Well, I've been making this case since Feb 2019 and as detailed in my book Aug 2023. What you are describing is actually Cognitive War - for which I offer a detailed definition, examples, and solutions for what is a war that is endless as mankind. The current socialist movement, advance of left wing terrorism, etc. I've been detailing and warning about for years. As I'm self published - the audience is smaller, but I've done a few years of radio, my blog, book and working on another book focusing on the domestic cognitive war.
So good on you for noticing and assessing the situation - you're not alone, but there are far too few who understand what is happening. The pundits' miss it completely as they put everything into single boxes not connecting the dots.
IE: Thank you for that background info. Glad we are on the same page. I hope that you also appreciate that the primary goal in this war is to indoctrinate children, mainly through our K-12 education system.
Richard Horton, the editor of Lancet, wrote in 2015 "“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may be simply untrue…Science has taken a turn towards darkness….”
Of course, Horton was writing about scientists and the PRACTICE of science — small sample sizes, invalid analyses, conflicts of interest and obsession with fashionable trends — not the scientific method. But he was fighting in the correct arena. Rafe Champion summarized the "institutional organization of science," as described by Gordon Tullock and Karl Popper, at https://substack.com/@rafechampion/note/c-285161064
During the 1,500 years after the fall of Rome, Kings evolved from being the people's protectors to being arrogant oppressors in the jargon of today's socialists. There were two reactions to it. One was the European enlightenment — Locke, Montesquieu, de Vattel, Jefferson — enabling the individual. The other was a replacement of one group of oppressors with another group — Rousseau, Voltaire, Robespierre, Marx — in the name of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. Life, liberty, property, and equality before the law are very different from "equality" under socialism.
Today's socialists do not want to end oppression. They want to become the oppressors. They depend upon an ignorant society populated by lemmings — Lenin's useful idiots — to achieve that. The useful idiots do not realize that when the Revolution comes, they're the first to face the firing squad because socialism cannot tolerate experts at fomenting dissent.
Socialism in any form or degree cannot work without oppression. It works among social insects because their tiny individual neural brains are linked into one "brain" by the stronger influence of pheromones from the queen — the chief oppressor of the anthill or the beehive. That's not the way humans work. As E. O Wilson wrote: "Communism: Great idea, wrong species."
America didn't long remain immune to the sirens of "equality." Only eighty years after the founding of the Republic, Lincoln warned "you cannot build up one man by tearing down another." He also warned about the hazard of public education, as opposed to an educated public. He also warned, even as a young man, "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher." Read the whole 1838 speech at https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm
When John Dewey returned from visiting Josef Stalin's Potemkin Villages, he set out to "improve" American education in the Soviet model.
Antionio Gramsci envisioned a "long march through the institutions." Destroying education was only the first step. Now we see the rot everywhere. The Long March is succeeding. The march is relying on memes instead of pheromones. Unlike ants and bees and termites who can't make their own pheromones to oppose the queen's oppression, we can oppose memes with memes. Thanks, John, for doing that.
Yes, some of these strategies go back hundreds, thousands, of years. Infiltration (there are many ways): theft, sabotage, killing of leaders and teachers. ... .. Alexander did all of this, and his most clever interjection was to promote - by means of wealth gifts and power gifts - puppet regimes while he advanced forward. The Asian invaders into the mideast in the seventh (?) century cemented their control (sort of) by taking on the religion of Mohammed in the area of Turkey; this was the launching point of the advances throughout the Mediterranean world by warlike Muslims. Egyptian and other forms of civilization were decimated. This changed the World almost as much as the discovery of the New World of the Americas,
Ho chi Minh was the master of the wait and sabotage strategy,
And even guerrilla warfare precedes "World Wars." 100 guerrillas require one thousand opposing soldiers/police.
We had a president who had been a leader in a Mao college club, who wanted to sow Maoism (whatever that is) throughout the world, but whose external 'advisor' promoted the approach of joining the current political system, and that certainly has changed the US. It has become the preferred choice now that media weapons are more effective than guerrillas and it costs so little.
We need wise control of media and schools, and we don't seem to know how to do that. We need another Alexander Hamilton. My preferred choice? Mike Pompeo, or Mke Pompeo and Rand Paul as a Mr. Outside and Mr. Inside Team. ... Bill Lynch ... bandglynch@gmail.com
Public schools are socialist, and our kids are graduating high school with a poor grasp of reading, writing and arithmetic, but an excellent grasp of how BAD America is. They are being taught how to protest against capitalism, racism and white supremacy. Some of the teachers have even taken kids out of the classroom to stand on the sidewalks and protest ICE. College students and their antisemitism and protests are the end product of what our educational system is teaching our kids. I can't imagine how things are going to look in another decade or so if we can't turn the tide and bring back classical education. Teachers unions must be abolished. Parents must start parenting and paying attention to what their kids are learning. The real threat to this country is coming from within.
FDR (!) opposed all public-sector unions, saying they resulted in two parties negotiating from the same side of the table against the absent taxpayer. They were enabled by New York Mayor Robert Wagner in 1958, then JFK's 1962 Executive Order 10988, then the Rodda Act of 1975 and the Dills Act of 1975, signed into California law by Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown. There were no vaccines because Dewey's project to destroy American education was succeeding, and the plague swept the nation.
There is one poitical party in the US which has been functioning as a "fellow traveler" for our enemies. Some of its members actually are part of the enemy.
John,I really liked your comment, “We need to appreciate that the larger war here is actually about values. Put another way, there is a fight to the death between “God” and “no god” forces.”This reminds me of the tendency to blame ancient Assyrians and Babylonians for Israel's decline and scattering. But the root cause ran much deeper. The prophets argued those empires weren't the real problem—they were just instruments. The real battle was the internal moral collapse and loss of faith from within. If the foundation isn't secure, the external forces win by default.
Dennis Prager does an excellent job of explaining the difference between values and feelings in "If There Is No God: The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil."
So true. Question: I am a senior living in Canada and see what is happening for several years. What steps would you recommend to start changing what is? Id love to help in any way that an older adult can do in censored Canada from home. All I can come up with so far is to tell allegorical stories like people in the past have done. But without minds to understand them and without large distribution channels - what can we do?
TWBH: 1) get educated about what's going on, 2) speak up to your friends, associates, and social media contacts, 3) get involved in the K-12 system, on the state/province level.
I have been doing 1, 2 and tried 3. In Canada, there is no possibility to teach or even offer courses inside a school if you are not an "approved" teacher. I wanted to teach an excellent Brain Health Course, received local interest, contacts with teachers and students, but when I tried to get "approved" to actually deliver it or train someone to deliver it, students, I encountered stone walls. "The system" is made to "protect" students from "dangerous truths" and learning "critical thinking skills". I live in Nova Scotia, one of the most "liberal" provinces in Canada. I reached a few parents privately, and there is a strong undercurrent forming, but the noise and drowning of the officials is overwhelming for most and that's how propaganda works these days. No longer just "divide and conquer" but "distract, divide and conquer". That's an improvement, just in the wrong direction in my opinion. I will not stop to try on the level that I can reach. Censorship is increasing rapidly, and that is always a bad sign. I will never stop trying to hold up a lantern to shine the light on things that may matter but are deliberately kept in the dark.
TWBH: Good that you are trying! You might have more luck at tdhe Province level, than local. It won't be easy, but if you have a quality game plan, you have a chance of succeeding.
I asked my Gemini AI Assistant, "Does climate justice education oppose or contradict critical thinking", using the pdf document from NGSS, "STEM-Teaching-Tool-97-Climate-Justice-Learning.pdf". Answer : Climate justice education, as described in the document, does not oppose or contradict critical thinking. Instead, it actively promotes and relies on critical thinking skills. I asked same question about NGSS document, "7 things to know about quality K–12 science education in June 2026". Answer : Based on the evidence in the document, NGSS education does not oppose or contradict critical thinking. On the contrary, it actively supports and encourages the development of critical thinking skills through inquiry, investigation, and evidence-based assessment.
Plum: Thank you for providing a great example of what my commentary is all about. America's enemies want to corrupt the thinking of its citizens. As such they are involved with controlling AI to spout what is deemed to be politically correct — like the baloney you were just told. I wrote about this a few weeks ago <https://criticallythinking.substack.com/p/critically-thinking-about-getting-b98>. Ditch Gemini.
Further, you need to be more careful in phrasing questions. In the case you cited, using the term "justice" is an exceptionally biased phrasing that presupposes an answer. There is no "justice" when real Science is perverted.
Thanks for what you have written to expose the agenda of the enemy...to destroy America from within through the destruction of young minds. Our educational system has lowered its standards in the last 75 years....many student are not graduating from high school ...and those that graduate, can't even read or write.
Well, I've been making this case since Feb 2019 and as detailed in my book Aug 2023. What you are describing is actually Cognitive War - for which I offer a detailed definition, examples, and solutions for what is a war that is endless as mankind. The current socialist movement, advance of left wing terrorism, etc. I've been detailing and warning about for years. As I'm self published - the audience is smaller, but I've done a few years of radio, my blog, book and working on another book focusing on the domestic cognitive war.
So good on you for noticing and assessing the situation - you're not alone, but there are far too few who understand what is happening. The pundits' miss it completely as they put everything into single boxes not connecting the dots.
https://truthsocial.com/@InformationEquilibrium/116935320513171611
IE: Thank you for that background info. Glad we are on the same page. I hope that you also appreciate that the primary goal in this war is to indoctrinate children, mainly through our K-12 education system.
Richard Horton, the editor of Lancet, wrote in 2015 "“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may be simply untrue…Science has taken a turn towards darkness….”
Of course, Horton was writing about scientists and the PRACTICE of science — small sample sizes, invalid analyses, conflicts of interest and obsession with fashionable trends — not the scientific method. But he was fighting in the correct arena. Rafe Champion summarized the "institutional organization of science," as described by Gordon Tullock and Karl Popper, at https://substack.com/@rafechampion/note/c-285161064
During the 1,500 years after the fall of Rome, Kings evolved from being the people's protectors to being arrogant oppressors in the jargon of today's socialists. There were two reactions to it. One was the European enlightenment — Locke, Montesquieu, de Vattel, Jefferson — enabling the individual. The other was a replacement of one group of oppressors with another group — Rousseau, Voltaire, Robespierre, Marx — in the name of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. Life, liberty, property, and equality before the law are very different from "equality" under socialism.
Today's socialists do not want to end oppression. They want to become the oppressors. They depend upon an ignorant society populated by lemmings — Lenin's useful idiots — to achieve that. The useful idiots do not realize that when the Revolution comes, they're the first to face the firing squad because socialism cannot tolerate experts at fomenting dissent.
Socialism in any form or degree cannot work without oppression. It works among social insects because their tiny individual neural brains are linked into one "brain" by the stronger influence of pheromones from the queen — the chief oppressor of the anthill or the beehive. That's not the way humans work. As E. O Wilson wrote: "Communism: Great idea, wrong species."
America didn't long remain immune to the sirens of "equality." Only eighty years after the founding of the Republic, Lincoln warned "you cannot build up one man by tearing down another." He also warned about the hazard of public education, as opposed to an educated public. He also warned, even as a young man, "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher." Read the whole 1838 speech at https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm
When John Dewey returned from visiting Josef Stalin's Potemkin Villages, he set out to "improve" American education in the Soviet model.
Antionio Gramsci envisioned a "long march through the institutions." Destroying education was only the first step. Now we see the rot everywhere. The Long March is succeeding. The march is relying on memes instead of pheromones. Unlike ants and bees and termites who can't make their own pheromones to oppose the queen's oppression, we can oppose memes with memes. Thanks, John, for doing that.
Van: Yes. TY for making the important distinction between Science and scientists.
Not only must we teach Critical Thinking, but also be clear that Science is a mode of enquiry not a source of authority
Hugh: Yes, but Science isn't the problem, it is scientists who are...
Yes, some of these strategies go back hundreds, thousands, of years. Infiltration (there are many ways): theft, sabotage, killing of leaders and teachers. ... .. Alexander did all of this, and his most clever interjection was to promote - by means of wealth gifts and power gifts - puppet regimes while he advanced forward. The Asian invaders into the mideast in the seventh (?) century cemented their control (sort of) by taking on the religion of Mohammed in the area of Turkey; this was the launching point of the advances throughout the Mediterranean world by warlike Muslims. Egyptian and other forms of civilization were decimated. This changed the World almost as much as the discovery of the New World of the Americas,
Ho chi Minh was the master of the wait and sabotage strategy,
And even guerrilla warfare precedes "World Wars." 100 guerrillas require one thousand opposing soldiers/police.
We had a president who had been a leader in a Mao college club, who wanted to sow Maoism (whatever that is) throughout the world, but whose external 'advisor' promoted the approach of joining the current political system, and that certainly has changed the US. It has become the preferred choice now that media weapons are more effective than guerrillas and it costs so little.
We need wise control of media and schools, and we don't seem to know how to do that. We need another Alexander Hamilton. My preferred choice? Mike Pompeo, or Mke Pompeo and Rand Paul as a Mr. Outside and Mr. Inside Team. ... Bill Lynch ... bandglynch@gmail.com
Spot-on, John. Tough truisms to ponder, yet hope cuz “the political
pendulum swings”…so your
prescriptions can manifest, imo.
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Public schools are socialist, and our kids are graduating high school with a poor grasp of reading, writing and arithmetic, but an excellent grasp of how BAD America is. They are being taught how to protest against capitalism, racism and white supremacy. Some of the teachers have even taken kids out of the classroom to stand on the sidewalks and protest ICE. College students and their antisemitism and protests are the end product of what our educational system is teaching our kids. I can't imagine how things are going to look in another decade or so if we can't turn the tide and bring back classical education. Teachers unions must be abolished. Parents must start parenting and paying attention to what their kids are learning. The real threat to this country is coming from within.
FDR (!) opposed all public-sector unions, saying they resulted in two parties negotiating from the same side of the table against the absent taxpayer. They were enabled by New York Mayor Robert Wagner in 1958, then JFK's 1962 Executive Order 10988, then the Rodda Act of 1975 and the Dills Act of 1975, signed into California law by Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown. There were no vaccines because Dewey's project to destroy American education was succeeding, and the plague swept the nation.
Nadia: Exactly. We are aware of this, yet do not work together to genuinely fix it.
There is one poitical party in the US which has been functioning as a "fellow traveler" for our enemies. Some of its members actually are part of the enemy.
Ed: Yes, and there are some on the other side as well.
John,I really liked your comment, “We need to appreciate that the larger war here is actually about values. Put another way, there is a fight to the death between “God” and “no god” forces.”This reminds me of the tendency to blame ancient Assyrians and Babylonians for Israel's decline and scattering. But the root cause ran much deeper. The prophets argued those empires weren't the real problem—they were just instruments. The real battle was the internal moral collapse and loss of faith from within. If the foundation isn't secure, the external forces win by default.
Dennis Prager does an excellent job of explaining the difference between values and feelings in "If There Is No God: The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil."
Van: TY. I was hoping that would be one of PragerU's fine 5-minute videos, but it only seems to be a book <https://www.amazon.com/If-There-No-God-Defines/dp/0063351307>.
Kimball: There is no way that America can survive if we allow moral cancer to proliferate.
exactly true
Deborah: TY. Please pass it on.
done
So true. Question: I am a senior living in Canada and see what is happening for several years. What steps would you recommend to start changing what is? Id love to help in any way that an older adult can do in censored Canada from home. All I can come up with so far is to tell allegorical stories like people in the past have done. But without minds to understand them and without large distribution channels - what can we do?
TWBH: 1) get educated about what's going on, 2) speak up to your friends, associates, and social media contacts, 3) get involved in the K-12 system, on the state/province level.
Yes, all good ideas.
I have been doing 1, 2 and tried 3. In Canada, there is no possibility to teach or even offer courses inside a school if you are not an "approved" teacher. I wanted to teach an excellent Brain Health Course, received local interest, contacts with teachers and students, but when I tried to get "approved" to actually deliver it or train someone to deliver it, students, I encountered stone walls. "The system" is made to "protect" students from "dangerous truths" and learning "critical thinking skills". I live in Nova Scotia, one of the most "liberal" provinces in Canada. I reached a few parents privately, and there is a strong undercurrent forming, but the noise and drowning of the officials is overwhelming for most and that's how propaganda works these days. No longer just "divide and conquer" but "distract, divide and conquer". That's an improvement, just in the wrong direction in my opinion. I will not stop to try on the level that I can reach. Censorship is increasing rapidly, and that is always a bad sign. I will never stop trying to hold up a lantern to shine the light on things that may matter but are deliberately kept in the dark.
Thanks for replying, keep in touch and God bless.
TWBH: Good that you are trying! You might have more luck at tdhe Province level, than local. It won't be easy, but if you have a quality game plan, you have a chance of succeeding.
I asked my Gemini AI Assistant, "Does climate justice education oppose or contradict critical thinking", using the pdf document from NGSS, "STEM-Teaching-Tool-97-Climate-Justice-Learning.pdf". Answer : Climate justice education, as described in the document, does not oppose or contradict critical thinking. Instead, it actively promotes and relies on critical thinking skills. I asked same question about NGSS document, "7 things to know about quality K–12 science education in June 2026". Answer : Based on the evidence in the document, NGSS education does not oppose or contradict critical thinking. On the contrary, it actively supports and encourages the development of critical thinking skills through inquiry, investigation, and evidence-based assessment.
Plum: Thank you for providing a great example of what my commentary is all about. America's enemies want to corrupt the thinking of its citizens. As such they are involved with controlling AI to spout what is deemed to be politically correct — like the baloney you were just told. I wrote about this a few weeks ago <https://criticallythinking.substack.com/p/critically-thinking-about-getting-b98>. Ditch Gemini.
Further, you need to be more careful in phrasing questions. In the case you cited, using the term "justice" is an exceptionally biased phrasing that presupposes an answer. There is no "justice" when real Science is perverted.
Thanks for what you have written to expose the agenda of the enemy...to destroy America from within through the destruction of young minds. Our educational system has lowered its standards in the last 75 years....many student are not graduating from high school ...and those that graduate, can't even read or write.
Barbara: Yes. I have included several posts by current college professors who are very disturbed about the inferior abilities of the high school graduates in their classes. Here is a representative one <https://criticallythinking.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today>.
You’re right on target. And it’s war. We’re at the tipping point.
Bill: TY. What can you do to help defend America, its citizens, and children?