the Duluth power model, any effort to husband her feral nature is defined as abuse and police are always only a phone call away to help women usurp headship. Yes, that's an aside, but the ritual is in service of the State, and since the State removed me as the effective head of my family, why not make sure kids are marked as wards of the State with that evil ritual of required mask wearing?