I was delighted to see the comments and discussions that came about from my latest article and that it had thrown up quite a few questions.
Rather than try to have several conversations at once, I thought I might write an addendum to the article picking out some of the most popular points.
My article was about pattern formation and attention, through depth perception.
The idea that we choose, or have chosen for us, which part of the patterns we form are attend to, makes the concept of attending very important. I guess you could say that what we attend to constitutes our personal free will.
Depending on the type of personality, you will have a predilection to be drawn towards some things more than others. This does not mean those things are always good for you.
In referring to politicians in my article, I hoped to show that the human brain is not wired to naturally pick out points of the pattern it creates from, whatever is out there apart from you, on a global scale. This is because, amongst many other things, it would have to assume too much before it can make a decision, or rely on others perception based on their pattern formations and what they have chosen to attend to.
In other words, truth as we think of it is linked inexorably to real life experiences for most of the time, and we do not have the capacity, or the time in our lifespans, to gain enough of this to make any decisions of benefit and those that do turn out well are more by accident than design.
I say most of the time, because that’s where archetypes come in. We attribute “magical powers” and emotional substance to people in a position of power or influence, who on the surface at least, seem to share the majority of our own self constructed beliefs.
I have no idea what Starmer, Farrage, Trump or the rest of them think about anything from personal experience. The only real life examples I have, is when they don’t do things they say they would. However, I still don’t really know why that is and any interpretation is made with reference to my own pattern development and what I choose to attend to.
Keeping it “in real time”, is essential to good mental health and the ability to understand your personal world. My granny would say, be sure you have one foot on the ground rather than your head in the air.
Most people don’t want to go into things in such depth and indeed, often object to even the slightest encouragement to do so. Many years of mental disenfranchisement mean that it is now considered a cruelty to expect people to be responsible for their own lives, or to work things out for themselves.
As a practising psychologist, the majority of people I see who are not seriously mentally ill think that I can spend an hour with them and then send them away with a magical formula that will give them the sort of life they fantasise about, plus a way of punishing everyone who has ever upset them.
All without them doing anything except following the instructions. If it goes wrong; well it was my fault of course.
It’s no wonder the cabal get away with everything they do no matter how harmful it is. It seems the majority really will put up with anything to avoid involvement. But why?
Some of my commentators talked about the possibility of brain washing. As talked about in the sixties, it doesn’t have much credibility. Like hypnotism, it is almost impossible to do against someone’s adult will without mind bending drugs and doesn’t last very long anyway. The brain really would like to think for itself, at least for most of the time.
However, in the case of the person stopping at a red light on a minor road with no traffic at night, the” brain washing” is not so simple. It comes about from a belief that no one would ask you to do that if it wasn’t necessary, coupled with something like a belief that a good person follows the rules etc. These sorts of baseline beliefs are acquired in childhood.
We are trained from birth to follow simple and then increasingly complex rules, so we can fit into society. Although not a bad thing if you are allowed to test the veracity of the rules and come to your own beliefs about why they are, or are not needed, they can get wired in, in very strange ways.
People who understand how the developing pattern formation in the young can be influenced have been doing a more sophisticated form of brain washing for years, in my opinion, using repetition, and weaving key messages into the texture of everyday life over years
By encouraging the young and developmentally immature to absorb without question, people grow up with no control of their own narrative and become part of the one that is created for them by experts.
The result is that when they suffer, as people always do at some point in their lives, they look to experts to fix it, rather than criticising them and working it out for themselves. After that, comes of course, someone to blame.
Sad to say, we might have to write off at least a generation of children as being unable to function without some heavy “guidance” by the state. Education has a lot to answer for.
With regards to the world, or a universal pattern, who can honestly say what that is? It is easier to say what it is not. Narrative substance strings patterns together over time, which is why history is constantly being rewritten in some form or another. When I said people should keep it simple, things like trans ideology and gay marriage are a couple of simple examples. I would like to be clear that it is not the act of these two things per say, but the idea that a whole belief system that has existed for ever in one case, and for at least as long as Abrahamic religions in another, can be set aside to please a minority group, will never work. The pattern isn’t right you see. No matter how it is presented, everyone knows what a boy is and what a girl is. The same as they know that marriage is a ceremony created for a man and a woman.
If people want to start something new, fine; but demanding and then legislating that people just dump their way of living and their understanding of whatever’s out their apart from you, will never work.
People might stop objecting out of fear or apathy, but the demands will never fit into the pattern in trues sense and like sixties brainwashing attempts, will fade at the earliest opportunity.
However, those whose life patterns are in vogue at the moment will rely more and more on the state to keep them going. I read of a nice Muslim chap who was upset about the rubbish being promoted in mosques and wrote about it. The reply was, if you don’t like it here, find a white country to go and live in.
That amazed me. There are actually people out there that believe this country was never white European, but some garden of Eden for blacks and Asians, and that our current historical narrative was designed solely to wipe the knowledge of that out. They really believe that they are either reclaiming their lost land from the evil colonists , or that by the grace of Allah, they have now finally conquered the white races.
What you attend to is vital, if you really want to survive.