[NOTE TO READERS. I DID NOT WRITE THIS. The following comes from one of my readers, Dr. Claudio Selame, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology. Dr. Selame and I have exchanged emails about the various mass delusions embraced by seemingly sane people — climate change, Ukraine is winning the war, Russia is on the verge of collapse, and the proliferation of transgenderism as a thing. I asked Dr. Selame to provide an article on this phenomena — delusional thinking. He kindly agreed to do so and wrote the following. I thank him for his contribution.]
Delusion is a persistent false belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary (Merriam-Webster). How can delusions occur in rational beings who have the ability to examine information and arrive to the body of real things, events, and facts?
Delusions differ from propaganda or lying in that propaganda and lying are external manifestations of the desire to deceive, while delusions are beliefs albeit distorted or irrational.
The mother of a 13 year old boy was telling me recently that her son saw feminine sanitary napkins in the boy’s bathroom at school and he was feeling “weird”. The teachers at the middle school didn’t know about it and the parents were not notified about this new “guideline”. This new rule provided transsexual female kids at school the opportunity to go into the boy’s bathroom and have sanitary napkins available. It was enough for girls to “think” they were males to use the boy’s bathroom.
Is thinking about something enough to make it real? If a man thinks he is a woman, should he have a breast exam or a pelvic exam or even be pregnant? Here lies the nature of delusional beliefs. The concept that thinking about something makes it real has been promoted massively via social media. Psychologists call this magical thinking or wishful thinking.
It is the person’s body that determines the gender not thinking. Therefore, a boy that “thinks” he is woman, still has to use a urinal or a toilet the way his body dictates. It is possible to conceive a culture that decides that public bathrooms would be co-ed and both man and woman would use the same facilities. This decision changes nothing as the female or male body will not change. If surgery and hormones are used to disfigure a body to resemble another gender we are talking about body dysmorphia. Body dysmorphia is a disorder with severe consequences.
What are the mechanics of delusion formation? The world outside the Self enters the mind of the observer through the senses. The senses provide an image of the external objects and inform the internal self-objects or introjects that are formed by the mind. This internal self-objects, or introjects, are highly individualized depending on the nature of the senses, the health and determinants of the mind. For example, the internal image of mother of one sibling can be widely different from the image another sibling has of their mother. It is common to hear siblings discuss how they see their own mother or fathers and to have diametrically different views and even memories. “I don’t remember my mother being that way”, or “that didn’t happen”, etc. The internal self-objects are formed with sensory impressions such as taste, smell, texture, form and are highly individual. It is common to have one individual be reminded of someone or an event by a fragrance or texture, while another individual has a completely different reaction to the same stimuli.
Although the self-object variations are infinite across individuals the existence of the internal self-object is singular. That is, it exists as a single entity. It is possible to identify it, test its validity with external reality and fine tune its accuracy. That is the essential scientific method. Some psychologists recommend that people become scientists in their lives, testing and studying their internal objects and impressions for accuracy. This is what makes a conversation interesting, especially with couples, because men and women see the world in different ways. Their internal self-objects contain different and complementary aspects. I like to remind patients and students that we live in a world of infinites. Yet internal and external objects remain single and available for study and enjoyment.
The phenomenological studies of George Hegel’s (1770-1831) and his Dialectic and Logic have in a significant degree advanced our knowledge of internal and external reality together with Rene Descartes (1596–1650), Emmanuel Kant (1724–1804) and others. Hegel’s Dialectic of the Master and the Slave explains beautifully much of current world events as well as family dynamics. Macro cosmos resembles the micro cosmos.
Internal concepts, our cosmology, our interpretation of the external world is mediated by our own development. Until the age of about 8 years of age, children do not have use of reason, or abstract operations. The child at this age observes and sees the world in terms of belonging, in terms of rewards or consequences. The child is internalizing his impressions of the external world based on those aspects. Slowly, abstract operations becomes available to children at around 8 years of age and they can be taught some basic mathematics and abstract concepts. New introjects are being created and old ones modified.
The process of maturity continues and at the age of 12 until around 24 years of age the spot-light effect appears. This effect appears because the child at the age of 12 begins to experience drastic bodily changes. They become greatly sensitive to body image and any bodily change has great meaning. A simple pimple can be a major embarrassment or point of focus. Teens walk as if there is a spot light on top of them. Everyone knows what they are feeling and thinking, They are naked in front of an audience. This is actually a recurrent dream theme as well. The spot-light effect becomes less pronounced as the child becomes more acquainted and accepting of their bodies.
What happens when the acceptance of their developing bodies, their self image, is interfered with? It is common to see body dysmorphia begin to develop in teens when caretakers interfere with comments, assumptions and interpretations of their own in an attempt to explain teen behavior. This is called projection. Caretakers project unto the child assumptions, fears, and all kind of self-objects that do not belong to the child. As a consequence, the child that already is tenuously forming their own internal self-objects may begin to replace their own internal self-objects with that of their caretakers. By internalizing the adults internal objects that by definition do not belong to them, their internal reality or self concept becomes distorted. In eating disorders, which are more predominant with female teens but not exclusively so, a teen “sees” her body as different from actual reality. “I am fat”, although the teen may be dangerously thin and malnourished. It is a dangerous condition that require medical intervention and often inpatient hospitalization. This process of internalizing some else’s internal self-objects is multiphasic and it can develop into a complex: an unconscious cluster of emotions, memories and behaviors that is difficult to make conscious. A psychological complex manifests itself with obsessive circular thoughts such as ” I am not good enough”, and a wide range of dysphoric moods such as hopelessness, severe anxiety and sadness.
One developmental task around puberty is sexual identity. It is by no means the only one but it can be used as an example to illustrate human developmental processes. Here, as in other areas of existence, children can be easily manipulated and even exploited. In the above-mentioned example of the local school with the female sanitary napkins in the boy’s bathroom, the people tasked with the protection and education of teen’s minds and intellect are contributing to teen confusion by promoting their own adult ideas. The teen can begin to develop a false sense of self or doubt their own self concepts. “Thinking” determines the reality of their gender not their biology. Here we can make a distinction between sexual preference and gender. One can be fluid and personal, the other is determined by biology not personal will.
The importance of education is clear. Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations, Book I, remarks: “I have to thank my great-grandfather that I did not go to a public school, but had good masters at home, and learnt to know that one ought to spend liberally on such things.”
What is a reliable standard to gauge whether we are creating false beliefs or true guidelines for our lives? Nature and the observation of nature have been that standard. In nature we see the laws that govern our existence. This field of study is quite extensive. For example, in nature we see occasional homosexual behavior but don’t see homosexual relationships. We do not see transsexual occurrences at all. Therefore, we can consider transsexual behavior as contra-natura.
For many people in our times, the emotional noise and the constant circulation of false beliefs about self or others in their mind robes them of peace of mind. The treatment for these individuals, as well as for those suffering from PTSD and related disorders is similar. The mind must stop altogether and return to the present, the eternal moment.
There are two walls of the mind that cannot be crossed without suffering severe symptoms. To the left is the wall of the “past”, which is not really the past. The past does not exist. It is memories and traces of events codified into memories. Here live those who are angry and depressed. “What happened to me, what he or she did to me”, etc. There are a number of false memories there as well.
We can take a look at the content of the hypothalamus where memories are regulated and learn from past events but then we need to return to the present moment. To the right is the wall of the “future”. The future does not exist either. It is rather the imagination and future planning. It is frontal brain activity. “What is going to happen to me, the world, my work”, etc. Here live the fearful and the anxious. We can visit the imagination and think about what we are going to do next week or next month, but then we need to return to the present, the eternal moment.
Most people say: “I cannot stop my mind”. Yes, you can. It does require training of the mind. This is the purview of psychological treatment. Once a patient learns to control their mind to a good extent, the reviewing of false beliefs and the emotional consequences of them can begin. Often it happens simultaneously. The principle here is that emotions are biological reactions to thinking. Think in accordance with the natural order and emotions will follow. Peace of mind is recovered. The five methods to stop the mind from running continuously are: meditation, contemplation, exercise, the arts and sleep.
People use drugs or pharmaceuticals to stop the mind’s circular thinking but with limited success and often creating more dangerous conditions.
Many psychological conditions begin during early years of development where proper education and a good social bond in society and/or at home could have prevented most of it. The current situation of the world, where we see so many irrational beliefs and behaviors is a testimony to those facts.
I have oft posted the following on comment threads about so called trans gender: A person that thinks they are a different sex can mutilate their bodies, but they cannot change their genes. There is no such thing as trans sexual.
Totally agree with that.
Funny that the USG wants you to believe that trans-identifying people are actually what they biologically cannot be and, simultaneously, assert that Antifa as an organized terrorist entity does not exist.
Transsexualism is mental illness. It is to be viewed in the same vein as drug addiction in that both are voluntary actions which embody extremely self destructive behavior. Cutting off your dick does not make you a female, it makes you self mutiliated. Taking female hormones does make you female, it makes you a drug user. This entire tranny program, which is fostered by, encouraged and promoted in concert with the government, is simply the fulfillment of the MKUltra program, the manifestation of totalitarian government control of all society. It is not a coincidence that it also fits nicely into the depopulation program now being foisted on us by the NWO.
John, I agree with you and as the article explains, those human beings are afflicted.
Your perfect sense reguarding genes doesn’t register with them and that is why they require, from us, treatment and compassion.
Those, I truly wish to kick in the ass, are those exploiting their despair and turning it into, an ever growing trend, towards violence. Their goal is to destroy our society and our institutions, while exploiting our most vulnerable citizens, our children to their ends.
In the End, Trans is nothing more than a push to legitimize Pedophelia.
Yes, exactly, k. talaat. We have the problem of a sort of web of tribal/ political alliances: Fervently politicized teacher unions promoting teachers who then tout LGBT+ propaganda in general and ‘gender theory’ in particular. Often, school administrators encourage this to be kept secret from parents. Worse, when teacher and peer pressure succeed in getting perfectly normally kids to ‘come out’ as trans, in some states – Washington I know for sure – if parents dig in their heels and refuse to ‘affirm’ the ‘transition,’ CPS can intervene, take the kids and put them in foster care.
Worst of all, we see the faggotry – a ‘hateful’ term I much prefer to LGBT – become increasingly violent in their desperate attempts to reassure themselves that there’s nothing wrong with them.
I know of an instance in WA where a Muslim father found out his son was being successfully groomed (ie encouraged to ‘identify as trans’) at school.
Dad prudently sought advice (if memory serves, both from his imam and from non-Muslim colleagues) and learned that if he fought back openly, the state would seize his child!
Accordingly, with all due dispatch, he got his ducks in line, found work in a more sensible state, and on very short notice moved his entire family there, almost ‘in the dead of night.’
As the professor notes, sexual preference can be fluid, but sexual identity is genetically determined. The LGB, in short, has nothing to do with T, the whole field of ‘gender theory’ and the gay embrace of ‘trans’ is a cynical political ploy.
Putin was not wrong in describing all this as Satanic, and you are correct in describing the trans movement as promoting pedophilia – grooming. The goal is to do away with the ‘age of consent’ by getting the corrupt medical profession to promote childhood ‘transition.’ The mainstream US churches have been pathetically weak in opposing all this. I’m encouraged to see that the Muslim and Orthodox worlds, along with African Christians, are having none of it. I’m not sure Americans will be able to turn the tide, however.
Well, I once was a male trapped in a woman’s body—but then I was born
Joe Biden believes he’s a great President. He’s not.
Right on the mark.
It’s a crying shame that some commentators don’t bother to, either read the entire article or establish who the author is. (*** Hint: below headline, is followed by date and author).
This is a conversation that is very topical in my household, where I am often derided as a Boomer.
Thank you for providing your valuable time by writing your own and sharing other contributors’ opinion and views that are being actively suppressed!
We live in an empire of lies and delusions. The last 7 years have shown us how easily the masses are manipulated into believing lies and embracing delusions. Over and over and over we’ve seen the power that be successfully delude millions of people with outright lies and pure bullshit.
It’s no wonder the western world is in the state it is in, it has left the world of reality and plunged headlong into the world of delusion. Thankfully, much of the rest of the world has not done so, and views us with bewilderment and even contempt (rightfully so, when you see people living in delusion, you lose respect for them).
I don’t know what can stop all of this, it might come to a third world war before western societies snap out of it and come back to reality. I hope that will not be the case, but I would not be surprised if it were.
…children can be easily manipulated and even exploited. In the above-mentioned example of the local school with the female sanitary napkins in the boy’s bathroom, the people tasked with the protection and education of teen’s minds and intellect are contributing to teen confusion by promoting their own adult ideas. — Dr. Claudio Selame
This…
My apologies for singling out this one quote from your eloquent observations. To say they resonate with commonsense and experience (mine, at least) is the highest compliment I can bestow. Wisdom is a rare commodity. Delusion, alas, is infinite.
Even mine…
The explosion over the last decade of ‘irrational behaviours and beliefs’ that we have seen in the western world is a testament to the prevailing situation ‘where proper education and a good social bond in society and/or at home’ are no longer present as the norm.
Why is that, and why is it that the same cannot be said for most of the rest of the world where traditional family and social values are still valued and pursued?
Isn’t that the question we should be asking.
When I was at school over 50 years ago I was taught that the fall of the Roman Empire coincided with a collapse of ‘social morality’ where the fabric of normal society had devolved into a situation where social mores had virtually ceased to exist. In much less than a generation, I would suggest in less than 15 years in fact, western culture has decayed to the point of what appears to be an imminent collapse led by both economic and military misadventure.
How could a society that is based upon a foundation of literally thousands of years of civil/political/cultural/scientific evolution and learning collapse so quickly?
That is the question I find myself asking. Where is that poison coming from?
Arrogance and stupidity…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF27OtzAslY&t=3s
“Where is that poison coming from?” One explanation, widely articulated, says that there exists a body of people who believe, rightly or wrongly, that they are destined to subjugate all other peoples and amass the world’s wealth unto themselves. That they have insinuated themselves into positions of influence–media, education, government–and are behind much of the destructive force loose in the world today. Supposedly, they expect the realization of their goals to arise from the ashes of that destruction.
The Tavistock Institute, my friend.
Been quietly at work on the eugenicist, Malthusian/Straussian/Luciferin agenda of the elites for over 100 hundred years.
Like an octopus with thousands of arms, from it’s privately funded sweetspot between Governments and academia, it easily manipulates policy, pedagogy and social “trends” in order to control the “public mind”.
Edward Bernays and Walter Lippmann got their start with the Tavistock.
Angela Davis is a more recent “product”.
One of the first endeavors when first started up was to study the institutionalized shell shocked WW1 veterans. After having their core identity shattered by days of 24 hour artillery bombardment, they had to be secretly institutionalized and their families told they were KIA/MIA, ostensibly to spare them the severe trauma of seeing their loved one trapped in unimaginable suffering.
So, the Tavistock, under it’s first Director, Sigmund Freud(!), undertook to study these men.
Before you make the naive assumption that it was to help these men, au contraire, mon Frere.
What they determined was that these poor men were whipped back and forth between dysphoria (I’m going to DIE!), as a shell whistled down on him to euphoria (I’m still ALIVE!) when it missed. Then back to dysphoria as the next one came down.
After days and days and days of this, their core identity, which appears around age 8, came apart for many of these men.
The takeaway for the Tavistock was that the only difference between these men and the mass public is a matter of degree.
Many in this Modern World live paycheck to paycheck.
Many have to decide things like should I buy medicine or food.
Most have no savings and cannot handle a $500 dollar emergency.
One might ask how and why did Dr. John Money’s false, tragically disproved “theory” of gender identity got inculcated into the teaching pedogy of the Medical Establishment.
It is just the logical continuation of the assault launched upon civilized society in order to put in place a new one with One World Government.
The first major obstacle was the core and extended family based on strong Judeo-Christian values. This makes the individual much more vulnerable.
Cue 2007, when Orange is the New Black rolled out of the sewer that is Tavistock. Obama made a speech, Oprah did a show and Bruce was now Caitlyn.
The Elites used to talk openly of their contempt for what they called “the Rabble” and their plans for us.
Read some Edward Bernays or Margaret Sanger.
Shocking stuff
And they haven’t stopped pursuing this agenda, obviously.
As William H. Casey said, ” We will know our disinformation operation is a success when everything the public believes is false.”
I truly hope some of that helps connect some dots for someone.
Blessings
L
Divide and rule!! Simple as that
Michael
I appreciate the question. I’ll offer this.
The poison you haven’t identified is the spirit of the antiChrist, now enjoying free rein, filling the spiritual vacuum of a society defined by a general disdain for God. (Truth)
It has been a slow, decades long process but is now in it’s end stages and is moving rapidly. As is often the case with large societal shifts, things happen slowly, then suddenly.
The concept that empty nothingness created not only incomprehensibly complex systems, via coded, reproducible, ordered information, but also self awareness and intelligence, because of time and chance, is the mother of all delusions. The promotion of this absurdity above all others, satanic in origin, the central doctrine of the religion of the age (scientism), is foundational in making possible the immense harvest of delusions our society now reaps.
Dr. Selame,
Great article. Thanks!
“The five methods to stop the mind from running continuously are: meditation, contemplation, exercise, the arts and sleep.”
Would appreciate it if you could delve into these methods in more detail in a future post.
-LBG
I would also add one more method to stop mind from running in circles – a prayer.
Prayer, meditation, and contemplation are related:
Prayer is when one speak to God, most often in a petitionary sense; in the Silence of meditation one learns to listen quietly and wordlessly; in contemplation one ponders the nature of existence and the purpose of our temporal presence on Earth.
Excellent piece here
https://www.artofmanliness.com/health-fitness/health/fall-asleep-fast/
on how to relax physically and mentally
These are all the tools. But you don’t need a tool. You can easily enough learn to “set-down” thoughts. They come again, – set them down again, they come again – set them down again. The next stage is not to pick them up in the first place. It takes some sensitivity to realize there is a thought “down there” begging to be picked up. (There are 100’s). The most painful ones, or the largest contradictions scream the loudest.
The mechanism is that you have defined YOUR thoughts as precious. So you get suckered most every time.
Setting down thoughts doesn’t mean hours or days at a time of no-mind. A couple of minutes is enough to know, stray thoughts have no power – unless we give it to them. Good luck.
LBG,
I’ll share what worked for me. Progressive muscle relaxation followed by Deep breathing exercises followed by alternate nostril breathing. Do PMR more if you feel difficulty relaxing. Alternate nostril breathing cleans up your nadis, these are channels through which the prana flow. Observe your breath by holding a finger horizontally below your nose. One nostril will be working fully and one will work minimally. Observe these at different times and you’ll see that they alternate regularly. Be disciplined and regular in your practice. Mornings are best as mind is relatively uncluttered.
Yes, those methods need some elaboration. I will prepare an explanation and post it with Larry’s consent.
yes, please do.
In response to Larry’s preface to this article, let me preemptively respond to the warmists: it’s all a bunch of bullshit!
Why so gloomy? Its so fortunate that we are all together. This is an exceptional blog with a kind master. Why ruin it?
Sentient’s Feeling and Thinking functions are semi-unconscious.
If your body doesn’t match your mind, change your mind.
Thanks for the article. Can’t we say this latest trend of being too concerned about gender among young people is their way of revolt against the overly blown up consumerism in a dying capitalist (mafia) system? There’s got to be more behind young peoples’ minds and motivations than just delusions about being male or female contrary to physical realities. As they say when we put garbage in we get garbage out and this is exactly what the MSM in a sick finance capitalist society is promoting where the mind is manipulated so as to make shallow-surface thinking and behavior the norm.
I think that there could be so many things changing at once that it is starting to really damage our collective sanity. You have something with the consumerism but I feel that it goes further. It is the atomization of everything into the tiny pebbles, like comparing the pyramids to a pile of gravel. We think we have made things more efficient by breaking work, culture, society into little object oriented pieces, without realizing society was calibrated to the human mind as a holistic system.
Thinking we are improving civilization we have vandalized it. We are trying to replace each component with new “efficient” replacements. The ridiculous hubris of AI is that you cannot replace humans in civilization or it is no longer civilization. It’s just going to be a machine that simulates civilization.
If I had to point my finger at one thing driving the insanity, it is cell phones and the myriad of ways they destroy your creativity, intelligence, patience and socialization. That’s going to be difficult to fix because they are so convenient.
Well said I couldn’t agree more
Cell phones are convenient, and as a method of connection they are valuable, in our modern world perhaps invaluable. The danger in them is not the machine itself, but the access they provide to the destabilising platforms of social media. These platforms are the danger, hammering away as they do at young, unformed and oh-so-vulnerable minds.
Well said
I couldn’t agree with you more
Thank you, Larry, for posting. It is not in the least “off topic”. One should re-read it after (while) doing the five recommended methods/modes of staying in the ‘eternal moment’). A deeper reading – in short, read while properly grounded in the E.M. – does explain Ukraine, on several levels (especially the state of the place before the SM
Choose any date (post WW2, 1991/2, 2014 – all, by the way, markers of Gladio Operation), Ukraine has been an infantile/adolescent notion of a nation which too easily internalized the (identity) projections of outside agents. Agents which elected themselves to be, per the essay, nefarious “caretakers” of a malformed nation (so-called).
As for Ukrainians, as a people, a different analysis may be applied.
We in America are experiencing a heightened state of “suspended animation”, in the middle of the rapid disintegration of our society. Aside from what we see politicians discussing in their hearings about Tweeter, weaponization of government, the invasion of America by illegal immigrants, the transgender movement taking over school libraries… we do not see, nor hear everyday Americans displaying or discussing any of the above, or high gas prices, inflation, the exploding national debt.
Maybe it is fear, maybe it is embarrassment for having voted for a demon-possessed, mummified carcass, destroying the country at warp speed. But, in any case, Houston, we have a problem!!!!!!!!!!!
“For example, in nature we see occasional homosexual behavior but don’t see homosexual relationships. ”
I remember ONE example. The famous lesbian seagulls of California in the 1970s. Just the lady gulls, though. You can google it.
The Lesbian Seagull clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjZ7f2Gib9E
Homosexual relationships do rarely show up in nature but only under extreme, and odd, circumstances. They are more a reaction to an extreme/odd situation than a normal occurrence. Part of the reason for this is that sexual union in nature is centered around procreation. Humanity has gone to great lengths to destroy this in our society and it is one of the fundamental issues creating the problems of the modern world.
Thank you Larry and Dr Salome.
I have forwarded this article to my wife, who is also a psychologist – I know that it will resonate with her as it has with me.
I too was taught that the Roman Empire’s downfall was from a preponderance of nihilism, narcissism and perversion.
Sound familiar…?
What about those, who are “angry”, “depressed” – and at the same time “fearful” and “anxious”?
They are living in the moment 😉
Good one 😂
Unfortunately +1 and -1 do not add up to zero.
Guilt, blame, shame, regret anger about the past does not cancel out fear and anxiety over the future. They amplify each other.
What a bummer. And I thought, it was possible to outsmart Einstein …
The are not mutually exclusive. The undisciplined restless mind frets and flits between past and future, not understanding that life is lived only in the present.
Here is a short video on quietening the “monkey mind”.
https://youtu.be/ksp3iSUDqfo
Food for thought: search the internet for “postmodernism” and how it views “identity”. One of the search results reads “Postmodernists believe that in contemporary global society people’s identities are chosen rather than ascribed (given). In the past identity tended to be more simple and fixed, being defined by class, gender and age in a more straightforward way.”
These “postmodern” views (i.e. anti-realism vs. the realism of earlier “modern” philosophy) have been placed in motion in the 1970s (“Postmodernism had begun as a radical fringe movement in the 1970s, but became the dominant look of the 1980s, the ‘designer decade’. Vivid colour, theatricality and exaggeration: everything was a style statement.”).
So here’s the punch: was the postmodern “school of thought” purposely promoted since the 70s by the elites? A very long term agenda? Directing art, philosophy and the media in desired direction (e.g. subjectivism, skepticism, decreation)?
A bit of a long shot, but could very well be. Worth pondering about.
‘mass delusions embraced by seemingly sane people — climate change”!!!
Sadly if someone can’t accept the very clear scientific evidence for climate change then it does put into question their capacity to undertake rational analysis of other issues
There is also clear scientific evidence that “AGW” aka “global warming does not exist. The fact that climatologists can’t predict a weeks worth of weather and that none of the dozens of apocalyptic predictions have come true, discredits the “experts” who push what is clearly a scam to transfer trillions of dollars in the pockets of insiders. If you are intellectually honest spend some time on a web site named Electroverse that documents not only the failed predictions of warmists and the effects on our climate by it’s true engine, the Sun.
There is a myriad of
” evidence” supporting both sides of that coin.
Perhaps ones affinity to one side or the other has to do with their pre existing conceptions of how the world functions and their value structure of nature vs human creations.
Climate is changing its a fact.
But confusing weather and climate is a serious misunderstanding.
Every time we have hot summer weather I hear endless noise about how doom is coming….but crickets when we set a new low for cold temps. Both exemplify the climate is shifting but only one is convenient for propaganda and pushing one side of it.
Cold kills more people than heat. That’s an inconvenient truth.
I don’t claim to know everything about this but insulting a very large group of people because they happen to understand the other side of an issue better than you is just rude and does nothing to push positive change and collaboration.
Good luck with the climate change and the results.
I live in Denver the climate is always changing. the 24 hr. forecast can be wrong. I have never heard any convincing evidence of climate change just a bunch of altered data and a graph. Years ago the government put buoys all around the ocean to measure temperatures. They ignored the data because it destroyed their theory.
Climate has changed (back and forth) since the dawn of time. Since before Man was here. Way before the industrial revolution. What’s your point?
Excellent article! Clarified a lot of concepts for me.
1 minor editing thing…
The paragraph starting with “What happens when the acceptance… ”
was repeated/duplicated.
Excellent article. It should be read, reread, and forwarded on.
The world is in such a sorry state precisely because we are unable to perceive and relate to external reality, and confuse personal thoughts and emotions with reality. In doing so, we have made ourselves prisoners of our own internal belief systems, and at odds with life and the world around us.
I think it was Wayne Dyer who said, seeing is not believing as much as we see what we already believe.
This is the whole meaning of the words, the truth shall set you free.
The species is being gradually indoctrinated and vectored into trans-humanism. Then at some point transitioned into these singularity technologies. All this seems to be a part of what we see happening considering this essay.
Interesting stuff, thanks to Dr Selame for contributing.
“people say: “I cannot stop my mind””
I would apply this to the problem we have of people treating offence as harm inflicted by others. In reality, while words obviously can hurt, we can always choose whether to dwell on them or to move on. This is the vital truth behind the aphorism: “sticks and stones might break my bones, but words can never hurt me”. The aphorism does not mean that words can’t hurt you, but rather that you do not need to accept that hurt.
The loss of this understanding is behind a lot of the damaging grievance-mongering and attempts to curtail freedom of speech, on race and sex especially, that the identitarian left generates its power from.
It is part of a general loss of the expectation of self-discipline.
I would also say that the science of psychology is not as well-founded as say physics or chemistry, because the human mind is too complex and too intertwined with cultural assumptions and the cultural environment. Many of the conditions US sphere psychologists understand in a particular way manifest in different ways in other cultures, and psychology is as warped by the profit-seeking of big corporations as medicine generally is.
I’d recommend Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the Western Mind by Ethan Watters for an overview of this aspect.
In the age before Mass Media (or Social Media), people use to interact more on a personal level. There was a Forum, an Agora in society where every idea, every new thought was circulating, debated, rejected or accepted etc.
The more people are becoming isolated in their private rooms or echo chambers, the more dilussional they become.
For instance, the majority of older people spend most of their time at home, in front of a TV set. They actually see/feel/experience the outside world through television. Since TV stations are owned by oligarchs, transmitting their propaganda, older people have a false image of the world and society. Sometimes they argue with their children, disbelieving a fact, event or trend, since “there is not on TV!”
A delusion is a mental state that creates an unreal world by an individual who fears the real world, feels threatened by it, refuses to accommodate to it, it’s a mild variant of psychosis, the delusional individual retains a certain degree of rationality in that he’s defending his unreal world, tries to justify it, a true psychotic sufferer doesn’t.
Whilst I agree with the article I suspect there’s more to it. The brain is compartmentalised and from it’s earliest development is affected by hormones, boys as zygotes race to produce testosterone in order not to be swamped by their hosts oestrogens, those that fail become feminised. Sometimes when a mother has had several boys she develops antigens to that burst of testosterone and a battle ensues that can go either way, that is a very masculine child of mixed sexual inclinations or a more feminine inclined male. Some domineering women, too much testosterone, can also affect the balancing act of development. It seems, since I can find no work that specifically addresses the subject, that the parts of the brain that regulate testosterone production later in life, that set ‘preferred mate’ and that set self identity are affected by the dominant hormonal influence at the time that they initiate, and the fetus runs to a clock so no telling at any moment whether male or female development is called for.
Since the late 40’s oestrogens have been added to dairy cows diets to save a years worth of useless eating before they can concieve. Then food pellets were introduced for children which were unpallatable without milk. Girls too come to mense earlier, and since nutrient free food is so cheap tend to accumulate fat stores which serve as wharehousing for the added oestrogens. I guess we reap the harvest.
Interesting. What strikes is the advent of delusion amongst those who are fully adult, individuals already acquainted with, and able to live in the present. I can understand how people can project their ideas onto a child, this after all is the basis of a coherent social structure and culture. But this is far away from our world where rational thought and the call for substantive fact on which it must be based has been subverted. A case in point is the human influences of our world, specifically the climate. A relentless propaganda has inserted itself into the day to day consciousness, the result is the development of entirely irrational policies. It seems as if it not just children who get confused and led up the garden path. Of course we already know how this works, we did not have to wait for Josef Goebbels.
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Dr. Selame,
Great article. Thanks!
“The five methods to stop the mind from running continuously are: meditation, contemplation, exercise, the arts and sleep.”
Would appreciate it if you could delve into these methods in more detail in a future post. I have times in my life where I get stressed and don’t sleep well, and I think these techniques could help.
-LBG
Not if you are in depression. There is a beginning stage in depression called the Negredo or the Blackness. It is a psychological condition where one’s mind is going at 100 mph and will not slow down. It is a severe affliction, the most dangerous stage of depression with hardly any sleep, food. just despair.
Some psychologists ‘think’ that their discipline is scientific. It isn’t. There are no laws in psychology which can be proven or disproven. This person’s opinion is just that – an opinion. Perhaps delusional. See Martyanov’s comments on such people and their ‘qualifications’.
I live in Denver the climate is always changing. the 24 hr. forecast can be wrong. I have never heard any convincing evidence of climate change just a bunch of altered data and a graph. Years ago the government put buoys all around the ocean to measure temperatures. They ignored the data because it destroyed their theory.
” … There are no laws in psychology which can be proven or disproven.”
Limit your comments to what you know. Individuation or psychological health, has been a dilineated process in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, in the ancient Alchemical books of China, Indian, Arabia and eventually Europe. Alchemy is about bringing one’s true self, the divine spark within man, taking the lead of the ego, of the false personality and turning it into the gold of the real personality. It is about learning to balance the demands of the body
the soul and the spirit. It eventually leads one to connect with the God head. The process has been rediscovered and described by Carl Jung.
Simplicius also had a great article that relates to the subject matter.
https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/gossamer-tethers-of-our-reality-constructs?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1463861&post_id=111140306&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Excellent assessment of delusion.
I note that all 25 members of the current Politburo in China are men. In this context, we do not know how many are trans, and therefore how many are actually men. Would this change the analysis or implications of the original observation?
FWIW, I suspect endocrine disruption in the enviroment, fossil energy displaced gender differences and a deep cultural fear of overpopulation are making reproductive sex a taboo relative to multi/any partner onanism!
A shame about the quote from Dawkins. His definition is wrong on more than one level.
Which is to be suspected from an avowed, near-militant atheist on the left.
Wikipedia seems to get it right: A delusion is a false fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence.
Its still not perfect because it includes the word “false” which -imo- has no function in this context.
Thank you Larry and Dr. Selame.
Larry, you consistently illuminate what the elites endeavor to keep dark and ambiguous. Your valuable work to illuminate the propaganda about Ukraine, US State Dept, the Intelligence Community, and fake elections is providing a shining ray of light. The recent news flow about leaks confirms, to a great degree, your work about Western propaganda.
This is why for decades the news media interviewed you to improve their ratings. Now that lame street news is a megaphone for western elite propaganda, your appearances there are less frequent, but we appreciate Judge Napolitano, and others for sharing your insights with their audiences.
Dr. Selame takes what psychologists would normally speak in terms of psycho babble and simplifies it down into terms which most of us can easily understand and articulate to others in our own conversations.
Exercise helps me to get the stress out, and so does putting it down in writing. You write so much daily, and that must explain your demeanor of low stress!
“Until the age of about 8 years of age, children do not have use of reason, or abstract operations. The child at this age observes and sees the world in terms of belonging, in terms of rewards or consequences”.
Although the author has passed over the Covidian cult tiptoeing, being the initial conditioning neccesary for the masses to accept the following irrational beliefs, I would posse, what other phenomena, but a full infantilization of the masses of adults, based on “rewards and consequences” took place during the worst moments of the “pandemic”, when someone was offered even free entrance into borthels if they took the “vaccine” while those refusing wrtre being denied the constitutional right to make a living with which to feed yourself and your family?
It was this Pavlovian conditioning, which the masses interiorized widely during three years, after seeing the consequences on others of not complying, which not only infantilized, but even animalized, the human masses, turning them into a bland moldable lot which can be directed, even happily, to the slaughterhouse or to embracing full corporate fascism at cheap price, as is happening in Ukraine during the past 8 years….and is currently happening all along Europe….
We can witness the same Twitter accounts which asked for to deprive their unvaccinated fellow citizens of health care now supporting the Ukrainian nazi junta as if there was no tomorrow…
The spectacle we are witnessing in France, where people is being thrown to the floor with brute force or pulled by their clothes or hair and dragged for meters on the ground by careless policemen ( who are these, French funcionaries educated on the values of the French Republic, or, are these masked Ukrainian nazis? We do not know, since they are masked to the very forefront ) indicate that after you allow yourself being degraded into cattle for lab testing, the following level is for you being turned into entrance mat….with no come back in view….
It is another thing you must built before 12 years of age a sens of human dignity and where the red lines of acceptable human live reside, one guesses….
The people has interioriced that contraciding the government will have serious consequences, that is the cause of even “alternative blogs” closing.
The people interioriced that now the topic of the day is transgenderism and “supporting Ukraine”, after “Covid vaccines and masking”, and you have that anyone wanting to go up the social ladder doing their Bachelor works on this topic, even when having scarce relation to their matter, or laterally having….
As graphic testimony….by watching this we recall the times of Franco´s dictatorship….this is Vichy 2.0 regime in action….No progressive women or actress cutting their hair in protest for this, why….
Attention at the “green transport”…. which they want us to use to go to work pedaling under rain and cold through the long, wet and cold North European winter, until 70 years old, burning….in the previous days the protesters set BlackRock facilities on fire…They are clearly aware of which the agenda is and who directs the show from behind the curtains……
https://t.me/DAVlDcu/8698
https://t.me/elespiadigital/13965
The libertine hates the freedman because the freedman is really free. While the libertine is in himself the essence of what Goethe said:
“The most miserable of slaves is he who imagines he is free without really being so.”
When you sleep, mind is still running. You can change only your attention, mind is running always. When you meditate you change attention, when you contempalte you change attention, when you exercise/work/arts you change attention (focus on the present moment). So who is this “you” that can observ himself changing his attention?
Larry, I read your blog everyday; thanks for this.
However, I don’t understand why you insist on thinking that “climate change” is some sort of delusion.
The fact is that thousands of competent scientists from all over the world who have studied this for decades and have written thousands of peer-reviewed papers have concluded that there is serious reason for concern on the global changes in the planet’s climate.
And yes, there are also many other serious scientists that disagree with them, and they could be wrong, or they could be partly right, or undoubtably some of the extreme projections are wrong, and it has absolutely been weaponized to support certain political agendas, but it’s hard to argue that they are all under some sort of delusion.
It shouldn’t be confused with the absolute insanity of these gender twisting delusions being discussed here.
Thank you for the lively discussion here.
I responded to someone else. There is no such thing as CLIMATE STASIS. Agreed? Of course there is climate change and there is no sound evidence that human activity is the controlling variable. The Sun (and Sun storms) and volcanic activity exert more influence. I wish humanity would focus on cleaning up the oceans, eliminating plastic bags and bottles. In other words, do something that will actually make a difference for the future of humanity. Reducing carbon? A fools errand.
Most people live in a world of delusion. Transgenders and ESG are just new religions. People cannot make their own decisions and their own rules. Therefore, they are easily led into whatever handcuffs the manipulators want to use. And people click those cuffs on themselves.
Religion. A manipulative tool used to control and fleece money.
National pride. A tool used to get men to die for you while you make money.
Marriage. Men married to women that spend all their money, and don’t like them enough to have sex with them. But “love”!
Possessions. Watch the TV. You will be happy if you buy this! And you will be happier if you buy more and shinier!
Power and prestige. The self-delusion that anything you do will be remembered or relevant.
So do not pity or denigrate or insult some odd little weed taping his dick to his leg. This is nothing new. This is just the new shiny. This is someone desperately seeking a pattern to fit himself into to try to make some relevancy out of an irrelevant situation. We shudder at some guy lopping his dick off, and disregard lunatic religious zealots who have themselves tacked to crosses and toted around during religious festivals.
Here is the reality. 98% of people have no self-awareness. Or no concept that nothing really matters. So, they are not easily led. THEY want to be led.
At 63, I have found peace. And it is due to this. I have committed evil. But while I will not do it again, it does not matter. I created and did some notable things. And none of it matters. I enjoy time with friends but am just as happy alone. To free yourself from delusion you must shatter the chains that your ego demands YOU are relevant.
A story and I will quit bothering you. Wife #2. Which was Dana #1. She was a religious girl from Tennessee. She starts telling me one day she KNOWS Jesus will come during her lifetime. I am quiet, but she presses me. I defer, but she insists. I finally tell her, isn’t that egotistical? How many generations have believed that THEY are so important that Jesus will come during their life? Were those other 20 or 30 generations not as important as her?
Didn’t go over well. Was probably a factor in the divorce. How did the story turn out? She’s dead. 2 months after the fairly amicable divorce, she called me. She was having headaches. Needed a ride to doctor. Truly horrific brain cancer. Dead 3 months later.
And the sun still comes up. Free yourself from the illusion that you matter. Enjoy your day. Pat your dog. Savor a beer. Look at some porn. Walk in the park. Go to blowjob bars in Bangkok. Have the double cheeseburger. There is nothing else. Enjoy the next 5 seconds.
Study a truly happy creature. A dog. Understand you have the same relevancy as him. But he has no pretension.
What were some of the notable things you did?
I know where this is going. But I’ll cooperate. I served my country in the Army. (When I believed in my country.) I was the first in my family to get thru college. I raised two functional daughters with good jobs and no addictions. I got a CPA with my Accounting degree. Which is a motherfucker of a test. Harder than the joke lawyer Bar exam. I put two wives thru nursing college, and one thru a teaching degree. I was a radar air traffic controller. When I was in the FAA was running a 80% washout rate from hiring to full performance level. I helped found the second ATC union and was a National Officer at NATCA. (Where I learned to hate unions). After a medical, I carried a badge as both a police officer and deputy to protect my community. In between I was a competitive shooter sponsored by S&W and Wilson Combat. I was one of the plank Holders of the first group of 5 gun IDPA Masters. And my crowning achievement was owning 2 German Shepherds and a Malinois. Which has meant more than anything else. I now irritate people on social media, walk my dog, and am waiting till I lose my last Wolf Brother to ex-pat. And when I die? None of it will matter. People will grieve for a week. Grass will grow on my grave. And it will all be forgotten. Which it should be.
I’d say you’ve had a life of substance. You’ve made a difference to others.
I’m looking forward to starting a new adventure overseas when geopolitical events take a respite. I’m 65 and glad I’m no longer in construction.
“Wolf Brother?”
Wolf brother? I’m sorry, that is my Belgian Malinois. It is what I call all my dogs.
Perhaps we will run into each other overseas. Best of wishes my friend.
Here’s a dog you or someone you know might be interested in. I believe he’s from a legendary line of Arkansas squirrel dogs, the Galla Creek Mountain Feist. They are the most intelligent, game and loving dogs you’ll ever come across. Hunters lucky enough to own one say they would value them even if they didn’t hunt. The family is closing the kennel, so this generation is the end of the line.
He will need outdoor exercise, but the ‘hunting’ can be symbolic. Physical discipline should never be used.
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/finley-45230225/ok/tahlequah/humane-society-of-cherokee-county-ok41/
I think to understand this, we need to go back to the very beginning.
God knew that he had to send Adam and Eve out of the garden. He had no choice. But He was feeling bad, as He knew how hard life would become for them. He pondered this for some time – considering how He could soften the effects for them. Finally, He smiled. He had thought of a way He could help them deal with the terrible consequences.
He would give them the gift of self-delusion.
I agree with Rhodock, above, in what concerns Dawkins citation, or quote.
… And I unfortunately find the definition of delusion given as something taken from some sort of “Psychiatry for Dummies” handbook.
But, maybe this is solely my bias towards Jaspers’s “General Psychopathology” on that matter. In particular, the severe impact that the invincibility of delusion has on those unfortunate enough to suffer it.
Hélas!, remember the case of Kurt Godel, one of the greatest minds ever, in what concerns Logic and Methamathematics (by coincidence, the man who ascertained Einstein that there is some inconsistency in the USA’s Constitution by means of which the USA can become a dictatorship…).
Having said this, I totaly relate to your amazement, so to speak, on how propaganda can induce ilusions in so many western minds… And I wonder how much of Neuroscience, and of Psychiatry, if any, is invested in perpetrating that (assuming same grey eminences to be behind the “crime”, if any)
Dr. Claudio Selame says a lot of very fundamental truth, that perhaps all of us would say: yeah, yeah, but really no one is running their lives that way. (Like the past and future are only concepts). I would say that all contradictions that we suffer from, and that make us feel uneasy, are held in our repository of the past and future. It’s really all mental illness and behavioral aberration too. It is also interesting that he points to certain formative years where the young psyche can be damaged.
(Well I don’t want to get into “being a PhD”). I am posting this because I found Marcus Aurelius to be one of the most important books, short, but telling it all. I edited one of the old translations to make it modern language, and added some commentary. I never did anything with the book for several years. Just now I uploaded it here: https://archive.org/details/meditations-marcus-aurelius-meditations
I am not going to explain it or justify what I said. Just have at it, if your interest takes you in that direction. My Pleasure.
Dr. Selame’s explanation demonstrates why young people, who at an impressionable stage of their lives, adopt delusional views, “see the light” years later and let go of their delusions.
Many seem to lose just years of life being happy instead of being angry, but those who have mutilated themselves permanently, cannot recover their original gifts and this is tragic for them….
Perhaps the good doctor could give a PRIMER on GASLIGHTING and the use of esoteric sophism in our everyday lives. Also, a discussion of the phenomena of moving friendly/ enemy lines and the dissonance experienced(I’m thinking of the Kherson/Kharkiv).
Here is an example of this mental illness, or perhaps this guy is just an industry whore.
Published April 14, 2023 10:00am EDT
This is the beginning of the end of Putin in Ukraine
Ukraine’s D-Day will soon be at hand
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/beginning-end-putin-ukraine
Colonel Jon Sweet is the author of this recent article about how Russia has lost and its army will soon collapse. He is a recently retired career intel officers with the qualifications to brief the JCS or Biden.
His Bio: I am an accomplished intelligence professional and leader who served 30 years within the Defense Intelligence Enterprise as an U.S. Army Military Intelligence Officer, contributing to National Security | Proactive and innovative creative thinker with a proven track record of leveraging the Intelligence Community and Strategic Partners to develop solutions to existing intelligence gaps and requirements.
I began writing on the ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine shortly after Russia invaded, initially using LinkedIn to publish my articles, but was fortunate to have FOX News, The Hill, Washington Examiner, and most recently, the National Security News out of London, pick-up my articles. I synthesize the vast amount of open-source intelligence out there on the internet being presented to the public, make sense of it, then add the element of predictive analysis – what it means, and what is going to happen next. As a former commander once told me – “I don’t need a history lesson, I need to know what is going to happen next and how can I influence it.”
I met a man, 30 yrs ago, who worked with me at a small bakery, who was undergoing hormone therapy as part of a process of “becoming a woman”. The next step was plastic surgery. He was strong and handsome man and told me that he was beginning to question what he was doing. He said the hormones were making him weak and didn’t like that; and furthermore he continued to be attracted to women. During our many conversations he revealed that until the age of six his mother treated him like the girl she was hoping for and dressed him in girl’s clothes.
It was commonsense that his mother played a vital role in his desire to be a woman. However he decided to end this quest and remain a manly man.
Maybe Dr. Claudio Selame will have time to touch with us the *delusions* of transhumanism, ( https://t.me/fred33flint/479 ), since many of the today’s ills, and problems are rooted in these ideas. An excerpt:
“In a 2018 WEF statement, Harari spoke as the self-proclaimed prophet of a new transhumanist age, saying:
We are probably among the last generations of homo sapiens. Within a century or two, Earth will be dominated by entities that are more different from us, than we are different from Neanderthals or from chimpanzees. Because in the coming generations, we will learn how to engineer bodies and brains and minds. These will be the main products of the 21st century economy”
This article contains one extra paragraph. What happens when. . .
If you are really serious, turn to the advertising companies, if you dare. These are the ones who fill our days with their psychologies, both specific, metaphorical, and subliminal. Then turn to the drug companies who specialize in changing the chemistry of you and me. How close is the CIA to these entities?
Ever heard the expression, “I was in two minds about it” ?
If one defines “Personality” as “ A suite of predictable and habituated responses to a set of sensory inputs”
One is led to the conclusion that if there are different and contrasting suites of inputs there will be more than one personality formed as a result, and the two will be at war with each other.
Consider the case of a boy with wet and stupid liberal parents who encourage the boy to identify as a girl. One set of sensory inputs, (parents) say girl, and whenever the boy looks down m or in a bathroom mirror, he sees anatomical features which say “boy”. These two states of mind cannot peacefully co-exist; the result is cognitive dissonance which can only be (unsuccessfully), addressed by wearing a dress and cutting off the offending bits.
However, the suppressed “boy” personality is not going to go away, and the greater the effort to suppress it, the louder it will shout.
A ruined life will be the result. Neither male nor female, incapable of meaningful human relationships and forever deprived of forming a family with children.
Suicide is a likely outcome.
It is child abuse and needs to be stopped.
Being of two minds or holding two opposing thoughts is a sign of intelligence.
Though is a category of the Mind and Reality is a category of the Senses.
When Thought and Reality are combined we have Truth.
Trans do not have a problem with the sense of seeing their sexual organ. They have a problem with the thought as a category of the mind. So they do not possess the Truth. They need help.
In addition, the past and future not being tangible, it is also worthwhile to realize that we live in “two worlds”, one physical and the other mental:
Is the US-Canada border real? Yes and no are both acceptable answers. Depending on whether you are a geologist or lawyer.
Jordan Peterson often talks about this Bible parable (paraphrased):
Jesus is walking with a bunch of religious leaders along a road, on the Sabbath Day, and they run into a farmer who is rescuing one of his animals trapped in a well. The religious leaders look at Jesus and say: “Are you not going to condemn this man for working on the Sabbath Day?” Jesus looked at the man and said: “If you know what you are doing, you are blessed, if you don’t know what you are doing, you are cursed”. Jesus then continued on his walk.
That parable and the border question are essentially the same: You are living in the United States at the US-Canadian border. A friend of yours gets gravely ill at night and the only hospital you can go to is in Canada. Unfortunately, the border is closed at night and it is illegal to cross. What do you do?
1] You are a rigidly LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN; you follow the rules and don’t cross the border until morning and your friend dies. (you are cursed)
2] You are an ANARCHIST/GLOBALIST/NIHILIST, you don’t believe in or respect borders so you cross the border and take your friend to Canada. (you are blessed in this instance) The next day a bunch of ranchers come through the Canadian border with their cattle and destroy your farm. When you ask why they did this, they say they, like you, that they don’t believe in borders or respect property lines. (and now you are cursed).
3] You are a WISE PERSON, aware of both perspectives, understand that a border is a necessary and important mental construct that regulates society (like the Sabbath), but decide, in this life-threatening situation (the animal in the well), to take your friend to the hospital. (you are blessed, as you can move between both worlds)
There are many permutations of this, for example, in the gender surgery case you alter what is physical to conform to something that is a mental. This type of thing also reveals itself in many Zen koans, which at first appear completely inscrutable, but are really pointing to the “two worlds”.
That sure is a long article to describe idiots.
OT: FYI – 5 minutes of Larry’s discussion with Judge Napolitano regarding the 21-year old arrested for leaking TS documents is #1 among the “Most Popular Videos” on Real Clear Politics’ website:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/04/14/former_cia_officer_larry_johnson_this_is_a_controlled_leak_to_prepare_the_public_for_crash_landing_of__us_foreign_policy.html
The problem isn’t the delusional thinking. That’s a normal neurological function, aka, trial and error. Sex is a binary, people are a spectrum.
The problem are those using these delusions in larger cultural and political wars, with those manifesting them as pawns.
ISIS, Al Qaeda, Ukrainian nationalists are all out there in lala land. It’s the financiers and their goons pouring gas on the situation, that’s the real problem.
Why do you always eras my comments?
I would suggest the delusion is a symptom of a broader systematic indoctrination by the educational system and a constant barrage of propaganda in the media. True, we have this delusional state, but it is by design and intent that it exists, and the “fix” is to address the cause at the systematic level rather than focusing on the symptom.
Focusing on the symptom only results in quick-fixes that fail and usually make things worse. The “fix” starts with the family, then the community, and the education system. Kids tend to adopt the values of their parents if their parents are engaged and involved. Single parent homes don’t work well.
The first thing school beat out of a kid is intrinsic motivation, replacing it with extrinsic motivation. The extrinsically motivated can be controlled more easily. Look at how fear was used to control during COVID. No critical thinking at all by most of the population. Just stimulus/response like Pavlov’s dogs.
Home life and taking control of school curriculum is essential to stop the delusion. Parents are fighting back to some degree, though they have to take school boards to court to get to see curriculum. That should frighten us all.
Dear Michael,
I was an 8 year old child when WWII came to an end in Italy. I am now an Italian-American. However, I lived and was educated in Italy until I was 30.
The answer to your last question is “the invention and the widespread use of television, computers and mass media.”
In my early days at school, books were used for research and books were used for studying. Books were also used for entertainment. Books are now ignored in favor of computers, TV and mass media.
Kids in school, at all levels, have no idea of what went on in the past history of the world. When in high school, I translated from Latin and ancient Greek and studied the literature, culture, art, politics/wars of the various states, empires of the antiquities.
Today’s a great deal of men and women have not gained from the technological advances of our era, instead they have lost the ability to criticize and discern lies from the truth. Hence the phenomenon of delusion.
Because we do not know any better, it is going to get worse as I am afraid we are bound to repeat the mistakes of the past over and over again.
As a lifelong observer and student of human nature ; after viewing some newsreels of Nazi Germany, a few questions arose: How did a people, who a generation before , were at the apex of ‘Western Civilization’, transform themselves into monsters. In my estimation, the short and simple answer was that Hitler and his organisation’ gave to a large segment of the German population (who willingly embraced these concepts) : a sense of identity, of position, of empowerment, and a mission coupled to the mechanics to set out to achieve that calling. Mass delusion.
Also, it seems in general , the individual fears his or her own mortality, but in a group there arises an acceptance. Leaders in war, crusades, & revolutions have exploited this phenomena from time immemorial. In addition, we humans, general, seem to have the innate capacity to do good or to do evil. Thankfully, many, through some sort of enlightenment opt for the former. The mass seems to be held in check by a combination fear of punishment (civil or religious) and limited intellect. Others, simply choose to do evil.
So…the next question to reflect upon was: Could something like Nazism occur in the US? The potential answer if frightening. A strong society can deal with anomalies (live and let live) but a roitted out one is frightened of its own shadow. Individuals have their own delusions for a variety of reason. At the mass level, delusions can become infectious, widespread, embraced, and invisible.
The young airman, Teixera, serves as a good example. He has been arrested – for specific reasons – unknown. He is publicly assumed guilty – for deeds not yet specified. If he did indeed release privileged information ‘illegally’ what did he actually do except to reveal the truth, which, objectively, demonstrates that our leaders, with access to apparently factual data, have been lying outright, to the general population and this, to achieve purposes which they refuse to fully disclose. So an immature airman, probably trying to impress his associates (as was stated by one in the news), the most heinous traitor for intending either something good or evil, is the most. How dare he expose the misdeeds of his superiors for any reason. And the general population deludes itself into thinking that there is nothing wrong with devious and faulty leadership.
To add all this up…the society of the US seems to be in a state of great confusion and, as such, is in great danger if it continues to delude itself as to the absence of that danger. Removing one outlier, will not cure the diseased body.
It’s easy to understand why corporate america and governement policymakers are so enthusiastic about the wildfire expansion of trans culture across America when the realization occurs that it’s an exportable phenomenon that can serve as kindling for color revolutions in countires targeted for regime change.
I don’t agree that “climate change” is some sort of delusion.
The fact is that thousands of competent scientists from all over the world who have studied this for decades and have written thousands of peer-reviewed papers have concluded that there is serious reason for concern on the global changes in the planet’s climate.
And yes, there are also many other serious scientists that disagree with them, and they could be wrong, or they could be partly right, or undoubtably some of the extreme projections are wrong, and it has absolutely been weaponized to support certain political agendas, but it’s hard to argue that they are all under some sort of delusion.
It shouldn’t be confused with the absolute insanity of these gender twisting delusions being discussed here.
I personally think that man-made activity is probably exacerbating climate change, but that the results of this are most uncertain, and therefore we shouldn’t jump to extreme conclusions based on dubious mathematical models of the future, and certainly not try to “decarbonize” our industry when that most assuredly will bring our civilization to a screeching halt.
Thank you for the lively discussion here.
Dude,
Your use of the very language shows delusion. There is no such thing as CLIMATE STASIS. The earths geological history is replete with dramatic changes in the climate that don’t have a damn thing to do with Carbon Dioxide. Climate is dynamic and the current models fail to capture the relative influence of the SUN (and Sun storms) and volcanoes on changes in temperature. Yes, totally delusional bullshit.
gregory – i get it.
delusion as indicated by the author was “persistent false belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary”
if a “scientific” community is split – then i dont see how that amounts to delusion as stated here for the evidence is not indisputable but rather: IN DISPUTE (within the relevant subject matter expert community).
of course science has been politicized – which is a darn shame.
The science may be in dispute, but the fact is that the majority of climate scientists from all over the world agree that man’s activities are affecting the climate of the earth.
To say that this is just pure bullshit and delusion is just ideological, not based on reason or science.
I get it, it’s being used to justify political decisions that are wrong and unnecessary, or just too extreme, but there is legitimate reason for concern for the consequences of what we’re doing to the environment based on sound science.
Of course climate changes, that is not in dispute.
You seem to be implying that all of the scientists that argue, with an enormous amount of published scientific evidence, that mankind’s activities are affecting that climate is a delusion.
So you are asserting that all of the thousands of reputable scientists around the world, from almost every country on the earth, are all full of it?
And you’re saying I’m delusional for trusting the vast majority of scientists on this matter?
Do you have a scientific background that allows you to judge the scientific evidence?
With respect, Greg
Yes, I do have a scientific background. Your argument is illogical. Appealing to authority without addressing the actual predictions that have been made over the last 20 years that have been proven false. The very premise of shifting away from petroleum to solar, etc is proven not credible. This is really about a financial gain, look at Al Gore, based on a scam in my view.
nd this is a scientific article (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-020-00143-w) in a peer-reviewed journal, which explicitly states that there has been no warming in Antarctica in the last seventy years. Despite increasing concentrations of “greenhouse gases”.
Then the truth is immediately stated that “this is different,” because the narrative won’t advance itself. Clowns)) 🤡
Larry:
Whether Climate Change is a delusion or not, the increasing levels of carbon in our atmosphere act like a heat blanket, causing other feedback effects, like fires in California, acidifying the oceans and bleaching the Great Barrier Reef, rivers running dry before they reach the ocean, etc. The expected long-term consequences are increased and prolonged droughts leading to world wide famine.
Delusion is a reflection of our understanding and ability to be honest, two qualities often lacking in our dis-information environment. You can argue about the effects of nuclear war, for example, but consequences like nuclear fallout cannot be wished away, even if it was delusional thinking that led to the nuclear exchange.
Certainly volcanoes, solar activity or asteroids can have a huge impact on our world and climate, but it seems foolish to think that all our industrial economies, our 8 billion population, cannot have an adverse impact on the earth’s climate systems, potentially shifting them outside a livable range for our civilization. The effects can be small, year per year, but cumulative and reach tipping points that lead to a vastly different world climate.
gender is a social construct.
sex is a biological reality.
one can have a vagina and feel like a socio-cultural man or a penis and feel like a socio-cultural female.
some want to surgically align their biology to match their feelings.
is it weird? sure. partly mental illness? probably in many of not most cases. but so is belief in a bronze age mythological sky god alien who cares what you do. how many people in this thread hold that ridicilous nonsensical delusion? likely many. I mean, it IS total infantile NONSENSE.
how many here hold the delusion that the “United States” is something other than a banker’s cartel masquerading as a noble project? probably all of you. delusions abound. look in the mirror.
you are all ruled by myths.
Gilbert & Sullivan’s MIKADO comes to mind. Sprinkled with preposterous impossibilities passed off behind the gauzy screen of “Japanese” court culture while really a gadfly critique of Britain’s own government, there is a particularly timeless example of dreaming it so it must be so.
This is when the Mikado arrives upon the scene and “is astonished that Nanki-Poo is alive, as the account of his execution had been given with such “affecting particulars”. Ko-Ko explains that when a royal command for an execution is given, the victim is, legally speaking, as good as dead, “and if he is dead, why not say so?”
The Mikado deems that “Nothing could possibly be more satisfactory”, and everyone in Titipu celebrates (“For he’s gone and married Yum-Yum”). [Wikipedia’s synopsis.]
Well, this ain’t Titipu, and there’s no cause for celebration.
People of 138 years ago could see through and laugh; people of today are self-righteously triggered and Hell-bent on transitioning three-year olds.
Anyway, anyone paying attention would find this is not at all new, already it was stated and aspired by Brock Chisholm, First Director of WHO…..
“To achieve world government, ti si necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and relgious dogmas”
https://twitter.com/trouble_db/status/1647336240830611457
And there you have the current war on identity, family, religion and personal freedoms….
I’m not sure I buy the idea that “psychology” is science or even objective. We live in a civilization that – in the public sphere – is completely given over to a particular kind of idolatry. All the studies that back these pronouncements up are simply a kind of sacrament. Ritual from a priesthood that people observe from afar and accept as authoritative.
There may be some value, but how would we know what is insight and what is artifact of some other influence.
Dear Larry, many thanks for your posting of this fantastic text from Claudio Selame.
It strictly follows the findings in the 18th century. Already at that time it was clear how far our mind can create its own reality.
Immanuel Kant has spent his whole life with one question:
With our body, which strictly follows the laws of nature, we have a clear reference for a good life.
But our mind is free, it has no reference. We can declare any bullshit to be the truth and pass it on with practiced rhetoric. Kant has suggested to us that each and everyone must give the reference to their spirit itself. And for this, to use reason, rationality and logic.
I am very grateful for this text of Claudio Selame and for your willingness to publish it in your blog.
With kind regards, willi
Asuncion, Paraguay
For me its easy to understand what is happening in today’s western societies . Read Romans chapter one starting at verse 18 . God has given them over to a reprobate mind . It is said best in this verse … Rom 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.
Unfortunately, the mind is too fragile and too easy to manipulate. Hence the reality we live in.
It has been 2000+ years of psyops, with psyop on top of psyop. An intricate web of delusions and lies.
May you live at an interesting time…
Not much if anything from the leak has been said about what the Americans know about the decisions taken in the departments of State of the Russian Federation, this may have been the feature of the leak the Americans regret more than the rest, it shows what the American Secret Services are able to obtain, it may compromise the source or sources of that information, the video below furnishes not a proof of anything, only a hint of how the American spooks could get hold of the stuff.
The wife of Naryskhin, the top Russian spook, spends time holidaying in Paris, the daughter of Peskov, Putin’s right hand man lives in an exclusive part of Paris in an apartment priced at 2m Euros, the daughter has a maid from the district of Lvov, which happens to be a part of Ukraine, a coincidence? Lavrov’s daughter bought an apartment in London in 2016 for £4.0m (it has been confiscated, but she still resides in London …
These three examples aren’t all there is, some top officials in the Russian offices of State have dual nationality, their wives or grown up children live in other NATO countries, own properties there …
If you speak Russian you will find it puzzling how many of the top layer are coupled with abroad in countries that are not only NATO members, but also active adversaries of Russia. Would the Americans be unconcerned if a son or daughter of any of the top officials had a property in Moscow, lived there?
If you speak no Russian, please ask someone who does to listen to the video, translate it for you, you won’t regret it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITNRrhr0sSg
The plot thickens:
https://republicbrief.com/breaking-bombshell-just-dropped-about-pentagon-leaker-jack-teixeira-total-setup/
The mother of all delusions is the idea I am a product of matter, all the following false assumptions stem from this.
There is no evidence we are the material bodies that we inhabit, after 7 years every molecule making up our bodies is gone, yet we are not gone. One can also realize they are not the mind when they try to control it. Yet this “false bodily” delusion persists on a worldwide scale forming the basis of all “isms”. Man has to understand his divine origin, to break free from this illusion/delusion. Without religion, man is deluded and becomes dog.
Thanks for posting this article Larry, and thank you Claudio Selame for taking the time and having the courage to post it. I am tired and confounded by all the changes seen in our public education system about gender and other issues.
Hey, you cannot buy a pack of cigarettes until your 18 yet you are mature enough to make a decision to change your looks to fool people into thinking your something your not. I am a licensed master fitness trainer and there are serious differences in male and female strengths and weaknesses no amount of medicine or surgery will ever overcome. Just take a look at the College female swimming .
Again thank you both for publishing this. Gordon
welcome change of topic.
i noticed the author used “thinks”– “If a man thinks he is a woman, …”
i am not sure thats accurate.
the dynamic reminds me of the emperors new clothes where the royal tailor tells the king that the new robes look fantastic – if the king cant trust the royal tailor as the subject matter expert on the subject of clothes – well then who is a better authority!
govt sponsored surgeries (for example) play the role of the tailor.
my point is – if the subject matter expects are wrong – who is then delusional – the king or the tailor. seems to me neither – one is trusting, the other is lying, collectively there is a joint delusion. it takes both?
ditto for any “science-in-the-middle” topic like climate change or pandemics
The science may be in dispute, but the fact is that the majority of climate scientists from all over the world agree that man’s activities are affecting the climate of the earth.
To say that this is just pure bullshit and delusion is just ideological, not based on reason or science.
I get it, it’s being used to justify political decisions that are wrong and unnecessary, or just too extreme, but there is legitimate reason for concern for the consequences of what we’re doing to the environment based on sound science.
What is your background? I can easily deconstruct many of the so-called scientific claims about “climate change.” Remember when it was called “Global Warming”? Explain why the language was changed.
and this is a scientific article (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-020-00143-w) in a peer-reviewed journal, which explicitly states that there has been no warming in Antarctica in the last seventy years. Despite increasing concentrations of “greenhouse gases”.
Then the truth is immediately stated that “this is different,” because the narrative won’t advance itself. Clowns)) 🤡
Remember in the sixties. it used to be called the Global Cooling and everyone was scared of a new ice age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZtwom8_J6o the trans agenda has horrible physical damage results
I am examining the phenomenon from the angle of this being a long term PSYOP. My ASI in the Army was as a Psychological Operations Officer (my primary MOS was Microbiologist) and I can see that this appears to be a deep program to effect the Western values system overcoming Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
For those unfamiliar with Psychological Operations here is a Field Manual from 2003 that pretty much describes the process: https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/fm3-05-301.pdf
What I cannot see is the primary mission of the operations. However, I am leaning towards thinking that this is a concerted effort to affect primary identity values. The first is family and the second is self identification. If you think back to the Soviet Union which under Stalinism did much the same. People were left with a deep distrust of everything and relied on trusting only close friends and family. Friendship in the Soviet Union was a far deeper commitment than we ever have had here in the US. Friends would literally do anything for you. No one else could be trusted.
The US appears to be concerned about overcoming the friend and family trust base and this is what I think the target is. Kill of family values and even as far as personal sexual identity and you have a confused mass of population incapable of trusting anyone and easy to manage. Push the narrative the government is only here to help you and the simultaneous bombardment from MSM, films, Internet social media, even search algorithms, and television pushing “new and better” social values that only confuse the people. I believe the massive increase in suicides is a byproduct of this confusion. Religion has the be the next target as that is yet another mechanism to overcome self-preservation and turn it towards the state instead. It feels a lot like 1984 and we are watching it unfold in real-time. However, roughly 50% of the population isn’t buying it. The early trigger caused by the Ukraine war not being won by the US is going to cause some deep stressors in society when the eventual collapse of the dollar occurs and the US economy is no longer supported by vassal states. The stress will be massive and causes tribal feelings to rise to the surface to protect and dominate your tribe over others. The ensuing violence is going to be biblical. I wouldn’t want to be part of any minority in the US when this happens.
Thanks for taking the time to write the article. Greatly enjoyed it; I think I learned a couple of new things from it.
Wonderful and so easy to read and understanding thank you doctor Selame and thank you a son of a new American revolution Larry C. Johnson
Translation:
This is all a psyop.
Ignore the psychobabble academise nonsence. Real sources to check:
Mathew Desmet author “The Psychology of Totalitarianism”, Robert Malone
Translation: “This is all a psyop”.
Ignore the psychobabble academise nonsence. Real sources to check:
Mathew Desmet author “The Psychology of Totalitarianism”, Robert Malone
Translation: “This is all a psyop.”
Ignore the psychobabble academise nonsense. Real sources to check:
Mathew Desmet author “The Psychology of Totalitarianism”, Robert Malone
I appreciate the attempt Larry but next time find a sharper tack. This guy doesn’t know what he is talking about in regards to Hegel and Rousseau. I just read Hegel and his dialectic is the beginning of the insanity we see today. His decedents include Marx and the existentialists and both are joining to create the woke totalitarianism we see today.
Hegel abstracts from the Socratic dialogue the dialectic of thesis antithesis and a new synthesis of the two. Just like Socrates would talk to a stranger in the pursuit of trying to find the truth. However, Hegel dispenses both with the stranger and the humble pursuit of the truth. Hegel is not seeking the truth but telling us what the truth is. Thus the dialectic is the complete opposite of the Socratic dialogue.
I could go on but in short if there was a rating system this guy would get a big thumbs down or 1 star. Maybe he should stick to his lane of Psychology since he makes for a very poor Philosopher.
As I am a self taut philosopher if you don’t believe me I have a retired PhD Philosopher who I recently talked to about Hegel. I am sure he would be willing to explain in a more professional manner what I have attempted to here.
For an example the example he mentions about Hegel’s master slave dynamic is where the critical race theorists get the idea that all white people are racist because they have power and black people can’t be racist…
This special person thinks this example helps explains modern issues…
god help the fool..
[As a formally trained and true philosopher, who loves philosophy, I now stand for her.]
Sir Darth,
As Plato said (through his interlocutor, Socrates) in the Republic,
the reputation of philosophy is much tarnished by imposters in the
philosophical workshop.
Based on your ramblings, I strongly suspect you have imbibed, either directly or indirectly, Karl Popper’s incompetent claptrap about Plato, Hegel, Rousseau and others, found in The Open Society and its Enemies. (Significantly, Mr. George Soros, of Open Society infamy, was a follower of Popper too.)
If Hegel — a solid Teuton of strong Christian sympathy — were alive today he would likely give you a sound beating for saying he (Hegel) is responsible in somewise for the intellectual poison conjured by the carnal Jew Marx. And, if Marx were alive too, Herr Hegel would thrash him for co-opting Hegelian ideas and terms and then twisting them for fell, atheistic purposes.
One last point, sir. The man who claims to be self-taught — yet who errs so casually and egregiously against his infinite superiors who are not present and alive to defend themselves — begs the retort that he should have found a better teacher.
Winston McCuen, Ph.D. (philosophy)
I see you have much schooling but little education my dear Winston… It appears drawing basic implications of ideas and their results is beyond you.
And if your disdain for the common peasants is too much for you as I stated above I too have friends with the credentials you admire so much that agree with what I am saying, so far from demonstrating my ignorance you seem to have betrayed your own. Although I am very interested in you demonstrating my errors.
Where did I say that I would expect Herr Hegel or Marx to agree with my assessments of them? They are both very intelligent idiots as I suspect you are as well.
As a “trained” philosopher whatever that means in todays world, I would have appreciated you pointing out my errors specifically, instead of stooping to not very clever putdowns.
In regards to Hegel being a Christian who am I to judge but as Kierkegaard pointed out Hegel left out the individual and from my reading (and in my Ph.D friends assessment as well) he left out God as well. If everything is Geist, and we are Geist, then where is God?
Marx in all likelihood would defend himself and say his ideas had no impact on creating the USSR. But I dare presume we both know this to be hogwash.
Sir Winston,
Upon reflection I have found myself extremely amused by your response. That a “trained” Philosopher is unable to see the historic lineage of causation running through Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, and in another line Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche with both lines culminating in the Woke insanity and madness plaguing our society, is perplexing and a great source of amusement.
Maybe in your infinite wisdom you could explain where you think critical theories originated? Specifically the CRT idea that all white people are racist since that is the one I addressed in regards to this guy mentioning Hegel and the master slave dynamic.
Note that the four delusions cited by Dr. Selame – concerning Ukraine, Russia, climate change and trans perversion — are all delusions characteristic of LIBERALISM and are all interconnected. As such, they are, at root, products of METAPHYSICAL rebellion against the one and only true (Triune) God and His creation.
Atheistic, sodomite, egalitarian and multi-racialist liberalism hates Russia, at root, because Russia is a recalcitrant and defiant seat of white Christian conservatism. Liberalism’s power-lusting enviro-cultism and enviro-tyranny – rooted in perverse and anti-human nature worship — is directly opposed to Christian stewardship under God-the-Creator’s sovereignty.
God’s written Word, the Bible, tells us how “The heart of man, in his corrupt and fallen state, is false and deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17: 9-10). So the fallen, unredeemed heart puts false colors upon things, plays loosely with the facts, and ends by calling evil good and good evil.
Liberalism – as a form of false philosophy or false philosophical consciousness — involves a hyper-abstract, unbalanced mode of reasoning — driven and steered by reprobate lusts — that yields a collection of counter-factual beliefs or narratives or delusions. Along the way, it makes a point of rationalizing moral enormities like homosexuality, abortion from convenience and pedophilia to serve the wicked lusts of the reprobate mind.
Liberals hate and dread logic class, and make full use of logical fallacies. When confronted with facts and logic, they duck and weave endlessly. Their favorite fallacy is the EMOTIVE fallacy, which runs: I want X to be true (or false), therefore X is true (or false). So, above all, the deluded liberal is impious toward God and toward all of objective reality. As children and slaves of Satan, the father of liars, liberals hate the Perfect and Righteous God Whom they long – as in the parable of the vineyard — to murder by denial and to dispossess by inverting and levelling His best of all possible (hierarchical) created worlds.
I smile at the quotation about delusions from the atheist-evilutionist Richard Dawkins. With his carnal, unregenerate perspective and reason, Dawkins sees not and hears not the abounding evidence all about him – as Leibniz would say – of God and His wondrous creation. How ironic: to quote an atheist – by definition, one deluded and clueless about First and Final causes — about delusion.
On Judgment Day, every knee will bend and every tongue –including Dawkins’ – will confess before the Creator and Judge Jesus Christ.
Thanks Winston. You covered all the basics here.
I’ll just add, God’s good design for his most prized creation – mankind, is based on the family unit. Man, woman, lifelong monogamy, children. We live in an age where disdain for God has created a spiritual power vacuum that is now occupied by the spirit of the antiChrist. Predictably, God’s vehicle for healthy, functioning human society – the family, is slated for destruction. We are watching it being dismantled in real time.
Have tremendous pity for the children that come into the world in this age. Lives of torment and dysfunction are what await them. This satisfies the spirit of the antiChrist, which above all else, despises God’s most prized creation, and delights in its destruction.
Jody,
Thank you for that fine addition. Your words about pitying the children born into this very dark “progressive” age hit home with me. (For what it’s worth, I believe the present trans craze has as one of its main proximate causes the rearing of children by day care, government schools and single mothers.)
The family is, as you have so rightly suggested, the principal avenue through which God’s saving and sanctifying grace is meant to flow. You have reminded me of some brilliant insights from Chesterton (in The Eternal Man), where that author observes how witches (as daughters of Satan) in their dark craft always focused (and still do focus) on the destruction of children, a la Hansel and Gretel and Planned Parenthood.
I leave you with brilliant quotations from the man who was arguably the greatest theologian America has produced, Robert Lewis Dabney, who was also Chief of Staff to one of her greatest military geniuses, Confederate General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson.
“The education of children for God is the most important business done on earth. It is the only business for which the earth exists. To it all politics, all war, all literature, all money-making, ought to be subordinated; and every parent especially ought to feel, every hour of the day, that, next to making his own calling and election sure, this is the end for which he is kept alive by God – this is his task on earth.”
“… We must then make up our minds in accepting Women’s Rights to surrender our Bibles, and have an atheistic Government. And especially must we expect to have, presiding over every home and rearing every group of future citizens, that most adhorrent of all phenomena, an infidel woman; for of course that sex, having received the precious boon of their enfranchisement only by means of the overthrow of the Bible, must be foremost in trampling upon this their old oppressor and enemy. Its restoration to authority is necessarily their “re-enslavement,” to speak the language of their party.”
“when America has had a generation of women who were politicians, instead of mothers, how fundamental must be the destruction of society, and how distant and difficult must be the remedy!”
Thanks Winston
You are much better read than I. I’m unfamiliar with Dabney. His work sounds like it is worth looking into. I will do so.
Please change the title.”Phenomenology” does not mean what the title appears to suggest, i.e., a bunch of associated phenomena. Phenomenology is a method of investigation.
I don’t want to see “phenomenology” suffer the same fate as “imagery.” One can often hear a TV presenter referring to some images on the screen as “imagery.” Or “methodology” — “the methodology we used..” says someone instead of “the methods we used.”
Also change “boy’s bathroom,” repeated at least twice, when clearly what is meant is “boys’ bathroom”.
TRUE STORY (three months ago):
A couple with a baby (less than 1 year old) dressed with blue clothes enters into a place.
Employee: “WHAT A PRETTY BOY!”.
Mother:”NO, IS NOT A BOY”.
Employee:”I AM SORRY, WHAT A PRETTY GIRL!!”.
Mother: “NO, IS NOT A GIRL”.
Employee looked to the mother…
Mother: “WE HAVE NOT DECIDED YET”
…
Bloody George Soros´ Transgender Campaign!