Existential Threats from Bizarro World
For those driven by delusion, many exist in a world of fabricated reality constructed with manufactured memes. Their isolated existence is contorted and contorted by over-socialization or under-socialization and manipulated by intentional delusions. Their minds are constantly and consistently being divided and conquered and their mentally disturbed actions taken accordingly.
Their distorted perception of their world becomes Bizarro world, a place where nothing is ever as it doesn’t seem, with its broken mental constructions of bent reality, distorted morals, and a multiplicity of chemically manufactured colonies and tribes of manipulated human minds that are imprisoned and enslaved; weakened and encrusted by the nefarious cult-like ideologies they embrace.
Entangled and trapped within their Cults of Insanity, thinking and believing the lives and lies they are living is the reality outside of reality, and not a manipulated and conditioned existence of their conforming herd, tribe or hive, which they were atrociously programmed to accept and associate with. They are indeed the fifth column religious zealots of the obviously politically insane. For them, there is no “change.”
The Illusion of Government
In a paroxysm of patriotic musing, I reflected that Washington is an insular, incestuous, inward-looking city, chiefly interested in itself, so politically inbred as to be in danger of hemophilia, out of touch with reality, having remarkably little understanding of or interest in the rest of the country or the world. Isn”t this wonderful?
Inbreeding? By comparison with the Yankee Capital, West Virginians are on the outer limits of hybrid vigor. We had Bush I, a mediocrity but no worse, and later Bush II, in whom mediocrity would have been a welcome astonishment. We had Clinton the First, who was at least intelligent, then we almost had Clinton II, who instead became Secretary of State, for which her only qualification was having been First Basilisk. Hillary lost the nomination to Barack Obama, whose only qualification was being black and reading a teleprompter well. Next we are likely to get Hillary anyway, and before that we almost had Kerry, whose only qualification was having married a pickle heiress. He is now Secretary of State for no discernible reason.
So it goes in the national sandbox: dynasty, nepotism, simony, and a small, self-absorbed ruling class of no particular merit awarding itself crucial jobs to keep itself in power. How long will that work? I have read that the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist [sic] Party consists of eight engineers and an economist. We are ruled by a mob of provincial lawyers. Engineers make products. Lawyers make laws. Hmmmm.
The problem, sez me, or at any rate one problem, is that democracy doesn”t scale well. When the proprietor of a hardware store in Farmville or Barstow or East Bronchitis or wherever gets elected mayor, he may inadvertently do a good job since he actually knows his town and the people in it. But then he runs for national office and gets to be, say, a Congressman or, God help us, he moves into the Great Double-Wide on Pennsylvania Avenue. (It occasionally happens: We don”t always get rich twerps with private jets and twelve toes being in bed with each other.)
We then have a negligible attorney who will stay in Congress forever and who has never been in the military presiding over an aggressive, nuclear-armed military that couldn”t win a bar fight against an octogenarian in a wheelchair. He is a mere over-promoted ward heeler, he and hundreds like him in the legislature, but he makes industrial policy. He has”they have”perhaps never even been in a foreign country other than Arkansas and speak no language but English, but they make foreign policy for…you see.
So how does the rest of the country know what its government is doing? It doesn”t. It can”t. The media constitutes an almost impermeable shield between Washington and the outer reality festering beyond the Beltway. You”ve heard of synchronized swimming? Try synchronized thinking. It should be an Olympic sport, as everything else seems to be. America would dominate.
In Washington, journalism is founded on diversity. This is a good thing, the dangers of a homogeneous press corps being obvious. Thus in the newsroom of the Washington Post, for example, you find white reporters who all think the same things as the black reporters, who all think the same things as the Jewish, Asian, gay, lesbian, Hispanic, and undecided reporters. Diversity is their strength.
In fact, all across America you see journalistic diversity. We have a wide diversity of newspapers, television stations, and radio outlets all owned by the same few corporations, which all have the same interests. Diversity is their strength, too.
The principal characteristic of the media is that they don”t cover much of anything. They do cover themselves (which doesn”t contradict the foregoing statement). If some bubble-headed babble-blonde”I think there is one called Katie Couric”moves from one indistinguishable network to another, we hear about it for weeks. I once saw on television someone called Peers”or maybe it was Piers”Morgan, who displayed the incisive intelligence of a platypus. His ratings were said to be falling; maybe there is hope for the US public after all. Anyway, for some reason this was news”that, and how Bill O”Reilly and several helmet-haired Republican women at Fox News are doing. The media is the story.
Reporters cover each other like spandex pants, but”I”m serious, think about this”they barely glance at most of the government. When did you last see coverage of HUD? The Bureau of Indian Affairs? The Department of Transportation? FAA? EPA? We get the occasional press release from these, but little else. No one knows what lurks in the bureaucratic shadows, but I promise it costs a lot.
Actually there is very little coverage of things that get a lot of coverage: the White House, DoD, and State Department. At the White House everything is tightly stage-managed, and a reporter who asks awkward questions never gets called on again. At the Five-Sided Wind Tunnel, which I knew well in my days as an inmate of the press corps, A Story would occur. Maybe a weapon didn”t work or was said not to work. So every reporter in Washington would frantically write about whatever it was.
Instead of lots of stories, it was one story lots of times. We see the same pattern with Obamacare, an abortion that contains all other abortions. It sounds like set theory. Hundreds, nay, thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of reporters write that it is hard to sign up. Wouldn”t one have been enough? How about some intelligent analysis from a software weenie who designs large programs?
What pours from Washington through the Electronic Wonderland of DC is a Bizarro World of things that don”t exist and aren”t as they are shown. For example, presidents don”t exist. What you see in Rose Garden photo ops is a virtual-reality amalgam crafted by five pollsters, three speechwriters, several calculating backroom political strategists, an ad agency, a make-up artist, and a gestures coach. The actual president is incidental. In fact, he is viewed as an impediment by his handlers, who think that the less known about him, the better. Note that the first thing they do is hide his scholastic record and SATs.
If you want something resembling an accurate picture of the government and its misbehavior, you can piece it together from the Guardian, Rolling Stone, Drudge, the Unz Review, and AntiWar.com. If you want actual government, it’s hopeless. But Washington’s antics are at least interesting”you know, like watching the fingers fall off a leprosy patient.
The Illusion of Government
[Byline Fred Reed]
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16 January 2014
Accessed 25 August 2020
For the gullible and naive who are brainwashed and manipulated into believing that any explanation that differs from the officially-blessed political ones is a conspiracy theory, there are available online long lists of government conspiracies that succeeded in deceiving the people in order that governments could achieve agendas that the people would have normally rejected. ~ Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy, 2017
The purpose of The Bizarro Code is to limit individual thought and provide government bureaucrats virtually complete control over how citizens think and communicate. This, in turn, allows subversive government agents to engineer whatever reality best serves the interests of the Party. As a result, “truth” becomes whatever the government bureaucrats want it to be at any particular moment and under their own specific circumstances; and with the vast majority of citizens, happy in their status as cogs of the failed State, are none the wiser.
Bizarro Code. Source: DC Comics
History teaches that investment in cherished group and religious values can bring forth acts of both heroic valor and horrific injustice. Understanding the psychological and biological determinants of increases in ideological commitment may ultimately help us to identify the situational triggers of, and individuals most susceptible to, this phenomenon, and thereby gain some leverage over the zealous acts that follow. …The results provide evidence that relatively abstract personal and social attitudes are susceptible to targeted neuromodulation, opening the way for researchers to not only describe the biological mechanisms undergirding high-level attitudes and beliefs, but also to establish causality via experimental intervention.
— Satel, Sally, and Scott O. Lilienfeld. Brainwashed: The seductive appeal of mindless neuroscience. Basic Books, 2013.
Snapshots of reality
Recall: this case in point… Obamacare Architect: ‘Stupidity of American Voters’ Was ‘Critical’ To Passing Obamacare
Or this?
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