Killing ourselves and others

Human trash kills
(Originally published November 2, 2006 on MySpace)

"I'm ready.... to begin chemotherapy."  I'm enraged every time I see that particular TV commercial.  What are they selling?  Medical drugs.  Why am I enraged?  Because it implies that viewers are fatalistic idiots, perfectly willing to accept the cancers that result from the polluted environment that they live in and, paradoxically, create.  Drug companies are delighted to see a diseased public.  They make money when we are ill, lots of money.  No commercials try to sell us solutions to reduce vehicle emissions or power plant pollution or anything else that would make the air we breathe or the water we drink or the food we eat less harmful.  No ads prod us to change our behavior to pollute less.  Instead we are encouraged to buy, buy, buy, and be insatiable consumers purchasing products that allow us to sit on our butts in sublime comfort while we breathe the poisons these products create.

1200 miles northwest of Honolulu, in the middle of the Pacific, is the oldest island in the Hawaiian island chain.  It is uninhabited and has been set aside as a preserve, meant to be a pristine example of the islands before man discovered them.  It is a natural bird sanctuary, and birds there have almost no fear of people, since they have hardly ever dealt with humans.  A group of photographers was sent there to document the island environment.  One large sea bird in particular became quite friendly with them.  One day it appeared abnormally listless, and the next day it died.  Because this seemed so strange, one of the photographers, who was also a biologist, dissected the bird to determine the cause of death.  The bird's stomach and intestinal tract were completely full of an incredible assortment of indigestible refuse, like bottle caps, Styrofoam bits, rubber tubing, and broken bits of plastic.  It had essentially died due to a blocked digestive tract.  In the middle of the vast Pacific ocean, human trash is so common in the water that birds die from eating it.

My mother once described me as "an angry young man" because I was always pointing out the problems with the status quo, the standard human way of doing things.  She would have preferred that I adopt an "ignorance is bliss" attitude, like most other people.  Unfortunately, once your eyes are open and really observant, there's no going back.  And you will be angry.  Our own activities are causing other living things all over the world to die, and we ourselves are among the victims.  Unless we are all angry, there will be little motivation for us to change our destructive lifestyles.  It's time to be angry with eyes wide open.



Update (June 24, 2014):  Another video quietly censored.  You're supposed to watch bogus reality shows on TV rather than watch the true reality of our world.  True reality is censored.  True reality leads to the truth, and the people controlling you and the world don't want you to know the truth.  The truth would make you very angry, angry enough to fight back.  They don't want that.

Here is another video showing the deadly effects of plastic pollution on other living things.  It's called Bird Island - Plastic versus Nature.  We will see how long it takes for this video to be censored.


 

K.I.S.S.

K.I.S.S.

That "ignorance is bliss" is so prevalent among humans is a fascinating study in itself.  Why are we so prone to fall into this harmful trap?  The answer is obvious, though we are often too proud to admit it.  We are, in fact, simple-minded creatures.  Our brains are not very good at handling complexity, and the reality of the world is that it is incredibly complex, to the point of being beyond our comprehension.  To cope, the human brain adopts a necessary strategy -- simplify.  A common example of the kind of simplification that our brains employ is the "rule of thumb".  Rather than figure out precisely why something happens, which would require delving into impossible complexity, we look for patterns.  We select and use the most evident patterns to explain what we wish to understand.  Finding patterns is something our brains do relatively well, to the point that we often find patterns that are false and misleading.  This is the inherent danger of simplification -- it usually leads to false and misleading "rules of thumb".  The conundrum is that we are practically forced to simplify, given our feeble brainpower.

Take science as an example.  We tend to think of science as our crowning achievement.  What do humans do when they do science?  They probe the complexity of the world, look for patterns, and try to reduce the patterns into simple formulas.  If those formulas can describe the complexity that we are aware of, we cry "eureka" and claim to have the answer.  Eventually, we discover that there are patterns that we didn't recognize that the formulas can't account for, and we are forced back to the drawing board to address the additional complexity.  Either that or we simply cover up the anomalies and refocus our attention on the successes of our existing paradigm, which is more often the case, and oh so much simpler.  Newton's "law" of gravity is a classic example.  Though the average human can hardly fathom this formula, scientists marvel at its simplicity and usefulness.  Yet human understanding of gravity is woefully inadequate and primitive.  We really don't even know what gravity is.  Alien spacecraft regularly demonstrate a mastery of gravity beyond our simple "rule of thumb".  So what do we do?  We ignore it, we dismiss it, we cover it up, and we point to the successes of our understanding of gravity.  Foolish humans.

The complexity we are faced with is indeed daunting.  We don't even understand ourselves.  For as long as humans have existed, we have tried to understand how our bodies work.  All we have come up with is a progression of less and less ridiculous "rules of thumb".  The average human cannot even fathom the chemistry of the Krebs Cycle (also known as the citric acid cycle), which is only one chemical pathway in the huge symphony of chemical reactions that makes us function.  Is it any wonder that we have been so reliant in the past on the grossest simplification our brains can conceive of, the very epitome of the "ignorance is bliss" philosophy -- that "God" did it?

Battle lines

The sociopath's original motivation.

There are two sides in this long-running battle.  One side vastly outnumbers the other, on the order of 1000 to 1 or better.  For the most part, this horde is completely unorganized with respect to waging battle.  In fact, they aren't even aware that there is a war going on.  They cannot identify the enemy because they don't realize there is an enemy.  They are ignorant, and they are losing.  Because they are oblivious to their gradual defeat, they are very content with the way things currently are.  Their primary concern is their immediate, individual comfort.  These are the "normals".

The other side, though vastly outnumbered, is cunning, clandestine, and well organized.  They are patient, analytical, and unconstrained by moral considerations.  They know their enemy well, having made a science out of studying and experimenting on the horde over the course of many generations.  They are informed, and they are winning.  They are fighting a quiet war with silent weapons against an enemy that they keep in the dark by design.  Their primary concern is their own survival through the control and parasitic exploitation of the "normals".  These are the "deviants", also known as sociopaths.

There are two philosophies at work in this battle.  One is the "ignorance is bliss" mindset, and the other is "the pursuit of truth" philosophy.

The majority of the horde embraces "ignorance is bliss".  Their blissful ignorance keeps them comfortable and content, and it insulates them from becoming aware of the harm they are causing to their continued existence.  Each individual is like a cog in a machine whose ultimate function, unknown to the individual cogs, is to prepare its own destruction.

Most sociopaths embrace "the pursuit of truth".  Their motivation however is power, as they see the possession of truth as a means of manipulating the horde.  For sociopaths, knowledge is power, so they keep the most important knowledge of truth to themselves and withhold it from the horde.  As a result, sociopaths have come to dominate all positions of power, either directly or indirectly.

There are among the horde of "normals" a small minority that reject "ignorance is bliss" and embrace "the pursuit of truth".  That they are a small minority is no coincidence.  For this group to pursue truth requires that they give up commonly held fundamentals like comfort, the certainty of their beliefs, and the approval of their peers.  Their motivation is not to accumulate power to control others, but to benefit the welfare of all people by revealing and ending the exploitation of the sociopaths.  Unfortunately, they are actively targeted by the sociopaths and routinely ridiculed by most "normals", which guarantees their small numbers.

The "ignorance is bliss" philosophy is actually a powerful control mechanism employed by the sociopaths to exploit the masses.  While on its surface it seems harmless, even desirable, the opposite is true.  Consider the following true story, from the family history of a good friend of mine.  Her grandfather was an American homesteader that farmed wheat.  One of the uses of the harvested wheat seed was to produce grain alcohol.  This was during the Prohibition period, so the alcohol had to be made clandestinely, often at night, and it became known as "moonshine".  Hard-working farmers were known to blissfully enjoy the fruits of their labor in this form.  It could also be sold on the black market for a lucrative profit.  As the farmer prospered, his health gradually took a turn for the worse, and a common way to find relief from ailments at that time was to purchase patent medicines, sometimes sold as "snake oil" or "cure-all".  Interestingly enough, the main ingredient of these patent medicines was often moonshine.  As his aches and pains seemed to multiply, the farmer needed more patent medicine to ease his suffering.  Even though the medicine did numb the pain and provide welcome relief, the farmer's condition continued to worsen until his limbs would no longer work.  He became paralyzed and bed-ridden, withered away to skin and bones, and died relatively young.

Unknown to the farmer, his demise was caused by his own "success".  Farmers typically used old car radiators in their homemade stills to condense the alcohol vapors into liquid moonshine.  Those radiators were constructed using lead solder, and the alcohol condensed in those radiators often accumulated harmful amounts of lead.  The farmer, in his blissful ignorance of ingesting moonshine and patent medicines, had unknowingly poisoned himself with a fatal dose of lead.  (Note:  the cause of death in 1922 was diagnosed as pernicious anemia and paralysis -- lead poisoning was not even imagined.)  The poor man's ignorance had indeed been blissful, for a while, but the unrecognized harm resulting from that ignorance had ultimately cut short his life.

Like the wheat farmer, most "normals" have no clue of their approaching demise, or that their own actions are leading them there.  The sociopaths want it that way, because once the population of the "normals" is drastically reduced, the survival and domination of the parasitic sociopaths is much more secure.

Wake up, sheeple.  You had better let go of your comforting illusions and start listening to those annoying truth-seeking "normals".  They are the only ones acting in your best interests.

Info Pie - Part 2

Info Pie

As long as the general integrity of the Info Pie model is maintained, there is almost no way for the public to escape its deception.  They will remain trapped in an artificial matrix of false reality similar to the one portrayed in the movie "Matrix".  So how did I escape?  How did others escape, like the whistleblowers that try so desperately to wake up humanity to its unbelievable plight?  We've seen how investigating the "true" 20% of the Info Pie reinforces the illusion, as does, amazingly enough, investigating the "false" 30% portion.  The only thing left to investigate is the 50% portion that is withheld, and how can anyone investigate something that they are not allowed to know?

Like the whistleblowers themselves, and largely thanks to them, I escaped by uncovering small portions of the withheld information.  You don't need much.  Two or three hidden facts may be all the evidence you need to falsify one thing in the 30% portion of the Info Pie, and once you've done this a few times, you begin to suspect that everything in there could be a lie.  And the more hidden information you uncover, the more you realize that it is indeed nothing but a pack of lies.  The key to breaking out of the matrix is to uncover and piece together the withheld information with the skill and tenacity of a crime detective.  Because it is a crime, and we are the victims.

The Info Pie model is so effective that it is used not only in mass media, but in religion and government as well.  Not even education is exempt.  Much of history is hidden, which in turn has allowed a large portion of history to be fabricated in a way that can no longer be disputed.  The same goes for science.  Why would scientific discoveries need to be hidden?  Why was Nikola Tesla's work (free energy) confiscated and classified upon his death nearly 60 years ago?  Why was Stanley Meyer and his work (a car that ran on water) destroyed and never heard from again?  Why is so much of our science classified today?  Why has NASA hidden information, encrypted transmissions, and doctored pictures?

Now, at least, you know enough to question why.