Feb 4 2011

The Big Denial: Conservatism Mandates Institutionalized Ignorance

As Belief Overrides Factual Cognition

The Edifice Of Media Conservatism Mandates Institutionalized Ignorance

This imposed limitation of perception creates a way into falsity without even knowing it, owning it, nor rectifying the self deception. Ignorance itself, becomes a major political and cultural commodity.

First I must say this, and I hope you will receive this post as what it really is; an honest statement of the facts of personal psychosocial dynamics–We are each in some ways and at certain times both conservative and liberal in our thoughts and actions of and in the world. In spiritual, political and social consciousness, if I do not know this about the subjective self’s interest in situational awareness, I do not know much.

The Closed Self vs The Open Self

In conservatism, belief trumps full facts in context, yet the conservative will usually avoid the nature of responsibility and accountability to their paradigms mind-frames, while likely suggesting others need to be held accountable for their own belief structures.

An idea of truth trumps the real thing, abstraction held above self application, yet that idea is called the “Real Truth” by many a self professed conservative, leaving the real of the real social and physical environments thing to seem an untruth. Behind this cognitive contraption often mandating a diversion to cognitive dissonance avoidance facades, ways of comprehending reality can be reversed through the conservatives perceptual lens. This convolution of reality makes the conservative mind, heart and soul, one where denial and obfuscation are invisibly incorporated into their protected from questioning perceptual bias, this going on to infect the mind, heart and spirit.

A retreat into a “sacritized” self narrative does seem to have an evolutionary advantage at times for obvious subjective reason–If I have the land then I can use it and others cannot; or the food; or the… a way to get or keep what I have vs dealing with all of the demands of honoring contravening interest of others. Others then require a negative narrative cognitively from the conservative point of view. Many self interest like these are pandered to by what is known often as “The Right Wing” and its vast economic and social directions hold on cultural narration via established corporate and power interest.

This conservative narration of superior view and entitlement then requires the appearance reality, and consensus reality, that rightness is on the conservatives side, leading to the assemblage of good abstraction for them and bad for others. This is usually frame-based upon their views tagged moral, character and other blame and shame types of negative outcasting of others. The classical “other” is then made the subject of both a fear based animalistic protectionism, and a targeting of hostility toward these others. Again this provides platforms for the continuous scripting of otherness on Right Wing TV, Talk, Internet and other medias, helping to keep the cement hard onto the desired targets, keeping tight delusions and perceptual avoidance necessities.

With Stealthy Face and Well Sugared Tongue

Confirmation bias to narrative is presented as alleged truth in most any argument, including what I am doing here. This is the creation of an Appearance Reality seeking to make the grade to social Consensus Reality, but to the conservative, seen as truth itself.

Emotion is a common buttress to convincing one of “true meaning”, powering up rationalization with its find what it needs logical scenarios.

Here this becomes appearance realities visible source of correctness, supplanting the rigors of full objective reasoning, with attitude, likely harboring inherently misanthropic viewpoints towards others. The conservative generally is not bound to honest investigation toward full context pattern recognition, but instead sees such attempts at objectivity as intrinsically hostile, misinformed, and likely misleading, leading the conservative to cherry pick both facts and context, such as when cold weather somewhere, or a record snowfall is “proof” of a global warming hoax.

We see that the corporate driven perception of reality selects out ideas and even data that support its philosophy automatically, on automatic pilot to continue their flight into the future, unfortunately, as with cancerous tissue and direction, without concern for the implications of its thought or its action of self preservation leading to possible annihilation. These days there are many commercials from suspect corporations, suspect for they seem to perceive a need toi define their interest as solely ones own, they go on to demonstrate how worker and family friendly they are. The intent quite likely to divert our attention from the full consequence of their action, instead showing us how much they are for folks like us, our fellow humans. You like having your job, don’t you?

Conservatism’s Everyday Shell Games With Smoke And Mirrors Too!

These approaches to appearance reality perception count upon our ignorance; that I not know the full truth, but instead focus upon a subjective narrative surrounded with goodness and what seems right. Simple and effective in corralling cognition behind an enclosure of idea that supports something perhaps intrinsically fatal to civilization, yet now protected from questioning by a kind of belief appearing to be full truth.

Mind control attempts to be not only unseen, but inoculating the subject to be suspicious of the actual truth, thinking it is skewed and attempting to manipulate perception away from a consensus paradigm presented to be seen as necessary to life itself. The “wedge issue” and “culture war” realms are filled with intent to cleave society from perceptions of wholeness and congruity, presenting the idea that what is problematic in life is being caused by groups of others extrinsic to what is good and wholesome. For instance, I could be called a liberal being part of the problem for my ideas here.

Now, as evident on many conservative propaganda platforms, evidence of global warming is not scientifically debunked, (that manipulative scandal aside) but ridiculed as being outside the conservatives confirmation bias. The proposal is then seen as automatically wrong and suspect to derision, along with shame and blame strategies to divert attention from full reasoning. This is all about mind control being presented as the obvious truth of appearance and consensus realities, while full factual contextual rendering is drawn out as suspect for its requirements for more thinking and appreciations of Creation.

Conservative media outlets supply this pro-corporation exploitation of the world as our paradigm’s view, as the honorable one, the truthful one, the one that is the only good one. Messengers of the vast preponderance of data, such as with climate change tied to human chemical alterations of the atmosphere, are then cast into doubt with various thought-terminating clichés standing guard as validation of alleged scientific inaccuracy and theoretical bias. To listen to conservative media outlets is to receive a near continuous narration stream of logical trickery filled with the smoke and mirrors of rationalizations pretending to be forthright reason.

These “facts” are demonstrated daily to many millions of Americans with argumentative tricks of the trade; where reality is traded for confirmation biased propaganda, to those needing it; The “Real Truth”. Now we can “see” the global warming hoax for what it is; Or so it is believed was proven to be the case. This is how emotionalized data can become something other than honest truth, while technically, perhaps, being factual data in the abstract, and so, true. An example may be in Antarctica, where, while the penguins there are facing the increasing stress on ice retreating, but in the center of Antarctica, snow may be falling more often than it was before, “proving” to some perhaps, that all is well, even exceptionally so, for new ice must obviously be being created at an increasing rate. Context controlled to fit bias, then facts or data selectively used to debunk scientific theories–by appearance reality manipulation of perception of reality.

‘I suppose those warm-mongers will call this freezing weather as part of global warming! What a joke!!!‘ Such “common sense” connection is oblivious to a possible phenomenon known as the warm arctic/cold continent paradox. Yes, a possible aspect of climate change including global warming, where the warming polar air allows the polar jet stream to uncoil further than “normal”, sending cold air plunging southward, all while the arctic is experiencing record warmth. Much easier to be simple, obvious, and certain, than take in nuance, paradox and ambiguity endemic to Life.

Mental Meltdown

In much conservative media propaganda, the melting of the polar regions and migrations of plants and animals to the north in the Northern hemisphere are ignored. The current human induced mass extinction event is ignored. The vast predominance of record highs over those of cold over decades is ignored for momentary confirmation biased opportunistic rationalization debunking prospered as good natured honest “proof”.

This dishonest trick on the self, of logical myopia, serves the perceptual bias the conservative must confirm to keep cognitive dissonance at bay or tagged onto others. This is a hostile world view, or cosmological and spiritually broken cognition that leads to a disharmonious view towards existence, producing classic us against them phobia’s and psychosis along with the projection of these “truths” onto perceived oppositional characters. Then, as it is in existentialism’s morass of pick and chose for oneself meaning; mentioning conservative us against them paradigms makes the one bearing this message a guilty party to conservatives fear based cosmological and spiritual perceptions of the universe at large beyond their tightly conformed tent.

A critical thought toward conservatism’s rationalization matrixes can well mean to them that you are against them, obviously, and so, one who is blatantly propagating us against them consciousness oneself. This reverse reality technique allows one to not review the full impact of the concepts and tenets one possesses for a critical external view of others, usual across many boards.

Conservatism is often itself an assault on critical thinking ability, crippling the conservatives ability to see objectively, and thus perceiving the world as subjectively motivated. In the USA, conservatives rescript their perceptions of abstract ideological fortresses, such as The Bible and the US Constitution, as being their right to interpret and not others. This preserves the conservatives sence of abstract arrogance, while seeing others attempts at understanding those abstractions for themselves as being intrinsically misguided or influence by some evil nature. For conservatives truth is a one-way street–theirs, and this cripples their ability to be truthful and free, let alone honestly responsible to the ramifications of their actions.

Do As I Say; Conservative Conformity Matrix

All conservatives harbor misanthropic tendencies towards those who do not see the world as they do. This presents a perpetual problematic relationship towards Freedom, Democracy and other Liberal institutions that must include all. The conservative is motivated to act against these others in the world and in society. Within the conservatives broken, or dysfunctional perception, others are conceived as being the same, these others becoming the targets for conservative blame, shame, and ostracism campaigns designed to deny others of their right to be as they are.

The basic fundamental of the conservative mindset is; ideology (belief) before fact or evidence. It is something we all do, bias towards our own interest when the interest of another seems to contradict our own. Seems. This means I believe another’s interest is in contradiction with mine or in competition with it. In the basic bottom line math of survival—like other animals–it seems in my interest to put me first. It takes something other; a higher interest, to see past a basic Darwinian mindset into one with a broad minded overview.

I imagine many on the sides of left and right, as well as the middle, think they are one way but not really the other. As we dichotomize our perception, we side to bias–Confirmation Bias, and quite likely emotinalize the weight of our believed in correctness compared to the others.

Conservatism particularly, requires logic and interpretive defectiveness and defensiveness to seem correct. In this sense it is opportunism and rationalization dependent. Its interest in reason is not toward an investigation toward objective truthfulness, but instead, one which reaffirms its borders and imposed limitations upon perception and cognitive apprehension. This defective reasoning is then often called “The Truth”, case closed. Conservatism, with its mandate to not include others and evidence fairly nor completely, must then impose upon itself a nonsensical narrative; one making the conservative seem to be more entitled to the world than those who do not share the narrative.

The Narrative Rules; Those Outside It Loose

Those who support a world view favoring objectivity and the use of full context are left with mouths and minds left agape as today’s propaganda conservatives define reality with their myopic rational constructs. Here in Arizona this perceptual bias towards established wealth and power, and a subservient population, is in classic conservative head lock. The interest of others is only conditioned to the money subservient narrative towards what hearts, minds and souls deserve of this world, but those seeking to correct the myopic deformity in perceiving human nature are viewed as on the side of social, economic and spiritual ill, or evil. In this, ignorance parading as good old common sense is itself the source of evil–ignorance in action over oneself and others.

Beneath the wedge issue emotional tents set up for unsuspecting citizens, with many prompted weekly at church, on radio and TV to keep under the wedge issue tents toxic gas, the narrative, the storylines of conservatism, the us versus them mindframes are inhaled deeply with invisible penetration. Conservatism is in this way the Dry-Rot Of Civilization; that which eventually brings the individual and humanity down by excluding compassion, empathy, understanding and honesty.

In The Image Of Man: Conservatism Attempts to Make Conformity Universal

The story always has their ideological prism focused squarely onto the individuals very identity and worth as a human being. Here, a particular definition of God, patriotism and other things abstracted as pure to their narrative; such as morals, true values, Truth and goodness, these are identified as intrinsically their own, the in-groups providence. Others are always needed to be identified as being deceived or against their abstract definitions, the lexicon becomes as a kind of guarantee to the idea.

To this mindset, saying a thing such as you are intolerant of intolerance can mean you are just as intolerant as any other bigot. The mind-traps for the conservative mind, such as this example of an existential derived false equivalency, is just one of a myriad of logical tricks employed by conservative propagandists to “prove” their own nobility of character. The radio and cable TV hums with these deformations of idea day in and day out, charging the batteries of those suffering under societal stress to target their distress onto various politically charged targets.

As in other cults and cultures, imitation becomes a means for an individual to felt security, as if immersion it the appearance reality of the narrative can create the actual reality in the cosmological and spiritual sense as being full Truth to existence. Those not like us are easily pegged as being against us. I have encountered many folks who express the current right wing talking points, pretending they are free thinkers as they repeat what they have just heard o,n the radio or TV; disparate theories pretending to be confirmed truths.

Now, once embedded into the confirmation bias, a list of others seeming contradiction, different viewpoints, different appearances and even styles of expression such as dress, music and such, becomes codified as alien and other to cherished abstractions. To individual and societal manipulators, the armory of perception becomes propaganda’s voice of reason, but actually, self serving rationalization. The authority and integrity of those outside of conservatism’s mental and emotional strangleholds are discarded as so much garbage–unconcerned for where these end up, for they are discarded from legitimacy in the narrative.

Into The Electrified Tent

I attended a “mega church” one recent Christmas with family members, only to find this church to be a place, not really of worship, but of mind control set to a corporate agenda. The back of the church was filled with right wing pro affluent lifestyle books and pamphlets to file through as you left the church. It was very much an atmosphere of affirmation of kind of lifestyle with an organized intention to bias minds, hearts and spirits to an elite way to be in the world, a way with a political agenda as central to spiritual identity.

During service itself, we where cautioned that being Republican did not guarantee you a place in heaven. I can’t imagine anyone actually thought that, or did they? What kind of movement is based upon a spirituality wed to a material list or a political one? From the giant screens projecting high-tech emotive imagery, to the modern music set to dramatics onstage, this service seemed to be most about keeping attention by entertainment and the engendering of the “correct” bias. I had stumbled into what appears as the GOP driven spirituality merged with the modern worlds consumption and excess bias being framed as being a Godly thing.

Ill finish this article later, being I have things to do immediately—

The “New Centrism” and Its Discontents (chelseagreen.com)
Got real conservatism? (psychologytoday.com)
Must we parse the meaning of the word ‘open’? (washingtonmonthly.com)

Mar 20 2010

FEARCASTING : Conservatism’s Romance With Ignorance

FEARCASTING :

Conservatism’s Romance With Ignorance

Fear-Casting in this post means, using ignorance and fear to promote insecurity and paranoia to further emotionalized thinking toward protection from threat. A negative platform is used to elevate self identity for ones religious, political, or so called moral value agenda. It is a mainstay of conservative ideologies, and what it does spiritually and psychologically is; remove the individual from the present moment.

In Christian terms, fear-casting is manipulation of ones imperfections to project a future threat by oneself or others. Thus fear of hell or of sin occupies ones perception, while the things of Love fall back into the now hidden Light, leaving positive platitude abstractions as the beckoning Promised Land.

There is a newish trend in Christianity that some conservatives are using to rationalize possession and wealth as God given endowments “proven” by select interpretations of Biblical references. The problem with using the Bible to prove things is that one can prove most anything through it. My own “proofs” here select out from my desires to evidence my rationalization to some degree.

Unfortunately most “Truth” using a Biblical facade must ignore, intentionally or otherwise, the many Gospels selected out of the Bible through the ages. This exclusion must rationalize, or otherwise assume those other gospels were false and otherwise heresy. One thing we do know is that the government and church officials chose to consolidate gospels that more suited their own confirmation bias, that suited a consolidation of church and state over the individuals spiritual initiative. We are seeing something similar these days as in a harmonizing of Christian tenets to suit a corporate and consumptive ideology that must ignore its attending negative social and environmental impacts. Some Christians and corporatist alike must rationalize their way as the right way, while contradictory information is cast out or rendered irrelevant by decree.

Did I mention; Fear is the rule of doubt over that of Love? Fearcasting cast out Love, especially any sense of unconditional Love possible through the individuals initiative. Fear is anti-spiritual when used to ones own advantage, and in the definition of Christ message; anti Christ message. Many a religious message is imbued with fear, and rationalizations for it, than for a proactive stance for Love, which some religious followers employ regardless of negative message programing campaigns.

In the modern world, various interest wish to control fear and target it via ideology to unseat Love from the ruling perceptual throne. (God is Love) Whether it is the liberalism that Christ professed, or the fundamental inclusion of all society via ideals intended by the Founding Fathers, today’s conservatives are being seduced by their own ignorance to follow evil in the name of God and Country. Evil is ignorance in action.

From Fox News bias, to the many right wing propaganda, fear and loathing merchants in “The Liberal Mainstream Media” (actually a predominantly money driven corporate media), the spiritual, or human requirements, to care for Creation, are reduced to competition and threats from other than ones own Confirmation Biased glasses myopic belief system. This paradigm sets up the philosophies of cancer; divide and conquer, expand and consume at all cost, quite like the corporate model’s mindsets alignment with psychosis; all about me and no accounting for those others beyond.

These beliefs come to institute ignorance of The Whole, and ignorance of the real human heart in others, reducing them to dehumanized takers, slackers, or the immoral without “values”, out to take from your success and give to themselves. This is an ideology of separation and alienation. It is an antithesis to the message of Jesus Christ as well as The Founding Fathers of the USA. It is evil in action; Fear-Casting, controlling ones emotion and position in the present moment by extending it to a conceptual hypothetical “bad” in possession of those alien others. Conservatism is self reductive, excluding the diversity of Life from the individuals inclusion in the present moment, except perhaps, in platitude.

Ignorance, then gains great currency, while its spread and emotive viral influence dumbs down the population of conservatives by wedding their perception to an alienated universe out to reduce or seduce you. You must then seek to control it. This is partly done by detaching ones identity from it, then attempting to posses it as property, as a kind of entitlement to demonstrate the value one has by the goods and services one is entitled to via money, position or Divine favor.

Here is another great hiding ground of ignorance and Darkness; money is an abstraction, it does not denote godliness or success, except as one being consumed by the need of money and not of Love. The love of money is the rejection of The Whole and of God for a substitute idol worship. If you here money is not evil, it is the love of it according to scripture, you are likely hearing from one needing to avoid facing the deception that goes unaccounted for in abstractions.

“Come, enter the Kingdom. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was sick and you visited me.” Then Jesus will turn to those on His left hand and say, “Depart from me because I was hungry and you did not feed me, I was thirsty and you did not give me to drink, I was sick and you did not visit me.” These will ask Him, “When did we see You hungry, or thirsty or sick and did not come to Your help?” And Jesus will answer them, “Whatever you neglected to do unto one of these least of these, you neglected to do unto Me!”

The Evidence For Love Over Ignorance And Doubt

KJV 1 john 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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Jesus the Advocate for the Poor
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“Jesus had a special sense of mission to poor and oppressed people. At the outset of his ministry, sometimes referred to as Jesus’ mission statement, Jesus stood up in the synagogue at Nazareth and read from the prophet Isaiah:

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” (Luke 4:18-19)

The biographies of Jesus depict him repeatedly reaching out to those at the bottom of the social pyramid–poor people, women, Samaritans, lepers, children, prostitutes and tax collectors. Jesus was also eager to accept people who were well-placed, but he made clear that all, regardless of social position, needed to repent. For this reason, he invited the rich young man to sell all of his possessions and give the proceeds to the poor. (Matthew 19:16-30, Luke 18:18-30, Mark 10:17-31)

Jesus commanded, “Love your neighbor.” When asked to define “neighbor,” Jesus expanded the traditional meaning of the word–defining our neighbor as anyone who is in need, including social outcasts: “But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed.” (Luke 14:13)

In his portrayal of the day of judgment, Jesus pictured people from all nations gathered before him, separated into “sheep” and “goats.” (Matthew 25:31-46) To the “sheep” he says, “Come you blessed of my Father, for I was hungry and you fed me…” In their astonishment they ask, “When did we do that?” And he answers, “When you did it to the lowliest of my brothers (and sisters).” Conversely, to the “goats” he says, “Out of my sight, you who are condemned, for I was hungry and you did not feed me…”

Jesus himself cared for those in need by feeding the hungry. Crowds of four thousand (Mark 8:1-13) and five thousand (Mark 6:30-44) had assembled to listen to Jesus. They soon became hungry. When his disciples suggested that Jesus send the people away to buy food, he responded by saying “I have compassion on these people…” and “you give them something to eat.” He proceeded to perform miracles to feed these large crowds of hungry people.

Adapted from J. Bennett Guess, “Biblical Foundations for Justice Advocacy,” UCC Justice and Witness Ministries.”

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We can see the obvious; that many conservatives condition giving as well as respect for the poor and disadvantaged by their “superior” self idea position. Indeed, a movement of ignorance is now afoot to portray the poor and the needy in society as being given the judgment of God, evidenced by their lowly position. This is a blatant anti Christ Message. It is the elevation of the selfishness of a Darwinian social ethos in a society based upon pyramidal economy schemes being cast into being the “obvious” grace of God. Materialism, and having, being turned into apparent spirituality, completely anti Jesus ethos, but is now grand moral value affirmation.

We have fear of loss, and fear of others out to take, as a driving “value” in much conservatism. It is separation and alienation wed to time-line projections; from presumed Christian validation of serving God and future reward premise, to future self assurance either monetarily/materially, or in a promised afterlife. Christ message was for the immediate; the Presence of God alive in the present moment.

Demonize Others To Control Truth Perception Via Emotional Judgment

The conservative right wing requires cognitive dissonance abatement programs; ideas that justify their separation and alienation from others, and thus ultimately from God or the Universe in the here and now. The dissonance between belief and the life actually being lived can be faced and resolved by reason; or insulated against by denial and rationalization.

Love must be contained and even demonized; helping the poor and needy becomes “Bleeding heart liberals”. Societal responsibility for The Commons; that Whole of interconnection that makes a Place and its citizens A People, becomes “Tax and spend”. ‘You must pledge to not raise taxes or you are evil!’

Endless conspiracies are devised by the likes of Glen Beck, much of the rest of Fox News, and the many other demagogues like Rush Limbaugh, who display their own mental health and cognitive dissonance issues and confirmation bias to the extreme. The propaganda is delivered with self righteousness and contempt for those who are different.

This attitude seeks out the weakness (weakness in understanding and insecurity) in viewers and listeners, the fearful “taught” by the pedagogue to know what to fear and why. Unfortunately for much of the audience, a seemingly coherent to ideology rationalization/imagination can go on to seem as proof of cause and effect. It is no accident that science, peer review science that is, has fallen victum to demagogues who find select facts not fitting to ideological premise. The current “War On Science” is part of the campaign to make fear the rule of law, and not actually facts in context.

The “best” way to ignore and remain ignorant of other hearts is to make them seem inhuman and a threat to you, basic tribalism fearcasting. This approach will connect like a magnet to those who were just looking for the right rationalizations to deny Love and place Hate in its place inside their fears. We abandon God for the seduction of opportunism’s temptation’s promise of comfort. In our materialism paradigm; these will be many, and their motivation emotionally clear in the highly polluted stream they are swimming in.

This whole ad-hominem crusade is being waged against Democracy, Freedom and a pluralistic America, by the right wing segregation campaign. They are forced into evil by ignorance parading around as enlightenment, and must deliver its fear based bias as The Truth itself. Truncated notions of Truth, Democracy, Freedom and self responsibility to The Whole of Life, come packaged and ready to be received by ignorance as wisdom itself. To the emotions of those true believers on the right, the propaganda stream of righteousness is imbibed as life sustaining pure water, yet the disdain of their misanthropic inebriation is most evident. Such is the nature of self deception and denial; “Whole Love? What the blank is that! Get a job and get a life you loser. You socialist commie fascist are all alike.”

My hypothetical quote above is an example of the psychology of the Thought-Terminating-Cliche´, these are designed to provide psychological cover for the lack of true knowledge and comprehension of others interest. These are a pandemic on right wing “truth telling” mono and dialogs. These are also prevalent on many far left commentaries, and even “middle of the road” notions that see the political extremes as somehow disconnected from the whole. Pretty, much, any excuse proffered to demonstrate ones superiority to others comes with psycho-spiritual framing that separates one from others.

Instituting Ignorance

The liberal media, (which should be liberal in a democracy; allowing differing viewpoints and a wide range of issue coverage), is demonized and turned into a Thought-terminating-Cliché, as many notions are a mainstay on the right. The abstraction and projection based profile of the conservative disengaged mind-frame, traps them into their fear and insecurity, making them primed and vacuumed ready to draw in the varying fear and loathing personalization campaigns.

Championed by the Republican party, some conservative Democrats, and the vast corporate confirmation biased media’s security interest, most every imaginable fear taggable to the right wing framed in notion of liberals, is cast out with hook, line and sinker into ignorances seas of uncertainty. It is no accident that issues such as poverty and pollution are seemingly vacant in conservative news and views; except to validate their own circular reasoning perceptual prison bars as “The American Way”.

It is the passionate blind leading the susceptible blindfolded. God and nation are detached an compartmentalized to ones own security interest and not that of a full Love in Life.

Love is this, unconditional Love is this; engaging Creation in the present moment with all one has. This is abandonment to the Will of God, while being possessed by the unknown, by ignorance to forward projections of security, are beliefs designed to create doubt and insecurity, as well as assume a negative idea for those not quite like oneself and ones belief system. Many a conservative Christian is being consumed by the levels of their own paradigms conserved ignorance. Conservatism itself, is in need of all of our understanding and compassion; that the light they profess may see The Light of Love, our God.

It is this sort of contempt for Creation and its parting out to the highest bidder, that produces the callused contempt breeding diatribes of fear and loathing on The Right. They feel with their own ignorance, with its over layer of grandiosity of ego, elevated to God hood, yet actually are abandoned by the Ways of Life in the Living Now. In this pruned by ideology and insecurity Now, they are easily set upon by those deemed unworthy or ungrateful, who as they define them, are out to threaten their fear based security interest. It becomes them or me, ‘us and them’ in the right wing deconstruction perception. The righteous become trapped in the quicksand of their own ignorance, with the desperate insecurity driving the rationalizations for evil to be made to appear as Right.

By “palling around with” Evil, one is able to leap into fear-cast ideas, with ignorance as ones guide, able then to making statements such as “Palling around with terrorist”. The received cheers and taunting towards ones political opponent, smells to the ego like victory and the binding of cause to purpose. All being “fair” in love, war, and seemingly politics.

A complete seduction out of The Now, where God is present with us, to extrapolations of future and past presumption devoid of present Love and connection to All. Instead of Love being possessed and overflowing in the Now, it becomes hate via the absence of love.

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Demonization

In religious terms; those suggesting Satanic of demonic influence in order to effectively surrender to fear and insecurity along with a projected socio-political agenda-narrative; are themselves, palling around with evil. As is often the case, perception is in the eye of the beholder, and not necessarily at all in reality.

Reality “falls” to contorted cognitions designed to suit desired perception identity. Far right conservatives (and others usually exposing absolute attitude) employ these negative influences to project the need for force over reason as the means to control reality. It is in this endeavor that ignorance can appear as good. By “Nature” this kind of good will corrode consciousness, for ignorance is not knowledge and so, not understanding.
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World vs. God (stophereiwannagetoff.wordpress.com)

Mar 12 2010

Arizona’s Beauty And Its Senatorial Incompetence

Arizona; a beautiful state full of beautiful people, but that says nothing about the patronizing right wing demagogues it passes off as its US senators.

I know of nothing these two dimmed down bulbs have done for Arizona, not all of Arizona. As most Republican leaders these days; under their tent grows their version of serving the conserved status elites, while trying to seduce we regular folks to their own one and only kind of view toward Life. Their projections of fear and insecurity are tailor made for business interest to trump the average citizens. We citizenry are put into our proper servile place; to stay in the molded mindset of a corporation based government paradigm.

Down with (public democracy) Government! = (Up with Private Dictatorships!) Hide that last part in parenthesis. Thanks.

Many a Democratic leader seems to have this same affliction; pandering to elite powers seductive addictions. I’m not selling the Democrats as saints here. This post is mostly about mind control tactics being used on populations kept essentially in the dark by a corporation slanted media that follows its own opportunistic calling. (Uh? But didn’t you mean to say a Liberal Mainstream Media?)

The public at large, especially in places like Arizona, are given their view from those getting the most from all the environments; social, economic, earth ecosystems etc, yet pawing off the responsibilities for maintenance, cost and upkeep to all. Wealthiness is socialized economic redistribution after all. And wealth must be given its narratives of achievement and success, devoid of responsibilities and accountability to The Whole. Cause what egomania fun is that! For this, the GOP and right wing propaganda machinery is designed for diversion, denial and obfuscation, all buttressed by platitudinal pabulum.

With myopic lenses inserted; why Arizona and America’s interest are all clear as a tax cut. Down with Government, that coincidentally in a Democracy defends us militarily and rights-wise from opportunist with other forms of power, unless they kill Democracy’s dimensional and directional value, and or take it over that is.

Arizona has unfortunately been sculpted to make the positive aspect Appearance Reality of wealth be its Consensus Reality mind-frame as well. We The People, are to tag along behind the really important to my election people, bearing the brunt of all the negative sides of wealth and its consumption addictions.. Now with corporations being allowed to socialize their own “freedom” to influence Democracy at will, thanks to the ever incompetent conservatives on the Supreme Court, the mind cleaning for corporate conformity will proceed at a picked up pace.

Perceptions (right or wrong) of order in societies functioning, can erode away the rights of “We The People” while being chanted by the misdirected to that very phrase. The Pharos would have been proud of todays conservatives achievements in skewing reality perception by linguistic trickery and other forms of sophistry necessary to have rationalization trump reason. How? Reason (demonstrable cause and effect) is made to be suspicious, while emotional cause and effect undeterred from fact checking is made to be obvious. Enter Fox Newsiness and all the other right wing propaganda platforms where no full fact base or context need apply.

The Obama Omission Haunts Arizona’s Commons

With Obama taking away the sensible Governor for homeland security, we were left with the sycophants of predatory wolves free to rule the hen house of the states residents common interest. A biased to hierarchical branded “Freedom” comes packaged with populist pabulum delivered all self righteously and entitled of course… We see all too often how scary John McCain appears, with his dizzy spiraling ideological “common sense”, as he regularly tries to be a spokesperson for the lobotomized right wing base he used to be sensibly leery of.

Now the name of the passion game is; that party virtue is to be as crazy-(accusatory without evidence or honest context–fear merchandising) and intellectually frozen in place as can be. Open minds in Arizona’s leadership? We don’t need open minds here, those are to be loathed. Stuff just falls through open minds anyway, obviously.

Kyl has perfected his top down view of the publics interest to suit Arizona’s top place (winners) business folks needs. All goodness and moral quality are known by viewing the self centered needs of wealth and power, as long as they do not help poor people who should be helping themselves after all. Don’t they see how society works for those who have? It’s Gods message to them apparently. We should not interfere with God people. What are you thinking! I like how the “Eye Of The Needle” has been engineered to be the freeway to goods and services. Faith and trust come in real handy as a mechanisms to cover over reality.

Serve those who reward you economically or what are you doing? It seems people of “substance” like to be “framed” grand style, by being told how they are the best there is, and can do no wrong unless caught at certain things. The chamber of commerce Golden Calf Chain is anchored around Republican heads and hearts while the rest of us should be quite, just be grateful for knowing our proper place. This produces an economic cosmology that grinds down the idea that true and full public interest is the primary one in a Democracy. We are losing it.

{Here is an article I just came across that reflects upon the state of conservatism.}

Why Conservatism is Disconnected From Reality | The Moderate Voice

Propagandist of the right, agitating for self separation anxiety in the public, and so dependency on power structures, such as the GOP does, various Rush Limbo’s, as well as most all of Fox News; portray how fear and loathing are to be ones actionable better angels. And of course! Bring this up to any of them and you will relativised existentially, likely be told that you are the one producing the dissonance, by suggesting one should fear them. Ha! Caught me hypocrite! This contrapuntal circular reasoning trick is a mainstay in conservative alleged debunking platforms, it “existentializes” any criticisms, seeming to produce an effect similar to a Thought-terminating cliché.

The fear and loathing, wrapped in pseudo scientific proof for science claims of likely facts, or psychological and social ones, get associated with their opposite side of the coin energy by claims of moral superiority. Now a rabbit can come out of knitted cap; specially delivered with much smiling and wincing for confident Appearance Reality sake in the confirmation bias enabled Consensus Reality show. No really!

Exhibit A; Fox newsiness entertainment shows. It is all about manipulating and contorting how things seem, and not objectively how they are in full context or perspective. Perception of cause and effect are highly truncated and convoluted. Here is where faith, trust, and party loyalties cover over the landscapes of ignorance with ideological certainty of purpose and rightful cause. The faithful trust Fox to give them their fix. This enables Evil (ignorance) to go right under their radars and into their policies.

We see all accusation from these conservatives, but no real answers, except to recite a business, or an alluded to certain kind of Christian model identity as The People’s. For the self defined religious conservatives, one religions imagined superior moral value currency is decreed as the only viable one in our nation, and ultimately the world. No pluralism and diversity. No freedom, real democracy, nor liberty need apply. This sort of a priori surety of foundational concepts, insulates unstable and dependent identities from the ambiguities and nuance at Life’s table. –It is my way or the highway with you. My God or my version of The Constitution are making me get you.

Suffering The Fools

Speaking of highways; I personally know if you come to Arizona from Mexico or New Mexico, better go to the bathroom there before coming into AZ, cause the rest stops are closed at their first stops on the Interstate here. Budget cuts for beautiful AZ that somehow Texas And New Mexico seem to survive with intact.

This is what the Republicans, along with the hugely private funded “think tank” version of focus grouped dimmed down conservatism we have today, has done to Arizona. Once brimming surpluses were eroded away by tax cuts for the wealthy. You know; that whole strangle government from interfering with your personal income; the grander the income the more responsibility for the state and nation one seems to reject. This is contempt for The Commons– the connectivity of Life in society and all other environments. It requires philosophical mindsets of separation; of us and them, a compartmentalized and segregated consciousness, to explain how one is fundamentally better than another and intrinsically at odds with their interest.

What goes around comes around in the real world however; the greed–(self entitlement without acknowledging consequence) of the wealthy comes to curse the majority who made the wealthy wealthy. Yes, like the economy, the wealthy redistribute the nations and states wealth to themselves, with society allegedly providing the winner narrative, as one envied by all.

This can transfer the wealthy’s skewed alienated perspective as one we each should desire and pursue. Now the detached, and in some respects, deluded individual, finds “death taxes” and certain tax cuts as coming to them rightfully, when it is actually an issue for 1% or so of the population. Better than smoke and mirrors, it is conservatism’s need to not check facts, to have contempt for them, unless they are cherry picked ones that suit their confirmation biased world view.

This is conservatism’s profound incompetence; its truncated spiritual and cosmological world view. It preserves the conservatives fear and insecurity dependency based delusions of grandeur, while blaming those without for not being go getting, or good enough; The Commons be damned, or better yet, kept completely off the perceptual radars. Pollution? Poverty? Vast common interest? I just don’t see it! Get a job! Get a life!

Watch What I Pull Out Of The Liberals Hat!

These two senator guys, like most Republican leaders and their ideological string pullers, have to figure out how to sell the wealthiest interest as all our own. Language must be commandeered, and it has been over the last several decades. A word and idea such as taxes, or responsiblity for Freedoms maintenance in a Democratic nation; the way a Democracy addresses major issues affecting it, is reduced to an impingement on your right to have everything you can get and give back only what you decide–(actually, Representative government already is this by vote).

But from the demonization of concept campaign; the public interest; that Big Side of every citizen, is to be taken care of by nothing, as if we are actually detached from this world and Creation we live in, a delusion. But by focusing on negative tag frames of reference, an ideological identity emerges as a kind of freedom loving “common sense” mandate prerogative I have; that government is best that non exist. Oh. Its popular to say we need a military to protect our dumbed down concept of our “Vital National Interest”. This is suicidal for a democratic republic, not to mention the connectivity of Life and its vast interplay of system dynamics integral to all our existence.

It, the consequences of ones actions beyond the self, will clean up automatically after my life and business somehow. It is magical thinking after all! I know of some conservatives (certainly not all) who resent recycling; must seem a bothersome, imposed new change, or a do-gooder suspicious conspiracy to make my life hard. Fixing infrastructures is now–a big tax on your children! But how else are common things done? Your church or the company you own or work for going to do this for itself? As I said; fear and insecurity grounded delusion’s of grandeur they want us all to bear for them.

This is how tax cuts can become a state and a nations deadening weight. That Democracies with the highest tax rates are considered to be quantitatively and qualitatively most free, is against the individualist alone narrative being offered as the supposedly only one for the freedom loving citizen. Even the libertarians hat can be stuffed with baloney instead of rabbits.

And Faith Makes Objectivity Irrelevant

The program to attach economic well being to Gods grace flowing upon you, is now well under way in America, sometimes called “Prosperity Christianity”, but it is actually materialism’s guise as Gods grace. You are poor cause God is punishing you. Jesus had the loaves and fishes, not us.

Fear and insecurity are the leverage points for unstable identity’s who’s egos are “naturally” always seeking to be the bride for various absolutist mind-frames. The national (corporate now mixing with theocratic) narrative is filled with paying attention to stocks, and wondering what kind of Nirvana we all will pursue with all the money and morals we would have if liberals were not around.

This completely ignores the pyramidal and predatory nature of unregulated capitalism, as it has been allowed to disintegrate into a dominator mindset without Democracy’s thoughtful oversight. With your money or your life as the “Life” paradigm, we are literally saying that human beings only deserve what they can afford. That money is an abstract symbol actually detached from rules of true merit, honesty or achievement, is conveniently not to be considered. The new God is Coin, or was that the old Golden Calf?

That is what is destroying a true national community of cause, and polluting the American Spirit. That Spirit is reduced to, who gets the most income wins the most from life; achievement, heredity, hook or crook,– is now the one and only American Way. I heard a Republican representative pontificating against the socialist nature of a healthcare system, (like an optional medicare), while then saying he stands for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

United States Declaration of Independence – Wikipedia, the free …

… that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. …

Notice Life comes first in this grand rights abstraction. If it is as it is–your money or your life ( some 45,000 die each year from lack of adequate health-care), how then is Life the presiding unalienable right? Is it really; Well. It’s what they would have said was the case, if you have enough money, you then can have Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit Of Happiness? This is the kind of self retardation being created by fear and paranoia’s myopic identity framers, and not the USA’s Founding Fathers and Mothers.

In the name of Freedom, Liberty and, Death To Taxes!, America is being undone by deluded intention. They will end US up in the Singapore model of economic prosperity, the same one China is idealizing; no criticism of the economy or the cultural narrative, then money’s Golden Light will shine its graces upon thee. Know thy place my child. There be free.

No! It’s You! Na, Na, Na, Na, Na.

Conservatives make a seemingly unavoidable perceptual error; the fallacy that liberals are themselves as dogmatic as they themselves are. The colored lens of absolutism produced this fallacy for conservatives; that liberals are not self correcting. Liberalism is by its very nature, a self correcting theoretical framework, where “higher truth” is allowed to win out if it produces a superior objective logical case.

This does not mean that liberals “know” they are right as conservatives do. Liberals and conservatives are likely nearly equal in their actual lives regarding fact and fiction. Liberals, or that open nature toward Life that all humans have somewhere within themselves, adapt to changing situations, instead of insisting that situations cannot or should not change. As it is; Life does intrude on the best laid plans and beliefs.

There Are Diverse interest With A Varying Places On The Continuum Of Connection And Responsiblity: This Is The Way Of Life And Of Democracy.

A Way that is actually abstract and emotionally detached from all things, except those supporting the economic paradigm which controls its own self affirming philosophical tenets, is a scheme. You can get angry, get greedy, or lust for the “good life”, then “succeed” mightily. The more you make seeming to define the more you wish not to contribute back to the actual systems you are taxing by your success. Magically, society and other environments take care of themselves somehow. Not my problem! Make a liberal angry; succeed and be happy!

Yet that paradigm says you are a success; the income proves it! You are no longer a loser but an achiever; one being responsible for oneself. You were kept down by liberalism’s lack of expectation and provision of entitlement. Now you are a self made success, having overcome liberalism’s depression of your spirit. However, in this new success schemes self fulfilling prophesy, you are also set up not to see where everyone else really is if you could ever achieve such an awareness.

You do not see nor likely no longer accept the dissonant reality, that some are not every actually in your position for a rebirth into a self reaffirming material mindset. Some do not have the ability or the emotional makeup that you do. Some may not be spiritually aware as you are, and depriving them of basic life ingredients may well only make your “tough love’ a formula for an others death sentence. You may now believe that the physical can force moral value enlightenment, but it may well end up defining materialism as the worshiped goal, and materialism detest critical awareness of its spiritual impacts. Yet “value” and “moral” votes think they can force goodness into people by preventing them from doing things by force.

Conservatives Without Conscience: Christians and Earthly Authority …

Aug 2, 2006 … I’ve just finished reading John Dean’s new book, Conservatives Without Conscience, and have found much fuel there for examining conservative …

Leaders Without A Conscience Of The Real

Herein is the ground to manifest the mental and spiritual illness affecting much of conservatism today: Responsibility and accountability to a Whole system, can seem to conservatives to be an unjust imposition upon their own particular amputated conceptions of freedom and individual self realization. They fall under the spell of alienation and its attendant fear and insecurity; seeming to constantly complain about the weaknesses “out there” in the world. They see others as lacking in their own self confirmed bias and faith in a system designed to exploit individuals and environments while being itself psychologically backed up to adding brick and mortar to a wall of denial toward The Commons, or if you will; Creation.

This mindset intentionally will ignore corporate, as well as all of our, responsiblity to the vast Commons—all that connects the relationships of the life we each possess. Instead, the idea is to turn the table in the temple over, expelling God, or if you do not accept that God is a reality; all the integral associations of Life in Creation that we are all immersed in together; the air, the earth and so very much more.

Instead, they leave only vendors selling the necessities of a parted out Creation, where money is the determinate whether you literally live or die. Your survival value is–how much you have. Some see this worshiping of materialism as the grace of God being bestowed upon them–how convenient a rationalization. Not unlike the one humankind has been burdened with for ages– the haves validating themselves while distancing themselves from the have-nots’. The cultural scheme rewarding with circular logic; the design of the scheme professed as destiny.

It is emotional and spiritual voodoo made to seem like Divine Respect and Sanction. The unbridled exploitation mindset has the same functionality as cancer; it will destroy its commons (the individual’s body of cells interconnected in this case) while consuming all it has to survive eternally. Today’s materialism actually denies spiritual realities, and can so claim to not be destroying anything—Why. Do you think I would destroy this planet where my family lives! You are crazy! I just don’t accept the science. there’s just to many unanswered questions… etc.

Ways To Control What Is Left Of Democracy

The intentionally designed, lobotomized right wing requires thought control to keep the vast and varying interest of life on earth, including its people, unawares of manipulation of self identity scripts and narratives. Instead we get purity test for conservative “credentials”. This is how fascism is made from Democracy; eliminate church and state boundaries, eliminate state and corporate boundaries, eliminate abstraction and reality boundaries, then control the detached individuals fear and imagination parameters.

Now people can be organized and manipulated by providing them with fear and insecurity projections toward what you wish. Right wing think tanks spend good money on figuring out how to say things to you so that you will think like they do. This is best done through faith venues; such as church and business economic interest click’s. Otherwise; stress in the population is to be tagged to liberal ideas and diverted from conservative ones–the ones that provide thought control automatically.

Consider those who say we all must contribute a fair share to maintaining the health of this earth and its inhabitants–these must be portrayed as taking from your now castrated view of the self identity and awareness of realities principles of union. A wealthy person may use this earth a million times more than I do, yet essentially only want to give back what I do; Why that is only fair! Cut (my) taxes!

The detached individual can easily feel that taxes take from them and give to others. It is a “No Brainer”. It is no stretch for an imagination devoid of the deep connection in the realities of Being. These folks are actually slaves to a profit–(corporate/individual levied tax) which is separation centered and not interested in maintaining the health and wellbeing of The Commons. It is instead; interested in maintaining the separated individuals ego as an achiever or winner of goods and services that no one has any business minding themselves about–(cancer to The Commons).

They (conservatives in general and the right wing especially) must ignore and deny or reject their accountability to The Commons, except in abstract cognitive dissonance avoiding generalizations. And this is what we are left with; people who must deny science and those interested in the health of the whole society or the whole planet. They will cherry pick facts, usually calling them the real truth!, often needing only one to “prove” their own confirmation bias, with a shame and blame narrative for those liberals, (to assist in the cognitive dissonance mitigation of those with truncated identities). They are then left with the passion that besets Appearance Reality designer facts that prop up the emotive narrative for the Rights Consensus Realities frames.

The likes of Arizona’s two “conservative” senator ideologues, one somewhat coherent and the other maverickly mixed up, these are wed to a truncated world perspective; including the mind, heart and soul contamination of fantasy that goes along with it. They seem detached to their worlds of isolated consciousness, where the value and moral ethos to life here in Arizona and the USA is; Your money or your life; Your money is your value; Your money is your worth. Your money depicts you moral and ethical worth. Your money decides your life; your health care, your food, your shelter. Your money defines whether you live or die.

This is why the Dry-rot Of Civilization Is Conservatism; for in the mistaken attempt to conserve a one way thought pattern, it actually cuts off the fully integral nature of Being, of Existence, claiming there is nothing new nor nothing real of value outside its singular cosmological and or spiritual perspective.

The blood of Life becoming stagnant. The fungus of fear and insecurity nesting throughout perspective and cognition, leading to heart hardening, while blood is reduce to thought. This problem made of itself to its life, now taken out on others, unable to address how they themselves were seduced to the position that they know it all, and need not hear you or I.

And so we have the hate and fear mongers of this day; They are serving the life of the fungus and not of the Spirit.

From Arizona With Love

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Feb 10 2010

What Climate Change? It’s Snowing! Ha!

When its cold or snowy; does that mean Climate Change is in error?

Well why not then?

If one thinks cold or snowy winter extremes prove Climate Change is a farce, one is likely measuring a confirmation bias, and not the earths weather system as a whole. For instance; major parts of the northern hemisphere have just experienced a record warm January(*). But if there’s a snowstorm such as just happened in the eastern US, God is proving Al Gore wrong! — Not my idea; propaganda directives from the conservative mind meld machinery.

The right wing demagogues are out to “prove” truncated context, ie, a snowstorm or a record cold weather event, is evidence of a Climate Change (global warming) fallacy.

Where do these disconnects in reason come from?

And why?

Almost to a one, the confusion oriented right wing is seeing a Big Lie in the snow angels being made across the Northeast. I may make one tonight at my house! Climate Change, however, is not a specific weather event, though any may relate to it in some manner–stronger, weaker, depends on things like whole context and worldwide data. Climate change is based upon correlations with chemical changes humankind has and is introducing to the environment. This does not mean there are not other drivers for climate change historically, and possibly concurrently.

Yet for some reason, some folks are quite sure that most of America is full of the self retarded, unable to grasp nuance in scientific theory, while claims of scientific hypocrisy come very cheep; a cold spell, some devious researchers etc. As I often claim; conservatives usually require one seemingly contradictory idea or fact to debunk an entire liberal, and, or, scientific concept.

The opposite however, does not apply; to debunk conservative or right wing rationalization paradigms, one would need to “prove” all of their ideas wrong. Anyone who claims to prove them wrong, or a perponderance of debatable conclusions, will be demeaned, demonized or otherwise cast into a negative tag/frame. This is an emotional requirement in many to avoid cognitive dissonance from disturbing a dubious Consensus Reality wed to many an Appearance Reality error.

Beyond the surity of conservative superiority complexes regarding their character or moral/value presumptions, insecurity rules identity in the conservative with its iron fist of attitude as refutation of the reality based rules of critical thinking. Science is demonize, except where some data or a pseudoscientific theory “proves” the prevailing scientific notion “wrong”. The unhinged from fact or context requirement of this trust in their own unquestionable convictions, makes faith into the conservatives life raft of identity constructs. Trust, faith, and allegiance/loyalty are allowed, even insisted to trump Gods laws of nature and of Truth.

In America, it seems powerful forces bank on Americans being unplugged form critical thinking. We all, and this planet we love and live on, will continue to pay the price of ignorance instituted for the status and security needs of the few.

Ignorance is the demagogues prime capital. This is why they must insist on its rightness, and propagate it throughout the culture to control Democracy; manipulating and directing fear and loathing. “The right wing echo chamber” is term given to this disseminating media phenomenon that constructs an Appearance and Consensus Reality of manufactured truths made into false idols, then called, “The Truth.” Circular Reasoning at work.

This deception of the public, and attempt to deceive “We The People”, caries all the trademarks of the charlatan, with sophistry made to the order of ideological propaganda. That ignorance is worshiped as if the word of God, and nature called into question, is unconscionable. This is perhaps why the manipulation of perceptual truth by leveraging ignorance, is actually the worship of darkness in the name of The Light. This requires much attitudinal energy to overcomes ones own doubt, and perhaps awareness of incomplete logic being called fact.

The right prosecutes the outer world for its own error in judgement.

A real fact checkers link to Climate Change below.

January 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.72 Deg. C « Roy …

C in January, 2010. This is the warmest January in the 32-year satellite-based data record. The tropics and Northern and Southern Hemispheres were all well …

Why do people in positions of authority seek to mislead or misrepresent the truth? Power and status are the same motivators they have always been to profit from intellectual and emotional seduction.

Now some very relevant observations by the philosopher Bertrand Russel, who saw through many of the mind games played for perception and social control.

“Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.”

“The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held,
but in how they are held: instead of being viewed dogmatically,
they are held tentatively, with a consciousness that new evidence
may at any moment lead to their abandonment.”

“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed, the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction.”

“Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindness in favor of systematic hatred.”

Jan 30 2010

Conservative Supreme Court Rolls Fascism’s Trojan Horse Through America’s Gate

Sounds a bit harsh?

Why?

With the redefining by the right wing of what words really mean, the existential morass of word play goes one way; presenting all bad things are liberals fault, including fascism. Here we find another hiding zone to impose “freedom” upon We The People.

WHAT DOES THIS REDEFINITION OF “WE THE PEOPLE” TO CORPORATISM’S BIAS DO TO DEMOCRACY?

IT UNDOES IT.

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”. Benito Mussolini quote.

It has long been arguable that money and influence already controls the American dialectic. The average “We The People”, have no real source of fair or balanced overview. The conversation is fixed: Fixed by a consumerism driven materialism that worships the individual as their own god; ignoring environmental and sociological impact and ensuing accountability. That accountability gets passed on to create dissonance in earth and psycho-sociological environments, skewing spirituality and perception.

Now money is equated as being both freedom and speech, allowing those with it to usually seem to have more of both. The abstraction is made equal but not the real individual. This generates a self validating confirmation bias skewing perception into circular logic frames that sanctify having, and attempt to ignore or condemn not having or other consequence.

Conservative cognitive dissonance is assugaed by negative psychological mind framing of others, which the right wing wind machine, and much conservatism, has as its actual emotional direction control. Moral issues can grab those who feel the dissonance, these become seduced into thinking you can legislate or force spirituality upon others, once you are convinced that they do not deserve the same consideration as you do for their beliefs. People are blamed and punished for their differing life views, even if they are not creating danger themselves. Example; Long hair does not hurt men or cause they to harm others, yet it is often given negative associations by tagging actions to appearance. This helps to poison the pluralism that should be endemic to Democracy.

Conservatism is about conformity and mandating ideology. It is a confirmation bias unto itself; its claim to good can see all bad as externally caused, be it by liberals, Satan or slackers. The lazy identity matrices of conservatism include and exclude according to ideological preference. It becomes easy to “see” the problematic nature of Liberalism, but never of Conservatism. With the help of an existential induced cherry-picking propaganda bias, which will feel like revelation to the individual encountering it, logic need only be tailor made to idea.

The rationalization conveyor belt of the right wing produces the propaganda product for minds eager to be self confirmed in their perception of “Truth”. This results in a kind of skewed and skewered perception that can find one or two faults in an alleged liberal notion as proof of discredit, while proof of a conservative discredit would require all points to be disproved, likely while a host of negative framed confirmation biased ad-hominen epitaphs are recited, so even when proved wrong one can declare being right all along.

If all else seems to fail, a common right wing, and many an argumentative, strategy is to existentialize the propositions, then declare the critic is the one who is guilty of what they themselves are doing. This seems to aid in psychological projection while serving to close the doors on introspection, by saying your opponents doors are closed. Another self righteous about face mind game gets played upon the self to avoid the pressure of real self review.

America: How To Divide Up And Conquer

On the economic front, the connectivity of society is denied or else put into hierarchical archetype. Ignore pollution; those saying pollution is causing something are looking for——-add Thought-terminating cliché—–;looking for a free ride, lazy unachievers, taxing and taking from you–robbing you, and any number of isolationist individualistic mind frames that unplug The Commons–the connectivity and interrelationship of all things from being considered as relevant. The individual is set up for isolationist perspective, likely reinforced by right wing media’s league ad-hominem logic generators that continuously spin (hence claim not to) on air and print.

Enter more cognitive dissonance assuaging propaganda and isolated conceptualizations of “otherness”. ‘You cannot change the way things are.’ ‘It’s not fair to tax me and give to someone else. I deserve all I have earned and accumulated. That’s just fair and honest.’ These kinds of Commons denials, and accountability denials of impacts on environments and society, become framed as an abstract definition of individual Freedom, where Freedom comes to mean I am not connected to you and you should have nothing to say about me and what I do. This is antidemocratic, a common tendency on the right.

Perception becomes cosmologically and spiritually myopic, the individual removing their hearts and their minds from others, banning Democracy’s equation of equal consideration. Instead now; negative identity framing is stoored up for projection for all allegedly connected to this view of the individuals responsibility as only unto themselves and who they wish. In this, everyone else becomes a target for blame and disdain.

As classic in cult and ideological redefinition; words, even abstract concepts, become truncated to a withdrawn from The Whole philosophical world view. Most Americans have been programmned to “see” the “common sense” and “truth”, of an in effect; deified individual who creates their reality all by themselves, an so, need not bother with anything or one else than who they chose. Might be possible in a perfect society in a perfect world of understanding and accountability, but is not now. Conservatism continues on its abstract and blinded by ignorance pathways, declaring what reality is and what beliefs are actual Truth, while holding only others accountable for not being exactly like them. this is why so many conservatives have kinds of conformity/purity test—you are not to think for yourself!!!

Conservatism seems to always have as its preference, a world where no one is allowed to think or act differently than the sanctioned norms; notice how conforming their identity ideas and ideals are. We already have corporations tweaking perception night and day; 24/7. Now come election time, they can create all the mind control oriented thought framing of Americas ideas of itself, while you and I—

–Can you spare the change?

When public mind control is made invisible by the wolves of multinational corporations and those with media to buy; Democracies undoing may become permanent. At least for Government, we allegedly get to vote.

The trouble with conservatism’s soul is; Democracy and Freedom end up being problems to control by force; by getting rid of them. An illusion is then generated that Democracy and Freedom are what conservatives are actually standing up for. The gravest seduction is right out in the open, but if yes are not, likely also not the mind, the heart or the soul.

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Jan 28 2010

God And Natural Events

I’ve been getting referral views from folks looking for signs from God in the Haiti earthquake.

What can I say?

{Link about Sodom and Gomorrah below}

Pat Robertson has alleged that the Haitian earthquake was a sign from God, claiming that Haiti has made a pact with the devil. ( FYI : Port- Au-Prince is right near a fault line. There are several earthquakes (approx 19) on earth each year over 7. on the Richter Scale)

By the same token, when Mount Rainer blows its top or has a large glacial meltdown triggering a potentially deadly lahar, anyone can claim that God is punishing, Oh lets say, Seattle coffee culture. Mount St Helen (which I heard explode) was trying to punish the Pacific Northwest for being liberalish. I’m sure that was why.

The frightening “natural” cause of these sorts of alleged signs from God, being expressed by religious and or political ideologues is; they think they speak for Gods Mind. Somehow, likely from a permission seen acted out from these individual’s history–That leaders who think they are right can speak for God–religious sanction of Divine Thought expression; and that is a delusion of grandeur extraordinaire.

Not only do they hope you and I believe their delusion, but they insert a particular socioeconomic, political, or spiritual idea of their’s as being actually of God’s. In this sense, many of these negative framed proselytizers are pagan themselves (worshiping their opinion as God’s) while pretending to represent a monotheistic paradigm. Their premise is the same as paganism; assign God to nature, only they tag it to specific occurences as acts of God, and not a host of god personalities.

Since these kinds of folks are familiar by enculturation with having these kinds of self imposed biases as being acts of God for things people do; they make up God’s Mind with their comments. Many a conservative religious idol dispenses demands of sorts upon God, but do not see it as such; they see it as a benevolent blessing and special connection they trust they have with God, enabling them, in their mind, to dispense blessings and assign damnation from their will on God’s Behalf.

.http://didyouknow.org/earthquakes.htm

I am both a Christian and a pantheistic person. I feel God is around and in everything–no exclusion clause, as if God had nothing to do, nor active interest in Creation. For me, the lessons of Jesus Christ showed us all a holy way to be; To care for all, but most importantly those who cannot care for themselves. To treat the presence of Divine Worth in others, particularly in those we humans may well feel are worthless or condemned. Jesus did not seem particularly enamoured with the “haves”, He seemed to notice they lose something of their humanity the more they seem to have; the Eye Of The Needle and all… Jesus professed a kind of Divine Union by Love.

This said, regarding telling others of Gods Will by what we call disaster; those who propose particular natural world events; floods, earthquakes, fires, meteors etc, to be the evidence of Gods wrath and will being projected onto particular humans for their “ways”, is claiming to know what God is thinking, and especially, that God goes after those one dislikes (for whatever reason). Now God is presumed active in nature when raining some kind of terror upon the unholy, for being wrong or making mistakes and error’s in their ways. Well; is God butting in to our worlds or not? How responsible are we, then, for our lot in life? What of the good Christians who died in the earthquake? Punished for being near sinners?

There are critical thinking diversions inserted for disabling both cognitive dissonance and contradiction; God works in mysterious ways; you cannot know the way of God, such as; ‘Well. He needed them in heaven’, and any number of other Thought-terminating clichés. This allows most orthodoxies to persist through crippling God given critical thinking abilities for seeing reality clearly and acting in honest unison with it. Most mind control depends on having things “both ways” while believing one is true to one in any instance.

This seems to presume God is judging us by the perfection standards of a Divine Being, when I thought we were human and not Omniscient; at times we create ill with the best of intention. This all says much more about someones own solipsistic doctrine and need to status claims to Divine Mind, than a real Gods energy directed at certain humans. We are playing at God, yet hiding behind God’s “statements” which then are cast like spells upon whomever we may declare unholy. Not surprisingly, the alleged unholy are often following their own notions of Creation and What or Whom rules it.

The political and ideological propaganda stealthily injected into religion by many a conservative, is more an indication of their lack of knowing in God. These alleged orthodoxy adherents seem to have a selective fondness for selected believed in ideas of His that seem to show lack of tolerance and rage towards those not obeying some Law, a “Law” that may quite likely be wildly interpreted to suit social, economic and political realities. We will find these laws being “broken”, are broken by those who do not support ones own social, moral or political agendas. It is putting words and ideas into the alleged mind of God by proxy, indicating a delusion of grandeur of lawless scope and self serving design.

Many a conservative is actually a hyper liberal of sorts, only hiding their perception under ideas they believe sanction them to have any belief about a notion they wish. Doesn’t really matter if some alleged authority tells you it is Gods Way. It is humans saying they are God and that you are somehow ignorant and dependent upon them, which they call God.

Running The Universe In Their Own Minds

An Indian reservation near Tucson Arizona was experiencing a continuing drought in the 1990′s, much of southwest US still is. A native spokesperson (chief) and assumed holy man of the reservation, declared the drought was occurring because the young people of the reservation had lost interest in native culture/religion and were leaving it. This was the same drought I was in. Yet for those who much prefer sunny dry weather, as many an Arizona immigrant from cold wet climates does; overall it was good times. The gods or Spirit must be smiling on them big time?

Let Me Tell You What God Is Thinking For Events Unfolding

Conservatives can claim connection, yes even to the Divine, or The Founding Fathers, or to Jesus et al, because their concept of cause and effect has become tailored by idea and not by full fact or full context. They truncate context and call it context, select facts to fit idea and call that common sense, or seemingly. It appears they just plain do not see the quicksand or reason their concept being pushed may be sinking into, and by damning critical thinking, they blind their followers to it as well. They have crippled their cosmological view and spiritual perspective.

Then, for instance, you can get Rush Limbo stating that there is some kind of nefarious reason between Obama’s response time for a shooting or failed bombing incident, requiring multi levels of investigation and analysis before wise action can be taken, no matter who is president, (such as George Bush’s even longer response time after the “shoe bomber”), and a whole differing level and degree of cause for responding quickly to a natural disaster where thousands of lives depend on immediate physical help.

As if responding quickly in one instance, and not in another, is a coherent reason for some concept of causal idea comparison (disconnect context and connect faulty premise based assumption–confirmation bias. It is false context and idea baiting to fool those ready and willing to be fooled. The demagogues way depends on such ready and willing minds to spunge up bias as if it were truth fair and square. The great, in is own mind, Rush (to judgement) Limbo, went on to séance concepts of Obama pandering to his black audience, while emoting a stirring cauldron of confirmation biased propaganda as what was being decifered by “facts” from the dark mind of Obama. See how ad-hominem imagery can cast a spell over assumption?

Confirmation Bias And Presumed Consensus Reality As Appearance Reality

Faith can become the laziest thing, making it even a more powerful agent for deception. One need believe, make claims, then accept the assumptions the group or culture puts out there; This happens cause of this. You got a cold? You might have been doing something wrong morally. But is that truly cause and effect, wishful thinking, or known disingenuous mind framing?

For the conservative and orthodox conceptual mind-frames; purity of belief is held above fact and reasoned theory of causality, religion above science because science calls for debated evidence to show itself in reality. Not because God ever said this; that the laws of His natural world were designed against Him, but because the consensual reality has declared it for very earthly reason; reason that can be as simple as status, conformity’s fear of existential identity challenge, prestige, favor, but quite often money, and the appearance reality that goes along with it in many conditioned minds.

Minds can claim anything they wish, yet these wishes are not necessarily conditioned by the Spirit of Christ. But money? It allows one to assume the rewards of the Universe, or even God or self as God; to enjoy its benefits while others who do without and are excorsised from heart consideration.

The spirit of easy opportunity and ego inflation will bend practically any notion backwards and forwards to reward the entitlement. Strangely it seems, or maybe not so strange, money and possession are at the very core of many human identity conflicts. Money, being abstract and of no intrinsic moral value, allows the good, the bad, and the very ugly to be “safe” in the steady comforts of its illusory harbor. Money is an entitlement reward, abstract and of human symbolic design, as valuing gold or diamonds, but perhaps less intrinsically pretty.

It is of no surprise to me that the activist, “conservative” supreme court has said, in effect, that money is more an American than we the individual. It is also no surprise that many a conservative pundit and propagandist, bend over at money’s trough while claiming moral, ethical, survival or spiritual superiority over the Liberal institutions of Democracy and of Christ life lesson.

Conservatism is inherently undemocratic and antiChristian, yet with its followers minds and hearts unplugged from the Whole Commons of Being, in darkness, Truth can go unseen and God be interpreted or misinterpreted at will.

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Those Hypocritical Socialist! No Care Health Care

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HEALTH CARE ETHOS: YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE

Right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness?

FROM THE ANTI INTELLECTUAL MYOPIA TRUTH SQUAD NEWS ROOM

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REVERSING THE APPEARANCE/CONSENSUS REVERSED REALITY MATRIX TO UNCOVER REAL TRUTH CONCEALED BENEATH CONVOLUTED CONCEPTUALIZATIONS DESIGNED TO SEDUCE “SIMPLE MINDS” And other stuff…

What The?

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Those Hypocritical

Socialist!

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Wouldn’t you know it. There they go again. Those secret socialist are trying to fool you.

First they suggest that the poor deserve the same rights that the rich have!

Absurd!

The Founding Fathers intended that money would determine your place in society as it always had! No money? No life! What part of success do these secret socialist not understand!

Contradiction must be imbibed as if it were good sense. Enter the domain of cognitive dissonance; where what you think you are is not what you actually are!

We are gifted with the human mind ladies and gentlemen. The concept of reality is a construct, a kind of opinion. With our ability to exert excess influence upon the cultural narrative; we frame of define what words and concepts are. Their parameters are in our hands to mold to our need. This means science must be overridden and faith based dialectics encouraged as moral and ethical truths.

Global warming a fact? What warming? What fact? That’s your opinion!

Checkmate!

Cash that check from your “polluting”–not. = Successful! industry stock returns keeps flowing.

Why that is the American way. Are you against us or for us?

See. It’s about controlling the parameters of the narrative. Our corporate sponsors do this continuously without even being asked!

The right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. What part of that does health care have to do with it?!!!

No money? No health care! No option!

Over 40,000 a year die from lack of adequate health care. We need death to have nothing to do with Life! Contradictions must be thought of as being consistent with a coherent abstraction based conceptual matrix. This must seem natural! That way the Founding Fathers words can be detached from reality and interpreted the way we wish.

Secret socialism defeated!

Sure the poor drive on public highways if they can afford to have a car and pay for gas and insurance. This helps to return the general population to dependency modes on the wealthy, removing that living off the land ethos that let people survive essentially on their own merit. We decide what merit is! Not nature! Not God!

Irritate a liberal; succeed and be happy is what I say!

We love that the same tax that they pay helps keep the roads for our use. We must ignore and deny public projects that we require as being socialist or socialism. They are for our Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness after all!

Police, the military, disaster relief, bank and too big to fail industry bail outs for the supper rich, all these secret socialism agendas must be made invisible! Keep your government hands off of my Medicare is what I say! This is how we steer minds to our viewpoint; BY INCAPACITATING CRITICAL THINKING!

Remember folks, this is Darwinian evolution plain and simple, make no mistake about it! We stay on top by making sure self centeredness triumphs over the Public Good. This is the challenge predators always faced; making the public fall in line for status based schemes of control.

Remember; each time we defer to private control over public governmental control, we erase public imput over our actions. This defeats the secret socialism endemic to human survival. We place the individual over The Commons. Thusly, we put Democracy in its place—as the servant of status and control hierarchies. Now you and I can be the actual government, while our propoganda machinery defeats the secret socialism of Democracy and The Public Good, and The Commons.

Damn government interference in my life is what we say!

Say it louder!

There you have it! The individuals identity codified to subjective interest over societal and environmental connection. Now we can connect the dots we wish for our servant/success individualism paradigm. This subdues the individuals interest in interrelationship and connection to “The Whole”, making that whole something to dissect and sell off.

Now was that so hard!

We are in a battle over hearts and minds. A battle we win by controlling the dialectic and using our preexisting advantage! We will use all avenues of subjective vs objective impressions to win this fight.

Defeat critical thinking ability in any objective sense. To do this, favor faith over science! This places unverifiable tenets and theory beyond public analysis or objective inquiry! Secret Socialism undone! The Public becomes the servant of the Private.

Now we have the time tested tricks over the human mind at our disposal; create disenfranchised notions for those we find objectionable to our belief structure. Paint “The Other” as against you; Its quite easy. “The real America” vs?–not real Americans! Add your own confirmation biased presumption. “Real Christians”, whatever you like. Well, actually you won’t have to. We have propaganda outlets doing this day and night 24/7.

Its all about manipulating the appearance reality of good vs evil, attaching the conceptions to identity, then making it clear our target audience is painted in as the good. Now this establishes operational consent. This is divide and conquer for taking Democracy down to service our needs! Its our corporate welfare state, and not the public one! And don’t you forget it!

Attack critical thinking with Thought-terminating clichés. Invoke buzz words, with their identity tag negatives and positives, as conceptual king pins of perception. And; deny, detract and convince as deceptive, the ways of science to suggest and infer objective insight as deception itself.

Why its scientific opinion against my solid faith! No contest!

Presto! A big, fat rabbit out of the anti-socialist hat! By keeping the socialism/fascism/communist/atheist threat as intrinsic to The Public Good, we turn that Public Good into our servant, as well as all the faithful followers of our ideological take on Creation itself.

This is how we defeat socialism, or public anything we wish, while we strive to institute the unregulated individual advantage that will make the new feudalism a permanent ruler over religion, Democracy, and that great mass of public losers who serve us as their natural masters.

And don’t forget to thank both political parties, but particularly the most extremely “conservative” one, for making all this so easy.

Give a shout out to China as well. For their fake socialism, world dependency loops through globalism, the appearance reality of a healthy economy and a “lifestyle” sense of achievement. We could not do this without them! They make America what we sell it as!

Remember people!

The ultimate public option is Democracy itself!

Contain it! Undermine it! Reverse its reality matrix! Make it all about wedge issues, for they wedge the individual from the generic Public Good, and make it all about propaganda and idea control which we have the numerical advantage over! The empirical numerology of wealth!!! Use its blessings. Heck. Make money and blessing appear to be the same thing in the publics mind!

Right!

It pretty much already is!

Success people!

Success!

Defeat Democracy’s inherent socialist agenda!

May the God of Success be with you all!

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Sep 20 2009

The Many Ways Conservatism Surrenders Reason; The Price of Ignorance

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Let Me Pretend to Just Count The Many Ways Conservatism Surrenders Reason by Cashing in The Price of Ignorance

Democracy is a problem for us, plain and simple.

How are we to control the nation’s dialogue?

How do we get the nations attention to focus on and cover our own perspective, yet have those listening believe it is their own?

You saw what history presented for our conservative interest, and how we pivoted to fear, always fear to achieve results. First we drew attention to the external enemies “that attacked us”. We achieved more societal and government control through the public’s fear, allowing us to further regiment society. Once it seemed that the Democrats might prevail, even past our voter suppression strategies, we then pivoted to the enemy within.

Again. Our control of the population is via fear. This is a primitive mechanism regarding the unknown. First we pivoted to the unknown outer enemy seemingly everywhere, and now to the internal enemy seemingly everywhere. This gives us emotional control and direction over our message and entry points into its targets. I must state here the power of this fear; fear does not need a factual basis. We can literally invent fear; create images of that which promotes strong insecurity in our followers.

I can say the sky will fall if this happens, yet this cannot be disproven, since it is a projection of insecurity into an unknown future moment of unknowable dynamics. People cannot assume I am wrong, for my projection cannot be proved wrong. If I already have their ear, I already have them in my hands, and can put them in my pocket. This is sales after all, and it moves us away from the dramatic limitations of reality, giving us fantasy to use at will. Observe the conservative and right wing blogosphere to see what I am alluding to. Yet still we face the issue; how to spread the ideas we wish to indoctrinate the public with. We must instill insecurity into the public mind to mold them to our will, but how?

The answer is and remains; seduction to our side of the equation. Fear and status are the prime tag-team contenders for this opportunity for psychological entrapment of the individuals will. What is not known, becomes the balancing points of belief and opinion. We are given an open mat to throw our reality trapped opponents in, for unquantifiable insecurity drives many an individuals actual subliminal motivations. These ever-present fears are often stewing on the surface consciousness back burner; Fear of poverty, fear of God, fear of acceptance, fear of rejection; these all become tools in our box of persuasion. We leverage unknowns as if they were capital. And capital they are.

Our Contextual Problem

Those in control of any democratic nation face this dilemma; How can the wealthy and powerful keep what they have plus insure their future for their own, while the nation exist in a pluralistic paradigm were each vote is equal? After all, there are always more of them than us. We are at a distinct disadvantage, and yet we prevail. How?

Seduction to our interest. Plain and simple. We convince the public that their good is inextricably bound to our own. We become perceived as them. We then can go on to define us versus whomsoever we wish to diminish. All is indeed not fair in love, in war, or in perception.

There are many ways to do this pivot on perception; propaganda and hired help are the exponents of our viewpoint, but that is too loose and random to be allowed as our only means of conviction. We must gain access to the public’s faith and trust. We enter this doorway into the public identity by leveraging already trusted institutions. This then, pertains to cosmological assumption and spiritual presumption; Our interest must become tagged to what is, in effect, unquestionable opinion, but believed, and acted upon as if fact. To not so act in defense of these institutions will be perceived as being in some way wrong. We are defining truth here, for what are actually followers. Then that truth is inserted into protected question free zones, be they by religious or philosophical mandate.

Defeating the odds by controlling the game

We are defeating a kind of mathematical odds presented by those who created Democracy and individual freedom. Those odds are; that in a Democracy, a common interest could emerge where the common ground of life, or the universe itself, would seem as the right of all. We must defeat this perception. We do that with—-Seduction. Most all are driven by opportunism to receive what seems to help them.

Only concepts that submit to hierarchical model are deferred to. Role status, wealth status, power over, and other kinds of primitive authoritarian perceptions of desire, condition what the person expects of themselves and of others. With identity contained, behavior tends to be as well. Now the individuals identity and interest are married to our needs, and ours to theirs. We can make up most anything and they will believe it, particularly the most vulnerable and impressionable of our followers.

I refer you to Glen Beck and Bill O’Reilly to prove my point, but Rush or anyone else will do. They all rely on preexisting bias along with no objective reality testing of truthful context. The alleged subjectively designed context is true to their attitude. This is a move to bypass critical thinking requirements, while promoting acceptance of emotional direction as truth itself. Conservative propagandist do not require fact or real context checking; they reinforce already existing confirmation biases instilled into their receivers emotional narrative.

Instead of reality, it is bias that is the object of confirmation. Most any story will do, no matter how fictional. What we are defining is the nature of our adversaries and how they are not good like we are. Our interest are shared with our followers, while our opposition is perceived as being foolishly biased, or espousing a nefarious agenda upon the gullible. These psychological tricks will work on all who do not comprehend what truth or critical thinking requirements actually are. Ignorance is wonderful!

Creating ignorance, becomes a requirement for the emotional control of our followers. While liberals attempt to change society by solving problems one by one, progressively, we say liberals are the problem. Society need not change, problems need not be “solved”, but liberalism need be abandoned for all that is conserved to keep its hold over the population. Though we usually leave the “hold over the population” part out of our sales pitch! This gives us, not only ignorance to work with, but all problems as offspring of liberalism. I say checkmate.

We decide what those interest of society are as they pertain to us, and what they are not, as those behaviors or other opinions may help those beyond our home field advantage. And did I mention having the refs paid off! Through time and effort, we change the meaning of the national narrative to our conceptual grounds. We change the human formula to insure our need.

The Power of What is NOT Known

What is not known in the population, is that we are pivoting from what might be called objective reasoning, being rational, to rationalization, where context and content are controlled to offer directed reason. Our subjects do not recognize the ideological and perceptual containment vessels we have them in both coming and going. Most of our public does not distinguish between truthful fact based reasoning, and cherry picked conceptual framing; where the argument is tailored to have us give the answer which we wish. Wish upon a star? I say; wish upon what is not known!

We leverage ignorance and faith in this endeavor. We blend these, for they are beyond rational analysis, yet our folks particularly take pride in possessing them. This is their sublime beauty. We leverage preexisting institution and mindsets to favor us above the many. Here is the basic equation of have and have not, and most importantly, the rules to both. Faith provides us with the same capital as ignorance; the ability to seduce while the seduction is unseen. This is best carried out right out in the open. Shame and blame are key figures in herding the masses into our order while they think the are fighting for truth, justice and maybe even the American Way.

Notice how many of our conservative leaders are caught doing the very things they are accusing others of, yet most stay in place. This is faith above reason, belief trumping reality. This is the key. We can then always point to the other side when issues arise that may create cognitive dissonance in our faithful. “Look whose talking!” A classic.

We have a Nest to Nurture Our World Views

Conservatism is a perfect hiding ground for your own faults and failings; you can persecute their correction out in society, picking targets here and there, while you excuse your own human frailties in humble public or secret penance. You outwardly carry on “the fight for good”, while excusing your own surrender to its opposite, yet the public is kept untagged to these psychological machinations driving cognitive dissonance abatement. You, we, are the good guys, liberals the bad. Period. End of discussion. This perception is a fact in many a molded mind.

Constructing the boogeyman icon known as the Liberal Media, has been a great ploy to taint information coming in that we do not approve of. We can turn institutions into our own Trojan Horses. This is the power of prejudice; we allege the media has an intrinsic bias against what we have defined as the individuals and the nations good. And it is true; liberalism’s objective bias is a bias against subjective conservative paradigms of all kinds.

We have invested mightily in having the best and brightest minds to fill our conservative think tanks. We have designer Wedge Issues to cleave the public into two and then four. We have seeded the talking head establishments with many more conservative trained media informers who have sworn to support “The Cause”. Yet the tag of disturbing information is;–That Liberal Mainstream Media. Our folks do not even acknowledge our basic corporate control over it. We have them coming and going my friends.

When Dumbed Down is Power Up

You all know how the ruse comes down. It’s like taking candy from a baby. And this is exactly the infantile state we need the public immersed in; a big old baby crib that we rock. This rocking effects the baby’s mood; we train them to look forward to our promise of food, food for thought, we bring them comfort and promise. And so we effectively control the baby’s chemistry; their needs and wants become as nutrients delivered by our umbilical cord. Conservatism retains this baby blanket surrender to comfortable cognitive control; all is well as long as my institutions are well, hence conserved and unchanging. Now you can let the grown ups do the thinking for you, while telling you all experts agree, or some other comforting pabulum. We know we are on the right side after all! What else is there to comprehend?

We define what their life is to be, we lay the future scenarios out into spirituality or materialism, both work on our followers. We manufacture the parameters of their dreams. Their whole world view becomes hinged on our interest, as if they were their own. Three great seducer conductors are our ammunition; Money, Power, and perceived favor of God. Control these electrochemical optimism conductors, and you control the individuals sense of identity. This triune power base placed inside the individuals mind frame, allows us to direct their intentions both overtly and covertly when required. This is how we contain and restrain the common interest of Democracy and individual freedom; making them contingent upon our requirements.

Well. That’s what you say!

There are tried and true means of disabling valid argument, and having it defer to already polarised perceptions.

Existential relativism is a great intellectual tool, we can relativize perception of contravening results to seem confusing and hypocritical. The followers minds become anesthetized. Someone says; ‘You are not facing your contradictions.’ We tell our faithful it is our adversaries (of course!) who are not facing theirs.

If anyone attempts to divert attention by suggesting the errors are ours, we now can say, and be believed, that it is actually they who are hiding from their own wrongdoing We can in this way, render legitimate questioning as seeming illegitimate, while our followers feel the same; that they are defending what is right. We have inoculated our faithful against critical thinking and true objective analysis, but they are given worthy substitutes! Check the boards folks. We do this contrapuntal shell-game shift at most every embarrassing truthful revelation.

Did too! Did not! Did too! No I didn’t! It’s you! You did! You are the liar!

This still works as well as it did in childhood. Remember, we are not looking to actually solve the issues that divide us. Those are our capital, our means of control to play one off against the other. Defeating the odds is always the bottom line. Always, what is the secret narrative that allows the few to possess the many. And may I add; give us their energy and effort so our lives can be LARGE!

The Currency Of Blind Trust

Here is where conservatism, with its apriori and unquestionable truths, allows belief and identity to prevail over facts and connective context. No other truth is allowed in, or to stand in consciousness as actual reality. This pandering to prior assumption completes a circle in reasoning; a kind of defensive firewall against objectivity or critical thinking.

These qualities of unaccountability are essential to seduction as well as to our aim to inoculate our followers against ideas and statistical data that do not serve our cause. In this pursuit of control, emotion is essential to push faith into belief that becomes unchecked against objective reality. The individual identity is now controlled, while objective reality is effectively cut off from influence. We can then flush faith into any direction we wish.

In other words, for the person, we control how the universe seems. Though liberalism produced Democracy and individual freedom, we are now taking them both down by our ad hominem assaults upon reason. Notice all the Obama abomination gyrations bursting out of our base–they need to be deceived, and we give them what they need. Even with a birth certificate, for instance, many will not know that the negative presumption is not true. They are magnetically/emotionally attached to negative perception attached to our enemies, yet presume it the likely case. This is the blind power of conservatism my friends, embrace it.

This is the power of belief over reality–reality cannot be proven true and belief cannot be proven false to those made unable, or addicted enough to the prescribed outcome of perceptual control. This is why so much conservatism is buzz word and talking point driven; Thought-terminating clichés and canned concepts wrap and warp thinking up inside a perceived good belief iconography. We then have defeated the freedom of the human mind to truly perceived for itself, instead, making those individuals our paradigm perception dependents. Wave that magic wand! Wave it in circles for circles are self completed; the point proved by the very premise. No reality need apply.

Tricks of Perceptual Trading

We use existentialism, via the perception of fair and balanced opinion, to make both fact and context ambiguous and essentially confusing, easily tagged as seemingly deceptive. The argument defers to pre held confirmation bias, leaving now with; “Well. That is your opinion. I blah, blah, blah… While deceiving our followers, we will have them believe they are fighting deception, while believing they are being solders in the army of right or of God. This is how we can take Democracy down, entrap the individuals narrative and dreamscape, while making freedom into the image of our own desires.

We can and do defeat Democracy and Freedom while praising them as sacred icons. We can control the image of God to serve ourselves, while having the followers of God believe they are serving the same. No problem proposed by connection, or The Commons of Life, or Gods Creation, are big enough to defeat our own permanent desire to stay on top. We are in control, people, not Democracy, not Freedom, and certainly not anyone’s God. Look how well we defeated the teachings of Jesus over these last thousand years and made Him into one of us. Again; The beauty of ignorance.

A thousand years ago, the bible was altered to demean conscious introspection and increase hierarchical mindsets and authoritarian modalities. Whole gospels deleted. Yet what do our evangelicals think?–They represent the true word of God unadulterated. Perfect I say. Opportunism always knows what it is doing; it is making itself as God, it is taking Gods name in vain, and it is fine if you want to succeed all the way to the top. Opportunity knows this.

We are succeeding at reversing the problematic liberalism instigated by Jesus Christ and other spiritual teachers, by making the followers fear and insecurity dependent. It is by limiting Love itself, that the whole of culture is divided, conquered and contained, made malleable to our interest above all else. This is the perfect trap; people struggling to make themselves free and thinking they are serving God, while actually baiting their own trap to hold themselves!

Hallelujah!

To these repossession of Creation: We take from the Almighty in the Almighty’’s name, and give the victory to man. Specifically, to those who take what they can get away with.

May I see you just below me —-on top of the pyramid!

Sep 12 2009

The Politics of Societal Manipulation: Ignorance as America’s Guide

What do you believe? What do you stand for? What ideal would you die for? Anything?

Most of us believe our lives stand for something, but how solid is that something, and when do our legs walk away from it?

In politics, and to some degree religion, we may argue points of view, as if we were speaking or listening objectively. This is a big reason why the issues we argue over never seem to get solved–we are not honestly seeking a true resolution. We are already “standing” for a point of view with its way of seeing things “true”. The world, as well as our personal lives at times, are at the mercy of issues, but not of their forthright resolution. These concerns in our consciousness are placed onto conceptual treadmills, often trapped by prior assumption, where they can generate energy and attention to those who profit from conflict, along with the insecurity and fear that become the value of ignorance.

In America at least, polarization means big bucks to those who promote it. For conflict and opposition to succeed at never quite solving our emotional dramas over issues, pretense remains in command; we pretend to seek solutions, claim to be, while things such as truth or reality become the victim of “fair and balanced” or other perspectives that include bias in their assumption of reaction.

Hearts are then not allowed to view the others involved as legitimate human beings. Instead, others are who are mistaken, others who are misguided, others who must be convinced of their error. When human hearts are effectively closed, restricted or otherwise truncated, many an unfounded reason can be made to appear true and obvious.

These kinds of rationalization are obvious themselves, in the political sphere, where name calling and buzz worded Thought-terminating clichés are invoked as if black magic guides to our reasonable conclusion. Ignorance allows many a form of deception to ride in right under our radars, or even be welcomed in as a Trojan Horse. Now days, these can even claim to be fighting exactly what they are in effect creating. (Fascist-like authoritarian mobs fighting “Fascism”.)

We humans, as far as we know, seem to live inside out minds. These minds are vulnerable places; we have our experiences, with how we have adapted to seeing things, and we have the outside world of others and things, which can come to us packaged by someone else. Someone else tells us what something is. Likely, for some reason inside out minds, we tend to accept some of these communications regarding what is, and take others with a gain of salt out in the rain.

Balancing Truth and Untruth Fairly

There is a wise old saying; “The truth hurts”. This insight about the operational nature of truth relates to our human feelings, one might have reason to avoid being hurt; to not know the truth. The truth is perceived to be at times other than what I thought was good and true for me, or someone else thinks this is true and can see the advantage in protecting me from “the truth”. Now I might be ready to look or listen for something perhaps other than the truth, yet seeming to be good and thought of as being true.

There is something quite significant about human assumption that has us wish to not know a truth at times, but instead believe in, or even yearn for substitutes. I contend that any substitutes to truth will create problematic relationships, because the universe is true. If I am a true being, yet being untrue, dissonant negative consequences will seem destined.

Dysfunctions, where something other than truth is operating our perceptual program, go on to generate even more problems–naturally. The wisdom of the ancients knew that, most religious books know that somewhere inside. Yet not knowing that, is kept fresh and (logically) dysfunctional for some reason. Lies and misinformation are sold much like commodities in the modern world. This reason, its value, would be ignorance’s worth by manipulation; using ignorance as collateral, or a capability to form public (your and my) opinion into something reality is not. Ignorance is then framed into its fabled kind of bliss, but it is functionally the bliss of a defacto idiot.

Harsh words may at times be required to ignite a torch for seeing into places hidden as to what ignorance is enabling concepts that are false to appear good and true.

On The Ground

Recent history has indicted the US public has employed this dysfunctional dialectic: We are willing to be misled; meaning, we do not intend the truth to be our guide as a nation. We defer, instead, to things like trust and faith, ignorance entrusted to experts and authorities that has the ability to seem good while in effect supporting the bad, for they can avoid fact and reality checking and the consequence that creates. This has the appeal of not requiring me to investigate or question the reality of public policy, including my own. As a voter in a democracy, I have the responsibility to know what I am doing, yet I defer to church and state to tell me what I “need” to know. This creates an idiotic set-up to be milked indefinitely, form my own ignorance at my own and others expense while I am held unaccountable (delusional) for not “knowing” it.

Ignorance Fattened For The Kill

The pubic will, can and will be deceived for interest that manipulate The Commons, the connectivity of the things of Life, for their own individual privilege advantage. his is a common thread of the price of ignorance throughout history. This will undermine the threads of connection, and so those threads must be blackened over to seem nonexistent. Ideologies that promote the individual will as an alienated achievement program, can do just that. This is controlling the conceptual context to control perception in language, then self identity. Much modern culture has the individual evaluating oneself with comparisons to their peers; be it income, music, beliefs, or other identity tag frames–whose team you favor for instance.

{As an aside. I recently heard of a social commentator claiming that the white rapper (music) Eminem, was proved the victor by the universe, since he wrote songs and was a success for getting back at everyone whom he thought did him wrongly in his past. Popularity translating to fame and presumably income, made him favored by the universe? Really? Did the universe also the promote dysfunction upon him so he could win and get back at his critics?

I do not know if human popularity is the same as the universe voting for your currently defined success. I could steal from all who criticized me and become an iconic hero for becoming wealthy and not getting caught; still the universe giving me a thumbs up? Did Vincent Van Gogh get a belated approval rating from the universe? Is it a sign of approval from the universe if this post gets 5 views, 500, 5,000, 5 million?

Does views or payment from society for this post equal approval from the universe, or could it be human, and WEB structured rules of favoritism, whether right or wrong? If I “trick” the Internet search engines to find this post much more, would it then be that much more successful and universe favored? Illusion and reality can both claim the same concepts and be framed with the same ideas, however, one will be the more near factual truth and the other the imagined. We must know which is which or we truly are lost. The lost then accrue a cash value in their ignorance.

Learning from what wrong is done to one is one thing. Getting back or even somehow, as if life were a score card, is something very different. A definition of success might have that popular survival ID of “the fittest” tag put to it, but we do not know if getting even or proving others wrong is a particular quality of character of the universe–just because one becomes rich and famous. We may know some humans are valuing something. Many of the rich and famous are in varying states of self and societal annihilation/self consumption, only there is not always an obvious entity handing them their bill or true cost to culture/commons score card.

I presume the universe is for what is right and true, with our universe given imagination in reality being subservient to those qualities, irregardless if I am claiming the universe must be on someone side judged by apparent rewards. What I think is right and true does not constitute the same thing as what actually is right and true by universal mandate. Humanity is at odds over its varying notions of what is right and true and wrong. Dominating others, however, is not an exclusively intellectual or moral achievement, it is one of physics and leverage of human systems into controlling a paradigm. The dinosaurs may have won that, but then how did “the universe” then evaluate them?

We can find in many religions these sorts of material and health promises; believe in me, or Jesus, and you will be healed. There are now “prosperity Christians” who view getting wealthy as getting tangible evidence of God or the universe’s smiling thumbs up–God wants you to have material rewards for being a good follower. Pavlov would be proud. These kind of seductions for effect are classic of cults and other creeds who intend to divert questioning, while leaving the doing up to you by the evidence that puts in an appearance.

They often will produce pseudo-scientific “evidence” ‘The cancer was incurable’, or ‘The hurricane was supposed to hit our city but our prayers diverted it!’ This assumes some non erring truism to medicine or meteorology that is not actually true–a reliance upon a kind of deceptive context framing and conclusion. This kind of false truism is being aired daily on political and religious platforms as evidence of obvious truth. And the followers follow…

If your cancer is not cured, why, maybe you did not believe in God enough, or it can be framed in yet another way and claim you are suffering to free others from the illness, like Jesus; or maybe the universe needs you somewhere other than where you had thought. Always a way around obstacles when critical thinking and the manipulation of result orientation are decoupled and rearranged to suit the ideology or agenda. Putting rewards into a future life or heaven is another way of putting events into an untouchable zone where they cannot be used to critique belief or faith. Integral to these contortions is a reliance on ignorance, and a poisoning of critical thinking’s well; especially that of followers. }

Dark Sides Dawn

There is a dark side to belief and faith that is blocked from view, yet ever-present. Belief and faith need no proof or evidence, they become inoculated against objective input, true critical analysis, or theories that contravene them. Belief and faith tend to conserve their own value, while finding outside interest of potentially no value if one thing can be proved false about them. This tends to create, not only a self affirming confirmation bias, but a decidedly unfair and non objective measure of judgment;–I can prove your one idea wrong with a mistake or even misconception, while my own belief, and, or faith in my ideas are not subject to any objective inquiry. Say what you will about them I can deny your value and that of what you offer. Ignorance accomplished.

In effect; while I can feel I prove you wrong with one idea or fact of yours cast into doubt, whether it is right or wrong, you might be required to prove all my belief and faith wrong to be felt as “equal”, yet those very notions are safely tucked away in question free zones. Cults and many societal manipulators know this cognitive dissonant like aversion to self objectivity, where the truth might seem to hurt you if known, and can bank on using it in the general population to their distinct advantage. Faith and belief can harbor darkness while appearing to their beholders to be only about light, redemption, and honoring time tested loyalties.

Once this change over to the dark side of ignorance occurs, we may seek validation of our choice as being a good and true thing. This kind of self-deception by conscious diversion of awareness is often called cognitive dissonance; where we rationalize what we may know as wrong, as being actually emotionally right, or of little importance since the choice appears to serves us. In religion this may be called temptation in the abstract, but cognitive dissonance is not necessarily always in the usual definition of that concept.

That America is open to kinds of deception in the name of the public good, is not my opinion. For the Iraq war, the majority of Americans, by poling, thought “they” attacked us. Another near majority thought Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin-Laden were the same person. How is such fact misrepresentation (or possible deception) even possible? The administration knew the truth yet did not attempt to clarify the public impression of it. (Cheney still claims to know unverified truth by biasing factual context into circular reasoned contraptions).

Actually, their policy seemed to depend on the public being misinformed and confused about the known truth, then their intention could proceed with less resistance or much objective scrutiny. Instead, divert the issue into emotionalized swamp zones such as good citizens follow blindly, not requiring evidence because they are “loyal” or “patriotic”. This is that old world tribalistic, follow or be shamed monkey business.

Corporate and conservative news platforms repeated the false context and false understandings conclusions throughout the lead up to the Invasion of Iraq. This occurred even to the point of the alleged “liberal media” that was placing conservative pro war talking heads to advantage over dissenting voices by 2 to 1. Others reduced dissenting voices to tag frames such as a small minority view, or other demeaning definition to their expression.

Those who were indicating facts for the real truth were considered far left or lacking in patriotism by most of the mainstream media. One (Joe Wilson) had their spouses secret terror fighting position exposed as a kind of seeming retribution for exposing unverified data being used as alleged facts by the US administration. Here is one way faith can mislead patriotic feeling to support darkness over light while not allowing objective questioning to determine factual reality and honest truth: The Rule Of Ignorance.

What other falsity about the world does this willingness to be mislead then lend the American public to? We choose not to know if we choose not to ask ourselves questions regarding our own forthrightness and integrity to what we hold as truth. Not wishing to know, quite well may lend the rest of the world to not know what America may really stand for, and instead judge us by the actions that show us as being dishonest, idiotic, or just another self validating empire in the throws of decline.

And if you think only experts should question or know “the real” answers, remember those probes that went to Mars but crashed, for their math was seemingly not checked whether or not it was metric? We have some of the Bush administration officials still claiming their old misstatements, or claiming to not know what was actually quite obvious to thinking people. Are we really ruled by idiots, or are they counting on we to be the fools?

For what “Bright Beacon of Hope” for humanity hides behind the same old subterfuge and ignorance’s of the dark ages? One that is not concerned whether that light is actually lit or not, true or not, real or not. And so we can expect ignorance to have its set of self validating conceptions such as unexamined “patriotism” (“The last refuge of scoundrels”), peer-pressure ostracism/shaming, unexamined and blind “following the leader”. That is unexamined truthfulness, and unexamined honesty. Here is where a kind of idiocy becomes political and economic capital to social manipulators and oligarchs.

Live Free or Die. I’ll Defend With My Life Your Right To Dissent. Well. Maybe Not!

In this equation of putting ones life into principles, is the difference between most of us and that 5% or so who will use their lives to back their beliefs (These, most likely in religion and the military). That 95% of the rest of us; one coercion or another will work; money, sex, or fear (families threatened for instance). This equation is known by the powers that have always been controlling populations. { I’ll refer you to the use of this knowledge in the world context in articles and web pages to follow this presentation of mine.}

Orthodoxies, ideologies and many an ism, are threatened by the fundamental egalitarian mandate of Democracies right to vote (or the implications of all humanity being Gods children), and also the fair use of free speech, or their spiritual equivalents of compassion, empathy, or admitted connection to The Commons—The connectivity of existence. To subdue this societal enlightenment, where ones consciousness is considered essentially equal to any other, strategies will be employed to pervert the truth of Democracies social contract platform, and to manipulate perception to create bias away from these universal notions to subjective us vs them subjugation’s. This is a given.

To observe the conservative news outlets (many nonstop propaganda) is to hear and see misrepresented “fact” and assumption as operating consensus realities constructed of emotionalized appearances. Many right wing religious groups, for instance, seem to praise the name of Jesus, but seemingly behave anti his apparent message. (a GOP enabling group called “The Family” seems to be about reversing Christ message and turning it into a dominator ideology; one claiming Stalin, Hitler and Mao are good role models for Christian leaders) Most religions will use their own histories to validate what they wish to see and perceive now, and not necessarily the ancient or enduring wisdom, though as a diversion of consciousness, they often claim to be conserving the authentic historical “truth”.

The Hidden Value of Word-Playing Into Ignorance

Any society is regulated by a kinds of socialism; yes, even capitalism, where the great expenses of a few are made possible by the many. This is sometimes called predatory capitalism these days, as it seeks to eliminate public input for public good while pronouncing its own good as the only public good. It is a fools errand of consciousness to think that somehow what I or you do, does not have any bearing on what to others do or do not do, or how The Commons of Life is impacted. We are all integral to culture and to societies interactive capabilities. We all own the consequence. Unregulated individualism in the present day would be dooming humankind to self destruction—we know too much of the real world to allow one person to do whatever they wish to it.

If I poison the water table and your well comes from it. Well. You are paying my price with your health if you accept it or not, while I can say; Life is not fair. At least I got my water stored before the rest went bad. Good for me. You are the failure. This sort of individualism rationalization delusion is ongoing from conservative circles 24 hr’s a day. Essentially, most everything in our worlds are in some manner socialized. It is just reality.

Declaring Reality Is What My People Want

With seemingly daily misstatements and errors that run uncorrected;

Folks wonder who on earth Fox News could be talking to; the blatant errors, false analogies, false dichotomy’s, out of context conceptions based on fear? Same could be said of those who believe Rush L’s propaganda; why do some of us need false and misleading information framed into an allegedly on your side pseudo-honest common folk context? How does sophistry delivered by demagogue‘s seem to some of us to be the truth? They are supplying what manipulated consciousness needs to counter cognitive dissonance; disrespect for the Universal Commons of Life. Conservatism is often a kind of mental and pseudo-spiritual addiction—the need drives the reason.

Manipulating facts by false association and framing creates an appearance reality; A reality that can have notes in the real world, but conclusions from the imaginary; for this to work on eager ears—-

Both Reality and critical thinking ability must be debilitated, allowing substitution to be made possible in minds unplugged of true context. Overall, on surface consciousness at least, most people (you and I) think they are following the truth. We just might not know how or why we have the ideas of truthfulness that we do. The more we do not know our own truth-seeking context, the more we may be mislead without knowing and acknowledging it. In a world where manipulation pays, this ignorance becomes a bankable commodity. Much conservatism banks on many cons; intending to know you will be unable to see through the charade, for you are not allowed to question preestablished “conserved” premise. Your mind is unplugged to some extent from both the dynamic movement of now, and quite possibly, truly sensing God.

It seem conservatism banks on this faith bias, (many liberals have their own unsubstantiated conceptual biases that avoid fact checking as well, and are thus conservative), which allows it to run all manner of deception under the individuals truth detecting radar, mostly by ushering ideas in under emotionalized ad-hominen association, or other feeling surrendered logical assumption. The other strategy for crippling critical thinking is to “conserve” sheltered “truths” under a-priori umbrellas, which the individual is then not allowed to step out from under or see clearly through above.

Most conservatism will have shame based tagging directed at those who do not accept or seem to not accept the conservative ideology, such as; ‘Well. You just do not accept the truth.’ or ‘You are not a true believer.’ and other like pseudo analysis killing Thought-terminating clichés, (I expect this kind of nonsense from one of you liberal socialist fascist!) that frame others into us vs them tribalism mentality. Once someone is boxed in and pegged, who needs or is able to see the nuance and ambiguity often accompanying most human lives? Mission deconstruction accomplished.

Extreme art imitates life? The dangerous and wild possibilities of mass deception.

A movie “comedy” covers it; this desire I speak of to be mislead from true critical thinking ability. That movie is called Ideocracy, where a genetically altered population harboring very low IQ’s, is the movie’s influence pedalling scenario. In conservatism’s kind of Ideocracy; the requirement is effectively a form of ideological self lobotomy; as in cult and conservatism’s refusal of entering into objective reality testing. The movie uses Fox news inside itself for obvious reasons, but those reasons are not likely obvious to Fox viewers, and “the liberal media” believers. Conservative news sources seem to not expect fact checking or critical thinking amidst their presentation. Mostly they cycle and circle logic into self affirming loops that seem to require emotional attitude to substitute as fact finding; Circular logic.

(I personally have heard from folks who consider Fox’s often mass spun conceptually biased news as the reliable, more accurate news source! Then, bringing up the daily deceptions running on it might elicit one of those; ‘I don’t trust any of the mainstream media actually.’)

The scary thing is; some of us need to be mislead. We need ideas to be misrepresented, facts misrepresented, likely cause misrepresented, for we are forcing an ideology onto reality and expecting no one to notice. Many require a confirmation bias to be in place to screen cognitive dissonant information from consciousness.

Emotional attitude, as well represented by radio’s Rush L, is mistaken as theoretical proof. This ruse in consciousness, essential to many conservative thought/concept created paradigms, must not be challenged. This may help explain why direct contradictions, even in the same paragraph about the subject, do not register intellectually or often create conscious discord—The conclusion is what is expected and not the factual context where truth is ascertained, or at least hinted at.

The Final Frontier Is Actually Consciousness

America seems to have many millions of folks who require kinds of deception to feel right about themselves and their cause. Just in recent history, within the Bush administration, it was conveyed in a journalist interview of allegedly “Bush’s Brain” that they are not reality dependent. They then are actors who simply make history by fiat, or is it truth?, simply by declaring things to be so without tiresome reality checking evidence. Yes, with much less evidence as I am using here in this opinion piece. I am not claiming to be an unquestionable “news” source of maker of history however.

Even when it was obvious that the public support of the lead up to the Iraq Invasion was based on non accurate assumptions—–such as Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin-Laden being the same person, or the “They”, the Iraqis, were somehow who attacked us. The conservative government had no interest in really clarifying the misleading assumptions, in fact, they depended upon them. They are acting from belief and not from true evidence based fact. They depend on Americans to be clueless in this regard—not caring what they are told to be the truth. If this is the case, America is under direct threat from the Ideocracy.

For stupidity to reign supreme over this land; kinds of “faith” and “trust” must be held above reason and wholesome consciousness. In this cause, conservatism is well served and maintained by ignorance as the gold currency of societal manipulations .

Behold; the Ideocracy.

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Aug 17 2009

Hiding The Bleach For Brainwashing: Mind Control for You and I

Political and Spiritual Psychological Manipulation of Belief

Reality Framing

Brainwashing Made Simple

To question or not to question; that is the question.

Who knows what they are talking about?

Right off the bat; you swing your perception the way you do for some reason. Your thoughts have a logic(s) they are applying to observation, consciousness manifesting the feeling this bouncing ball produces. But you and I are never sure exactly who is chasing our logic’s ball, nor if they believe our team is any good. Metaphors, for instance, find various holes to fall through, getting mixed into gloves, golf or a pool table in the process.

Now where did that ball go?

I do not know what you know. I can assume you read, but a machine may do that for you these days. Likely, although I cannot see you here, you do understand language. I know information comes to you that way if you are actually reading this, but I do not know what else you know or do not know, or how you reference the things of Life. Knowledge and ignorance, are in some basic ways, metaphysical. I know something of you, yet do not know who you are, where you are, or when you encounter these words. Something known, much unknown.

I cannot usually know what you do or do not know by just looking at you. But by hearing you, your use of language and theory, all manner of pseudo knowing can ensue. Truth, then, becomes the problematic issue; whether my theories of you, and you of I, are correct or filled with varying amounts of ignorance; of projection from me and assumptions from my history with its assumed wisdom of the ways of things.

A critical potential conflicting issue now arises; What do you and I agree on as truth or proof of it? This is classic existentialism regarding meaning and reality. Do I assume a-priori knowing from my background; my family ways and cultural ones? Probably. I likely possess the “need” for confirmation bias to view me as good and true. It is hard to avoid operating from what seem to be operational truths. This is not exactly proof of actual truth. These knowings of mine may actually be beliefs or theories being imposed upon reality. If I know there is a waterfall two miles up the river, me telling you does not mean you know this as well. You may know you trust me, and have no reason to believe I would deceive you, but in the sense of empirical knowing; you do not know there is a waterfall where I claim.

You have your image of waterfall. You might go up the river to see what I was talking about, only to see for yourself that I actually must have meant there was water falling over one rock in the middle of the stream, “pretending” to be a waterfall in miniature in the imagination of one looking at it. the word and the concept of it were altered, but the explanation to you was not. How much of this kind of unknown change of idea occurs regularly in our lives, becoming part of our own narrative?

What constitutes proof of existence and proof of belief are quite differing things. Most of the time we do not deconstruct our nature of awareness and cognition, instead, we “run” with what seems known, for it has not been proved false (as far as we know). You and I are inclined to accept much without much evidence other than what seems operational knowing, but that confidence may be something quite other than based on factual reality.

Enter Platforms for Truth’s Explanation; Religious and Political Persuasion

We are fallible creatures by nature. This does not mean we are not perfectly natural, nor that nature is not perfectly rational. It only means you and I are not omniscient, we can make mistakes; draw wrong conclusions; use false proof (erroneous “truth”), such as attitude over fact; we can chose not to admit our error, instilling a kind of error drive into our living; and on… In the falsity I have described, that can “automatically” become inserted into my consciousness of Life, there do appear to be avenues of correction. I can learn. I can understand. I can forgive.

Learning, understanding, forgiving myself of judgments that may contain kinds of error which I no longer wish to “own”; these are generic corrective mechanisms for ignorance and its consequence. Societies tend to internalize these, making them appear as gifts of the cultures narrative. This kind of assumption goes up and down the scale; from individual to society. We intend to live by Truth, but Truth is open to interpretation. This interpretations parameters varying widely and wildly, depending on the conceptual underpinnings of The Truths assumed characteristics. Truth and reality become subject of interplay with ignorance. The Appearance Reality I operate as my real world view, likely has some conglomerations of Consensus Reality embedded with what I assume is reality. Our culture and familly virtually guarantee I think some things are real that are actually really questionable.

I tend to grant much more leeway for understanding in myself, granting me many kinds of perceptual privilege. Let say I have an organic empathy for my situation. Others are another matter. Someone across the culture, representing things seemingly different than I, well, I am likely to not grant them this same leeway, especially if I am under some pronounced stress. It becomes “easy” to see others as somehow being in the way of ones own life. They are making problems for me; and they may or may not be. People and institutions may be “in the way” of my life, but that still does not establish who is most right in this equation.

It may describe who holds more mechanical power over by mathematical influence of mass. Subconsciously, this mathematical?physical domination likely carries an influence over my decision making in life; I take into account who or what exercises control features over my life, and may well tend to accommodate them. This will begin tweaking my identity to cultural norms.

It may also “encourage” me to be a champion of their cause, proclaiming it the true cause for all. Corporation domination of culture, for instance, a kind of exploitation and partitioning of environments at all cost, will entice many to self fulfill the domination matrix, insisting life itself may depend upon unquestioned support. Churches, as original kinds of incorporation’s, tend to seal off the exits this way. It becomes my way, or no way.

Again. Not establishing actual right from wrong, but instead, establishing adaptation to influence over ones will by external forces. If I then go on to identify with this overriding will, I conform to expectation without tending to question, beginning the process of having a not truly examined life. I have then in effect; had my will adjusted, not by truth exactly, but by the forces of conformity and its compulsions. I do not actually know why I do all that I do, only seemingly that I must. This is a formula of self manipulation imposed by external sources. It opens up my will, not to the principles of truthful knowing and understanding, but to forces of unknown integrity, operating from unknown cause.

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The Four F’s: Fact, Faith, Fiction and Fraud

What I hope I have described above, is that our ignorance is powerful. Ignorance can be denied, it then hiding behind my trust in a logic that does not require common elements of corrective knowledge; new input, new understanding of connection, other environmental influence on my notions that I have not considered, etc. In this respect; politics and religion tends to trust I will not look into certain facts and their association; that I will not consider other ideas or theory in depth; that I will eventually hold loyalty or community connection above truth itself. This is a major identity sacrifice; one I might not even know I made, or could make. (FYI– I was in a Christian religious cult decades ago.)

These are identity controls. The dials to their “on-ness” are likely in the hands of those who have a vested interest in keeping ignorance in, and understanding out. {Note how anti-science The Church (Catholic) was, (some churches still are shaming scientific concepts) putting many a scientist to death or ostracism} This is not what most of would subscribe to as a good way to live; denying information access to our awareness.

It must be disguised by outright indoctrinated denial, or other emotionalized “information” that seems to threaten our identity; our group identities as us or we. This is manipulation of the ability to know, and it will create intransigent problems in coping with reality, so the view of reality itself must be contorted to fit the ideas imposed upon it.

-Give me Liberty! No That’s it! Just Liberty! What responsibility? I said Liberty!

Many who consider themselves libertarians, for instance, are trusting, having faith, in a kind of abandonment to individualism as the value, they may not quite know how dependent they are on others to exist in common in a world that is inherently One. Many a libertarian will describe a highly responsible state of self-hood; the individual responsible to act in honor and justice to other individuals. Like many values and beliefs, they may be good and true in the abstract, but in practical reality, the amount of interrelationship and interconnection, and its responsibilities, may not be on their radar.

Liberty, an appeal to the rule of the will of the self, is often the rallying cry for many anti tax perspectives, or anti any perceived external control seemingly placed upon the self. When we see tax money going to causes we do not support, a kind of violation seems natural to behold. Subjectively, independently, I can say; I did not sign up as a citizen for that. But what then are the consequences of withdrawal? { I am actually in many aspects a libertarian.}

What if all tax were voluntary? Do we support all military based tax, with the assumption that they know things I do not, and would only ever act from righteous cause, even though I know that some of our civilian governments representatives are essentially always up for sale, or holding ideologies I find objectionable? Would I be for a small child being given food to survive, but not someone who seems to not give a damn about me or I about they?

Do I bailout the supper wealthy so my (our) economy keeps going? Do I say they would not bail me out, so then hold them to the same cause? What if I do not drive a car, and do not wish to pay for all the socialist roads most of society drives on, will I pay for the socialist fire department coming on those roads to put out the fire and save the children at my house? Why not? This would take bureaucracy to a whole new level. I would trust the libertarian to help cover the cost they are increasing on the rest of us.

We actually live in a context where there are many community agreements and understandings, a social contract, that seems to have become so ignored it seems invisible, maybe not even there. That stress of apparent disconnection in awareness can be tagged onto their apparent absence, as someone else’s tax on us. This is that “capital of ignorance” once again. Yet it is exactly the excuse some of us look for to explain our trouble and conveniently place it squarely where it seems it belongs, on someone else.

It might be said; Give me Liberty, or give me excuses to believe in only me as relevant, or else I would wish to die. That society is likely a restrictive force on the individual is a given. That society must then always be wrong, is not true, but it sure can be made to seem so when made to order desire is imposed upon. Who or what is behind our desires? am I sure as math that it is me? Opportunism comes with many tricks to play over ones own consciousness, yet conveniently put the responsibility onto someone other. Opportunism can be a collective sense of behavior; it can be individualized or generalized, depending upon differing “needs”.

-Where does my information about other human beings come from? Do I really know? How am I certain? Where am I honest to myself?

We can have many feelings to be approached by most anyone with the money and or the influence to do so. Issues will be paraded before us for observation likely for a reason. The reason, however, may be assumed to be one thing while actually being another. Religious leaders do this for their reasons, reasons we do not always know, but assume to be righteous. Even with them, trust and faith are innocents that can be used to advantage when some manipulation is desired. Politics is no different; our feelings will be defined and used for a desired outcome, for reasons we are told, but do not actually know.

We cannot be absolutely certain that even our family and friends always have our best interest at heart, not if their own is preeminent. (I am a volunteer for a domestic violence program, where this uncertainty, or insecurity regarding love, safety, and co or no definitions of commitment, creates repercussions that can turn to physics or other identity manipulation to attempt to solve entrenched conundrums of relationship.)

This leaves us with a certain certainty; that my ignorance is capital to someone, and they are more than willing to spend it, this is the nature of opportunism; exploitation. The question is; who bears the tax on ignorance? Who pays the price? I do. We do. They do as well. This part is often the hardest to believe when one has been “used”, even more difficult when that usage is not consciously known. It will show up in the world however, it will not obviously be tagged to our ignorance exactly. It might seem to be the way things go, or that what goes around comes around. We might know, that many of these powerful people who seem to do so well overall, have us not wishing to be like them. We might shudder to think of it, of being like them, yet wish we had their fame or resource. Curious.

-Faith and Belief can be Fraud-

How do you know you know that you know what you know? There seems to be an endless amount of blame to pass around, usually away form ourselves, when things go wrong in the world. We seem sure of knowing that, but we know not seems: Someone else’s ideas are to blame, someone else’s behavior. If only they, were only we.

This is one of the many seductions of ignorance; cognitive dissonance and buzz words that serves as Thought-terminating cliché’s, can help to keep us from thinking, especially from the all inclusive thought practices of critical thinking. As it is, our will is under much pressure of both kinds of conformity, and to identity and interest hijacking.

Individuals propose schemes that need us to manipulate The Commons (the infinite aspects of Life) to assuage their stress, as do other institutions that have a vested interest in permanently not accounting to questioning in any full and inclusive way. As long as we as individuals do not question why we do not question, some questions, and so some knowing, will not be had. Our lives then, in unknown ways, held down by what are ultimately our own thoughts.

You are provided with a kind of truth detector for these outer interest, and ones accounting of your own thinking; do they (I) allow questions from top to bottom? That’s it. Are they (I) accountable to reality, and to accountable Truthfulness as an aspect of that reality, or are they (I) out to tell you what reality is and make you accept it without question?

Oh no! You’re not supposed to question, that is just doubt trying to seduce you!

Perfect block. Check mate.

If I am not allowed to ask; I am not allowed to know.

Fact or fiction, truth or falsity, these do make a difference, but if I do not know where these may be in my own thoughts, I will pay the difference in my life, no matter if you others are being true or not yourself. The bottom line ends up being drawn in our own lives. If I operate my observational “knowing” from what are conserved ideas beyond questioning, I likely may be polluting true reality with imposed assumption.

Most of us have our own issues with our own reactive conservatism, blocking empathy and compassion to others who seem too different, or who we feel have wronged God or society. Being human and not omniscient, we may claim an abstract ideal as omniscient, such as God, then excuse all manner of behavior, for it is claimed to be in service of Perfection. Unfortunately for this rationalization scenario; it is highly doubtful that denial, deception, or other means of avoiding questioning truly leads to a more honest or more Whole life.

The biggest fraud of all, may be the one that has one believe that we are “getting away with” something that in some manner depends on ignorance to succeed over others. Such a victory is over oneself actually, and would be known as a loss if the victor were aware of it. The bliss of ignorance? Or the curse? That loss will continue haunting with darkness out into their, or our lives in other ways until it is solved, released by true knowing. That is the nature of understanding; it illuminates what was unknown.

Such are the fates of knowing and ignorance, of the will and ones identity.

We each had the key all along. Where does its doorway lead?

Questioning. Returning to the awe and wonder of the present moment and all else. Realizing the power of Now; the freedom of forgiveness and understanding. Connection itself becomes a revelation, if I was consumed with separation and alienation.

Ideas are not infallible. Human expression is not all powerful, nor is human assumption. Life is embodies with Love and Being, when I am willing to see it. All these things approachable always, by questioning what I think I know.

{Disclaimer: Any particular in this presentation may be incorrect. And that is the way it is.}

Aug 14 2009

Right Wing Sophistry; Ambush at MSNBC

Well

Lawrence O’Donnell, sitting in for Chris Matthews on Hardball, (which I do not normally watch), let loose onto some US Representative he was interviewing; Rep. John Culberson (R) of the Appropriations CMTE. Apparently, this Representative thought tough questions should not be asked. You know, as in the manner it is done on liberals on Fox news.

The Rep. did the usual diversionary tactics; going his own way instead of answering questions. He went on to paint it in conceptually; that unfair to me way the right does if you do not completely agree with them. Hello. It’s an interview where you answer questions and not just spout your own plans as the answer. Seems we are used to softball politics when questioned.

O’Donnell was seemingly perturbed at this guy; you know, like they do on Fox News to libs. It seems the host wanted to cut to the chase on all this government is bad and evil in health care that the right is fueling their blowtorches with. Mr. O’Donnell wanted to know if Rep. Culberson would stand up against the socialist(*) programs of Medicaid and Social Security. It seems the Rep, although hedging the concepts, would have said yes to them back in the day.

But today, as far as being interviewed? A new kind of don’t ask so I don’t need to tell. The Reps sense of being abused seemed as tough he was insisting on the way he likes to “answer” questions. Kinda; Why don’t you like and respect me cause I’m smiling, and just ask me what I want you to? You’re so unfair! And again; ‘You don’t know me, so how dare you call me a liar!’

The host was wanting a direct answer on this socialism issue; where this Rep is allegedly–as in agreeing with the anti government health care reform; all about it being all bad, then claiming to be actually for socialism where it is popular. Seems something is wrong with such ideological dualism as if fuels confusion and propaganda campaigns to induct the naive.

(I have a new respect for Fox news and the grilling of interviewed liberals; without mutual respectful dialogue, certain demands need be expressed to get something like an honest answer. Otherwise it seems; avoid, avoid, divert attention from questions. Am I really saying this! Hurray Fox News!)

Back to this interview I witnessed a half hour ago:

A yes or no was being asked; are you for socialism’s usages as now long manifest in the USA, or against it? The Rep. went back to his explanations of not quite knowing the history. But he thought that in the Great Depression some people needed help, seems his father did. It was not perfectly clear if he thought other people may need help if they are elderly or whatever today?

But then Rep. Culberson did the ad-hominen stuff, kinda like the woman at a health care meeting whom he called his new hero, which had just been played on tape to him on Hardball. The Rep. accused the MSNBC host of being unfair, of not knowing him, ‘This is why MSNBC is so pathetic and not liked’ as I paraphrased the Rep. again. Good argument? Liberals mad=bad, so called apolitical folks saying reforming health care=socialism=good. So OK to be mad.

It is amazing, how whenever one seems to turn these guys own tables on them, (town hall attacks dialogue supresing information exchange in the name of free speach), it degenerates to mobish name calling and personality failure “characteristics”. Why? Why do the facts on the table disappear and ‘The trouble with you people’ become the focus of consciousness?

Once this was called sophistry, using substitutes for truth in context in argument as if these devises were still legitimate. In the liberal context our society presumably still exist in, where free speech is allowed, community standards of respect are thrown out and allegedly trumped by propaganda dialectics being directed by right wing media sources. How quickly some of these so called conservatives become the opposite of what they were just a year or so ago. After all, we do fall for a good bias leading argument, even where many a fact or connecting concept may be intentionally withheld, if it feels good to our ideas proofiness. I am touching it a bit here myself, by using personality and attitude in places as if they were actual fact. Right wing radio, about 90% of political talk radio, uses this inherent manipulation gimmick/trick most all the time.

And that is the trouble with faith mixed into politics; it ( ones beliefs) seemingly beg to be told what and how one wishes to hear. This moves us out of the present moments relationship context, Its fullness, and overlays ideological lenses as the means of “seeing clearly”. Some folks know how to turn our ignorance into social, political and economic capital.

Wow! Now I see so clearly! It all makes sense!

One can lead and manipulate in darkness by pretending to be the light. To represent the unabashed truth in context favors no one per say; for It leads us. Not the kind of insight manipulators nor predators would wish to see, nor have we see. So divert attention and blame. Hiding the darkness (ignorance and confusion) with attitude and illusion.

That is how you succeed at getting seniors to be against any government run medicine, when they are on Social Security and or worried if their Medicare is going to be effected by changes.

The power of sophistry? Allows ignorance and confusion to be used against oneself while not knowing it. To some this represents a kind of winning, of getting their way. When manipulation succeeds, it is seductive to some. But when called on it—unfair to me!

But Mr. Rep, the show is called Hardball. There is perhaps a hint there?

{My take on much of the ideological conflict below}

* Note

On the right, many words, like socialism, tax, government, etc. are used as Thought-terminating clichés. Hearing some of these folks speaking up at the town hall meetings is often an exercise in a conglomerated list of fears, suspicion and innuendos put out by the right wing propaganda machinery. It is the words tag frame that is directing the question being professed, like “death panels” or “government bureaucrats between you and your doctor”. Do you really think there are “death panels”? or that there already are not corporate bureaucrats standing between you and your doctor?

It is about using ignorance as political and other capital.

As for “socialism”, most modern societies are highly “socialized”. We spread many cost across society, socializing them. We can even say that corporations socialize their cost across society. They raise prices just as government raises tax, only in government, we presumably have some say. Most societies always were socializing cost one way or another. human being and the world are all connected, deny it as one wishes to be foolish. If there is a fire on the hill, liberals and conservatives expect the firefighters to try to put out the fire. How different is illness and disease? Of no interest to us all?

This is socialism; the cost socialized to society, just like the military, the police. If I live in a desert, do I then demand my tax money back for firefighting that I do not need? What kind of people do that? How about; I might never leave the house, so I don’t want to pay for air and water pollution that I am not causing, being it is not just and fair to me? But what do some corporations (funding much right wing media) now do? Tell us how pollution controls by government mandate will make them raise the price on us, so this equals government bad, for government wants to increase your cost of living. Government detached from yur real life concerns. How typically callus that government is. Trick delivered.

Most argument on the right is actually differed to selfishness and self centeredness vs those “others”. Those others, society, whomever, wants to take from you and give to someone else. This is then perceived as a kind of theft, while ideals of responsibility to common interest, or to consequence of individual actions upon the whole, are erased from the radar. Usually these intrinsic connections of consequence are replaced with platitudes of individualism’s nobility and honor. Except, of course!, when corporate or individual behavior gets us in trouble in the world, and with that worlds competing interest. Suddenly we are to be for protecting our country and way of life together; socialized. We differ again, to those with money above the average person, yet claim that average person shares the exact interest of the wealthy. The reverse does not apply! How convenient to whom?

This is how our common interest regarding The Commons–the connectivity of Life, is manipulated to have us shoot ourselves in the foot for our alleged best interest, usually construed as saving money. Just as the government does not then give you a bill for the helicopter and air dropped fire retardant to save your families home, society would degenerate into infinite islands of the individual versus the world, then having to pay directly for any use for all this to be perceived as exactly “fair”. This, if we follow this philosophy of self merit to its honest and principled conclusion.

We have common interest as a nation or world, or we think we do not. For the right wing’s reactionary list for word/concepts cliché diversions, nuance and ambiguity are enemies to “clear” thinking. This kind of conceptual divide and conquer can let ideology pick apart any common good and reduce it to rubble, if opportunist can get the access to public ignorance and convince us we know. Since money does have more access to free speech, it has a more than equal opportunity to direct attention. This is what can lead to Democracies downfall.

Enter right wing alienation propaganda, driven by think tank proved wedge on The Commons issue manipulation. The Pros. know language can convolve most any concept to become the opposite of what it is. Ignore The Commons; ignore global warming, ignore that the cost will be socialized later and likely at much greater cost than prevention. Ignore, bury, then divert attention to buzz word bagged and tagged conceptual lead weights.

Overall, the modern conservative movement seems driven by manipulators with personal interest to gain at the expense of the whole, yet claiming It as their cause. They would rather have it be; “Your money or your life”, as the operational paradigm, enslaving society to opportunist driven schemes. And what kind of culture is that? We will hear it proudly proclaimed that this is actually how America and the modern world has succeeded at so much. Behind the chants of “socialist” and, not an American, and all this other baloney; it is the kind of nation the right will deliver if allowed to; corporatism, with theocratic overtones to direct followers spiritual concerns to those that support authoritarian structures. And all while ranting and railing against just those creations.

I suggest that the modern world has a major accounting being delivered by our environments. I would suggest that we do things; not because of “you money or your life”, but because we love life, want to live, and do what it seems we must to exist. This can succeed, and succeed much more fully, being motivated by Love, instead of driven by fear, for that latter falls victim to ignorance, while thinking it is truth.

The subjugation of human interest to commercial interest has rendered much of the worlds population into a population, not only fiddling as Rome (the planet) “burns”, but worried over where the fiddle string replacements will be coming from. I am not arguing for blind trust of government. As long as opportunism is a threat to common understanding, in democracies, even the will of the people can be diverted and subverted. But in a democracy; if you hate government, you by inference, hate all the rest of us, for we are the government by vote. Back in the day, some conservatives would tell the protesters of the 60′s and 70′s; ‘America, love it or leave it.’ I guess that proclamation was highly conditional.

The Bigger Issue (You know; the deepest one most of us avoid like the plague for as long as possible.)

Unconditional love, on the other hand, is self proved, requiring nothing of ignorance. It is where true faith in Life can reside, becoming a threat to darkness; those that would use ignorance as capital. Love is thus spiritual, in the full sense of that word, permeating existence with light, yet visible only to those with open eyes to see. An open heart is a requirement for eyes to see greater truth and union, otherwise pain can divert attention, attention that can be lost, and so, misdirected.

We each have the spiritual challenge to be in this Love, agents of this Love, or I will likely be an agent of something other.

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