Missing Narratives

Consider these videos: https://youtu.be/cebFWOlx848 https://youtu.be/ebEkn-BiW5k Now consider Gustave Le Bon psychology on the group mind: "Le Bon's book on the crowd was first published in 1895. Le Bon influenced a plethora of dictators and demagogues, most notoriously, Goebbels, Hitler, and Mussolini.  "Simply by being part of the crowd, individuals lose all sense of self and all sense of responsibility. Once individual identity and the capability to control behavior disappears, crowd members become subject to contagion. That is, they are unable to resist any passing idea or, more particularly and because the intellect is all but obliterated, any passing emotion.  "Crowd members, Le Bon asserts, have descended several rungs on the ladder of civilization. They are barbarians [which] "possesses the spontaneity, the violence, the ferocity and also the enthusiasm of primitive beings" "The majority of his crowd text is, in fact, essentially a primer on ho...

Sharing this quickly. More to follow. "Use their ...reasoning ...selectively to conform their interpretation of the data to the result most consistent with their political outlooks". https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319992

If you are inclined to think for yourself, continue reading... Why do we give credence to “they” - because it seems everyone does? “They”, who claim a thing is true and the media who report it as if it is true, persuade many to merely accept such a thing as true - and those accepting it will defend it and even propagate it as if they have personally witnessed the thing as true. It then takes on a life of its own. How do we know it is actually true? When we defined and propagate something as true born in perceived popularity invokes feelings of membership and belonging in what is perceived to be the group of truth, a defective phenomenon left-over from the Stone Age. The thing is, being popular includes no mechanism, nor has any ability within itself, to prove anything believed is true. In fact, the opposite is more likely so. The default tendency in being drawn to believe or participate in, or originate, something popular tends to switch off personal accountability by transferring ...