This is the sort of psychological warfare and "self critique" you saw in the Mao's Cultural Revolution. They badger and pilpul the weakminded, breaking them down to the point that they'll believe anything if it stops the abuse. It's literally the "there are five lights" scene from 1984.
Also notice how the judge performed like good party apparatchik. "I'm sorry, but the rules are the rules."
"The head judge tells me that he was sorry and that it sucked but I was disqualified due to pokemons [sic] policy. At this point I’m at the verge of tears but I tried my best to keep my composure. I just couldn’t understand what was happening. Was the judge just not listening to anything I had just told him? Was he trying to look at my side of the story at all??
This is the sort of shit you read about in Gulag Archipelago, where some citizen is foolishly expecting the commissar to take pity on them, appealing to his humanity right before he sends him to the gulag for 20 years. Today it's silly kids pokemon tournaments. But this mindset is percolating upwards and reaching a tipping point of what Gramsci called "cultural hegemony. "
This is the sort of psychological warfare and "self critique" you saw in the Mao's Cultural Revolution. They badger and pilpul the weakminded, breaking them down to the point that they'll believe anything if it stops the abuse. It's literally the "there are five lights" scene from 1984.
Also notice how the judge performed like good party apparatchik. "I'm sorry, but the rules are the rules."
This is the sort of shit you read about in Gulag Archipelago, where some citizen is foolishly expecting the commissar to take pity on them, appealing to his humanity right before he sends him to the gulag for 20 years. Today it's silly kids pokemon tournaments. But this mindset is percolating upwards and reaching a tipping point of what Gramsci called "cultural hegemony. "