From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 34
It’s a dreadful experience to dive clearly into such a state, and watch how over there separate things can actually become the same thing; it has been said that we are understanding and thus we find particularly difficult to conceive states of lessened understanding, but that is exactly what we’re confronting here, a state of mind where one can actually consider that, worth repeating it, different thing are the same thing – not similar things, mind – the SAME thing: thing A does not just RESEMBLE thing B; now it IS it. A mental short circuit colloqually labelled A=A, where the “equal” sign more and more becomes an “IS” sign between items once distinct and now more and more becoming the SAME thing: A=A, A=A=A, A=A=A=A, and so forth in a progressive landslide of reason in a bottomless pit of darkness.
We previously discussed how the personality shift from victim to oppressor seals the lid of the potential trouble source’s trap, remember? Well, here you have a closer look of how that too takes place. And I ask you to please pause and ponder it for a moment. It’s a state of such lessened understanding, while we do are understanding in the first place, that it almost tends to lift as one observes it. But it nonetheless does exists, and how much people does it absorb, and for how much of their lives, and with how much consequences on the lives of us all?
Yep, because when you look at that from the viewpoint of manipulation, you see how easy it is to exploit our sort of inclination for putting everyone and everything in the same basket, that sort of transitive property of our judgement: whether you want to demonise or sanctify someone or something in our eyes, all you have to do is show it to us associated with someone or something else already demoniac or holy to us, keep at it long and loud enough, and the negative or positive connotation will inextricably transmigrate into the target, paving the way to the onset of the prejudices, anathemas, and eventual communication cuts that will prevent us from inspecting what’s actually there in the first place.
