CBT in the age of ubiquitous corporate propaganda peddled as "The Science", the dangers of analyzing the mind without acknowledging the soul and the pathologization of dissent
CBT in the age of ubiquitous corporate propaganda peddled as "The Science", the dangers of analyzing the mind without acknowledging the soul and the pathologization of dissent
Its been obvious to me for a long time, go back to late 2019 or early 2020. The propaganda on where the virus originated from... The US blamed China, China blamed US, that was all propaganda to manage the expectations of their own populations.
In early 2020 the population of Whuan ditched their 5G mobile phones. 🧐
I’m not familiar with that essay or writer, but your post reminds me of one of my all-time fav quotes: “When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” Frederick Bastiat
But, eventually, the natural result of plunder will manifest. We see that those who steal instead of earn bring man’s systems down every time. In nature we can see this in the beetles that bring down the mono cropped or otherwise weakened forest. I saw it in New Orleans after Katrina as the ‘carpet bagger’ types come in looking to scavenge or otherwise take advantage of disaster. Those beetles, those scavengers don’t build, their function is to cart off the old in preparation for the new—they don’t know how to do anything else. They burn down the ancient food forest to grow soybeans to feed the race horses of the elite.
Thanks for the insightful, informative and thought provoking comment my friend.
"They burn down the ancient food forest to grow soybeans to feed the race horses of the elite."
That is poignant and on point, thanks for that concise, hard hitting and poetic synthesis of how we from there to here, and why.
Some of us are still fighting to protect the ancient sections of food forests that remain and planting new ones for future generations, so no matter how shortsighted and ignorant the elite choose to be in the present, we will endure so that a future worth gifting to our descendants will be ensured.
Speaking of which, how are your Pecan trees doing? Do you have any Shagbark Hickory on the property and have you been propagating either from seed yet?
Yes we will! Our ‘betters’ are not the heroes they pretend to be, it’s up to us.
We do have some bitter nut on the property, but I’m not sure what type. That is definitely a great idea for our next steps. This was the first year one of the pecans produced just a tiny bit. We’ve planted many hundreds of trees over the years, with a survival rate of about 1%. 😩.
This year I’m dedicated to citrus and more medicinals, very excited about that! But I’m always trying to propagate from the wild—specifically the wild cherry, elderberry and mimosa so far, with limited success. I’ll get better, I’m sure!
Never heard of air pruning beds, that looks really interesting! That might be a good trick for us, looks like that have a great setup there. My issue has been getting them to survive their first summer. Never heard of five flavor fruit, and they produce in shade, can’t wait to read all about it! Thanks for the tips!!
Ya the pruning beds work great for nut seeds (Hickory, Heartnut, Oak etc) and tap rooted trees like Paw Paw, Apple or Peach.
I just made a soup with freshly foraged ramps, turkey tail mushrooms, nettles, home grown shiitake, kale, Egyptian onions, west coast wild harvested bull kelp and homemade miso paste with some crushed/diced dried five flavor fruit this afternoon and Woooow! It was soo tasty and nourishing. It was like all the cells in my body were singing when I ate each spoonful :)
Ya I mean most of the ingredients grow in my garden and in the forest here (minus the kelp as we are landlocked) but they are definitely not typical soup ingredients :) Do you use seaweed in your cooking at all?
One thing i am experimenting with regarding five flavor fruit is buying sundried organic berries and then sucking on the berries to remove all flavorful the nutrient/medicinal compound rich flesh and then spitting out the seeds and seeing if I can germinate them. If they are sundried as advertised I think they should be viable after stratification. I have done that with Goji Berries before and it worked so it might be a way to get abundant seeds while also accessing some of the medicinal/nutrition of the berries. We shall see. :)
I love mimosa, and they can actually grow (just barely) here, so I may do some propagation of those this year as well.
Right now I am doing research for my next food forest series installment and it will be focusing on a medicinal plant called Schisandra chinensis (aka "five flavor fruit"). Have you heard of it?
I am excited to be propagating some "five flavor fruit" vines for food forest projects this year as they can produce well in the shade so will be amazing for stacking functions in dense forest canopy.
I agree with this statement Peco makes "Much as we dislike something, we cannot build a society by acting through a negative passion. We must be constructively for something; we must be for it so much that whatever we are against is more a byproduct of what we are for, rather than a primary passion in itself." I was thinking similarly about the No Virus crowd who seem mostly focused on attacking establishment rather than promoting building healthy Terrain or something instead.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post, his post and share your thoughts.
When I first read that quote you shared above I felt the same way. Then I realized that even that can be weaponized in some situations.
For instance, as I touched on in this post : https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-the-scamdemic? I had family members that attempted to tell me the reason why they were engaging in an Amish style shunning, ostracism, digital disowning and just generally cutting me out of their lives and making it impossible for me to be a part of rare family gatherings was (according to them) due to me "always looking for the negative things in the world and being paranoid about vaccines".
So while I agree with Peco that we should not just focus on the negative, and rather should give the majority of our energy to nurturing, cultivating and learning about the positive, inspiring and regenerative aspects of this world, it would be irresponsible and counter-intuitive to refuse to educate ourselves about the pitfalls in our midst so we can avoid them effectively.
In this post ( https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/in-pursuit-of-an-antidote-for-parasites ) I sought to highlight the pitfalls in our midst while also elucidating on actionable solutions, regenerative pathways for constructive action and hopeful truths. This approach is the essence of all of my work and yet people who are addicted to comforts, cowardly in the face of tyranny, brainwashed by comforting lies or just straight up opportunistic bullies would seek to take something like Peco's statement of "Much as we dislike something, we cannot build a society by acting through a negative passion" and accuse me of only focusing on negative passions (avoiding, downplaying or denying the legitimacy of all the constructive solutions based material I am bringing to the table) so that they can attempt to diminish my credibility, attack my character and make their own irrational, cowardly and disempowering life choices appear more "normal" or "reasonable".
I do agree with you regarding much of the no virus crusaders though, so you made a good point there.
"The reason why they were engaging in an Amish style shunning, ostracism, digital disowning and just generally cutting me out of their lives and making it impossible for me to be a part of rare family gatherings was (according to them) due to me "always looking for the negative things in the world and being paranoid about vaccines"."
Discomfiting truth has been illegal since we first started making laws. As for negative/positive, I prefer proactive/reactive. Reacting against unwanted things usually breeds more unwanted things. Proacting for wanted things tends to create more wanted things.
It is good and useful to inform people of things that can hurt them, but infowars are imo just like all other wars: sucker games to keep us proles distracted from living our lives as we will, the one thing that the global blobster deep state ickies can't control. But actually doing what we will rather than what we are told, is difficult for most people.
Before we ponder whether it is wise or not to "let our horses run free", it might help to know what freedom is. Few people grasp the concept, imo. They conflate freedom with 'that which is allowed'.
I say: rant about the evil powers that be an it please ye, and exhort folks to take positive personal actions if ye like. Do one or the other or both -- you will nonetheless be criticized. In the end: https://youtu.be/Rt8-bPSvhkk
Indeed, but discomforting truth is the stimulus that invites evolution in the human mind, heart and in our various cultures. It is like the cold autumn wind that informs the heirloom plant to prepare her biochemical defense of anthocyanin and send information to her seeds so that when they germinate and set down roots, they will be more suited to thrive.
Many modern humans live in infantilized states of atrophy with regards to their minds and hearts, lacking the stimulus that invites them to rise to the challenge and become their best selves. These people are sort of like hydroponically grown vegetables in greenhouses, propped up and made to be ultra-comfortable with unnatural temperature controls and artificial lights, fed synthetic inputs so they can be productive 24/7/365 (yet producing monocultures of flavorless uniformity, lacking adaptability, substance, nourishment, and resilience).
In today’s world of modern convenience, many have lived unnatural sheltered lives of comfort and no longer take the steps to be capable of living in balance with the real world. In their infantilized state as statist cheerleaders, consumers and technology dependent fearful city dwellers, they latch onto any comforting lies and exploitative technology presented which makes their days easier and requiring less effort/discomfort.
Just as the hydroponic vegetable would very swiftly perish if exposed to the elements and broader ecosystem that it's ancestors dwelled in and aligned with, so to would the sheltered, pampered, psychologically coddled, AC controlled, toxin filled/drywall box, imagination corroding prison (modern cookie cutter home/apartment) dwelling, big pharma dependent, centralized governance Stockholm syndromed humans have a very difficult time surviving in the real world (beyond the artificial barriers of the flimsy and top heavy realm of synthetic human modernity) which their ancestors used to live in and had learned to align with .
I have no interest in infowars, but I as I am a garden designer I will point out when I see someone attempting to cultivate in toxic soils. The post above is me attempting to do just that, and the toxic soils are the conventional psychiatry / psychology industry that is dominated by big pharma and atheist myths about what it means to be human.
The majority of my energy is always focused on the cultivating itself though, so while I may help others to notice the toxic soils, and remediate if possible , I agree with you that it is the handful of seeds and the hope for them to create an ancient food forest , that should be the focus of most of our energies (literally and metaphorically).
Oh, if it's good for your soul to do it, then it's good, period. I've lost interest in being an info-prophet myself. If I had dollar for every time I heard, 'Whoa, that's too deep for me, dude' or the ever popular 'You're so negative', I could buy a hearing aid and new piano.
It tends to drive away the people in my immediate life, and they're the ones whose survival and well-being I'm concerned with. Family, neighbors, the ant colony in the basement... it's hilarious, but I suppose the following vid summarizes my sociopolitical views these days:
Cornball bordering on camp, and I have no use for 'rolling coal', but that basic ethos is how I look at it all. I've survived 38 years of marriage and raising kids, and TEOKWAWKI ain't gonna bust my high. My personal high mostly wearies these days of space lizard globalist exposes, but that's just my personal aesthetics: such talk demotivates me any more.
That said, I do think that blaming cultural institutions for the state of affairs is especially infantile "In today’s world of modern convenience, (where) many have lived unnatural sheltered lives of comfort and no longer take the steps to be capable of living in balance with the real world. In their infantilized state as statist cheerleaders, consumers and technology dependent fearful city dwellers, they latch onto any comforting lies and exploitative technology presented which makes their days easier and requiring less effort/discomfort" because, mass media psy-ops public school conditioning & Bernays PR hypnoses notwithstanding, everyone has dizzy-danced themselves into their tidy little tragedies. Free will remains free, regardless. That's why it's called 'will'. So yeah, we all been Stockholm-syndromed on a vast geographic and temporal scale, and snapping out of the Lizards of Oz's shitshow is difficult at best, but there it is: we put ourselves here, individually (despite voting in blocs and "about the issues" and all that silly parade fluffery), increasingly ignoring our family and friends in favor of The Big Picture ( https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/04/21/QC4AWXMPB5BWFG7RCMVPGAVNSE.jpg?w=620 )... and any way out will occur by individuals making seriously painful moral, tactical and strategic decisions and therefrom forming small close relationships with those in their near vicinity.
It's the aging curmudgeon in me. Like my dead friend Long Tom used to say: "Fuck 'em. Let 'em starve to death, freezing, thirsty, burning alive -- if I tell another person that the sky is falling, I'll have to kill 'em."
People are being misled and led to the virtue signaling, vigilantism, and splintering of social circles (pun not intended, but apt). We have been splintered from larger bubbles into micro individual bubbles.
Protect your sanity when all those around you are losing theirs, or already lost it.
That is a truism that is very true these days. People who went over the top have to protect their earlier decisions by stubbornly sticking with it, to some extent. I try to reach those who are reachable and let go, emotionally, of those who aren't.
I agree with your concern about where this is heading though - seeing the quote in more context: "That might work if we were only horses, or only wolves, birds, or fish, purely natural. But human beings are not like other animals. We are not purely natural, but uber-natural, beyond natural, half horse and half wagon driver. We can’t entirely set those horses free any more than a wagon driver can release the reins and expect to stay on the path. But we can’t control our passions through forceful pulling on the reins, either. We need a story that guides us away from passion-focused reasoning and cognitive distortion, and toward trustworthy realities outside of ourselves. We can’t escape this need; we are creatures of cognition as much as passion."
He had suggested the Amish are directed by a God outside of themselves, and here he is suggesting we need a story outside ourselves, and in the next paragraphs, suggesting technology is a story. Government psy ops are stories too.
The "trust-worthy realities" aspect is what I find most troubling and ripe for abuse.
"trust-worthy" according to who?
If those who came before us had acquiesced to what the "mental health" experts of the time were declaring is "objectively observable" and "trustworthy" women would not be allowed to make choices about their own sexual autonomy, own their own houses nor divorce abusive husbands.
According to the priesthood of psychiatry, any independent free thinking women that wanted to be equal to their husbands were mentally deficient or unstable and they were to be locked up in the mental asylum if their husband or father deemed it to be a good idea.
In other words, their defiance against patriarchal oppression was deemed as an "un-trustworthy reality" by the establishment of "mental health experts" and they were to be silenced, drugged, maimed/"treated" or scared in capitulating or locked up.
Here are some historical examples of what I am talking about:
Many may think we are so much more socially advanced now and that was "back then in the archaic dark ages" but those people are fooling themselves, for as we observed during the scamdemic (and as I outlined in the evidence presented in my post above) if the established tyrannical system wants to target a subgroup of the population for oppression and ostracism, they will just call you a bunch of dehumanizing and derogatory names ("anti-vaxxer", "anti-science", "fringe minority" etc), take away your rights and tell you it is because you are not adhering to the government/big pharma approved "safe and effective" / "trustworthy" reality.
"He had suggested the Amish are directed by a God outside of themselves, and here he is suggesting we need a story outside ourselves, and in the next paragraphs, suggesting technology is a story. Government psy ops are stories too."
Indeed, and that brings me to another aspect of Peco's post that I found troubling which was where he said:
"We must keep living, whether scholar or 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫, mother or mechanic, whatever our purpose. But we don’t have to be grim."
Including a solider in that suggestion means implying that some people's "purpose" is to be a solider. That is an attitude that supports endless war, mass murder and weapons manufacturer profiteering on planet Earth. No one is "born to be a soldier", we are born innocent, loving trusting beings and then slowly but surely conditioned with fear, propaganda and disempowering/egotistical and separation based concepts such as "patriotism". Then, later, eventually, we become susceptible enough to the propaganda pushed by statist regimes and their friends/overlords in the central banking and weapons manufacturing industries that they are able to convince us that going to pick up a gun and kill the poor people of some other country so that rich people can get richer is a good idea.
This quote you wondered about ""The horses of our nature can be overwhelming, and sometimes we think, “Just let them run free, they’ll be okay”.
That might work if we were only horses, or only wolves, birds, or fish, purely natural. But human beings are not like other animals. We are not purely natural, but uber-natural, beyond natural, half horse and half wagon driver."'
reminds me of a Tarot card - VIII Strength, usually shows a woman with a tiger or a person driving a chariot with a pair of horses trying to go two different directions. The message is to seek balance between our wilder passion/creative side and our civilized controlled side. Too much of either can leave us out of balance.
Peco's phrase does veer more towards cyborg/synbiotic, as if man is not all creature. But we are fully creatures and total control of our natural instincts is not healthy either.
Its been obvious to me for a long time, go back to late 2019 or early 2020. The propaganda on where the virus originated from... The US blamed China, China blamed US, that was all propaganda to manage the expectations of their own populations.
In early 2020 the population of Whuan ditched their 5G mobile phones. 🧐
I’m not familiar with that essay or writer, but your post reminds me of one of my all-time fav quotes: “When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” Frederick Bastiat
But, eventually, the natural result of plunder will manifest. We see that those who steal instead of earn bring man’s systems down every time. In nature we can see this in the beetles that bring down the mono cropped or otherwise weakened forest. I saw it in New Orleans after Katrina as the ‘carpet bagger’ types come in looking to scavenge or otherwise take advantage of disaster. Those beetles, those scavengers don’t build, their function is to cart off the old in preparation for the new—they don’t know how to do anything else. They burn down the ancient food forest to grow soybeans to feed the race horses of the elite.
Thanks for the insightful, informative and thought provoking comment my friend.
"They burn down the ancient food forest to grow soybeans to feed the race horses of the elite."
That is poignant and on point, thanks for that concise, hard hitting and poetic synthesis of how we from there to here, and why.
Some of us are still fighting to protect the ancient sections of food forests that remain and planting new ones for future generations, so no matter how shortsighted and ignorant the elite choose to be in the present, we will endure so that a future worth gifting to our descendants will be ensured.
Speaking of which, how are your Pecan trees doing? Do you have any Shagbark Hickory on the property and have you been propagating either from seed yet?
Yes we will! Our ‘betters’ are not the heroes they pretend to be, it’s up to us.
We do have some bitter nut on the property, but I’m not sure what type. That is definitely a great idea for our next steps. This was the first year one of the pecans produced just a tiny bit. We’ve planted many hundreds of trees over the years, with a survival rate of about 1%. 😩.
This year I’m dedicated to citrus and more medicinals, very excited about that! But I’m always trying to propagate from the wild—specifically the wild cherry, elderberry and mimosa so far, with limited success. I’ll get better, I’m sure!
Never heard of air pruning beds, that looks really interesting! That might be a good trick for us, looks like that have a great setup there. My issue has been getting them to survive their first summer. Never heard of five flavor fruit, and they produce in shade, can’t wait to read all about it! Thanks for the tips!!
Ya the pruning beds work great for nut seeds (Hickory, Heartnut, Oak etc) and tap rooted trees like Paw Paw, Apple or Peach.
I just made a soup with freshly foraged ramps, turkey tail mushrooms, nettles, home grown shiitake, kale, Egyptian onions, west coast wild harvested bull kelp and homemade miso paste with some crushed/diced dried five flavor fruit this afternoon and Woooow! It was soo tasty and nourishing. It was like all the cells in my body were singing when I ate each spoonful :)
I got the seeds for starting our vines here: https://strictlymedicinalseeds.com/product/schisandra-official-schisandra-chinensis-seeds/?
That sounds deliciously exotic! They are out of the seeds for those vines, but I’ll have to keep a look out, I see they could grow here too.
Ya I mean most of the ingredients grow in my garden and in the forest here (minus the kelp as we are landlocked) but they are definitely not typical soup ingredients :) Do you use seaweed in your cooking at all?
One thing i am experimenting with regarding five flavor fruit is buying sundried organic berries and then sucking on the berries to remove all flavorful the nutrient/medicinal compound rich flesh and then spitting out the seeds and seeing if I can germinate them. If they are sundried as advertised I think they should be viable after stratification. I have done that with Goji Berries before and it worked so it might be a way to get abundant seeds while also accessing some of the medicinal/nutrition of the berries. We shall see. :)
That is awesome you have been propagating the pecans. Have you ever tried Air Pruning Beds?
Here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab67eKU0ZeY
I love mimosa, and they can actually grow (just barely) here, so I may do some propagation of those this year as well.
Right now I am doing research for my next food forest series installment and it will be focusing on a medicinal plant called Schisandra chinensis (aka "five flavor fruit"). Have you heard of it?
i just posted a note describing some of the long list of medicinal benefits here: https://substack.com/profile/43807786-gavin-mounsey/note/c-52034861
I am excited to be propagating some "five flavor fruit" vines for food forest projects this year as they can produce well in the shade so will be amazing for stacking functions in dense forest canopy.
I agree with this statement Peco makes "Much as we dislike something, we cannot build a society by acting through a negative passion. We must be constructively for something; we must be for it so much that whatever we are against is more a byproduct of what we are for, rather than a primary passion in itself." I was thinking similarly about the No Virus crowd who seem mostly focused on attacking establishment rather than promoting building healthy Terrain or something instead.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post, his post and share your thoughts.
When I first read that quote you shared above I felt the same way. Then I realized that even that can be weaponized in some situations.
For instance, as I touched on in this post : https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-the-scamdemic? I had family members that attempted to tell me the reason why they were engaging in an Amish style shunning, ostracism, digital disowning and just generally cutting me out of their lives and making it impossible for me to be a part of rare family gatherings was (according to them) due to me "always looking for the negative things in the world and being paranoid about vaccines".
So while I agree with Peco that we should not just focus on the negative, and rather should give the majority of our energy to nurturing, cultivating and learning about the positive, inspiring and regenerative aspects of this world, it would be irresponsible and counter-intuitive to refuse to educate ourselves about the pitfalls in our midst so we can avoid them effectively.
In this post ( https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/in-pursuit-of-an-antidote-for-parasites ) I sought to highlight the pitfalls in our midst while also elucidating on actionable solutions, regenerative pathways for constructive action and hopeful truths. This approach is the essence of all of my work and yet people who are addicted to comforts, cowardly in the face of tyranny, brainwashed by comforting lies or just straight up opportunistic bullies would seek to take something like Peco's statement of "Much as we dislike something, we cannot build a society by acting through a negative passion" and accuse me of only focusing on negative passions (avoiding, downplaying or denying the legitimacy of all the constructive solutions based material I am bringing to the table) so that they can attempt to diminish my credibility, attack my character and make their own irrational, cowardly and disempowering life choices appear more "normal" or "reasonable".
I do agree with you regarding much of the no virus crusaders though, so you made a good point there.
"The reason why they were engaging in an Amish style shunning, ostracism, digital disowning and just generally cutting me out of their lives and making it impossible for me to be a part of rare family gatherings was (according to them) due to me "always looking for the negative things in the world and being paranoid about vaccines"."
Discomfiting truth has been illegal since we first started making laws. As for negative/positive, I prefer proactive/reactive. Reacting against unwanted things usually breeds more unwanted things. Proacting for wanted things tends to create more wanted things.
It is good and useful to inform people of things that can hurt them, but infowars are imo just like all other wars: sucker games to keep us proles distracted from living our lives as we will, the one thing that the global blobster deep state ickies can't control. But actually doing what we will rather than what we are told, is difficult for most people.
Before we ponder whether it is wise or not to "let our horses run free", it might help to know what freedom is. Few people grasp the concept, imo. They conflate freedom with 'that which is allowed'.
I say: rant about the evil powers that be an it please ye, and exhort folks to take positive personal actions if ye like. Do one or the other or both -- you will nonetheless be criticized. In the end: https://youtu.be/Rt8-bPSvhkk
Indeed, but discomforting truth is the stimulus that invites evolution in the human mind, heart and in our various cultures. It is like the cold autumn wind that informs the heirloom plant to prepare her biochemical defense of anthocyanin and send information to her seeds so that when they germinate and set down roots, they will be more suited to thrive.
Many modern humans live in infantilized states of atrophy with regards to their minds and hearts, lacking the stimulus that invites them to rise to the challenge and become their best selves. These people are sort of like hydroponically grown vegetables in greenhouses, propped up and made to be ultra-comfortable with unnatural temperature controls and artificial lights, fed synthetic inputs so they can be productive 24/7/365 (yet producing monocultures of flavorless uniformity, lacking adaptability, substance, nourishment, and resilience).
In today’s world of modern convenience, many have lived unnatural sheltered lives of comfort and no longer take the steps to be capable of living in balance with the real world. In their infantilized state as statist cheerleaders, consumers and technology dependent fearful city dwellers, they latch onto any comforting lies and exploitative technology presented which makes their days easier and requiring less effort/discomfort.
Just as the hydroponic vegetable would very swiftly perish if exposed to the elements and broader ecosystem that it's ancestors dwelled in and aligned with, so to would the sheltered, pampered, psychologically coddled, AC controlled, toxin filled/drywall box, imagination corroding prison (modern cookie cutter home/apartment) dwelling, big pharma dependent, centralized governance Stockholm syndromed humans have a very difficult time surviving in the real world (beyond the artificial barriers of the flimsy and top heavy realm of synthetic human modernity) which their ancestors used to live in and had learned to align with .
I have no interest in infowars, but I as I am a garden designer I will point out when I see someone attempting to cultivate in toxic soils. The post above is me attempting to do just that, and the toxic soils are the conventional psychiatry / psychology industry that is dominated by big pharma and atheist myths about what it means to be human.
The majority of my energy is always focused on the cultivating itself though, so while I may help others to notice the toxic soils, and remediate if possible , I agree with you that it is the handful of seeds and the hope for them to create an ancient food forest , that should be the focus of most of our energies (literally and metaphorically).
Thanks for the comment.
Oh, if it's good for your soul to do it, then it's good, period. I've lost interest in being an info-prophet myself. If I had dollar for every time I heard, 'Whoa, that's too deep for me, dude' or the ever popular 'You're so negative', I could buy a hearing aid and new piano.
It tends to drive away the people in my immediate life, and they're the ones whose survival and well-being I'm concerned with. Family, neighbors, the ant colony in the basement... it's hilarious, but I suppose the following vid summarizes my sociopolitical views these days:
https://youtu.be/7K8Wynzt7tc
Cornball bordering on camp, and I have no use for 'rolling coal', but that basic ethos is how I look at it all. I've survived 38 years of marriage and raising kids, and TEOKWAWKI ain't gonna bust my high. My personal high mostly wearies these days of space lizard globalist exposes, but that's just my personal aesthetics: such talk demotivates me any more.
That said, I do think that blaming cultural institutions for the state of affairs is especially infantile "In today’s world of modern convenience, (where) many have lived unnatural sheltered lives of comfort and no longer take the steps to be capable of living in balance with the real world. In their infantilized state as statist cheerleaders, consumers and technology dependent fearful city dwellers, they latch onto any comforting lies and exploitative technology presented which makes their days easier and requiring less effort/discomfort" because, mass media psy-ops public school conditioning & Bernays PR hypnoses notwithstanding, everyone has dizzy-danced themselves into their tidy little tragedies. Free will remains free, regardless. That's why it's called 'will'. So yeah, we all been Stockholm-syndromed on a vast geographic and temporal scale, and snapping out of the Lizards of Oz's shitshow is difficult at best, but there it is: we put ourselves here, individually (despite voting in blocs and "about the issues" and all that silly parade fluffery), increasingly ignoring our family and friends in favor of The Big Picture ( https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2020/04/21/QC4AWXMPB5BWFG7RCMVPGAVNSE.jpg?w=620 )... and any way out will occur by individuals making seriously painful moral, tactical and strategic decisions and therefrom forming small close relationships with those in their near vicinity.
It's the aging curmudgeon in me. Like my dead friend Long Tom used to say: "Fuck 'em. Let 'em starve to death, freezing, thirsty, burning alive -- if I tell another person that the sky is falling, I'll have to kill 'em."
Now watch me get transcendent on it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1njHBk7rB3E
People are being misled and led to the virtue signaling, vigilantism, and splintering of social circles (pun not intended, but apt). We have been splintered from larger bubbles into micro individual bubbles.
Protect your sanity when all those around you are losing theirs, or already lost it.
That is a truism that is very true these days. People who went over the top have to protect their earlier decisions by stubbornly sticking with it, to some extent. I try to reach those who are reachable and let go, emotionally, of those who aren't.
I agree with your concern about where this is heading though - seeing the quote in more context: "That might work if we were only horses, or only wolves, birds, or fish, purely natural. But human beings are not like other animals. We are not purely natural, but uber-natural, beyond natural, half horse and half wagon driver. We can’t entirely set those horses free any more than a wagon driver can release the reins and expect to stay on the path. But we can’t control our passions through forceful pulling on the reins, either. We need a story that guides us away from passion-focused reasoning and cognitive distortion, and toward trustworthy realities outside of ourselves. We can’t escape this need; we are creatures of cognition as much as passion."
He had suggested the Amish are directed by a God outside of themselves, and here he is suggesting we need a story outside ourselves, and in the next paragraphs, suggesting technology is a story. Government psy ops are stories too.
The "trust-worthy realities" aspect is what I find most troubling and ripe for abuse.
"trust-worthy" according to who?
If those who came before us had acquiesced to what the "mental health" experts of the time were declaring is "objectively observable" and "trustworthy" women would not be allowed to make choices about their own sexual autonomy, own their own houses nor divorce abusive husbands.
According to the priesthood of psychiatry, any independent free thinking women that wanted to be equal to their husbands were mentally deficient or unstable and they were to be locked up in the mental asylum if their husband or father deemed it to be a good idea.
In other words, their defiance against patriarchal oppression was deemed as an "un-trustworthy reality" by the establishment of "mental health experts" and they were to be silenced, drugged, maimed/"treated" or scared in capitulating or locked up.
Here are some historical examples of what I am talking about:
- https://time.com/6074783/psychiatry-history-women-mental-health/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/netflix-2017/how-victorian-women-were-oppressed-through-the-use-of-psychiatry/1607/
Many may think we are so much more socially advanced now and that was "back then in the archaic dark ages" but those people are fooling themselves, for as we observed during the scamdemic (and as I outlined in the evidence presented in my post above) if the established tyrannical system wants to target a subgroup of the population for oppression and ostracism, they will just call you a bunch of dehumanizing and derogatory names ("anti-vaxxer", "anti-science", "fringe minority" etc), take away your rights and tell you it is because you are not adhering to the government/big pharma approved "safe and effective" / "trustworthy" reality.
"He had suggested the Amish are directed by a God outside of themselves, and here he is suggesting we need a story outside ourselves, and in the next paragraphs, suggesting technology is a story. Government psy ops are stories too."
Indeed, and that brings me to another aspect of Peco's post that I found troubling which was where he said:
"We must keep living, whether scholar or 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫, mother or mechanic, whatever our purpose. But we don’t have to be grim."
Including a solider in that suggestion means implying that some people's "purpose" is to be a solider. That is an attitude that supports endless war, mass murder and weapons manufacturer profiteering on planet Earth. No one is "born to be a soldier", we are born innocent, loving trusting beings and then slowly but surely conditioned with fear, propaganda and disempowering/egotistical and separation based concepts such as "patriotism". Then, later, eventually, we become susceptible enough to the propaganda pushed by statist regimes and their friends/overlords in the central banking and weapons manufacturing industries that they are able to convince us that going to pick up a gun and kill the poor people of some other country so that rich people can get richer is a good idea.
For more info on the true nature of modern warfare: https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/lest-we-forget-war-is-a-racket
Thanks again for the thought provoking comments.
You're very welcome Gavin.
It is sad that psychiatry is used against people by other people.
It is a nice close though, open-ended to the reader's interpretation: "While not everyone will share Lewis’s worldview, we can all ask: What is the guiding story of our lives? What cognitions, ideas, and understandings hold us securely to real people and real things? What story helps us understand how to manage our wilder passions, while releasing the possibilities of our nobler energies?" https://open.substack.com/pub/pilgrimsinthemachine/p/horses-in-the-heart-passions-distortions?r=os7nw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
This quote you wondered about ""The horses of our nature can be overwhelming, and sometimes we think, “Just let them run free, they’ll be okay”.
That might work if we were only horses, or only wolves, birds, or fish, purely natural. But human beings are not like other animals. We are not purely natural, but uber-natural, beyond natural, half horse and half wagon driver."'
reminds me of a Tarot card - VIII Strength, usually shows a woman with a tiger or a person driving a chariot with a pair of horses trying to go two different directions. The message is to seek balance between our wilder passion/creative side and our civilized controlled side. Too much of either can leave us out of balance.
Peco's phrase does veer more towards cyborg/synbiotic, as if man is not all creature. But we are fully creatures and total control of our natural instincts is not healthy either.
wow, my first comment got duplicated... ARe we having the gov=CIA here???
The title better describe what you mean with these 3 letters....