While I have never listened to political speeches, reading Obama's after he secured the Democratic nomination immediately brought to mind a line from the classic song "You Did It" from the musical My Fair Lady. This specific lyric describes the character Zoltan Karpathy, a rival linguist; "oozing charm from every pore he oiled his way across the floor".
Very instructive. Although my discouragement is ever increasing. And the "feeling" of living in a concentration camp without an electric fence is ever increasing.
We are apparently free, but forced into behavioral patterns of which we are unaware.
It also makes one wonder whether one of the supreme attributes of human life, free will, still has any meaning, or whether it even exists.
As a side note, I would add that subliminal messages have been used for decades in advertising and entertainment music. What prevents the use of inaudible frequencies during "pauses" or overlaid on speech?
John, you are wise to be paranoid. Stay vigilant! But these devils can never contaminate a pure heart, and a pure heart protects a pure mind. God bless!
Maybe the reason the politics fail to hypnotize Me is in what My father taught Me... As My father taught Me, I never believe ANYTHING. Rather, I give probabilities of truth to any data I receive, based on how well they explain what I see. and will adjust My probabilities as new data come along that better explain what I see. And... I never give 100% true or 0% true (false) because there's always the possibility there are data I don't have.
In this way I do not attach to anything as having to be true. And makes it easier to acknowledge when I have been lied to, which, so it seems, has been most everything since I was born... LOL!
Not sure how this affects My "subconscious..." I'm still looking for signs I have one. Haha!
A. S. they say humor is grounded in truth and your two quips support this. My policy is "Always be ready to be wrong" - which mirrors your fact-sniffing technique. You've done well to preserve a Fair and True Mind.
You are right to identify the fundamental problem in "mass formation psycosis" is that it is a "psychosis" of the individual, that occurse in a "mass" of individuals. But the actual problem is different, and something our medical systems ignore entirely.
The behavoirs discussed as "mass formation psychosis" are actually "community psychosis." Like lemmings jumping off the cliff, or cattle or buffalo blindly stampeeding. Community psychosis occurs when a community (a group of individuals) suffers from a severe case of FEAR that is aplified by the fear exhibited in individuals around them. We can't understand this, because we have no science of "community." We don't study communities seriously.
A useful definition of a community, which can lead to understanding, is simple. A community consists of COOPERATION. When any group of individuals cooperate, they create a community around that cooperative activity. The cooperation does not need to be conscious to the individuals. Ants and bees never know they are cooperating. Dolphins often do. Sometimes, not. Humans - the same.
Individuals in healthy communities also compete with each other. Healthy communities require cooperation and competiton, because total cooperation leads to stagnation or nonsense - "mass formation psychosis" and total competition leads to anarchy.
The main problem of understanding mass formation psychosis is the ignorance of community. We look at a group of people - "the germans," and fail to recognize that there were many "communities of cooperation" some of which cooperate in psychotic behaviors, and others who cooperate to fight the psychotic behaviors - and many intermediate communities.
The other problem is time. "mass formation psychosis" or community psychosis is a temporay phenomenon. The cooperation is temporary. After it has passed, many individuals may cling to, and rationalize their behaviors (that's what individuals do), but they stop the "cooperative psychosis" behaviours and return to normal behaviors.
Of course many community phychosis are not deadly. Most buffalo, cattle, or lemming stampedes peter out before everyone in the community is killed. Most, peter out before much damage is caused. A group of horses in a field are startled and begin to run - for no apparent reason. And then the stop. Shake themselves off, and get back to grazing, cooperatively watching out for danger. Competing for breeding rights, for food, and for their children. Life goes on.
Blaming the individual for their "psychosis" is a simple misunderstanding - a common one in today's political climate, with it's severe, unbalanced emphasis on the individual. Blaming the individual often leads to constraining the individual when the community is the problem. We have no "medical treatments" for the community. The concept does not even exist. And besides, most cases of "community psychosis" pass very quickly, before they are diagnosed, much less before any treatments are attempted.
While I have never listened to political speeches, reading Obama's after he secured the Democratic nomination immediately brought to mind a line from the classic song "You Did It" from the musical My Fair Lady. This specific lyric describes the character Zoltan Karpathy, a rival linguist; "oozing charm from every pore he oiled his way across the floor".
Gwyneth, how perfect! You've got a heckuva memory! Thank you for support.
Very instructive. Although my discouragement is ever increasing. And the "feeling" of living in a concentration camp without an electric fence is ever increasing.
We are apparently free, but forced into behavioral patterns of which we are unaware.
It also makes one wonder whether one of the supreme attributes of human life, free will, still has any meaning, or whether it even exists.
As a side note, I would add that subliminal messages have been used for decades in advertising and entertainment music. What prevents the use of inaudible frequencies during "pauses" or overlaid on speech?
John, you are wise to be paranoid. Stay vigilant! But these devils can never contaminate a pure heart, and a pure heart protects a pure mind. God bless!
Maybe the reason the politics fail to hypnotize Me is in what My father taught Me... As My father taught Me, I never believe ANYTHING. Rather, I give probabilities of truth to any data I receive, based on how well they explain what I see. and will adjust My probabilities as new data come along that better explain what I see. And... I never give 100% true or 0% true (false) because there's always the possibility there are data I don't have.
In this way I do not attach to anything as having to be true. And makes it easier to acknowledge when I have been lied to, which, so it seems, has been most everything since I was born... LOL!
Not sure how this affects My "subconscious..." I'm still looking for signs I have one. Haha!
A. S. they say humor is grounded in truth and your two quips support this. My policy is "Always be ready to be wrong" - which mirrors your fact-sniffing technique. You've done well to preserve a Fair and True Mind.
Excellent work! I am glad that I happened upon it.
Thank you. That means a lot.
You are right to identify the fundamental problem in "mass formation psycosis" is that it is a "psychosis" of the individual, that occurse in a "mass" of individuals. But the actual problem is different, and something our medical systems ignore entirely.
The behavoirs discussed as "mass formation psychosis" are actually "community psychosis." Like lemmings jumping off the cliff, or cattle or buffalo blindly stampeeding. Community psychosis occurs when a community (a group of individuals) suffers from a severe case of FEAR that is aplified by the fear exhibited in individuals around them. We can't understand this, because we have no science of "community." We don't study communities seriously.
A useful definition of a community, which can lead to understanding, is simple. A community consists of COOPERATION. When any group of individuals cooperate, they create a community around that cooperative activity. The cooperation does not need to be conscious to the individuals. Ants and bees never know they are cooperating. Dolphins often do. Sometimes, not. Humans - the same.
Individuals in healthy communities also compete with each other. Healthy communities require cooperation and competiton, because total cooperation leads to stagnation or nonsense - "mass formation psychosis" and total competition leads to anarchy.
The main problem of understanding mass formation psychosis is the ignorance of community. We look at a group of people - "the germans," and fail to recognize that there were many "communities of cooperation" some of which cooperate in psychotic behaviors, and others who cooperate to fight the psychotic behaviors - and many intermediate communities.
The other problem is time. "mass formation psychosis" or community psychosis is a temporay phenomenon. The cooperation is temporary. After it has passed, many individuals may cling to, and rationalize their behaviors (that's what individuals do), but they stop the "cooperative psychosis" behaviours and return to normal behaviors.
Of course many community phychosis are not deadly. Most buffalo, cattle, or lemming stampedes peter out before everyone in the community is killed. Most, peter out before much damage is caused. A group of horses in a field are startled and begin to run - for no apparent reason. And then the stop. Shake themselves off, and get back to grazing, cooperatively watching out for danger. Competing for breeding rights, for food, and for their children. Life goes on.
Blaming the individual for their "psychosis" is a simple misunderstanding - a common one in today's political climate, with it's severe, unbalanced emphasis on the individual. Blaming the individual often leads to constraining the individual when the community is the problem. We have no "medical treatments" for the community. The concept does not even exist. And besides, most cases of "community psychosis" pass very quickly, before they are diagnosed, much less before any treatments are attempted.
to your health tracy
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Tracy, thank you for contributing and best wishes with your Substack!