The Weaponization of Instinct: Exploring "The Uncanny" and Marxist Manipulation
- Charles "Ghost" Coutts
- 3 days ago
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To resist manipulation, one must first be able to identify when they are being manipulated. ~Ghost
(Opinion) For informational and educational purposes only.
Listen. I freeze for a moment when I see a six-foot man in a dress reading to toddlers. Not from hate—but from instinct. My stomach may clench; I may look away.
That's the uncanny.
Something's off, my brain says danger even though there's no "tiger". And Freud knew it. Jung knew it. We all know it. And somebody's always farming that pause. Same trick Lenin pulled—dress the killer like the clerk next door, so when he drags your neighbor out at 3 AM, you blame yourself.
Or Stalin, drawing capitalists with bug-eyes, so hate feels natural. Now it's drag queens at story time, pronouns in first grade, and misgendering as a crime.
Same move: make your reflex feel shameful. Once you're ashamed of flinching, you're theirs. It's not liberals. Liberals want me to leave you alone. These are leftists—collectivists—who want your silence. And they'll call you a bigot just for noticing. Which is insane, because I'm not hateful for pausing. I'm human.
A kid pauses even harder—can barely spell uncanny, let alone file the image. Expose them young, you wire the obedience in. Trump's our proof, however, that it's breakable. They tried everything against that man—two impeachments, indictments, fine people lie—and he just shrugs.
Doesn't explain. Don't apologize. And wins. So yeah, maybe we don't need a revolution. We need a bunch of old guys like me just saying no—calm, public, polite—until the word tolerance sounds like a gag order.
Objection: That's progress. Fine. But why does progress come with a whip? Why does live and let live mean agree or get fired? And yeah, conservatives play identity too—big trucks, bigger guns—but they're pushing old lies. The left is selling new ones. And new ones feel creepier. Biology's not optional. If it were, we'd let 18-year-old boys play volleyball against 12-year-old girls. We normally don't. Because bones break. And once you say biology doesn't count, everything doesn't count.
So, here's my conclusion thus far: they're weaponizing your gut, our survival instincts. Not your guns, not your wallet—just that half-second before you blink. And I'm done letting them. If you feel it too, you're not alone. Stop pretending. Start saying no. Not loud. Not angry. Just: That's wrong. Then watch what happens when nobody flinches but them.
Now, let's talk straight about these instinctual reactions, because I don't think most folks really get what I mean when I say that. It's not some fancy psych term—it's wired in, like pulling your hand off a hot stove before you even think about it. Your brain's got this ancient alarm system, built over millions of years, that spots threats fast. Fight, flight, or freeze—that's the basics. But with the uncanny, it's subtler. It's not a lion charging; it's a shadow that looks almost human but isn't quite right. Your gut goes "hold up," because back in the cave days, mistaking a predator for a pal could get you dead.
Take the uncanny valley—that's the robotics thing, where dolls or robots look so close to human, they creep us out instead of charming us. It's not based on hate; it's your brain glitching on pattern recognition. We expect eyes to blink a certain way, smiles to crinkle just so. When they don't? Alert bells. Freud nailed it in 1919 with his essay on the uncanny—das Unheimliche, he called it. It's the familiar gone wrong, like a childhood toy that suddenly seems alive in a bad way. Dolls, doubles, dead things that move. He said it taps into buried fears, like castration or the womb, but I think it's simpler: it's your psyche saying "this doesn't add up," and that mismatch feels like a trap.
And kids? They're raw nerves on this stuff. Their brains are still mapping the world—what's safe, what's not. Show 'em a face that's almost mom but with a five-o'clock shadow, and they can't process it. Confusion turns to fear; fear turns to withdrawal. Expose 'em enough, and it wires in weird—maybe they normalize it, but deep down, that glitch stays. That's why leftists push this early: story hours, school curricula. It's not education; it's rewiring. Make the instinct feel wrong from the jump, and by adulthood, you're parroting the lie just to fit in.
But here's the kicker—it's not all learned. Cultures worldwide recoil from the same stuff: disfigurements, mismatches, the almost-human. Rural kids in India freak at clowns; city kids in New York pause at drag. It's universal because it's survival. Your lizard brain misfires, thinks "disease? Deception? Danger?" Even if it's harmless. And that's what makes it exploitable.
Leftists don't create the flinch—they harvest it. Push the anomaly, wait for the pause, then shame you for it. Suddenly, your instinct's the problem, not the mismatch. And poof—you're compliant if you are not strong enough to stand up to it.
Don't get me wrong, we can override it with reason. See a burn victim? Brain glitches, but you push past it because empathy kicks in. But force it too hard, too young, and you break something. That's my worry: we're not evolving past instincts; we're suppressing 'em for control. And a society without gut checks? That's a slave state waiting to happen.
And speaking of empathy—that's the real twist in why this manipulation sticks so hard. Empathy's our glue, the thing that lets us see another person's pain and say, "I get it, that hurts." It's instinct too, wired deep to keep the "tribe" together.
But leftists? They don't just suppress empathy—they remove it on purpose, or twist it until it's useless. Think about it: when they shove these uncanny mismatches at us, they're not asking for understanding. They're demanding we ignore our gut (reality) and pretend everything's fine. But empathy needs truth to work. If I can't trust what I see—if a man in a dress is suddenly a woman just because he says so—then how do I empathize? With who? The person in pain, or the delusion? It creates this fog where I believe people's real suffering gets lost and inevitably exploited.
That's the effectiveness: by weaponizing shame, they kill empathy at the root. You feel the flinch, but instead of exploring why (maybe this person's hurting, maybe society's failing 'em), you get slapped with "bigot." So, you shut down. No more questions. No more connection. Just compliance. And without empathy, we're isolated—easier to control.
Look at history: Marxists always divide first. Pit class against class, race against race, now gender against biology. Empathy dies in division, because why feel for the "oppressor"? They call it justice, but it's just a scalpel cutting bonds.
As always, of course, kids suffer the worst here. Force them to override empathy young—tell them to cheer for the mismatch, ignore the confusion—and they grow up numb. They can't spot real pain anymore, because everything's a performance. That's intentional: a generation without empathy is a generation that won't fight back when the boot comes down. They'll just repeat the script, because feelings are too risky.
But let's call it what it is: the stranger walking in. Not some hooded figure—just a guy in a dress, or a teacher with a pronoun badge, or the HR rep who suddenly wants you to ‘educate yourself.' Nothing violent. Nothing loud. Just... off. And when the room goes still, when your kid stops coloring and stares, that's not bias. That's the brain doing math. And when someone yells, ‘How dare you stare?'—that's the trap snapping shut. Because now the glitch isn't a warning. It's a crime. And you're the criminal for noticing. Your kid stares. Not in fear—just blank. Because the brain hasn't filed it yet: adult + story time = safe. Adult + story time + beard =? That blank is the stranger coming in.
But here's where we can flip it: reclaim empathy by calling the bluff. Say, "I see you're hurting, but pretending won't fix it." That's real compassion—not the fake kind that demands lies. And when enough of us do that, the manipulation crumbles. Because empathy, done right, builds tribes stronger than any state. They know that. That's why they gut it first.
So why swallow it? Because they bank on our freeze (that instinctual and therefore uncontrollable reaction). But history shows cracks- Lenin's terror bred quiet resentment, Stalin's posters peeled off the walls, Mao's kids grew up and asked why grandma had to die. Every time the lie gets loud enough, someone shrugs. Trump shrugged. Not because he's brave-just because he doesn't care if they call him names. And millions shrugged with him. No speeches. No fist pumps. Just: no. That's all we need. Not a movement. Not a podcast. Just a roomful of parents going, that's enough, thanks. Polite. Firm. Done. Because the Marxists only have power if you let the pause turn into shame. Turn it into a nod instead. Interesting costume. Storytime's over. Walk away. Do that once. Twice. A hundred times. And suddenly, the freeze stops being their weapon.
It becomes ours. We've got the gut. Don't you think it is time we started listening to it? Because here again we find the inescapable truth. We each must make a choice to do this because our inaction is simply silent compliance. It reminds me of the old saying: "You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink."
Something to think about, guys, until next time. ~Ghost
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