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Groupthink – Reality and Anxiety

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There is meaning in the anxiety of self-awareness; when the infant or child seeks freedom, there is discomfort in letting go of the bond called confluence with the mother so that the child might grow. Anxiety is felt when the world is unpredictable. Rollo May, the father of existential psychology, said that every person who has been seriously ill knows that he will feel severe anxiety about returning to health. An individual will focus on being well, but at the same time, they will focus on the possibility of remaining sick. An individual will flirt with the prospect of remaining sick ‘sympathetic’ to what is feared the most, causing a conflict with the ‘life instinct’. A conflict of this sort may bring on feelings of suicide or “giving up.” This kind of anxiety is related to a lack of decision-making regarding reality as well as spirituality. In this spiritual void, there is a willful disregard for both spirituality and life, according to May. This anxiety negates spirituality but embraces superstition. Superstition and unbelief are both forms of unfreedom: The bigot and the unbeliever are in the same category with respect to the form of anxiety underlying their frame of mind. But attempts to evade anxiety are doomed to failure. In running from anxiety, you lose your most precious opportunities for the emergence of yourself and your education as a human being – anxiety is at the beginning of something that must be learned.[128] 

 

If our needs are not met and repression occurs, the unmet need can be found in activism or crowd formation. The repressed individual is open to any invitation to express their unmet needs; this is why cults have been so successful in the past. Le Bon (1897) viewed the collective mind as a disease that spread through the crowd.[129] Groupthink is a convergence among people who share similar convictions and predispositions and a need for emotional release. In the crowd mentality, people are told what to think and are given the model they must think on. Symbols are provided to build the collective unconscious. People have been told what to think, and anything outside the model provided is blasphemy.

 

Edward Bernays wrote that Le Bon believed that the group mind does not think but rather uses impulse and usually follows the example of the trusted leader. “But when the example of the leader is not at hand and the herd must think for itself, it does so by means of clichés, past words or images which stand for a whole group of ideas or experiences.[130] Le Bon said Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase. A civilization involves fixed rules, discipline, a passing from the instinctive to the rational state, forethought for the future, and an elevated degree of culture - all of which conditions crowds, if left to themselves, have invariably shown themselves incapable of. “They seek what produces an impression on them and what seduces them.”[131] Ideology is a double-edged sword: "The phenomena at its best hold groups together and create a sense of belonging, at its worst is the heart of the master slave relationship.”[132] 

 

In Edmonton recently, parents and teachers were given a survey to provide feedback for the Sex and Gender Identity (SOGI) programming in their district. Kathleen Lowery, an anthropologist at the University of Alberta, did a Freedom of Information Request to find the survey results, which showed that parents did not actually support SOGI, as was suggested. The Board had obfuscated the results of the survey[133] to give the illusion of consensus. The results from the survey showed that about 60% of Edmonton parents thought the new SOGI policies were awful, but the board announced that the majority supported the SOGI programs. The school board lied to create a false consensus. This false representation leads people to believe they are alone in their beliefs, which reduces the chance they will disagree.

Language is being used to control the masses. The American Psychological Association (APA) insist that researchers use terms such as transman or transwoman. This is intellectual abuse of citizens by the APA. As you know, words shape thoughts. When I can be who I am and you can be who you are, problems can be solved through critical discussion. Groupthink ends critical discussion and all innovation.

An experiment by Stanley Milgram showed how easily people could be led to commit atrocities if told to do so by a person with authority. In Stanley Milgram’s experiment, test subjects believed that they were obliged to give a shock to a ‘learner’ in the next room when cued by an individual in a lab coat. The ‘learner’ pretended to scream in agony as the shock increased for every wrong answer the ‘learner’ gave, until the participants were finally persuaded to give what they thought was a deadly shock to the person in the next room. The percentage of participants willing to inflict a deadly voltage of electricity ranged from 28% to 98%.[134] 

 

In Driver behavior, we want to Be Perfect, Hurry Up, and Please Others, and we Canadians have agreed to intellectual abuse for the most part by our medical officials. Trans doesn’t have to make sense. The mystery of dogma can be alluring, spurred on by the fires of the human imagination. When people are in drivers, and when words are made to induce confusion and guilt, they are vulnerable to suggestion. Those who have any negative feelings about the trans movement are forced to shut them down in Canada.

Doctors have been told over the years to tell the wives of cross-dressing men to put up with the lie that there is a real transsexual and stay in the marriage with her new “wife.”[135] By telling the wives, who are often traumatized by their husbands, that they don’t know what they know, intellectual boundaries are crossed; this is abuse. Men are allowed to abuse a woman based on doctors' advice to do so. The culture behind transgenderism is very codependent.  

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Authors of the Parent and Teacher Guideline for Gender Dysphoric Youth Michelle A. Cretella, MD. (Chair of the Adolescent Sexuality Council of the American College of Pediatricians, and past executive director of American College of Pediatricians); Linda Blade, PHD (Kinesiology and Olympian Triathlete) and former president for Athletics Alberta; and Lara Forsberg (Med)

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Parent and Teacher Guideline for Gender Dysphoric Youth published 2025

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