In the midst of a growing pandemic of stupidity, many are becoming alarmed at the degree of cognitive decline that threatens civilization itself.
This decline can be measured by record high illiteracy rates, the acceptance of absurd ideas like believing that men can be women, and by an inability to understand the evils of socialism or to appreciate the benefits of individual freedom.
Thus the question arises: How can human behavior be shifted from its growing state of stupidity back to a state of common sense and rationality? Podcaster Maria Karlova explains that a person’s change in thinking doesn’t come gradually through accumulated evidence or experience; it comes as a phase shift.
“The shift happens when you stop assuming that what the system tells you should actually make any sense. When you stop trying to find a ‘reason’ for arrangements that were never designed to be reasonable, the system’s architecture becomes visible the moment you stop expecting it to be sane.”
This very much describes the process experienced by millions when the truth behind political campaigns like the war against climate change, the so-called Covid vaccines, and the cult called multiculturalism were all revealed to be part of a single effort that had little to do with any of those issues.
Once a significant number of people come to understand that these policies were never meant to make sense but only to manipulate the masses for political power, then those pushing such policies no longer command the authority they previously may have had. And this is exactly what they fear the most. Their persistent efforts at censorship and controlling the narrative speaks to sinister motivations.
Arguing that we are living in the most psychologically manipulated era in human history, psyop expert Chase Hughes has been studying how to modify human behavior and the mechanics that make that possible.
Since human beings are essentially ‘programmed’ to think and behave the way they do, researchers and scientists trying to resolve the intelligence deficit have been recently citing a discovery that the human learning process may not be as linear and straight forward as once assumed. As explained in a May 22 PsyPost article written by Eric Dolan:
“A newly discovered developmental process reveals that the brain’s primary memory center starts out with an excess of tangled, random connections that get pruned away to form a highly structured, efficient network as an animal grows. These physical and functional changes optimize the brain’s capacity to store and retrieve memories over a lifetime. The study detailing this transformation was recently published in the journal Nature Communications.
“Two competing philosophical and biological models framed their approach. The first model is the tabula rasa, or blank slate theory. This concept suggests that the brain starts with very few connections and slowly builds them up as the animal experiences the world.
“The opposing model is the tabula plena, or full slate theory. In this scenario, the brain begins with an overabundance of connections that are gradually trimmed away, leaving only the most necessary pathways.”
However, one must be critically aware that the term ‘tabula rasa’ in the context of studying the ‘mechanism’ of learning (i.e., that the brain starts with very few connections and slowly builds them up) is very different from the term ‘tabula rasa’ in the philosophical context where it refers to an actual lack of content (knowledge) in the mind.
In fact, the philosophical term ‘tabula rasa’ (blank slate) happens to be perfectly consistent with the mechanistic term ‘tabula plena’ (full slate) when describing the human brain at birth. While this may seem a contradiction, it is not so. The first is a philosophical term referring to knowledge itself; the second, a scientific term referring to mechanism and process.
From a purely political perspective, the challenge facing Western culture is how intelligent and rational people should deal with entrenched stupidity, especially given that the idea of having an informed electorate in today’s zeitgeist seems to be an impossibility.
Clearly, understanding how this whole ‘shift’ phenomenon might be employed in a way that proves Just Right in the shifting of political thought from Left to Right is a problem yet to be resolved, but every effort to do so should be welcomed as a step in the Right direction.
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