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Wilder that my perception is rebuilding it from the electromagnetic signals travelling down my optic nerves, and that I need to be reminded that perception is not reality.

There will come a point when enough people realise that casual categorisation, delivered by a trusted anchor, from behind a trusted logo, in a serious voice, is not journalism. It's a hijack of our trust-&-narrative learning system. It silently rewires our deep pattern-based belief system. A subtler, more sophisticated version of what Hitler’s Reich and the Communist revolutions achieved. It works by hacking the elements of our mental systems that were once grounded in religion and spiritual tradition, and replacing them with cognitive malware that does not serve us, the hosts. Once your belief system is hijacked, you’re owned by a command-and-control system with the power to direct your emotions, perceptions, actions, and speech .. .. all while making it feel like free will, doing the right thing. It is a powerful hack: Perfectly tuned to our evolved psychology, leaving us utterly unprotected against mass-media, censorship, and ideologically driven programming. We are running blind. Exposed in zero-trust environments. With an unnoticed, 'zero-day' cognitive vulnerability. Being exploited a hundred times a day. We all need to be as wise to this as Alex.

Those inside the system, are in a slightly separate reality from those without. One which incentivises the adoption of the beliefs of their own propaganda. Doubling down happens here, dropping those outside of the system out of the Matrix, into confusion and clarity at the same time, while that separate reality or the state continues to diverge, taking those on-board with it. Many people in positions of power have exploited this vulnerability, through corruption of one form or another, which we never cease to be shocked by, despite our history, and all of us knowing what humans are like. That separate reality, is best described by @DesmetMattias in his various discussions of what he calls ‘Mass Formation. It always seems to end in some kind of a crash, only because we fight with, and over, the symptoms, never seeing the root cause. Probably because we are stuck on the back-side of our own perceptual machinery. It’s a simple thing to overcome, but horribly uncomfortable.

What if nobody is? Is our metacognitive blind spot the ghost in the machine? ‘The System’, is exactly that, a system. Censorship interferes with negative feedback, and for any system, this makes cycles of positive feedback likely. 1/2

“It is not the structure of a system that determines its violence. It is the extent to which it must suppress the human spirit, to survive.”

If we faced, understood and owned our human-animal nature, and sought to integrate it safely, nobody would be masking anything. We would be building in with our human nature in mind, not on principle, but as sound design practice for a balanced, stable system. 4/4

When Capitalism looks like the answer, your Socialism is failing. When Socialism looks like the answer, your Capitalism is failing. 3/4

Capitalist political systems tend to run out or moral currency Socialist political systems tend to run out of financial currency 2/4

Capitalist politics masks human traits including greed Socialist politics masks human traits including envy Both mask the human traits that form corruptibility 1/4 🧵

Have the UK Government's moral optics outpaced their safety obligations, their fiscal responsibilities, and their grip on reality?

100-monkeys-style, I keep seeing comments where our baked-in tribal nature has us acting insane. It is a powerful attack vector for an adversary, or a system that needs to control your mind to have the Management hitting their KPI's, or election promises. 3/3 x.com/TheProjectUnity/status…

Here's an explanation of the effect of lacking this understanding. It's a vulnerability that we are largely unaware of. 2/3

Which is the exact understanding that so many are missing. It’s easy to look evil or stupid but what if it’s confusion and perceptual distortion, implanted by a system that aims to keep you anxious, controllable and under its various spellcraft narratives? 1/3

Are what we think of as “Stupid Questions”, often what is hiding the answer or next clue in finding it?

If we want the system to change, then we might have to awaken, just enough to become no-longer vulnerable to having our beliefs modified, without our knowledge or permission. Not to topple the system, but to direct it towards truth. Thoughts? 7/7

It seems like an inevitable human cycle. But can we break it? 6/7

Apologies in advance. Brace yourself .. 5/7

Yes, there are bad leaders. But what if they are a symptom? What might be the cause? 4/7

This doesn't require an evil genius at the top. Just a fairly common set of human blindspots which provide cover for certain universal evolved-in impulses. 3/7