From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 28
The obvious requisite of observing is having there one to do the observing; could this be the issue? Could it be the case that our physical mass is all there, but some of our attention is not − and a rather large amount, judging by our near−stall speed? So, if not in the here and now, where in the world is that attention of ours scattered, if one may ask? In short: where are we? But we're daunted, too, come to think of it. So let's add a second question: what in the world made us that overawed? In short: where are we hiding, and what are we hiding from?
In light of these two questions, it's as if we had been kicked in the teeth for very long, until we learned the hard way that whatever we say or decide or do, or even observe, or we don't say, decide, do or observe, it's our fault anyway and we're wrong and entitled to some punishment, whatever. So whatever we say or don’t say, do or not do, etc., we had better be circumspect, very circumspect; after all, we’re waiting for the next blow anyway, isn’t it? And out of all this distraction we’re quite prone to make mistakes, too, and all these are but symptoms of quite an amount of suppression received, not handled and accumulated, which is to say, a serious potential trouble source condition.
And that's why history is that slow and civilisation takes eons to progress imperceptibly. And that’s another factor that makes us so malleable in the hands of manipulators: we’re too daunted, overawed, slow and distracted to realize being manipulated. Just guess at the amount of additional damage for us all for every hour, day, year, century wasted waiting for us to wake up.
We’re somnambulists:
Lazy and half asleep, we’re prone to drift into semi−hypnotic states. Instead of mastering our attention with self−discipline, we seem to reward that sort of cellular instinct whose highest aim is that “energy saving” state where once the stomach is full all that’s left to do is yawn and scratch it. As a result not only the mainstream media but even education are planned to push us along that line with all sorts of lullabies.
