@br0kenrabbit said:
@nod_calypse said:
Fair enough, I suppose.
But also, to be fair, you are just about the most programmed person I've come across on these boards. I mean, your worldview could not possibly be more mainstream.
Reality isn't Hollywood, it is most often more drab and boring than paper work. People think some kind of different human runs the world or something, but that's not the case. It's just us.
Yeah, when I first came across this behavior, meaning when first I was aware of it consciously, years and years (and years) ago now, it was interesting to me in a clinical, if slightly perverse kind of way. My dad got his master's in psychology, and while I didn't go that route specifically, in this respect, in terms of interest, the apple didn't fall too far. I looked at it as an opportunity to engage frequently, in an organic setting, with an array of somnambulant states. Over time, though, I learned this is not really the case. It is not an obscured window, so to speak, but rather as though the window is clear as usual, but the eyes looking through it are at once seeing one thing, and seeing another--though not in an opinionated sense. Beyond dissonance, it approaches levels of almost zealous denial, to the extent that denial itself is a terrifying prospect, and is, ironically, denied. I was seeing the personification of Thich Nhat Hanh's "victims of fear"; but it is far more profound than that, as it does not rely on a trigger, at least not any one trigger, but is built from the ground up psychologically speaking from adolescence, which in turn makes it most devastating. It's learned behavior, but it is also grafted. Breaking the spell, so to speak, in the worst of cases might well take death. That hit me pretty hard. It was, is, a gloomy prospect, to say the least. When I arrived at Yuri Bezmenov and his ilk, what I was hearing was not surprising by this point, naturally, but it was nonetheless demoralizing, as I was working in trenches with the rest of the alarm clocked community, and we were in a vacuum chamber of sorts, far too comfortable. This was, of course, a long time ago. That Yuri was not speaking of the soviets, or of any official presence named, was, also naturally, immediately evident, and we began to truly see why it had to be that way, and it was the most banal reason imaginable. It came back to the clean window, as clean as ever, but uselessly clean. This, of course, was illuminating on a progressive basis. It was and is a spiritual matter. And that makes perfect sense, as it is right there, in front of the window, as so much of everything is in this reality. Hiding in absolutely plain sight. An entire new world opened up, but one whose gate closes the moment one passes through, effectively blocking out the next man, who must in turn open the gate himself, which becomes increasingly unlikely, if not outright hopeless, in the absence of spiritual bearings.
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