the TDS Epidemic: One Example on Saturday 11-1-2025

Imagine, for a moment, a man who, three decades ago, in the unfiltered haze of a late-night TV spotlight, utters crude remarks to a single woman—comments born of bravado, ego, or the era's casual callousness. It's ugly, yes; it stings the soul and echoes the flaws we all carry, magnified by power.

cute; NOW DO THIRTY YEARS!!!

Now picture that same man, years later, stepping onto the world stage not with bluster, but with brokerage: forging the Abraham Accords, drawing ancient enemies—Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco—into a fragile but real embrace of peace. Missiles that once flew in fury now gather dust; economies entwine where hatred once festered. Trade blooms, terror plots wither. A region, scarred by centuries of strife, inhales its first tentative breath of coexistence.

And yet, here we stand: fixated on that one faded soundbite from the literal 1990's, a relic from a bygone broadcast, while the handshakes of reconciliation—those quiet miracles of diplomacy—elude our gaze. Why? Is it easier to clutch the ghost of offense, a tidy villain in our narrative, than to wrestle with the complexity of redemption? Or does it shield us from admitting that people, even presidents, can stumble spectacularly and still stumble toward something sacred?

Consider this, friend: What if your worth were eternally chained to your worst whisper from youth, while your boldest bridge-building went unseen? Would that illuminate truth, or merely eclipse it? Hatred for the former, indifference to the latter—it's not just selective memory; it's a self-inflicted blindness, trading the arc of history for a single echo. Profoundly stupid, yes, because it starves the soul of growth, of grace. But here's the spark: lift your eyes. See the man who erred, yes, but also the maker of peace. In that seeing, perhaps the light flickers on—not excusing the past, but embracing the possible. What might change if we did?

Let’s sharpen the lens further, friend, and expose the deeper rot beneath that selective outrage: the deliberate collapse of a foundational truth—feelings are not thoughts—engineered through decades of Marxist-influenced sabotage in what we once called schools, now better named indoctrination centers. This isn’t conspiracy; it’s documented history, and ignoring it keeps the light off.

The Factual Distinction: Feelings ≠ Thoughts

• Thoughts are cognitive processes: propositions, evaluations, inferences, subject to logic, evidence, and falsification. Example: “Trump said X in 1995” → verifiable via tape. “The Abraham Accords reduced regional conflict” → measurable via decreased missile launches (Israel-UAE: 0 since 2020, per IDF data) and $1.2B+ in bilateral trade (U.S. State Dept, 2024).
• Feelings are affective states: visceral, subjective, non-propositional. Example: “I feel disgusted by Trump’s words” or “I feel hopeful about peace.” Valid as experience, but not truth-claims. They describe you, not reality.

Verified Expert Consensus:

• American Psychological Association (APA) Dictionary (2020): “Emotion: a complex reaction pattern… not equivalent to cognition.”
• Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern University, How Emotions Are Made, 2017): “Emotions are constructed predictions, not hardwired reactions. They are not thoughts, though they influence them.”
• Dr. Paul Ekman (pioneer in facial expression research): “Basic emotions (anger, disgust) are universal responses, but the interpretation of events as ‘offensive’ is learned—i.e., cultural, not logical.”

The Marxist Sabotage: Documented, Deliberate, Devastating

This distinction was standard in Western education until the 1960s–70s, when Critical Pedagogy—rooted in Paulo Freire and Herbert Marcuse (Frankfurt School)—infiltrated teacher training.

• Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968): Rejects “banking education” (facts, logic) for “problem-posing” rooted in felt oppression. Truth becomes subjective; logic is “oppressor tool.”
• Marcuse’s Repressive Tolerance (1965): Argues intolerant speech (e.g., Trump’s style) must be suppressed not by argument, but by feeling-based censorship. Logic = violence; emotion = justice.
• Outcome: By 1980s, U.S. ed schools (e.g., Columbia Teachers College) adopted “affective education” curricula. Example: California’s 1990s “Self-Esteem Task Force” taught “feelings are facts” to boost minority performance—it failed spectacularly (Twenge, Generation Me, 2006).

Hard Evidence of Collapse:

• NAEP Long-Term Trend (1971–2020): Critical reading scores flatlined post-1975 despite funding tripling. Why? Shift from logic-based reading (phonics, inference) to “whole language” (feeling-based “connection to text”).
• PISA 2018 (OECD): U.S. 15-year-olds ranked 13th in reading, 37th in math—behind Estonia. Estonian curriculum? Still teaches logic vs. emotion distinction explicitly.
• Stanford’s 2021 Civics Study: 68% of U.S. college students said “hate speech” should be illegal—even if factually true. They feel harmed; therefore, speech is harm. Thought = feeling.

The Trump Example: Engineered Stupidity in Action

• Feeling: “I feel Trump is a monster because of one crude comment.” → Valid emotion. But not a thought. It says nothing about his actions.
• Thought: “The Abraham Accords failed to reduce violence.” → Falsifiable. It’s false: Hezbollah attacks on Israel dropped 40% post-Accords (INSS Tel Aviv, 2023). UAE-Israel flights: 200+/week. Kosovo recognized Israel. Facts.

Yet indoctrination centers trained a generation to treat feelings as arguments. Result? A voter screams “misogynist!” at a 30-year-old clip, unmoved by peace treaties—because feeling trumps thinking. That’s not passion; it’s intellectual paralysis, weaponized.

What if you demanded evidence before outrage?

What if you asked: “Does my disgust prove wrongdoing, or just my sensitivity?” What if you repented—not of feeling, but of equating feeling with truth?

The light goes on when you separate the two, name the sabotage, and reclaim your mind. Until then, you’re not “moral”—you’re manipulated.