The gullible mind explained [False projection of honor code?]
The gullible mind explained
Thursday, May 05, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
In light of the string of the blatant falsehoods being announced by the U.S. government these days (FDA, DHS, White House, etc.) it's interesting that so many people still believe whatever they are told by "official" sources. It brings up the question of the functioning of their brains: How could a person swallow official information so gullibly and so completely without even asking commonsense questions about the reliability or factual basis of that information?
These people, it turns out, are operating from what I called The Gullible Mind. It is a psychological processing malfunction that filters out information based on its source rather than its integrity. People who operate from The Gullible Mind tend to have misplaced trust in governments, institutions, mainstream news networks, doctors, scientists or anyone who wears the garb of apparent authority.
Whereas a normal, intelligent person would raise commonsense questions about information they receive from all sources, the Gullible Mind wholly accepts virtually any information from sources that occupy the role of apparent authority in society.
Governments never lie
But how does this work inside their heads? It's an interesting process. Gullible Mind people do believe it is possible for a government (or institution) to lie; but they believe that governments, institutions and doctors choose NOT to lie even when it would serve their own self interests to do so.
Follow this carefully, because this is the fascinating part. These Gullible Mind people effectively believe that even though a government official could lie about something, they would never actually do so. And why wouldn't they? Because, ultimately, the Gullible Mind crowd believes that governments, institutions and mainstream media outlets operate from a sort of honor code. So even if it were in the interests of our own government to lie to us, it would never happen because that would violate this imaginary honor code.
Where does this honor code exist? Where is it written down? Nowhere, of course. It is imaginary. But to The Gullible Mind, it seems real. Interestingly, even though this "honor code" only exists in the imagination of The Gullible Mind person, they project this honor code onto sources of authority, imagining that they abide by it.
Extreme gullibility
This is how The Gullible Mind person believes that network news always reports the truth. The news networks have a sense of "honor," they believe, and this sense of honor requires them to always report the truth and never manipulate the news for any nefarious purposes. So news networks never "shape" the news and they only report what is factually true without any consideration whatsoever of politics or advertiser profits.
This view of the world is, of course, laughably naive. And yet it is the core belief system of at least half the population -- the Gullible Mind half that believes everything it is told by its own government, media or authority figures.
Interestingly, the Gullible Mind is also inwardly gullible because it does not recognize its own gullibility. Instead, it believes it is operating as a Rational Mind. This false Rational Mind believes it functions as a critical filter of incoming information, but even this is self deception. In truth, this false Rational Mind is on "auto filter" so that it filters out any information that conflicts with the information it is receiving from official sources.
This is the key to understanding the Gullible Mind -- it isn't the quality of the information itself that matters; it is the confirmation of the story from official sources that "makes it real" in the Gullible Mind.
The Easter Bunny killed Bin Laden!
For example, let's say a Gullible Mind person comes across an announcement that says the Easter Bunny has killed Osama Bin Laden. The report claims that colored eggs were found near Bin Laden's body, and there was evidence of feathers being left at the scene, which proves the Easter Bunny was there.
Now, an intelligent, rational mind would have a lot of questions about this. For starters, rabbits don't have feathers. And the Easter Bunny is a piece of fiction, too. On top of that, how could the Easter Bunny kill Osama Bin Laden? An intelligent person would, upon reviewing the holes in the story, be forced to conclude the story is fiction. The only logical conclusion from that is that the government is lying to them.
A Gullible Mind person, however, would not ask whether rabbits have feathers, or whether the Easter Bunny is capable of conducting a military raid. Instead, the Gullible Mind person would first look to other confirming news sources in order to determine the reliability of the story. They would turn on the TV or surf the internet, looking for the news to be repeated through "official" sources.
Once they found CNN, or Fox News, or some other "official" source reporting that the Easter Bunny killed Osama Bin Laden, then that news report would instantly become "real" in their minds. Suddenly it has shifted from their mental processing queue to the "absolutely truth" part of their brain, and from that point forward, no one can question that reality in their heads.
Don't bother arguing with a Gullible Mind - they are immune to facts
At this point, their rational mind is completely shut off on the topic. No accumulation of facts can, at that point, rattle their "reality." For example, a person who believes the government's story of 9/11 has already embraced the Easter Bunny version of terrorists flying airplanes into the World Trade Center towers. So how did this act cause the WTC 7 building to collapse in a demolition-style free-fall a few hours later, when WTC 7 was never struck by airplanes? How can a steel and concrete building suddenly and magically collapse in perfect structural synchronicity merely from being on fire?
The answers don't matter to The Gullible Mind, you see. There is no room for facts inside their heads, because all the space has been taken up with what is essentially a cult-like belief in institutions of authority.
We saw this in the Heaven's Gate cult in California a few years back. The leader of that cult, a man named Applegate, positioned himself as the one and only source of authoritative information among the cult followers. So HE became the authoritative source whose information was wholly accepted without questioning or skepticism of any kind. At that point, he was able to quite easily convince his followers that an alien race was going to land a UFO on the far side of a comet, and that if they killed themselves, they would be transported onto the alien ship (or something like that).
The belief in such a story may seem silly... until you realize that the governments of the world use the exact same cult-like tactics to get their own "followers" to believe everything they say, without question. So if President Obama announced that an alien race was going to land a mother ship on the White House lawn, and that people who voted for him would have their consciousness transferred to an immortal alien body, the remarkable truth is that millions of people would believe that. Perhaps tens of millions. They would even worship him as an interstellar saint.
Remember Orson Welles' radio program that announced aliens had invaded the Earth and were destroying our cities? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wa...) Huge numbers of people believed it was really happening... and not because it made any sense, but because the information came from the source they trusted. To those people, the alien invasion was just as real back then as Bin Laden's official death is to government followers today.
Throughout history, many conspiracy theories have turned out to be true
Government lying, of course, has been going on for as long as governments have existed. Not all conspiracies theories are true, of course, but so many of them turn out to be true that the idea of "not believing" in conspiracies makes no rational sense.
To not believe in conspiracies means you don't believe two people have ever sat down and plotted to take advantage of others in some unethical and deceptive way. Well gee, that describes virtually every board meeting of every large corporation in the world! Conspiracies are not just commonplace; they're practically synonymous with modern-day capitalism! Even right now, Apple is being accused of a conspiracy to keep employee wages artificially low: (link)
I wonder: Do the Gullible Mind people also not believe in that conspiracy theory? Are all conspiracy theories automatically tossed out merely because of the word "conspiracy?"
For those who don't know their history, here's a list of 33 conspiracy theories that turned out to be true: (link)
The Manhattan Project, of course, was a secret government conspiracy. The Tuskegee Syphilis experiments on African Americans was a secret medical conspiracy. Operation Northwoods was a conspiracy plot to create support for a war on Castro by staging terrorism events in U.S. cities.
These are all historical facts. They are indisputable. But to The Gullible Mind, none of this history exists. What's real is only what they are being told right now by the White House. When George Bush occupied the White House, the daily fibs were things like, "The Iraqis want us to occupy their land with military personnel because we are setting them free!" Oh yeah, that's a bit of twisted logic, for sure. But it's no different from Obama's version of the war fairytales, which includes such gems as, "We're only dropping humanitarian bombs on Libya." Or, "It's not actually war. It's only kinetic military action."
But you see, it makes no difference whether anything they say is actually true... at least not to The Gullible Mind, which believes there is no such thing as a conspiracy theory. There is no such thing as a nefarious government, either. Heck, when Columbus landed in the New World, his entire crew shared food and wine with the Native American Indians, we're told. There was no raping, no murder, no genocide. That's why we continue to celebrate Columbus Day every year! Because the Gullible Mind wants a reason to get off work for a day, even if it requires a complete revision of actual historical facts.
The most popular issues of Gullible Mind people
Vaccines are good for you - Vaccines are "safe and effective" merely because doctors and the CDC say they are, not because of any reliable scientific evidence.
The economy is in great shape - Gullible Mind people are easily influenced to stop thinking about the $14 trillion national debt that's growing by the day and simply go along with whatever economic fictions are being woven in Washington.
Governments and corporations are looking out for your best interests - The drug companies only want to find cures and make everybody healthy. The government is here to help. We should all stop asking questions and just do what we're told.
Nothing will ever run out - There's no such thing as Peak Oil. Our world can continue its throwaway economy without end, they believe. We'll never run out of gas, water, soil or natural resources. Keep using stuff up and throwing it all away!
Food additives are good for you - Otherwise, the FDA wouldn't have approved them, would they?
There's no such thing as a cure for cancer - The ultimate pessimists, the Gullible Mind crowd believes cancer has never been cured! And if a cancer cure did exist, we would know about it by now, right? (Because our scientists already know everything that's worth knowing, you see...)
There are no other non-terrestrial civilizations or beings in our universe - Amazingly, we are the only intelligent forms of life that have ever existed, they believe. Any talk of non-Earth intelligence is just a bunch of "fringe" nonsense. There was never any life on Mars, either.
Herbs and plants have no medicinal value - That's right, only conventional medicine can "treat" you, because that's what the doctors say. Herbs and plants have zero biological value beyond their calories alone, they insist.
... and on it goes, one delusion after another. A Gullible Mind, it seems, will believe almost anything if it comes from a "trusted" source. But that same Gullible Mind will discount straight-up facts if they don't come from those same trusted sources.
How to stop being a Gullible Mind
Interestingly, most of the people who are intelligent, skeptical thinkers today used to be Gullible Mind people at one time or another. There was a point where they simply "awakened" and began to consciously question the world around them.
Intelligent, informed skeptics are the people asking questions like:
Why do twenty different mainstream news sources all report the exact same news, using the exact same words, on the exact same day? (http://www.naturalnews.com/032022_m...) If they were all investigating and writing their own news, wouldn't their news be different?
Why did Wall Street get a multi-trillion-dollar bailout from Washington while the American people are still required to pay taxes that involve sending money to Washington? If Washington can just magically create a trillion dollars overnight, why do we pay taxes, then?
Why does the USDA now actively conspire with GMO seed companies to keep approving genetically modified seeds even without any scientific evidence of their long-term safety?
If mercury is one of the most toxic substances known to modern science, why is it still being deliberately placed into the mouths of children in the form of "silver" fillings? And why are they called "silver" when they actually contain more mercury than silver?
Where does the fluoride used to fluoridate the public water supplies really come from? (http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=42652...) And if fluoride is so good for people, then why is it so hazardous to handle, and why is it considered a hazardous chemical by the EPA?
What really happened on 9/11? How did WTC 7 collapse if it was never hit by any airplanes? Why did they sweep away the rubble before a proper forensic analysis could be performed?
Are vaccines really safe? Where's the study comparing vaccinated children with non-vaccinated children? Why won't the vaccine industry allow such studies to be conducted?
Why does the cancer industry seem a lot more interested in treating cancer and recruiting cancer patients than actually curing cancer and ending the epidemic? Why does the industry refuse to talk about cancer-causing chemicals or the anti-cancer effects of vitamin D?
Why are toxic food additives still allowed in the food supply? What's the real story on aspartame and the FDA? Why did the FDA oppress stevia for so many decades?
Why is the medical police state now using guns to force parents to medicate their children? In what kind of medical system is it necessary to use the threat of violence to force compliance?
Why did Clinton bomb the Sudan in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky crisis? Why did Obama suddenly announce the death of Bin Laden in the middle of his "birther" crisis?
Why do we still have the DEA's "War on Drugs," especially since there is ample evidence that the war is a total failure that only increases the prison population while actually enriching the drug gangs with higher street prices?
Why is the TSA still reaching down our pants at the airports if Bin Laden is now dead? Wasn't he the whole reason we created the TSA and hired on those 60,000 security agents in the first place? (http://www.naturalnews.com/032267_B...)
An intelligent, skeptical thinker would ask these questions (and many more) as a natural course of basic human curiosity. But a Gullible Mind, attacks the questioner for even daring to ask such questions.
Who are some of the awakened people?
That's why the Gullible Mind is more than merely gullible: It is a cowardly mind. It is afraid to ask questions on its own, and it simultaneously attacks those who have the courage to stand up and actually ask those questions (like Jesse Ventura).
Most members of the conventional press are, of course, cowardly minds. They almost universally buy the corporate spin (or the White House spin) and never ask any tough questions anymore. Some of the REAL heroes -- the people who are asking intelligent questions about our world -- include:
Alex Jones
Jeff Rense
Charlotte Gerson
Jonathan Landsman
David Icke
Jesse Ventura
Gerald Celente
Ron Paul
Robert Scott Bell
Dr. Andrew Wakefield
Suzanne Somers
Dr. James Forsythe
George Noorey
Do you see a pattern here? Each one of these individuals has been marginalized or viciously attacked and slandered simply because they chose to ask intelligent questions about the world around them. Now, I don't agree with every single thing said by each one of these people, but I admire each of them for having the courage to ask the questions that need to be asked if we are to move forward as a society (and civilization).
These kind of people represent the complete opposite of The Gullible Mind. They are, instead, the "true skeptics" of the world. The reason they are viciously attacked is because our world is so steeped in deceit and conspiracy that only Gullible Minds are tolerated. Those who question the status quo are not merely annoying to the powers that be, but actually dangerous because the most dangerous activity in which you can engage today is helping others awaken to what's really happening around them.
It is that "awakening" that is so utterly despised by the web of corporations, governments and media lackeys that they will do everything in their power to prevent any sort of awakening from taking place at all. The functioning of the Matrix, after all, depends on people believing in the illusion.
And it is so much easier to govern, of course, if people just believe whatever you tell them. Gullible Minds make great voters and willing slaves. But lousy company.
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Good essay!
"Follow this carefully, because this is the fascinating part. These Gullible Mind people effectively believe that even though a government official could lie about something, they would never actually do so. And why wouldn't they? Because, ultimately, the Gullible Mind crowd believes that governments, institutions and mainstream media outlets operate from a sort of honor code."
Since most people have their own "honor code," they think those in positions of power must too. That's where they're wrong, and it's too bad they're exploited for thinking the PTB are just normal folks like them, with just a lot of money.
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What would you call someone like me, who figures that if the government said it, it's probably not true. Even if I have no evidence either way, my default setting is to believe the opposite of the official story.
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I think the attachment to the honor code is the fact that in a sane world if a media outlet was caught lying that outlet would lose credibility basically forever. That this does not happen reinforces the idea that they are actually abiding by an honor code. It seems in today's world the consequences are much greater for anyone who dares to suggest or prove the accepted stories are lies. Those who do the lying and stealing, even when caught are not publicly stripped of credibility.
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Originally Posted by horseshoe3
What would you call someone like me, who figures that if the government said it, it's probably not true. Even if I have no evidence either way, my default setting is to believe the opposite of the official story.
Contrarian?
You can make a lot of progress by being a contrarian. He is an interesting experiment to expound on. It involves finding a television, which most here don't have.
Watch commercials. We all know they're BS, but they don't strike one as inherantly "wrong" either. Try this: Every absolute statement a commercial makes, try framing the opposite of that statement in your head. (I.E. "This summer, cash will be king." You: "This summer, cash won't be king." <-- Is that plausible to you?)
I have found that the exact opposite of everything they say is often quite palable to me, even when the original content didn't seem that objectionable.
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Originally Posted by horseshoe3
What would you call someone like me, who figures that if the government said it, it's probably not true. Even if I have no evidence either way, my default setting is to believe the opposite of the official story.
Rational minded.
Until the facts show otherwise, it is rational to figure current performance with an eye to past behavior.
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This lying, murderous Empire can only exist with your brainwashed consent... -Cindy Sheehan
http://www.youtube.com/v/Dn1EXwjFOa0
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The "Big Lie" aka the Chutzpah Maneuver deception technique is the extreme exploitation of this imaginary "honor code" which gullible minds labor under, tending to project "honor" onto "authorities" -- the deceiver masquerades as an extraordinary paragon of righteous virtue, and repeats a lie which flips reality 180 degrees opposite of the truth. The lie has a certain illusion of credibility to it, as it's really a mirror image of, say the "good vs evil" realities which are truly in play; it just happens to fraudulently flip the roles around, in a deception so audacious, the gullible mind dismisses the possibility that another would lie so shamelessly.
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Originally Posted by PatColo
THis is what I dubbed the CHUTZPAH MANEUVER: (rhetorically) turning reality 180 degrees upside down, and ideally doing it PREEMPTIVELY, before their opponent (correctly) accused the shill of the bad behavior. Shill-A-Thon @ GIM1 used to use this lying/manipulation technique all the time (with it's overlap with the BIG LIE lying technique, a jewish invention as hitler correctly noted in his book). In fact it was Percival/Pattern-of-Paranoia-Guy/etc's favorite; he was downright fanatical about using it... one of the principal clues it was Percy when he'd be posting as his latest "new guy" sockpuppet. I nicknamed him Pattern-of-Paranoia-Guy when in every other one of his posts, he was accusing people of being paranoid- when it's obviously the zio's who are paragons of paranoia... It's intended to cause cognitive dissonance in the honest reader, esp when the zio-shill successfully made the accusation(s) preemptively... describing their own dishonest behavior/agenda to a tee, but loudly & repeatedly projecting it onto their opponent. Honest readers are supposed to just get confused & frustrated, throw up their arms and give up on trying to understand the truth of the topic.
Notice the CHUTZPAH MANEUVER is also the favorite lying/propaganda method of zio.gov, esp as it pertains to bankster/wall-st criminality, and all things related to the warrenterra hoax.
November 10, 2001 - President Bush Speaks to United Nations, long before 99.x% of Americans even suspected something was very wrong with the official 911 CT,
G.W. Bush:
"We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous
conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th;
malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists,
themselves, away from the guilty. To inflame ethnic hatred is to advance
the cause of terror."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0011110-3.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K5M0...layer_embedded
(wearing his tell-tale powder blue NWO necktie, no less, ;) )
This old Mike Rivero essay nicely summarized the "Point Of No Return" which can afflict that sub-population who are burdened with both initial gullibility and stubbornness re changing opinions once the error of their perceptions has been brought to their attention:
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The Point Of No Return
Dictators do not appear overnight. They must gradually assume more and more power over time so that the population does not realize what is going on, or does not feel it is worthwhile to object.
But to maintain control, dictators "seduce" their population into greater and greater atrocities, over time. There is more than simply acclimating the population involved to the dictator's agenda. By tricking the population into acceptance of greater and greater atrocities, the dictator will eventually reach a position where the people will be too afraid to examine what they themselves have become. Trapped by the fear of examining themselves, such people turn into the most fanatical of the dictator's supporters. They dare not look at the dictator's evil for to do so is to look at their own. Once the dictator can trick his people past that point, they are his slaves. Hitler used this tactic. So did Stalin.
The people of the United States stand at that point right now. That the US Government is using torture on POWs (just as Hitler did) is beyond argument. One can either stand up and denounce that torture and demand the firing of all who took part in it (and the end of the war), or one is by default complicit, an accessory after the fact, seen by all to condone such barbarism.
Anyone who steps across that line is trapped. Unable to look at what they themselves have become they will refuse to look at what the government has become, indeed will create or accept any justification, no matter how thin and transparent, rather than question that government. And indeed this web site gets email from people who have already crossed that point, and are trying to explain why torture is really necessary "this time".
So, you are down to a choice. There is no more being neutral, or sitting on the fence. As Bush himself said, you are either with him or against him, and unless you are actively against him and his war machine, then he wins by default. Unless you stop them now, sooner or later, Bush and the NeoCons will succeed in turning this nation into the 21st century version of Nazi Germany, powered by fanatics so afraid to look in a mirror that they will inflict any pain on any people, rather than do so.
Time to decide.
Maybe part of the appeal of a messageboard like GSUS is, most of us were blue-pillers at one time; but we had the curiosity and intestinal fortitude to accept where we discovered we'd been systematically deceived, and to "independently" relearn matters as appropriate? We're thus kind of like a recovering deceivee support group... :D
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I totally disagree with the first part of the essay. Most gullible minds do NOT believe in a government honor code system. Rather, they believe that the press is an effective check on government lies. It is easy to convince J6P that government lies. It is hard to convince J6P that the MSM is corrupt.
dys
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This sort of validates the 'sheeple' epithet we use to describe gullible minds. They are sheeple. They refuse to make themselves aware that they are being herded. To them, all the 'herding' maneuvers --including the dogs are necessary for the safety and well being of the flock. There is nothing that can make them imagine that there is a slaughterhouse because they do not see themselves as sheep, but as fully formed human beings. They have to be told not only what to do, but also what to think. They think that the people who tell them what to do, or what to think, know what they are doing and would not be in the position they are in (being authorities) unless they were ethically and morally superior. The sheeple also believe that you get into positions of authority by working hard and setting a good example for your colleagues--not by joining a club that requires you to abandon your conscience. As Jack Nicholson observed in A Few Good Men, these gullible minded people 'can't handle the truth'. They want to believe the lies the authorities tell them. People who are not used to the truth can't handle it. Especially if it comes from people who are not recognized as authorities.
This is the human condition. Unfortunately these gullible minds are a huge part of it. Makes me ashamed of belonging to the species. But often the critical thinkers make me proud to be human.
Hatha
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Originally Posted by dys
I totally disagree with the first part of the essay. Most gullible minds do NOT believe in a government honor code system. Rather, they believe that the press is an effective check on government lies. It is easy to convince J6P that government lies. It is hard to convince J6P that the MSM is corrupt.
dys
That is pretty much exactly what I was trying to say above.
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Originally Posted by TheNocturnalEgyptian
Contrarian?
You can make a lot of progress by being a contrarian. He is an interesting experiment to expound on. It involves finding a television, which most here don't have.
Watch commercials. We all know they're BS, but they don't strike one as inherantly "wrong" either. Try this: Every absolute statement a commercial makes, try framing the opposite of that statement in your head. (I.E. "This summer, cash will be king." You: "This summer, cash won't be king." <-- Is that plausible to you?)
I have found that the exact opposite of everything they say is often quite palable to me, even when the original content didn't seem that objectionable.
I do the same thing. I've found this works particularly well concerning individuals and public perception. If they have a positive public perception, I've found that it's best to assume the worst about them. Conversely, if they a negative public perception, it's often wise to assume the best about them, as these types tend to be threats towards the system.
dys
Honorable Patriots and Dishonorable Government Leaders and Press
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Originally Posted by PatColo
The "Big Lie" aka the Chutzpah Maneuver deception technique is the extreme exploitation of this imaginary "honor code" which gullible minds labor under, tending to project "honor" onto "authorities" -- the deceiver masquerades as an extraordinary paragon of righteous virtue, and repeats a lie which flips reality 180 degrees opposite of the truth. The lie has a certain illusion of credibility to it, as it's really a mirror image of, say the "good vs evil" realities which are truly in play; it just happens to fraudulently flip the roles around, in a deception so audacious, the gullible mind dismisses the possibility that another would lie so shamelessly.
Good post PatColo thanks!
To describe another side of that reality, internet sites like these we have the segment of the population with the knowledge and desire to see the United States (and other Western agents) that actually operates by the honour code and members spend hours a day and passionately share ideas about how to keep our governments honest and how they now too often act dishonestly.
So what to the criminals current occupying these regimes and their corporate propaganda partners do?
They flip the truth 180 degrees and the segment of the population that has a honour code and wants our government to operate honourable within the law is portrayed as dishonorable and a danger by the dishonorable in power.
I wonder how strong the correlation between Dishonourable or Honourable and Sociopath or Empath is?
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so·ci·o·path
a person, as a psychopathic personality, whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
However the problem is even worse since more than ever before the structure of our economies is corporate and thus sociopathic. Thus the honourable are forced to dishonour by the inherent structure of corporate society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honour
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Accordingly, individuals are assigned worth and stature based on the harmony of their actions, code of honour, and that of the society at large.
So Honour brings me to harmony which brings me to wave resonances and reduced entropy (disorder)!
Thus now not only can I claim that excess entropy is evil, but I can claim its dishonourable! 8)
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To describe another side of that reality, internet sites like these we have the segment of the population with the knowledge and desire to see the United States (and other Western agents) that actually operates by the honour code and members spend hours a day and passionately share ideas about how to keep our governments honest and how they now too often act dishonestly.
So what to the criminals current occupying these regimes and their corporate propaganda partners do?
They flip the truth 180 degrees and the segment of the population that has a honour code and wants our government to operate honourable within the law is portrayed as dishonorable and a danger by the dishonorable in power.
Yup, the old 180-degree opposite rule, anti-war folks "unpatriotic", 911 Truthers as disseminaters of "outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty. To inflame ethnic hatred is to advance the cause of terror." (...boldly insisted the front-puppet of the terrorist political entity who orchestrated 911, and who seek to encourage anti-Arab/Muslim/Semitic ethnic hatred...)
And don't forget who the world's victim/scapegoats always are...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npy2oGpvfhM
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This can be more easily explained as a "conclusive" mind. Our minds are geared to come to conclusions so that the next time the empirical data shows up, we know what to do. Over time, the communication/reaction to the data boxes one into a corner of "non-thinking" As the conclusions have already been decided.
This is why people believe what they are told without questioning. Conclusions are excuses for not thinking. Some like to cling to their conclusions as it makes them feel safe. But the truth is that everything is constantly changing. What is true one minute, is false another minute. This behooves each of us to think on our feet at all times. Questioning everything. Be open to new answers.
As we all know, inflexibility leads to rigidity, which leads to cracks in the structure. If we were more flexible like water, our minds would penetrate the deepest recesses of any subject matter.
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One major factor is brain processing power, and that is why we have such a plethora of drugs, that lowers brain processing, from the psych drugs, to anti-hypertensives, they bring those that have the ability to think for themselves, despite schooling, to the level where they are gullible, and just accept the conclusions provided for them, without supporting evidence, from the talking heads of MSM...
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flouride is a big one, a lot of your higher thinking is lost on flouride.
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Originally Posted by Large Sarge
flouride is a big one, a lot of your higher thinking is lost on flouride.
Definitely and food additives like monosodium glutamate and aspartame, that creates brain inflammation...
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Rome under the Republic had a civic religion, consisting of the reading of entrails and other sensible precautions. The civic religion of the modern world is social engineering, which depends on similar techniques of divination…
The members of the American economics profession, as [Thurman] Arnold contended, performed a vital practical role in maintaining this unique system of corporate socialism American style. It was their role to prevent the American public from achieving a correct understanding of the actual workings of the American economic system. Economists instead were assigned the task to dispense priestly blessings that would allow business to operate independent of damaging political manipulation. They accomplished this task by means of their message of “laissez faire religion, based on a conception of a society composed of competing individuals.” However false as a description of the actual U.S. economy, this vision in the mind of the American public was in practice “transferred automatically to industrial organizations with nation-wide power and dictatorial forms of government.” Even though the arguments of economists were misleading and largely fictional, the practical — and beneficial — result of their deception was to throw a “mantle of protection … over corporate government” from various forms of outside interference. Admittedly, as the economic “symbolism got farther and farther from reality, it required more and more ceremony to keep it up.” But as long as this arrangement worked and there could be maintained “the little pictures in the back of the head of the ordinary man,” the effect was salutary — “the great [corporate] organization was secure in its freedom and independence.” It was this very freedom and independence of business professionals to pursue the correct scientific answer — the efficient answer — on which the economic progress of the United States depended.
— Robert H. Nelson, REACHING FOR HEAVEN ON EARTH
Robert Nelson tells us that the goal of the economics profession is to prevent the American public from achieving a correct understanding the American economic system, thereby throwing a “mantel of protection over corporate government!”
Re: The gullible mind explained [False projection of honor code?]
Oh what evil hath be wrought through The Ages .......by fools and knaves who thought their actions were those that would bring Honor
Re: The gullible mind explained [False projection of honor code?]
