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Good Day, Everyone!
Before we talk about fascinating topics, let’s gawk at a coronal mass ejection (CME) flung out by the Sun on April 9, observed in unprecedented detail by a fleet of spacecraft.
Astronomers have been able to create an animation from about ten hours of still-frame exposures of this spectacular event. Refer Harvard Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics
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Click here to view a 17-second video showing the Sun’s CME. Patience may be necessary for the long download into QuickTime player. |
Were you present in the labs when astronomers were putting together data to produce the 17-second video above? If not, how would you know for sure we were watching what has been reported for April 9? Was the video produced with data gathered during previous CMEs? Inquiring minds would want to know.
One thought to keep in mind, while remembering all things past and experiencing all things present, would be that nothing has been as it has appeared, nor nothing is as it appears. We are retraining ourselves, and we will likely stay awake for the rest of our lives to all things global.
These are the days to neither dismiss something just because it doesn’t match what we’ve been trained to believe, or what we’ve been trained to dismiss; nor are these days meant for tolerating a leader whose ambiguities entertain hope, or for disregarding a leader whose interrogations of authorities have already been dismissed by consensus with our friends and associates.
Keep asking questions no matter how much your sensibilities favor one idea over another. Whether viewing a video of a scholarly panel debating results of anti-Semitism, or reading a book by your favorite novelist, or studying a report on climate change by an award winning scientific journalist, ask questions as best you’re able. From observing seemingly quickened global events stacked closer and closer, assumptions we take on as ‘truth’ could blend within an hour into still another assumptive ‘truth.’
Here’s a simple, hollow-faced paper dragon that’s metaphoric of delusions and illusions too easily believable by uncurious Earthlings’ consumerized imaginations. Yet, curious people, who’ve trained for thinking through worlds of possibilities, might intuit a façade in a near instant.
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The most Staying Awake ezine is able to do for us is quite literally point our attention to an infinitesimal number of judgments, opinions, and evaluations. Our thought world is continually designed and produced to drive behaviors of most citizens this way or that in an entire population; insinuations and doublespeak are blasted daily in thousands of press releases received in media offices. Still, this writer’s sensibilities head straight for others’ writings and videos that point to possibilities suppressed from general populations’ awareness.
Staying awake to curiosities and intentions and possibilities and tendencies is like dancing with a bear. We keep on dancing, knowing if we flee, the bear might surprisingly reappear around the next corner grinning in our faces with its family!
What We Did not Know
What we did not know won’t hurt them may be interpreted as: information concealed from a populace won’t hurt the rulers who seek to gain by keeping any given citizenry naïve of the latest information, in any given day, for any purposes deemed fit by rulers manipulating the collective imagination.
Ruling citizenries by controlling the access to information has probably been one successful way to have kept our species from perishing into oblivion while constructing civilizations over millennia.
On the other hand, hierarchies’ pyramidal structure for distributing information is quickly flattening; too many citizenries understand, or are beginning to understand via Internet, what we did not know was happening to our global sisters and brothers.
I’m on the verge of changing the title Staying Awake to Staying Awake to Streams of Regulations, targeted particularly to consumerized, marginalized, robotized, and politicized North Americans. After rereading most Staying Awake ezines published over the last four years, psychology, strapped by thought control, appears thematic.
Not that these questions will be answered in this ezine, but they and others hover around—like bees in my bonnet—of what we did not know.
· In what ways are we able to observe the world of thought manipulations?
· In what ways do physical controls differ from psychical or memetic controls?
· How can we make believable our messages to taxpaying hirelings that we are not to blame ourselves once presumed totalitarian states ensue?
· In what ways can we live in a world of absoluteness yet remain as much as possible personally safe and psychologically sane?
Inviting Diversity
We taxpaying hirelings are doing our best to exist in vast worlds designed for felt yet unseen explorations in comprehension. While everything possible may be quickening, nothing is inevitable until it is.
My fingers are crossed thinking nothing is inevitable, hoping the very best for our global sisters and brothers now that I’m reading more of the purposes of apparently moody theocratic totalitarianism. Its associated brotherhoods within corporate capitalism construct USA arenas for war business, now extended into the 2009 Presidency.
If USA, exemplar of present-day hyperpower, has shown anything, it is the backlashes that entertain chauvinistic and racist brotherhoods. During thousands of years of civilizations, world-dominate powers have fallen precisely when their core cultures, once inviting diversities, turned intolerant toward inclusion. Adopting exclusionary tactics toward groups males tend to hate in turn debilitates inclusive policies, and domestic and foreign economies.
All the while, citizenries are irrelevant until their inflamed, public upset can be viewed in media as still another distraction from groups offering economic incentives that will provoke and sustain other selected bigotries.
Attempts to demonize immigrants, or to attribute USAs success to religious virtues are not only boosts for myopic vanity, such insinuations are deluded and explicitly wrongheaded. Alas,
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance, even to those who are intolerant; if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. ¹
Psychologically Impossible
As we Earthlings continue to find more dots to connect, we become puzzled, if not galled, with perceptions by which we’ve been trained. Without having stayed awake enough to understand human psychology or biotechnology, it’s been impossible to question power dominances within the delusive psychiatric industry.
“Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy… It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.
“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.
“Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.” ²
The controversy regarding mental illness and psychiatry is not about science or medicine, it’s about power. What do we know is true that psychiatry keeps telling us is false?
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Remember the Other Animals
Let’s review and gawk! Lest we forget, you, Dear Readers, and I are of a species fitly categorized in the animal kingdom. Just as elephants are trained, taxpayers can train into states of dependency as corporate capitalists wish hirelings to be.
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