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The Invisible Gorilla in Your Worldview: How Inattentional Blindness Shapes What We “See” – Especially in Politics Executive Summary Inattentional blindness is the surprising tendency to miss fully visible, obvious events or information simply because your attention is focused elsewhere. The classic “invisible gorilla” experiment shows that when people count basketball passes, roughly half completely overlook a person in a gorilla suit walking through the scene. The same mechanism operates in politics and worldviews: your beliefs act like a narrow task, causing you to miss “gorillas” – important facts, successes, inconsistencies, or nuances that don’t fit your current narrative. While the visual version is about raw perception and a temporary lab task, the political version is more interpretive, identity-driven, and persistent. This explains much of today’s polarisation: different people literally “see” different realities even when looking at the same events. The encouraging news is t...

Chronicle is live and activated! The original Bitcoin protocol has been restored. Here is the activation transaction: whatsonchain.com/tx/acd2840906a… Feel free to claim the 0.05 BSV by broadcasting your own v2 transaction.  So many people that deserve so much thanks and gratitude for all the work that went into this

An extract from an X post I'm engaged in tonight. It asks for the formation of a dialogue within a group of interested party's. The subject matter is not important. What is, is that a dialogue takes place, to see if there is anything truly important happening there - which would be a direct result of a dialogue having happened properly. The dialogue itself being the actual subject matter - or you might say, Truth.  Thank you for your considered response. I should read the replies to your post.  Problem is, most people, often me too, are not ready for a 'dialogue' - where something is put on the table in front of us, to be observed, without judgement. You know, just to look at the thing, with all worldviews suspended. I say ALL worldviews suspended, no exceptions. We all tend to want our own worldview to win, even if we earnestly promise otherwise. I believe this is because we all allow thought to creates images of the world for us, then thought worships these images.  A...

President Trump is up to his usual games today. It is hilarious.  Because a majority of people in every civilised nation, always takes him at his word, even though it's obvious he does not mean it. That is, a child could see the clown he's deliberately playing. But an entire nation of empathic people, cannot. What is the matter with this enormous number of incredibly dumb people? Is it that people prefer their leaders to say nice things, in spite of their actions? Do people vote based on what people say nicely as a priority and treat actions later? Is the world gradually filling up with more and more incredibly stupid and obedient slaves? Will the world ever grow in the autonomy of its people? People who are capable of making up their own minds? Trump is not the ideal leader. He is still better than the rest, who all speak far more nicely than him.

This is the most significant time of the year for a Christian. Where its namesake gave his life, to save it. Do not tell us how to save ourselves, or try to save us. Be willing to give up your own life, to find it.