The Mass Mind 1
Looking at molding, and the effects of, the societal “mass mind,” times where the entire population seems to move in lockstep.
Are you a victim?
Have you considered how anything works at all, when we have people at each others’ throats, over the stupidest things like “red” or “blue” leanings, while yet all moving under the same societal delusions? As we’ve discussed thoroughly, we're approaching a stage where most everything is a con, lie, misdirection of one form or another.
In what way is this a “society?” Spoiler: It’s not. Working at odds, yet still under the same general delusion, is a form of madness. How can you guarantee that anything you do won’t be sabotaged in this whack-a-doodle system?
Lincoln was quoted with, “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” basically the same idea. Well, that neglects the point that in the meantime, before the collapse, the house is slowly being torn to pieces, bit-by-bit.
Hype
Hot Topic
A trailer for the latest Superman movie has one of Superman’s robots telling Superman not to thank them, they’re only automatons on which thanks don’t register.
Then another “younger” robot is tickled pink that Superman looks at her, and this whole episode seems to say that the first robot is wrong, they do register emotion! What a sweet revelation!
Dedicated readers here know they’ve got this A.I. scheme on the boil, one of the things they’re going to exploit to the hilt as they ride the economy down to hell. In other attempts, they’re pandering to the fear reaction the rubes show, about A.I. “taking over,” (whatever that would mean). They’ve got this goofy push tightly integrated, using every opportunity, so we see A.I. promotion coming from all sorts of sources.
Of course there is the latest stench from ol’ Elon Musky, who asserts that in 2026, the machine might discover new physics, surpassing human achievement and intelligence. Hate to tell him, but a Speak & Spell surpassed his intelligence a long time ago. Then there’s the other total fecal, who posted a chart, plotting on it that the artificial intelligence, (or is it, “The Entity?”) will “escape the lab in 2027.” In that same vein, there’s a pissant with a video, How AI Takeover Could Happen In 2 Years: A Scenario.
Peter Principle
You may remember when, a few years ago, a book came out, called The Peter Principle, by Laurence J. Peter.
It espoused the idea that all organizations start to get clumsy and useless because there is a tendency to promote people to their level of incompetence where they are a hindrance to the company.
This is based on the belief that if someone is good in his job, he gets promoted and finally gets to some level for which he isn’t an adequate performer, but corporate inertia, and an unwillingness by the bosses to admit they were wrong to promote that person, keeps the person in place.
The idea spread and “The Peter Principle” became sort of a catchphrase.
We’ve already examined the real reason corporations become failures.
The “Peter Principle,” is somewhat true, but not completely. Where it does play out is when you have favored lackeys groomed for leadership roles.
Maintenance of the status quo is one objective in industry and business. The sad truth is, most people just don’t get promoted, or get a sideways/lateral transfer. The corporate structure is also a Ponzi scheme. As a matter of fact, most everyone you can think of, going back to our grandparents’ generation, and before, seem to have worked the same old job all their lives, maintaining around the same level of income/status.
If we really wanted to be analytical we’d see that sycophancy was what played the preponderant role in putting abysmal performers in the wrong jobs. But somehow, the Peter Principle caught the public fancy.
Bizarre Fixations
Penitents
There is a weird “self-punishment” idea, that things like complex work, have to be punishing, instead of made as simple as possible. We’ve talked about this effect being evident with certain computer programmers, for instance. And we’ve discussed the foolishness of colleges that tend to make courses unnecessarily difficult.
Others have realized this, and there is a saying, “Work smarter, not harder.”
Often easier said than done, since, somewhere along the line, the mass mind has picked up the irrational belief that making things hard is somehow conveying a badge of honor. However, the sadists behind the scenes, propagating this myth, don’t make things tough on themselves.
We Get So Excited
When the scientific community deigns to release something, via the “media,” we are very quick to hop aboard.
A podcast host was talking about testing targeting devices, used by military operators, to pick targets for destruction. When discerning targets in an area under attack, he said, the computer was only 15% accurate, but humans were 85% accurate – when the pictures were flashed at 10 per second! (10 Hz, or 0.1 second per shot.)
If you’re anything but 100% accurate, over a long enough time, you’re going to end up killing everything, friend or foe, anyway. But just by framing this as “awesome,” most of the audience will believe it, unthinkingly (and of course there’s the appeal to ego, for the implication was that it meant “our brain is awesome”).
We get so excited when “the authority” deigns to talk to us. It’s an egregious zone, and we suck up a lot of nonsense without discernment in this way.
Fixations on Aliens and Strange Beings
Things like the idea of aliens and Bigfoot and such, represent bizarre fixations.
It is an egregious zone, and sure, it plays off the thrill of imagination, mystery, and discovery.
But the proper time to be fixated on such things and turn investigative, is when someone actually has a concrete discovery with evidence that they can show you. This does not include blurry photos or unsubstantiated tall tales.
As this blog has tried to make clear, “aliens” are a ruse, a con, a strategy, a business venture. If there were any actual aliens, we’d have known about them long ago.
Magic Words
Here are a few examples:
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Energy or Free Energy – People just don’t understand energy. But everyone thinks they do. There are all these fallacies, like the one that “everything is made of energy” (it’s not). Or you will encounter some shill with a “free energy” gizmo. If someone has the genuine article, then that person should also have a model of it and plans (for free), so you can duplicate it for yourself as a test.
By “poisoning the well,” with all these hucksters, it makes it look like all free energy discussion or claimed innovation is bad, since there are suppressed devices that do work. In fact, some are so simple and obvious, it’s shocking that everyone doesn’t know about them.
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Life-Changing – This one seems to crop up a lot. Everyone seems to have something that will “change your life,” but most never deliver on the promise. Note that anything truly powerful, that we should be taught, is suppressed.
Yet hucksters always seem to get away with it. People with a “method” or a “secret,” that they’re willing to sell. If they get free publicity, it’s an especially good way to know they’re fakers. In fact, we have discussed a recent big-scale fake, a book, titled, unsurprisingly, The Secret.
When we read a flashy book title like that, an illogical part of our mind starts to spin the hamster wheel at hyper-speed. There are those who really believe that something like that is going to tell them the secret to become a millionaire or attain a higher consciousness or fly around like Peter Pan.
We’ve got to be alert to the propensity of asking the wrong question, for having the wrong desires. A child who gets his wish of all the candy he wants, after he’s dead from diabetes, might reflect that, it wasn’t what he really wanted.
We “want” things without consequence, as a lottery winner really wants – or needs – all her bills paid for her for life, not a big lump sum.
Yes, look at lottery winners – the vast majority of whom seem to blow their money and end up worse off.
Yet, you never hear someone say, “I won’t play the lottery because it appears that even if you win, you’ll still end up poor and unhappy.”
No. If you confront someone with facts, they’ll say or imply, “Oh yes, I’ve heard of that, but that wouldn’t happen to me, because I’m different.”
For the most part, visualizers and dreamers are lazy, and untethered to the real world. In this reality, anything with value requires effort.
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Natural Resources – Another con we’re fed like pablum – about “natural resources.” There are no “natural resources.” Things only become resources when appropriate efforts are made to make them so, via retrieval and processing of some kind.
Is a giant tree a “natural resource?” Really, it’s not even “raw material.” First you have to get to it, build the equipment necessary to harvest it, then do all the necessary work to extract the useful products from it, and this work is intensive.
Never mind the tools needed. Even the smallest ax requires a mining and smelting industry, fuel to power that industry. All industries require design, and all products, distribution. Multiple chains of interlocking links.
But, once things are extracted and processed they are useful resources, like 2x4s, plywood, veneers, paper, chemicals, mulch from trees. All thanks to a lot of human hard work.
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Genius – We don’t truly understand what intelligence itself is, yet we’ve coined this term, “genius,” which is often tossed off as a trap that really tells the mass mind, without saying so, “He/she can’t be questioned,” or, “He/she is an authority figure.”
The “Self-Help” Industry
This silly “self-help” has grown to a gigantic industry, and it’s surprising to see that it is still experiencing considerable growth, with absurdities like 22-year-old “Life Coaches,” and jumbles of unfulfilled promises piled on promises. Even the popular sentiment and Google A.I. recognizes its shortcomings.
Looking to the typical crop of old-style self-help and educational books, one thing is clear: They work from an old principle, baffling with BS.
You know what that means: the type of books that would answer the question, “How do I get rich?” with, “Start with a million dollars and then...”
“Self-help,” promoted and set forth as that which is supposed to help us, does no such thing. You must understand that there’s no money in really helping another. The money is in “pretty lies” and smooth, slick presentation of trivial notions, served up as though they were inscriptions on tablets from heaven.
Next article: How the mass mind is assembled.
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