SOCIAL MEDIA DIVIDES US INTO TRIBES

 SOCIAL MEDIA DIVIDES US INTO TRIBES

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

 

The United States has been a proud country with an amazing history. It has brought our citizens together as one. The story of the colonists fighting against the most powerful imperial force in the world is inspiring. Against all odds and ill equipped, untrained woodsmen, farmers, city dwellers and dedicated brave believers in freedom never gave up. They struggled until the best supplied and trained military surrendered to this blessed ragtag crew.

 

This was followed by an expansion of foreigners from all over the world cutting their paths westward.  They overcame hardship to finally prosper. The Civil War, the great waves of immigrants in the 19^th and 20^th Century, the Great depression, WWI and WWII and the Moon Landing are just a few historical events that united our citizens to be proud, brave and freedom loving people.

 

The progressive anti-American assault that was evident beginning in the 1960 Cultural Revolution continued to pick up speed dominating our nation today. Students were indoctrinated into viewing our nation as evil, unjust and exploitative of its citizens and the world. This propaganda campaign impacted most of our institutions especially education and media. The democrat media arm has become a major weapon of attack on the accomplishments and even the soul of the nation. 

 

The most insidious means of turning many young Americans negative towards everything that makes our nation great, is the current omnipresent social media. People who are originally unknown to each other become an intimate group. Many of these individuals never met in person but some become influential “friends” to each other. Speculative opinions, false facts and negative narratives are circulated by the social media and repeated enough to become facts to many. The fact-checkers only correct one side of the story. Those denigrating America are free to say what they please, for example look at the falsehoods that are the basis of the 1619 project. These spread like wildfire, separating people into micro groups. These groups find other people who think similarly to them and soon it is a subcultural tribe.

 

This is where truth and fiction become indistinguishable. These tribal media groups are like-minded people who do not tolerate dissent. Anyone who has a different perspective is considered a “troll” who is immediately “cancelled” from the tribe. The tribe is bound together by viewing themselves as victims of either social justice, racism, political repression or any other imagined grievance. 

 

Social Justice, Tolerance, Don’t Judge Me, Political Correctness, BLM slogans are used as weapons by these anti-American groups to validate their indignation and victimization. Anyone solving their own anger issues would be dismissed from the group. A group member would attribute their anger to other’s micro aggression intolerance rather than their own inappropriate behavior and thinking. Instead, of other methods of decreasing their psychological disturbances, the group feeds into the “poor me” narrative through their own similar experiences they have suffered. The self-pity process reinforces their belief that main-stream Americans are prejudiced, self-righteous and mean-spirited. These tribal victims feel that the traditional Americans should be punished, reeducated or eliminated for their unjust prejudice towards these “innocent  tribal victims.”  

 

The exclusion of different perspectives by these tribal groups is to maintain their anger against others to remain united in group think. The tribal members’ objective is to change the prejudice of the deplorables, not resolve their personal issues. 

 

The dilemma for the members is, if they are integrated into the culture, they lose their identity and group cohesiveness as suffering victims. Once they lose their victimhood status, they would need to find another victimology with a different profile which will again give the person a cause celeb. 

 

These people want to blame everyone else for their angst. If and when the culture accepts suicide, for example as a viable means of ending one’s life, these tribal suicide activists will have to find another cause to devote their energies. These joiners want instant recognition and acknowledgement that they are noble. They do not want to improve the culture for everyone.

 

The social media victimization groups are about changing the popular culture, not about being mentally healthy, productive Americans. Rather its objective is having power to get others to do what they want. Social media is where the camaraderie and special social purpose is derived. It gives a person a unique powerful identity that allows them star-status with their comrades. 

 

Social media divides us into angry tribes that drown out our national accomplishments. The wonderful accomplishments of correcting our wrongs of the past and celebrating our freedom, prosperity and stability are censored. They are replaced by warped tolerance, social justice, political correctness concepts that allow these unfulfilled individuals to bask in their virtue signaling and horrible victimization experiences. 

 

The cancel culture of the democrat media and social media need to stop censoring and bring back freedom of speech with competing ideas to reach the truth. This will ignite a greater appreciation of the United States’ incredible virtues and freedom uniting citizens rather than dividing them into demented anti-American tribes of discontent.

 

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.