At a conference today networking. And the usual suspects mouthing off about conspiracy theories about Jews. I asked them how they knew what was happening in Israel was true. That is, who was killing who and what were the motives for the killing? What is the source of your allegations and how do you choose whose stories you believe in?
Of course this is heresy. Not to suggest that one side or the other is evil. Merely to ask the question - how do you choose what you believe, is forbidden language.
Why though?
Because by placing a topic under proper scrutiny, risks something new from happening - a scary change of worldview, something very precious to all of us which helps us rest our weary heads at night. A thing more precious to us than wealth or the future of our descendants.
Whereas if the question is forbidden, that thing is no longer at risk.
Talking to a couple of loud mouths outside the conference and inevitably the subject moved onto Jews. It quickly became clear clear they were possessed by Jew hatred. Something which seems to possess about half the electorate strangely.
And my response was that its no longer possible to know what is happening any more, either way, because no one is allowing a proper scrutiny of the matter not to mention is forbidden from proper scrutiny anyway.
Of course this wasn't going anywhere for them because someone has to be found to blame in our low IQ world. The narrative which is so cosy for me and helps me rest my weary head at night, must allow me to project my shadow onto the world somehow - I have to get rid of the darker side of myself, by making it stick onto someone or something else 'out there'. To get rid of it psychologically. A projection.
So Fair game for a psychic audit. I asked: "I's OK. There ARE some things we can definitely know are true, aren't there?"
A) "like what?"
Me) "You already know what these things are, try saying it out loud, tell me yourself, you already know"
A) "No, tell me?" with a noticeable amount of anger
RS) "Everything that happens in front of your face
RS) You definitely know this already. That is the only thing you know is true. Everything else is just a pantomime, serving this that or the other false agendas, as propaganda, disinformation or conspiracy theories and so on and so on."
The fat bird just walked off in disgust as if I were some kind of traitor. The loud mouth trying to be clever and to undermine the observation he just made of himself said:
A) "That's irrelevant because I don't even know whats in front of me is true either"
RS "So what can we say about anything then?" "Why do you complain so much about your pet enemies, if there's nothing at all that you can know for sure. Isn't that entirely a matter for your own conscience to attend to?"
And so it goes...