118: The Dark Power of "Idea Laundering"
The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard
Matthew Leonard
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🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered how is it that new terms you had never heard of like "woke," "transgender," "privilege" are suddenly everywhere? It's like overnight these words just show up and are being spoken about by everyone.
Well, it's not spontaneous. It's planned…and it's called "idea laundering."
In a shorter, follow-up to my recent full interview with Noelle Mering on Marxism and the Woke Movement, we discuss the way in which our Catholic faith is being attacked on all sides at once.
It's a quick, fascinating look at things like:
- How Our Language is So Quickly Manipulated
- Why Teacher's Unions are Hotbeds of Activism (Pay attention, parents!)
- The Destructive Role of John Dewey (yeah…the Dewey Decimal System guy)
- The Danger of Disney (Sorry Walt)
- How to Fight Against This Onslaught Attacking Our Families
There are people working hard to radically undermine not just our culture, but even our ability to practice the faith. They're fully aware that controlling language will lead to control of people.
God bless!
Matthew
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Art of Catholic. |
| 0:05.6 | Hi, I'm Matthew Leonard. |
| 0:16.1 | This is the Art of Catholic Podcast. |
| 0:18.1 | And this is kind of a little mini cast that I am doing with my guest, Noel Marring. |
| 0:22.4 | We just had a full-on podcast about her book, |
| 0:25.2 | Awake Not Woke, a Christian response to the cult of progressive ideology. It's |
| 0:30.9 | published by Tan Books. Fantastic book will explain to you where all this |
| 0:36.1 | stuff is coming from in the progressive movement, the woke movement. Why is it |
| 0:40.6 | happening and how to fight against it as well. And I wanted to ask her a separate question |
| 0:46.0 | which I found fascinating and I have, |
| 0:48.2 | I'm the father of six kids and my kids are in school |
| 0:52.3 | and sometimes we homeschooled, sometimes we don't, |
| 0:55.7 | so we're back and forth in the Catholic schools. |
| 0:57.7 | But one of the sections of the book, Noel, |
| 1:01.1 | you mentioned something called idea laundering |
| 1:04.2 | and its relationship also to the education |
| 1:07.4 | Establishment can you explain to us what idea laundering is and why does we need to be aware of this? |
| 1:13.5 | Sure, so idea laundering is a term that I can't at the moment recall if Peter Pagotian came up with it or another man |
| 1:19.8 | Whose name escapes me? |
| 1:20.8 | But the idea basically was that you can sort of advance any kind of, you come up with |
| 1:25.6 | the correct conclusion, the conclusion that kind of flatter the sensibilities of, you know, the |
| 1:30.4 | popular ideologies of the time. And you can sort of backtrack your way into making it acceptable |
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