{"id":30768,"date":"2018-02-09T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30768"},"modified":"2018-02-09T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:31:13","slug":"the-mind-games-people-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30768","title":{"rendered":"The (Mind) Games People Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twoicefloes.com\/the-mind-games-people-play\/#more-15724\">THE (MIND) GAMES PEOPLE PLAY<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>Fair warning! This is a long and dense read and not intended for the faint-hearted<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While most of us would accept there are two states of mind when it comes to <em><u>perceiving<\/u><\/em> <em>reality<\/em>, belief and disbelief, I posit there are three. And this third state of mind, the suspension of disbelief, is employed by nearly all of us most of the time when interacting within our own <em>perceived<\/em> reality.<\/p>\n<p>If we are to recognize the prevailing global cultural insanity as a long duration event, meaning it started many centuries ago and will last many centuries beyond today, being logical and rational, while an essential component of survival, can only be viewed as a significant disability when trying to make sense of an insane world.<\/p>\n<p>This is particularly true when we closely examine group and individual psychology and how it affects everything from culture to money to politics and all the prevailing memes in-between. Any sober assessment of the human condition leads to one conclusion only. Everyone is insane, including you and me. It is only a matter of degree, not if.<span id=\"more-15724\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That said; for the sake of this article let us assume one can be sane enough to recognize his or her own insanity. While nearly all will point to the actual behavior of the insane as proof of the illness, I tend to focus on the driving force behind the behavior. My experience shows this to be our horribly distorted belief system(s) which propel us deeper and deeper into our madness.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>belief<\/em> is a misnomer for what actually occurs in the <em>real<\/em> world. The word <em>belief<\/em> implies action, intent and effort, as in a verb or adjective. However this should be differentiated from <strong>passive<\/strong> belief, which is a subconscious and conscious embrace of a thought or idea which we embody in whole and absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3934,2675,18449,5730,621,669,766],"class_list":["post-30768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-belief","tag-cognitive-dissonance","tag-disbelief","tag-insanity","tag-perception","tag-reality","tag-survival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30769,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30768\/revisions\/30769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}