Social Banishment: The Truth Stopping Fear

Instincts exist to keep us safe and they are part of the oldest preverbal part of our brain. Those who advertise products, cosmetic procedures, and ideologies to us for their own profit understand that hijacking our instincts is the best way to create consumers and public buy-in.

In the case of trans ideology, the herd instinct is used against our sex recognition instinct. Humans are a herd species, and the herd instinct is one of our most important safeguarding instincts. In the ancient Greek play Oedipus, there is a reason that after Oedipus has broken every social taboo and killed his father and married his mother, his punishment is surprisingly not death but banishment. There is a reason in Romeo and Juliet, even after Juliet finds out that her cousin Tybalt has been slain all she can do is lament over Romeo’s banishment. Banishment is seen as worse than death. Exile from the social sphere and social status is a fate worse than death. And in this century, social cancellation is public banishment.

In the Asch conformity experiments, Asch proved that participants in a room of confederates all speaking an obviously wrong answer, would answer wrongly with the group 80-90% of the time. However, when even one confederate said the correct answer, the outcome switched, and 80-90% of the time the participant was able to speak the correct answer even when 99% of the confederates answered wrongly. Social pressure switches when even one person stands up to it. Courage is contagious.

The reason I do this work is to encourage–fill others with courage. I hope to give you the language to see through manipulations, but mostly I hope that, armed with courage, you will feel free to speak out in your own social groups and communities against obvious lies.Sign up on my newsletter to be informed of my upcoming webinar: knownheretic.com