It’s fascinating to see how quickly the West has descended into manic hysteria over Russia, almost as if on cue. On whose cue? The CCP, naturally, among others. These are long-term, military-level psychological operations. Everything is cleverly orchestrated…
Tag: narrative
The stories we live by in a society, and as a civilization, are a cross-pollination of narratives, derived from age-old belief systems, traditions, rituals, religions and literature, tempered and adapted organically by modern epistemology, pedagogy, philosophy, cultural context and the purely experiential. There’s an inherent, and perhaps predictable narrowing, or reduction, of the “allowable” within these structures. And because of an inevitable tendency toward identity and ideology, our struggles individually and socially arise as and when this unconscious mechanism is either unwittingly or deliberately used against us.
As one delves deeper into unraveling the true nature of things, it becomes increasingly evident that nothing about this world defines much in the way of certainty. It’s all theater, variations on themes, recycled myths, stories and narratives, and endless apparent cycles of birth, death and renewal. What do we really know about the truth of anything?
We’re talking, sharing opinions, arguing and debating, but we’re not listening. We’re absolutely not listening to each other.
It’s almost amusing how ramped up the efforts have become regarding the silencing, censoring, blocking, erasing and banning of dissenting, contradicting, “alternative” voices. Are you at all concerned?