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Studies have noticed that we see trhe world differently. Surely C19 has exposed this fact for the world to see - or not see.

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Jun 8, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

Excellent work. We need a light through this Mass Formation darkness

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You wrote, "Is it then impossible to escape such a mass psychosis? Yes I believe it is." Did you mean "possible" (which would be more consistent with the subsequent paragraphs)?

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good catch - writing too quickly! I'll fix it up now.

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Thanks I've fixed it - people reading from the email will be scratching their heads lol. Note to self: Proof read the damn article Winston before you post!!

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That kind of typo is almost impossible to find through author proofreading. For the author, who knows implicitly what’s intended, reads right over the “im-“. I have experienced this problem the hard way so many times.

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Jun 8, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

I look forward to hearing more solutions. You are offering much appreciated hope.

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The danger during a red pill moment is that, if the moment passes without the red pill being ingested, the captured mind will become even more strongly attached to the lie. It will manufacture a way to explain away the cognitive dissonance, thereby avoiding the need to rewrite neural pathways; and then, the moment having come and gone, the offending incident will simply be erased from memory.

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Yes - thus the importance of Morpheus (if we are going to use the red pill/matrix metaphor) being right there to complete the transition into reality.

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Jun 8, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

Good stuff. The pre-conditioning to the total propaganda of the dopamine shaping chambers of social media has been profound. There is an insidious juxtaposition of the perceived infinite of the internet alt-reality and the actual reality of its real-time, curated, and personalized programming.

The adaptation to this closely looped alt-reality, backed by ubiquitous adoption and a near monopoly on Official Narrative, has rendered the average mind entirely inert to observable reality in its naked form.

In my experience with the dimension A vs B of recent history, those red-pill moments are exceedingly rare for those who have not already weaned from the alt-reality of their online social avatars and its corresponding psycho-social status.

There is a dire need for a mass digital detox, a re-alignment with our natural physical environment. The almost complete immersion in manufactured environs while also engaging in near constant interface with the alt-reality generators cannot be undervalued in terms of its influence in the conditions precedent to the mass psychosis. To counter the psychosis without first addressing this immersive environmental condition is nearly impossible. The success of the red-pilling will require at least some level of restorative conditioning toward congruence with nature and real-life physical proximity.

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I agree and which is why the immersive environment of the metaverse (to take the most extreme yet most probable example) will be an enormous plunge deeper into the current evolving Myth of the technocrats.

It's an interesting time isn't it!?

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Good article, Winston, will be linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

Your statement: "The longer the propagandists can keep a population suspended in the myth, the more likely it will become the default “reality”." I kind of agree with, but only if a person allows it or lets it happen. Perhaps that is what you are getting at in your reference to a healthy propaganda immune system and thus not letting that happen.

Being part of a collective to fight this has it's advantages but I think that staying an individualist is the main key for not being suspended in the myth of the propagandist. Would perhaps like to see your thoughts on this as well in a future or extended article, and other suggestions as well from you and your readers.

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Yes passivity, ignorance, fear, social ambition over morality, there's a bunch of ways a person can be taken in by the myth of the propagandist. Thinking for yourself is of course key, I'm not sure that's being individualistic as much as it's being divergent to the official narrative - of which there is a collective (that's us) rather than a bunch of individuals all thinking something different.

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Not exactly saying that we should be a bunch of individuals all thinking something different, but rather be an individual and stay true to yourself rather than following the collective,. If you then fall into a collective of like-minded individuals by sticking with your ideals, then that would be fine. I hope you see the difference or what I am getting at.

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Yes totally - I get what you are saying and I think we broadly fall into collectives of like minded individuals way more than we would be complete outliers - which is good because the complete outlier is usually very lonely and misunderstood ;-)

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We exist in a bubble of secular Marxist ideology. Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation: a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.”

Czeslaw Milosz, Discreet Charm of Nihilism

Del Noce wrote, “Marxism has ended up being a stage in the development of the technological and affluent society, which accepts all [of Marxism’s] negations of traditional thought but at the same time eliminates its messianic and (in its own way) religious aspect.” Marx’s vision was achieved by his ostensible enemy.

Long before it became obvious, Del Noce wrote that “the alliance between the technocratic right and the cultural left is there for everyone to see.” He argued that liberalism “sublimated,” or absorbed, various aspects of Marxism, transforming into what he called “the technological society.” Bourgeois society always had two historical enemies: revolutionary thought and religious thought. As a synthesis of these opposites, Marxism provided bourgeois society with the tool needed to defeat both. Our society largely embraces Marx’s historical vision: advancing technologies are viewed as de facto proof that the question of God, and all transcendent values, are irrelevant. Yet this vision of history is also turned onto Marxism itself. Communism was tried and it was a failed experiment. The technological society does not have to enlist any religious or moral claims to reject Communism. It simply dismisses Communism as inefficient.

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Thanks for the quotes and thoughts - I really must get into some Augusto Del Noce - The Crisis of Modernity - on my list of things to read.

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A lot to read to be sure, too much really, much of it learnedly restating the obvious. A vice of the educated head. We live I think in the emerging world of our severed heads kept alive. Automatons doing the programmed routines. Secularism has been forced to accept a body is not all head, nor is man. A bitter fight since the recovery of Lucretius and atoms.

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In our world of free floating anxiety and freely shifting reality, I’ve found that holding on to my *physical* existence has been the most helpful. Barbell training and gardening offer simple and tangible goals that can help us stay centered in chaotic times.

These activities can also be used as therapy to help people who are beginning to question the narrative journey back to objective truth.

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I love gardening as a grounding activity that reduces anxiety, connects me to nature, and clears my head! From a biblical perspective we started in a garden, and I think there is something special about building and tending a garden :-)

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Jun 9, 2022Liked by Winston Smith

Excellent post! Thank you

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The goal of any thinking person should be to recognize the techniques of persuasion being used against them and to rise above them. Then, to turn around and use those same techniques on the masses lol.

Propaganda is like a loaded gun on an island of shipwrecked souls. You may decide to not pick it up, but that just means someone else will, and will almost certainly level it at you.

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You would like this book a lot... The writer explains Heinz von Foerster's views on what is reality and why we cannot really be objective!

Here's a short video of Heinz pointing out the issues with modern physics inventing made up things... Reminds me of virology lol

https://youtu.be/ev7e9sfWIJo

And here's the book if you cannot find it.

http://library.lol/main/A7D46C5A30AA3F7F522D1202E67D2B29

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