3.4 Proactive Parenting with Andrew Young, a Discussion of Social Engineering in Media

Currents: the Big Ocean Women Podcast

Andrew Young has worked for XBox, DreamWorks, and other kids entertainment companies. He has seen firsthand how deliberate decisions to insert specific scenes and vocabulary take place. He talks about his experiences with what he found out about social engineering when he worked as an animator at DreamWorks, the effects we see in our society, and what we can do to counteract it as we stand for faith, family, and motherhood.

Quotable quotes from Andrew Young during this discussion on social engineering in media, the devastating results of turning from traditional values, the power of families and audiences, and how to work toward a better future:

“If you are a church listening, if you are a tech company, if you are a media company, if you are a family, you have got to return to your anchored North Star vision of how you provide value.”

“The families have never had the opportunity to be explained, that, ‘By the way, we are providing you a movie… and it is laced with a political, anti-religious, anti-conservative, anti-male message.’”

“The reason I’m doing this is to try to help people understand what is happening.”

“This is why it’s very difficult for a parent to work against a professional storyteller propagandizing… a parent doesn’t know this technique, so let me explain it so you do.”

“If you want your kids to be able to weather everything that is going to hit them like a mountain and the winds just won’t topple it, they have got to know their identity.”

“Let’s do some deprogramming… I took all of these based on things we were socially engineering in movies, and I reversed them: Men and women, not in worth, but in design are not equal, meaning you can’t trade one for the other. They are complimentary. They’re not being told that. Take a man and a woman and join them together in marriage, and they become something greater than either could become alone.”

“A family - A man is designed to lead, provide, protect, and fill the need that a woman has: security. You want men to provide security… I’m talking about physically, I’m talking about emotionally, and I’m talking about financially.”

“So in turn, the woman does what no man can, and what even the world cannot do without her. And it’s not succeeding in an amazing career. It is that she gives life… The world can’t do it without her. And it has been socially engineered to be something that is negative and anyone who does it [is shown to be] someone who is frazzled, or doesn’t have it together. And it is the most rewarding and most consequential and most powerful thing a woman could ever do.”

“We need, children need, to understand this transparently and have the choice to say I don’t agree with that or agree with that. They are getting the opposite, non transparent, and not having the choice whether to agree with it or not.”

“Our culture is not prioritizing childbirth, families, marriages, it’s prioritizing wealth, and everyone’s in debt.”

“Number one: have kids. You can’t train the next generation if you’re not having one. Have kids, take care of them, and make them the priority. You can’t have that successfully without marriage, ok, so you have to get married and you have to commit … You have got to commit to the marriage and then you will be able to commit to the children.”

“One of the social engineering things we have lied to everyone about is that children know best. They do not know best. They do not have experience. They do not have the guidance and they don’t have the maturity that an adult has. An adult has to assume the role as leader and help rear them. In every single media we create, the adults are idiots. The tradition is worthless. The religion is not helpful.”

“If you want to let [your children] go and go on their hero’s journey, prepare them through structure, through those one on one meetings weekly, through those family dinners, through those trips.”

“The next one is time. You have got to be the parent or the person, time, time , time, time, time, time, time, time. So that’s your concrete thing.”

“You have got to start teaching your young boys, your young girls, that rebellion is okay if it’s against something bad. We’ve taught them so well to follow the rules and to do what they’re told, that now they’re being told the wrong thing and they’re doing it.”

“Let me read to you what a man is because most people don’t understand what a man is. ‘Despite being shown as useless idiots, men, at their core, and how you should look at them and treat them, is this,’ so I hope every time you see a man, you’ll say this word: ‘aspiring greatness.’”

“Here’s what a woman is: Even though we photo them, dress them, and package them as a product, a woman is a human that can bring something no other human can bring, life.”

“Men, if you’re listening, every time you see a woman, your brain is literally going to fire off in the tool zone…You’ve got to say in your head to deprogram your mind… ‘human. That is a human. That is not a product.’”

Other interviews with Andrew Young:

Cwic Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvNZRUtqqa8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFgERZAR_M

The Raising Family Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai0YR5dZ2Ag

Scripture Notes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDvqHbgDeAo&t=2s

Andrew Young, Into the Verse YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVw9kIhcj91SXhnXJMsT-MA