Cuddling with the Middle Ages
Posted 02-27-2016 at 09:59 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 06-14-2016 at 06:14 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 06-14-2016 at 06:14 AM by Michael Uplawski
Tags dictatorship, opinion, politics, servility
When the times get rough in the way that they are getting now, I can assume and somehow just know that everybody is concerned. But following the news on those media which are not TV and trying to fill the gaps by actively looking up the information that is missing, I can state that of all the shit that is hitting the fan a lot falls on France.
Why this is so, is a different question and the most desperate and the most courageous have already quit the complaining. With a government like this and democracy being evoked every five minutes, I should have wondered much earlier. Instead and probably together with a big number of active observers I have confused cause and effect, or failed to see the mechanisms of society at work, because exaggerated use of metaphors and symbols, as they are often a sign of troubled minds, divert so easily.
French self-affirmation goes like this:
The educational system is in ruins. People are basically unable to create their own opinions and content themselves with choosing from a bunch of rallying cries. Isn't the Internet marvelous. Now, the government is not only doing what it is best at, but it does also incarnate the current state of the nation.
And then... the Internet.
And then... Facebook.
And then... Google.
“I have a dream”, an awful one. Where people burn on the stake not because they do stuff, but because they know. Sometime between 1995 and today, either the virus of dumbness has struck most of the population or the end of humanity is imposed on us by some natural law or something.
All this has the charm of being so simple. So simple to do and simple to comprehend... Why worry.
What's it like at yours?
(Yeah. Guessed so.)
Why this is so, is a different question and the most desperate and the most courageous have already quit the complaining. With a government like this and democracy being evoked every five minutes, I should have wondered much earlier. Instead and probably together with a big number of active observers I have confused cause and effect, or failed to see the mechanisms of society at work, because exaggerated use of metaphors and symbols, as they are often a sign of troubled minds, divert so easily.
French self-affirmation goes like this:
- « We do not want any of it ».
Actually... integrating all these concepts is so troublesome, democracy, pluralism, human rights. Oh my God. Just help us get rid of it all, soon. Those who insist are trouble-makers, sociopaths and darned terrorists, because they want to make me think and I cannot do that!
- « I am not responsible ».
And why must I suffer? Someone should bring me the sense of well-being that everybody is after but only the others appear to achieve. And someone should stop to increase the misery that I want to stay far away from. Already my neighbors are affected and soon, I will be as down and out as they are. The government is not doing its work and does not represent me. These darned wretched refugees make me sick. Keep them far away from me!
The educational system is in ruins. People are basically unable to create their own opinions and content themselves with choosing from a bunch of rallying cries. Isn't the Internet marvelous. Now, the government is not only doing what it is best at, but it does also incarnate the current state of the nation.
And then... the Internet.
And then... Facebook.
And then... Google.
“I have a dream”, an awful one. Where people burn on the stake not because they do stuff, but because they know. Sometime between 1995 and today, either the virus of dumbness has struck most of the population or the end of humanity is imposed on us by some natural law or something.
All this has the charm of being so simple. So simple to do and simple to comprehend... Why worry.
What's it like at yours?
(Yeah. Guessed so.)
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Now this was almost expected.
In the morning, the reports about the network of financial filth which concerns several state-governments of the world.
At noon, the other right-wing minister warns about a growing thread from salafist networks in France. An automatism, like input-output: Put in any inconvenient situation for the government, get out some arbitrary terrorism-thing...
And now, you have the choice between three fascist parties, one extreme right-wing the others just right-wing and larded with some towering idiots. France has to pass there, now. See ya on the other side...Posted 04-05-2016 at 07:00 AM by Michael Uplawski 
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The royalist fraction of the extreme right (fascist) movements in France...
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state, that Monarchism were the system of government the most adapted to the mentality of the French people.
Their assessment is unfortunately correct. Without a monarch who would be responsible for just everything, who
- furnishes prosperity and well-being to everyone
- fails to do so
- fails to do anything and is, thus, at the origin of all misery
- points at the culprit who bungled it all or the enemy who is to be fought
the French are obliged to find someone else to fit in, each time. And they tend to succeed. Hypocrisy helps and the refusal of all personal responsibility is just the base of the French way of life.
No. I am cool. You are not.Posted 10-08-2016 at 12:19 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 10-08-2016 at 12:24 AM by Michael Uplawski -
EDITED: This comment contained a false statement. I have to leave it here and mark it as false, because it is frequently repeated in a pseudo-scientific context, by right-wing political activists, by marketing-experts, by so-called “coaches”.
The story is that, around 1955, an American scientific formulated a hypothesis which was quickly refuted but stuck with some interested parties. I did not know and just found this thing too appealing to not give it some thought. When “Me Too” made everyboy think, I became comfortable with what had become my conviction.
The truth is that, up to this day, nobody can identify anything in our brain's structure and organization which allowed to virtually map Freud's ideas to distinct parts or distinct functions of our brain. In the contrary, all studies in neuroscience which either tried to evaluate the hypothesis or otherwise bordered the issues that the hypothesis addresses, prove it wrong.
Shorter: There is no such thing as a “Reptilian Brain”. Forget it.
I do not reproduce the way in which I have to address myself for some time. There are ladies in the room.
All that follows is *FALSE*:
“Free will” is an illusion. Between the termination of any action and the statement “I wanted to do that” a variable time between half a second and up to ten seconds pass. After that, your cortex has packed up the memory of the event, your action, the decisions taken based on the perceptions and lessons learned from the past and filed that package away for future use. The fact, that your interior library is now enriched by 1 new volume gives the reptilian brain new directives for the future. And it is the reptilian brain that states all of a sudden: “I wanted to do that”. Which is not even false, as it will.
Posted 09-10-2017 at 04:08 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 03-23-2021 at 12:51 AM by Michael Uplawski (ALL FALSE)
