Observations on the human condition
Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad…
While talking heads and armchair pundits in the media wrangle with the political implications of the recent assassination of Iranian Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, it becomes ever clearer that the Structural Elite are playing the war card to head off humanity before people awaken to their plans. In a recent post, I suggested that in 2020 things are going to get worse before they get better.
On New Year’s Day, I had a conversation with Mark Windows on his new livestream show.
New Age Global Citizens (1hour 29 minute video)
A follow-up discussion to the Sunday 29th December 2019 Windows On The World show, Archons of the New Age https://www.spreaker.com/user/markwindows/archons-of-the-new-age
Mark Windows and Clive Menzies from Critical Thinking look further into the power structure of New Age Governance.It is also on the Outersite BitChute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/video/eVToqqJ2rDBL/
Towards the end of the discussion, we get into how we can escape the tyranny of the current political economy and how we need to take responsibility for ourselves and each other. As so often happens, this article came my way subsequently; it expresses what I meant so much more eloquently.
Critical Thinking’s research and analysis revealed the limitations of abstraction which is how most people derive their understanding of the world – abstraction is how we’ve been trained to manage complexity, ie. if we are considering a complex issue or event, we’re wont to isolate the elements we can grasp or appreciate to focus on these to derive our opinions or views; often what we choose to abstract to justify our world view is determined by our ideological perspectives. Thus we ignore “inconvenient” evidence or information as irrelevant or wrong because it doesn’t “fit” with our world view. Furthermore, we tend to dismiss information from sources outside our cultural comfort zone, ie. from those with whom we feel we have little in common.
In the last post, I referred to how we’ve been trained out of our human essence to become aspiring consumers – in other words, we’ve been isolated from our fundamental context as individuals interacting with other individuals to form human bonds of common interest mandated by universal consciousness – we have lost the middle ground; as Laurie Anderson explains:
Higher Truth, posted on 1st November 2019, explains how the Satanic (selfish) political economy wants our souls. The process of seduction began with a vengeance in the early 20th century (like so many strands to build the new world order). Adam Curtis’s six part series, Century of the Self, explains how we have been transformed from humans with needs into “consumers” with desires for shiny toys and trappings to supplement our waning spirituality.
As family, community and social cohesion was fragmented, we became vulnerable to the advertising witches and warlocks conjuring fantasy lifestyles into existence. In the 1950s, the sublimation of our human essence accelerated with the introduction of television and consumer advertising to create dissatisfaction with “now” and “what is”; we embraced a seductive future of what could be within the advertising fantasy that used sophisticated psychological and occult techniques to isolate us from spirit, ie. universal consciousness. Not that many people had sufficient understanding to realise what was happening.
The views and wisdom of older generations were dismissed as old fashioned and of no value in the new technocratic age; thus we fell under the spell of the advertising and marketing witches and warlocks. Today, virtually all (including social) media is driven by marketing and advertising. The “products” they are promoting are politics, economics, wars, hoaxes, scams and hedonism, ie. the works of Satan or selfishness.
This post is prompted, in part, by an article on Fascism that Critical Thinker Pennie sent me last Friday asking what I thought. To which I replied (edited to clarify)…
I’m not in the right “place” to give this detailed attention but early 20th century politics were characterised by the Hegelian dialectic: create a problem (Socialism, spread from the Bolshevik revolution)… break down national culture with creeping depravity and loss of moral “sense” – Weimar Republic; foster the reaction (Fascism) to reclaim the vital foundations for a coherent society; to resolve these opposing forces, the solution (war) ensues which was planned all along; the story is a lot more involved and multi-layered but clearly that was the plan – a second bite at destroying national culture and generations of European youth, sapping the vitality of the Polis; thus making them malleable. Enter the Common Market to introduce “social capitalism” (temporarily), followed by neo-liberalism and the European Union building block for one world government.
What we’re witnessing now is analogous to the situation in the pre-Bolshevik period in Russia where successive “revolutionary” governments became more radical until the Provisional government ushered in Lenin and his Ashkenazi cult to implement the grand plan.
Brexit and all the other divisions around the world are heralding the next phase in the war on us all: nascent civil war and martial law. Unless we understand the game, we’ll dance their tune to the abattoir.
How We Live explains the agenda to cull the human herd and Beyond Critical Thinking refers to the targeted fires in California.
Deborah Tavares reports and explains; she is there and witnessed the unfolding of this cull both in 2017 and 2019. Currently, we’re witnessing “clearances”, preparing for the “world wilderness”; the full scale cull is yet to get underway.
FIRES – BEHIND THE SMOKE: The Death Agendas (59 minute video)
“Localising” the cull ensures that few pay attention to the fires beyond what’s reported in the news as “climate change”; most are oblivious to the reality of the cull – their perceptions don’t match reality.
The perception problem: how do you define ‘reality’? by Martin Geddes
To insist on a “unilateral consensus” risks dehumanising and pathologising the dissenting “other”, since it (wrongly) believes we have nothing to learn from others. Mistakes then lead to a “shriek of the conscience” from over-estimating our ability to discern world affairs.
Our perceptions have much to do with our fears and confusion. Gurdjieff uses the analogy of the Horse and Carriage.
A study of the effect of hierarchy on academic freedom and our consequent perceptions of reality has been uploaded to archive.org and is available as a PDF here.
Abstract
Purpose: Exposing the deficiencies of institutional hierarchies in academia which limit the potential for human creativity and understanding.
Design/methodology/approach: This paper is the product of non-hierarchical, self-organised learning following the methodology of CoCreative Learning (see Section 9).
Findings: Academia’s institutional hierarchy perpetuates ignorance of the current political economy which functions as a mechanism to farm humans and harvest the wealth they create.
Having become increasingly aware of the limitations of critical thinking, I’ve taken time out to reflect on how best to proceed on my journey of discovery.
Over the first 60 years of my life, I learned to “play the system” of the current political economy with variable success but remained, for most of those years, in a state of Trained Ignorance, as described in How We Live. Public and private education take us on a linear journey of learning through prescribed curricular, abstraction, erroneous assumptions and binary logic, which obscures the subtleties, ambiguities and contradictions in life and how everything is connected.
Abrupt changes in my life in the mid 1990’s started me on a journey of learning but I continued to “play the system” as best as I could.
However, as draconian limits were imposed on our freedom, due to the geopolitical and social upheaval, following the false flag attacks on 11th September 2001, I realised that everything I thought I knew couldn’t be relied on and needed to be questioned. The reality gap between my previous convictions and my lived reality fuelled my thirst for understanding.
Ken and I met at Occupy and got to know each other through Critical Thinking which started at the Bank of Ideas. Ken recently emailed this extract from Facebook and asked what I thought of this article and the video: Windows on the World INSIDE OCCUPY AND BANK OF IDEAS.
Confession: while I encountered resistance and hostility when sharing information on climate science at Occupy and had reservations about some of the “facilitation” and the obsession with consensus, I wasn’t sufficiently “aware” to realise Occupy was a PSYOP. In retrospect, it’s hard to refute Kelfin’s and Dom’s assertions. More importantly, Occupy has paved the way for another PSYOP, Extinction Rebellion (XR); was that Occupy’s purpose all along?
Not only has XR attracted similar followers; it uses the same Common Purpose, NLP, Delphi and mind control techniques. XR is “controlled opposition”. Not least because it’s not opposing (or rebelling against) anything! XR’s agenda is in lock-step with that of corporate greenwash and the new world order backed by every corrupt institution, including big oil. The “climate crisis” (from global warming) has been manufactured and has no basis in fact. The reality is that we’re entering a solar minimum which could herald another Little Ice Age.
Systemic Risk and Climate Change – What if the claimed consensus is wrong?
What is paramount in co-creative learning is its collaborative nature, drawing and building on the work of many others. Critical Thinking’s conclusions are the culmination of millions of man hours, worked by hundreds of thousands of people, shared by thousands more and filtered through the Critical Thinking community to be re-shared via email, the website, conversations, books, articles, videos, podcasts and Twitter. Critical Thinking’s motto is:
Thus no individual or group can claim “ownership” of what Critical Thinking has produced – knowledge is one of the most important commons. Theft of the commons is one of the three fundamental flaws in the political economy.