Greetings good citizen, today's topic is something near and dear to us all yet we seldom, er, 'consider' it despite it being the filter we use to assess all we experience.
Yes, one of the shortest words in our language is also what we use to understand the world around us and let's us make sense of what we experience...'the world of I'.
Most of us have become so used to using ourselves as the 'yardstick' we measure the world with that we do it unconsciously! Yet there YOU are, front and center in everything you do!
It is here we find the most vexing of stumbling blocks...not everybody experiences/filters the world the same way causing, er, let's call it 'wiggle room' for lack of a better term.
Understand, most of us will reach identical conclusions provided the same data. How comfortable you are in your own skin governs your 'confidence level' and with so many sources telling you wrong is right, it's only natural that you would begin to doubt your own judgement.
Throw in the 'bandwagon effect' [we all want to be on the winning team even if we despise what it represents!] and our mind becomes 'unreliable' as we, er, suppress our primary conclusions. How can I write stuff like this? I keep my own council and make my own conclusions...in case you were wondering. I also made up my own 'team', one we all belong to, I call it 'team human' and it helps me keep both oars in the water.
As the 'exploiters' cripple the minds of the gullible with frightening regularity it is small wonder we now live in a world filled with people who relish being told what to think...
Compound that with people's disturbing new tendency to 'personalize' their grievances and you begin to see how 'right and wrong' have become too confusing for the average individual to deal with.
I don't need to tell you that a world where people are unable to separate right from wrong is a very dangerous place indeed!
Stop and consider for a moment the, er, 'hazardous' environment 'Morning in America' has created (today's political landscape is a perfect example) Where you have been told from an early age that black is white and it's 'okay' if you're American [usually genocide].
Then you take a look at the military situation where we have been engaged in faux 'wars' for decades [including the current one where the enemy is an 'idea'...] Then you marvel that cops are killing civilians for nothing [same thing they do every day when they put on their 'other uniform'...]
Beginning to see what the 'hijacking' of our political system has done to civilization in general?
Which is to point out that the ability to reach 'the masses' simultaneously is not necessarily a net 'good thing'.
Worse, the sound of 'one hand clapping' has deafened us all to our own internal decision-making ability.
Blame the 'organization man' that planted the seeds of 'thinking is beyond your paygrade!'
Let's just say we've been in trouble for a Looooooog time and it ain't gonna turn around until we grab those bootstraps the Libbies are always yapping about and pull ourselves up short!
Whoa! you have a 'PERFECTLY GOOD' internal BS meter that you've been told from an early age to ignore. People say things like 'what do you know?' are usually trying to put one over on you! [not all of the time so you have to be careful with this.]
Key to our collective salvation is trusting your own judgement and maybe joining the only team nobody can throw you off of, team human!
You have to use that thing between your ears for more than a hat rack!
Am I trying to get over on you for telling you to trust yourself?
Now how it works...but it's a pretty safe bet that anyone that tells you your judgement is, er, 'questionable' is messing with you.
The world is bigger than just you but YOU are the yardstick you use to 'measure/make sense of' the world around you!
Trust yourself and remember that we are all in this TOGETHER!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Why is it spinning in here? Do I smell smoke? Naw, it's burning dust! I guess you haven't used THAT in a while, have you?
Yes, one of the shortest words in our language is also what we use to understand the world around us and let's us make sense of what we experience...'the world of I'.
Most of us have become so used to using ourselves as the 'yardstick' we measure the world with that we do it unconsciously! Yet there YOU are, front and center in everything you do!
It is here we find the most vexing of stumbling blocks...not everybody experiences/filters the world the same way causing, er, let's call it 'wiggle room' for lack of a better term.
Understand, most of us will reach identical conclusions provided the same data. How comfortable you are in your own skin governs your 'confidence level' and with so many sources telling you wrong is right, it's only natural that you would begin to doubt your own judgement.
Throw in the 'bandwagon effect' [we all want to be on the winning team even if we despise what it represents!] and our mind becomes 'unreliable' as we, er, suppress our primary conclusions. How can I write stuff like this? I keep my own council and make my own conclusions...in case you were wondering. I also made up my own 'team', one we all belong to, I call it 'team human' and it helps me keep both oars in the water.
As the 'exploiters' cripple the minds of the gullible with frightening regularity it is small wonder we now live in a world filled with people who relish being told what to think...
Compound that with people's disturbing new tendency to 'personalize' their grievances and you begin to see how 'right and wrong' have become too confusing for the average individual to deal with.
I don't need to tell you that a world where people are unable to separate right from wrong is a very dangerous place indeed!
Stop and consider for a moment the, er, 'hazardous' environment 'Morning in America' has created (today's political landscape is a perfect example) Where you have been told from an early age that black is white and it's 'okay' if you're American [usually genocide].
Then you take a look at the military situation where we have been engaged in faux 'wars' for decades [including the current one where the enemy is an 'idea'...] Then you marvel that cops are killing civilians for nothing [same thing they do every day when they put on their 'other uniform'...]
Beginning to see what the 'hijacking' of our political system has done to civilization in general?
Which is to point out that the ability to reach 'the masses' simultaneously is not necessarily a net 'good thing'.
Worse, the sound of 'one hand clapping' has deafened us all to our own internal decision-making ability.
Blame the 'organization man' that planted the seeds of 'thinking is beyond your paygrade!'
Let's just say we've been in trouble for a Looooooog time and it ain't gonna turn around until we grab those bootstraps the Libbies are always yapping about and pull ourselves up short!
Whoa! you have a 'PERFECTLY GOOD' internal BS meter that you've been told from an early age to ignore. People say things like 'what do you know?' are usually trying to put one over on you! [not all of the time so you have to be careful with this.]
Key to our collective salvation is trusting your own judgement and maybe joining the only team nobody can throw you off of, team human!
You have to use that thing between your ears for more than a hat rack!
Am I trying to get over on you for telling you to trust yourself?
Now how it works...but it's a pretty safe bet that anyone that tells you your judgement is, er, 'questionable' is messing with you.
The world is bigger than just you but YOU are the yardstick you use to 'measure/make sense of' the world around you!
Trust yourself and remember that we are all in this TOGETHER!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Why is it spinning in here? Do I smell smoke? Naw, it's burning dust! I guess you haven't used THAT in a while, have you?
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