Post by Dan Ryan on Mar 26, 2013 15:42:06 GMT -5
On further investigation, I found out that John Nash doesn't know what caused his problems or how he became cured. It's almost as if he thought he got inflicted with a chance virus that suddenly weakened and died. It's typical of a High IQ's denial of the fact that he had been intentionally mutilated by the ruling class. I'm sure that, like the others devoted to their own slavery, he would lash out in authoritarian anger at my diagnosis. The meekgeeks' authoritarianism is vicarious; it comes from their identity as part of the body of the ruling intellectual orthodoxy.
Unlike John Nash's cure, requiring first going into insanity and burning rebellion out of us, we could have a healthy cure if we'd only realize what we are up against and took collective action to disempower the King Apes who have tamed us. But John Nash's enervating cure wasn't like that. His insanity was a form of rebellion against exactly what he denies happened to him. His cure was resignation.
The novel 1984 ends with the former rebel Winston Smith shouting, "I love Big Brother!" Just before that, "the final, indispensable, healing change within his own mind" was caused by fear of what had happened to him in his rebellion. No more of that. No more defiance from John Nash either.
Any other cure, any hope, is not left to us in 1984. We are doomed to an apparently permanent totalitarian nightmare. But suppose Orwell had written a sequel, with someone finding the diary of Winston Smith. The Matrix was something hopeful like that. People today live in an imaginary situation enforced by their teachers and other authoritarian mediocrities. Results have proved that it is as hard to break out of as any fictional nightmare. But knowing that those are only movies should make us suspicious that they are subtly distorted to make us conform to whatever attitude the subhuman ruling class hopes will keep us pacified. In The Matrix, the apes hope we are decoyed by the artificial presentation of reality and not the artificial presentation of how we think. Our meekgeek scabs only think they think, aping the unproven assumptions and slippery logic that they pathetically swear by. Another misdirection is in 21 where the hero gets all his money taken away. This is supposed to teach us to continue being student boytoys, working without pay, instead of making money immediately with our brains, from childhood on. So the meekgeek flunkies are anesthetized while being castrated in class-biased indentured servitude. Before turning us into mind whores, they put us through a rape room.
Translated to the real world, we live in a conceptual Matrix of artificial logic and artificial self-evident truths. Our Masters have been very effective in using their overwhelming power of mind control. So I can only define my mission as The Diary of Winston Smith and hope that someday someone will dig this up. I really don't see any hope at the present time. A "new generation that will not put up with what we did" is wishful thinking.
Unlike John Nash's cure, requiring first going into insanity and burning rebellion out of us, we could have a healthy cure if we'd only realize what we are up against and took collective action to disempower the King Apes who have tamed us. But John Nash's enervating cure wasn't like that. His insanity was a form of rebellion against exactly what he denies happened to him. His cure was resignation.
The novel 1984 ends with the former rebel Winston Smith shouting, "I love Big Brother!" Just before that, "the final, indispensable, healing change within his own mind" was caused by fear of what had happened to him in his rebellion. No more of that. No more defiance from John Nash either.
Any other cure, any hope, is not left to us in 1984. We are doomed to an apparently permanent totalitarian nightmare. But suppose Orwell had written a sequel, with someone finding the diary of Winston Smith. The Matrix was something hopeful like that. People today live in an imaginary situation enforced by their teachers and other authoritarian mediocrities. Results have proved that it is as hard to break out of as any fictional nightmare. But knowing that those are only movies should make us suspicious that they are subtly distorted to make us conform to whatever attitude the subhuman ruling class hopes will keep us pacified. In The Matrix, the apes hope we are decoyed by the artificial presentation of reality and not the artificial presentation of how we think. Our meekgeek scabs only think they think, aping the unproven assumptions and slippery logic that they pathetically swear by. Another misdirection is in 21 where the hero gets all his money taken away. This is supposed to teach us to continue being student boytoys, working without pay, instead of making money immediately with our brains, from childhood on. So the meekgeek flunkies are anesthetized while being castrated in class-biased indentured servitude. Before turning us into mind whores, they put us through a rape room.
Translated to the real world, we live in a conceptual Matrix of artificial logic and artificial self-evident truths. Our Masters have been very effective in using their overwhelming power of mind control. So I can only define my mission as The Diary of Winston Smith and hope that someday someone will dig this up. I really don't see any hope at the present time. A "new generation that will not put up with what we did" is wishful thinking.