(0535) Morning all … first light was exactly 0500 … there are four topics ready to go … good sleep but that meant I was late to post another at NOWP. Two topics coming up are sleep in 2025 and youtube “advice”.
This is going to be long … if it’s not run now, I’ll forget most of it in the rush of events later
Manipulation, living a fantasy, an incomplete reality
a. Starting with youtube last evening. To be fair, they latch onto what we’ve been searching for and watching and for a person in my position as a researcher and pundit, the “recommendeds” are flooded, not only by “confirmation bias” videos but they are far too often highly contrived, clickbaity, sensationalist … why?
Because yt monetise it that way. Many are actually using it to pay the rent, along with govt benefits … so yes, it will be “which five actors Richard Widmark hated” or John Lennon with musicians or whatever. It goes on and on and on, like an MSM 60 mins segment, highly biased, quite wrong in detail, e.g. “hated” and busy or sleepy people just drink it in … unless they have begun to wake up.
b. Which means it’s time to restate this model of society …
Picture the mass of humanity moving up a moderately sloping hill, dotted all the way back along the broad, bitumen road with concrete verges, nothing too difficult for the mass of humanity to handle.
Every so often, somebody has paused, up ahead, to reveal some wisdom he/she’s discovered … he climbs onto a soapbox. Means nothing to those downwind, further back down the road … their wisdom is what they’ve discovered only up till then … so they’re telling those who’ll listen about that reality, an incomplete reality … those up near the top of the hill have more command of facts and yet they’re incomplete too, mortal … difference is they see their mortality, limitations to their gnosis.
Just a few have left the main road and are taking a tortuous uphill route off to the right, up through brambles, danger, wild animals, over rocks … because someone near them had discovered a series of books with a revealed wisdom. Big deal, said others … gnosis is an alternative reality, Egyptology is an alternative reality, why should this, called KJV, be any different?
And yet more and more are leaving the mainstream, the main road, and taking that perilous path up into the clouds.
c. Meanwhile, the main road reaches the shoulder of the hill, curves left and starts the plummet down to the town with all its comforts, druggies, terrorists, sex addictive fleshpots … ultimately the road to hell (Chris Rea).
And as part of this, human folly knows no bounds … also intelligence is like that main road with people dotted along it. There are always those more able ahead, always those making the same mistakes behind, below.
d. Quick tale … in Russia, the flat owner was having the ceiling and walls repaired and repainted … a woman and her assistant … the latter was not the brightest spark and yet, her attitude was that she had the world at her fingertips, plus she was thirsty for validation as a “knower”, someone respected above … she was not but her 24/7 fantasy was that she was.
She caught me out with something wrong about Russia and was making a meal of it … loudly. The actual boss/worker was listening, repairing, painting. The assistant was standing, paint pots in hand … “Oh James, James!” … as in “you total klutz, you fool” … big grin on her face as she swung around, paintpot crashing into the glass-panelled living room door … but it did not break, that door, as it had criss-cross wire through the glass.
Did she immediately grin sheepishly, self-deprecating? Of course not … she doubled down, in a “James, James, look what you just made me do, distracting me this way” manner. That woman was so desperate for validation as a person of equal or higher value, that she was incapable of conceding, e.g. Donny on vaxxes, e.g. RFK Jnr on his brand new, Big Pharma supervaxx he’s committed to.
e. At this point, there was another yt which I’m not running … and no one takes a woman apart more effectively than another woman who’s accepted realities. Problem is, it addresses only that, e.g. men always think in terms of obstacles to a plan they’re following, finding a way around it, getting back to smooth running, whereas women are often not remotely interested in conflict resolution, only in taking each new issue and emoting over it. Those weren’t my words, they were hers.
But even she was strange … trying to lecture women to accept something they refused to concede? A man could have told her it was an impossibility. Simple man, that is, with two things on his mind … nooky with gorgeous women, plus conflict and obstacle “getting arounds”. That’s man’s life. Plus money.
And as ever, it was focussing on one or two aspects, skipping over the ones they do not wish to pursue. On youtube, with highly stylised hyperbole and clickbait … for money. Talk about the blind leading the blind.
Resolution? How? If the reaction is to pontificate on one’s own angle, just as I’m doing here, now, if the second reaction is to swiftly retreat to ideological “camps”, firing over at the other camp’s trenches … how far forrarder are we to finding resolution? Always fighting, fighting, fighting, on a completely uneven, potholed playing field.
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