Explanation: The Fallacy in Psychological Terms
The previous post simplifies some complex human psychology and sociology. Basically, your dissonance with your social role has been rectified by assuming a group identity instead of working to create consonance with a clearly defined individual identity. This allows you the luxury of aggregate success--you are a success because you belong to a successful corporate body. But, this is not success grounded in living up to your full potential. It is ultimately hollow in the face of hardships because the individual parts are not strong enough to endure. If you are ever to really succeed, you must redefine your role, continue to gain information from multiple sources, and endure the disappointment of inconsistencies by actively testing the fit of new information for your success.
I submit that your responses to your dissonance—your attempt to regain balance and comfort—can take three forms: deception, distraction, or disillusionment. Each of the forms describes a state of mind, suggested by your environmental inputs, affecting choice behavior. Deception suggests that you do not have the authority to determine your role and make choices. Distraction keeps valuable information away from you or misinforms you so that your choices appear more limited than they are in reality. Disillusionment paints you into a corner of powerlessness and helplessness in which you remove yourself from considering the choices available.
Your single most important strength is your power to make a choice. Until now, your choices have lacked a defined role, have been misinformed, and have been made for speed and convenience rather than sustainability. It is now time to invest in the real you. Define your individual passion--your role. Learn and continued to seek information from diverse sources. Endure productively the process of time. Succeed!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The Mass Fallacy
Fallacy: the Function of Community is to Determine What is Truth
If you wanted to conquer the world, the method would be simple, yet brilliant: change the basic definitions of community. Utilize a behavioral intervention to perpetrate a mass hysteria with the goal of creating dissociative mental states as the norm. Utilize the need for homeostasis in each individual (and the penchant for laziness) and create institutions that force the balance of reason and emotion into unhealthy, irresponsible, poorly informed, yet comfortable choices. Seat the fallacy in institutions, because humans typically do not question the institution—the proverbial “they.” Create a sense and sensitivity to scarcity. Construct relationships as zero-sum propositions, in which each party must give an equal share to add up to one hundred percent.
Under the guise that “you will never be wrong,” convince a generation that faith is blind belief without question. Support that generation to teach a need to be right to their children. Define “right” as “truth,” “truth” as immutable, and immutability as strength of faith. Subtly, remove the greatest power from each individual: choice—the choice to challenge, the choice to question, and the choice to be great. Reduce a once empowering choice to a sophomoric question of in-group versus outsider—a question of a desire to belong. Since you all want to belong—we all want relationship—you do not care what the cost is. The institution has provided comfort that you can see. Others have conformed and prospered. You join with the others in our new blind faith, without question, with no request for reciprocity, and build the strength of our immutable truth. You know it is the truth—the ultimate level of our development potential—because it is not the “evil” you were participating in before.
If you wanted to conquer the world, the method would be simple, yet brilliant: change the basic definitions of community. Utilize a behavioral intervention to perpetrate a mass hysteria with the goal of creating dissociative mental states as the norm. Utilize the need for homeostasis in each individual (and the penchant for laziness) and create institutions that force the balance of reason and emotion into unhealthy, irresponsible, poorly informed, yet comfortable choices. Seat the fallacy in institutions, because humans typically do not question the institution—the proverbial “they.” Create a sense and sensitivity to scarcity. Construct relationships as zero-sum propositions, in which each party must give an equal share to add up to one hundred percent.
Under the guise that “you will never be wrong,” convince a generation that faith is blind belief without question. Support that generation to teach a need to be right to their children. Define “right” as “truth,” “truth” as immutable, and immutability as strength of faith. Subtly, remove the greatest power from each individual: choice—the choice to challenge, the choice to question, and the choice to be great. Reduce a once empowering choice to a sophomoric question of in-group versus outsider—a question of a desire to belong. Since you all want to belong—we all want relationship—you do not care what the cost is. The institution has provided comfort that you can see. Others have conformed and prospered. You join with the others in our new blind faith, without question, with no request for reciprocity, and build the strength of our immutable truth. You know it is the truth—the ultimate level of our development potential—because it is not the “evil” you were participating in before.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
The Revelation
Revelation: It’s not about you, but it is your fault.
The meaning of life is not a simple answer to your individual existence, but it is a function of your choice to act responsibly. I know that my best self will only be achieved in concert with you being your best self. And therein lies the challenge to our collective vision of perfection. I am not fearful of those that challenge me. I am not perplexed by those that conspire against me. I am not deterred by those that stand in my way. I am concerned with you who, for whatever reason, have not practiced your gifts or developed your talents. Now, I stand ready with my part of our collective vision, and you are not ready with your contribution. And, to add insult, you stand almost proud to proclaim that you have no clue of your gift and talents—no knowledge of the context of the choice you are responsible for.
Once, it was my fault as well as yours. Let me first apologize to those who came prepared before me. I apologize. I let many of you down. But, I learned. I have been ready with my contribution at every opportunity. I have been called arrogant, conceited, know-it-all, and the like, but my detractors could not compete with the sound nature of my counsel or question my preparation. I have been cast out of some circles, and self-exited from others. But, I have become unique, some may say peculiar. I now call to you to leave the comfort of conformity and renew your mind.
My call to you comes with an explanation. I am certain that it will be difficult to challenge your prevailing beliefs about your ability to influence the way the world works. I cannot promise that you will, in fact, achieve nirvana. But, I can with certainty educate you to define your role in society, offer a relationship based on reciprocity, and walk with you confidently to access new markets. To achieve these goals, we first must address your waste of mental energies. I chose the cognitive restructuring method in order to model for you how the very definitions you stand with today must give way to a vocabulary of a certain successful future.
Rather than focus on personifications of an enemy such as a Satan, or your boss, or the parent who failed you, this discourse refocuses the analysis on you. Admittedly, it is a more abstract proposition, but the barrier, the waste of energy itself is the enemy. We will thoroughly identify your dependence on the enemy for your own subsistence. Then, we will offer an alternative—a newly defined role, an approach to lifelong learning from diverse sources, and a system of continued productivity.
Next time I need you and your contribution. I would like for you to be ready. The deceptions, distractions, and disillusionment that keep you inactive and irresponsive to my invitation must give way to productive action toward our collective vision of perfection. My success is mine to achieve. My perfection depends on you.
The meaning of life is not a simple answer to your individual existence, but it is a function of your choice to act responsibly. I know that my best self will only be achieved in concert with you being your best self. And therein lies the challenge to our collective vision of perfection. I am not fearful of those that challenge me. I am not perplexed by those that conspire against me. I am not deterred by those that stand in my way. I am concerned with you who, for whatever reason, have not practiced your gifts or developed your talents. Now, I stand ready with my part of our collective vision, and you are not ready with your contribution. And, to add insult, you stand almost proud to proclaim that you have no clue of your gift and talents—no knowledge of the context of the choice you are responsible for.
Once, it was my fault as well as yours. Let me first apologize to those who came prepared before me. I apologize. I let many of you down. But, I learned. I have been ready with my contribution at every opportunity. I have been called arrogant, conceited, know-it-all, and the like, but my detractors could not compete with the sound nature of my counsel or question my preparation. I have been cast out of some circles, and self-exited from others. But, I have become unique, some may say peculiar. I now call to you to leave the comfort of conformity and renew your mind.
My call to you comes with an explanation. I am certain that it will be difficult to challenge your prevailing beliefs about your ability to influence the way the world works. I cannot promise that you will, in fact, achieve nirvana. But, I can with certainty educate you to define your role in society, offer a relationship based on reciprocity, and walk with you confidently to access new markets. To achieve these goals, we first must address your waste of mental energies. I chose the cognitive restructuring method in order to model for you how the very definitions you stand with today must give way to a vocabulary of a certain successful future.
Rather than focus on personifications of an enemy such as a Satan, or your boss, or the parent who failed you, this discourse refocuses the analysis on you. Admittedly, it is a more abstract proposition, but the barrier, the waste of energy itself is the enemy. We will thoroughly identify your dependence on the enemy for your own subsistence. Then, we will offer an alternative—a newly defined role, an approach to lifelong learning from diverse sources, and a system of continued productivity.
Next time I need you and your contribution. I would like for you to be ready. The deceptions, distractions, and disillusionment that keep you inactive and irresponsive to my invitation must give way to productive action toward our collective vision of perfection. My success is mine to achieve. My perfection depends on you.
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