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Center for Weird Studies: There is no yellow in the circle below - Illusion by @AkiyoshiKitaoka
This photograph is black and white picture. An artist has drawn some color lines through it. The human brain is filling the rest of the colours even though they aren't there.
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"Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?" - Rumi
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"A lie is like a snowball: the longer you roll it, the bigger it gets." - Martin Luther (1483-1546), German theologian and reformer.
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Today in "the fall of western civilization":
Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming (nytimes) - The NSA & company monsters are gradually coming out of the shadows.
Facebook is Now Aggressively Courting a New Partner: Churches (yahoo) - FB is a power hungry cybernetic cult. A inter-cult collaboration makes a lot of sense.
Plans for governing body to make digital identities as trusted as passports (UK.gov) - At least they are starting to drop the bullshit and talk about it straight. Related, Related
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The weird power of the placebo effect, explained - Yes, placebo is all in your mind. And it’s real.
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Why can some people ‘see’ uncomfortable things while others can’t?
- 🙈 Wilful Blindness (also known as the Ostrich Effect): our minds wont let us acknowledge something if it will cause psychological pain. So we ignore it, say it doesn’t matter, rationalise excuses, etc.
- 🍼 Regression (and fear of freedom). Freedom comes with risk and responsibility. Most crave a return to the submissive comfort of childhood, where adults took care of everything. They want the state to take care of them.
- 🏛 System Justification: We cannot imagine that the system we grew up in and benefited from could do us harm. We assume it always has our best interests at heart.
- 💀 Terror Management: Thinking about death (or the idea that our psychological construction of reality might go extinct) causes us to ‘close up’ psychologically and become intolerant of other ideas.
- 🐑 Conformity: We assume the crowd must know what it’s doing, and we are terrified of being ostracised, since this meant death in evolutionary terms.
- 💥 Cognitive Dissonance: When something doesn’t match our expectations of the world, it causes uncomfortable psychological tension, which we seek to minimise through defence mechanisms like denial.
- 💙 In-Group Bias: Being social animals, we tend to reject information if it clashes with our group identity (“it must be wrong if the other side said it”). In fact, it can just make us even more polarised.
- 😴 Cognitive Misers: We simply don’t have the time nor the energy to process a lot of new, complex information or change thinking habits.
- ⛓️ Learned Helplessness: If we have learned / feel that we are powerless, we don’t even bother to try challenging the status quo. We just become passive and accepting.
- 👨⚕️ Authority: We assume that those with credentials or in positions of authority must know what they are doing, so we trust them implicitly and follow their instructions.
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Things that make a lot more sense, when labeled "fiction": News as taught by the mainstream channels. History as taught in schools. Science and Economics as taught in Universities. And more..
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"Fortune-Telling" is a category error.
"Fortune-Making" is more precise & useful. -
"Little lies don't need to be protected. But the big lies are protected by public incredulity." - Marshall Mcluhan
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Cognitive Dissonance - "perception of contradictory information" - a popular sport of the 2020s
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Scarcity vs abundance mentality - You are the only one who gets to decide your perception
