The human mind is not capable of contending with reality on a 24/7 basis. That is why we sleep. That is why we dream. But to sleep and to dream are not enough. Nature has devised many ways for us to escape reality even in our waking hours. We daydream, we fantasize, and we muse about all the things that we find soothing. Even when we are supposed to be focused on school, on our jobs or on other duties our subconscious minds will seek out any minor distraction that might give us a brief respite from reality. If time allows we will escape into a book, a movie or the idiot box. These last three are important because when we indulge in them we are turning our minds over to the fantasies of others.
We are permitted in modern Western societies to indulge our fantasies with more free time and in a greater variety of ways than could ever have been imagined in our grandfather’s generation. Does that mean we spend more time in fantasy worlds than his generation did? How can we deny it? Isn’t it also self-evident that we have more attractions, and temptations to draw us away from what is happening in the real world? All of this leads to questions that social psychologists have not begun to address and have shown themselves so far incapable of addressing. What, for example, will be the result for girls in all of this escapism into the glitter world of Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton? How will boys be effected by their hours of indulgence in worlds of war? Aren’t these fantasy behaviors manifesting themselves in real world behavior? How are we to address them?
I say that social psychologists have shown themselves to be incapable so far of addressing these issues because social psychologists in general have an unsatisfactory comprehension of reality themselves. Psychologists come out of school full of the notion that their primary responsibility is to deal with emotional illness. In direct patient to counselor interaction it is understood that mental illness is often a matter of the patient’s retreat from reality brought on by emotional and/or physical stresses (see, “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden”). This is escapism at its most extreme. When it comes to the mental health of an entire society, however, few psychologists seem to understand that an underlying factor may be a devaluation of reality by that society. The full attention of modern day social psychologists is drawn to the emotional sensitivities of each individual of the society rather than on a view of society’s overall lack of contact with reality. Not only will that approach not work to resolve our problems but it may also be the major cause of our worsening condition. Those who we’ve entrusted to identify society’s problems are exactly the wrong people to do so since they refuse to recognize that the problem involves their own misperception of reality.
Let’s take the global warming debate, for example. Is global warming a reality or is it an invention of a man with issues of megalomania? In a real world we’d want to have some physical evidence; we’d want to taste, touch, see, hear or feel some evidence of this phenomenon before we would accept it. But in this case our senses are given no real evidence. Why, then, has so great a percentage of otherwise rational human beings bought into the hysteria of global warming? The answer is that all hysterics are born of irrational fear. By definition hysteria is nearly always brought on without reasonable cause. It is most often brought on by fear – irrational fear.
Al Gore knows this. Any politician who needs to induce people to vote in his direction knows that fear, above all else, is a prime motivator. Gore himself betrayed his global warming intentions when he pointed his finger at someone else and declared; “He played upon our fears!!” He told us in those words that he had learned a powerful lesson from his Clinton association and that he intended to use it against a world that had failed to appreciate his greatness. He is a man removed from reality, on a road to deeper mental issues and giddy at the thought of getting even with the untermenchen by creating havoc in society.
Personally I’m sick of being manipulated by politicians. I am revolted when pundits come on my television and tell me (wearing an idiot’s grin) what strategies this or that politician is going to use next to skew the minds of the electorate. What lies will our politicians tell? What prods will they use to move “We, the cattle” to the mental corrals they’ve built for us? We mean nothing to them. Only the game matters. And the most disgusting thing about the whole process is the ease with which they con us.
That is not to say that there is nothing out there to fear. We have never faced greater threats in the West than we face today. Unfortunately half of us have been persuaded to fear unreal inventions of weak and perverse minds. Others of us have been indoctrinated to place our values on matters of political correctness that have minimal association with real solutions.
It all needs to be sorted out so that the real threats can be identified and prioritized. When we have begun to understand the need for this we will have begun a return to normalcy for Western civilization.
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At home, we are governed by traitors madmen out of control.
The Cold War threatened the destruction or near destruction of all life. Personally, given the choice, I'd take the quick end from nuclear obliteration to what the Muslims have planned for me.
With the USN and USAF set to wipe out 1.4 billions of them in a couple of hours, why would you pay any attention to them at all?
on traitors... pppppppppppp! they have to cheat to win. it's like having a stupid criminal hold a gun to your head and ask you who's the smart one you or him. And then tell you he could kill you, and you simple say, so what, any bully can do that... oh the beauty of freedom and granting others like you would have them grant you.... well. have a great day[SMILE][COOL]
For sure our species is flawed. Maybe fatally so. But if the flaws are genetic it will very soon be in science's power to remove those flaws. Scary, ain't it?
Recycling is a very complex issue but in many cases I believe the efforts result in positive gain. A good indicator is if a process is financially profitable.
I heard that some clergyman somewhere in the U.S. has declared certain environmentalist violations to be sins. And so the idiocy picks up just that much more speed.