Mass Psychosis - How an Entire Population Becomes Mentally Ill

a reply to: Boadicea

I don't even know how people watch videos on Bitchute! They never play properly for me, and I just can't be arsed to spend more time waiting for the video to cycle than to play! Same with Rumble and Vimeo.

Lol, same here.

That's why I don't use them.

a reply to: Boadicea
Thanks for the kind words, but some days I look at certain things I've posted here and cringe.

So very very true. But so few understand that this was and is a gift the Founding Fathers gave us. Today so many think our freedoms and its attendant burdens are a bad thing, and that we need others to tell us what to think and to do.

In the bold. It's hard to explain to someone who doesn't understand that a word that has "free" in it doesn't mean it's free. It comes at a personal cost.

Another Arizonan!!! Maybe it's something in the water... that we DON'T drink here because it's just so awful tasting!!!

Maybe I need to consider laying off Illinois water.

Thanks for your input into this topic. It is appreciated.

a reply to: Klassified

You shouldn't regret what you've said here. Last time I checked, this is a platform for free speech.
Some people might resent you for what you've said but if you felt you had to say it then it needed saying.

Silence is the gambit in deception.

originally posted by: DrumsRfun
a reply to: sraven

People are constantly fooled by the money system.
I had a guy at the bank telling me how much I was "approved" for a credit card.

I asked him if he had any debts...he said yes.
I asked him if he had a credit card...he said yes.

I told him with a big smile that I don't have any debt because what he calls a credit card...I call a debt card.
I asked him why he wanted me to be in debt and why is he trying to make it sound good to be "approved" to go into debt??
Its just in the wording, what some people call credit, others call debt.

Its mass psychosis.

I have a way of "wording it" so that they feel like the village idiot thats trying to make me the mayor of Dumbville.....but he is just doing his job, he has debts to pay.

Our conversation was over quickly.

Credit is the amount they will let you borrow.
Debt is the amount you have borrowed

a reply to: gb540

walk into any given room and see everyone glued to their screens in silence.

I haven't followed the masses, I don't even own a phone....the brainwashed masses made it so I can't do certain things because I don't have the app or a phone number.

The sad part is, there is no way to go through life without being a "sheep" in one way or another...nobody is above it or better.

a reply to: sraven

Credit is the amount they will let you borrow. Debt is the amount you have borrowed

Thank you Captain Obvious.
Get the bigger picture.

originally posted by: DrumsRfun
a reply to: gb540

walk into any given room and see everyone glued to their screens in silence.

I haven't followed the masses, I don't even own a phone....the brainwashed masses made it so I can't do certain things because I don't have the app or a phone number.

The sad part is, there is no way to go through life without being a "sheep" in one way or another...nobody is above it or better.

Right you are Drums.

originally posted by: Klassified
... This is about humanity and the civilization we've built being turned on its head by those perpetrating crimes against the human race.

Like these people?




Mass phychosis indeed:

Fraud in Science​—A Greater Fraud (Awake!—1990)
Fraud in Science​—The Greatest Fraud of All

Funny how 'your' video won't make any mention of the greatest fraud, deception, "delusion" and danger to the mental "health of the global population" of all (quoting from the video description and your comment; 'your' video is referring to the video you shared, not that you made it).

Your Worst Enemy—Is It You? (Awake!—1984)

NEIGHBORS called Peter a “nice guy . . . who was hooked on running and playing tennis.” A mere 33 years old, he could already boast a prestigious job and acclaim as an amateur athlete. But one morning he strangled his father. The provocation? According to the Daily News, Peter shouted, “The Devil made me do this!”

Criminals invoking the Devil-made-me-do-it alibi, however, often find themselves being rushed off for psychiatric examination rather than gaining acquittal. And in some circles merely expressing belief in the Devil is enough to bring one’s sanity into question. ‘A shadowy figure who runs around promoting murder and mayhem? Ridiculous!’ say many. A bit more palatable, perhaps, is the notion that the Devil is just a symbol of the evil in man himself.

Imperfect man, to be sure, does have an evil side. “The inclination of the heart of man is bad from his youth up,” says the Bible. (Genesis 8:21) But decades of research by psychologists to find ‘the Devil within’ have produced little more than conflicting theories, often riddled with inconsistencies and problems. (See box.)

Take, for example, those who attribute human violence to our supposed evolutionary inheritance from animals. In his book The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, Erich Fromm argues that, contrary to popular opinion, violence is not an animal’s sole response to danger: “The impulse to flee plays . . . the same if not a larger role in animal behavior than the impulse to fight.” So even if one were to accept the problem-filled theory of evolution, the concept of man as an innately violent animal is suspect. But if man is not his own worst enemy, then who is?

[Box on page 3]

The Search for ‘the Devil Within’

Many have been the attempts to prove that man alone is the source of evil. Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud saw man as driven by powerful life-and-death instincts. Freud’s former collaborator Carl Jung, however, saw the “Devil” in man as a “shadow” or animallike personality that emerges when man tries to repress his evil side. Konrad Lorenz said that aggression is innate, a leftover of man’s evolutionary past. Many biologists feel that genetic or organic abnormalities might be the triggers of human violence. Complicating the picture even further are those who say that nurture​—not nature—​is responsible for ‘the Devil’ in man. By this, behaviorists mean that environmental factors, such as family and friends, produce evil.

Your Worst Enemy—Who Is He? (Awake!—1984)
Your Worst Enemy​—His Rise and Fall

Many theories are offered to explain the causes of war. For example, those who believe in evolution see man only as a higher form of animal life that still retains the aggressive and defensive reflexes of the animal world. They argue that aggression is innate in man, that it is in his genes. Zoologist Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt wrote in The Biology of Peace and War: “Our closest relatives, the great apes, have considerable aggressive potential and are also territorial. . . . This strongly suggests that our human aggressivity may be an ancient primate heritage.”

Konrad Lorenz, Austrian founder of modern ethology (the study of animal behavior) asserts that man has an aggressive drive that is his “most powerfully motivating instinct [that] makes him go to war.”​—On Aggression.

On the other hand, Sue Mansfield, a professor of history, challenges that conclusion, saying: “Though the majority of cultures in historic times have engaged in war, the majority of human beings have not been participants.” The fact that governments have to resort to obligatory conscription into the armed forces would also suggest that aggression and killing are not necessarily viewed with great enthusiasm by people in general, nor can they be seen as reflex reactions. Professor Mansfield adds: “Indeed, the historical record suggests that warfare has usually been a minority experience.”

In recent times that minority has been highly trained and preconditioned. Evolutionary philosophies again playing a major role in this.

Effects on Philosophy and Politics

The Origin of Species offered a fresh outlook on human behavior. Why does one nation succeed in conquering another nation? Why does one race prevail over another race? The Origin of Species, with its emphasis on natural selection and survival of the fittest, gave explanations that stirred the leading philosophers of the 19th century.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Karl Marx (1818-1883) were philosophers who had a profound effect on politics. Both were fascinated by evolution. “Darwin’s book is important,” said Marx, “and serves me as a natural scientific basis for the class struggle in history.” Historian Will Durant called Nietzsche a “child of Darwin.” The book Philosophy​—An Outline-​History summarized one of Nietzsche’s beliefs: “The strong, brave, domineering, proud, fit best the society that is to be.”

Darwin believed​—and wrote in a letter to a friend—​that in the future “an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world.” He used as a precedent the European conquest of others and chalked this up to “the struggle for existence.”

The powerful were quick to latch on to such statements. H. G. Wells wrote in The Outline of History: “Prevalent peoples at the close of the nineteenth century believed that they prevailed by virtue of the Struggle for Existence, in which the strong and cunning get the better of the weak and confiding. And they believed further that they had to be strong, energetic, ruthless, ‘practical,’ egotistical.”

Thus, “survival of the fittest” took on philosophical, social, and political overtones, often to an absurd extent. “To some war became ‘a biological necessity,’” said the book Milestones of History. And this book noted that during the next century, “Darwinian ideas formed an integral part of Hitler’s doctrine of racial superiority.”

Of course, neither Darwin, Marx, nor Nietzsche lived to see how their ideas would be applied​—or misapplied. Indeed, they expected that the struggle for existence would improve man’s lot in life. Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species that “all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.” Twentieth-​century priest and biologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin agreed with this, theorizing that eventually there would occur an ‘evolution of the minds of the entire human race; everyone would harmoniously work toward one goal.’

Degradation, Not Improvement

Do you see such improvement occurring? The book Clinging to a Myth commented on De Chardin’s optimism: “De Chardin must have been quite oblivious of the history of human bloodshed and of racist systems such as apartheid in South Africa. He sounds like a man who is not living in this world.” Rather than progress toward unity, humanity in this century has experienced racial and national division on an unprecedented scale.

The hope held out in The Origin of Species, that man would progress toward perfection, or at least improvement, is very much unfulfilled. And that hope keeps receding with time, for since the general acceptance of evolution, the human family all too often has descended into barbarism. Consider: More than 100 million people have been killed in the wars of this century, some 50 million in World War II alone. Also consider the recent ethnic slaughter in such places as Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.

Is this to say that there were no wars and brutalities in past centuries? No, there certainly were. But the acceptance of the theory of evolution, this brutal struggle-​for-​existence mind-​set, this survival-​of-​the-​fittest idea, has not served to improve man’s lot. So while evolution cannot be blamed for all of man’s ills, it has helped push the human family into ever greater hatred, crime, violence, immorality, and degradation. Since it is widely accepted that humans descended from beasts, it is not surprising that more and more people act like beasts.

Jung, Freud, Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, these are the deceivers and deceived/deluded/misled spoken about at 2 Timothy 3:13: “But wicked men and impostors will advance from bad to worse, misleading and being misled.” “Look! They have rejected the word of Jehovah, And what wisdom do they have?” (Jer 8:9)

originally posted by: Klassified

In this video we are going to explore the most dangerous of all psychic epidemics, the mass psychosis. A mass psychosis is an epidemic of madness and it occurs when a large portion of a society loses touch with reality and descends into delusions. Such a phenomenon is not a thing of fiction. Two examples of mass psychoses are the American and European witch hunts 16th and 17th centuries and the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th century.

In my opinion, this video explains in detail what is going on in the world right now without actually calling it out, which was a smart move by the authors. I have said more than once on ATS "the inmates are running the asylum". That statement holds true now as much as it ever has. The psyops being played out on the world stage by the "leaders" of more than just the western world is real and it's dangerous to the mental and physical health of the global population.

If you can watch and listen to this video as objectively as possible, but with a critical mind, I think you will see they have hit the proverbial nail on the head. This isn't about your political or religious identity. This is about humanity and the civilization we've built being turned on its head by those perpetrating crimes against the human race.

I have zero, zilch, nada to do with this channel or the authors of this video other than being a subscriber. I think they are on point, and I think the members of ATS should be privy to this video and make up their own minds about its content. The link in my signature goes directly to the video, not this thread.

The real pandemic is not a physical virus, but a real and ongoing psychological manipulation of the minds of the masses.

Obviously, mass psychosis is an explanation for the support of Trump and the confused minority of Americans who are rejecting the miracle vaccines.

originally posted by: JIMC5499
Anybody watch the movie Space Cowboys? I'm not going into whether it was good or bad. Tommy Lee Jones' character said something that applies here.

"A person is smart. People are stupid."

'He says that in Men in Black. Do they use the same line twice? "A person is smart. People are dumb, stupid, dangerous, panicky animals."

a reply to: Moresby

Obviously, mass psychosis is an explanation for the support of Trump and the confused minority of Americans who are rejecting the miracle vaccines.

It's always those other people that have the problems.

a reply to: DrumsRfun

It isn't the phone itself so much as how people use them.

I think it's the constant need to stay connected to others that's the problem. Do I have a phone? Yes, but I'm not one it 24/7. For darn sure I'm not on it while I'm driving, and I don't need to be on it while I'm walking, working, etc. It's mostly my emergency contact vehicle and that's about it.

originally posted by: sraven
It would be great if it were simply the monetary system or "men thinking they could ever be a woman".

Food is a good example.
Everyone knows that somewhere close to 50% of the population is obese.
Since 1977, they have been saying to reduce fat if you are over weight.
And they replaced the fat in foods with sugar.

If you look at obesity charts, 1980 is when obesity in the US began taking off.
Obesity is not caused by fat. It is caused by sugar.
Google sugar consumption per person in the US and you will see a spike in sugar consumption that correlates with obesity.

But, you know, it is "the science".
Another sets of lies.

I'd argue it's more to do with the sedentary lifestyle people have these days rather than sugar consumption, though it obviously doesn't help. I eat a ton of chocolate and cakes but am not obese, if anything I'm too thin, I just keep active.

Anyways topic drift aside, great thread. I often think (I really do!) how the world around us, and what we take for granted as 'real' often isn't, simple things like the time we wake up, eat lunch, the clothes we wear, diet, language it's all derived and orchestrated without us thinking why we do it. Sometimes stepping back and thinking 'why am I doing this?' or just asking Why, can be quite enlightening. I read somewhere in Victorian days sleep patterns were quite different from today, often 2 distinct sleeps rather than the solid 6-8hrs we run with these days. Little things like this.

I personally don't think most of our 'reality' constructs are lies or anything nefarious, more a collective alignment to modern living. The term sheeple that gets bandied about to people who blindly follow orders is a bit derogatory but actually it's how as a species we have survived, if everyone was bull headed and questioned everything we'd never get anywhere.

originally posted by: herefortheride
... Its amazing that despite all the research and brilliant insight that psychologists and great thinkers of the past have learned about human behavior, that here we are making the same ridiculous mistakes. However, the scholars of human behavior know exactly how to manipulate the masses.

Who has the most and longest experience with studying human behaviour and manipulating people en masse? More than any human with an average of 70-80 years of experience (many of those years spent in childhood, learning the basics of life that have little to do with that)?

Winning the Battle for Your Mind

YOU are under attack! And your chief enemy, Satan, is using a very dangerous weapon against you. What is it? Propaganda! A weapon specially designed to attack, not your body, but your mind.

Could it be possible that such a being actually exists? And could this reality along with related Bible teachings also contain clues as to why people keep making the same mistakes (especially from a societal viewpoint)? After all, if the source or cause for the manipulation nudging people towards making the same mistakes stays the same over the centuries, would that not be what you could or would expect? (see also the video in my previous comment entitled "Is the Devil Real?" and related commentary in the article before that, in particular the box)

PROPAGANDA​—HOW DANGEROUS IS IT?

What is propaganda? In this context, it is the use of biased or misleading information to manipulate the way people think and act. Some equate propaganda with “lies, distortion, deceit, manipulation, mind control, [and] psychological warfare” and associate it with “unethical, harmful, and unfair tactics.”​—Propaganda and Persuasion.

How dangerous is propaganda? It is insidious​—like an invisible, odorless, poisonous gas—​and it seeps into our consciousness. Because we may not see propaganda for what it is, behavior specialist Vance Packard observed: “Many of us are being influenced and manipulated​—far more than we realize.” Under its influence, says one scholar, men and women have been “quite easily led into the most preposterously dangerous behaviour”​—such as ‘genocide, war, racist hysteria, religious intolerance and many other forms of irrational behaviour.’​—Easily Led—​A History of Propaganda.

Now if mere men can fool us with their propaganda, what might Satan be able to do? He has studied human behavior since man was created. “The whole world” now lies in his power. He can use any part of it to disseminate his lies. (1 John 5:19; John 8:44) So effective has Satan been in ‘blinding people’s minds’ that he now ‘misleads the entire inhabited earth.’ (2 Cor. 4:4; Rev. 12:9) How can you resist his propaganda?

BUILD UP YOUR DEFENSES

Jesus gave this simple rule for combating propaganda: “Know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31, 32) But since truth is often the first casualty of war, you​—like any other soldier in the heat of battle—​need a source of trustworthy, reliable information to prevent the enemy from playing tricks with your mind. Jehovah has provided this. In the pages of the Bible, you can find all you need to combat Satan’s propaganda.​—2 Tim. 3:16, 17.

Of course, the great propagandist, Satan, knows this. So he uses his system of things to discourage Bible reading and study. Do not fall for his devious schemes! (Eph. 6:11, ftn.) Become “thoroughly able to comprehend” the full scope of the truth. (Eph. 3:18) That will take real effort on your part. But remember this basic fact expressed by author Noam Chomsky: “Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It’s something you have to find out for yourself.” So “find out for yourself” by being diligent in “carefully examining the Scriptures daily.”​—Acts 17:11.

Keep in mind that Satan does not want you to think clearly or reason things out well. Why? Because propaganda “is likely to be most effective,” says one source, “if people . . . are discouraged from thinking critically.” (Media and Society in the Twentieth Century) So never be content passively or blindly to accept what you hear. (Prov. 14:15) Use your God-given thinking abilities and power of reason to make the truth your own.​—Prov. 2:10-15; Rom. 12:1, 2.

BEWARE OF ATTEMPTS TO DIVIDE AND CONQUER

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originally posted by: midicon

I think religion is a sort of mass psychosis. We have a world full of people believing in superstitious made up nonsense which continues unabated.

They do indeed, but probably not the religious nonsense you were thinking of:

The Pagan Religious Roots of Evolutionary Philosophies and Philosophical Naturalism (part 1 of 2)

‘Unbelievers are uninformed, unreasonable, irresponsible, incompetent, ignorant, dogmatic, enslaved by old illusions and prejudices.’ In these ways leading evolutionists describe those who do not accept evolution as a fact. However, cool, logical, scientific reasoning, backed by observational and experimental evidence, need not resort to such personal invective.

The position of the evolutionists is more characteristic of religious dogmatism. When the chief priests and Pharisees saw the crowds accepting Jesus, they sent officers to arrest him, with this result: “The Temple police who had been sent to arrest him returned to the chief priests and Pharisees. ‘Why didn’t you bring him in?’ they demanded. ‘He says such wonderful things!’ they mumbled. ‘We’ve never heard anything like it.’ ‘So you also have been led astray?’ the Pharisees mocked. ‘Is there a single one of us Jewish rulers or Pharisees who believes he is the Messiah? These stupid crowds do, yes; but what do they know about it? A curse upon them anyway!”’​—John 7:32, 45-49, The Living Bible.

They were wrong, for evidence proves that many of the rulers were being affected by Jesus’ teaching. Even individual priests became his followers. (John 12:42; Acts 6:7; 15:5) Unable to refute Jesus, the Pharisees as a group resorted to tyranny of authority. Today evolutionists adopt the same tactics: ‘Stupid crowds, what do they know? All reputable scientists accept evolution!’ Not so. As Discover magazine said: “Now that hallowed theory is not only under attack by fundamentalist Christians, but is also being questioned by reputable scientists.”​—October 1980.

Writing in Science, R. E. Gibson said that Galileo possessed “a passionate antagonism to any kind of dogma based on human authority.” It was his intellectual integrity that got him into trouble with the Inquisition. But such integrity, Gibson asserts, “is not fashionable now; the present tendency is for the scientific community, now grown powerful, to behave much as the church did in Galileo’s time.” Is modern science handling power and prestige any better than the Catholic Church did? Einstein once remarked that we are not as far removed from Galileo’s time as we would like to think.​—Science, September 18, 1964, pp. 1271-1276.

Robert Jastrow refers to “the religious faith of the scientist” and his irritation when the evidence doesn’t match his beliefs. J. N. W. Sullivan calls belief in spontaneous generation “an article of faith,” and T. H. Huxley said it was “an act of philosophical faith.” Sullivan said that to believe that evolution made all life on earth was “an extraordinary act of faith.” Dr. J. R. Durant points out that “many scientists succumb to the temptation to be dogmatic, seizing upon new ideas with almost missionary zeal . . . In the case of the theory of evolution, the missionary spirit seems to have prevailed.” Physicist H. S. Lipson says that after Darwin “evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to ‘bend’ their observations to fit in with it.”

Proving the above, U.S. News & World Report (March 2, 1981) told of scandals in science labs. A researcher at Yale said: “It’s the Watergate of science.” The article concluded: “‘It’s shocking,’ acknowledges Dr. Arnold Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. ‘It strikes yet another idol. Everyone turns out to have clay feet​—even some research scientists.”’ Simpson, in The Meaning of Evolution, said evolutionists “may use the same data to ‘prove’ diametrically opposed theories” and each one “puts his particular theory into the data.” (Pp. 137-9) Sullivan said that scientists do not “invariably tell the truth, or try to, even about their science. They have been known to lie, but they did not lie in order to serve science but, usually, religious or anti-religious prejudices.”​—Limitations of Science, pp. 173-5.

The original quest for truth is often forgotten as each one gleans for ideas to bolster his own emotional conviction, whether it be scientific dogma or religious creed. Evolution is not the caliber of the science that sends men to the moon or cracks the genetic code. It is more like religion​—priestlike authorities that speak ex cathedra, sectarian squabbles, unexplainable mysteries, faith in missing links and missing mutations, a laity that blindly follows, wresting evidence to fit their creed, and denouncing nonbelievers as stupid. And their god? The same one the ancients sacrificed to, preparing “a table for the god of Good Luck.”​—Isa. 65:11.

In Hans Christian Andersen’s famous tale of the emperor’s new clothes, it took a small child to tell the emperor that he was naked. Evolution now parades as fully clothed fact. We need childlike honesty to tell it that it’s naked. And we need courageous scientists like Professor Lipson, who said: “We must go further than this and admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation. I know that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject a theory that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it.”

What evidence is there for belief in creation? See the playlist I linked at the start of this comment (start with the first video).

THE “TYRANNY OF AUTHORITY” USED BY EVOLUTIONISTS

“When he [Darwin] finished, the fact of evolution could be denied only by an abandonment of reason.”​—Life Nature Library, “Evolution,” p. 10.

“It is not a matter of personal taste whether or not we believe in evolution. The evidence for evolution is compelling.”​—“Evolution, Genetics, and Man,” p. 319, Dobzhansky.

“Its essential truth is now universally accepted by scientists competent to judge.”​—“Nature and Man’s Fate,” p. v, Hardin.

“The establishment of life’s family tree by the evolutionary process is now universally recognized by all responsible scientists.”​—“A Guide to Earth History,” p. 82, Carrington.

“No informed mind today denies that man is descended by slow process from the world of the fish and the frog.”​—“Life” magazine, August 26, 1966, Ardrey.

“It has become almost self-evident and requires no further proof to anyone reasonably free of old illusions and prejudices.”​—“The Meaning of Evolution,” p. 338, Simpson.

“There is no rival hypothesis except the outworn and completely refuted one of special creation, now retained only by the ignorant, the dogmatic, and the prejudiced.”​—“Outlines of General Zoology,” p. 407, Newman.

More nonsense from the same types (all videos from the same playlist):

Psychology: The Art of selling nonsense/contradictions (Prologue: Stephen Hawking's nonsense)
Psychology: Dawkins&Krauss selling the philosophy and contradiction that nothing is something

a reply to: whereislogic

Yeah, I'll listen to a Jehovah's witness for reason and logic lol. I've met a few, enough said!

originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
To me, the KEY value in this video is not recognizing how true it is in other peoples cases. It is how true it is in my own.

Saying,''yeah yeah, look at all those sheeple, looks at all those uninformed blind masses.'' That's the easy part. The hard point is realizing that these control factors are in us all.

originally posted by: Klassified
Exactly. You got the point of this whole thread. The info won't help us if we can't see how it applies to each of us individually.

On that note, let's do one that is perhaps a bit more applicable to you, since I've been focusing a lot on the myths/false stories and delusions born out of evolutionary philosophies and thinking:

Isaac Newton's science/scientia/knowledge about reality (playlist)

If you continue from there, you may notice the overlap in the source of these myths/false stories and religious philosophies, emphasized again at the end of:

The Pagan Religious Roots of Evolutionary Philosophies and Philosophical Naturalism (part 2 of 2)

And the 2 videos after that. Cause:

One Myth Leads to Another

And this one is a crucial starting point for both the subjects I've now addressed (as it is connected to the reincarnation subject discussed in "The Pagan Religious Roots of Evolutionary Philosophies and Philosophical Naturalism"):

Myth 1: The Soul Is Immortal (One Myth Leads to Another)

originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
To me, the KEY value in this video is not recognizing how true it is in other peoples cases. It is how true it is in my own.

Saying,''yeah yeah, look at all those sheeple, looks at all those uninformed blind masses.'' That's the easy part. The hard point is realizing that these control factors are in us all.

It works much the same with prejudice. Which midicon was kind enough to just gave us a demonstration of, in case anyone had forgotten what that (prejudice) looks like.

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A good start is to acknowledge that none of us are above developing prejudices. The book Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination says: “Perhaps the most important conclusions to emerge from prejudice research are these: (1) no one capable of human thought and speech is immune from harboring prejudice, (2) it often takes deliberate effort and awareness to reduce prejudice, and (3) with sufficient motivation, it can be done.”

Education has been described as “the most powerful tool” in the fight against prejudice. The right education can, for example, expose the root causes of prejudice, enable us to examine our own attitudes more objectively, and help us deal wisely with prejudice when we are victims.

Getting to the Roots

Prejudice causes people to distort, misinterpret, or even ignore facts that conflict with their predetermined opinions. Prejudice may have its beginnings in seemingly innocent, but misguided, family values, or it may be sown by those who deliberately promote warped views of other races or cultures. Prejudice can also be fostered by nationalism and false religious teachings. And it can be a product of inordinate pride. ...

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When we get to know people on a personal level, we more readily see through misleading stereotypes

Source: Prejudice and Discrimination—Getting to the Roots (Awake!—2009)

Being affected by misleading stereotypes (as demonstrated by midicon's comment) is often the result of being affected by this particular propaganda technique:

Making Generalizations

Another very successful tactic of propaganda is generalization. Generalizations tend to obscure important facts about the real issues in question, and they are frequently used to demean entire groups of people. ...

Source: The Manipulation of Information (Awake!—2000)

Some people are so subtle in using these techniques, that those affected, like midicon, have difficulty recognizing or realizing their own prejudices, let alone take steps to reduce their prejudice or avoid making generalizations themselves and expressing their belief in the resulting misleading stereotypes. Taking us back to the quotation above about “(2) it often takes deliberate effort and awareness to reduce prejudice, and (3) with sufficient motivation, it can be done.” No awareness = no effort to reduce it (in their view, there is no problem, see the type of thinking expressed at the end of this comment). Many of those affected also have little motivation to reduce their own prejudice (it's part of the conditioning; denial is often encouraged instead, as it relates to pride and the attempts to justify making these generalizations and falling for the misleading stereotypes, 'oh, I'm not prejudiced or even making generalizations, I have legitimate reasons for my opinion about these people or this group', that idea).

originally posted by: herefortheride
I'm a huge fan of Academy of Ideas! The content he puts together has been warning us about "turn-key-totalitarianism" for years. Its amazing that despite all the research and brilliant insight that psychologists and great thinkers of the past have learned about human behavior, that here we are making the same ridiculous mistakes. However, the scholars of human behavior know exactly how to manipulate the masses.

From my experience, getting people to see past their fear has been futile, the psychosis is rooted deep. I'm trying to be mindful about being more empathetic to these people, but sometimes its HARD!

We are being manipulated by the media to "make those mistakes."

a reply to: whereislogic

One need only look at the mindless hordes circumnavigating the Kaaba. The Jews nodding at a wailing wall. The tongue talking, snake handling fools and the Christian money spinning evangelists to see insanity in action. There's so much more, in fact the list is endless. Mormons, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian sects abounding! The psychosis is everywhere. That's not even touching on the nonsense they believe and claim is true. There are those that believe in demons and devils you couldn't make it up! Well I suppose someone did and those of a fanciful persuasion have been running with it ever since.

Religion when it appears should be called out and kicked to the kerb. Jehovah's witnesses are required to go round doors spreading dogma and superstition, it's a grim affair.