(0652) Late up again, took that second sleep after an 0200 wake up … did not post but just gathered in the middle of the night, then crashed again. That wound on the forearm from yesterday healed up naturally, so that at least was good news. Only mentioning it coz a few were following the story. (0834)
The chances of being taken in
Most people of some intelligence, with at least half a brain, imho do allow their own opinion of themselves (I can’t be taken in any more) to blind them to deluberately included misleading words and images designed to draw them in, knowing full well how highly they rate themselves. There’s a name for it … Dunning-Kruger:
“The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability or limited knowledge in a specific domain greatly overestimate their own competence.”
There’s a field of study, much beloved by the psycho-left (Them) called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (hereafter NLP) and an example from years back was in a Nourishing Obscurity post about Groupthink … it was mainly about Common Purpose in this country, out of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). They loved techniques such as Delphi (itself a buzz word).
The normie with unused thinking processes was easily taken in (much beloved by advertisers, supermarts etc.), young people often needed more though and as the young often see themselves as the ants’ pants (got it all taped, dial-in ability) … well it needed more.
And the ones most easily fooled were the “intelligent”, college professor types who “could never be taken in” … add to that techies, those in IT. One obstinate group needing to be played on were what I used to call the Colonel Harrumphs … they’d vote Reform these days … even Restore … they are awake to Them’s tricks but being educated, Them were no way going to fool them. And they’d only ever respind to slick, learned articles in respected publications (e.g. The Smithsonian?).
The key words in the Dunning-Kruger above are in bold … in a specific domain. You can be quite clever in a variety of domains and then start thinking within some other domains, e.g. health, medicine … or the law of the land … or online in general …
… and truly clever people can take you/take me, make no mistake … happens often, playing on your/my weak spots. It’s how we’re sold things.
And so to today’s item on X

For a start, I do NOT like capitalisation in memes. Now I do have a Morrisons catalogue right here and so can check if that’s a genuine bag decoration or not … here is a further one at the “Wild Veracity” link:

I’ll report back later on the veracity of the bag. This is the writer by the way:

All sorts of red flags, from the profile pic being a graphic (mine now is at least a real photo of me, as is the gallery pic in Masquerade) to scant bkgd info (paratrooper? a woman?).
And so to Jane:

You’ll notice no “follows you” on the profiles … that’s why I check … remember Leah? I did not handle that diplomatically and yet she still needed checking out. Mutual followers means we’ve both checked the other out. Stage after that is DMing, e.g. Julia, Moo, Martin. A polit-pundit MUST do that, it’s an imperative, esp. these days.
So, what remains is for me to check out a real Morrisons bag … that might take some time, as the bath is still hot, plus I have to say hello on X. But I will come back here to report. …/END for now.











































