Open Thread WE 8 SEP 21 ~ filters
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“Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script
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“Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Welcome to Wednesday C99'ers. Have been sieving thoughts on the filtering of incoming and outgoing intelligence and awareness lately. Tell me if my theory's are full of holes.
It started with the blurting out of some unintended witticism by a toddler. The adults chuckled in their stuffy adult ways. The child was confused as to how his expression could be funny as he was being serious. I reflected how the youngster had not yet been socialized enough to realize his quip was unacceptable in polite company. He was just speaking his mind.
This acculturation process is an example of filtering free thoughts outbound. Just as primary education is an example of filtering incoming information. Young minds can be stifled when incomplete or contradictory information is given.
Seems the process does not end in the classroom. Our news and entertainment channels are vast filters of acceptable knowledge. We are shown only that which is deemed to be in our best interest.
Just as free speech is not really free, we are coerced into filtering our expressions into an approved fashion. A prime example of this is the current attempt at controlling the dialogue on social media platforms regarding Covid treatment issues. "Filtering our knowledge." It is not that we can't figure out our options so much as the confusing and contradicting information we are exposed to.
Brainwashed in our childhood
Brainwashed by the school
Brainwashed by our teachers
And brainwashed by all their rules
--George Harrison
Heard it on the radio,
Heard it on TV
That the end is coming
Of all humanity—
Better close your windows,
Better lock your doors,
Better fill the cracks
In your walls and floors.
It is coming, baby,
Coming after you—
Just because you heard it—
Another point of view—
It could be contagious,
Blowing in breeze,
Better call the experts
To flatten the disease.
Some have called it freedom
To use your own mind,
And it’s really dangerous
To all of humankind.
You must keep your distance—
For the good of all—
From the ones infected
With an awakened soul.
Wear a mask or better
Stay at home all day—
Listen to the doctors
And just stay away
From those crazy poets,
Daring you to be
Free and liberated
From mental tyranny.
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--Alexander Shaumyan
August 5, 2020
Feels like a sermon to the enlightened. Anyway, this is an open thread so it is cool to share your unfiltered thoughts.
Credits
veiled face from Benjamin Shine - Shine 2 from his "flow" series
https://www.benjaminshine.com/bio/
Comments
The World Economic Forum’s guide to doing mRNA vax advocacy…
“Advertising theory.” Nice euphemism. And: Think, feel, do!
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/3-tactics-to-overcome-covid-19-va...
Imagining the Alec Baldwin character from Glengarry Glen Ross out there, motivating teams of mRNA vax influencers…
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And, original lyrics by user CharredPC at WotB on Reddit:
Hey Lot
Love the lyrics!
And the WEF herding campaign is a hoot!
treating people like a malleable mass
Yikes, very telling.
Thanks!
Urging “Go forth and foment FOMO (fear of missing out)”—ugh. n/t
The fact that they have a structured
think-feel-do framework with exactly 7 rote, canned "stages" for each element demonstrates that:
1) They are at least, to the extent of that process, a cult
2) They forgot how to actually think long ago
3) They cannot truly feel a damn thing and are devoid of empathy
4) Whatever they propose to do will always be suspect.
Beyond that, in what way can this be interpreted as having cognitive content? Why is the word "wisdom" absent from all of their cant?
1. Increase knowledge and overcome misinformation
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Another poem
Inklings
The clues are there. They skulk between the lines.
They lurk in spin and smirk in murky spiel.
The clues are there. They leer in subtle signs.
They lounge in lies and lace the dicey deal.
The clues are there. They strain the untrained brain.
They pester questing minds with raw alarm.
The clues are there. They send the sane insane.
They snake through lakes of fakery and charm.
They tease and taunt. They haunt the daunted eye.
They loom in tombs and scribe their jibes in stone.
They strike the sleuth with truth the duped deny.
They crawl beneath the skin and scrawl on bone.
The clues are in our history’s DNA.
They’re in the price the clueless always pay.
Susan Jarvis Bryant
Her Cui Bono? is also very good.
https://classicalpoets.org/2021/08/09/two-poems-on-vaccine-mandates-by-s...
Good morning...
busy day yesterday with track hoe restoring drainage ditches. Now to get gravel delivered.
Youngsters often speak unaccepted truths. "Out of the mouths of babes..."
Once saw Walter Cronkite cover the story of an autistic girl that was a talented artist, however she was not well "socialized". After social training she could get along with other children, but lost her artistic talent as a result.
Well speaking of filtered, went out and got my oil changed including a new filter this AM. Got to tend old cars.
All the best!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
It was a hard week
in our extended family. Lost two more souls to the pandemic (both Delta variant): father of a musician friend of ours, 59, avid distance cyclist, and her brother, 25, generally healthy bassist. Brings our total to 7.
We now have 3 friends still fighting long Covid: two have finally weaned off of supplemental O2, and one (the ex-vocalist) looks like she's really in it for the long haul, dragging a tank everywhere since March of 2020. She's back to paying work, at least, but her singing is done.
Here are the lyrics to best describe the situation:
I suppose that I should write a tune for that. Meanwhile, if you are one of the lucky ones who hasn't lost anyone yet, count your blessings. Seeing a lot of the discussions of this situation through that filter of loss tends to really sting.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Very sorry for your group
I can't help but feel this Covid mess could have been so much better handled,
with many fewer losses, had we a better functioning health care system. And
consistant messaging. Putting out important information thru the filters of
political and financial benefits have left too many in the dark.
Hope things look brighter in your future.
Meanwhile teenage kids think
they're immortal, invincible and bullet-proof.
Maybe this will put the theory to the test - as far as contracting COVID-19 is concerned.
The Pogo is back? Is The Safety Dance next? n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Men Without Vaxx — er — Hats… ♫ n/t
Apparently there are currently ongoing trials
at colleges throughout the US. It also appears that incantations of "Fuck Joe Biden" can improve outcomes.
No Masks and yelling
oh my. We will see how this works out.
My grandson was at that game, his mother informed me. All I can do is hope for the best.
NYCVG
Sorry for your losses...
I'm a lucky one, as I've been most my life, and have not lost a friend to COVID. However, at my age I've lost plenty of friends since the pandemic began....just from other causes. I do have some friends who were symptomatic and ill but fortunately recovered.
Again, sorry for your loss!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning QMS. Interesting,
filter in and filter out. Philtre is a potion that causes irrational unavoidable infatuation, funny that it is a homonym of filter.
MS. Bryant heads up cui bono with a quote:
that is a very interesting filter with which to view reality, past, present and FUTure. "Western Civilization"(tm) inadvertently and irrevocably chose a most revealing logo for its brand: Giordano Bruno.
Because FOMO, I feel compelled by this OT and thread to contribute a poem somewhat, at least tangentially, relating to filters, propaganda, narrative and all of that happy shit from the great illustrious savant, Ms Dorothy Parker:
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Dorothy Parker
is one of the greatest writers of all time. I would have killed to have been a fly on the wall at the Algonquin Round Table, when she and Woollcott would get after it.
I still love the story of the time some wag bet her that she couldn't come up with a sentence using the word "horticulture" on the spot. Without missing a beat, she said "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think." Game, set, match...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Full agreement, especially as to being a fly and hence
not a target.
One of my favorites will forever be when Ms. Luce ceremoniously held the door for her intoning "Age before beauty, my dear" to which she instantly replied "pearls before swine".
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Priorities
American exceptionalism, baby!
Must follow Obama’s orotund words and believe, with every fiber of our being!
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/06/03/what-obama-told-us-at-we...
BTW, Happy Birthday to Bernie Sanders, who turns 80 today. n/t
Bataclan massacre perps finally on trial after almost 6 years
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/france-begins-marathon-trial-over-014214629.html
justice is not only blind
but mostly deaf and slow on the uptake
why not drag it out another year or two?
perhaps the intelligence agency will look better by then