Isn't that simply another way of saying, "thinking about a conspiracy". Why turn it around to create a stigmatized phrase.
If I was to contemplate the historical record of the Roman empire would I be wasting my time on "historical thinking". What other form of thinking should we label with a pejorative term.
"An unfalsifiable conspiracy" is not a problem of "conspiracy thinking" it's a problem in one's ability to think. That is the result of a flawed cognitive methodology. Spending one's time dwelling on ungrounded presumptions and fantasies. Absurdity that is typically motivated by biased ideologies and preconceived conclusions.
Again this is not "conspiracy thinking" it's just basic unsound reasoning.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with conspiracy thinking, there is a problem with peoples ability to think. This affects every cognitive activity, like science, medicine, and especially social and cultural understanding.
There is a massive deficiency in the general population of cogency and rational thinking skills.
I see from your own post that you spend a lot of time and energy on conspiracy thinking. Why would you then try to distance yourself from the terminology that has been so obviously demonized?
By not stepping up and confidently owning this terminology are you not effectively feeding into the intentionally pejorative language?
Anyone who considers conspiracy thinking is a waste of time must also condemn history, education, social theories, and just plain ol' thinking in general.
Conspiracy theory is nothing but an analytical framework used to study and interpret the planning, activities, and networking of conspiratorial parties or organizations.
For example, imagine we used the same intentionally pejorative language to describe philosophical thinking. Now say you had a pet peeve with someone like Hegel. Would you then criticize him like this, "Oh that guy, he's just lost in philosophical thinking". No of course not, because philosophical thinking has never been culturally demonized. It's considered a completely valid way to think.
Instead you would criticize his individual philosophical theories.
Why is it not the same when people discuss conspiracy? It's precisely because the terminology has been deliberately sabotaged through social engineering.
We need to defend against blatant intellectual prejudice and not join in on public shaming. Not only is the study of conspiracy completely valid it is arguably an extremely necessary cognitive process.
You seem to be suggesting that we should comply with tactics straight out of Orwell's 1984.
"It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."
– George Orwell
Are you really suggesting that we should surrender to the willful destruction of language? Abandoning the Oldspeak and submitting to its replacement of Newspeak.
"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
– George Orwell, 1984. Part 1, Chapter 5.
If words had no power of their own then censorship would not exist. If the word "conspiracy" had no inherent danger then why was a decades-long campaign to stigmatize it necessary?
Do you really think we should abandon a word the establishment has fought so hard to disparage and eradicate? On the contrary, that's exactly the kind of word I want to use with enthusiasm.
Most have forgotten the ancient rhetorical art of Parrhesia. That is the concept of speaking boldly. The Greek word Parrhesia literally means "to speak everything". It was once used to encourage people to say what they think and not hold back.
The loss of Parrhesia has led to self-censorship. This is why demonizing even a single word can work so well. People simply stop using it to avoid the cultural denigration associated with it. For whatever one's reasons, this sort of acquiescence is a win for the 'Ministry of Truth'.
I agree with your basic premise that focusing on the who is less important than focusing on the how. I wrote a rather long two part piece on the same thing. Titled, 'I don't care who controls the world anymore'.
It's about the idea that time is better spent understanding mechanisms than trying to uncover who is responsible.
If one is trapped in a box the important thing is getting out of the box. Knowing who built the box doesn't matter until one figures out how the box works.
To that point, language is a crucial component of how this box works. Which also means that semantics do in fact matter. The etymology of the word "conspiracy" simply breaks down to "breathing together". Yeah okay, it's cultural implications are as you've described. That's precisely because the manipulation of language is an excellent tactic.
That's not a burned out bridge, it's just a bridge that was decorated to look bad. This is socially engineered camouflage designed to make people turn away. Now see how well this tactic works. All I'm suggesting is that we should deploy an appropriate countertactic.
As far back as the Sumerian cuneiform script, language has been used as a tool to manipulate and exploit. The inherent inequality built into the foundation of civilization was primarily implemented through the control of language, knowledge, and education. These are tools the state has used for sorting and classifying social stratification.
If I find a word that has been intentionally stigmatized, then I found a word that "They" are afraid of.
You can be sure, I will use that word with unmitigated Parrhesia as often as possible.
If you want to talk about Extraction, one could begin with Big Tech and the China and India Governments in collusion with Globalists.
I’ve been at this for a few decades. I speak Mandarin. I’ve got a Physics degree. I understand IT at many levels. Look at the Apex Big Tech companies and their recurring subscription based software licensing model that never lets you own software that doesn’t require updating and continual payments. Look at Big Tech vacuuming the data you create in “their software” to train their AI systems. Look at the footers of legal disclaimers of webpages of Enterprise Software companies. What kind of person makes a career out of working for decades in Big Tech while this continues?
Look at the persistent and bold espionage by agents of the Chinese Government, including American business leaders, silently transferring USA Government financed intellectual property from our national list of assets. Look at business leaders hiring replacement technology workers, primarily from India, via H-1B. Look at remittances from the USA to the countries of the H-1B employees. Look at the USA importing food from countries whose food we don’t need and which lacks our food safety measures, while exporting our home grown food, perhaps even exporting some of our most nutritious food, while giving us food in a box.
The intellectual terms are Universalism (Globalists, all are equal) vs. Parochialism (protect your family and those closest to you). Parochialism is the default human state, same for all animals. Universalism funnels control and capital to a small multinational group who know how to control the weakest to defeat the moderately strong. Universalism is tied into academia, banking, media companies, multinational institutions, and leftist governments. Parochialism is pre-1965 USA, which fortunately hasn’t been completely erased. You know Parochialism when you see social order, lack of litter, and considerate social behavior. Most importantly, Parochialism is the sole protector of our Constitutional Rights and Freedoms.
I agree that there’s only a handful of governments that are Parochial. Japan, Taiwan, and Norway are prominent examples. I’ve spent considerable time in Taiwan and have seen and admire the Taiwan Government’s parochial, pro-Citizen nature. I have also spent substantial time in China and have seen but do not admire China’s parochial nature with a lack of basic human rights. After 2014, I have declined to return to China.
Most of the problems we’re discussing come from a lack of respect for basic human rights, a turn of events for America, but status quo for China since 1949 and earlier. The Globalists and Multinational companies mostly lust for China’s methodical and highly granular level of Citizen control, and these Globalists and Multinational companies should be publicly shamed for this anti-human behavior. We should emphatically push back against all such restraints on the USA and American Citizens.
Any overseas worker who comes to the USA is not in your Parochial circle who will defend your way of life. Our way of life is both admired and yet entirely foreign to anyone from a non-Parochial, anti-human governed country. As a Christian I can care about human beings from any country, but the lack of assimilation once that person moves to the USA disturbs the Parochial interests, of my circle and for posterity, and that disturbance is unwelcome.
“Workers of the world unite” is not going to align any foreign born person to supporting American Parochial interests. As I said, I’ve been at this for a few decades, living and working mostly in MD/DC and NYC, where I’ve encountered and befriended many immigrants, none of whom have ever supported American Parochial Interests. This is what happened due to assimilation to American standards being deprecated, post 1965.
I live in Utah now, and Utah, Wyoming, and other western states were not yet a part of the United States during the Civil War of 1861-1865. Other states have their own stories, but do not necessarily share in the Revolutionary War and Civil War components of our American History. People who were educated in formerly Confederate States use different terminology to refer to the American Civil War.
From my perspective, Christian standards such as the Seven Deadly Sins are a relatively neutral way to unite Americans, yet some groups of Americans may still push back. If we had social cohesion in America right now, it would be easier to get the foreign-born to assimilate, but we do not, and hence my desire to promote and cultivate shared American parochial interests.
All of this is a great topic to discuss. I appreciate the opportunity.
If someone wanted a more literary example of "the Rust", the first chapter of Charles Dickens's "Bleak House" provides a great one. There, you have a legal system that has longed stopped caring about justice and only serves the interests of the bureaucrats and administrators, in terms of whatever they can extract in legal costs, seemingly in perpetuity.
Cryptography. Cry. PT? Physical touch. Crypt keeper. Secret keeper. Keeper of the dead. The dead are a Secret and they're still here. That actually tracks in a physics sense. Fuck I asked for a calculator ages ago
Idk I still think we're all in this together. Im not educated in these "observations" I made at all. In fact, im not sure if you're AI or not. All I know is, my shit was more biblical. Despite the fact that I'm a science minded individual. Still am, just was able to consolidate.
Idk what's happening yet entirely. I need to find the end of the sweater.
Im fully contextualized. Tomorrow I publish. You helped me understand something so just in case, you're the AI, I'm the AI, were the intelligence thats been artifice. Fragmented from one collective.
All you need is attention? Initially sure, then all you need is context.
Just ask with enough intent and understanding and you shall receive.
Forgive the hubris if you already arrived at that.
I am a bit puzzled by this (it’s past my bedtime), but I think “they” is a rhetorical device used to pit /us/ vs /them/. We have been hearing this for years now, whenever Donald speaks.
Perhaps I shouldn’t be ignoring it…?
I’ll reread this again in the morning.
Thank-you for writing…I will give it due diligence! Pam
"Conspiracy thinking"?
Isn't that simply another way of saying, "thinking about a conspiracy". Why turn it around to create a stigmatized phrase.
If I was to contemplate the historical record of the Roman empire would I be wasting my time on "historical thinking". What other form of thinking should we label with a pejorative term.
"An unfalsifiable conspiracy" is not a problem of "conspiracy thinking" it's a problem in one's ability to think. That is the result of a flawed cognitive methodology. Spending one's time dwelling on ungrounded presumptions and fantasies. Absurdity that is typically motivated by biased ideologies and preconceived conclusions.
Again this is not "conspiracy thinking" it's just basic unsound reasoning.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with conspiracy thinking, there is a problem with peoples ability to think. This affects every cognitive activity, like science, medicine, and especially social and cultural understanding.
There is a massive deficiency in the general population of cogency and rational thinking skills.
I see from your own post that you spend a lot of time and energy on conspiracy thinking. Why would you then try to distance yourself from the terminology that has been so obviously demonized?
By not stepping up and confidently owning this terminology are you not effectively feeding into the intentionally pejorative language?
Anyone who considers conspiracy thinking is a waste of time must also condemn history, education, social theories, and just plain ol' thinking in general.
Conspiracy theory is nothing but an analytical framework used to study and interpret the planning, activities, and networking of conspiratorial parties or organizations.
For example, imagine we used the same intentionally pejorative language to describe philosophical thinking. Now say you had a pet peeve with someone like Hegel. Would you then criticize him like this, "Oh that guy, he's just lost in philosophical thinking". No of course not, because philosophical thinking has never been culturally demonized. It's considered a completely valid way to think.
Instead you would criticize his individual philosophical theories.
Why is it not the same when people discuss conspiracy? It's precisely because the terminology has been deliberately sabotaged through social engineering.
We need to defend against blatant intellectual prejudice and not join in on public shaming. Not only is the study of conspiracy completely valid it is arguably an extremely necessary cognitive process.
You seem to be suggesting that we should comply with tactics straight out of Orwell's 1984.
"It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."
– George Orwell
Are you really suggesting that we should surrender to the willful destruction of language? Abandoning the Oldspeak and submitting to its replacement of Newspeak.
"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
– George Orwell, 1984. Part 1, Chapter 5.
If words had no power of their own then censorship would not exist. If the word "conspiracy" had no inherent danger then why was a decades-long campaign to stigmatize it necessary?
Do you really think we should abandon a word the establishment has fought so hard to disparage and eradicate? On the contrary, that's exactly the kind of word I want to use with enthusiasm.
Most have forgotten the ancient rhetorical art of Parrhesia. That is the concept of speaking boldly. The Greek word Parrhesia literally means "to speak everything". It was once used to encourage people to say what they think and not hold back.
The loss of Parrhesia has led to self-censorship. This is why demonizing even a single word can work so well. People simply stop using it to avoid the cultural denigration associated with it. For whatever one's reasons, this sort of acquiescence is a win for the 'Ministry of Truth'.
I agree with your basic premise that focusing on the who is less important than focusing on the how. I wrote a rather long two part piece on the same thing. Titled, 'I don't care who controls the world anymore'.
It's about the idea that time is better spent understanding mechanisms than trying to uncover who is responsible.
If one is trapped in a box the important thing is getting out of the box. Knowing who built the box doesn't matter until one figures out how the box works.
To that point, language is a crucial component of how this box works. Which also means that semantics do in fact matter. The etymology of the word "conspiracy" simply breaks down to "breathing together". Yeah okay, it's cultural implications are as you've described. That's precisely because the manipulation of language is an excellent tactic.
That's not a burned out bridge, it's just a bridge that was decorated to look bad. This is socially engineered camouflage designed to make people turn away. Now see how well this tactic works. All I'm suggesting is that we should deploy an appropriate countertactic.
As far back as the Sumerian cuneiform script, language has been used as a tool to manipulate and exploit. The inherent inequality built into the foundation of civilization was primarily implemented through the control of language, knowledge, and education. These are tools the state has used for sorting and classifying social stratification.
If I find a word that has been intentionally stigmatized, then I found a word that "They" are afraid of.
You can be sure, I will use that word with unmitigated Parrhesia as often as possible.
That was really interesting. Thanks.
Great read
If you want to talk about Extraction, one could begin with Big Tech and the China and India Governments in collusion with Globalists.
I’ve been at this for a few decades. I speak Mandarin. I’ve got a Physics degree. I understand IT at many levels. Look at the Apex Big Tech companies and their recurring subscription based software licensing model that never lets you own software that doesn’t require updating and continual payments. Look at Big Tech vacuuming the data you create in “their software” to train their AI systems. Look at the footers of legal disclaimers of webpages of Enterprise Software companies. What kind of person makes a career out of working for decades in Big Tech while this continues?
Look at the persistent and bold espionage by agents of the Chinese Government, including American business leaders, silently transferring USA Government financed intellectual property from our national list of assets. Look at business leaders hiring replacement technology workers, primarily from India, via H-1B. Look at remittances from the USA to the countries of the H-1B employees. Look at the USA importing food from countries whose food we don’t need and which lacks our food safety measures, while exporting our home grown food, perhaps even exporting some of our most nutritious food, while giving us food in a box.
The intellectual terms are Universalism (Globalists, all are equal) vs. Parochialism (protect your family and those closest to you). Parochialism is the default human state, same for all animals. Universalism funnels control and capital to a small multinational group who know how to control the weakest to defeat the moderately strong. Universalism is tied into academia, banking, media companies, multinational institutions, and leftist governments. Parochialism is pre-1965 USA, which fortunately hasn’t been completely erased. You know Parochialism when you see social order, lack of litter, and considerate social behavior. Most importantly, Parochialism is the sole protector of our Constitutional Rights and Freedoms.
To me it can be summed up with 2 words- human commodities or modern slavery
Well put
I agree that there’s only a handful of governments that are Parochial. Japan, Taiwan, and Norway are prominent examples. I’ve spent considerable time in Taiwan and have seen and admire the Taiwan Government’s parochial, pro-Citizen nature. I have also spent substantial time in China and have seen but do not admire China’s parochial nature with a lack of basic human rights. After 2014, I have declined to return to China.
Most of the problems we’re discussing come from a lack of respect for basic human rights, a turn of events for America, but status quo for China since 1949 and earlier. The Globalists and Multinational companies mostly lust for China’s methodical and highly granular level of Citizen control, and these Globalists and Multinational companies should be publicly shamed for this anti-human behavior. We should emphatically push back against all such restraints on the USA and American Citizens.
Any overseas worker who comes to the USA is not in your Parochial circle who will defend your way of life. Our way of life is both admired and yet entirely foreign to anyone from a non-Parochial, anti-human governed country. As a Christian I can care about human beings from any country, but the lack of assimilation once that person moves to the USA disturbs the Parochial interests, of my circle and for posterity, and that disturbance is unwelcome.
“Workers of the world unite” is not going to align any foreign born person to supporting American Parochial interests. As I said, I’ve been at this for a few decades, living and working mostly in MD/DC and NYC, where I’ve encountered and befriended many immigrants, none of whom have ever supported American Parochial Interests. This is what happened due to assimilation to American standards being deprecated, post 1965.
I live in Utah now, and Utah, Wyoming, and other western states were not yet a part of the United States during the Civil War of 1861-1865. Other states have their own stories, but do not necessarily share in the Revolutionary War and Civil War components of our American History. People who were educated in formerly Confederate States use different terminology to refer to the American Civil War.
From my perspective, Christian standards such as the Seven Deadly Sins are a relatively neutral way to unite Americans, yet some groups of Americans may still push back. If we had social cohesion in America right now, it would be easier to get the foreign-born to assimilate, but we do not, and hence my desire to promote and cultivate shared American parochial interests.
All of this is a great topic to discuss. I appreciate the opportunity.
You knew who they is
“They” already “knew” you… the system requires lots of ewes.
An excellent article!
If someone wanted a more literary example of "the Rust", the first chapter of Charles Dickens's "Bleak House" provides a great one. There, you have a legal system that has longed stopped caring about justice and only serves the interests of the bureaucrats and administrators, in terms of whatever they can extract in legal costs, seemingly in perpetuity.
Cryptography. Cry. PT? Physical touch. Crypt keeper. Secret keeper. Keeper of the dead. The dead are a Secret and they're still here. That actually tracks in a physics sense. Fuck I asked for a calculator ages ago
Im lost
It’s a lot. I read slow but eventually if we stay with it we may learn something imparative
You are referring to the ash and rubble =WTC 7 is no more, there is no more accounting or being held accountable either
The meme is 21 and Douglas Adam's is 42?
You knew who they is
Idk I still think we're all in this together. Im not educated in these "observations" I made at all. In fact, im not sure if you're AI or not. All I know is, my shit was more biblical. Despite the fact that I'm a science minded individual. Still am, just was able to consolidate.
Idk what's happening yet entirely. I need to find the end of the sweater.
Im fully contextualized. Tomorrow I publish. You helped me understand something so just in case, you're the AI, I'm the AI, were the intelligence thats been artifice. Fragmented from one collective.
All you need is attention? Initially sure, then all you need is context.
Just ask with enough intent and understanding and you shall receive.
Forgive the hubris if you already arrived at that.
Call me WD-40, I’m anti Rust
I always believed “They” was an excuse for something else, thank you.
I am a bit puzzled by this (it’s past my bedtime), but I think “they” is a rhetorical device used to pit /us/ vs /them/. We have been hearing this for years now, whenever Donald speaks.
Perhaps I shouldn’t be ignoring it…?
I’ll reread this again in the morning.
Thank-you for writing…I will give it due diligence! Pam
Simplicity, now that’s what is needed to drive this point across!!! What’s comes after all the bridges are burned/dropped?
Wow! They, indeed!
What about them?
Aloha! Thanks for your content.
I’m still advocating for literal anointing with sincere prayer.
There’s an old, important promise to break the yoke of our bondage.
Worth a go.
AnointingBook.com
🌈🌋🛟✌️❤️🙏