Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Britain's High Court has granted the US government limited permission to appeal its extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, meaning that the acclaimed journalist will continue to languish in prison for
It is quite amazing to watch this hypnotic spellbinding effect in action on my mother from the "news churn." I have introduced her to other perspectives hundreds of times that counter her indoctrinated beliefs of official narratives. Cognitive dissonance, as you explain, "the cost of coming out of compartmentalization into a worldview of integrity, and the discomfort of constructing a new conceptual framework for reality," is literally too challenging and threatening for her and is immediately memory-holed. What I have seen is that she is easily lost by the shiny bling of diversions everywhere else, not only as the result of the quick and noisy news churn. Any chance of forming clear thought or reflection on the information provided, is immediately stymied. As she even admits, "In one ear, and out the other." I mention something to dislodge her beliefs and suddenly she's looking out the window, making comments out of the blue, like: "look at those black clouds" or "my plants need watering" or "your father wants dinner" and the whole discussion is over and done with, completely forgotten and buried. I'll call her back later and say something like, I'm sorry I disturbed you with such and such, do you remember what I said" and she will reply "huh? what are you talking about?" ..Just amazing..
“The membrane of celebrities and entertainment and partisan bickering overlays public perception of the world almost the entire time, only occasionally being disrupted by short-lived blasts of dissonance piercing through the fog.“
This is what I fear is happening with the Dore/TYT/Mate controversy.
Yet I found Caitlin’s put down of those not commenting on it quite compelling.
Ah, well. Here I go again. My core disagreement with caitoz. I say that what she describes is not something hard wired into people’s minds. It is a feature of a minority with brain dysfunction.
It is a feature of the way people are educated, socialized, conditioned. Normal people whose heads are not messed up this way quickly change their internal schemata to conform to change in external reality.
The trouble is that it is often quite dangerous to think straight when dominated by “bad brains” who need an artificial reality to make themselves make sense to themselves, and for whom clear thinking is a mortal threat.
The only solution is to remove the bad brains from power and from society. This idea gets amygdalas in a knot like nothing else.
Then it is a matter of teaching people more normal thinking patterns. Or perhaps just how to unlearn the warped thinking patterns they have had to adopt in order to survive.
A very important article thank you. The voice in our head that pretends to be us is the big lie, the filter which prevents truth based living.
Cognitive biases, dissonance and compartmentalization recede sufficiently into the background when we no longer identify with the compulsive, incessant “me” voice.
Yes, from lies to truth, which begins with the recognition that we are all here together in Life. This Life we share is our only unfailing rock to hold on to. Makes all that cultural bullshit recede a bit, now seen more clearly.
Again, thank you, Caitlin. To whit: Just because it's out of the news doesn't mean that Israel has stopped murdering children in their sleep. It's what Zionism regularly does, right under that membrane.
Even though the US and UK judicial systems lack all credibility at this point- isn’t this still a flagrant violation of habeus corpus?
It is quite amazing to watch this hypnotic spellbinding effect in action on my mother from the "news churn." I have introduced her to other perspectives hundreds of times that counter her indoctrinated beliefs of official narratives. Cognitive dissonance, as you explain, "the cost of coming out of compartmentalization into a worldview of integrity, and the discomfort of constructing a new conceptual framework for reality," is literally too challenging and threatening for her and is immediately memory-holed. What I have seen is that she is easily lost by the shiny bling of diversions everywhere else, not only as the result of the quick and noisy news churn. Any chance of forming clear thought or reflection on the information provided, is immediately stymied. As she even admits, "In one ear, and out the other." I mention something to dislodge her beliefs and suddenly she's looking out the window, making comments out of the blue, like: "look at those black clouds" or "my plants need watering" or "your father wants dinner" and the whole discussion is over and done with, completely forgotten and buried. I'll call her back later and say something like, I'm sorry I disturbed you with such and such, do you remember what I said" and she will reply "huh? what are you talking about?" ..Just amazing..
“The membrane of celebrities and entertainment and partisan bickering overlays public perception of the world almost the entire time, only occasionally being disrupted by short-lived blasts of dissonance piercing through the fog.“
This is what I fear is happening with the Dore/TYT/Mate controversy.
Yet I found Caitlin’s put down of those not commenting on it quite compelling.
Ah, well. Here I go again. My core disagreement with caitoz. I say that what she describes is not something hard wired into people’s minds. It is a feature of a minority with brain dysfunction.
It is a feature of the way people are educated, socialized, conditioned. Normal people whose heads are not messed up this way quickly change their internal schemata to conform to change in external reality.
The trouble is that it is often quite dangerous to think straight when dominated by “bad brains” who need an artificial reality to make themselves make sense to themselves, and for whom clear thinking is a mortal threat.
The only solution is to remove the bad brains from power and from society. This idea gets amygdalas in a knot like nothing else.
Then it is a matter of teaching people more normal thinking patterns. Or perhaps just how to unlearn the warped thinking patterns they have had to adopt in order to survive.
Keep up the good work, caitoz.
A very important article thank you. The voice in our head that pretends to be us is the big lie, the filter which prevents truth based living.
Cognitive biases, dissonance and compartmentalization recede sufficiently into the background when we no longer identify with the compulsive, incessant “me” voice.
Can you please get another narrator voice? I'm always afraid he is going to fall asleep before he can finish. Or put me to sleep.
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Yes, from lies to truth, which begins with the recognition that we are all here together in Life. This Life we share is our only unfailing rock to hold on to. Makes all that cultural bullshit recede a bit, now seen more clearly.
Again, thank you, Caitlin. To whit: Just because it's out of the news doesn't mean that Israel has stopped murdering children in their sleep. It's what Zionism regularly does, right under that membrane.