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Post by Entendance on Mar 30, 2016 4:40:16 GMT -5
Stupidity Chapter XVI
<...In the end, I truly believe that we all greatly underestimate the influence that the mainstream media has on all of us. We willingly plug into “the Matrix” for endless hours, but then somehow we still expect “to think for ourselves”.
There are very few of us that can say that we have not been exposed to thousands upon thousands of hours of conditioning. And all of that garbage can make it very, very difficult to think clearly.
It is not because of a lack of input that we have become so stupid as a society. The big problem is what we are putting into our minds.
If we continue to put garbage in, we are going to continue to get garbage out, and that is the cold, hard reality of the matter.>
Depressing Survey Results Show How Extremely Stupid America Has Become
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Post by Entendance on Apr 24, 2016 5:47:13 GMT -5
Stupidity Charter XVII
The planet’s future is its past: cockroaches and jellyfish. “We’re gradually destroying our planet’s ability to support our way of life..” Eh, gradually?! Mowgli might need new playmates: Biodiversity fades as humans rise
“Bloody crazy”: River near fracking site bursts into flames in Australia (VIDEO)
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Post by Entendance on May 10, 2016 16:54:54 GMT -5
STUPIDITY update:
Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored
2016-05-30 Facebook is not just looking at user's personal information, interests, and online habits but also to your private conversations, revealed a new report. According to NBC report, this may be the case as Kelli Burns, a professor at University of South Florida states, "I don't think that people realize how much Facebook is tracking every move we're making online. Anything that you're doing on your phone, Facebook is watching." the professor said...
 Facebook is more popular than the Bible: hooked on Facebook
"...remember, you're not the customer when you're using Facebook. You're the product -- and you're being sold."
Facebook's So-Called Trending Sidebar? It's a Lie
"AMZN stock is the embodiment of a financial system that is completely corrupted to the core..." More here
So, as it turns out, Facebook is just another liberal leaning organization with a news platform that is manipulated to show what it deems important to convey to its users.... More here
We produced 41.8 million tons of ‘e-waste’ last year. That is the same weight as a line of 40-ton trucks stretching from New York to Tokyo.
How Long Does It Take for an iPhone to Biodegrade?
 Google is Collecting Information on Public School Students – Here’s How
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Spiati e mazziati
"Behold homo sapiens lashed on the wheel of the digital social network: held frozen over a computer which is tied by a cord to a wall wherein the fiberglass cable carries the message; staring into the lit screen, the face pale in the unnatural light; or, with head bent in the street, the appearance sullen, running fingers across the blinking object of desire. The creature is secretly harried: Constant updates are necessary, the user must tend the machine whenever and wherever possible – which is all the time and everywhere – and god forbid there is too long a lapse in the slipstream..." Facebook and the Degradation of Personhood
Michael Krieger : I don’t know what it’s going to take to get people to stop using Facebook. I really don’t.  Gadgets Turning Me Into an Idiot!
<Facebook has always been slightly worse than all the other tech companies with dodgy privacy records, but now, it's in it's own league. Getting off isn't just necessary to protect yourself, it's necessary to protect your friends and family too. With this latest privacy change on January 30th, I'm scared...>
 Get your loved ones off Facebook 
 Charles Hugh Smith: Why I Don't Want an Apple Watch
They call this durability? Are you serious crapple?
The Cost of Paying Attention Computers are learning to read emotion, and the business world can’t wait. We Know How You Feel
(The force-feeding of cheap food to the docile and lethargic public...The censorship of free-thought and the consequences which follow voicing our opinion...Religion’s ‘helping’ hand in poverty...How female sexuality is used to divert the attention of a hormone-driven population of men...‘Generation Notification'; the social media crazed population...The innocent casualties of unnecessary war...The cut-throat power money holds over the people...How professional athletes are used as products...How pharmaceuticals are both turning a population into zombies and killing us at a not-so-slow pace...) *** Disturbing (But Amazing) Pictures Expose The Absurdities Of Modern Culture *Warning: Graphic Images* Plus The I-Phonekkake (We should seriously ask ourselves if we are controlling technology or technology is controlling us. Sometimes we looks like a piece of flesh engaged to a phone...)
In Praise of Silence
"I have long been a lover of silence and quiet about it. It is this same love that is bound up with my passion for books. The writer Stefan Zweig once defined a book as a “handful of silence that assuages torment and unrest.”
While the world teems about me, drowning out the sounds of stillness with incessant noise, there is a notion of displacement, as though I wasn’t meant for these times of television sets, ipods, car alarms, cell phones, all day-every day music in stores, restaurants, office buildings, malls, and elevators. Why is it, I wondered, that silence is a diminishing natural resource, so alien to our way of life that its very existence seems to threaten the fabric of our culture? Why is it that we love noise, fear silence and evade a stillness that puts us in closer connection with things that give us happiness if we let them?
It is this concept, one I welcome with hushed gratitude, that forms the book In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise by George Prochnik.
“Something seems to have made us fall in love with noise as a society.
It’s a torrid, choppy affair that we are often in denial about, or tend to laugh off as a bass-heavy, summer night’s fling.”
It is a strange and intoxicating premise: to investigate the obscure root causes of our inability to be quiet. Like a form of narcissism, are we becoming consumed with a self-saturation of our own largely uninteresting cacophony? The author believes that we are, and that as we become noisier, we also lose touch with the many dimensions of silence itself, a silence that research suggests is as therapeutic–as essential–to the human animal as antibiotics or uncontaminated food.
Prochnik details with disturbing elegance the idea that Americans suffer enormously from noise pollution; insomnia, aggression, heart disease, even decreased longevity…the side-effects of enduring other people’s noise. It’s almost as if noise itself is a disease, a pathogen. And because of it, silence has become the most precious—and dwindling—commodity of our modern world, more than money, power, even happiness.
When the author was doing research for the book, he traveled with a police officer who was frequently called upon to intervene in domestic disputes. When the officer arrived, he usually found that the unhappy home was a raging cacophony of radios, TV’s, music all playing simultaneously–layer upon layer of mad noise used to prevent silence from arbitrating between the combatants. The officer tells the writer that in order to restore calm, he would ask the feuding combatants to turn off the appliances. He discovered that the near-homicidal atmosphere dissolved almost at once. They had, the officer explained, been arguing with noise itself rather than with each other.
It doesn’t take a sage to understand that those who have grasped solitude are the special emissaries to the tranquility of silence. Henry David Thoreau for one: “Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.” -The Errant Æsthete
Mental and spiritual preparation
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Post by Entendance on May 13, 2016 17:54:59 GMT -5
Stupidity Chapter XVIII |
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Post by Entendance on Jun 2, 2016 5:18:16 GMT -5
 Why does the Western world feed Africa with one hand while taking from it with the other?
"Africa: The continent is rich is natural resources that are being exploited for big profits, but the money is rarely used for the benefit of the people. Instead it goes to line the pockets of corrupt officials who then often smuggle it out to be deposited in secret offshore bank accounts in the developed world.
So who facilitates these transactions? And how and why does the developed world make it so easy to launder this dirty cash?
In this revealing investigation for People & Power, Kwenda and the Ghanaian undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, set off to find out. Posing as a corrupt Zimbabwean official and his lawyer, their probe takes them deep into the murky world of 'corporate service providers' - experts in the formation of company structures that allow the corrupt to circumvent lax international money laundering rules.
It just so happens that the pair's enquiries take place in the Seychelles but, as they discover to their horror, they could just as easily be in any one of a number of offshore locations (or even in the major cities of Europe and the US) where anonymous companies can be set up for the express purpose of secretly moving money and keeping its origins hidden from prying eyes...." Must watch the video: How to Rob Africa
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Post by Entendance on Jul 1, 2016 6:21:51 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jul 7, 2016 18:20:10 GMT -5
"I have said it many times in the past — when elitist criminals start openly admitting to their schemes it means that they are ready to pull the plug on the current system. They simply don’t care anymore who knows their plans because they think that victory is inevitable.
There have been more subtle and less prominently published calls for a “new world order” in the past, to be sure. However, at no other time have I seen international financiers and their puppet political mouthpieces so brazen about calling for global centralization than in the wake of the successful Brexit referendum. It is as if the Brexit flipped a switch in the existing narrative and set loose a flood of new propaganda, all aimed at convincing the general public that central banks must combine forces and act as one institution in order to combat an economic crisis that isn’t even visible to laymen yet..."
Brandon Smith: Globalists Are Now Openly Demanding New World Order Centralization
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Post by Entendance on Jul 28, 2016 4:27:43 GMT -5
Stupidity Stupidity Stupidity Stupidity Chapter XX
"...When we get sucked into our smartphones or distracted, we think it’s just an accident and our responsibility. But it’s not. It’s also because smartphones and apps hijack our innate psychological biases and vulnerabilities. I learned about our minds’ vulnerabilities when I was a magician. Magicians start by looking for blind spots, vulnerabilities and biases of people’s minds, so they can influence what people do without them even realizing it. Once you know how to push people’s buttons, you can play them like a piano. And this is exactly what technology does to your mind. App designers play your psychological vulnerabilities in the race to grab your attention. I want to show you how they do it, and offer hope that we have an opportunity to demand a different future from technology companies..."
Smartphone Addiction:*** The Slot Machine in Your Pocket |
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Post by Entendance on Aug 14, 2016 3:55:20 GMT -5
Into the Mind of a Psychopath II Snakes in Suits
Welcome to "Without Conscience" Robert Hare's Web Site devoted to the study of Psychopathy
The PCL-R — or The Hare, as it’s colloquially known — measures a constellation of 20 personality traits and behaviors. An accredited clinician, ideally one with a background in psychopathy, conducts a semi-structured interview with a subject, coaxing out information about the subject’s personality, lifestyle and personal history. The feedback is combined with information from the subject’s file and ideally interviews with family, friends, employers and other associates, to help the clinician determine whether the subject is evasive or deceptive.
The checklist’s 20 items include glibness/superficial charm, grandiose sense of self-worth, need for stimulation/proneness to boredom, pathological lying, conning/manipulation, lack of remorse/guilt, shallow affect, callousness/lack of empathy, parasitic lifestyle, promiscuous sexual behavior, early behavior problems, lack of realistic, long-term goals, impulsivity, failure to accept responsibility, many short-term marital relationships, juvenile delinquency and criminal versatility.
The clinician scores each item with 0 (no presence), 1 (uncertain) or 2 (definitely present). Psychopaths score 30 to 40 points. The general population typically scores less than 5, while the average score for prisoners is 23.
Since its inception, the checklist has remained the same, but the PCL-R manual has grown from a small pamphlet of just a few pages to the current 200-plus-page book packed with statistical data from psychopathy specialists around the globe. It’s now the top violence risk assessment tool used by forensic psychologists in North America, the significant majority in post-sentencing and parole hearings of the most dangerous, high-risk prisoners.
***Into the Mind of a Psychopath I
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Post by Entendance on Sept 9, 2016 3:45:15 GMT -5
Into the Mind of a Psychopath III
"...The US is remarkable, not for any unusual distribution of psychopaths amongst its people, but rather for the high regard and admiration in which the more articulate and successful psychopaths and sociopaths among their ranks are held by the public, their natural prey.
The problem is not that there are disturbed and destructive people in a society. The problem is when they are able to subvert a culture to satisfy their goals, when their animalistic cunning and heartlessness becomes fashionable, imitated, and even respected.
It is surely the greatest triumph of madness over common sense since the self-destruction of nations in the 20th century. Whole peoples surrendered themselves to ruthless leaders, thrilled to be ravaged by power without weakness. They drank deeply from the cup of madness and danced with the culture of death. And that is what it is to be without boundaries or constraints, free as gods on earth.
"He may have destroyed men, women, and children, and condemned thousands of families to homelessness and despair, but he never wavered in his resolve and conviction while doing it. He amassed great power and fortune, and he never got caught. He believed in himself, and he's a winner." "The manipulative con-man. The guy who lies to your face, even when he doesn’t have to. The child who tortures animals. The cold-blooded killer. Psychopaths are characterised by an absence of empathy and poor impulse control, with a total lack of conscience.
About 1% of the total population can be defined as psychopaths, according to a detailed psychological profile checklist. They tend to be egocentric, callous, manipulative, deceptive, superficial, irresponsible and parasitic, even predatory.
The majority of psychopaths are not violent and many do very well in jobs where their personality traits are advantageous and their social tendencies tolerated. However, some have a predisposition to calculated, “instrumental” violence; violence that is cold-blooded, planned and goal-directed.
Psychopaths are vastly over-represented among criminals; it is estimated they make up about 20% of the inmates of most prisons. They commit over half of all violent crimes and are 3-4 times more likely to re-offend. They are almost entirely refractory to rehabilitation. These are not nice people.
So how did they get that way? Is it an innate biological condition, a result of social experience, or an interaction between these factors?
Longitudinal studies have shown that the personality traits associated with psychopathy are highly stable over time. Early warning signs including “callous-unemotional traits” and antisocial behaviour can be identified in childhood and are highly predictive of future psychopathy.
Large-scale twin studies have shown that these traits are highly heritable – identical twins, who share 100% of their genes, are much more similar to each other in this trait than fraternal twins, who share only 50% of their genes. In one study, over 80% of the variation in the callous-unemotional trait across the population was due to genetic differences. In contrast, the effect of a shared family environment was almost nil.
Psychopathy seems to be a lifelong trait, or combination of traits, which are heavily influenced by genes and hardly at all by social upbringing.
The two defining characteristics of psychopaths, blunted emotional response to negative stimuli, coupled with poor impulse control, can both be measured in psychological and neuroimaging experiments...They do not seem to process heavily loaded emotional words, like “rape”, for example, any differently from how they process neutral words, like “table”.
This lack of response to negative stimuli can be measured in other ways, such as the failure to induce a galvanic skin response (heightened skin conduction due to sweating) when faced with an impending electrical shock...
The psychopath really just doesn’t care. In this, psychopaths differ from many people who are prone to sudden, impulsive violence, in that those people tend to have a hypersensitive negative emotional response to what would otherwise be relatively innocuous stimuli..." More at***Altered connections on the road to psychopathy M C Craig, M Catani Q Deeley R Latham E DalyR Kanaan M Picchioni P K McGuire T Fahy and D G M Murphy
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Post by Entendance on Sept 23, 2016 5:55:08 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Sept 29, 2016 3:49:32 GMT -5
The Real Fight Is Within: Mental Hygiene VIII
Psychoanalyze, Don’t Moralize
Evil is not a psychological category. Evil is a moral category. I invite you to psychoanalyze, not moralize. Here are a few propositions for you.
“There is no evil – there is just ignorance, greed, fear, obsession and indifference.”
Ok, let’s unpack this step by step.
Ignorance is not evil. Ignorance is the result of any number of psychological, sociological and educational factors. Ignorance can be the result of misguided cultural programming (eg racism, chauvinism, nationalism, etc). Ignorance can the result of educational oversight (eg “Earth is flat,” etc). Ignorance can be due to a lack of life-experience or a lack of psychological savvy. Ignorance can be an intelligence deficit (a matter of IQ deficit, or a learning disability). Point is: ignorance is not evil.
Greed is not evil. Greed can be understood as an interplay of love and fear. Greed (“love of the money”) can be understood on some level as a fear – a fear of not having enough. Greed can be understood as competitiveness (a desire to have more than others have). Competitiveness-based greed is not evil – it’s just a misguided attempt to regulate one’s sense of worth, it’s a self-esteem project, perhaps, a chronic hunger for narcissistic validation. Narcissism too is not evil, it’s just narcissism (a sense of emptiness, a failed sense of self with an attempt to reassure yourself by polishing the social mirror). Greed can also be understood as mis-directed love – a fixation, an obsession, a transfer of libidinal energy onto the material; loving money is safer than loving people, since money doesn’t abandon us – that sort of thing … Point is: greed is not evil.
Fear is not evil. This is rather self-explanatory: of course, fear is not evil. Fear is just fear. But in fear, out of fear, we do some horrible stuff to each other. As you’ve heard, offense is the best defense. There are plenty of moments when we attack, preemptively, out of fear and we attack viciously – out of fear that a measured attack won’t suffice. So, we over-react, over-defend, over-kill. None of that is evil. It’s just out-of-control fear. Point is: fear is not evil.
Obsession is not evil. Humans get obsessed. We get imprinted. We get fixated. We get addicted. We develop most unsavory fetishes. None of this is evil. All of this has to do with our reward systems getting highjacked. A “- phile” is not evil, a “- phile” a “lover.” “- phile” is Greek for “lover” or “enthusiast.” A “- phile” can be an Anglophile (a lover of all things British), a Russophile (a lover of all things Russian) or some unsavory “-phile.” “-philes” of any ilk aren’t evil. “-philes” are just highjacked brains.
Indifference is not evil. Lack of empathy, antisocial callousness, sadistic insensitivity, psychopathic manipulation and unchecked violence – these are the things we fear, these are the elements of the human jungle that we have to constantly watch out for and protect ourselves from. But we can fear all this and try to protect ourselves from all this without moralizing. Indifference – in all of its disguises and manifestations – is not evil. Indifference can be understood as lack of mirror neuron activity. Mirror neurons underlie our capacity for empathy. Those of us who congenitally lack empathy operate on a different type of neurological hardware than the rest of us. We don’t choose our brains. We are thrown into this life as we are. If you lack mirror neuron activity, then your neuro-hardware is not enabled for empathy or your empathy is compromised. Lack of empathy is not all bad – it has situational value. Lack of empathy in a bootcamp sergeant can be quite useful. Same goes for a surgeon and a sniper and anyone in a position of having to make tough, un-empathic decisions on the behalf of others. Lack of empathy is not evil, it’s mis-employed. As a civilization, we are still too young to harness and sublimate lack of empathy towards social good. But we’ll get there someday. Psychopaths will make wonderful colonizers of Mars. Un-empathic types are great at “going West,” at clearing the ground for the rest of us, neurotics. Furthermore, any of us can experience a reduction in empathy – you’ve heard of “hanger,” right? When you are hungry, you get irritable – suddenly, you – who is usually quite nice – become an un-empathic, indifferent, irritable jerk. Our ability to care for others might be wiped with poor sleep, illness, or a neurological event, such as a stroke, which might result in a so-called “personality change.” My point is that any and all of this is not evil. Indifference is not evil, it’s just a modality of human consciousness.
Why do we moralize, not psychoanalyze?
Moralizing is easy. Moralizing also makes us – moralizers – feel better about ourselves in comparison to those we morally judge. Moralizing is easy because it is nothing more than labeling. Calling something or someone “evil” is simple, isn’t it? You slap a moral label and you are done: no more thinking is required. Psychoanalyzing is harder: you have to think, you have to go beyond the simplistic labels, you have to ask yourself a bunch of “why” questions, you have to examine context. Heck, you even have to have the courage to relate! So, not only is psychoanalyzing is harder, from the standpoint of information-processing, it’s also humbling. Why? Because as you work to make sense of someone else’s behavior you begin to relate to that behavior on some level. Psychoanalyzing humbles us. Unlike moralizing, it doesn’t allow us to feel superior. Psychoanalyzing requires of us a courage to relate. And when we do that, we see bits of ourselves in what we try to blot out with judgment. And that creates some cognitive dissonance for us – we don’t like that.
Moralizing Isn’t Evil Either
So, yes, moralizing is easy. Psychoanalyzing is hard. But I am not going to moralize about moralizing: I get it, doing what’s easy is intuitive. Moralizing too isn’t evil, moralizing is just self-care. Labeling others with a fleeting judgment is a cheap way to help ourselves feel better. Cheap is good, right? Right. I am not being snarky. I mean it. Of course, cheap is good. When we moralize, we instantly elevate ourselves – we get a little ego bump. It’s an information-processing bargain for us, part of our self-regulatory intelligence. Also, when we moralize, when we pronounce something or someone as evil, we are trying to be conservative – we are programming ourselves to be watchful, to be paranoid. All that too is self-care. What is here to moralize? So, yes, we can psychoanalyze moralizing too.
No Evil
We are not fighting demons, we are fighting our evolutionary programming. There is no darkness inside us – just fear, ignorance, indifference, etc. “Evil” is an outdated concept. It’s not a psychological concept. It’s a medieval theosophical crutch from a time when we thought Earth was flat. Time we upgrade our mindware. Life is not about good and evil. It’s all good. Only good. Ordinary perfection, in fact. Just life, you know. So, hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil. Psychoanalyze instead! - Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D.
***10 Diseases That Make Depression Feel Worse
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Mental Hygiene III
Mental and spiritual preparation IV The Real Fight Is Within: Mental Hygiene V Mental Hygiene VI
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Post by Entendance on Oct 2, 2016 5:17:23 GMT -5
Stupidity Chapter XXI
Πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει καὶ δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης. -Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος
Everything changes and nothing remains still; you can’t step twice into the same stream. -Heraclitus of Ephesus
September 1st, 2016*** As The World Economy Is Burning Central Bankers Are Clueless
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Banksters
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Politicians Media &...
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Post by Entendance on Oct 6, 2016 17:14:09 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 18, 2016 7:58:05 GMT -5
The Real Fight Is Within: Mental Hygiene XII
"Your mind is programmable – if you’re not programming your mind, someone else will program it for you."
 Explore your personality with the highly respected Five Factor model (AKA the Big Five). You'll see how you stack up on 5 major dimensions of personality: Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism.
The Big Five model of personality is widely considered to be the most robust way to describe personality differences. It is the basis of most modern personality research. This 50-question inventory is based on questionnaires used in professional research settings and will evaluate your personality on each of the Five Factors. ***The Big Five Personality Test
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Post by Entendance on Oct 23, 2016 5:19:37 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 25, 2016 11:56:39 GMT -5
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Post by messier94 on Oct 25, 2016 15:04:05 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 1, 2016 6:23:15 GMT -5
 THE SLAVE MENTALITY
"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.” They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” -Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” -Laurence J. Peter
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.” -Plato, The Republic
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” -Carl Sagan
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” -Edward R. Murrow
Stultorum infinitus est numerus (The number of fools is infinite. Ecc. 1:15)
Stupidity Chapter XXIII
The True Slave The Facts Lose Value The Obsession With The Law The Need To Be Accepted The Need For Control The Need For Structure The Need For Vindication
***Understanding the slave mentality***
 Debt is the slavery of the free. -Publius Syrus
All about Debt Slavery
How we become slaves of ‘The System’ Almost everything you think and do is against your best interest and you don’t even realize it. It’s planned that way.
The state seeks absolute control of your mind, body and spirit. Can the state succeed? It has, but only a precious few ever know.
Your mind and your thoughts are not your own. Almost every thought you have channels you toward the state.
By the time a child grows up and goes through the public (non)education system, he or she has no thoughts of his or her own. By the time that person is finished with college, the system has sealed his or her thought processes so that nothing is questioned. The imperative to inquire beyond what comes from the propaganda media and our leaders is gone.
Our minds are so smug in darkness and organized confusion that we are complete automatons. Our ego, our individuality, is completely excised and we are completely transferred into the state organism and group thought. Any deviation from the system by anyone is met with hostility by friends and neighbors.
By this we become locked into a system based only on conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom is what everybody knows. It is the court history (faux history) we receive in school and through the controlled media, repeated ad nauseum.
Conventional wisdom is based on confusion and disinformation. It has a crowding-out effect in our thought processes that stifles inquiry. In other words, conventional wisdom programs us to reject any information or thought not in harmony with our preconditioning and experience. It is called cognitive dissonance.
The more one is formally educated, the more he/she is locked into the system mindset. (Why do you think there is such a push for everyone to receive a college education whether a person is so inclined or not?)
I myself went through four years of college, worked on a master’s degree, and attended law school. What a pity! It took valuable time and money for me to pay for the brainwash. It took years to get over it. I had to completely erase this education foolishness before I could begin to have half sense. My inquiring attitude and much, much reading helped me escape the programmed maze that entrapped me. The many conflicts and confusion was emotionally and financially costly.
Not even your body is your own.
A brand new baby gets vaccinations before it leaves the hospital and the parents are glad. They don’t question what’s in the vaccines or what they’re for.
There’s even now a push to begin vaccinating babies in the womb. As it is, the state begins to seize an infant’s body the first day of its life. It is being prepared for death the day it is born. Then as many as 50 more vaccinations come before the end of high school. All is done in the name of health and for the good of society. It’s all for profit of the giant pharmaceuticals enforced by the political system. The parents believe that it’s good.
There are many knowledgeable people who are against compulsory vaccinations simply because it is a violation of medical freedom. But the problem goes much deeper. It is at the heart of the survival of the system.
Then there is an organized system of sickness called healthcare. This system must have an endless supply of bodies — yours.
Thousands of tests, biopsies, sonograms, catheterizations, etc., etc., leading to making huge profits through drugs, surgery, radiation, etc., leading to the general demise of the natural immune system guaranteeing sickness and death — yours.
Individual responsibility for one’s own health in America is unthinkable and almost nonexistent. It was so planned. They need and want your body. It is huge profits for the system.
Beyond that, vaccines and the sickness care system are about a population control system based on the cold reality of the survival of the money (credit) creation monopoly that rules the world. Consumers will and must die. The push for universal vaccinations is not ideological fantasy. It is cold-blooded conspiracy to control population. California has mandatory vaccination and has eliminated both the religious and philosophical exemption. As California goes, so goes the nation.
When you understand the money system you will know for certain why population control has now changed from an urgency to a priority of the establishment.
Those of you new to Personal Liberty® and reading some of these things for the first time may be shocked and asking, “What do vaccines, healthcare, the money system and population control have in common?”
In a few words, money creation (money creation is credit creation) is the exclusive monopoly of the central bank. In the U.S., this is the Federal Reserve and Federal Reserve banks.
All wealth flows to the creators of credit. But a credit creation monetary system cannot exist without regulation. Regulation is absolutely essential in all areas of life. In America, do we have regulation? In spades.
Specific for this discussion is the subject of population regulation or population control. A credit-based monetary system will break down if it gets more consumers than producers. As our population gets older and “top heavy,” consumption exceeds production and, through welfare and social security payments, wealth reverses from the money (credit) creators to the consumers or nonproducers. This cannot be allowed over time.
Therefore ways — benevolent ways of course, as they cannot just vaporize you when you reach a certain age, a la “Logan’s Run” — must be found to get us to expire when we retire. We have many population control mechanisms in place, including mass medication with drugs and fluoride in our drinking water.
And one of the most sinister and disguised population controls in place is mass inoculations and vaccinations. When our children are vaccinated, there is a certain percentage who die as a result, and many are disabled in various ways for life. However, the most insidious part of it is the development of degenerative diseases much later in life, say about in the 50s and early 60s, at about retirement age.
Human liberty and personal survival in our time must originate in truth no matter how incredible and shocking to our conditioned minds. Governments control the public mind with disinformation and confusion. No modern government could exist for 24 hours if it told the people the truth.
Of course, the establishment news will label these truths as “fake news.” Most of the readers — due to cognitive dissonance — will label this as “conspiracy theory.”
Both are code words designed to make you and keep you as slaves to “The System.”
(I realize for many of you your first reaction — especially if you are a newer reader of Personal Liberty, is to dismiss this sort of new information out of hand. You are probably asking, “Who is this Bob Livingston,” and “What does he mean?” I urge you to consider it carefully, to follow the hyperlinks provided above, and to take advantage of the related articles below to further your study. –BL)
Code Words More code words Psychological warfare:How words shape our thoughts and actions How do we rediscover freedom and truth? Paper Money Syndrome: What is it?
The 5 Ways Emotional Neglect Causes Borderline Personality Disorder
  More here
The 5 Stages: 1. Denial and isolation; 2. Anger; 3. Bargaining; 4. Depression; 5. Acceptance.
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Post by Entendance on Nov 7, 2016 7:03:52 GMT -5
Stupidity Chapter XXIV
“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.” - The Real Frank Zappa Book
 More at Fred & E. Private Beach
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Post by Entendance on Nov 14, 2016 13:42:19 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 23, 2016 5:17:42 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Dec 14, 2016 4:03:16 GMT -5
 
The price we all will pay for this lousy piece of theater rises by the day.
The sheeple attitude 
Stupidity Chapter XXVI ***Why are we dumb and proud?
December 14, 2016: House Passes Bill to”Microchip Citizens with Mental Disabilities”… And Then Those Who Speak Out
If you object to government policy, you have a mental disability.
"We are not living in democracy. Athens had a democracy, we don’t. Democracy means direct democracy, where the Demos has the Power (Kratos).
Instead what we have is a political system where immense powers go to a few individuals, and only to them." -Patrice Ayme’
"Better we show them, we chose to die on our feet, rather than live on our knees!" -Themistocles
...16 German jurists and lawyers. Nine had been officials of the Reich Ministry of Justice, the others were prosecutors and judges of the Special Courts and People's Courts of Nazi Germany. They were—amongst other charges—held responsible for implementing and furthering the Nazi "racial purity" program through the eugenic and racial law... ...judicial acts of sexual sterilization and to the imprisonment and execution of people for their religions, racial or ethnic identities, political beliefs and physical handicaps or disabilities...The Judgment At Nuremberg is a 1961 American courtroom drama film directed by Stanley Kramer, written by Abby Mann and starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner, and Montgomery Clift.
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Post by Entendance on Dec 16, 2016 6:07:47 GMT -5
Stupidity Chapter XXVII
Spot the stupid ones and then get rid of them
“...I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous...” 
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Post by Entendance on Dec 24, 2016 6:30:11 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Dec 30, 2016 18:06:38 GMT -5
Stupidity Chapter XXIX
"...Mass hysteria eventually wears off, as it overloads the emotional circuitry of the target audience; humans soon become desensitized to the triggers used to generate mass hysteria, and it takes heavier and heavier doses of propaganda to maintain the feverishly herd-inducing hysteria.
Eventually, the populace habituates to the stimulus and becomes exhausted by the hysteria.
Induced Insanity, on the other hand, is not an emotional state--it is a state of mind and a state of perception that filters and interprets inputs to produce the desired output-- an acceptance of insanity as normal and good ..."
***Mass Hysteria and Induced Insanity
facebook Is Buying Detailed Data On Users Offline Lives (you can log in but can never log out) Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
The site shows users how Facebook categorizes them. It doesn’t reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives. More here
MSM: The Drip, Drip, Drip, of the Total Lie Designed to Flood Us All With Fake News
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Post by Entendance on Jan 10, 2017 8:32:47 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jan 11, 2017 5:18:10 GMT -5
Into the Mind of a Psychopath VII
"...Humanity needs a healthy distance from technology. This doesn’t mean we go back to using a horse and buggy, but it does mean there is wisdom in moderation. Mass surveillance potential by the establishment is not just a threat to people who might be “up to no good”; it is a threat to everyone. For the ability to predict a population’s behavior makes that population highly controllable. NO ONE is morally benevolent enough to be trusted with that kind of power. Anyone deliberately seeking to obtain such power should be treated with the utmost suspicion. Only the worst of men desire the means to intrude on the lives and minds of men."
***How Globalists Predict Your Behavior
“Yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy, “Three Methods Of Reform” (1900).
Breaking: 8 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world – Oxfam
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Post by Entendance on Jan 19, 2017 3:51:41 GMT -5
"Like gambling, nicotine, alcohol or heroin, Facebook and Google — most importantly through its YouTube subsidiary — produce short-term happiness with serious negative consequences in the long term. Users fail to recognize the warning signs of addiction until it is too late. There are only 24 hours in a day, and technology companies are making a play for all them..." More Here
 September 2017: Google hiring 1,000 journalists in effort to control American news flow
The Google reality 
“It will be granted that folly is a mental disease, and of folly there are two kinds, madness and stupidity.” -Plato, “Timaeus”.
Stupidity often arises from ignorance. Ignorance of facts, or ignorance of possible logics, including of the emotional kind.
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January 2017 Stupidity Update: How Google Tracks You – And What You Can Do About It
 Use duckduckgo.com/
***Capitulation to irrelevance: Italia
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Post by Entendance on Jan 21, 2017 4:23:01 GMT -5
"There is no doubt those who oppose Donald Trump are experiencing a great and collective cognitive dissonance as the 45th president begins his first term. In fact, in the days leading up to Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017, the agitation was palpable as the haters mourned their crushed worldviews with a sense of abject finality as the inevitable day approached...Thousands and thousands of Never Trumpers will soon retreat from Washington D.C. and return to their garrisons, ramparts, caves and citadel’s to strategize and perfect new ways of disrupting the body politic over the next four years. As they sharpen their spears and prepare for war, it would be beneficial for them to completely comprehend the depth of their bias and belief. Unfortunately, it won’t happen. Anyone who is open-minded, awake and aware understands how the mainstream corporate media acts as the propaganda arm for the Deep State..." ***Frenetic Freaks & Flakes Flirting With Fire
Into the Mind of a Psychopath VIII "...I predicted the success of the Brexit and the Trump win based on the knowledge that:
1) The globalists need a large scale crisis in order to drastically change public perceptions on society and governance. That is to say, they need to create a crisis so terrifying that people will be willing to accept a fully centralized global economic system and global governance as a solution.
2) The globalists have already set in motion an economic crisis that cannot be reversed. It is a crisis that they must avoid blame for at all costs once it accelerates.
3) Conservative and sovereignty principles are the primary threat to the dominance of globalism. As long as ideas of individualism, national sovereignty and decentralization exist, globalism can never truly prevail. Therefore, obstructing movements based on these principles is not enough. The globalists must also destroy any positive perceptions of our principles for generations to come.
4) As stated in the section on chess, the globalists like to use the strategy of forced sacrifice, in which they threaten two targets simultaneously, or kill two birds with one stone. I realized at the beginning of 2016 that all the rhetoric by globalists in their own publications on the “rise of populism” was staging the groundwork for the success of the Brexit and the success of Trump. What better strategy for the establishment than to allow conservative movements to take the helm of the political and economic ship just as that ship is about to sink? In this way, the globalists can have the crisis they need, while at the same time scapegoating conservatives and avoiding blame, and, destroying the image of conservative ideals, perhaps forever.
...In order to predict the behavior of globalists and the outcome of future economic and political events, it is important to understand certain dynamics. As just described, the establishment has a stranglehold on the political system. Party politics are a sham built around the false left/right paradigm. However, certain new dynamics are developing, and you must be able to track them.
The best way to do this is to watch what globalists say within their own publications. They often reveal their intentions directly or indirectly. In many cases I think in their arrogance they assume that the masses are too stupid to read these publications and grasp what is being said.
The most important element of predicting globalist actions is to know what they ultimately want; to know their ultimate goals. If you know the specifics of what any group or individual desperately wants, those people become highly predictable, because there are only so many useful paths to get to any goal..." ***How To Predict The Behavior Of Globalists
 Clinton, Barroso, Monti, Draghi, van Ronpuy...***We are all Jesuits
 New: Bota na conta do Papa
Remember February 18, 2016?***TRUMP VS THE POPE
February 18, 2016: Pope tells Trump building walls ‘not Christian’ on way back to walled-in Vatican
January 21, 2016: "...Trump made it abundantly clear that Americans’ enemies are right here at home: globalists, neoliberal economists, neoconservatives and other unilateralists accustomed to imposing the US on the world and involving us in endless and expensive wars, politicians who serve the Ruling Establishment rather than the American people, indeed, the entire canopy of private interests that have run America into the ground while getting rich in the process..."
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