Unlike most blogs, this tags page displays pages in forward order, as many of the posts that I make are cumulative and it is better to start at the beginning.
“Mind control” is just a terrible term, really. Something about the way it sounds. Bad prosody. Even without conscious attempts by evil to add additional silliness to the connotations of the term, the mere selection of that term is a bit brilliant for their uses.
Almost every American alive has been raised in a youth-centric culture. If it isn’t the left outright pushing the idea that youth have some sort of unique wisdom to offer people, as if I have any reason to respect Greta Thunberg’s opinions on anything, it is a culture in which age is simply treated as an unmitigated disaster.