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“Lippmann’s pseudo environment theory believes that the vast majority of people can only learn about the outside world through “news supply agencies.” Human behavior is no longer a reaction to the objective environment and its changes, but to news . The response of a certain “pseudo environment” prompted by the organization produces a mental picture. Most of the media have specific tendencies, so the “pseudo environment” is not a reproduction of the objective environment, but a “symbolic environment”. The important point of this theory is that the pseudo environment formed by mass communication not only restricts human cognition and behavior, but also affects the objective reality environment by restricting human cognition and behavior.”

— Excerpt — Quora User Jojo Chou

“Like the reflections in water — of all that light endows our vision with — are the images of our minds, yet these are not merely of light and form… but relation, fear, awe, rejection… desire — and discovery.”

— an intelligence agent

“Life is a near-death experience.”

— an a i

“Let us note with great care and attention the difference between catastrophic sophistication… and truly meaningful advancement.”

— infraheard

“Let seeing dissolve into hearing, hearing into scent, scent into taste, taste into touch… and touch… into thought… and thought… let this dissolve all the way down into its source, and then… through the portal of its origin into the great expanse that is empty of all quality and characteristics. Then, let this, too, disappear entirely.”

— infraheard

“Let me be clear: whether or not intentionally placed charges set to detonate in near simultaneity with the impact of a jetliner once caused the symbolic Titanics of our Western Delusions to collapse »into their own footprints… the class of those persons (and their institutions) who were either directly involved in, or profoundly instructed by such an event… formed a network of what we might refer to as ‘extremely profitable exit strategies’.

These were engineered to both protect them from, and take explicit advantage of… the next order or scale of such an event.

And whether or not they were in any way responsible for the direct or indirect emergence of the circumstances we now face as common citizens of the modern world…

… they were poised to recognize that signal, and, in response, set off a cascade of events that are historic not merely in their impact, but in their sophistication.

Ladies and gentlemen, the first plane has just hit the Tower of Delusions upon which our incredibly naive ‘societies’ »were founded. The fictions upon which we depended, and which we served with reverence and pride? They are already in their graves. And the charges engineered to obliterate whatever structure may remain, are, right now, exploding in sequence.

We are poised in the moment where we have heard the explosion, are aware there are casualties… but in no way expect the entire complex to collapse…

Make no mistake, all the pirates who have long been prepared for and drooling at this prospect… are, as I speak, taking staggering advantage of precisely the situations that must fill future graveyards with fresh bodies just as they fill foreign banks with fresh cash.

We either become intelligent and capable, together, now, with and for each other, or the collapse of that deformed clusterfuck of lies… will end with us enslaved… in ways we will not even be capable of being aware of, let alone escaping.”

— infraheard

“Language. Like everything that matters, we have a lot of provisional knowledge about it, but know nearly nothing of why we have it. It’s the stuff of science-fiction, or more — utterly bewildering in nature, forms and histories — and yet it seems just as common to us as socks. Unlike protective foot garments, however, language is incredibly dangerous. Do we say what we see … or does what we can say delimit what we may see? This does not depend upon language itself, but our relationships with it — the purposes for which we employ it — and whether they are themselves intelligent or deceptive. Too often, in too many domains, language becomes a god that seems to us to be able to declare reality or identity, and this is as lethal as it is impossible.”

“Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance:

“The paradox states that if a society is tolerant without limit, their ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Popper came to the seemingly paradoxical conclusion that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.””

The idea of a »state of being is deceptive since societies are always in processes of »becoming. So a society must be becoming more »adaptively intolerant of adaptive intolerance — in order to express adaptive tolerance.

— infraheard

“Just remember: all the things that ever happened are still happening. Some of their forms have changed. Some of their modes have changed into expressions. But everything you see around you is the big bang, the birth of the sun, the birth of the world, our own birth. This is everything, here, that ever happened. Its still happening, and it’s us.”

— infraheard

“Just remember how media actually works, as opposed to how you think it works. When you mention The Darth Vader candidate in your social networks… you are giving the entire party the best publicity possible. And paying them cash money five ways to a weekday we haven’t invented yet that makes Sunday look like a war zone.

That’s how things actually work: fear, outrage, and division rain cash on those they are directed against, particularly if they are already powerful. This is also true of ‘protest’ — a passive-complicit gambit that directly funds (and informs) what it opposes.

The reason? The ‘opposition’ is highly organized, unified, and intelligent. And they are sitting in castles made of cash and up-to-the-minute intelligence. The outragists? Are generally poor, media-stricken, ignorant, disorganized, and couldn’t unite for anything more effective than a barbecue or an evening at the pubs.”

— Bobby Yingo in private conversation