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Perhaps a Crumble Rather Than a Collapse – Part Three of Three

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Perhaps a Crumble Rather Than a Collapse – Part Three of Three

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Cognitive Dissonance

 

 

Chapter One may be found here.

Chapter Two may be found here

 

The high priests of the religious cult

When we point to the economic math as proof that the system is doomed, and then claim foul when ‘they’ manipulate the math (for example with understated inflation and unemployment rates or overstated GDP, corporate profits, total employment, growth etc.) all the hidden hands are really engaging in is massive (global) perception management among the mostly mindless minions. They are giving the unquestioning, but willing, a reason to continue to believe and a place to endow their faith.   

But even more important the high priests must preach to the choir for this is where the (new and improved) dogma and doctrine is directly passed on, reinforced and deeply embedded. Perception management must occur among the million or more (U.S. and global) financial professionals who act as local and regional ‘economechanical’ priests and centers of influence (read faith and belief leaders) of the artificial economic reality being created and manipulated in ‘real’ time by the elite.

[‘Economechanical’ is a term I have coined to describe how the economists see the economy as a mechanical engine fueled by interest rates, incentives and stimulus rather than as an emotional organism driven primarily by faith and belief and (emotionally) manipulated by various whistles and bells. See Chapter Two for more details.]

As long as the music still plays on (and by constantly and incrementally changing the tune the music can play for much longer than we think) even if the professional financial priest harbors great doubt about the viability of the system or the ethics of what he (or she) does, he must continue to dance or be left off the dance floor and out of this very financially rewarding (religious) profession. As long as the professional priests continue to dance and lend their perceived credibility and influence to those who might be best characterized as laymen, thus buttressing the layman’s faith and belief, the system can and will limp along for quite a long time.

Not only must the lower level financial professionals buy in and be in sync with the dogma of the promoted financial reality, so too must the upper level of the economechanical hierarchy. Faith and belief in nonsensical ‘truths’ is difficult to maintain in isolation, especially when it contradicts our inner knowing and common sense. The upper echelons (other than the true psychopaths) are not immune to cognitive dissonance and will waver if not steadied and externally supported. Those who are not reinforced from time to time tend to stray a bit and begin to lose faith, particularly when there are locals with pitchforks and torches outside the main gate.

Thus we see the real reason behind high level financial and political conferences such as the recent gathering of the top tier faithful at Davos, Switzerland. Each level of the hierarchy must regularly gather in order to resynchronize with the ever changing alternative reality frequency, which in turn helps to harden the newly created psychological cement that binds together the money meme. This is vital if the farce is to be over powering and able to withstand dissent and disbelief.

This is also the real reason behind the Federal Reserve Board meetings every six to seven weeks. The high priests must gather to conduct cult policy review and hand out holy dispensations and divine guidance to the lower levels of the cult hierarchy while simultaneously engaging in ritual practices to strengthen the money meme, first within the gathered select attendees and then filtered down to the brain washed cult followers and sycophants. Fed speak is at least equivalent to, if not exceeding, Pope speak and anyone who cannot see this is either in denial or just in too deep.     

Lots and lots of wiggle room

If we wish to believe that two plus two equals five or that the answer to life, universe and everything is forty two, then math is no longer a constraining factor upon the present economic system. But the socioeconomic system relies on mathematics to support our faith and belief in the system primarily because we have near complete faith and belief in mathematics and the sciences. In chapter two I questioned the wide degree of wiggle room we afford the sciences, the constant backtracking, correcting and amending that occurs in the so called ‘precise’ sciences, including physics and economics.

But one can see that this wiggle room, these allowed wide tolerances in what is consistently promoted as exact and precise, is actually regularly exploited by the cult leaders to maintain authority while handing down new and ever more fantastical decries and mandates. We observe the same thing in organized religion and various other ‘consumer’ cults. The word of (God, Fashion, Entertainment, Consumer products, fill in the blank) is THIS and must be followed to the letter…….except when it is this, this, that or those over there. Wait, is it Fed Tuesday? Then forget all that, because this right here is now the word of “Ben the Bearded Beneficent”.  

 

Pope of Ponzi

Special thanks to WilliamBanzai7 for this image.

 

In effect when the ‘authorities’ lie and manipulate they are distorting our perceived reality and relying on the fact that our desire to maintain our status quo within the system through our support of the system (the compromised ‘we’ I discussed in Chapter One) will be greater than our desire to know the ‘truth’ of the situation, which all of us know will undermine our faith and belief and the system with it. So help me God we really don’t want to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Jean-Claude Juncker said as much when he stated that when things get serious you have to lie. The authority must lie because most people do not want to hear the truth precisely because that particular truth will undermine the BIG LIE. The official lie in question is actually just one lie within hundreds of deeper lies, all supporting each other like a house of cards. If the authority were to admit the truth, especially when faith and belief is at its weakest, then those who are psychologically dependent upon the entire house of lies would be forced to question everything if this truth were exposed. A crisis of faith is what would result, and the high priests (in this case Juncker) don’t want that to happen when blind unquestioning faith among the dependent believers is all that is holding the economic wreck together.

Based upon my casual discussions with average people everywhere I eat, shop and play, while the details may not be known, most people really do know that things are worse than we are being told. But to truly ‘know’ it, meaning to have it confirmed by an external authority, makes it real and undeniable and something we must now face. There will be no more wiggle room left for us to exploit; the warm dark place denial grows and prospers in. If we live by the affirmation of the external authority, then we die by the affirmation of the external authority. As long as they continue to tell us things are OK we’re gonna believe them…..even if we really don’t.

Once we ‘know’ something it is now ours to own and deal with. Since we cannot un-know something, only deny it, we would much rather not know it in the first place. This leads directly to believing anything but the truth which helps explain some of the incredible lies the authorities seem to get away with. Simply put a lie is a deliberate distortion applied to a perceived reality and the lie is always used to maintain or buttress faith and belief in whatever we want to believe in, be it our spouse, children, employer, friends, neighbors, teachers, corporations, government etc. Or in this case the very socioeconomic system that offers us a direct and continuing promise to enable our health, wealth and wellbeing. As we all slide down the slippery slope to economic hell the dying cry will be “But they promised……………”

The official lie is most effective when we want to believe the lie more than we wish to know the truth simply because the compromised person is supplying the unquestioning belief with no demand of the liar for ‘proof’ or confirmation. “Daddy, tell me another lie so that I may believe it is the truth.” For example, when there is suspicion but an unwillingness to believe the suspicion (aka denial), how many people really want their spouse to tell them the truth about their infidelity? I’ll bet ten bucks nearly every reader’s ego just reflexively said “I would want the truth”.

Under those circumstances (suspicion and denial) not only will many want their spouse to lie, but they will want their spouse to lie well enough that they have less trouble believing the lie to be the truth. In order to do this we will deny our denial by telling ourselves and our spouse that we really do want the truth, while ‘secretly’ hoping to be lied too IF there really is infidelity involved. When deeply conflicted and compromised we ask questions in such a way as to telegraph our desired answer, for example “Tell me you’re not cheating on me honey.” Who has not felt great relief to hear what we wanted to hear (“No honey, I am NOT cheating on you.”) even when nagging doubt and suspicion lingered?

How many times have we avoided asking our children the really tough questions when we harbored strong suspicions we weren’t getting the whole truth? Or that we ignored some glaring inconsistencies or a flat out lie in order not to know the truth we suspected might be lurking. Or sometimes we just want to avoid the hassle and confrontation, a convenient excuse, so we go along with it and not challenge the lie.

If we do this often and long enough, soon we begin to believe the lie because it has never been directly refuted. In effect the lie is being indirectly supported by not being challenged by the person being lied to, making us in many ways complicit. The ultimate effect is that the lie begins to take on a ‘truth’ life of its own. When this happens, truth becomes whatever we want it to be because it is constructed almost entirely of lies with just enough truth mixed in to give it some street cred in our minds. No ugly shapes or sharp edges to deal with this way. But deep down inside we know we are living a lie and it eats at us from within, creating a deep neurosis and a thoroughly compromised being.

Once we ignore the lie psychologically we become enablers of the lie. Every time we ignore the lie we are deepening our involvement and our own culpability. Soon enough we find ourselves defending the lie in order to defend ourselves. To out the lie and the liar at a later date means outing our prior complicity, even if only to ourselves. This is why we find so many people believing the official lie(s) and actively supporting that which is contrary to their best interest or basic beliefs.

The greater the distance between the person and the effects of the (official) lie (i.e. death by Drone of brown people in Pakistan) the easier it is to maintain the lie. Vice versa, when close proximity to the effects of the lie threatens exposure to or even direct (emotional, psychological or physical) harm to us (i.e. death by Drone of American citizens in America) we tend to ramp up our righteous indignation to psychologically cover our complicity. Maybe it’s just best to just leave sleeping dogs lie (sic). We do exactly the same thing with all aspects of the government, military, judicial system, corporations and of course the financial system. Please don’t tell me because I just don’t want to know. And to make sure I don’t know what I don’t want to know……I won’t ask.

 

Lies within truth

 

Willing participation doesn’t necessarily mean in agreement with

Earlier I stated that willing participation can be defined as just about any participation, regardless of whether it’s agnostic, mindless, suspect, hostile, even forced or compelled. One’s faith and belief in the socioeconomic system doesn’t need to be total and unwavering (though that would be ideal) nor even in agreement, just that there be no other viable competing meme to divert or distract the participants’ focus and energy.

This helps explain the tremendous amount of energy expended by the fiat magicians to demean, deny and manipulate the meme competing precious metals. When you cut through all the smoke screens, deliberate distractions and ritual practices this is a truism for any cult, not just the money meme. In order to maintain its supremacy, a cult and its leaders cannot tolerate significant internal dissent or disbelief (or external for that matter, though it isn’t quite as critical) because its primary energy source is belief.

Even if we don’t agree with the process, even if we feel compelled to do as we are told, as long as we exchange our labor, goods and services for script, then exchange that script for other labor, goods or services, we are willingly participating. It doesn’t matter if we are locked into the money meme by law, which in turn is enforced with an implied state threat of violence if we do not obey.

Each time we accept currency in exchange for our labor, we want to believe that it will maintain the ‘value’ we just embedded in it with our labor so that we can exchange the script for whatever it is that we wish to purchase at ‘fair value’. The fact that it does maintain the vast majority of its value for the relatively short period of time it takes us to engage in most of our transactions just serves to reinforce our belief in the currency. The proof of our (mostly unquestioning) belief is that we give this concept little to no thought while we are engaged in our various purchases.

We open our wallet or purse and pull out some currency or a credit/debit card and we pay. While we may complain about the price, on a day to day basis most of us don’t see the rising price(s) for what it really represents, the diminished value of our currency, but rather just the need for more ‘money’ for that week’s groceries because prices always go up. Even those of us who understand what’s really going on don’t automatically think currency devaluation when we stop at the gas pumps. We just think in terms of the need for more money because gas is up again. This just serves to prove how much faith and belief we really do have in a currency we say we don’t believe in.

To those who would argue that they really do not believe in the system, that they are simply going with the flow and accepting their paycheck or any other compensation they receive in whatever coin of the realm is demanded of them, my response is simple. The system feeds upon your ‘willing’ participation in whatever form you present it as.

You believe that for now, with ‘now’ measured in years, months, weeks, days or just hours, that whatever fiat chit you are handed can and will be used to pay your bills, purchase your precious metals and do whatever else you desire. Belief does not have to be total and unquestioning in order to be effective and energizing. The system feeds off of this mental and emotional flow, and not necessarily in any static stock of belief. As Zero Hedge’s Tyler Durden likes to say, it’s not the stock but the flow.

Our voluntary tax

The same concept of ‘willingness' applies to the US Federal income tax system. It is promoted as ‘voluntary’ by those who control and benefit from it because we voluntarily file our own tax return with ‘volunteered’ information. Our tax declaration (aka our tax return) is not prepared for us by a central authority (because that would be involuntary) but by us and us alone, thus the reasoning behind this twisted logic.

Most importantly, we declare our voluntary participation in the money meme to be true or ‘real’ when we sign the tax form (“….and to the best of my knowledge and belief, they are true, correct, and complete.”) thus closing the mind control loop with our affirmation of the true or ‘real’ nature of the artificial reality. We then document or seal this consent with our symbol of willing participation, our signature. This is an extremely powerful form of mind control magic in every sense of the word.

This concept can be applied to all (financial) contracts we negotiate and enter into. In the eyes of the ‘law’ (another powerful mind control meme I won’t even begin to discuss here) and with the benefit of centuries of social conditioning, as well as the proclaimed foundational basis for the capitalistic economic system we supposedly live within, we are all free to engage in commerce and to sell our labor to the highest bidder.

The presumption is always that you are a willing and engaged participant and that any transaction you undertake is done without coercion or duress despite the obvious nature of your coercion and duress. In fact, even when we know that we ‘have no choice’ (aka under duress) we still (must) apply our symbol of acceptance and agreement, our signature, to the document saying that we do so willingly, freely and of sound mind and body.

Without understanding (or believing) the subtleties of exactly how subliminal mind control works, it is extremely difficult to understand how powerful this force is. Our total subjugation is never more apparent as when we see polling that indicates that a tremendous percentage of the population believes that regardless of whether there might have been fraud involved in the mortgage process, since they signed the loan documents to purchase their home they are personally bound to honor the loan.

This in spite of the clear and obvious fact that the other party to the fraudulent transaction did not feel honor bound either to (any of) their agreements or to the (spirit of the) law underpinning their agreements, thus invalidating the loan contract based upon common sense and moral grounds if nothing else. Sadly the average person still wishes to believe that the courts and the legal system are there to protect them (the prey) from the predators, when in fact it is explicitly designed to protect the predators from the prey.

Only the thoroughly captured psyche of the mind controlled and conditioned (wage) slave exhibits such a distorted and misplaced sense of honor and subservience to their abusive owner/master. The controller/master will always stack the socioeconomic deck in his or her favor as long as willing wage slaves keep lining up to play. Sadly the system stacking goes so much deeper than just the deck.

 

Denial

 

Frogs in the pot

I am not being judgmental here, just calling it as I see it. It is obvious that I’m cooking in the same mind subliminal control pot as everyone else and I struggle to find ways to protect myself and my family, often from me and my own life long conditioning. If I am to have any hope of success then I must understand both my mind and that of the predator, thus the reason for my constant self examination and for posting my occasional musings here on Zero Hedge.

Unfortunately nearly everyone rejects the notion that they are under the influence of any type or form of mind control (well………they might be influenced, but certainly not me) despite enormous and glaring examples everywhere we turn. Advertising is a huge example of continuous overt and covert manipulative mind control and conditioning techniques employed to the nth degree. Because a more aware and deeper understanding of our everyday exposure to advertising totally contradicts our own deeply held (manufactured and conditioned) image of a self directed life, our ego goes to great lengths to shield us from this emotionally disturbing information.

When shielded by our ego, when protected from ourselves by our ‘self’, we tend to mostly ignore any information contrary to our deep seated belief systems or we prefer to believe that we are forced into participating, that we have no choice in the matter. Victimhood is always and forever a perfectly blameless occupation. Or better yet, at least from the mind control perspective, we (want to) believe we have freedom of choice and that we willingly choose mind control and slavery. Though our ego would rather have us think of it in terms of modern day prosperity and opportunity via a college education and a career ladder. Every right thinking individual wants a well appointed hamster cage with exercise wheel and flat screen TV.

This is where the leverage of the mind control comes from and where it is applied; by skillfully using our self induced blindness of what is quite obvious to any disinterested and unaffected observer against us. The art of mind control is not just to compel you to do something you would not ordinarily do if of sound mind and body, but to instill in you the belief that the idea originated within, and that it is what you truly desire. This sub conscious high jacking simply cannot be accomplished for long if we always keep a central self awareness in the front of our mind. I was the problem, I am the problem and I will always be the problem for as long as I do not see the problem. And the problem is that I am the problem. This is not an exercise in self abuse as some (egos) might claim, but rather an exercise in humility and self understanding. The problem, and thus the solution springs from within.

If we understand how ‘willing’ doesn’t mean ‘in agreement’ then it really doesn’t matter if our Federal income tax participation is compelled in dozens of different ways, including involuntary tax withholding and mandatory reporting of our financial information from various financial sources. From the mind control perspective certain acts must appear to be voluntary in order for the (money meme) mind control to effectively work.

I understand that this explanation of our ‘willing’ involvement will irk many who read this and rightfully so. It is never easy to face yourself naked in the mirror for the first, second or third time. But in a closed loop socioeconomic system there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. This fact just makes it that much more important that we be brutally honest with ourselves and that we proactively practice personal sovereignty beginning with eliminating our comforting and disabling self deceptions.

We so want to believe and are hurt when we can’t

If the economic math doesn’t fit the reality then slowly change the mathematical equations in order to create additional plausibility. This effectively extends and fortifies the severely weakened economic reality, essentially providing additional or renewed reasons to continue to believe. If nothing else this buys the system controllers more time which is then used by those who abuse and control to loot, pillage and batten down the hatches while further turning the screws of oppression on the willing wage slaves.

As I have said before we really do want to believe, even those who claim they want the entire stinking mess to collapse. They see no alternative to the current state of affairs, so they champion scrapping the present system only because they wish to create a new, more fair and equitable (money meme) system upon which they can once again ‘willingly’ bestow their full faith and belief.

The far more common apathetic response is actually still willing participation without exhibiting explicit agreement or resistance to the unacknowledged symbiotic bargain. An emotional escape route (apathy) is preloaded to relieve the pent up frustration and anger that comes from being (self) trapped with nowhere to hide. Long term caged wild (human) animals often demonstrate this behavior, a sign of deep neurosis and emotional paralysis. They still wish to believe, but are unwilling to invest the emotional energy to actually believe for fear of once again being bitterly disappointed.

In the case of the more thoroughly captured minds, the thought of living without the present day money meme is so disorientating and frightening that they will plead with their abusers to do whatever it takes to continue the existing system. From the perspective of the mind control meme there really is no other way to describe all these mindsets other than ‘willing’ regardless of whether it is coerced, manipulated, passive or desperately offered.

As simplistic as the above descriptions might sound they pass the smell test quite well. The mind control method of slow incremental changes to our perceived reality has actually been used repeatedly for hundreds (thousands) of years. The rules, particularly the unwritten ones, have been repeatedly changed and the outer boundaries continuously pushed further and further back.

And yet even though the system appears to be ever more unstable, the music plays on and the puppets continue to dance. This in turn leads the clueless and asleep, as well as the doubting Thomases among the financial professionals, to think that things must be somewhat OK since the entire global economic contraption manages to creak along. It certainly helps to assuage the growing fear within the professional financial community that maybe she might just blow.

 

It's Gonna Blow

 

Don’t look now but…..

When the international Gold standard was found to be too constrictive, ‘they’ changed the rules and parameters of the then present day paradigm and created a new reality of ‘safe’ un-backed leveraged fiat (the petrodollar was the eagerly accepted cover story) simply by gaining an overwhelming buy in first from the international high priests, then by the lower level local/regional faith and belief leaders (the financial professionals) who in turn induced the acceptance of the changed conditions within the true power base, the compliant and complicit public.

Any new economic reality can be created as long as there is sufficient buy in by those who manage the active ingredient, our faith and belief. That means you and me folks. Ultimately this is a top down process, leaving the actual reality creation in the control of the elite essentially by default since we long ago abdicated our responsibility to do so.

I would suggest that within the present day madness any socioeconomic construct is doomed to fail from the moment it is birthed simply because it is almost always based upon some type of widely believed mathematical parameters that have strongly perceived inviolable boundaries. These are initially set in stone to instill faith and belief in the new economic system, and are designed to engender confidence in a new non-real reality.

Often this was done because the ‘new’ currency/economic system is replacing one which just failed to retain widespread faith and belief and thus was abandoned by the population, usually because it was used and abused by the elite minority to enslave and control and loot the majority to the point of utter disbelief. 

While a quick Internet search will disclose certain ideal traits that many claim are needed to create a fully functioning and long lived currency, and by extension a (re)new(ed) economic system, in fact the only critical characteristic needed is confidence in the currency, essentially faith and belief that it will serve the needs of the participants with a minimum of risk and a maximum of utility. Or at least that the pain inflicted upon the population by those who control the system is perceived to be tolerable in exchange for certain valuable considerations.

Ideally, with the proper amount of externally applied propaganda and conditioning (cough, cough….mind control….cough) we might even be convinced to believe that the pain is desirable, such as the fiction that inflation (legal institutionalized theft if you really want to properly describe it) is good for you and me.

I’m not saying that the old economechanical rules can be repeatedly violated with impunity or that there will be no blowback. Not in the least. But we are all affected by our continuity and normalcy bias (aka egoic denial techniques) which in turn help to reinforce the present day false paradigm. Taken as a whole, this counteracts some of our fading faith and belief, allowing the socioeconomic system to perpetuate far beyond the point of no return.

Remember that Wile E Coyote does not actually fall once he has ventured past the cliff edge until he looks down and recognizes, then emotionally accepts, that there is no more support underneath. It is only when he emotionally internalizes his certain fate by way of a ‘help’ sign or just his pitiful knowing eyes that he actually begins to fall.

Since we really don’t want to look anyway, any plausible excuse (and a few that defy the imagination) will do in a cognitive pinch because it is not the actual hearing or seeing of the lie that is so comforting, but the emotional relief we feel when we are offered the lie that will not force us to contradict what we want to believe is the truth. We all do this folks. The only questions are how often and how well do we hide it from ourselves.

False hope chains us to impossible conditions

As much as we, the contrary observers, wish for it to be otherwise, for now at least we are a very small (but growing) minority. And within the present day consensus reality where faith and belief are the reality creators, or at the very least the reality enablers and the active force behind and the bedrock support of the current socioeconomic paradigm, to ignore or to down play the power of this phenomenon is to ignore the true reason why the present economic system has managed to last this long, and may last even longer than we can possibly imagine.    

I wish to emphasize that this is not to say that the system isn’t degrading rapidly, even exponentially. Nor that there will not be sudden and widespread economic dislocations or even outright failures (read that as stock market panics and runs on the banks) as the rot progresses and subsystems become ever more fragile. But contrary to perceived common sense even these obvious public signs of pending system failure will not initially be fully believed and accepted as truly threatening by the general population (because unlike the impossibility of being a little bit pregnant, one can be a little bit in denial) and will most likely be more or less denied precisely because they are so detrimental to all.

There is no doubt that there will be more and more people trying to run for the exits as their faith and belief wane. But once they realize that the exit doors are too small or too crowded for them to get out (or worse that the exit just leads them directly back into the burning building) a great hue and cry will rise from the flames demanding that those who are destroying the system better damn well fix the system. Once again the prey will demand that the predators be put in charge of leading the prey to (another) slaughter.

When our world view is directly threatened, most of us will reject that which contradicts our beliefs or threatens our perceived livelihood and economic safety. The more threatened we feel and/or the closer we believe the danger to be, the greater the tendency there is to remain in denial or even to vigorously support that which we are dependent upon. Those who don’t wish to see (and the worse it gets the more who will fit this description) the more they will seek the comforting lie and the emotional crutches authored by public authorities. Child like, many will ask for the lie (and the scapegoat) so that we may self deceive.   

Because society’s tremendous momentum of prior belief and willingness to be lied to will be combined with deliberate fear mongering and outright official denial (and don’t forget the all important scapegoating) even when the system reaches critical failure points, the entire financial structure will most likely not collapse in one fell swoop. Instead what will likely happen is that large and small pieces will break loose and fall off, only to be quickly hammered back into place in whatever sloppy way they can manage.

If the emergency carpentry fails to ‘fix’ the problem, and it will not, then the failures will be replaced with even more fantastical economic creations and financial manipulations that defy wavering believers to look too close for fear of glimpsing the ugly truth. This includes political and economic machinations that would boggle the mind if presented today, but will most likely be welcomed with open arms when the frightened truly become desperate and panicked.

Like a person navigating a descending set of irregular, uneven and crooked steps, the financial system will probably bumble and stumble on down into oblivion, with each step possessing a different drop and duration, some very large and some small. There will even be occasional rises and short lived landings before the next section of the barn begins to crumble.

It is impossible to say exactly how this will all work out simply because the world’s elites have never been to this point before and neither have we. But we would be fools to think that such a complex living organism with so many moving parts and such emotional energy (I would argue that denial is the strongest emotion, surpassing love and hate by a country mile) will act like a complex mechanical machine and simply stop one day, though parts of it most certainly will.

 

Failure

 

Measuring weakness by our strength

In my opinion it is the absolute conviction of our basic belief systems that is keeping the system supported and in place, at least for the moment. I’m not just talking about the socioeconomic system, but our unquestioning and absolute faith and belief in the larger generally prevailing worldview of how things work. This includes our fundamental belief in math, science, technology, religion, matter, energy and so on. I’ll cover this in greater detail in a future article, but our worldview spans so much more than just a belief in the surface functionality and utility.

It is not the Federal Reserve or the banksters or the various dependent-upon-unlimited-fiat-creation governments that are supporting the present day socioeconomic system. I would argue that the ultimate strength of any complex economic organism is the faith and belief the dependent participants have in that very same system. That faith comes from you and me and the guy down the street, not from the Fed, the government nor the banksters. They do not create our faith and belief, but rather they are the recipients, manipulators and abusers of our faith and belief.

So when we measure the fragility of any socioeconomic system we must actually measure the strength of those who support it, particularly their faith and belief. After several generations of rote education and reflexive conditioning combined with an ever increasing dependence upon the very system we now claim will collapse quickly and completely, may I suggest that our faith and belief, and ultimately the false hope that it engenders, will die a long, hard and very painful death. Thus any economic system supported by our captured minds will also die a long, hard and painful death.  

While I will not argue with the belief that the dozens upon dozens of economic and cultural death spasms will be sudden, violent and most certainly unpredictable, the faithfully desperate believers, facing the black abyss of self sufficiency and self reliance after dozens and dozens of years of dependency conditioning, will beg to be saved from themselves, thus supporting a doomed system long past its perceived expiration date. False hope chains us to our own self delusions. This truism cannot be over stated. At one time or another we have all clung to impossible situations way too long for our own good when we were emotionally dependent, regardless of the ‘facts’ of the situation. ‘We the herd’ will undoubtedly do so as well.

Long live denial.

02-06-2013

 

Cognitive Dissonance

 

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Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:20 | 3223340 2espressos_2sep...
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CD, don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with much of what you said; indeed, my post was meant to provoke.  What interests me is how, thinking the next step, you think society should be organized.  Pls also find some of my thoughts on this in my other reply, below.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 14:02 | 3223475 Cognitive Dissonance
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I think man and society is hopelessly broken and will not relearn and reorganize without great pain and strife in much the same way I had to break down, then begin to toss overboard those parts of myself that were dysfunctional and disabling. And then to begin again.

I am unable to suggest how we bring sanity and progress to a society that is totally insane. Thus the only thing I can hope to do is survive society's insanity long enough for me to learn to be sane myself. This is plenty of work for what remains of my lifetime. I wish to learn from, and share with others so that I am not alone on this journey, though ultimately I am alone with my thoughts and musings, and so that I may learn faster because I am exposed to others like myself, sufferers who want to learn how not to suffer any more.

By the way, I am still tossing things overboard.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 19:31 | 3224512 Sparkey
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CD there was another time in relative recent history, when the World was also absolutely insane, and just like today, the people didn't recognize their own insanity, that other time I refer to was when society searched for Witches and other spell casters, torture, burning at the stake, and;seeing something and saying something was all the vogue, no doubt a very stimulating time for some but a lot of problems for most! Rye Ergot was the problem, LSD mimics Rye Ergot, there was an outbrake of Rye Ergot during the time of the madness and with hindsght we attribute their behavior to their self unknown intoxication. Everyone mad as a hatter, and no one recognizing their own madness!

We, in the main, are exhibiting some mass madness, at least mass hysteria, what is the fundamental cause of this? I don't know, perhaps the mass media? I do know that the discussion is circumscribed by the World the media creates, many people, when the want to give an illustration of what they mean, will refer to a scene from a movie or TV show.

That people are worried can be seen by the way they clutch their Talismans and `believe` the Talismans can ward off evil, and make everything "turn out alright" I am refering to the common beliefs like: The invincibility of the US forces, the power of Precious metals to put the food on the table, the belief that private weapons and ammunition can keep you and yours safe in a true sociatal collaspe, These things, like the things CD mentions, are the things people know are false, but need to feel they are true, without these myths hopelessness would overwhelm the believers and life would be unbearable.

When civilization fails, and it must fail someday, the present crisis tells us that, if not this time then sometime, when it fails all civilized people will die, cililized people cannot live without civilization, it really is all we know.

Fri, 02/08/2013 - 10:51 | 3225724 Cognitive Dissonance
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I struggle daily to remind myself that my worldview can be just a rigid as the one I dismiss in others.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 17:22 | 3224194 The Heart
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"I think man and society is hopelessly broken and will not relearn and reorganize without great pain and strife in much the same way I had to break down, then begin to toss overboard those parts of myself that were dysfunctional and disabling. And then to begin again."

Truly Sir Cog, you speak from the heart more than you do your brilliant mind. Blessings for being real and being a shining example of the definition of, follow your heart.

One ponders the times of reaching the bottom, the suffrage that al-kill-hol did to the life wasted so well chasing the distilled spirits. Breaking down and losing everything gave the perspective of appreciation for everything lost. Our old habits do not always fit the ever evolving mode of every day living. Good simple life without this al-kill-hol monster has added up to over twenty years of sobriety now and blissful clarity is a better picture, even under chemtrailed skies. Change after all is the only real constant, and every new dawn is a day to begin anew. For your great works sir, we all thank you.

 

Fri, 02/08/2013 - 10:49 | 3225716 Cognitive Dissonance
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I see a friend of Bill's.

While I have not been in the room's for a long time, those life lessons learned remain within me one day at a time.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 12:41 | 3223224 jayman21
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CD writings mean different things to different people.  My take away is problems start with me and end with me.  The way out is with me...aka personal responsibility for ones freedom.  I see this as his larger message when he writes in the comment section and in his essays.  I find his work priceless in reaffirming my belief that I still have freewill.  I just need to exercise it and also see the many manipulations around me.

 

The money meme is another thought exercise and I think CD is on to something, but the thought is not yet mature.  I am pretty sure CD will ebb and flow with his thoughts and I will too.  Then there is the BITCOINs.  Is it a part of the money meme or the next step in our journey or something like it?

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:21 | 3223329 2espressos_2sep...
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agreed -- personal responsibility is certainly an important aspect, but it's hard to "piss against the wind" and be against the Zeitgeist, especially while it defines our "values" and what we should wish for.  I for one don't own a TV and strive to avoid mindless consumption.  However, my post was meant to provoke (I think I succeeded at that, 3 dislikes and counting... :) ). 

The main problem may not even be our money system, but our lack of positive values and meaning.  We strive, in the hamster wheel, for material goods, and cannot imagine what a "better world" would be like; perhaps a world based more on intellectual merit, and strength of argument, or intrinsic (passion for truth, for discourse etc.) as opposed to extrinsic motiviation (money, fame, facebook friends etc.):

Here a few ideas: 

- establish the meaning of work, (now that we can "afford it", thanks to technology) not as a necessity for survival but a source of meaning for individuals

- aim to achieve "mastery" in your art -- whether it be mathematics, teaching, making violins, parenting, whatever.

- discover the joy of intellectual games and creativity, instead of mindeless consumtion

- again, try to focus on "intrinsic" actions (ie. do things you are fascinated by) as opposed to "extrinsic" ones (ie. ones that you don't care about, but are a "tool" to reach something else: "recognition", money, pats on the back).

I throw these out there, in hope of insight.

 

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:42 | 3223396 jayman21
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"I throw these out there, in hope of insight."

 

Through my eyes:  Again, I think this will mean different things to different people

In his first essay he talked about social mood and is it the Robert Prechter version, social mood is first and then we see wars, down markets, less babies born, more sickness......

 

FYI

http://www.socionomics.net/learn-about-socionomics/

 

 

OR

the traditional action reaction.  There is a war and the country is in a bad social mood.  CD referenced the chicken and egg idea to help explain this complex thought.

 

If you apply this to the above statements, then is it money or our actions that is triggering the complex adaptive system we call life.  I do not know, but I like to think about it.

 

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 12:29 | 3223077 blindman
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this is wonderful ! what can one make of this ?
here is my 2 cents .....
Mark Dice is back with his trusty Gold Maple
Posted on February 7, 2013 by TearsOfTheMoon
.
http://maxkeiser.com/2013/02/07/mark-dice-is-back-with-his-trusty-gold-m...
.
it reveals something about the general awareness of the people
on the boardwalk regarding markets, commodities, pricing, value
and dare i say "consciousness" and physics. i can only presume
to know what it reveals but something is being revealed. it seems
simple enough. man with gold coin and a microphone asking a question
to random strangers but you can tell by the different responses it is
more complicated than that. one impression i get is that people want
mostly to be left alone while they walk the boardwalk in public.
a high degree of isolation seems to be displayed and in such a
public place. hmmmm.. that sounds so familiar.
i wanted to quote from "the origin of consciousness in the breakdown
of the bicameral mind" j.jaynes
.
he start out here attempting to discover what consciousness is and
where it came from in the historic record. early on he discusses what
it is not as can be determined from experiments with subjects and reason.
it turns out that learning, reason, conditioning and thinking can
all be accomplished without the individual being conscious. ....

" a blind man sees his darkness. but you (those with "sight") cannot see any gap
in your vision at all, let alone be conscious of it in any way.
just as the space around the blind spot is joined without any gap
at all, so consciousness knits itself over its time gaps and gives
the illusion of continuity. " ... j.j. p 25 (illusion of continuity
sounds a bit like sequential "time" !) and time is money !
.
" consciousness not necessary for thinking,
as we go from simple to more complicated aspects of mentality, we enter vaguer and vaguer territory, where the terms we use become more difficult to travel with. thinking is certainly one of these. and to say that consciousness is not necessary for thinking makes us immediately bristle with protest. surely thinking is the very heart and bone of consciousness! but let us go slowly here. what we would be referring to would be that type of free association which might be called thinking-about or thinking-of, which, indeed, always seems to be fully surrounded and immersed in the image-peopled province of consciousness. but the matter is really not that clear at all.
let us begin with the type of thinking that ends in a result to which may be predicated the terms right or wrong. this is what is commonly referred to as making judgements, as is very similar to one extreme of solution learning that we have just discussed.
a simple experiment, so simple as to seem trivial, will bring us directly to the heart of the matter. take any two unequal objects, such as a pen and a pencil or two unequally filled glasses of water, and place them on the desk in front of you. then, partly closing your eyes to increase your attention to the task, pick up each one with the thumb and forefinger and judge which is heavier. now introspect on everything you are doing. you will find yourself conscious of the feel of the objects against the skin of your fingers, conscious of the straight downward pressure as you feel the weight of each, conscious of any protuberances on the sides of the objects, and so forth. and now the actual judging of which is heavier.
Where is that? lo! the very act of judgement that one object is heavier than the other is not conscious. it is somehow just given to you by your nervous system.
if we call the process of judgement thinking, we are finding that such thinking is not conscious at all. a simple experiment, yes, but extremely important. it demolishes at once the entire tradition that such thought processes are the structure of the conscious mind.
this type of experiment came to be studied extensively back at the beginning of this century in what came to be known as the wurzburg school. it all began with a study by karl marbe in 1901, which was very similar to the above, .... .
..
and it came as a startling discovery to both the experimenter himself and to his highly trained subjects, all of them introspective psychologists, that the process of judgement itself was never conscious. physics and psychology always show interesting contrasts , and it is one of the ironies of science that the marbe experiment, so simple as to seem silly, was to psychology what the so-difficult-to-set-up michaelson-morley experiment was to physics. just as the latter proved that the ether, that substance supposed to exist throughout space, did not exist, so the weight judgement experiment showed that judging, that supposed hallmark of consciousness, did not exist in consciousness at all."
.. j. jaynes , p.38

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 19:24 | 3224442 tip e. canoe
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it turns out that learning, reason, conditioning and thinking can
all be accomplished without the individual being conscious. ....

and time is money !   (or so we've been conditioned to believe...) 

it seems we all obsess over the quantitative measurement of time and its (parastical?) derivative in denial of its qualitative texture.  is this genetic instinct since we have become dependent upon these centralized systems for survival or pure epigenetic programming by the centralized systems of our edutainment?

or perhaps a helping a both whereby unlearning central programming leads to relearning secret histories leads to unlearning unconscious consent leads to relearning self-& small community sufficiency and on and on in a never-ending fractal transformation of time (and/or our perception of it)?

clif high's latest wujo is interesting -- discussing the perception of time as taffy that's unique to the "perceiver" yet swimming in a stream that's created by universal consensus co-creation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtJOjP2SGKw

 

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 21:29 | 3224779 blindman
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the serious problem we have is that our
conceptual structure and context have
already pathologized the effects that technology
will inevitably produce in the next generation.
the intelligent will be diagnosed as aspergers
and medicated and the less so will be medicated as
autistic, everyone on the spectrum of medication
needy. all due to time and the expectations of the
fictitious norm and balanced criteria.
we have pathologized our off spring in the
domain of mind by increasing the bandwidth and
availability of information from alternate
perspectives, just as we are criminalising empathy
by coining the terrorist meme. which requires a fictitious
norm that is under attack and terrorised. here, we are
most definitely
doomed by our own hand and by law and intentionally as
we are seeing the effect of the new world disorder.
psychological chaos imposed and enforced by the ultimate
leadership of the ignorati supreme-o!
more navel gazing is most definitely in order.
the technology is moving us in the direction of acceleration
of time and this is not the desired direction at all. imo

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 20:07 | 3224593 blindman
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@"or perhaps a helping a both whereby unlearning central programming leads to..."
somewhere i read that einstein said.. to the effect " education is what remains
after one has forgotten what one has learned in school/s ."
hehe...
i will look that up ...apologies to the blogger who linked it, probably on zh.
forgot the source/avitar.
wisdom or knowledge might come from deconstructing that which you have learned.
that is something that is missing in the educational process, the deconstructing
phase. unlearning and the ability to unlearn is as important to learning
as learning itself, could be. always fighting for the way back home !
the nature of the flow process goes unacknowledged and ignored yet it is
of importance and is evident in every individual. and then we rely on
and talk of "institutional memory"! ?
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins108304.html
re. time and perspective, it seems all experience can only be
an illusion and out of "reality", as the mind knows, as all perspectives are
embedded in the space and domain of perception which is limited by
position which is isolated from other perspectives and unable to
escape that condition due to the pressing forces present in that position
and perspective except by the deconstruction of the stimulation of that
perspective in the domain of mind, where construction and deconstruction
of meaning and value can take place. or what we perceive is reality but
that reality is true for that particular moment and place only. it will
change, it must change in time. that is life and there is no life without
the change of position and perspective. time is a motion, a derivative
of distance in mind and observation, related to devotion?
thanks for the link/s. yea, they would like us to believe that our
time and devotion is their money all right. and they can print and distribute
it a their convenience and benefit.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 11:47 | 3223038 chunga
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Thanks CD.

Personal observation about the propoganda from the high priests...

We sit around sometimes on the weekends drinking beer and watching ball-games. The commercials are so preposterous it's really hard to fathom. Sprinkled in with "debt-consolidation" plans and reverse mortgage scams are ads for E-Trade, Charles Schwab, sports cars, and JPMorgan. Really? Being shown nostalgic images of this garbage along with the obligatory flag waving is supposed to make us buy this...even if we had the money?? I'm the only ZH reader in my group of friends and everybody mocks what they are being fed. It's just not connected to reality.

MSM keeps trying to convince us the time is right (yes, it's even patriotic) to be "irrationally exuberent". I take heart that nobody believes it anymore. At least not the people I run in to.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:51 | 3222828 stiler
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"a frog in every pot."

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 11:43 | 3223026 Cognitive Dissonance
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"Last one in is a............."

<Let me rethink this for a minute please.>  :)

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:35 | 3222801 tip e. canoe
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"Instead of being angry at bad guys, build a better world.  One brick at a time." - paul wheaton

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 11:13 | 3222894 optimator
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Right now I can think of a better use for a brick.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 18:33 | 3224393 tip e. canoe
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as you wish, no worries.   am quite sure there will still be a use for it when you're finished.  

have fun stormin the castle!

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:20 | 3222758 CheapBastard
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Bravo zulu, Cog. Thank you.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:15 | 3222748 Shizzmoney
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the Federal Reserve Board

Or as I like to call them: The New Pharisees

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:09 | 3222731 unplugged
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And I poo-poo'd my psychology class in college - hated it! (being an engineer).  30 years of wisdom later and I now realize it was probably the most important class I had.  Besides, of all my classes, it had the hottest babes - what a DUMASS I was!!!

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 11:53 | 3222803 Cognitive Dissonance
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To be perfectly honest when I was younger I thought psychology was for the weak willed and meek. That was (of course) my ego doing the talking. My ego clouds my eyes and mind so that I will not see.

'I' am not my ego.......though that is precisely the opposite of what the insanity constantly whispers in my ears. 

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 09:22 | 3222572 rsnoble
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Crumbles are easier to get ahold of, get more powerful and wealthy.  The majority of us would probably be better off suffering outright collapse.  Us little people are focused on survival 24/7.  The elite are spending 24/7 devising all kinds of shit.  It's gona be ugly and pray people aren't stupid enough to hand these fucking criminals their weapons.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:08 | 3222727 Cognitive Dissonance
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I have said before that when the elite are done looting and pillaging, then maybe they will let it go and start the cycle again.

When the barbarians finally do break through the gate they will find the palace mostly looted from within, save a few Gold baubles here and there.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:22 | 3222765 TSA gropee
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And therein lies the probable endgame. When there is no more left to loot and pillage (no more middleclass or taxpayers), all that remains is those who serve (the micro-chipped majority) and those who get served... IMHO of course.

Fri, 02/08/2013 - 10:45 | 3225704 Cognitive Dissonance
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Tyranny of the majority.

Please serve me up with an apple in my big fat mouth. I want to go out in style.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 08:19 | 3222493 WTFUD
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Some days i cant seem to find the motivation to get out of bed; there's a definite correlation between my time spent consuming Z/H for enlightenment and not wishing to have contact from outside. Am sure it's not Depression ( but who knows ) more like deflated (mentally)
When i do step out for a couple of hours to my regular haunts i witness the brave faces of the restuaranteurs with their dwindling margins for lack of custom or incresed costs or or or or. Some to my amazement are not aware in particular to their industry that food inflation is closer to 8% than the 2% Fixed Rate. Those who have an inkling are terrified to put up prices accordingly for fear of losing customers and hoping things will improve sooner rather than later down the road. Should these people be running a business? This is their reality and it's not nice witnessing ordinary people working long hours in the hope of breaking even.
Sometimes i think that all of these poor suckers even if they were fitted up by the police for something they did not do, would pay their fine or serve their sentence believing they were guilty. For me reality is Aaron Swartz and shooting yourself in the head and pleading self defence is not.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 07:11 | 3222453 RECISION
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Ok, since no-one else is going to say it...

Far, far too long...

Cog, you gotta learn to edit.

The good stuff gets lost in the verbosity.

And please stop wandering off into "interesting" sidebars.

I know it is hard, I struggle with it myself - but the best advice I ever got on essay writing was that if you couldn't say what you want in 500 words or less, then you haven't properly thought through and structured what you want to say.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 07:35 | 3222468 Cognitive Dissonance
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One man's garbage............

There are those who want to be immersed in all those interesting sidebars, others who just want to cut to the quick. I am not a cut to the quick person, at least not in this medium.

You forget that many people are just looking at this subject (themselves) with this intense a focus for the very first time. Others have been here before, but want to look again.

There are plenty of bullet point writers on the web who have good stuff. You won't find that here.

Thanks for taking the time to leave your comment. I do appreciate it.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 09:50 | 3222667 dmger14
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I thought it was well worth reading.  Thanks!

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 05:47 | 3222433 steveo77
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Cog good stuff, this is your best yet, very readable and that is important when writing.

Glad to hear you are a prepper of sorts, I am putting my money where my mouth is and have a semi sustainable 4 seasons property

And just because we have weakenesses doesnt mean the fuckers who are raping the society don't need the Lords justice placed upon their head in a high momentum fashion.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 07:37 | 3222469 Cognitive Dissonance
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As my mind clears some more, so does my writing.

However I do not promise that I won't back peddle at times. My mind is very cluttered and at times it can become even more so.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 02:17 | 3222346 TrueSkeptic
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CD:  An enthralling read.   I enjoy all of your articles but this was a masterpiece and your thoughts were more accessible.   Not meant as criticism, but your concepts are more easily understood when your writing style is concise (like this article) and less like Bertrand Russell. 

For instance:  "Once we ignore the lie psychologically we become enablers of the lie. Every time we ignore the lie we are deepening our involvement and our own culpability. Soon enough we find ourselves defending the lie in order to defend ourselves. To out the lie and the liar at a later date means outing our prior complicity, even if only to ourselves. This is why we find so many people believing the official lie(s) and actively supporting that which is contrary to their best interest or basic beliefs."

Can't wait for another instalment.

Cheers, TS

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 07:41 | 3222472 Cognitive Dissonance
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Just fascinating.

You found my article enthralling and I thank you profusely for your high praise.

Several here in the comment section felt it was equivalent to bamboo shoots under the fingernails. I thank them as well. :)

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 03:33 | 3222389 The Second Rule
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I lost quite a bit of respect for Bertrand Russell after reading that he had sent Jack Kennedy a scolding missive for his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis (in the heat of the crisis no less). In spite of the crushing pressure that JFK was under it surprised me to learn that he actually took the time to respond to Russell. Jack said to BR, you'd do better to criticise the burglar rather than the one who had discovered the burglar.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 01:21 | 3222268 JOYFUL
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This is now as close to the truth one is allowed to reach, in print - before bad men leave notes about where your children go to school, or you find a notice of IRS audit, or some other device which begins a long, painful slide into bankruptcy. Or worse.

This in spite of the clear and obvious fact that the other party to the fraudulent transaction did not feel honor bound either to (any of) their agreements or to the (spirit of the) law underpinning their agreements

...

Only the thoroughly captured psyche of the mind controlled and conditioned (wage) slave exhibits such a distorted and misplaced sense of honor and subservience to their abusive owner/master.

Cross that line, and you will know the wrath of the now thoroughly integrated sionist police state under which you cower, in false hope of waking up from the nightmare tomorrow. Thousands of resistors are disappearing now every month, but you will not know it, because they(the complicit media upon which you depend)will not tell you.

But to truly ‘know’ it, meaning to have it confirmed by an external authority, makes it real and undeniable and something we must now face.

There is no external authority to believe in; only the internal authority of a body\mind\soul which lives external to the miasma of ZOG controlled Euromerika...there is no freedom to breath\think\live inside that torture zone, and until you leave it, you will not understand

 the subtleties of exactly how subliminal mind control works, 

because it is all-pervasive now. Even your resistance has been thoroughly suborned into support of the usurping aliens who own your government and control your finances and destiny. The illusion of the freedom to think of resistance is just that...do not mistake a shadow of freedom for freedom itself...or you will find yourself to be but a shadow of the person you were born.

Search out the term nol kidre...read past the planted lies of wilypedia, the pennstateblogspot* puff piece which inevitably occupies the first position no matter the search engine, and dive into the few remaining web notations of the rapidly disappearing truth - and you will understand the first two quotes of CD in their raw facticity...

a portion of those who live amongst you, but not are not of you, will use their genetically passed on infidelity to honest business between honest men and women to serially defraud you: of your money, yes, but much, much more is at stake....

Only on the peripheries of the prison zone can outbursts of truthtellin still take place....https://theologhia.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/eng-metropolitan-seraphim-of... ...though quicky squelched or defamed as anti-semitic by the thought police of the terrorist talmudist.

You have read the three parts of CD's essay now...but to begin to understand what they mean...you will need to begin the long pilgrimage out of the Mines of Moria where you wander guideless, and search out those small bands of outlaws who refused the poisoned offerings of wormtongues and fallen angels. You will fight as men\women who refuse to disgrace our forebears, or die on your knees as traitors to our culture and our line. There is no other choice now.

 

*what perfect irony that they should use an address referent to the mass program of child abuse\satanism with which they poison young minds and corrupt adult ones...always, in the mind of the cabbalist, a cruel joke is to be discerned!

http://youtu.be/Z6xvm2QFjSA -Will Wheaton\Come On

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 07:06 | 3222449 new game
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to face your foe(refusing his or her demands) or do as commanded.(see below)

tis to be or not-these moments determine who you are...

collectively this denial is the cabal of present state.

choice is yours and only you can make the changes necc.

best cog cond. is a mirror...

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 01:08 | 3222264 q99x2
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Nice read.

There are very few intentional pushes currently under way socially. They are easy to spot and recognize who is behind them. That is because as propaganda takes over a certain class of information, TV, Movies and now even alternative media you can see the fakeness and recognize what is intended. When the SHTF people will correct it. Happens over and over century after century.

Life is really weird no matter how you cut it. Very gruesome, "horrific" as Joseph Campbell would say. Interesting.

 

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 12:50 | 3223277 the grateful un...
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its amazing how transparent everything has become, (and the HORRIFIED reaction of the leadership is to become even more secretive) it might have started with JFK, the official investigation (the current oxymoron) that did nothing but arouse our suspicions further, and propaganda enables us to see through things to what is intended (that is profound, we all assume propaganda serves only to isolate us, but in fact it makes us more aware, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, what's this curtain all about?)  W2 and the H bomb were the last truly sublime moments in history, but that is a distraction, from what? i would say the economic destruction of the global social fabric. it was later presented the final war between good and evil (with plenty of sequels), but in my mind the social fabric gets stronger, too strong for them to destroy by simply trashing the currency exchange trade. the only equivalent i can imagine in history is if the ancient priests somehow interpreted, or constructed models of a god which was ulitimately destructive of the priesthood which created it, and thus sucked the whole society into a vortex, and they all disappeared. like maybe Easter Island. we have to keep cutting trees because the gods deem it so. but society never gets to that point where they recognize their plight and they throw the priests in the volcano (and keep their virgins) that moment of recognition would be sublime indeed.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 07:25 | 3222465 Cognitive Dissonance
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Thank you.

Which Joseph Campbell do you refer to?

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:13 | 3223320 the grateful un...
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his Masks of God series was probably his best, that style of symbol interpretation has really fallen out of favor. but then the mass man see little of symbolic importance, which is why the catholic church is on such hard times. you notice how little attention the POTUS pays to american values, except when they define our corporate needs (and by that i mean corporate in the broad sense) we associate symbols with the type of Hitler leadership we see in Triumph of the Will (bad thing). the materialists have won, those it hasn't been much comfort to the Soviets.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 11:37 | 3222989 williambanzai7
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The cultural power of myth guy I believe.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 00:56 | 3222252 MSimon
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Science is supposed to be corrected. It is in its nature. You would prefer a reversion to phlogiston as opposed to sticking with Carnot? If we make better measuring tools or make better measurements should we correct previous numbers? Should we stop weeding out errors?

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 02:19 | 3222350 MSimon
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The problem is your faith in science. When science is not a religion unless YOU make it so.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:04 | 3223299 blindman
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also religion is not religion unless you make it so !

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 02:18 | 3222349 ebworthen
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In reference to?

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 02:20 | 3222352 MSimon
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A point made in the post.

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 03:20 | 3222380 ebworthen
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Thu, 02/07/2013 - 00:56 | 3222250 Bill Shockley
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Cog,

All people turn body, mind, society and events into a tangled and ensnaring web.

It becomes impossible to find the way out.

 

If yu sit for 30 minutes or so in silence the process of misperception and fear?emotion begins to disolve and calm slowly returns.

 

I would argue that all other preperation lacks an understood priority without this first step. Safety and danger are judgements.

The past is gone, the present is ever changing, the future is uncertain.

Change is the given reality

 

Calm down is the best advice.

 

Having found a modicum of calm you might ask where you were before tou were born?

Who you are?

What is your purpose on the planet?

And when you die will you really be dead?

And you could smash cosmic space to smithereens and kick over the legs of nothingness and still you won't be done until you find that which is higher.

Tell me, what is higher?

Every calm, every love for your search.

Should you choose.

   bill

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