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Perception, Inception and the Trojan Horse Money Meme - Part Three of Four
Perception, Inception and the Trojan Horse Money Meme
Chapter Three of Four
Inception
By
Cognitive Dissonance
The intent of this essay is not to convince the reader of anything other than the need to expand our depth perception of the consensus reality. Consider this essay as an invitation to think free of constraints. In Chapters One (here) and Two (here) we explored perception and how it is intertwined with what we believe is our real reality as well as how our reality is distorted by manipulating our perception. In Chapter Three (here) we explore Inception or the implanting of our basic beliefs and perceptions. Chapter Four (here) discusses a basic roadmap to the expansion of our perceived reality.
Inception
All of the Chapter One and Two discussions of a manipulated and distorted perception of reality have led us to the concept of Inception. For those who may not have seen the recently released movie “Inception” let me give you a brief primer. When you strip away the special effects, action sequences and great soundtrack, what you have left is a basic movie plot that presents us with the perfect analogy for how basic manipulative programming is implanted.
In order to compel an intelligent, wealthy, business savvy and motivated individual to make a business decision that is contrary to his own best interest, in this case to break up a hugely profitable multinational business recently inherited after his father’s death, a team penetrates this person’s subconscious mind while he’s dreaming (and thus more susceptible to ‘Inception’) in order to deeply implant the seed of the belief that his father would have wanted him to break up the business in order to be his own man. Once embraced, this germinating false belief leads the implanted person to take action that he sincerely believes is his own decision and beneficial when clearly it was not.
Remember this sequence of actions and reactions; a deeply implanted emotional belief or meme which when adopted and embodied by the host, primarily because he believes it is his own intent and desire, leads the individual to make choices that shape his ‘real’ world. This includes actions that are contrary to his best interest and something he would not have done if he had not been manipulated.
While the process of ‘meme’ implanting, or of artificially inducing the inception of a belief or an ideology, appears to be straight forward there is one basic problem. We always know when we are lying to our self even when we don’t wish to admit or acknowledge it. By the same token we always know when a thought or idea is not ‘ours’………at least initially. If someone whispers something in our ear, regardless of our impression of the information, for a while at least we will ‘know’ it is not our own.
In a pure environment uncorrupted by outside influences we always ‘know’ the genesis of our own thoughts, beliefs, comforting lies and half truths. So even in the corrupted and distorted sociopolitical order of today some effort must be made to conceal the intruder from the host. In order to be effectively utilized, the foreign or artificial belief must be buried several layers deep and of the simplest creation. This is why commercial, political and religious thought memes, for example the commercial print advertising seen below, use basic impulses such as sex, greed, ego, hunger, fear etc to deliver the meme package deep into our subconscious mind.
Meme Transplant By going deep into the dark reaches of our mind and by obscuring the original foreign meme under layers of ego, denial and self deception, it is more likely to be embraced and embodied as our own, as a part of us. We make it our own and adopt it as our ‘truth’, thereby leaving us with no reason to reject it as foreign or unwanted. The concept of deep meme implantation is similar to finding an organ transplant donor who is a decent match to the recipient so that the body will be more likely to accept the foreign organ as its own and not reject it as an invader or imposter. Once accepted, the body then treats it as its own and begins to feed, repair and defend the organ just like any other. It is now my vital organ and essentially always was my organ. That’s the theory at least, while in practice organ transplant is much more complicated. But contrary to what you might think, controlling human emotion and perception is much easier when those who manipulate have thousands of years of experience doing so and we are already part of a massive and complex thought meme control system. It’s not like base meme’s are being created from scratch on a daily basis. Our beliefs and ideology have been created, maintained, changed and morphed over thousands of years and the process is ongoing. Slap a wig on yourself and you’ll notice a difference. But the slow growing nature of your hair means the ongoing change is accepted as natural and as your own, therefore no need to refute its basis in reality. In fact as part of our conditioning we are trained to call it progress, growth, nature or natural, thus the basis for accepting manipulated change is already built into the control system. Once you begin looking down the rabbit hole there is no end to the manipulated perceptions of reality we experience to say nothing of the layers upon layers with intertwined cross connections. In the movie “Inception” the main character used a small metal top to help him determine whether he was back in the ‘real’ world or still dreaming. When he needed to verify his whereabouts he would pull the top from his pocket and set it spinning. If it kept right on spinning and spinning he knew he was in an alternative reality dream. But if the top slowed and then tipped over he was assured he was back in the ‘real’ world where ‘normal’ physical rules applied. Unfortunately it’s not so easy for you and me to distinguish between illusions since we have no base reference from which we may compare. All we know is where we are now; a place we are assured by our masters is the one and only reality. Under these circumstances nothing can be trusted as ‘real’ until we undergo an honest and thorough vetting by looking deeply within. There is simply no other way to determine what is true and real when distortions are piled this high.
My Reality Right or Wrong
Think about how deeply and unconsciously we identify with entities we dislike or even hate. Even though we may reject the government and its actions, how many times have we said ‘my government’ or ‘our troops in Iraq’ or ‘my bank’ or ‘our congressional representatives’ or ‘our President’? While the reader may brush this off as simply a casual usage of the collective and cultural ‘we’, it does illustrate how deeply embedded these memes are in our daily lives. Love the sinner (country/nation), hate the sin (corruption, manipulation etc) keeps us running on the tread mill.
We live in an insane world with its ongoing Ponzi operations, various wars of distraction and resource taking and the endless cycle of ‘we the people’ consistently allowing actions to be taken in our name that are not in our best interest. At times the present day insanity feels like we’ve been invaded by brain sucking body snatchers. How many times over the last few years have you resisted the impulse to pinch yourself to see if you were dreaming?
Push past the obvious reasons for this insanity, for example the deliberate structuring of a social order that creates internal and external conflicts of interest that to the average person is essentially a trap. Instead see that the process of ‘meme’ implanting begins at birth and continues until we die. Our ‘reality’ is in part an artificial creation that only feels ‘real’ because we know of no other. One cannot see outside the box unless one recognizes we are in a box and that we are capable of recognizing what ‘outside’ would look, feel and sound like if it were ever presented to us.
This is similar in concept to the missing keys spoken of in Chapter One which were always where we eventually found them to be from the very moment we began our search. But we initially failed to find them ‘there’ because in our mind they weren’t supposed to be ‘there’. In our known reality the keys were supposed to be where we constantly went back to look for them, which is why we repeatedly looked on the corner table or the nightstand or in the loose change bowl.
We were perceptually blind to other reality possibilities, other potential key locations, even though light that reflected from the keys was actually hitting our retinas as we looked directly at them and then passed by. We sincerely believed we really were searching everywhere when in fact we kept mentally and physically returning to where they ‘should’ have been.
While we insisted to anyone who asked that we were trying to find our keys and that we were looking everywhere, this really wasn’t the case. We continued to believe that we would eventually find our keys right where we believed they should be. Thus in our mind, a mind captured by a thought meme, we could not ‘see’ the keys until we capitulated and began to expand our physical search and opened our minds eye to other potential locations. Once we opened our mind to the possibility that the keys really were lost, thus they could be found anywhere and not just where we believed they should be, suddenly we ‘found’ the keys. The confining and blinding thought meme was broken.
The keys were not hiding from us. Rather we were hiding from them in the sense that our closed mind, our narrow worldview, couldn’t see any other possible or potential reality other than what was already recognized as ‘real’ in our minds. This is how our eyes could pass over the keys lying on the counter several times, but not register them in our present reality as physical matter in the shape and form of keys. We simply don’t recognize or acknowledge as ‘real’ that which is impossible or even highly unlikely, our single biggest flaw since it is our beliefs that determine what is or is not possible. At least in our mind, perception is reality.
This is why I constantly say that we ‘make’ our own reality and that perception is reality. This also means that the potential for limitless alternatives to, or expansions of, our present reality may already be ‘here’. Only we cannot see, feel or sense them because either we ‘know’ they aren’t here or we believe they shouldn’t be here because we have been conditioned to believe the one and only ‘realty’ is already present and all around us. Since the observer determines what is real or not, thus ‘real’ is relative to the observer’s state of belief, this is how several realities can co-exist at the same time. The Ponzi is ‘real’ in millions of minds even though it is not ‘real’ in mine.
Seeing, Thinking, Living Inside the Box
This is a terribly difficult concept to grasp when one views it with a closed or narrow mind. But I don’t use these words to insult the reader because by definition since we all live inside an artificially created box, a shared alternative reality thought meme, we all posses a narrow or closed mind to one degree or another. Closed is the definition of a mind that has been conditioned to see or believe only that which we have been repeatedly told and reassured by science and authority is real and true.
I assume the reader can see the self fulfilling closed loop circular logic of this concept. We believe something is real because we are told by an overwhelming majority that it is real, a majority who learned what was real from the prior majority. This reality is then confirmed by a scientific process that will only prove something is real if it can be measured by instruments we are told will only measure what is real. Thus if something is not measured by the instruments it can’t be real since our instruments can only measure reality. Finally, all that we believe is real is confirmed to be real or not by the thought meme authorities who are the high priest of reality, who in turn manipulate the social order that is the control system that tells us what is real.
How many times have you heard disturbing news or information that is outside your perceived present reality and you found it difficult to fully believe until it was confirmed by an authority, be it a spouse, friend, parent, government official etc? For example, in 2003 I was told by a stranger on the street that the Space Shuttle burned up on reentry. So does this mean that if there were no confirming authority available we would continue to disbelieve this very real (albeit disturbing) reality? Or would we seek out some other authority for confirmation that our reality had changed?
Personally I didn’t fully believe what I had been told until I turned on the radio and confirmed it from an ‘authoritative’ source. Consider how dependent we are upon external authorities to tell us what is real and what is not. Why do we need any external authority to affirm our reality when the ultimate authority lay within us? Maybe this is because our reality isn’t ‘real’ and the only mechanism sustaining the illusion is our dependence upon outside authorities to ‘make’ it real. We already outsource our emotional state or condition, saying “you make me happy” or “don’t make me mad” or “he made her angry”. We surrender our emotional sovereignty so why not our reality sovereignty?
We have been thoroughly conditioned to percieve our shared reality in a certain manner that is in direct contradiction to what our inner self knows to be true. This inner tension, this cognitive dissonance, is painful and to relieve this pain we seek constant external assurance that what we perceive as real is in fact ‘real’. There is a constant conflict between our shared reality and our inner knowing. Since we are conditioned to believe only in our shared reality, we seek confirmation from that shared reality that it is real. Said differently we are asking the liar to prove he is not lying or to confirm he is telling the truth. This is insanity and why our world feels so insane at times.
We create the proof we need in order to believe our reality is real. We live in a dream world that is self sustaining, self proving and always self correcting. In order to cope and adapt to this growing insanity, as outside the box unexpected or surprise events continue to intrude, temporarily destabilizing our own artificially created reality, we quickly attempt to incorporate them into our shared and individual reality as we would the ringing telephone into our dream.
As Real as Real Gets
It’s becoming clear to me that the majority is the sole arbiter of what is and is not real since the majority determines which (cognitive) tools are used to authenticate our own reality. And the mind of the majority is captured by a relatively small group of official and unofficial thought meme authorities who I have labeled in the past as the (official) keepers of the public myth.
As a defense mechanism, when nonconforming components of an alternative reality are recognized by individuals or very small groups, these people are perceived to be a threat to the majority and their controllers. When this occurs, the controlling thought meme authorities quickly call it blasphemy and the heretics are labeled crazy or insane. This is often expressed by calling those who are denouncing the present shared reality as ‘conspiracy theorists’, ‘terrorists’ and ‘radicals’.
Our current inherently unstable and rapidly destabilizing reality, one that is not based upon true and honest creation that springs from deep within the majority, is very susceptible to disturbances from more ‘pure’ components. Think of these disturbances as applying reverse leverage to the insanity. To compensate, as the Ponzi destabilizes from the population’s growing doubt and the Ponzi’s self destructive flailing, more and more Ponzi leverage must be applied just to maintain the status quo, thus the need for the exponential escalation of the Ponzi as it nears its end.
The Ponzi is nothing more than an aberrant alternative reality meme that is spiraling out of control while sucking up all available energy within reach. One doesn’t need to fight it head on in order to destroy it. In fact to do so just strengthens it by validating it as ‘real’. We just need to unplug, to default on our buy in and to seriously question or reject the false reality. This has the effect of reverse leveraging the insanity and starving it into rapid self destruction.
Decoupling one compliant mind has the same reverse leverage effect as the Ponzi gets from adding several new compliant minds because the additional minds are needed just to maintain the same head of steam. A decoupled mind, meaning a mind that is proactively suspicious of and questions all aspects of its present reality, is essentially a rebel mind and acts as a counter virus to the Ponzi worm.
Think about the scene in “Fight Club” where Tyler Durden kisses the narrator’s hand, then pours lye on it to initiate the chemical reaction that burns the skin. To pour water on it would just make the chemical burn worse, the equivalent of fighting against the present consensus reality meme using tools provided by the Ponzi that are useless since they can only be used to lose in a rigged game. There is no ‘winning’ because we aren’t using effective tools. But using the Ponzi’s tools does legitimize the Ponzi. Essentially any force applied directly against the Ponzi is redirected back against us.
But pour a little vinegar on the lye and the chemical burn instantly stops, which also is what happens when a mind decouples. Because the chemical reaction ceases there is nothing there to fight. Instead of wrestling with an overwhelming ‘reality’, just remove its power by delegitimizing it. After all, it is you and I who legitimizes it on a daily basis with our participation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg3m8wRVXWg Youtube link to Tyler using lye on the narrator's hand.
On a side note, for the most part we don’t recognize the power words and language have over us and how they are used to control, both in obvious ways such as using the term ‘conspiracy theory’ to disarm and mock someone who questions the present reality, or in very subtle ways, such as to twist the meaning and intent of words as was wonderfully described by George Orwell in his masterpiece ‘1984’.
While we can all describe in general terms what propaganda is and how it is used, very few of us understand how the basic component of propaganda, language itself, is a form of control. Language is an insidious controlling meme because it has been (and continues to be) constructed using deeply hidden subliminal messaging which reaches far deeper into our minds than we realize. Language is a captured tool of the magicians in the same way the financial system is a captured tool of the Ponzi.
Money is a Trojan Horse Thought Meme
Have you ever given much thought to what ‘money’ really is? I’m not talking about those physical pieces of cotton and paper in your wallet or purse, but rather what money is psychologically and emotionally to you and me. Money is a thought meme or belief, a powerful symbol in a world of hidden symbols, a universally agreed upon representation of something else that supposedly contains the ‘real’ value, initially your expended labor.
However, while intellectually we understand that it’s just paper and therefore of little ‘real’ value, when we posses physical money or we see digits on a computer screen or paper statement, what we ‘see’ is what we can exchange it for, not what it is, the ultimate in psychological camouflage. Money is a genuine imitation real thing, an alternative reality representation of our ‘real’ expended labor. It is real and not real at the same time, thus the most powerful tool of the reality distorting wizards, warlocks and magicians.
Money is nothing more than a concept, an idea or belief. We believe in money so thoroughly and completely that it has become ‘real’ through force of conscious and subconscious will alone. How money should be seen, as a mental virus that has infected us all and as a shared illusion or hypnotic trance that distorts and influences our lives inside our box, would immediately change our perspective of everything if only we could maintain this clarity inside the raging storm of insanity.
Money is a Trojan Horse thought meme, an alternative reality virus or worm similar to invasive computer code that controls our minds from within. Money subverts and molds us into acting in ways that are often contrary to our own best interest. What we think of as money is actually an inception belief or meme buried so deeply into the collective consciousness, and then reinforced so completely by our experienced reality, that we have integrated it fully into our body/mind reality.
We have assimilated the money meme so thoroughly into our collective and individual consciousness that it is nearly impossible to imagine life without it. We believe this with complete and unquestioned faith in the same manner we believe it is impossible to live without our lungs or heart. Since we don’t consider ‘real’ those things we perceive to be impossible or just plain improbable, via reverse psychology, since we can’t imagine living without money, by extension money must be real.
Money is the primary controlling thought meme of the overall social control system, surpassing even that of religion. I have come to believe that the money meme is so corrosive to the human mind and spirit (at least in its present form) that it is slowly destroying us from within while at the same time providing some short term benefits. This destructive force is similar to how some drugs can have a short term beneficial effect while over the long term can and will kill us. For example, steroids can dramatically shorten our overall lifespan while improving it in the here and now.
Once the basic money meme inception was implanted and accepted many thousands of years ago (with hundreds of modifications added along the way) most thought memes that follow are implanted using the money meme as the Trojan Horse delivery package. This sets up an intertwined system of cross affirmations and confirmations validating the new thought meme. Since ‘real’ money is being used to both implant and validate, both the new meme and the old money meme reinforce each other. It’s brilliantly insidious in its conception and implementation and now that the meme is growing exponentially out of control, it is driving us ever more insane at the same escalating pace.
Consider how many stories we’ve heard that describe how sudden wealth from the lottery or other sources has destroyed lives. Or that the pursuit of money compels so many people to forsake nearly everything else in their life. When you dig into these stories you often find that it is said that the person and those around them went mad from the influence of the money (meme). Greed is a form of extreme emotional excess brought about by an obsession or trance like state revolving entirely around a concept of ‘money’ which itself is little more than a substitute for things we believe are ‘real’ in the first place.
Greed in particular and money in general is an obsessive compulsive personality disorder of the most insidious type. Because the concept of money is an integral part of our social order it is accepted as part of the overall illusion. Since we must have money in order to survive, we must work in order to obtain money. If we wish more money, we must be more highly ‘trained’ in very specific and narrowly drawn worldviews defined as professions and occupations. We self identify ourselves with money, thus proving the assimilation is complete. The most common question asked is “What do you do?” meaning what is your capacity to earn money.
The money meme is infectious and all consuming, occupying a greater portion of our waking thoughts than sex. Money is the central authority that confirms and reinforces everything else we are told is real, therefore whomever or whatever controls money in effect controls our reality. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, is quoted as saying “Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” Power of this magnitude does not come from guns, but from control of the mind at its inception level.
Authorities are Authors of Belief, Lies and Thought Memes
Consider for a moment our insatiable desire and desperate need to be told by authorities what is real and what is not, what is true and what is false. Why are we so dependent upon external sources for affirmation of truth and reality when the ultimate authority lay within? I contend it is because more and more the reality we live within is twisting and distorting well beyond the ability of the control mechanism to explain or justify it. This leaves us in a state of constant confusion and uncertainly which in turn compels us to seek affirmation and confirmation that our present reality remains ‘real’.
Our minds are beginning to question the basic premises by which we conduct our lives and we are now questioning our world, ourselves and the artificially implanted memes. In fact we are beginning to question everything including the inception or genesis of our most basic beliefs. The collective has begun to suspect that we are (and have been) living a lie, that a part of ‘us’ is not natural, but in fact a foreign invader. Just as the body creates and then dispatches white blood cells to attack foreign entities in our body, so is the collective mind beginning to attack the artificially implanted meme’s we have been conditioned to believe are real.
And while on the surface it may not yet appear to be happening, more and more people are beginning to awaken and with ever increasing velocity. This is the root cause of the increasing external conflicts, economic depression, religious extremism, political infighting and corruption etc. The symptom list of the awakening is endless. Our world, our consensus reality, appears to be coming apart at the seams because our belief in the consensus reality is being withdrawn through the collective’s increasing doubt and disbelief.
However, while we are now increasingly questioning our present reality, we have very little understanding of what’s really going on at the conscious level. We are so disconnected from our inner being that the alarms and warnings we’re receiving are coming through as little more than unease and blind fear. This in turn is perceived as nearly the same message as the external insanity is broadcasting.
Our blindness and inability to discern the difference in messages is caused by our narrow worldview and a mind mostly closed to the possibility of alternative realities, starting with the one I call the inner being. We sense something is terribly wrong, but we don’t know what and probably wouldn’t recognize it if we saw it anyway, at least for now.
Destabilized by this reality earthquake we quite naturally revert to our base programming. And that basic impulse is to seek proof and affirmation of the present (crumbling) reality directly from our thought meme authorities and public myth generating leaders and guardians. This is why we see an increasing bifurcation between those who blindly follow and those who increasingly question. Sides supporting different realities are forming.
In effect we are trained to default back to our source code for error correction protocols. This is why so many seemingly intelligent and aware people are becoming increasingly passive and infantile when facing ‘truths’ that are frighteningly contrary to their belief system aka thought memes. Remember that the terms ‘belief system’ and ‘worldview’ are simply other phrases used to describe the artificial box we all live within. So while people are waking up, they are also extremely disorientated and thus particularly vulnerable to additional programming and manipulation. While the body may be that of an adult the mind is that of a frightened child looking for emotional comfort and reassurance.
There is no doubt that in this state, while some minds will be re-assimilated back into the hive mentality of the present consensus reality, many more will not. For this reason alone consistent and relentless truth speaking, while apparently a failure because of little visible results, is actually slowly working to wear away centuries of mind control and conditioning in the same manner a slow steady drip of a faucet grinds away at the porcelain surface of the kitchen sink. This is the reason blogs such as Zero Hedge must be supported and its alternative realty thought meme spread wide and far. The decoupling builds its support one mind at a time until suddenly it goes exponential and the façade crumbles.
In Chapter Four we discuss a basic roadmap to expanding our capacity to perceive not only the truth regarding our current consensus reality, but alternatives that already exist.
Cognitive Dissonance
05-11-2011
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"While we can all describe in general terms what propaganda is and how it is used, very few of us understand how the basic component of propaganda, language itself, is a form of control. Language is an insidious controlling meme because it has been (and continues to be) constructed using deeply hidden subliminal messaging which reaches far deeper into our minds than we realize. Language is a captured tool of the magicians in the same way the financial system is a captured tool of the Ponzi."
Antonio Gramasci wrote much of the same thing in his cultural hegemony theory if I recall.
I could write a book on the bastardization of language and the meaning of words...my favorite is "investment", used as a term for agreeing to higher public debt...LOL!
But of course, it all circles back to the haves & have nots in any society doesn't it?
Look forward to your next installment.
Words are symbols, not signs. There is no natural intrinsic connection between the word and what it stands for, what it means, what we call it referent. In fact, the 500 most frequently used words in the English language have more than 14,000 meanings. I.e. the verb “fix has 22 meanings listed, the verb see has 33, then noun light has 18, the noun nigh has 12, the noun ship has 5. SHIP Sails TODAY.
We must always remember that symbols and what it stands for are not the same thing. The flag in not the country: the uniform is not the person, the crucifix, the Star of david, the actor is not the character portrayed, the medal is not the courage, the college degree in not the skill or knowledge.
While I understand what you mean, if this were true, I would not know what you just said would I?
Words do in fact convey what the author or speaker is trying to convey in the larger context of what they are writing or saying.
It is true that the English language has words that sound the same but carry different meaning..this is why knight sounds like night but in the context of what is being discussed, is not thought of as a period of no sunshine.
Which brings us back to something...what prompted your response to me, my allusion to Gramsci or what a real investment is?
This is what CD is talking about I believe ;-)
If the people do not cede the power of the written or spoken word to academic navel gazers, corrupt & vanity smitten politicians or corporate entities focused on sales instead of their own ethics...(collectively known as elites) it will remain the peoples and is understood by all as it always has been.
Words are just memory prompts meant to invoke a concept or image, a meme, that we have resident somewhere in the bowels of our consciousness...
"the bastardization of language and the meaning of words"
The context of words to communicate are used too propagate good or deceive. Intent can be justified anyway the rhetorician wishes. Implied or otherwise. The Matrix construct is entirely made of words.
Which is the point of sharing my favorite "bastardization"...the deception.
First, an "investment" is always a voluntary action and always involves the risk of a loss. One invests to add to their wealth, at the same time knowing that it may cause wealth erosion. To say an investment only carries positive attributes is a lie.
Secondly, an investment requires that there actually be something to invest with, these come from savings. So to have someone say, that using debt (public or otherwise) is an investment, is false and another lie. It is in fact, spending what you do not have.
Thirdly, as a matter of course, debt inhibits the prosperity of the debtor before anything else happens.
So it is a complete falsehood wrapped up in an emotional appeal, which is normal for a professional liar.
You can call it the Matrix of words or whatever you want...but it is obviously deception to any discerning listener and yes, only the one speaking of it knows in his heart whether he is being malicious on first utterance.
On the second utterance the listener then has confirmation he is in fact being malicious or willfully ignorant and can decide whether to become an accomplice to the lie or oppose the deception.
I choose to oppose the deception and it became my favorite example of the bastardization of language itself...or as you say...words.
Regards.
nmewn,
You think too much, which in turn makes my head hurt.
There is nothing you can do to stop this mess, let alone protect your sorry ass, so just stop thinking and go have some fun with the boys and girls. Leave the driving to the magicians and wizards of finance. Life's too short to stand in front of the oncoming tsunami.:>)
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"There is nothing you can do to stop this mess, let alone protect your sorry ass, so just stop thinking and go have some fun with the boys and girls."
LOL...I think its turning, however slowly it seems for us.
Always remember, just like all parasites, they need us, not the other way around. All we can do is keep pickin em off of us and crushing them under our shoe.
And the kids are indeed a joy to be around, full of energy, curiosity, optimism and innocence...like we once were ;-)
Take care.
There was a specific reason why I started Chapter One talking about the joy of watching my children playing with utter abandon. It stirs in us a wonder and natural joy. It's too bad we beat it out of them with our collective conditioning regimen.
I've said in the comment section that play time, which is really imagination time, is so very important to our adult development. Which again is why we condition it out of us. A developing mind is usually not a very compliant mind.
whenever i see kids being rolled around in strollers i feel sorry for the kids and have begun to develop an irrational hatred towards the parents. i keep thinking that the chances are that the childs development will be ruined by their parents forcing the kids to comply to existing society.
i also think that parents will kids < 10 years old should not have a TV or cable at home.
+1 for the allusion to Alfred Korzybski's famous saying: 'The map is not the territory.'
Very well put. I talked about this in Chapter Two. This 'confusion' is deliberate and intentional and serves to disempower us and empower those who manipulate.
CD, nice work.
I think it's fair to say that, in nature, or in "reality", either you are a predator or prey...put another way (a nicer way), everything is useful in one degree or another to something else...whether it's a plant, animal, mineral, etc. This is one of the basics of living on this planet.
What I found interesting after your read is that it got me to thinking that the controllers, whoever "they" are...are actually preying on their own species. Typically, this doesn't happen too often in nature (unless you happen to be a female preying mantis, but that's another discussion all together). So we have the masters preying on their own kind, in a parasitical fashion. It makes me think of the term "sheeple" that is used quite often by the many to distinguish the easy pickings of the human race from the "enlightened" ones. Seems like people recognize the controllers on some level...and are definitely repulsed by it. Nobody wants to be a sheeple.
I guess the main question is, how does a host rid itself of a parasite?
We create our own parasite. In fact we consent to the parasite's presence and abuse. Revoke the consent and the parasite is gone in 60 seconds.
When people consent this, I think it is because there must be an upside. The upside might not be logical or even real for everyone else, but for the host, definitely there is an upside that enables the parasite to exist.
It is like the airport security checks or wire tapping. We allow big brother to invade our privacy because he will protect us from terrorism.
"definitely there is an upside that enables the parasite to exist."
in this case, the upside is protection from a phantom entity that exists in the mass consciousness as a shadow born by the collective guilt of our past and present actions.
I would argue that most people "allow" TSA to feel them up because they do not want to risk going to jail and having to deal with a potentially even more ignorant part of the human population. All our security blanket and the giant ponzi are indeed unraveling. This is a good thing people.
Well, that's an upside too, although with a more negative connotation (avoiding jail).
"Revoke the consent and the parasite is gone in 60 seconds."
Maybe, but only if all 7 billion hosts revoke the consent simultaneously Neo.
The question was.....how to remove the parasite from the host.
The question was not.......could it be done in today's environment.
However the fact that the problem seems insurmountable simply proves that the control system and thought meme is doing an excellent job of defending itself from any effort to remove the parasite. After all, as I said in the essay, we do not consider 'real' something that is impossible or improbable. So we would never attempt to do anything that was not real or that was impossible.
Control system = 1
Population = 0
This is why we need to to clear our minds. Because we never even try to free ourselves and the key is right in front of us.
If you would take the time to read the post again you will see that I clearly state that we don't need to get everyone on the same page. And that the process has already begun and this is why the Ponzi is beginning to come apart at the seams.
Relax CD, if you are a true intellectual, you can take criticism. I read the article. We disagree on your point regarding everyone not having to be on the same page. I would argue that large collective groups of the population do, in fact, have to be on the same page. These groups have to be able to accept the chaos that will follow, they must also accept that, just like in Nature, there will be no promises made regarding their survival. I would argue that, unfortunately, most Americans are by far too cowardly to make this commitment. Perhaps this will change once more people realize what they really have. Specifically, once they realize that physical possessions and money are what your piece articulates. It took europe two world wars to realize this (have they forgotten already?) Of course all of this must fit within the constraints of the physical world. There is a very real carrying capacity for this planet, period. You and I just happen to be fortunate enough (or unfortunate) to be at the top of a delta function. Go ahead and plot the human population over the last 500 years if you want to see what I mean. That time period does not even register in terms of the planet's lifetime.
LOL
I am not a true intellectual. I wouldn't even know what one looks like if I stumbled over him, her or it in the dark. :>)
Perhaps my response was too harsh. I didn't see your one sentence as criticism, but instead as a blanket statement. The only thing the world's 7 billion people have ever agreed upon is the need to eat at least once a day and to defecate now and then. Other than that we all believe we are individuals.
I have read history though and the herd is nearly always moved by a very small group of people. Why do we believe that we must be in total agreement to move ourselves when just a few others readily move us and we rarely agree with each other or our movement while being moved?
My essay is about questioning everything beginning with our most basic assumptions. The first one should be why do we think we must get everyone to agree before we can be effective in making our own change? History proves otherwise.
I think the fear of anarchy is the reason for the existence of control systems.
Hence I doubt these control systems, or mind contorl will ever disappear unless humans attain a state where they can calculate the entire effect of any action.
People who control are conscious of the ways they are controlling the public thought, and the people who are being controlled know that they are being controlled. I doubt its as subconscious as you propose it to be.
Anarchy != Chaos -- Chaos is what people fear.
I am always leery of movies that are required to explain themselves through dialogue for three-quarters of the film and have the action proceed from that explanation.
As in The Matrix, imaginary bullets are no more real than imaginary unicorns. The entire film Inception was just silly, though the special effects, especially the no-grav scenes were wonderful to behold.
Scientists are closer now to proving that our perceived universe is actually a dreamscape, anyway. The major scientific discovery of the next decade or so will be that we "inhabit" holographic space.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203130708.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(illusion)
"The Holographic Paradygm", Ken Wilbur, ISBN: 0877732388
Published 1982 (or thereabouts)
I understand the premise, it just assumes a lot on the part of another's use of free will.
How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but the light bulb has to really want to change.
Same thing here: no amount of programming can truly change our options to use free will, nor will constant bombardment of the Big Lie be able to alter one's fundamental belief system, be it either secular or religious.
Suggestions can be made but it seems the more often I hear the suggestion, the more disgusted I am with it. I am uncomfortable with women being called bitches and hoes, as I believe that putting a 187 on a muthufuckin cop is also wrong. No matter how many more "artists" (just love the euphemisms...) tell me it's okay, the less I believe it.
In the film, the idea for inception was based on his confusion about his relationship with his father. All they did was make another suggestion to his possible belief system, adding another perceptive angle that could have been considered. I would submit that this would only add to his confusion about the true relationship with his dad and would only last as long as the point where he saw the cold, hard numbers about the business.
Upon his father's death, he is more concerned about windmills than last wills. That is an angle based on emotion, purely, but the bottom line would have him put that idea behind him eventually. Business sense and common sense would certainly trump that confusing emotional thorn that he may or not remember a day or two later, simply because it was an emotional rendering of a possible answer- one of many possible answers.
It was an interesting premise but it was much ado about not much, I am afraid. The idea may have worked better with a love story, high school flick or some romantic comedy.
I will say it again. I simply used the premise of the movie as an analogy. I never said nor implied that implanted memes/programing removes free will. I was however implying that it narrows the choices we then use free will to select from. Most of what we call free will is actually freedom to make a choice from a limited menu.
And you are assuming that 7 billion people are like you. They are not. If you feel this essay is speaking to you I would say you are severely mistaken. In fact I would ask you why you would think that my general statements would apply to most of the ZH readership, who consistently seem to be the exception to the mindless herd rule.
Finally I shall repeat what I said at the very beginning of each chapter. I am free thinking and I invite the reader to do the same. If you read carefully, the essay is full of open ended questions that at times appear to contradict each other. I am asking questions in order to trigger a deepening of the readers depth perception.
Nicely put cog.
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
Reminds me of seeing a graph recently that just made my eyes bleed. We all see so many graphs these days that are just mind blowing but this one was like the first time I saw a Fed’s balance sheet graph at the end of 2008. Anyone who saw it knew something irreversible had occurred, and we were not going to be ABLE to go back to Kansas.
Well this graph had the same sort of effect, have a close look at it;
http://www.financialarmageddon.com/2011/04/recovery-redefined.html
Then have a look at these;
http://www.financialarmageddon.com/2011/05/long-and-short-of-it.html
Yep, shitting economic rainbows again ... any day now ... NOT!
And it's just starting, like RIGHT NOW - in 2011.
This is not a drill, 2008 was a drill, this is the real thing, Great Depression v2.0 has finally arrived, and that graph just makes it undeniable. That graph is telling me last week's 'correction' in everything is not just a correction, its the real-deal' just gettin rollin.
At best we have a few months more of MSM happy crappy, and a lot more feel-good dead terrorists hunts and the like to distract from it, and a lot more international meddling and grandstanding.
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
And then well see some more irreversible changes that you have to live with as the new normal.
PS: TYLER: ‘Zero Hedge Reads’ … ‘Financial Armageddon’ is MIA?
I don't know about that complicated stuff, but that "bread" kinda looks like a cock...
And what the hell is on that guy's hand... OMG!!!
CD:
Do you ever think you think too much?
There is a line between "this is unknown" and "this is unknowable". Not sure where it is all the time, but it's there for sure. Some things can't be figured out and there's something right and... bracing... about simplicity.
Hope you don't take offense by me asking. I'm being sincere.
"Yonder Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much...Such men are dangerous..." And they eat bread!!!
I know I heard that one before... it was on last night's "The Tudors" episode, right?
CD is a thinker. I'll give him credit for that.
No.............................I don't think you're being sincere.;)
Let me ask you in a different way. Suppose we live in some electron "Matrix"... it's all a perfect simulation that looks, feels, tastes exactly as it would in the real world defined by matter and fields of force.
Short of some act of God (or short circuit), how will we ever know which we live in?
And if we can't tell, how can it possibly matter which one it is?
A perfect simulation was never a simulation to begin with, but rather the real thing. A simulation is always an imperfect copy of the real thing, usually constructed well enough to fool the untrained eye, but not good enough to ward off a determined effort to see it for what it is. Thus there will always be flaws in a simulation that can and will eventually be discerned.
I am not proposing that we live in a simulation, though the idea is very intriguing. Those who have proposed we are living in a simulation, such as Thomas Campbell, explain quite well how they can already see the flaws in the simulation.
Just an example of our limited ability to figure it all out.
Your statement imples that we are essentially able to figure out if something is fundamentally wrong.
We can't. Life is not like a puzzle with pieces all laid out to put together. The puzzle--the pieces-- grow in number as move in time. Further, the pieces change their shape and the don't fit where they used to. At some point, just accept how fucked it all is and have some goddamn fun for a while.
If we live in Plato's cave I'm all for calling bullshit on the shadows. It ain't that easy.
So your basic premise here is that deep thinkers never accept that it is terribly fucked and that they don't have fun? And that trying to solve seemingly insurmountable problems should not be attempted because they are insurmountable? Interesting.
There were (and still are) so many problems that appeared to be unsolvable over the centuries and amazingly they were surmounted. And I suspect many of the people that overcame them had plenty of fun along the way. ;)
I choose not to rationalize apathy, indifference or never trying at all.
My point is that there are problems that defy resolution, so you ultimately have to deal with not "what is the world like" but rather "how I am to live in a world that I can never completely understand".
One guy lower down (happy with his lot, job that he feels good about, etc.) talked about the good life of simplicity. This is fundamental. It's not apathy to recognize this. It is more important to figure out enjoyment and balance it with responsibility than theorizing about stuff 24/7.
If this is your "craft", so be it. Dedicate your mind to the craft. I polish up math models all the time, but at least I know their place and limits.
However, if you think you can sort all this universe out, you still need need an added dose of some maturity.
You've dumped a whole barrel of assumptions here on the floor jm without any knowledge of me and what I do or don't do with my 24/7 time allotment. Pretty arrogant of you...wouldn't you say?
No more assumptive than to conclude I am apathetic because I know enough to say "I don't know".
Its OK to read the essay jm. It won't bite.
This "I've got it all figured out mentality" lies at the source of so many torubles.
It is at the root of all the silverfishism. People think that they have the solution to all the crap they see, so they just start blindly buying silver "at any price".
Is there a good case for silver and other commodities? Yes there is, of course.
But I also know that manias and the I've figured it all out crowd are the sweetest little whores that Goldman Sachs ever tasted.
Which is why I love you Big Guy! :)
Excellent piece, CD, I throughly enjoyed reading this chapter & intend to check out the previous chapters.
I recommend checking out the TV series "Fringe" for those who have trouble envisioning alternate realities. Personally, I must pinch myself several times a day to verify that what I'm seeing occur is "real". I think the "authors" are pushing the envelope for whatever reason; they're doomed to failure at some point and the whole thing comes crashing down, or we warp into a "separate reality" as described in Carlos Casteneda's writings.
I support any alternate reality in which Pacey, Lt. Daniels and Eric the Midget get together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsVjTyR5enM
smartie,
think of money as a unit of energy. a debt is a given amount of energy promised to someone else at a given flow rate.
my personal theory is that societies/economies collapse when the energy content of the base money unit drops below a critical level. inflation represents a decrease in the average energy content of the base mooney unit and deflation represents an increase in the average enegy content of the base money unit. in these terms an economy and society acts as a thermodynamic heat engine.
-per the adivce from the comments in part 2 of your essay, i am posting while drinking.