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Patrick says

Maybe pot smoking is the variable that suddenly changed everything just recently?

I lol'd at this part 'cause it looked like it came from somewhere like r/1971PeopleTwitter

This was probably the most rambling and inconsistent thing I've ever read under a title about gaslighting. I do appreciate it introducing me to the Gell-Mann Amnesia concept though.

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)

That’s Michael Crichton, the physician turned novelist turned director, talking about his physicist friend Murray Gell-Mann, who discovered (and named) the quark. Crichton pretty much invented the techno-thriller genre of books and film, starting with The Andromeda Strain, which is one of the most influential books in my life, for sure. Crichton is probably best known for his Jurassic Park novels, but take a look at his bibliography sometime … it’s astonishing how much influence he has had on modern American culture, period. That cover photo on this note, from the 1973 version of Westworld, is one of Crichton’s, too.

I’ve written about the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect before, but I wanted to highlight it in a standalone Brief. Why? Because I think it’s the primary driver of the social pathology we have today regarding media in general and social media in particular.

If you or your company has EVER been the primary subject of a newspaper article, you know exactly what Crichton is talking about. The article is simply wrong. Not just wrong in minor detail, but wrong in motivation, cause, implication, fundamental facts … everything. You read it and you think, “how can I get this travesty of an article edited/retracted/rewritten? how is it possible that the writer got this situation so wrong?”

And yet, despite having this searing experience with media articles where we actually have meaningful personal knowledge, we believe without hesitation the next story we read where we don’t!

We are hard-wired to respond to Missionaries, and when I say hard-wired I truly mean that in a biological sense. It’s what makes Fiat News – the projection of opinion as fact – work. It’s what powers the Trump Train and the Team Elite Club alike. It’s not that facts don’t matter. They do! But the presentation by a Missionary that a statement is a fact is enough to make it a fact within the Common Knowledge Game. That IS the Common Knowledge Game. All it requires is an effective Missionary.

Everyone is in on the secret. Everyone is in on the act. Everyone who can is playing the Common Knowledge Game as a Missionary. And everyone who can’t is being played.

That includes Michael Crichton, too. One of Crichton’s less remembered novels and films is Disclosure, starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore in the 1994 film. Here’s a still from that movie, taken as the Michael Douglas character realizes he has been set up for a false (?) accusation of sexual harassment.

It’s a must-watch movie for anyone trying to figure out what the hell happened to all of us during the Kavanaugh hearings, and it’s a movie that a critical thinker can’t watch today without squirming in discomfort. Why? Because not only is the central plot twist the construction of news and information, but so is the central plot twist of the movie-as-a-thing.

Let me put it this way, Michael Crichton was married five times and famously would have had some … errr … difficulties in a post-Harvey Weinstein Hollywood.

Disclosure is not just a movie ABOUT the construction of Narrative.

Disclosure IS a movie that constructs Narrative, a very particular Narrative that served the interests of the Hollywood studio system and the men, like Weinstein and Crichton, that it made so wealthy and so powerful.

This is Narrative creation. This is one of the best examples I’ve got of nested metagames. This is why it’s so important to consume EVERYTHING with a critical eye. Because we are being played, constantly and by everyone. Even in our entertainment. ESPECIALLY in our entertainment. It sneaks up on us without our conscious awareness, because its purpose is to sneak up on us without our conscious awareness.

And what’s the dominant entertainment in the world today? It’s not Hollywood any longer. It’s not movies. It’s social media.

Clear Eyes, friends. Clear Eyes.

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/?source=patrick.net

Thanks for that @Al_Sharpton_for_President. Great read.

Al_Sharpton_for_President, great points! You would probably love Infinite Plane Radio and all his offshoot projects, he primarily discusses the 'Metanarrative':
https://infinite-plane-radio.ghost.io/?source=patrick.net
He is also now producing a paper version tabloid-format periodical called "Fake World News":



His various projects can help to keep in touch with sanity in an increasingly insane world!

With 'Winter Vagina' now a thing, women need to have transfusions after sex from spraying blood clots all over their partners. Of course, 'Winter Vagina' tracks 100 percent with 'Vaccine Vagina', but that is just a random coincidence.

More gaslighting:

More gaslighting:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10469799/Expert-warns-shoveling-snow-deadly-way-discover-underlying-heart-conditions.html?source=patrick.net

Bet there are suddenly quite a lot more people dropping dead from "shoveling snow".

A snow job indeed.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/news-articles-on-heart-attacks?source=patrick.net

Wales Online - Energy bill price rise may cause heart attacks and strokes

New York Post - The little-known heart attack that’s striking ‘fit and healthy’ women as young as 22

The Sun - How the weather is HARMING your health – from heart attacks to stroke and gout

The Times - Rise in heart attacks attributed to pandemic stress and poor diet

BBC - Devoted football fans experience 'dangerous' levels of stress

The Sun - HIDDEN RISK Urgent warning as 300,000 Brits living with stealth disease that could kill within 5 years

Express - Heart attack: The drink that could trigger a ‘sudden’ cardiac arrest - 'catastrophic'

Express - Heart attack: Does skipping breakfast increase your risk?

Times of India - Why are heart attacks becoming common in ‘seemingly’ fit people?

Mining Journal - Sports can break your heart in more ways than one

Daily Mail - Expert warns that shovelling snow can be a deadly way to discover underlying cardiovascular conditions as straining the heart with physical activity could cause sudden death

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-the-heart-of-the-matter-89b/comments?source=patrick.net

at first, it it seemed kind of weird that all the vaccine guys were now starting to make heart drugs.




but then i took a look at the news and they seem to be saying that pretty much everything causes heart attacks now.




boy, they sure do know how to get in ahead of a market!

you’d need to get up pretty early in the morning to get the jump on these guys!

(but i guess maybe that’s dangerous now too?)

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/thinking-points-feb-17-2022?source=patrick.net

The trauma of living through a genocide

When one is in the midst of trauma it is often impossible to step back and see the full picture. Over time abuse and trauma become normalized as ‘just the way things are.’ So I think it is important to pause for a moment to note that: a child having a heart attack during a math class on Zoom, athletes in the prime of life collapsing during the middle of a match, a news anchor having a stroke live on camera, a comedian collapsing on stage and fracturing her skull — NONE OF THESE THINGS ARE NORMAL.

The FDA, CDC, and mainstream media — who all know exactly why this is happening — have turned to the ‘autism defense’ that they’ve been using for 35 years. They claim that ‘this is normal — healthy young people have always had heart attacks and strokes and died for no apparent reason.’ If they are feeling particularly sadistic that day they will add that these heart attacks and strokes ‘are actually something to be celebrated because it shows that we are just more aware of these things — and hence more just and loving than ever before(TM).’

So I think it is important to do a reality check from time to time to state that:
THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.
YOU ARE NOT JUST IMAGINING THIS.
PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS AND YOUR TV ARE LYING.
THIS REALLY IS GENOCIDE.

So if you are exhausted, angry, and feel anxious all the time like you are being hunted — that makes sense — this is what it’s like to live through a genocide.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-crisis-confluence

jeez you guys, now it looks like global warning causes vaccine injuries!

it sure is getting dangerous out there…

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-sudden-heat-death

so, i was reading in this psych textbook about how “there is no limit to the creativity of the hallucinatory landscapes the human mind can create for itself to avoid accepting a simple obvious truth.”

but it kinda seemed like mumbo jumbo to me.

but jeez you guys, they weren’t kidding around, were they?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10895067/Doctors-trying-determine-young-people-suddenly-dying.html

No mention of the obvious - it's the vaxx.

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/nejm-global-warming-causes-stillbirths

NEJM: Global Warming Causes Stillbirths, Birth Defects, Infant Heart problems
Finally you can laugh a bit ...

Financing of such authors by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, obviously, is nothing to worry about.

https://substack.com/profile/12468130-anne-gibbons

https://www.wsj.com/articles/rise-in-non-covid-19-deaths-hits-life-insurers-11645576252

Rise in Non-Covid-19 Deaths Hits Life Insurers
Companies believe lack of medical treatment during pandemic has contributed to deaths from other causes

Lol, what on earth could have killed all those people?

Booger says

Biggest bullshit ever they have no shame. Coffee acts as a blood thinner, so it's rather the opposite. There is some preliminary research that caffeine may increase the coagulation factor during heavy workout,but that's it. Asshoes!

When did England's "favourite drink" change from tea to coffee?

Actual story: Hircus - https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/16862556/cold-weather-affect-body/
Actual story: Patrick - https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/19059935/urgent-warning-gardeners-soil-increases-risk-killer/
CIA BULLSHIT: Patrick
Actual story: Patrick - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19114987/trainee-easyjet-pilot-dead-after-mosquito-bite/
Actual story: Patrick - https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1636636/blood-clots-deep-vein-thrombosis-symptoms-signs-sticky-blood-risk-factors-diet-tea

Reading articles about things that are bad for your heart, is bad for your heart.