OT: But relevant.

Penn And Teller Get Hippies To Sign Water Banning Petition



Note: Perhaps you haven't figured out why I posted this video. A video like this may seem off topic on a blog that deals with the Child Protective Industry, but I say it's completely relevant. It shows just how stupid people can be, how easily they can be persuaded to support a cause, and all they had to do was confuse the issue in order to get it done. Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

Now let's parallel this to the Child Protective Industry.

How do you think they convince foster parents that they are heroes for housing children who were wrongfully taken? How do you convince them that good but less than perfect parents are monsters? How do you convince society to blindly support an out of control and corrupt system that destroys lives and causes more harm than good?

You do it by selling them a line of bullshit. You do it by confusing the issue. By phrasing it in terms that are understood in a certain way. You play off of the easily manipulated emotions of the otherwise good and caring people. You use extreme examples so that you can reduce the terms to generic labels, and you keep doing it over and over again, and you apply the labels to your targets generously.

Tell a lie enough times, and people will start to believe it. Thus we have the modern day Child Protective Industry.

Anybody can be trained to sell a line of bullshit. Social workers are no exception.