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Guest Post: The Fuzzy Logic Of Useful Idiots
Via Giordano Bruno of Neithercorp Press
The Fuzzy Logic Of Useful Idiots
It hurts to be wrong. Not just emotionally, but physically,
especially when it’s public, like swimming headfirst into a school of
very ill-tempered jellyfish…..or maybe piranha. The horror of it is
almost cinematic. The more artificially pumped your ego, or the more
brainwashed with academic pretension, the more terrifying that moment of
realization is, that moment when all your assumptions are dashed aside
like a three-year-old’s alphabet blocks. To a certain point, it is
understandable why so many people live in such violent denial, however,
this does not detract from the perils of that denial…
Americans are masters of avoiding responsibility for bad assumptions.
I have seen middle-aged women cry, actual tears, because they have
been proven incorrect on something as simple as the price of dishwashing
detergent at the grocery store. I have seen full-grown men throw
wild-eyed tantrums and even threaten people with death because they
couldn’t handle being wrong about the correct score of a football game.
I once saw a man froth at the mouth and shout vicious obscenities for
20 minutes straight because he refused to believe there where more than
three ‘Jaws’ movies (I wish ‘Jaws: The Revenge’ didn’t exist either,
but I’m not going to have a spasm over it). I have seen little old
ladies physically attack people because they were embarrassed to be
wrong, not realizing that their response was far more humiliating and
self deprecating than just being “mistaken”. I have, indeed, seen the
glory of overgrown babies in action.
America is not the only culture prone to this, Americans just happen
to be the worst losers. We lash out when we are wrong, while most
Europeans tend to intellectualize ideas that challenge their false
perceptions, as if they are “above” even considering them. They are
masters of rationalizing the facts away, while we are masters of
brutalizing those people who are messengers of the facts.
Some of these unfortunate members of our society are merely lemmings;
sheep following each other mindlessly without questioning the purpose
or the destination. They are spectators in world events, and nothing
more. While others are far more dangerous because they take an active
role in the shaping of events, not knowing that their idiocy is
contributing to the suppression of the truth and even the downfall of
our nation. They help elitists to dismantle dissent and in the process
damage their own future. It sounds insane, and in a way, they ARE
psychologically ill, but in a manner that has been deemed tolerable (or
even practical) by society. We call these people “Useful Idiots”.
How does one know when he has encountered such a person? How does he
cope? Let’s examine some of the telltale signs of the useful idiot…
Just Smart Enough To Be Stupid…
Learning is a full time job, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, until the
very moment your ticker tocks and you find yourself sporting a cloud
and a harp. Some people, though, seem to think that retirement on
learning starts at around age twenty. Useful idiots are commonly men
and women who are intelligent enough to retain information but not
driven enough to research its validity, or to follow a thought through
to its logical conclusion. They very often work in professional fields
such as law, business, medicine, politics, engineering, media,
entertainment, etc. (though there are many others in these fields who
are not caught up in their own delusional worlds). These are people in a
position to influence others just by the virtue of their work,
regardless of how clueless they actually are.
Lacking knowledge is not such a terrible crime as long as you are
willing to admit that you do. There is always someone out there who is
going to know more than you about some things, if not many things.
That’s life. Useful idiots, on the other hand, are rarely willing to
admit that they are lacking in any department. They usually have just
enough knowledge to make themselves “convincing” to those who don’t
recognize them for what they are. In this way they are a sort of
mini-Chernobyl, waiting to spew radioactive waste (disinformation) at
any given moment, mutating public opinion.
Their ability to think is limited to memorization. The problem with
this way of viewing the world is that it excludes critical thought,
intuition, empathy, and wisdom. It traps us in a box composed of all
the things we have been TAUGHT, but keeps us from the things we could
discover on our own. Useful idiots are walking talking toasters; all
they take is bread, and all they make is toast (and the occasional pop
tart). Frankly, I’m bored with toast.
One need only take into account the vast number of so called
financial analysts in the mainstream media who denied there was any
threat of economic collapse back in 2006/2007. How many of them stopped
to consider the consequences of ignoring the facts because of their
egomania and inability to think beyond their conditioning? How many
lives and nest-eggs have been destroyed, or are waiting to be destroyed,
because of them? How many of these useful idiots ever apologized for
their blundering? I can’t think of any…
Reacting To The Truth, Instead Of Absorbing It…
Useful idiots talk, they don’t listen. They ask lots of questions,
but never wait to hear your answers. For them, questions are not a
search for information, but rather a method of antagonism. It is a way
to keep everyone else on guard while making themselves feel superior.
In this game, the useful idiot never has to expose his ignorance because
he never has to enter into a meaningful dialogue with anyone who has an
opposing view. All he has to do is attack, attack, attack.
I have seen all kinds of reactionary tactics from useful idiots, but I
find that the most common one for the American brand is the application
of overt bravado. They turn everything into a joke whether it is funny
or not. Laughing at that which we don’t understand sometimes makes
things less frightening, but it also makes us more passive. Dedicated
clowns, for all their theatrics and daring, are generally impotent
historical figures. How many clowns or comedians have ever really dared
to break the establishment mold and aim a magnifying glass at the true
absurdity of our system or our culture? How many have inspired
legitimate and original thought? I can think of only a handful, and
almost all of them remained tied back by the entertainment industry for
their beliefs.
The clowns that are the most “successful” are those that follow the
establishment guidelines and play on them as if they might dare break
the barrier of lies, but they never do. In Medieval times, even the
most blood thirsty king would allow the court jester to make jokes at
his expense. Why? Because the jester was an inconsequential figure, a
powerless and non-threatening being. A jester can verbally thrash a
tyrant, but nothing ever really changes, because deep down, though they
make us laugh, nobody really cares what clowns have to say. Now imagine
a whole subsection of our country emulating this dynamic. Imagine all
these people deluding themselves into thinking that being a slave isn’t
all that bad, as long as you’re the funny slave.
When confronted with a truth that threatens their established world
view, useful idiots will do anything to distract or derail the exchange.
Making bad jokes, resorting to childish ridicule, ignoring cold hard
logic, making threats, denying you are qualified to present the facts,
even though the facts speak for themselves no matter who is relaying
them, etc. Rarely will they confront the truth you present on its own
terms. Instead, they will try to make YOU the issue of discussion, and
not your information.
Skewed World View…
Is it really that hard to double check a piece of data to confirm
whether or not it is true? Apparently, it must be, because so many
Americans have decided to believe whatever they are told without a
second thought as long as the guy telling them is in a suit or a white
lab coat. If a guy in a lab coat told you that cyanide makes you more
desirable to the opposite sex, would you slam down a glass before
hitting the singles bar, or would you verify the info and actually
research the damned subject before hand?
You might say “well cyanide is poison, everybody knows that!” Yes,
people know that because they research it. But how many other poisons
do Americans ingest daily because some official gave the thumbs up?
Mercury (thimerosal), aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, fluoride,
rBGH, Bisphenol-A, and numerous others. One stop at the computer would
produce thousands of pages of research which shows the volatile nature
of these chemicals and the consequences of exposure. Why do we
contaminate our guts with this garbage on pure faith? Welcome to the
realm of the useful idiot…
The useful idiot is not just the guy chugging down GMO milk filled
with udder puss, anyone can do that and not be useful. No, the useful
idiot is the FDA official or the corporately paid scientist who SELLS us
on the purity of the milk. He’s the local dentist who laughs at you
when you question the safety of all that fluoride accumulation in your
bloodstream. She’s the nurse who threatens to call CPS because you
don’t want your newborn baby injected with half a dozen mercury laced
vaccines two months after they exit the womb. The useful idiot is the
guy who received his standardized academic neuron rinse but never
learned that the first rule of academia used to be ‘question
everything’.
World view is really a battle between inherent conscience, common
sense, and the conditioning of our era. Even a single root
misconception, like the belief in the legitimacy of the false left/right
political paradigm, could easily skew the whole of a person’s vision to
a sea of truths. The useful idiot is not only conditioned himself, but
he also becomes an agent of that conditioning in others. When
confronted with a truth outside of his established world view, he almost
short circuits. He has lived most of his life with the ideas and
propaganda of others slogging around in his skull. To be faced with the
possibility that all of that time, energy, and devotion, was worthless,
is almost too much to bear.
Making A Difference, One Lost Freedom At A Time…
Sometimes the best qualities of good people are ironically the worst
qualities in the useful idiot. Useful idiots love to participate…in
anything…as long as it’s sanctioned by a recognizable organization.
Bless their hearts, they just want to get out there and make a
difference! Go team!
This is a serious issue with those on both sides of our fake
political spectrum, left and right. How many people clamored to be a
neo-con after 9/11, only to find that in their quest for public safety,
they wrongly supported the weakening of Constitutional freedoms, the
destabilization of our economy, not to mention the invasion of Iraq, a
country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 (even if you believe
the official story) or any other terrorist attack in this country? How
many liberals ran screaming like schoolgirls at a Justin Bieber concert
towards the global warming and carbon tax scam, only to find out that
the climate labs responsible for all the research they had been eating
up without question was actually using contrived and in some cases
completely fabricated data? I won’t even get into the Obama-fever
thing, mainly because my stomach isn’t strong enough at the moment.
The problem with useful idiots is that they want to participate TOO
much. So much that they’ll jump on any bandwagon that is well funded
and flamboyant enough to peak their interest. They are joiners with
highly superficial standards, like brownshirts, or lice. This is where
they do their worst damage…
Participation, for the useful idiot, is not about making a
difference; it is about feeling like they are making a difference. In
some cases, it’s about “hope”, but not real or effective action. In
other cases, it’s about vengeance and malice, but not justice or
integrity. In either scenario, the key missing factor is the truth,
which is neglected or traded for a quick boost in self esteem. This
makes the useful idiot the prime target of elitist disinformation.
Nearly all criminal actions by governments receive their primary support
from this portion of the citizenry exactly because they are so
ridiculously eager. They are the zombie ditch diggers of the globalist
infrastructure, chopping away at our liberties in search of brains.
Confronting The Useful Idiot…
Why bother trying to communicate with these dimwits at all? Are they
not the very definition of a lost cause? Perhaps. I can say with a
certain authority, though, that some of them can be introduced to
awareness, especially since I used to be one of them…
I was the Democrat putting up Kerry stickers and handing out buttons
back in 2004. I was the guy who shut down any conservative viewpoint no
matter how accurate or valid because Bush was the devil incarnate (and
also because I was uninformed enough to believe that neo-cons were
actually conservative). I was the guy at those protest rallies where no
one including myself really understood the topics we were speaking out
on. I knew corporations were the enemy, but I didn’t understand why. I
knew the wars were dishonest, but I thought they were all about oil. I
knew the economy was in trouble, but I barely knew what the Federal
Reserve was, let alone fractional reserve banking or fiat currency. It
took many years to fully remove my head from my ass, but I did. I see
no reason why others could not do the same, given the right prompting.
The useful idiot has to be faced with queries he can’t weasel out of
or deflect. That means continually asking him questions and demanding he
support his responses with concrete proof. He has to be shown beyond a
doubt that at least one of his precious ideals is unfounded and
unsupported by the facts. Just one. After that, he can no longer
assume that any of his other views are rock solid either. He will be
forced to finally check his sources, which usually leads to a terrifying
epiphany; he knows nothing! It’s like falling down a bottomless South
American sinkhole with nothing to grab onto. I know, because I felt it
once.
Eventually, he accepts the loss of his old identity, the foolish man
that was so confident and certain, and moves on towards a frightening
world where he must teach himself, instead of waiting around for others
to teach him. The empowerment and the awe of this process is nearly
indescribable, it has to be experienced to be understood. It’s like
being able to see and to speak clearly for the first time. You never
knew what you were missing because you had nothing to compare it to;
only that unsettling knot at the pit of your stomach, telling you that
something was very wrong. Now, to go back would be unthinkable, even
hellish.
Nobody sees themselves as a useful idiot serving the interests of
tyrants in the oppression of their fellow man. But, the fact remains
that many Americans are in just such a position. You can hate them, you
can even wish them ill, but don’t give up on them all. Contesting
ignorance is not just the civic duty of the informed, it is also an act
of compassion towards those who are not.
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Who went to the polls last night enraged that the Korea Free Trade Treaty hasn't been passed?
Gridlock = carefully shepherded low profile legislation passed WITHOUT debate or notice... insiders and lobbyists win (as usual)
How about that Fox guy getting the boot on Dancing with the Stars...
I love your avatar.
best post ever, TD. remarkable.
Well, at least 1 useful idiot is no longer useful? I dont know what to take away from this article.
Bla bla bla. Bla bla bla. Seems cathartic. My eyes crossed. I stopped reading. Skimmed to bottom.
To paraphrase: "Too many notes!"
Would be easier to remove the Croaker....
Take it personal. LOL. Just kidding.
same here SD-one
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I am in the academy, I connected with it, deeply. I have been a useful idiot, joiner, petition signer. I cringed reading about the clown thing, I am the class clown, I sit with my colleagues at work cracking jokes and derailing projects as a form of passive aggression. Thing is, we are not doing as much of that anymore, many of us are becoming awake to the situation and challenging the decisions made and the process by which they are made. But we are not yet doing enough. I read this article and feel like I should challenge my deluded, useful idiot, supervisors more. There is nothing to lose by doing this, the ship is sinking any way, may as well scream the ship is sinking and see if anyone else recognizes it and wants to mobilize some kind of action plan. My boss shuts me down when I complain about how we make decisions as if the economy is going to recover. He poo poos me and tells me that he has been through many downturns and it "ALWAYS" comes back. He is a very useful idiot. When I shut up and let him make bad decisions based on this assumption because I am afraid of his reaction, or afraid of my colleagues rolling their eyes at me, I am a useful idiot coward.
Maybe every article isn't for every person. I thought it was good.
You are not alone. My boss, too, has repeated the "I've seen many downturns and it always recovers" mantra.
He came in this morning on cloud nine because the "citizens sent their message" last night.
As soon as I tried to mention that his victory will be hollow when his "party" ends up raising the debt ceiling and the spending continues he changed the subject.
This is even more painful for me..............because my boss is also my father.
yep, this one is popping up everywhere. classic mantra from the unthinking masses.
here's one that ALWAYS makes the dimwits feel better: "she's in a happier place now." or, "he's at peace."
...if only Bernanke were in a happier place at peace.
Aren't you just the sweetest thing! ;-D
;)
Me too.
After one can accept the fact that the US government has, does, and will kill its own citizens it is easier to look around and see the true value in recruiting at all costs.
Major Hans von Dach had something very excellent to say about it in the closing remarks of his invaluable work, Total Resistance:
Mom, you might find his views on passive (civilian; non-guerilla) resistance for educators quite interesting and relevant:
We are already living behind the lines. "Why so serious?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Resistance_(book)
http://www.amazon.com/Total-Resistance-H-Von-Dach/dp/0873640217
Jesus Christ I'm stupid. It's already on.
Thanks for this post.
No you're not and yes it is.
plus 1.
The article was quite ok until the writer compared a big dose of cyanide to Mercury (thimerosal), aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, fluoride, rBGH, and Bisphenol-A.
Looks like he has a bit more self-reasoning to do...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
The irony is that the majority of non-voters, particularly working class, are perfectly aware of this. But they be the unwashed ignant to the minds of the useful idiots who front for the criminal oligarchy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs-nHQYY6Fg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqBOMBSDQsI&feature=related
"Contesting ignorance is not just the civic duty of the informed, it is also an act of compassion towards those who are not."
i've found that this civic duty is a little like just inviting the see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil monkeys to throw their feces at you. i've also found my compassion in this realm has its limits.
Amen, Brother! I'm at my wit's end with the fools. They deserve what they get.
is that a direct quote from the financial overlords Mariposa? a link would be appreciated. . . *cough*
Amen, Brother! I'm at my wit's end with the fools. They deserve what they get.
Yeah, the rough thing about the barbie-doll culture is that finding one with whom to fall in love is just that much more unclear. y'know, it should be quieter, there should be like a sense one would get that just leads one to them. You can take all the E you want, but it still aint that perfect white light.
'Cos if you're in love, then finding out you're wrong about stuff doesn't matter so much.
Well thought and written. We would do well to put this understanding into practice here at ZH.
Agree. Though I really have a hard time NOT cracking jokes. Me loves to laugh. Bwaaahhahahahah!
And that is an important insight. The unmentioned idea in the article is that of time. As beings that exist in a universe we are all limited in time (whether time is an illusion or not or whether each current moment is just a slice of a pre-existing four or more dimensional spacetime+ construct, fate, destiny and all that). As a direct consequence, we simply do not have the luxury of verifying everything - we must rely on some things as settled facts, wherever we find them, hopefully keeping an open mind to allow change when facts change sir. Which brings me to a second unmentioned idea which is that in addition to statements that can be said to have truth value, ie, can be verified as true or false "objectively", there is a huge category of statements that are expressions of values, which cannot. Which then brings me to the third point which was expressed in the comment to which I am replying, which is that regardless of all this philosophical hoo-haw, perhaps the most important thing not to lose a grasp on is levity. So laugh and clown away. It is healthy.
Yeah, you're right, we can't really hope to know anything.
I'll go back to obeying authority, bleat quietly and turn on Comedy Central.
Thanks.
CH1
The problem I'm having is that most people don't want to know. Certainly that's the case of my boyfriend. Just yesterday he forcefully told me that there are no Obamavilles, that Obama hasn't increased the deficit, that the economy is just fine, and the Fed is a part/branch of the US Government. Oh, and that the stock market 'went up' yesterday. He simiply will not accept as fact anything that doesn't come from and MSM/HuffPo/Rachel Madcow source. BTW, he thinks the Colbert Report and Jon Stewart shows are very clever and informative. How the Hell does anyone get through to THAT?
Find another boyfriend? How'd you like to be married to someone who watches network news and network programming? That would be me.
LOL! I've thought about it.
Thanks for the offer but I think I'm over the whole marriage thingy.
;->
Ooops. I see my sentence structure was quite defective. What I meant was that I was married to the person described. Wasn't making any proposals. Sorry to confuse.
"laughter" and "jokes" that de-humanise are a huge part of the "useful tool" agenda. . .
and most of the one-liners that hang out on the threads here of late, contributing little to the discourse save advertising the group-think credentials of the poster.
Humor can also serve as a source of information, legitimate cultural critique, and as a tool for cultivating solidarity.
I'll dehumanize a TBTF banker and not lose too much sleep over it if you know what I mean. Thing is, once I have given myself permission to do that, the slope gets slippery. Hard to navigate this terrain, but I would rather laugh than not.
I understand what you're defending here, but I would ask what it is you are "laughing" at, and why. . .
if the frequent thread references by many here to pornographic memes, and the resulting derail of any meaningful posts relevant to the topics, all for the sake of being a part of the "giggle" is of use to you, fine. . . I realise I'm in the minority here in thinking that the overt misogyny celebrated by many on virtually every thread is in itself demeaning to the whole, in that it creates a debased view of intimacy, and females in general. . .
as a mother of a teen boy, that may not be so evident to you, but I wonder, if your son was a young girl, would you maybe be more aware of the cultural story about "her"?
Probably the BEST one who fits this description: H. L. Mencken
The compendiums of his articles are a hoot to browse.
never read that one before. thanks for posting. great quote.
+1000
I will forward to a few friends, who will laugh, and feel sorry for me because I didn't finish my degree, and am therefor lacking the ability to really understand the issues anyway.
I just noticed that you got junked for liking the article, now THAT'S funny.
"Americans are masters of avoiding responsibility for bad assumptions. I have seen middle-aged women cry, actual tears, because they have been proven incorrect on something as simple as the price of dishwashing detergent at the grocery store. I have seen full-grown men throw wild-eyed tantrums and even threaten people with death because they couldn’t handle being wrong about the correct score of a football game. I once saw a man froth at the mouth and shout vicious obscenities for 20 minutes straight because he refused to believe there where more than three ‘Jaws’ movies (I wish ‘Jaws: The Revenge’ didn’t exist either, but I’m not going to have a spasm over it). I have seen little old ladies physically attack people because they were embarrassed to be wrong, not realizing that their response was far more humiliating and self deprecating than just being “mistaken”. I have, indeed, seen the glory of overgrown babies in action."
Jesus! What kinds of freaks do you hang with?
was thinking the same thing. the guy needs to run with a different crowd...
He didn't say these were his friends. This is the kind of stuff you see in various public situations. Try getting out more.
are you one of those humorless, over-reactors he's talking about bob?
and i get out way more than i probably should, thanks.
sorry to have missed your humor. i guess.
no prob.
here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg5ATW2uwjw
Once to get to know the big guy, he's kind of funny.
Just don't mention his girlfriend, Olive Oil.
"Americans are masters of avoiding responsibility for bad assumptions. I have seen middle-aged women cry, actual tears, because they have been proven incorrect on something as simple as the price of dishwashing detergent at the grocery store."
that was my olive. though at issue was the price of spinach, not detergent. so yeah i am a little testy here.
Are you kidding? I saw my father and two sisters in every paragraph in this article. And now I know why I moved 1000 miles away from them 30 years ago. I was their target for every attack because I had the audacity to question stuff... not to fight but just to understand... They haven't spoken to me for five years because they would rather cut me loose than to face some unpleasant realities about themselves, things that even their friends can see.
Now I understand them better because they have been described here. Thank you for writing this article.
Its the same with me. If you really want to get far away, try Kwajalein Atoll. It's a good 5k miles for Kalifornia! I've been here for three years. I'm still lovin' it!
That's where they fire the missiles at isn't it... ???
;-)
Yep. Do you know the place?
:o)
you are not alone.
find comfort in knowing that others, too, must endure the low IQs of challenged family members. avoid them at every juncture as they will make every effort to drag you into their shallow worlds.
WTF
Go back to sleep.. We didn't mean to wake you with relevant discussion..
The term "useful idiot" is a very specific one. It was coined by Lenin and describes Soviet sympathizers who could be counted on to assist the efforts of the Soviet takeover of the world, no matter what lie they had to parrot or atrocity to conceal. They are vile traitors beneath contempt. They have played a large role in our destruction, but our destruction is theirs, as well.
Yuri Bezmenov explains:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlpODYhnPEo
The collapse of the Soviet Union was staged.
http://thefinalphaseforum.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=44
Yuri is a very interesting guy, I recommend watching his interviews and lectures on youtube to anyone. He's got that wacky Russian sense of humour too, which I love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLsi0Ialvxk
Calling all useful idiots!
Bankster history 101 (which is where these people come from):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USGSOViaulc&feature=related
http://www.scribd.com/full/37179258?access_key=key-1cuxpp2jlyrgxlh33vds
The first chronological incident tying these families together, to my knowledge, starts with the passage of the Fed Res Act in 1913, the murder of Sen Louis McFadden, and Rockefeller corrupting Delaware functionaries in order to allow his corporation to exist; prior to that time corporations needed to show they would serve the public interests and were not perpetual. (these are not that secret and can be found with a simple search)
The next incident is the ethnic cleansing carried out in the US during the 1920s which the US supreme court approved (in a rigged case):
Carrie Buck v. James Hendren Bell, Superintendent of State Colony
for Epileptics and Feeble Minded
Citations 274 U.S. 200 (more)
47 S. Ct. 584; 71 L. Ed. 1000
The ruling was written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. In
support of his argument that the interest of the states in a "pure"
gene pool outweighed the interest of individuals in their bodily
integrity, he argued: We have seen more than once that the
public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It
would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap
the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not
felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being
swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if
instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to
let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who
are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that
sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting
the Fallopian tubes.
Holmes concluded his argument with the infamous phrase "Three
generations of imbeciles are enough".
They were unable to carry out the thorough, documented process for lack of database technology. Prescott Bush, Carnegie, Rockefeller foundations were all behind this.
Edwin Black, jewish researcher of the German ethnic cleansing in the 1940s, found their older history when he found the IBM Nazi connection. IBM's database technology was what allowed the Germans to ethnic cleanse you, your sister, brother, cousins etc. That is why the earlier one failed. He wrote a couple of books including Nazi Nexus and War on the Weak. Here's a chat about War on the Weak:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9014940408212321489#
This man also states that there was a connection between the Rockefeller foundation and Mengele's overseer. It's in one of his chats. See, it wasn't just a business connection between Thyssen and Bush; it was part of a much larger ethos and yes, conspiracy.
They were also behind a coup attempt in 1933:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXGUgFXoRu4&feature=share
During the 1950s Prescott Bush ran for the US senate and lost when a last minute rumor linking him with the old Birth Control League (yes, you heard correctly: the BIRTH CONTROL LEAGUE which is shy George HW Bush was called "rubbers" as in condoms when he was in Congress in the sixties pushing this:
Congressional record in the
1960's:
Population Task Force
Among Bush's most important contributions to the neo-Malthusian cause while
in Congress was his role in the Republican Task Force on Earth Resources
and Population. The task force, which Bush helped found and then chaired,
churned out a steady stream of propaganda claiming that the world was
already seriously overpopulated; that there was a fixed limit to natural
resources and that this limit was rapidly being reached; and that the
environment and natural species were being sacrificed to human progress.
Bush's task force sought to accredit the idea that the human race was being
"down bred," or reduced in genetic qualities by the population growth among
blacks and other non-white and hence allegedly inferior races at a time
when the Anglo-Saxons were hardly able to prevent their numbers from
shrinking.
Comprised of over 20 Republican Congressmen, Bush's Task Force was a kind
of Malthusian vanguard organization which heard testimony from assorted
"race scientists," sponsored legislation and otherwise propagandized the
zero-growth outlook. In its 50-odd hearings during these years, the task
force provided a public forum to nearly every well-known zero-growth
fanatic, from Paul Ehrlich, founder of Zero Population Growth (ZPG), to
race scientist William Shockley, to the key zero-growth advocates infesting
the federal bureaucracy.
Giving a prestigious congressional platform to a discredited racist
charlatan like William Shockley in the year after the assassination of Dr.
Martin Luther King, points up the arrogance of Bush's commitment to
eugenics. Shockley, like his co-thinker Arthur Jensen, had caused a furor
during the 1960s by advancing his thesis, already repeatedly disproven,
that blacks were genetically inferior to whites in cognitive faculties and
intelligence. In the same year in which Bush invited him to appear before
the GOP task force, Shockley had written: "Our nobly intended welfare
programs may be encouraging dysgenics -- retrogressive evolution through
disproportionate reproduction of the genetically disadvantaged.... We fear
that 'fatuous beliefs' in the power of welfare money, unaided by eugenic
foresight, may contribute to a decline of human quality for all segments of
society."
During hearings on the Social Security amendments, Bush and witness
Alan Guttmacher had the following colloquy: Bush: Is there any
[opposition to Planned Parenthood] from any other organizations or
groups, civil rights groups?
Guttmacher: We do have problems. We are in a sensitive area in
regard particularly to the Negro. There are some elements in the
Negro group that feel we are trying to keep down the numbers. We are
very sensitive to this. We have a community relations department
headed by a most capable Negro social worker to try to handle that
part of the problem. This does, of course, cause us a good bit of
concern.
Bush: I appreciate that. For the record, I would like to say I am
1,000 percent in accord with the goals of your organization. I
think perhaps more than any other type of organization you can do
more in the field of poverty and mental health and everything else
than any other group that I can think of. I commend you.
This is an excerpt of Bush's unauthorized biography:
http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/
They killed Martin Luther King as his family's wrongful death civil suit against the CIA et al jury said in the late nineties. No MSM covered it. They also killed Malcolm X, JFK and a lot of other people. A credible JFK investigation : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srstQVfVNEM
List of people they've murdered (google their names and their stories will come up):
Congressmen Larry McDonald, Sonny Bono and Larkin
USMC Colonel Sabow
Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Webb
Journalist Danny Casolaro
Ex-mil intel Steve Kangas who wrote the great "Origins of the Overclass" : http://www.scribd.com/full/23098198?access_key=key-gfuw42onruwfrrhw413
US Special Forces Colonels Edward P Cutolo, Baker, and one other whose name escapes me (all in the same incident).
Here's International Committee of the Red Cross investigator David Guyyat on this incident and background info:
http://www.scribd.com/full/23098845?access_key=key-1zc7ubdmfbsl0rixgkfp
As you can see, they are the real drug cartels and here's a good recap of what is known about their activities:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nWXlWTiC5Y
Here's where he first came to light when opposing CIA director Deutch ( a Bush stooge) in a LA townhall after Iran Contra came to light (Ricky Ross is an interesting figure in this case)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5MY3C86bk
Dois Gene "Chip" Tatum who wrote the Tatum Chronicles (very interesting) and whose testimony you can find on YouTube in an interview with 30 year FBI veteran Ted Gunderson (the ones on the beach have more info):
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=tatum+%22Ted+Gunderson%22&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=
This man's testimony confirms the accusations: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=beau+abbott&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=.
Anyways, a good recap in written form of the decades long CIA drug trafficking is Rodney Stich's Drugging America: A Trojan Horse:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22578561/Drugging-America-A-Trojan-Horse-2nd-ed
So, the old Birth Control league became Family Planning after WWII when eugenics became taboo. Margaret Sanger was their shill. I and many others believe the "war on drugs is really their new ethnic cleansing technique:
The "war on drugs" results:
http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=visit&lid=152
How it is done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmgeCeGk--I
The overall picture:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=the+new+jim+crowe+alexander&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=
Keep in mind George HW Bush's intent while in Congress (see above) for this man above any other is the architect of the modern day "war on drugs" (as opposed to Prohibition which was also their little fascist games). Yet, if you can believe it, he founded the Medellin Cartel with Jorge Luis Ochoa and Pablo Escobar.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22allen+rudd%22+%22pablo+escobar%22+bush&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Most of the results are on target.
Ok so now you have some idea of who these people are, where they come from and how they literally get away with genocide. The why is because it's class warfare and lust for empire. The 1960s Great Society "war on poverty" made them rebel following Ayn Rand's (a Rothschild concubine) Atlas Shrugged ethos which also fits with their offshoring (gutting) of the US economy.
Most of the people mentioned on here have YouTube vids and plenty of documentation. Just google them.
Anyways, if you google all these names and situations, read patiently for weeks, you'll get the full picture. Oh, here's another good documentary on the Bushes:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22russ+baker%22+bush+secrets&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=%22russ+baker%22+bush+secrets&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=pky&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivo&source=lnms&tbs=vid:1&ei=hubITNDDKMT48AaYvcEb&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&ved=0CAgQ_AU&fp=30d26a1c0ffaa64e
Or if you keep going down that rabbit hole you might get Springmeiered!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gsnq1qfYLw
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/the_satanic_bloodlines.htm
http://www.kt70.com/~jamesjpn/articles/springmeier-on-todd.html
Oh ocme on. Springmeier went to prison because he got caught robbing a bank.
Interesting strategy to discredit something: By attempting to associate it with something insane through lateral reference such as this, all the while appearing to support it. This is actually quite a well used tactic in intelligence circles.
I think the media has perfected it well too.
They've already destroyed 50 years of my family's hard work and my family as well so I don't give a flying fuck.
Thanks for the links. Greatly appreciate your work to put them together.
No problem. Just wish there weren't so many stubbornly useful idiots (the junkers). I don't ask folks to take my word which is why I use so many sources. There are many more astounding details missing from my off the cuff narrative above but reading the links will flesh it out.
I found that to be well written.. I hope it makes a few people stop and think.. But, they probably won't..
The author gives a hint on how you can help those that can't get out of the hypnotic state by themselves. Challenge'm on something they can understand until they do.
I add: drive them until they reach the "a-ha/eureka" point; you'll notice it, leave it there; allow a little bit of silence and then change the subject.
Never follow up with "I told you so" or something similar because that is humiliating to most hard core idiots (PhD or not) and triggers a protective denial. Then the work is lost and the idiocy sink its root deeper.
Excellent advice, my friend. Thank you.
Indeed... I have brought many to a higher level of awareness.. I (like the author) remember perfectly well, not so long ago, when I would have classified myself as a "useful idiot"..
I agree that you must approach others on the same level and do not elevate yourself to an authority and/or master of information but a simpleton that has stumbled upon another view.. Approach is everything..
You cannot fix stupid. This is the reason a handful of people run the world. Keep the sheep either entertained or angry at "the others".
The world is divided pretty evenly between 2 groups of people, those who are genuinely stupid and those who act stupid(+ an incredibly small minority that doesn't)
Naw, I always thought the world was divided into two groups of people, those who divide the world into two groups of people, and those who don't.
Wait! No! It's: the world is divided into 10 groups of people - those who understand binary, and those who don't...
Sorry dude, but denial, ego, brainwashing and mind control are my gig here on ZH. I was here first so go find your own sand box.
Move along, nothing to see here. :>)
Lol. I almost mentioned that that was your gig..
LOL... It didn't have your signature, but it certainly had your content.. :)
My ego has been so severely crushed that I'm slipping deeper and deeper into denial. Time to let my conditioning and indoctrination take over.
Now where's that damn TV remote control? Time for some blissfully soothing alpha wave treatments. Thank GOD for TV. The quicker picker upper. :>)
Did you drink your 8 glasses of flouride water yet?
You know, that might just be my problem. I actually have the unmitigated gaul and audacity to filter my water using two dissimilar methods. Can you believe that? Not only don't I drink the Kool-Aid, but I don't even drink the damn water.
Are there some flouride supplements I can pick up at the local CVS?
Which begs the old adage, "ever since I gave up hope I feel better"....or maybe Woody Allen's quote is better:
"More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
Got an extra seat on the couch by your TV? I'll bring suds.
Actually find CD's posts more focused.
LOL
That's because I spend 6 frigging weeks writing them. A snail works faster for God's sake.
My first wife always told me slow was better. My second wife is reaping the benefits of that lesson. :>)
Wish I had time for that. I have to write and publish in my day job to keep the paymaster happy...
LOL
Our basement "Fight Club" wouldn't be the same without your consistently simple, yet profound, expositions.
AH, CDs ego is still alive! "Dont mess with my truth!" AS we both know, nobody can own the truth.
You did see the smiley face and catch the self depreciating humor, right?
BTW, would you remind us again of your youtube ID. I lost the link and my memory has failed me, as have other things in life. :>)
ooooh controversial.
While your thesis is undeniably true, for some people, IMO greater discussion of why people are like this would increase your odds of reaching them. For example, explaining how cognitive biases (such as confirmation bias) work.
Simply describing the problem will leave the hardened ignorant merely confused, bored and angry.
"why" is the key. we are not abstract thinking machines, we are great apes. or not-so-great, if you prefer. hang out with the snow monkeys in the central park zoo for a while. they aren't great apes, but they're close enough.
Or to put it more succinctly: Americans are brainwashed morons
The Matrix is not your friend Neo.
LOL
I promise I'll finish reading this post later, but I've got to go fix a pretty big screw-up of my own (it's going to take two days to fix). Yesterday, I was really inclined to blame others (you rushed me, you interupted me, etc.).
Your first few paragraphs reminded me to man up.
Thanks.
You just did.
WTF?
Silver bitchezzz...
Cam Newton Heisman bitchezzz...
Thanks Tyler, my wife called me that this morning and it hurt a little. Now that you've used I feel better now.
She called a logically useless idiot, not to be confused though with idiot who is logical.
The point is I'm happy being an idiot. Everyone should have a place in society. I just had an epiphany (idiots don't have epiphanies - hmm) I'll write a book called epiphanies for idiots a compendium of uselessly illogical idiocies.
I had to use a calculator for the captcha - sorry. Am I kicked off the island now?
I wanted to chime in before the morning got to busy. Didn't know where to post so I thought I'd use this sticky.
Gold, obviously like everything else will be range-bound today ahead of the "big announcement". As mentioned last week, 1365 will be defended at all costs by the EE as they desperately try to buy time. Blythe feels that IF they can hold 1365, they'll have painted the daily chart with a head-and-shoulders top and that should be enough to keep gold in a box for quite a while. You can see it already this morning. Gold again tapped 1365 only to be immediately beaten back by an avalanche of paper gold sell orders.
So, the question is, what happens this afternoon? I fully expect a "sell the news" type of event, at least in the very short term. I would imagine that the quick reaction will be a sharp $ rally and selloff in gold, if anything because Blythe will be waiting with an abundance of sells to overwhelm the bid right around 2:20. Some other nervous machines will kick in and gold may drop as low as 1325-30 pretty fucking fast. Blythe will then, cautiously, sit back, cross her fingers and pray.
At that point, I expect the buyer(s) of size to appear, as if on cue. Gold turns and then rallies sharply back to 1350 or so. From there, let the QE news go global and sink in for a while. Gold rallies more tomorrow and finishes up for the week. A close above 1365 on Friday will be enough to cause major headaches for Blythe and her minions.
If I'm right and all of this plays out somewhat accurately, gold will trade through 1400 sometime next week and then on to 1500 by 12/10/10.
Thanks Turd for the sanity check.
Silver to 31 by Friday or Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, or...
I don't care because I don't trade PM's I own them. My grandpappy did to during the depression and unlike the stupids I bought PM's instead oof rental properties. Now I buy rental properties for a coin or 5.
Again, dont; care because I ain't selling till James Turk tells me too. And maybe not even then...
Here's to ya's.
Rock on Bitchez. Just make sure you mark your orange "x" in the yard where you bury it. Jesus I lamost forgot where I did. Christ the panic, the panic.
Then I remembered that I buried beside the dead squirrel I found. (Dpes that make me stupid for using Sparky the Squirrel?) Then I felt better.
I was thinking last night about the POG after the Repubs took over the house. Will this mean RINO's of the world that bought gold will now think everything is OK and will sell their holdings to profit? I am thinking a pretty good dip should come our way for a buying opportunity. Obviously this isn't a technical analysis, but the following of the herd mentality.
When confronted with a truth outside of his established world view, he almost short circuits. He has lived most of his life with the ideas and propaganda of others slogging around in his skull. To be faced with the possibility that all of that time, energy, and devotion, was worthless, is almost too much to bear.
I don't think many of the Tea Party have had their epiphany quite yet as it relates to the nature of money. When I did, it took nearly a year for me to stop being so angry at the lies that were drilled into my brain and the fact that I accepted them with such faith.
When that day comes from a percentage greater than 10% of the population, watch out. Until then, enjoy the side shows. They make for great people watching.
"by Dr. Richard Head "
Strange you don't sound like a "Dick Head" to me.....
There is the one thing I hate about blogs. Unless someone specifically points out their sarcasm in cases like your statement, I can't seem to determine whether or not a statement is sarcasm.
Sorry[sic] sarcasm in comment.....
Much better, but I don't see how my comment puts me in my dickhead territory. Do Glenn Beck followers understand why they were purchasing gold and that said purchases were NOT just a way to say FUCK YOU to the dems or do they understand the nature of money? It was really just a question, not a statement.
<s/> = Sarcasm ON
</s> = OFF (...or End)
Just the OFF designator at the end of your rant is usually sufficient
;-)
Is there such a thing as snarkasm?
Do we need snarkasm off and on designators? :-)
We can do any sort of -asm you like... ;-)
... <org/>
1326.50, just as you said. . . it's climbing up again, 1337 as I type. . .
really appreciate your daily posts on the gold manipulations Turd, the reasoning, the agenda. . . makes watching the charts, and the accompanying news & opinions around the subject, resonate with depth, instead of just flat numbers.
a great example relating to the article above - one needn't be a "goldbug" to watch with interest what is going on relative to the gold market, and your posts add to the subject because they illustrate without non-sense.
Thank you for the kind and much-appreciated compliment.
This is a strange opinion piece.It starts off sounding like an angry, ego driven rant, then winds down to a mild solution, basically saying that it is our duty to fight ego 1.0 with ego 2.0. I understand the burden of knowledge, having spent over 15 years (and I'm under 35), reading everything there is to read on every topic I can find. I know all too well that the system itself is flawed, which brings out the flaws in everyone within it. It seems easy to shield yourself behind the knowledge that your knowledge is greater than 99% of everyone out there, but that always leads to anger and frustration.
I mean, I'm not necessarily a spiritual person, and not at all religious, but isn't there a point point where knowledge can take you no further, and instead of looking outward, you have to look inward. How about the value of meditiation, yoga, gardening, sungazin, volunteering, etc. There has to be a line where telling everyone how wrong they all are has diminishing returns. It seems that when you go past that line, and you see everyone around you as sheeple, then you're no different than the Fed, you're just using different metrics and statistics to draw different conclusions on how the sheeple need to be controlled.
The point I'm trying to make is that this article just seems like a lot of whining that you're not the dictator. I don't see very many useful solutions to the extensive problems that are illustrated so thouroughly on this site. At some point you have to become a leader who shows people a better path rather than telling as many as possible that the path they are on is sure to lead to suffering, and then walking away proudly. That's what Limbaugh and Beck already do.
I like Chris Martenson's blog becuase he takes time to post articles about forming community, being a positive activist, all while point out the pitfalls that line every persons' path.
At the risk of sounding trite and referring to something that is "over-cited" but "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" has this as an important theme. I have often been caught in my own accelerating spiral of knowledge search and acquisition. What comes from this, IMO, is a discovery that the cacophony of so called information now available on the internet is so confused and contradictory that one has to, as you say, take time to derive some truth first hand, from the observed physical world. Humans did not evolve in an environment of virtual ideas, so I think our sanity requires something tactile to support this part of our brain. This might be why we like war so much, and is certainly why we like food and sex so much.
Getting pissed off gets people's attention. Like flipping off the grannies at the polling places, it shatters their reality.
"flipping off grannies" merely confirms their perceptions of an immature populace that revels in its ignorance.
+10
Great book. Can't over-cite the relevant, IMO.
What's your criteria for what you consider 'knowledge'?
The more you find out the more you discover how little you know.
Epistemological spiral of skepticism... time for the electro-shocking back to reality?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K18p1tDHtxI
Regards
+10
Well said. We would all benefit from learning about the universe in each of us.
Useless article. Not saying you're an idiot though...
I respect your position, but what is useless to you may have value to others. I liked the article, I found it useful.
Useless comment. Not saying you're an idiot though...
useful idiot = anyone who dedicates their life to learning and mastering things only applicable to the current social structure: Law, Politics, Finance .
Cliff Claven?
Sounds like every media interview I've watched in the last 20 years. The one thing that is never allowed is for the interviewee to challenge the interviewer.
I liked this article.
This is one of the best posts I have ever read. I printed it and read it to all my classes.
Looking over the comments, this post has really been a divider. It seems you love it or hate it. Very interesting food for thought. Hope you are doing well.
I think quite a few people were tweaked by it, and are defending their stances.
Very reflexive comment CH1. The article just became more artful with those few keystrokes. The article is, in itself, an attempt to confront useful idiots by confronting their fuzzy logic in such a manner that they cannot back out of it. Won't serve that way for all, but some. This is actually the place where compassion is the most important of all, for oneself. When you see it in yourself and find a way to forgive it, the shame disperses. Then you can have patience for others because you have literally been there and done that.
Nonclaim, up thread, said something very similar.
Anger, for lack of a better term is "good". Revolution is the changing of societies season. Change will not come from the entrenched, the masses will not rise until they have no choice.
Embrace the tyranny, it is the vehicle to revolution. We are heading for the cliff and power will shift only after we have wrapped it around the tree. So I welcome the tree, it a prerequisite for a small window of opportunity to change the hands of control, to move the line in favor of freedom.
Fear is control, and they want you to fear the train wreck, but the train wreck is our only hope of salvation.
according to this article, you would think nobody got fired last night.
Though I agree completely with the main thrust of this argument, I think the situation is hopeless- for every useful idiot converted to something more enlightened, another 10,000 emerge from the American education complex.
I like this article generally, and specifically the part about people ingesting poisons daily because the government tells us it's all good.
I have a cousin with a PHd in chemistry who I have always admired as a bonafide genius, yet most of the family considers him a boorish nerd. Years ago, I remember a family gathering at which he somehow got onto the subject of deodorants and anti-perspirants, breaking down their general chemical makeups one molecule at a time and describing the distortions in trials and study regarding the long term cumulative health effect of their absorptions and physiology. He cleared out the room quickly, partly due to his discourse and partially due to the fact that he doesn't exactly sport the odor of a blooming rose. But he made an informed case and I told him so.
It was my first lesson on the importance of always challenging generally accepted " wisdom " and I never forgot it.
People are so fucking stupid, and yes it is partly their conditioning. But it's your own goddamn fault if you are dumb now that we have the internet.
not to mention...uhhh....libraries. you've heard about them; you know, they're the free book rental places....c'mon....anyone?
As an ex-librarian and a linear thinking print chauvinist in this multi-media time, I began thinking of the useful idiots in the book world. One particular little tome that I came across in the 60's 'Mind at the End of its Tether' was written by the Fabian socialist H.G. Wells on his death bed. It has always haunted me that as he lay dying his last thoughts were 'what if everything I ever knew or even thought is wrong'. Nice to know there was a little rather late coming retribution for all the trouble he helped to propagate with his voluminous screeds.
I think there is something missing from this definition of useful idiot: a subject or field of expertise. I may qualify as a useful idiot in the realm of finance or even politics by this definition, but I am no idiot, and I'm doing a lot of productive and proactive things to advance my own field, computer science. Hammers... nails..
I don't think this is about the division of labor. We all have our talents and areas of expertise. The issue comes about when we are not willing to learn about something new before we form iron-clad opinions. It also means finding clever new ways to do our jobs more easily or efficiently, or to understand how somebody else does his or her job, or to make sense of the daily headlines. A healthy knowledge-base is an evolving entity that is continuously updated by fresh information. I see my own knowledge as an unfinished jig-saw puzzle. Every day I find new pieces of info that I fit into the overall pattern, a corner here, an edge there, a non-descript piece that seems to fit over there... Some things are pretty clear and complete, other things have more holes than a screen door. But every day I find new stuff to ponder. Will I ever be an expert in fields outside my profession? Probably not. But can I understand lots of things.
You and I, my friend, are no idiots as long as we keep our eyes and ears open.
Open. One of the hardest things in the world to do. Kicks my ass daily.
To paraphrase Henry Ford:
Thinking is one of the hardest things in the world to do - that is why so few people do it.
I think this may apply to your situation as you outlined above:
That should make her day, LOL !
Just got finished reading this: http://www.amazon.com/Logical-Leap-Induction-Physics/dp/0451230051, whose concepts, if not always its specific contents, I found to be mostly obvious. It's strange how many people need everything spelled out for them, even when you'd swear they already know it. Not implying you are one of those people, but you appear to be used to spelling things out for people who are. I'd not disagree with you though. Fair enough.
Ron Paul for President.
Never give up. Never give in.
apparently ron has a lot to learn.
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/04/22/rand-paul-and-israel
bruno can be interesting but he's short on answers and needs a good editor.
Brilliant piece! Thank you!
Thanks for this post, Tyler. I could really relate to it; I ran across the clowns you refer to when I was a young man. Not so much now, though. Now I am much older and you don't run across infantile college comedians in corporate America very much. Unfortunately, they have grown up, matured, and become senior executives. They are just as impervious to facts. You can tell them that Path A will save the company millions and Path B will cost millions, present irrefutable facts, and they will choose Path B because of some self-assured and totally wrong or risky assumption, just as you describe. Sometimes they will choose Path B just because they don't want to hear it from you personally: telling unvarnished truth is perceived as a career-limiting act of aggression. But, if some other former comedian told them they ought to move to Path A, for totally wrong and misinformed reasons, then they'd do it.
Human nature being what it is, people act in what they perceive to be their self-interest. They hate rocking the boat. They suppress or reshape bad news whenever possible. They shift blame or pretend nothing is wrong. Usually, they get away with it, because anyone who rises to the top is a master communicator and nobody at a lower executive grade dares to challenge them. Tyler, it's frustrating as hell: imagine watching a blustering, know-nothing CEO walk away with over $100 million in executive compensation while driving down his stock price about 95% in two years! I've seen it happen.
Once you get older you will have to conclude that the problem is within ourselves. Human nature is immutable, but it can be mitigated by the development of virtue. If we pursue vice and scoff at virtue we cannot help but wind up in the drink. Perhaps we are hard-wired to wind up in the drink; the history of mankind is nothing but an endless tale of vicious people trampling on the virtuous, until the latter finally get their act together long enough to earn a brief respite before the next onslaught.
think you and I worked at the same firm!