The Neuralyzer?

November 14, 2016

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Pstas – “Nat- Well, I guess we’ll put you down on the hard of hearing side of the ledger. (The people have spoken. Remains to be seen if anyone listens.)”

No need, even for the “hayseed”, the message is loud and clear. Just because I am not constantly attenuated to your frequency, doesn’t mean I’m deaf or ignorant to the signals your putting out there. We strive to keep an open mind, so unlike those utilizing the ignore button, we do not practice conscious ignorance.

”Don’t confuse me with the facts. I’ve got a closed mind.” – Earl Landgrebe

Pstas, this is our third go round and like you I believe in manifest liberal apartheid and am for global warming too. Yeah right. I love you too man, no really, otherwise, I would not take the time, as it surely isn’t for the money. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more?

Pstas – “As long as you going to continue screwing people over, the least one could do is stop insulting them.”

As for another practice which I do not engage in, screwing people over, those who are subjectively chosen to be demonized, never set out to destroy the world, people did. As for insults, we always tell the truth and never intend to insult anyone.

Your reaction doesn’t surprise me. Unfortunately, lying is the currency of an impolitely fucked up society. Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed, or made to feel fear, insecurity, immaturity, insensitively and less than.

People who get their ego stroked and lied to the majority of the time, are predisposed through indoctrination and conditioning (programming), to be insulted when they hear the truth. So, contributing to the illusion viz. lying, would make me no better than MSM or listening to politicians. Not a “yes” man, and I respect your “rubes” far too much to do them like that.

On November 19th, 2015, Bill Clinton gave a private fundraiser speech in which his words echoed an ominous and hated truth in regards to our fractured national character and a global malaise of similar nature.

“What we saw happen in France reiterates that this is a serious time. But it’s a serious time in ways that even sometimes the Democrats don’t notice. The number one story of the week, which you will identify with in Ohio, in a Democratic debate was never mentioned: 84% of the American people, after inflation, had not had a raise of 1 cent since the financial crash.

We learned, breathtakingly, that middle-aged, non-college-educated white Americans’ life expectancy is going down and is now lower than Hispanics, even though they make less money. And the gap between African Americans and whites is closing, but unfortunately not because the death rate among African Americans is dropping but because the death rate among white Americans is rising. Why? Because they don’t have anything to look forward to when they get up in the morning. Because their lives are sort of stuck in neutral.“

In those words, the ex-president acknowledged the plight of the disaffected white electorate. Yet no one, as cognitive dissonance runs rampant, not even his wife’s campaign advisers, apparently heard the message, and the rest is history.

Pstas – “I’m sure you are a nice person but should you happen to stop by the local corner tap for cold one in Mukwonago or Muscatine your little summary ( pandered to their ego, conscious ignorance, indoctrination and imaginary fears) would more likely earn you busted schnoz than a pat on the back.“

In your comment above, it is not I who give those “rubes” less credit than they deserve. You might be surprised, as to how nice I am, and the reception that I get. However, I usually have to leave those kinds of locales rapidly. If a discourse is struck up, after about 10 minutes, like moths to a light, most of the bar has surrounded me. One who is not paying close attention might become concerned, but it is not the stranger who they should be concerned for.

Much like Rip Van Winkle, even those who have been dosed with social anesthesia for decades, suddenly stir and awaken. Deep down, they know that “slick willy” politician is selling them “snake oil” by pandering to their indoctrination. Is that a fear of the imaginary? Or a palpable need to dislike someone other than themselves?, those falsehood’s matter not. The joke about a Thermo’s being the greatest invention ever, because it can keep liquid hot or cold, “but how do it know?” comes to mind.

When we do not like something we see or hear, or are otherwise confronted with, ignorance convinces one’s ego, that it is looking out for their best interests. As we defer to our ego, we close our minds, practice cognitive dissonance, fall victim to group think and affect conscious ignorance.

It is easier to judge or question the thoughts, feelings, beliefs or facts of others, than it is to judge or question our own preconceived or ingrained beliefs. Thus ignorance is deceitful, cunning and never to be mistakenly equated with a lack of intelligence or education. So just because someone practices conscious ignorance, doesn’t mean their necessarily lacking a PhD of the streets or intelligence.

Sometimes the truth really isn’t an epiphany, but it may hurt none the less. As you put it, “those little people, in their endearing ignorance, see the loudest voices not walking the talk everyday.” That’s why as opposed to a soft walk of pandering, they appreciate the seeming “revelation” in my candid talk. Usually this appeals not to their ego, but to their inner moral compass, making them feel the big stick it’s layin down, gently tappin upside their head and tuggin at their heart of hearts.

Then comes the Olly olly oxen free moment. Almost like a hypnosis breaking snap of the fingers, there is a glimmer and twinkle in their eyes, a light goes off, a spell is broken, a fog is lifted for a moment and something is awakened. Perhaps that long forgotten feeling they had being with a childhood friend, or while playing with a certain toy or hide n seek.

Like a long since ignored and banished innocent on the Isle of misfit toys, they start saying the damnest things. Oft accompanied by looks of wonderment at each others statements, with repartee such as “I never thought of it that way; I’ve been wanting to say this for years; never knew that’s how you really felt and where you been hidin that one?” as the truth comes out, bare ass and buck naked.

Many have suspected all along or know deep down, that one of their coping mechanisms, is the cognitive dissonance they have been schooled to practice for “reaffirmation“, on a daily basis. With the indoctrination or “group think“, they have been “setup” with an illusion based in falsehood from the git go. And with assists from MSM and many educational institutions, they have been conditioned to consciously perpetuate it.

Deep down even the biggest “rubes” you can find in Wisconsin or Iowa, suspect or know these things. Those “hayseeds” also know that people, have been conditioned to believe in authority, its a natural weakness. The status quo was established with the populaces cooperation and has survived only because of this cooperation.

When the “setup” is unmasked for the line of bull it is, in terms one’s inner moral compass can relate to, they tend to shed their ego’s survival instinct, and come around real fast. In some cases, that is the beginning of a demystifying process, which can clear decades of the nebulous shroud of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt). This can lead to a reaffirmation of a seemingly contrarian repression or juxtaposition they have carried deep for so long.

Like I said, I usually have to run, not because they want to bust my schnoz or string me up, but because like Elmer Gantry, they want me to stay a while longer than planned. Its a rare day when I don’t walk out without the owner and several regulars, shaking my hand like old friends, exchanging contact info and hearing, get your ass back here soon, that was refreshing and the most fun we’ve had in a spell. And like Leland Gaunt, whose work is never done, I need to move on. In a way it kind of goes like below, but in reverse and voluntarily.

Have we been so lazy, so long, that we have forgotten every life is a journey? One can get hit with the neuralyzer, then follow up by taking the blue pill, and fall back into the closed minded “reality” of divisive polarization that distracts, or pabulum for the masses that promotes political gridlock by design.

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” ― Isaac Asimov

Or one can take the red pill, and in an effort to fathom the truth and enlighten, take a plunge down the rabbit hole. At the end of the day, this journey through life, is all about the choices we make. When you stray from your path, you grow weak. Those who would encourage the ego to cloud and blind the inner moral compass, only attempt to make one stray from the path that leads to truth. Remember, a closed mind is already defeated.