I want to begin with a surprising instance of the World Economic Forum telling the reality. Here is factual quote by them from 2018:
“There is now a compelling body of evidence to support the idea that, with the right research and theoretical grounding, story-based media can shift social norms, values and beliefs more effectively than traditional, fact-based messaging [emphasis mine]. What is even more exciting is how digital technology is bringing compelling stories to millions of people at increasingly lower costs.”
Are they telling the reality? Yes, they’re — and the previous three years provide speedy proof. The story-based media, sponsored by their masters from BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, has shifted the social norms alright! Here is a scary SNL skit that — I feel — was presupposed to make someone giggle. I don’t normally watch the SNL, and I didn’t giggle:
“Social Norms”
Why do the social norms exist? We are social creatures, and our communities have customs. We are wired from delivery to have a look at what others are doing and evaluate notes. We are additionally wired to “adjust” our habits relying on the reactions we get. In the standard wilderness, most adults can’t survive with out being mature and residing by pure and religious legal guidelines. And even right here and the way, within the city jungle, our fundamental survival could rely on how properly and the way shortly we “read the room.”
As it goes with most issues in life although, human qualities that exist in us with the aim of serving to us survive and thrive, may be turned on their heads and abused. It is form of like what the parasites in nature do once they reap the benefits of the instincts and varied pure organic features of their goal host — and make these options work for themselves, to the detriment of the host.
Our love of being in concord with our group may be abused, too — and it has been abused all through centuries and up to now three years — by committing acts of mob-like terror to create the preliminary shock and lasting collective concern, and thus corrupting the “base line” — after which by imposing “arrested development” and stopping kids from emotionally rising up till they’re able to be consumed by the Machine.
Here is a positive little bit of inverted storytelling for the child-like adults that’s supposed to make them really feel “smart.”
See, a mature and soul-oriented grownup can “read the room” after which intelligently select what to, primarily based on what’s spiritually sound to do underneath a circumstance. On the opposite hand, a person who shouldn’t be significantly mature or soul-oriented tends to react in a mechanical approach. Such an individual is normally straightforward to eat by the not-so-benevolent masters on the high.
Thus, the “mechanically reactive” mode of residing is typical for individuals who are but to search out themselves: kids and child-like adults. And the hassle to induce the situation of “arrested development” on as many “worker ants” as doable is the ambition of the human parasites.
What Is “Normal,” Anyway?
Enter the notion of “normal.” Before we proceed, allow us to have a look at the historical past of the time period.
“The phrase regular entered the English language within the mid-1840s, adopted by normality in 1849, and normalcy in 1857 … When regular was first used it had nothing to do with folks, or society, or human habits. Norm and regular have been Latin phrases utilized by mathematicians. Normal comes from the Latin phrase norma which refers to a carpenter’s sq., or T-square. Building off the Latin, regular first meant “perpendicular” or “at right angles.”
Normal was first used exterior a mathematical context within the mid-1800s by a gaggle of males … within the tutorial disciplines of comparative anatomy and physiology. These two fields, by the nineteenth century, had skilled dominion over the human physique … They used the time period “normal state” to explain functioning organs and different techniques contained in the physique.
The anatomists and physiologists, nonetheless, by no means did discover or outline the conventional state. Instead they studied and outlined its reverse — the pathological state. They outlined regular as what shouldn’t be irregular …
The concept of the common as regular goes approach again to 1713 to a Swiss mathematician named Jakob Bernoulli, who many think about to be the founder of contemporary day calculus and statistics …
Bernoulli created an equation often known as the calculus of possibilities, which turned the inspiration of all statistics … The calculus of possibilities particularly, and statistics typically, made many seemly random occasions extra predictable …”
Then Adolphe Quetelet took the calculus of possibilities and “utilized to not playing however to human beings … Quetelet was a real believer that statistics ought to be utilized to all facets of society … In 1835, he put forth the idea of the ‘average man.’
His plan was to collect huge quantities of statistical information about any given inhabitants and calculate the imply, or mostly occurring, of varied units of options — top, weight, eye colour — and later, qualities resembling intelligence and morality, and use this “average man” as a mannequin for society …”
Anyone can odor eugenics within the air at this level? Quetelet “used regular, average, and normal interchangeably. In 1870, in a series of essays on ‘deformities’ in children, he juxtaposed children with disabilities to the normal proportions of other human bodies, which he calculated using averages. The normal and the average had merged.”
The formal “father” of normality (and eugenics), nonetheless, was Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s cousin. Galton was an anthropologist and the founding father of eugenics recognized for his “pioneering” (per Encyclopedia Britannica) research of human intelligence. He began out as a physician after which left medication for the budding area of statistics. He was knighted in 1909.
Pet LitHub, “as Lennard Davis described in his e-book Enforcing Normalcy, Galton made important adjustments in statistical idea that created the idea of the norm, as we all know it. Galton was into the concept of enhancing the human race and believed that statistics may assist. He liked Quetelet’s complete ‘average man’ factor however had one minor drawback.
In the middle of Quetelet’s bell curve have been probably the most generally occurring traits, not the best our bodies and minds Galton believed everybody ought to have.”
“To clear up this drawback, Galton, by an advanced … mathematical course of … took the bell curve concept, the place the commonest traits clustered within the center and the extremes, and created what he known as an ‘ogive’ … which, as Davis explains ‘is organized in quartiles with an ascending curve that options the specified trait as “higher” than the undesirable “deviation.”
According to Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens, authors of Normality: a Critical Genealogy, “Galton was not only the first person to develop a properly statistical theory of the normal … but also the first to suggest that it be applied as a practice of social and biological normalization.”
By the early twentieth century, the idea of a standard man took maintain. The rising area of public well being liked it. Schools, with rows of desks and a one-size-fits-all strategy to studying, have been designed for the legendary center.
The industrial financial system wanted standardization, which was led to by the appliance of averages, requirements, and norms to industrial manufacturing. Eugenics, an offshoot of genetics created by Galton, was dedicated to ridding the world of “defectives” … and was based on the idea of the conventional distribution curve.”
Is “Gene Editing” the New Spelling of “Eugenics”?
Speaking of eugenics — I imply, gene enhancing — here’s a TED speak by Paul Knoepfler, a mainstream researcher at UC Davis School of Medicine, from a number of years in the past. It is fascinating to look at. I say “fascinating” as a result of I like to watch different folks’s prepare of thought. And in some instances, folks’s pondering is a wild mixture of doable good intention, precise science, fantasy, and hubris (bear in mind DDT?).
In his case, in 2018, he known as for a short lived moratorium on “designer babies,” after which in 2020, at a time when almost each mainstream scientist was compliant or trusty or each, he revealed a piece supporting mRNA vaccines. What is his opinion on the mRNA vaccines at this time? I don’t know. But since he nonetheless seemingly has a job, no matter his opinion is, he’s most likely retaining it to himself.
Even extra fascinating is that this little bit of storytelling. In actual life, the scientists — even the well-intended ones — who hope to “improve humanity” by genetic modification are extra like a really bold elephant within the china store than the rest. Perhaps they’re an elephant who identifies as a really swish ballerina — however they’re an elephant, and no quantity of fantasizing about genetic modification can change that.
But it’s fascinating to look at propaganda movies. Words are low-cost, something may be stated with nice conviction, together with blatant lies. There is even a flying automotive briefly making an look on this propaganda video! Perhaps, a touch?
When one thing is predicated on a lie, it takes a major effort to take care of that lie. Because of that, for hundreds of years, there have been very highly effective lie-maintaining establishments in place. The folks employed on the lie-maintaining establishments have been very expert on the artwork of deceit, on the artwork of confusion, on the artwork of seduction, and on the artwork of concern.
The center managers might be simply foot troopers, the apprentices of the Machine. They usually don’t know what they’re actually doing, and so they usually favor not even take into consideration methods to search out an correct mirror as a result of they don’t seem to be seeking to shatter their very own worldview.
The ones on the high although know precisely what they’re doing, and so they put a variety of work in sustaining their lies. They are in perpetual search of recent victims and new methods to promote their lies. They are in perpetual search of recent abuse markets, so to talk. And in order that they swap tales and advertising brochures with out even blinking, as usually as they want, to replenish their sufferer provide.
Cycle of Abuse and the Story of Superiority
It dawned on me: the way in which institutional abusers play “divide and conquer” and deal with totally different teams of individuals in another way is as in the event that they have been delivering the experiences of various phases of abuse to these teams on the identical time.
The “temporarily elevated,” i.e. the demographic focused to be momentary supporters and dependable troopers of the darkish ones, are proven the “honey moon” part — whereas those who’re focused for speedy destruction, obtain the unmasked boot, the part of abuse when the gloves of the abuser are off.
Of course, each teams are focused to be eaten, simply at totally different instances — and through Phase One, Group One is meant to not know that they’re enthusiastically digging not simply the graves for Group Two, but in addition their very own graves.
That makes excellent sense so far as the artwork of warfare goes. Seduction, together with sugar-covered storytelling and a few sensible perks, is required to tug the sufferer in. It’s essential for the abuser to first pull some wool over the sufferer’s eyes and ears and a few cotton sweet over the sufferer’s mouth.
The ones who’re focused to be supporters, are advised that they higher, smarter, extra good-looking, and extra spiritually righteous than those focused to be meals. What’s hidden from the “next phase” victims although is the truth that the abuse is on its approach. Inevitably, on its approach.
The Not-so-Great Reset
What’s actually occurring regarding the not-so-great reset position swapping, a reshuffling within the recreation of the musical chairs. We within the West have gotten used to the position of “honey moon” folks, those who’re proven the “honey moon” part. And who may blame us? It is simple to get used to good issues. Hey, this Soviet expat could be very grateful for these good issues and obtained used to them immediately!
And it’s also true that for all sensible functions, whereas Phase One lasts, it’s a lot better to belong to our “western” group. Big homes, huge TVs, materials abundance, freedom of expression — or at the least relative freedom of expression — all these issues have been candy, and having them makes a dramatic distinction in our high quality of life. As somebody who grew up on the tail finish of the USSR, I passionately attest to that.
However, you will need to be trustworthy. And for the sake of being trustworthy, it’s higher to separate the underlying actuality from “storytelling.” For instance, we decry — rightfully so — the compelled closure of locations of worship in the course of the COVID lockdowns. But how many individuals know that, for instance, the unique folks of this land couldn’t legally apply the religious traditions of their ancestors till 1978, when American Indian Religious Freedom Act was handed?
This reminds of a Soviet-era joke. A Russian and an American are having a dialog, and the American says: “We in America have freedom. For instance, I can go as much as the White House and say loudly, ‘Reagan sucks!” The Russian laughs and says, “Big deal. I, too, can go to Red Square and say loudly, ‘Reagan sucks!’”
Modus Propagandi
When the poorer and fewer socially elevated individuals are used as pawn in a coup, they’re propagandized in a specific approach — which is one thing that I noticed within the Soviet Union, and one thing that I’m observing, to my chagrin, in America at this time.
The dejected ones are handed a pretend new “respect” and the satisfaction of “righteously” humiliating those who annoy them, on this case, the “privileged” people. It is that recreation of musical chairs, the redistribution of the crumbles of respect, once more.
From the standpoint of the darkish people on high, it’s simply one other reiteration of “divide and conquer,” reshuffling of Phase One and Phase Two folks and values, a matter of various teams of ants swapping roles. But it feels very severe to the dignified folks on the bottom for good causes as we will really feel our dignity simply slipping away, the sound of propaganda of the day.
They Do It Again and Again
This matter is near my coronary heart. When the technology of my grandparents within the USSR discovered themselves on the receiving finish of the not-so-great reset of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, the “foot soldiers of the Machine” have been the poor ones, the compliant ones, and the village drunks.
They have been advised story of recent respect, and so they have been recruited to carry down (with seemingly some assist type the colony-seeking Western bankers) the dignified.
This shouldn’t be how I realized historical past in school, nonetheless. When I used to be a child, I used to be advised a narrative of horrible pre-1917 life and the Bolsheviks driving in on a white horse (like a Robin Hood, though I’m not positive if Robin Hood had a white horse). It was later, regularly, that I discovered that it was only a story, and that it was a vicious lie.
Then when the Soviet Union fell aside, I used to be nonetheless a child, and I bear in mind how thrilling and prestigious it was for anybody to be in any approach concerned with something “from the West.” Glamorous issues have been: joint enterprises, foreigners, Western music, Western values, and this tune.
What a candy fairy story it was. And regardless of the sweetness of that story, and the tremendously fond reminiscences I’ve of these instances, that, too, was simply “storytelling.” In actuality, it was a loveless market seize by the important thing traders in multinational firms. It was a social restructuring that for us, at the moment, felt superior as a result of we, the folks of the Soviet Union, have been briefly made to consider that have been the benefiting group.
The “Russian Doll” of Lies: Letting Go
I’ve spent a few years pondering this dynamic, and got here to the conclusion that till we reject all pretend tales — even those we imbibed with mom’s milk, even those that enable folks like us to proceed our comfy slumber — we’re not “safe” from being on the receiving finish of the not-so-great reset.
That is a really tall order and a really robust religious and mental problem even for the very best of us, and it’s laborious work. But our candy freedom is value all of the laborious work on the earth, isn’t it? I feel so.
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