03-08-2018, 06:31 PM
Having only been in the conspiracy theory arena for 4 1/2 years, what amazes me most at this point is the mental attitude of veteran "conspiracy theorists". Apparently, many don't "have their hands around" the magnitude or nature of the current problem (IMHO).
1. There has been a recent change in the definition of truth: it is now defined as either (a) what most people believe or (b) an internal mental image of the actual surrounding environment. (To me, only the second should qualify).
2. If you look up the definition of "propaganda", the definition does not require something to be false or misleading (any more) in order to be propaganda. Officially, propaganda does not have to be false or misleading but rather is something that promotes a cause. (That is B.S. in my opinion, and not what I have always been taught).
3. In the realm of psychiatry, if you thing that space aliens have poisoned your root beer, that would be called a paranoid delusion by a psychiatrist. But if you convince everybody in your neighborhood that space aliens have poisoned your root beer, then it is no longer a paranoid delusion (and you therefore have been "cured"). This is even more B.S.
If enough people have the same paranoid delusion, it is no longer such. This is obviously a ridiculous situation.
Back in the 1970's, Yuri Andropov of the Soviet Union decided to begin using (heavily) the mental health system to imprison the political dissidents in the USSR. But when psychiatrists from the US went over to Russia and met in conferences with Russian psychiatrists, they came away in perfect agreement with their Russian colleagues. They agreed that, in Russia, that a person who actively opposed the regime was indeed insane. In other words, the psychiatrists (IMHO) "go along, just to get along" and never rock the boat. Just like the judges in South Africa and Nazi Germany were no help in opposing racist irrational hysteria and even mass genocide.
So if our psychiatric profession or Federal Courts are actively involved in hiding the JFK papers and denouncing "conspiracy theorists" or are fueling the fires of "Trump derangement syndrome", then very, very, very few people will be able to keep their heads on straight. (And that was, for instance, the world of Nazi Germany in 1933-1945).
Our brains are hard-wired to struggle with issues like "conspiracy theory." The most primitive example is what psychologists call the "latency period" which lasts from birth up until puberty. If you are six years old and a girl walks by wearing "falsies" (a 1950s term), you probably won't notice. But if you have those pubescent hormones in your system and are 16, you might well notice. So NOT SEEING CERTAIN THINGS is apparently hard-wired into our brains.
After reading (now) nearly 200 books on JFK and the period of 1933 to 1963, the problem no longer seems to me to involve "who killed JFK." I think that there is a developing consensus about that, found in The Skorzeny Papers, The Three Barons, General Walker" by Dr. Jeffrey Caufield and other similar sources.
The more perplexing problem is the one discussed above---(why do brilliant people like Chomsky have their head someplace REAL DARK about 9-11 and 11-22-63?)
The first thing you learn about communications is that their is both (1) a transmitter and (2) a receiver. The problem is not only with what Chomsky is "transmitting"---Christ often used the phrase "for those who have ears to hear..."
My wife warned me that since I published an expose on the JFK assassination, I would get myself on "somebody's list" somewhere. As of yet, I have not had any threats or anything, even after selling books in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Germany, India and many other countries. So I'm not sure that it's the Deep State that is menacing famous people to keep their mouth shut about JFK and about 9-11.
I think the real problem and limiting factor is the failure of the JFK assassination press (and also academia) to have the tools to understand the massive "brain fart" that is happening throughout the US and maybe elsewhere. As mentioned above, I personally believe the the teachings of Christ gave people to tools to understand their environment and to recognize order within the chaos in their time. "I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind, but now I see" to quote the hymn.
I guess we are temporarily like those unfortunate souls who endured Hitler and the Nazis. We will just have to weather the storm and wait for a "bailout" from some source or another. Maybe a new school of philosophy or maybe an new variant on religion. Aside from that, it's every man for himself, every brain for itself (during this disturbing time period in which we are in).
James Lateer
1. There has been a recent change in the definition of truth: it is now defined as either (a) what most people believe or (b) an internal mental image of the actual surrounding environment. (To me, only the second should qualify).
2. If you look up the definition of "propaganda", the definition does not require something to be false or misleading (any more) in order to be propaganda. Officially, propaganda does not have to be false or misleading but rather is something that promotes a cause. (That is B.S. in my opinion, and not what I have always been taught).
3. In the realm of psychiatry, if you thing that space aliens have poisoned your root beer, that would be called a paranoid delusion by a psychiatrist. But if you convince everybody in your neighborhood that space aliens have poisoned your root beer, then it is no longer a paranoid delusion (and you therefore have been "cured"). This is even more B.S.
If enough people have the same paranoid delusion, it is no longer such. This is obviously a ridiculous situation.
Back in the 1970's, Yuri Andropov of the Soviet Union decided to begin using (heavily) the mental health system to imprison the political dissidents in the USSR. But when psychiatrists from the US went over to Russia and met in conferences with Russian psychiatrists, they came away in perfect agreement with their Russian colleagues. They agreed that, in Russia, that a person who actively opposed the regime was indeed insane. In other words, the psychiatrists (IMHO) "go along, just to get along" and never rock the boat. Just like the judges in South Africa and Nazi Germany were no help in opposing racist irrational hysteria and even mass genocide.
So if our psychiatric profession or Federal Courts are actively involved in hiding the JFK papers and denouncing "conspiracy theorists" or are fueling the fires of "Trump derangement syndrome", then very, very, very few people will be able to keep their heads on straight. (And that was, for instance, the world of Nazi Germany in 1933-1945).
Our brains are hard-wired to struggle with issues like "conspiracy theory." The most primitive example is what psychologists call the "latency period" which lasts from birth up until puberty. If you are six years old and a girl walks by wearing "falsies" (a 1950s term), you probably won't notice. But if you have those pubescent hormones in your system and are 16, you might well notice. So NOT SEEING CERTAIN THINGS is apparently hard-wired into our brains.
After reading (now) nearly 200 books on JFK and the period of 1933 to 1963, the problem no longer seems to me to involve "who killed JFK." I think that there is a developing consensus about that, found in The Skorzeny Papers, The Three Barons, General Walker" by Dr. Jeffrey Caufield and other similar sources.
The more perplexing problem is the one discussed above---(why do brilliant people like Chomsky have their head someplace REAL DARK about 9-11 and 11-22-63?)
The first thing you learn about communications is that their is both (1) a transmitter and (2) a receiver. The problem is not only with what Chomsky is "transmitting"---Christ often used the phrase "for those who have ears to hear..."
My wife warned me that since I published an expose on the JFK assassination, I would get myself on "somebody's list" somewhere. As of yet, I have not had any threats or anything, even after selling books in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Germany, India and many other countries. So I'm not sure that it's the Deep State that is menacing famous people to keep their mouth shut about JFK and about 9-11.
I think the real problem and limiting factor is the failure of the JFK assassination press (and also academia) to have the tools to understand the massive "brain fart" that is happening throughout the US and maybe elsewhere. As mentioned above, I personally believe the the teachings of Christ gave people to tools to understand their environment and to recognize order within the chaos in their time. "I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind, but now I see" to quote the hymn.
I guess we are temporarily like those unfortunate souls who endured Hitler and the Nazis. We will just have to weather the storm and wait for a "bailout" from some source or another. Maybe a new school of philosophy or maybe an new variant on religion. Aside from that, it's every man for himself, every brain for itself (during this disturbing time period in which we are in).
James Lateer