Confronting the Cognitive Conflict Clash (CCC)

I have mentioned previously the need for Cognitive Combat warriors for there is a requirement of this generation to confront the Cognitive Conflict Clash (CCC) in my conceptualization *.

In the meantime, I found this as a good graphic illustration of the problem:

The West blinds itself and refuses to see.

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Another formulation of the crisis:

...primary spokespeople for the progressive causes of human freedom, equality, rights and dignity have lost battle after battle in a cognitive war launched by an astonishingly regressive foe. Global Islamism and Jihad openly champion intolerance of the “Other,” sacred violence, misogyny, homophobia, theocracy, scapegoating and hatred of other religions...Islamist Jihadi apocalyptic discourse has, in this last decade, played an astonishingly prominent role in defining 21^st century narratives, and has established major centers of discourse in both the Muslim and the Western public sphere. This has permitted a succession of stunningly stupid moves by the West which have not only weakened democratic culture, but strengthened radicalization is the Islamic world...The pattern emerged that when faced with angry Muslims demanding “respect,” Western moderates backed down and Western radicals sided with the Islamists...our passivity in the face of Islamist maximalist claims has hardened over time into a strategic consensus: the best way to deal with Muslim violence is to make friends with (appease) it; sooner attack the critic of Islam for provoking the violence.

At the same time as a broad range of our cognitive elite has adopted these paralyzing measures of appeasement, making it difficult to even perceive the existence of a cognitive war, a more militant branch has actively mobilized on the side of the Jihadi enemy. In particular, “left-wing” radicals have adopted the Palestinian narrative of suffering, in which the Israelis are the Nazis and the Palestinians are the Jews, in which the existence of Israel represents the single greatest obstacle to world peace and justice...And among the demands that the Islamists make on those who would befriend them, is the acceptance of this particular scapegoating, “lethal narrative,” aimed not only at justifying and inciting the extermination of the Jews, but also the subjection of the kuffar (infidels) the world over. This anti-Zionism has become almost a shibboleth of identity for the mobilized, progressive left in the 21^st century...

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