Freed Fox
10th March 2013, 02:21
As human beings we like to paint with broad strokes. Doing otherwise requires a greater complexity in our thinking. Dealing in absolutes does us little service, and in fact can do much harm.
Think of the concepts and movements which have been co-opted as a result of this practice. Hippies were thought of and portrayed as dirty, smelly, lazy, drug-addled misfits and thus the things they believed in and talked about were regarded in the same light.
As the wise modwiz once said regarding a similar idea, "it either gets infected or disinfected. If it can't be made to replicate the virus, it will be rendered sterile".
This includes environmentalism. "Tree-hugger" is one of the labels I hate the most. Such is seen as ungrounded, idealistic, lovey-dovey garbage. If you really think about it, though, being an advocate of the environment is the most grounded and intelligent approach to these issues. What could possibly be more important than ensuring the continuation of this planet and its ability to support life?
Unfortunately, the policies of many governments and corporations suggest that the economy is more important than the environment. This is afforded public support in part through the use of labels such as 'tree-hugger', and the associated images which are evoked.
This is the way public perception is ever so subtly influenced; mental association and our tendency to think in absolutes.
There should be nothing taboo or shameful about the 'New Age', as many of the concepts contained therein are empowering and beneficial. Over time it has been co-opted, at least in part, by individuals who are pseudo-spiritual 'gurus' looking to make a quick buck from what they see as an exploitable demographic (or, they are simply narcissists looking to feed their ego). It doesn't take long for the whole subset of concepts and ideas to be bastardized, and this becomes all that outsiders see.
The baby is thrown out with the bathwater on a routine basis.
When someone is brainwashed, it is often through usage of 'triggers'. That is, seeing or hearing one thing elicits the thinking or acting out of another. It is not because the trigger and the result are actually intimately related. This is a designed response, and often the trigger is completely different from the effect it brings about.
Advertisements do the very same thing. They make repeated suggestions that in order to experience happiness, belonging, fulfillment, we need to go out and buy x, y, and z. X = happiness, Y = belonging, and Z = fulfillment.
This brings me to the way in which extraterrestrials and particularly reptillians are depicted. Now, in pop culture (TV, movies, etc) they are almost unanimously villainous. I think this is conditioning akin to what is described above.
I'm not interested in any major debate about E.T. influence or who is really behind the so-called Powers-That-Be. What is absolutely undeniable about this is that somewhere near the top of the pyramid are human beings just like you and me, except less empathetic and more sociopathic. Whether or not E.T.'s occupy the level above these people, this control relies upon the existence of human controllers.
Now, if you take the view that much (if not all) of the mainstream media is controlled or at least overseen or dictated by these controllers, then why would E.T.'s be portrayed so negatively? Why are almost all reptillian humanoids in fictional works cast as villains? Completely counter-intuitive if you buy in to the so-called 'reptillian agenda'.
I absolutely advocate caution. We must remain aware that deception can and does take place. However, I think it would be the deepest tragedy if there was at last an open visitation by benevolent E.T.s, only for them to be killed or chased away by paranoid fanatics just because said E.T.s happen to be reptiles. The way some people around here talk, it sounds as if there is nothing any E.T. race could possibly do to earn their trust. I'm afraid that ego-driven, human-centric kind of thinking would only exacerbate the problem.
Not all humans are either good or bad. Some are virtuously good and others are horrifically bad. That is the truth you will find by looking at Earth and her history objectively. Therefore it only makes sense that other sentient beings would follow the same basic principle.
One bad apple DOES NOT spoil the bunch. If you actually believe that, then you are all just as bad as Adolf Hitler, or Genghis Khan, or any other murderer or rapist who has ever existed.
Please, don't fall prey to baseless speculation and/or false equivalency.
Be wary of absolutes.
Think of the concepts and movements which have been co-opted as a result of this practice. Hippies were thought of and portrayed as dirty, smelly, lazy, drug-addled misfits and thus the things they believed in and talked about were regarded in the same light.
As the wise modwiz once said regarding a similar idea, "it either gets infected or disinfected. If it can't be made to replicate the virus, it will be rendered sterile".
This includes environmentalism. "Tree-hugger" is one of the labels I hate the most. Such is seen as ungrounded, idealistic, lovey-dovey garbage. If you really think about it, though, being an advocate of the environment is the most grounded and intelligent approach to these issues. What could possibly be more important than ensuring the continuation of this planet and its ability to support life?
Unfortunately, the policies of many governments and corporations suggest that the economy is more important than the environment. This is afforded public support in part through the use of labels such as 'tree-hugger', and the associated images which are evoked.
This is the way public perception is ever so subtly influenced; mental association and our tendency to think in absolutes.
There should be nothing taboo or shameful about the 'New Age', as many of the concepts contained therein are empowering and beneficial. Over time it has been co-opted, at least in part, by individuals who are pseudo-spiritual 'gurus' looking to make a quick buck from what they see as an exploitable demographic (or, they are simply narcissists looking to feed their ego). It doesn't take long for the whole subset of concepts and ideas to be bastardized, and this becomes all that outsiders see.
The baby is thrown out with the bathwater on a routine basis.
When someone is brainwashed, it is often through usage of 'triggers'. That is, seeing or hearing one thing elicits the thinking or acting out of another. It is not because the trigger and the result are actually intimately related. This is a designed response, and often the trigger is completely different from the effect it brings about.
Advertisements do the very same thing. They make repeated suggestions that in order to experience happiness, belonging, fulfillment, we need to go out and buy x, y, and z. X = happiness, Y = belonging, and Z = fulfillment.
This brings me to the way in which extraterrestrials and particularly reptillians are depicted. Now, in pop culture (TV, movies, etc) they are almost unanimously villainous. I think this is conditioning akin to what is described above.
I'm not interested in any major debate about E.T. influence or who is really behind the so-called Powers-That-Be. What is absolutely undeniable about this is that somewhere near the top of the pyramid are human beings just like you and me, except less empathetic and more sociopathic. Whether or not E.T.'s occupy the level above these people, this control relies upon the existence of human controllers.
Now, if you take the view that much (if not all) of the mainstream media is controlled or at least overseen or dictated by these controllers, then why would E.T.'s be portrayed so negatively? Why are almost all reptillian humanoids in fictional works cast as villains? Completely counter-intuitive if you buy in to the so-called 'reptillian agenda'.
I absolutely advocate caution. We must remain aware that deception can and does take place. However, I think it would be the deepest tragedy if there was at last an open visitation by benevolent E.T.s, only for them to be killed or chased away by paranoid fanatics just because said E.T.s happen to be reptiles. The way some people around here talk, it sounds as if there is nothing any E.T. race could possibly do to earn their trust. I'm afraid that ego-driven, human-centric kind of thinking would only exacerbate the problem.
Not all humans are either good or bad. Some are virtuously good and others are horrifically bad. That is the truth you will find by looking at Earth and her history objectively. Therefore it only makes sense that other sentient beings would follow the same basic principle.
One bad apple DOES NOT spoil the bunch. If you actually believe that, then you are all just as bad as Adolf Hitler, or Genghis Khan, or any other murderer or rapist who has ever existed.
Please, don't fall prey to baseless speculation and/or false equivalency.
Be wary of absolutes.