The virtue signaling is not an end though, it is another part of the control mechanism. Virtue signaling is a part of the thought control mechanism, it is used to shame people who do not go along with the "virtuous" thing into compliance. People who do the "virtuous" thing, even if it is objectively wrong, are praised. People who do not are shamed, even if what they do is objectively correct.
It can also be used as a demoralization tactic, in that forcing people who do not buy in to the "virtue" being signaled are coerced into at least paying lip service to it. If you ever encounter this, do not give in and speak what you know to be a lie. That is possibly the most powerful tool of demoralization. At the very least, even if you can't actively state the truth, do not repeat a lie.
Violence does not lay its paw on every shoulder every day: it demands from us only obedience to lies and daily participation in lies. And this submissiveness is the crux of the matter. The simplest and most accessible key to our self-neglected liberation is this: personal non-participation in lies. Though lies may conceal everything, though lies may control everything, we should be obstinate about this one small point: let them be in control but without any help from any of us. This opens a breach in the imaginary encirclement caused by our inaction. It is the easiest thing for us to do and the most destructive for the lies. Because when people renounce lies it cuts short their existence. Like a virus, they can survive only in a living organism. - A.I. Solzhenitsyn - Live not by lies.
Great stuff, this entire thread/post.
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