How To Reason with a Demoralized Person
Commemorating the real Yuri Bezmenov 30 years after his passing, launching a new title with a Twitter campaign, and an example of subverting subversion at the end
Comrades: Yuri Bezmenov passed away 30 years ago on January 5, 1993 at the age of 53. If he were alive today, he would have marveled that everything he predicted came true. He tried to warn us. All honor to his name.
Today is also my first anniversary on Substack. To mark this occasion, I am changing the title from “How To with Yuri Bezmenov” to “How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov”. Please amplify this post with the hashtag #YuriTriedToWarnUs on Twitter. Paid subscriptions are always appreciated.
2022 focused on pattern recognition. I ridiculed every layer of clown world: the demoralized elite universities, Karenland FUPAZ, identarian commissars, soy bugmen, karents, sanpaku sociopaths, globohomo businesses, and advertising. As Yuri said, you can’t reason with a demoralized person. Some cultists beyond saving, but they are a small portion of the population.
Demoralization IRL (Comrade de Blasio kissing his wife while wearing masks in an empty Times Square NYE 2021):
Demoralization generated by AI (the newspaper looks like it says DEMORALIZATION in Russian):
2023 will focus on action. How To Subvert Subversion will go on offense this year to keep awakening the normies and slow the spread of the woke mind virus. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. I will expose those who do harm and elevate those who are improving the human condition. We can take surgical actions together; several campaigns from 2022 have already yielded results. I look forward to sharing those with you as they evolve in future posts.
Let us continue to pray for Jeff Younger and help him and his son in any way we can.
There will still be plenty of your favorite memes, sarcasm, and data. You will laugh, you will learn, and you might even cry. Ugly truths are better than pretty lies.
Thank you all for being part of this journey, comrades. We’re just getting started.
Let us honor Yuri by refreshing ourselves with his wisdom.
Fireside chat:
Long-form lecture:
"As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. He will refuse to believe it. That's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization."
People all over the Earth whether they praise America or bitterly criticize her, look upon you as the only hope for mankind's survival and the last stronghold of freedom. Some may not think in these idealistic terms, but they certainly enjoy the fruits of your civilization often forgetting to be grateful for them.
“My dear friends, I think you are in big trouble. Whether you believe it or not, YOU ARE AT WAR. And you may lose this war very soon, together with all your affluence and freedoms, unless you start defending yourselves… The driving force of this war has very little to do with natural aspirations of people for better lives and greater freedoms. If at all, these aspirations are being used and taken advantage of by the manipulators and progenitors of the war. The real driving force of this war of aggression is IDEOLOGY — something you cannot eat, wear or store for a “rainy day”. An integral part of this war of ideology is IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION — the process of changing the perception of reality in the minds of millions of peoples all over the world. The late comrade Andropov, the former head of the Soviet KGB called this war of Communist aggression, “the final struggle for the MINDS and hearts of the people”.”
“In the context of the USA, most of these nasty things are done to America by Americans with the ideological help of the Communist subverters. Most of the actions are overt, legitimate, and easily identifiable. The only trouble is - they are “stretched in time”. In other words, the process of subversion is such a long-term process that an average individual, due to the short time-span of his historical memory, is unable to perceive the process of subversion as a constent and willful effort. That is exactly how it is intended to be: like the small hand of your watch. You know it moves, but you CAN NOT SEE it moving
Ideological subversion is the process which is legitimate overt and open, you can see it with your own eyes. All you can do, all Americans needs to do is to unplug their bananas from their ears, open up their eyes and they can see. There is no mystery. It has nothing to do with espionage. I know that espionage and intelligence gathering looks more romantic, it sells more to the audience through the advertising, probably. That's why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond type of thrillers. But in reality, the main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all. According to my opinion and the opinion of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% percent is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion or active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is, to change the perception of reality, of every American, to such an extent that despite an abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their family, their community and their country. It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being demoralization. It takes from fifteen to twenty years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate on generation of students in the country of your enemy, exposed to the ideology of the enemy. In other words, Marxism, Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students, without being challenged or contra-balanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism. Most of the activity of the department was to compile huge amount, volume of information on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion. Publishers, editors, journalists, actors, educationalists, professors of political science, members of Parliament, representatives of business circles.
“To demoralize America’s PROTECTIVE FORCES it is enough to make your kids call the police “pigs” and “fascists” for a decade, disband police agencies watching over subverters and radicals by calling them “spies” (that is exactly what American Union of Civil Liberties did), stage campaign after campaign of discreditation and “investigation” of the wrongdoings” of the police, and in 20 years you arrive at the present situation, when the majority of civilian population of this nation is virtually without civil laws or protection from murderers, lunatics, criminals, etc. Can you now expect your police and civil authorities to protect you and your family in case of terrorist attack or a major civil disturbance?”
“Marxist-Leninist ideology coated in various indigenous “social theories” have greatly contributed to the process of American family break-up. The trend recently is changing in the opposite direction, but many generations of Americans, brought up in broken families, are already adults lacking one of the most vital qualities for the survival of a nation —LOYALTY. A child who has not learned to be loyal to his family will hardly make a loyal citizen. Such child may grow into adult who is loyal to the State though. The USSR example is rather revealing in this case.”
“In the struggle for the ‘final victory of Communism’, the goal of the subverter is to substitute, as slowly and painlessly as possible, the concept of loyalty for NATION with loyalty to the “Big Brother” welfare state, who gives everything and is able to TAKE everything, including personal freedom — from every citizen. If that objective is successfully achieved, the subverter does not need any nuclear warheads and tanks and may not even need the physical military INVASION. All that will be needed is to ‘elect’ a ‘progressive thinking’ president who will be voted to power by Americans, who have been addicted to welfare and ‘security’ as defined by Soviet [Marxist] subverters.”
“Racial and ethnic interrelations is one of the most vulnerable areas for demoralization. There is not a single Communist country where racial groups are ‘equal’ and enjoy as much freedom to develop themselves culturally and economically as in America. Actually, there are not too many “capitalist” countries where ethnic minorities have it as good as in the USA. I have been to many countries of the world and I can state to you, my dear Americans, that your society is the least discriminatory.”
***Insane levels of irony: Yesterday former FBI agent Asha Rangappa wrote about Yuri on her Substack. She frames herself and the FBI as the heroes protecting us against Russian subversion, even though they are the subverters. She blocked me for commenting on the disinformation and demoralization the FBI spreads. Democracy dies in the darkness of censorship and “kooky cat”. Feel free to remind her on her social channels. This is the definition of subverting subversion.
Another dubious anniversary of subversion - The Frankfurt School was founded 100 years ago:
Yuri in the sixth century BC:
The Persian king Cyrus conquered Lydia, but the Lydians kept rebelling and giving him trouble. Cyrus asked Croesus, the former king of Lydia, what he could do to get the Lydians to behave. Was his only option to completely destroy the Lydians' city, Sardis? Croesus had a better idea:
"King Cyrus," he replied, "what you've said is not without reason , but I pray you, do not altogether give vent to your wrath and destroy an ancient city. Pardon the Lydians and lay upon them commands as follows, in order that they may not revolt or be a cause of danger to you: Send to them and forbid them to possess weapons of war, but bid them on the other hand to put on tunics under their outer garments and wear slippers, and proclaim to them that they train their sons to play the lyre and the harp and to be retail-dealers ; and soon you will see, O king, that they have become women instead of men, so that there will be no fear that they will revolt from you."
(from Herodotus's Histories, Book I, section 155)
Outstanding summary! I've listened to/watched all of Yuri's publicly available recorded material, and you have done a great job of pulling out the most salient points. That's no easy task, since virtually every sentence he said is worthy of being quoted as highly relevant to our current situation. As you say, he did indeed try to warn us. Well done.