I spent countless hours pondering how it is that goons become enlisted agents whose job it is to fulfill the agenda of the higher-ups. I analyzed the behavior and demeanor of the ones I could identify as such. And in addition to all of the other reasons I already discussed, I realized that some of them must have been blackmailed, threatened with shame and/or threatened with loss. And I imagine there are those who avoid imprisonment and/or violation of their probation by accepting their assignment.
Anyone with the right secrets could potentially be manipulated into participating if they were made to believe their private life would be exposed if they didn’t. I am still referring to the act of participating in aura theft which in my opinion, is grand larceny. Of course, they wouldn’t know that’s what they were doing. Goons are too low level to be privy to such information. The goons are targets as well. They are disposable pawns who can’t tattle on their handlers because that would be telling on themselves.
Cancel Culture
And the most vulnerable are controlled through fear tactics tailored specifically to them. This includes using the fear of shame and loss as tools of manipulation. I shared this theory with one of my family members who also experiences gang stalking. And the family member said to me that they too had already reached the very same conclusion. Collectively, it is at least partly our fault that gang stalking by proxy is able to not only exist but also thrive. We have constructed a merciless society built upon the rules of cancel culture.
The Power of Shame
The goons who wish they weren’t can’t come forward because they will be punished and humiliated. And the goons who love what they do can’t be exposed by their target(s) because those who can’t fathom such a thing, will label the target as mentally ill or crazy. When I was a new hire at the crisis line, I was introduced during orientation, to the teachings of Brene Brown who speaks largely about the power of shame. Through the years of crisis calls that followed, I concluded that shame, or the threat of shame, is indeed one of the most powerful tools in existence.
Of course, to everything there is a season and that includes shame. But cancel culture, when out of balance, does not consider mitigating factors or intent. It sees only the crime before inviting everyone to attend the criminal’s social funeral. Recently, a viral TikToker’s sin was exposed through a resurfaced video that was made years earlier. There were so many content creators talking about how the person was “no longer with us,” that I actually thought the person had physically died.
Dropping Your Rock
Eventually, I realized what was happening. The sinner was being cancelled. Before cancel culture was so big, I bought a book at either Goodwill or some other thrift store. It is titled, Dropping Your Rock and it was written by Nicole Johnson who is speaking in the video below. I may not define sin quite like she does, but I can agree that sometimes we just need to drop our rocks. Both the book as well as her message are based on the story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery.
John 8:4-11 reads, And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them,
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
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Picking Up Your Rock
Preacher say Jesus was writing the sins of the would be stone throwers. I wonder how specific Jesus got. Like, did he just write theft or did he write theft of a bottle of wine from the marketplace? Sometimes, though, stone throwing, as done by cancel culture, is necessary and therapeutic. To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and time to build up: A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose: A time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace -Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.