Insanity is normal

[salinen]

Lately, if I separate the people I've encountered into camps, I'd say that the insane, emotionally unstable, and scared to death people, outnumber the sane, stable, and fearless people. Here are some examples. And these are not foaming at the mouth, smelling of pee, or otherwise outwardly disturbed folks.

- at a party at my house, a friend of mine brought his Dad. Dad says that the H1N1 vaccine is a plot by the U.S. government to depopulate the country by giving out poison vaccines.

- met a guy at a coffee shop, says that Al Gore will become the ruler of the Earth.

- The guy who fixes my computer. He's convinced that we should be buying seeds, storing water, buying guns and ammo, because the gangs of marauding poor will come after our valuables. He gets his information from seminars he attends.

So, these are just a few examples. But I cannot understand why so many people will cling so tightly to bizarre notions. Is the fact that this nation has destroyed itself by waging war after war, or that it has outsourced all jobs and manufacturing overseas too boring of a reason?

P.S. I heard on the radio today, you know, those top and bottom of the hour news teasers, by someone named Harley? Well, seems someone did a study and found that Green Party people, because they are so committed to the environment, are more likely to steal and cheat other people! The propaganda is so thick and noxious now that it's making me ill. Maybe the world is about to end.

[leftstreet]

1. It's because we have no leadership

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[ShortnFiery]

26. +1000.

Our legislators merely "feign leadership" so they can, in the end, serve their true masters, i.e., the large multi-national corporations.

[Fumesucker]

2. It's my opinion that it's not a sign of mental health to be well adjusted to a sick society..

And our society is screwed up big time..

[salinen]

4. It's really sad

I think it's an indicator that people are grasping at weird ideas to cushion their confusion.

[leftstreet]

6. What's even sadder...

We have unprecedented venues of mass communication (radio, television, internet) yet we're more isolated, confused and uncertain than ever before.

We have news and information that's barely discernible from entertainment

We have entertainment that's essentially propaganda


Nobody seems to know what the fuck's going on

[instantkarma]

23. Here's what the fuck's going on

We have unprecedented venues of mass communication, news and information which is presented as entertainment and is really just propaganda designed to leave us more isolated, confused and uncertain than ever before.

[ShortnFiery]

28. Bingo! Nothing maintains the status quo for the upper 1% moneyed elite like disinformation ...

and PsyOps directed propaganda.

[midnight]

5. I was thinking of that saying. I read it not to long ago, and that is what

popped into to my mind too. In a country where change is sold as status quo, peace is war, poverty is designed by ruthless bankers, and on and on, it makes sense....

[ChicagoSuz219]

3. Give me your computer guy's address...

...so I know where to start my marauding... ;-)

[salinen]

7. he's been warning me for years

So I did a little math. He thinks we should have a years supply of water. O.K., my wife and I drink and cook with about 5 gallons every 5 days. So we'd need about 60 5 gallon containers worth. That would probably collapse my shitty little house. And that doesn't even count the food we should store. Anyway, the poor guy just told us he has incurable cancer. So, in the end, he was fighting the wrong battle.

[ChicagoSuz219]

17. Good thing you're not planning to bathe... ;-)

I'll keep a good thought for the guy.

[Mind_your_head]

8. Confusion and *tricks* aren't cool anymore....

Honest and open is what most everyone wants.

Games are for kids (and the imaginative, kudos to the imaginative.....)

Yeah, the internet adds an entirely different dimension to things, which is taken for granted and seldom discussed.

[ChicagoSuz219]

16. Who are you replying to? n/t

[Hannah Bell]

9. Because they're losing their money, houses & jobs?

Tends to make people form theories about why & what to do.

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. We need an alien visitation

the world needs it.

[HeresyLives]

11. Alvin Toffler predicted it back in the 70s.

He called it 'Future Shock'.

[Poll_Blind]

12. When I was a kid, I read science fiction and would have loved to meet an alien species. Now that...

...I'm an adult, reality is (leaps and bounds) wilder (and far less plausible) than almost all fiction and I am convinced that any alien species I would come in contact with would be tame in comparison to the depth and breadth of confusion, brilliance, insanity, kindness, butchery and so on that just this little world contains.

I could live to be 4,000 years old and never wrap my brain fully around it all. I'm also convinced I don't think I'd really want to if I had the chance. Already, I'm starting to get the impression that while we are brilliant monkeys, we're monkeys all the same.

Dance, Monkeys, Dance!!! by Ernest Cline. This one YouTube video, everyone should see at least once.

PB

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. I got my H1N1 vacc a while ago

still alive and well.

But this is the culture of fear we live in... and some folks benefit from it.

[Marr]

14. I've also been surprised at how widespread some of these paranoid fantasies are.

I don't think it's something to be laughed off, either. It speaks to a deep distrust for established authority that runs through the national character right now. People seem to increasingly view the system as either completely impotent or thoroughly corrupted and illegitimate.

[Rincewind]

15. One at a time

1) so? 2) I hope so. 3)I don't have many valuables. There will always be crazy people.

[KT2000]

18. Was thinking that kids today

can't even rebel against anything. The older generations have hogged all the crazy.

[unblock]

19. mostly because we're too polite to laugh in their faces.

ridicule can be very powerful.

[MrScorpio]

20. Mass Hysteria...

And the people who profit from it



It's the American way.

[GoCubsGo]

21. I WISH Al Gore would become ruler of the World.

;-) It would be a much nicer place.

The guy who fixes your computer is correct on one thing: We SHOULD be storing water and food, and perhaps even seeds. Not because of maurading poor people coming for our valuables, but because we are vulnerable to natural disasters. We are all vulnerable to earthquakes, storms, fires, floods... Shit happens.

[Odin2005]

22. Remember that not too long ago people still thought demons and spirits where everywhere.

The average human being is by nature fearful and irrational.

[nebenaube]

24. but, but..

there are demons in the Vatican! (from recent LBN)

[GoCubsGo]

25. They still do.

Ever been to a church or watch any of the TV preachers?

[Odin2005]

30. Good point.

[Echo In Light]

27. America is grounded 100% in un-reality due to its corporate culture & phony govt

The cracks and frays at the edge began decades ago, and are now splintering quickly as the fairy tales and propaganda that so many mindlessly bought into begins to dissipate, and they're left having to piece the Big Picture together with their various phobias, prejudices and screwball belief systems...that 'they' only believed in b/c it was 'taught' to them via cultural example/directive.

[deaniac21]

29. When I got my H1N1 vacine it turned me into a Newt.