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Helen & Harry Highwater's cranky weblog of news and opinion.
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Truth is a target meant for extermination by Herb Ruhs, MD Wednesday, August 6, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re Why Cipro, when that's not the recommended antibiotic? by Herb Ruhs, MD I used to habitually dismiss theories and enormous allegations by rather glibly thinking, the people in power are corrupt but they're not THAT corrupt. In the past few years I've learned valuable lessons, and I'd no longer say such a silly thing. I've become what I used to call a tin foil hatter.Don't be too quick with that tin foil hat. One of the conundrums of contemporary reality is that for every seemingly far-fetched but true story there are likely numerous falsely constructed far-fetched stories that are even more appealing to the fearful and the over imaginative.
People experience this when they compare their personal realities with what they assume the greater reality to be. Everyone ends up feeling like a freak. Freakishness becomes normative and everyone is involved in hiding their shame by projecting a false but more acceptable version of who they are. We all become living lies. All this is ultimately attributable to what is sometimes called "information warfare," which is meant to replace the less euphemistic "psychological warfare" and "disinformation propaganda" which so permeates the culture, is so enthusiastically practiced at every level of relationship and society, that finally there is no "there" there anymore. The fog of war has become an impenetrable tule fog, of California's Great Central Valley fame, where it is often impossible to see someone standing right next to you. The truth isn't just the first casualty of war, it is a target meant for extermination. It becomes just silly after a while. This is what happens when war becomes the grand metaphor of existence. It is the triumph of fear over love. Cover stories end up being sincerely believed by everyone and incorporated into "history" such that no-one involved is actually oriented to reality. The "past" is effectively murdered, in the fashion depicted in Orwell's 1984, but in an accidental rather than deliberate fashion. The entire world ends up in an induced state of psychosis where reality testing becomes impossible. The infiltration of professional reality twisters into the "entertainment" (read thought control) industry has succeeded accidentally in manufacturing an edifice of unreal perception that has made it nearly impossible for those that imbibe mass media as a steady diet to understand anything, not themselves, not their families or neighbors, much less anything about the larger social or economic context in which they live. Even those curmudgeons like myself who abstain nearly entirely from mass media are not immune to the massive distortions that have been introduced into the public understanding of reality. As a result of this penetrating unreality, those who consider themselves most in "the know", the powerful and well placed, those who consider themselves the "deciders" are, if anything, more deluded by this process than your random homeless person. It is very much like the Bible story of the Tower of Babble, and is headed for the same sort of outcome. In many ways the coming climactic and economic catastrophe can be attributed to this general fog of unreality that has resulted from the world being organized on the model of warfare. Just think about how much of our daily language is salted with terms that are military. The entire realm of metaphor has become "dominated" by allusions to combat and war. The most that I can say in favor of our times is that they are very, very interesting to those of us who are fond of inquiry. This is why the concept of the "devil" is crowned as "the prince of lies." People caught up in a struggle for power are irresistibly drawn to deceptive ploys and end up, in the logical extreme that we are currently living through, with the annihilation of reality itself. The human species ends up the equivalent of a psychotic individual incapable of self-protection and survival. In my view the world is succumbing not to "evil." It is dying from folly. Herb Ruhs, MD No response, just yes. Very, very yes. Helen & Harry
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