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There Will Be Blood…And Many More Lies
THERE WILL BE BLOOD…AND MANY MORE LIES I suppose if we randomly stopped people in the street and asked if they were an honest person, the vast majority of answers would be in the affirmative. And if we applied a generous and flexible definition to the word “honest”, I suspect people might actually be considered […]
Mad World
MAD WORLD And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take When people run in circles it’s a very very Mad world, mad world The haunting Gary Jules […]
A Few Screws Loose
A FEW SCREWS LOOSE Twice a year, usually in the spring and fall, I haul out one of my extension ladders, fill my back pockets with various wrenches and screwdrivers, and venture up onto our log cabin roof. My purpose is always the same; tighten any loose nuts and bolts on our solar array and […]
Control the Narrative and You Control the People
Control the Narrative and You Control the People It is extremely difficult to get where you are going if you don’t know where you presently are. And you can’t know where you are if you don’t know where you have been. Control the narrative and you effectively control the people. When my son was young […]
Impotence and Denial: The Desperate Virtue Signaling Voices
IMPOTENCE AND DENIAL: THE DESPERATE VIRTUE SIGNALING VOICES Regardless of whether we are speaking of individuals or groups, what is not said is often far more important and enlightening than what is. How and why we self censor while conforming to the collective hive mind speaks volumes about whom and what controls, or at least […]
The Entire Western World Lives In Cognitive Dissonance
The Entire Western World Lives In Cognitive Dissonance In this column I am going to use three of the current top news stories to illustrate the disconnect that is everywhere in the Western mind. Let us begin with the family separation issue. The separation of children from immigrant/refugee/asylum parents has caused such public outcry that […]
America’s Debt Dependence Makes It An Easy Economic Target
America’s Debt Dependence Makes It An Easy Economic Target There is a classic denial tactic that many people use when confronted with negative facts about a subject they have a personal attachment to; I would call it “deferral denial” — or a psychological postponing of reality. For example, point out the fundamentals on the U.S. economy […]
We Prefer Our Sociopaths Well Dressed and Spoken
WE PREFER OUR SOCIOPATHS WELL DRESSED AND SPOKEN What would you do if I told you not to think about elephants? Yeah, I thought so. Me too! Effective denial of a subject or thought is actually quite difficult to achieve on a consistent basis, particularly if it carries with it great emotional weight and impact. […]
Is There a Method to the Socratic Madness?
IS THERE A METHOD TO THE SOCRATIC MADNESS? Bear with me, and let’s together consider a scenario: Imagine one day you wake up, turn on the TV, and there is complete pandemonium. The news has just broken that the Trump administration has set up military tribunals; arrested hundreds of members of both political parties; arrested […]
The (Mind) Games People Play
THE (MIND) GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Fair warning! This is a long and dense read and not intended for the faint-hearted While most of us would accept there are two states of mind when it comes to perceiving reality, belief and disbelief, I posit there are three. And this third state of mind, the suspension of […]
Wisdom, Experience and Just-In-Time Thinking
Wisdom, Experience and Just-In-Time Thinking I try to remind myself each generation considers itself smarter than the previous iteration. If you follow the bouncing logic ball, this means the next (younger) generation believes itself smarter than its present day cohort. In essence the millennial generation of today feels superior to those older than them while […]
This and That Vol. 4–Mid Winter Musings
THIS AND THAT VOL 4 – MID WINTER MUSINGS Probably the one topic Mrs. Cog and I return to more often than any other is our amazement how so many people who profess awareness and understanding of the coming chaos and hard times remain firmly rooted in their present situation. Despite acknowledging the runaway train […]
Resistance if Futile: The Borg Empire’s State of Mind
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE: THE BORG EMPIRE’S STATE OF MIND Despite claims to the contrary, it is extremely difficult to differentiate between reality and the Borg Empire’s State of Mind. If you live and die in a water filled fish bowl where algae, barnacles and various other vision obscuring detritus slowly accumulate on the circular glass […]
Bitcoin: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
BITCOIN: THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD “Sell the sizzle, not the steak.” – Oldest sales trick in the book “Resistance is futile. You must assimilate” – The Borg Once I discover what triggers or motivates a person, and then figure out how to activate it, I can sell anything. And it doesn’t even need to […]
