(as posted at Huffington)
When oh when, dear God or universal life force? When will we be able to have a public discussion in this country about FEAR, why we are so vulnerable to its FALSE stimuli, and often so blind to the real dangers we face? These right wing fanatics are either blinded by their own unconscious fears, projecting them onto everything and everyone threatening their world view, or they are consciously manipulating their gullible base by hyping false fears merely to expand their power over all of us. Human intelligence will never get ahead in the battle with human stupidity, until this sadistic and paranoid use of false fear is called out and deflated. Until then the intelligent humanists and genuine innocents of the world will continue to have their future defined by sociopaths, liars, and goons. The human need for power and the fear of losing it are at the structural base of all our unconscious minds, and these needs and fears, as expressed in the cultural unconscious, are right now the biggest threat to human survival.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Rep. Joe Wilson Proves Evolution True
In an ultimate irony, S.C. Rep. Joe Wilson has swept away any doubt, even among Christian Evangelists, that Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is in fact observable scientific truth. He’s done this by acting as a living example of the “Missing Link” between the semi-intelligent apes and “Homo Moralis” or the species represented by humans capable of self-reflection and moral judgement.
Creationists across the country have been thrown into the stark and unfamiliar state of having to question, even abandon their most cherished “exceptionalist” prejudices. Because Rep. Wilson, as if acting as a mirror to them, has demonstrated the “Monkey Mind” that represents the previous phase of evolution (most commonly occupied by Republicans, Fundamentalists of all stripes, morons and the otherwise cognitively challenged) that preceded our own. This state or phase is most graphically illustrated by those who are incapable of controlling their emotions, of questioning their most deeply held superstitions, or of any kind of self-reflection.
The unavoidable comparison jumps to mind: an adolescent ape, chimp or vervet monkey (let’s not insult the Orangs or Bonobos) who screams and gestures threateningly at the default figure of authority, in a futile attempt to draw attention to himself, to attract young females or gain status among the lesser males.
The most identifying characteristic of the “pre-cognitive” “Homo-hothead” has yet to be fully acknowledged, even among many of the educated elite: it is the inability or unwillingness to examine one’s emotions, reactions and responses, while or after they occur, or to question the origin of the intensity of one’s fears. The ignorant assumption is to assume they are rational and appropriate in the real world. The resulting knee jerk oral ejaculations are inevitable.
The knowledge emerges slowly in our culture, so bound by the mental inertia of consumption, arrogance and entitlement: that the role of the unconscious mind in all aspects of human behavior is vastly more powerful than previously acknowledged. When we see that the unconscious mind is dominated by the lust for power and fear of the loss of power, it becomes clear that the many crises facing the human race (at both levels of evolution) are simply manifestations of greed and denial, which in turn are distorted manifestations of primitive lust and fear.
We will ultimately come to thank Rep. Wilson, (just as Arianna Huffington thanked the archetypal “Monkey Mind” Glenn Beck for unmuzzling Van Jones and spotlighting the 911 Truth mission so clearly). Because Rep. Wilson has acted out on the world stage the graphic differences that separate the sides of the cultural / political divide, also noted by Keith Olbermann: it is quite simply the opening salvo in the final battle between human stupidity and human intelligence.
So carry on Rep. Wilson and your defenders. Hold high the flag of myopia, racism, denial and prideful, willful ignorance. March ahead into the brick wall of physical and political reality. Sprint off the twin cliffs of paranoia and shared illusion. Smash your heads bloody in the expression of your own misunderstood fear.
If it weren’t so sad it would be hilarious. The apes and the monkeys are laughing uproariously at their more unconscious descendants. They somehow see the paradox of impaired minds turning away from the threshold of higher thinking even more clearly than the Birthers, Deathers, twits and screamers can see themselves.
Creationists across the country have been thrown into the stark and unfamiliar state of having to question, even abandon their most cherished “exceptionalist” prejudices. Because Rep. Wilson, as if acting as a mirror to them, has demonstrated the “Monkey Mind” that represents the previous phase of evolution (most commonly occupied by Republicans, Fundamentalists of all stripes, morons and the otherwise cognitively challenged) that preceded our own. This state or phase is most graphically illustrated by those who are incapable of controlling their emotions, of questioning their most deeply held superstitions, or of any kind of self-reflection.
The unavoidable comparison jumps to mind: an adolescent ape, chimp or vervet monkey (let’s not insult the Orangs or Bonobos) who screams and gestures threateningly at the default figure of authority, in a futile attempt to draw attention to himself, to attract young females or gain status among the lesser males.
The most identifying characteristic of the “pre-cognitive” “Homo-hothead” has yet to be fully acknowledged, even among many of the educated elite: it is the inability or unwillingness to examine one’s emotions, reactions and responses, while or after they occur, or to question the origin of the intensity of one’s fears. The ignorant assumption is to assume they are rational and appropriate in the real world. The resulting knee jerk oral ejaculations are inevitable.
The knowledge emerges slowly in our culture, so bound by the mental inertia of consumption, arrogance and entitlement: that the role of the unconscious mind in all aspects of human behavior is vastly more powerful than previously acknowledged. When we see that the unconscious mind is dominated by the lust for power and fear of the loss of power, it becomes clear that the many crises facing the human race (at both levels of evolution) are simply manifestations of greed and denial, which in turn are distorted manifestations of primitive lust and fear.
We will ultimately come to thank Rep. Wilson, (just as Arianna Huffington thanked the archetypal “Monkey Mind” Glenn Beck for unmuzzling Van Jones and spotlighting the 911 Truth mission so clearly). Because Rep. Wilson has acted out on the world stage the graphic differences that separate the sides of the cultural / political divide, also noted by Keith Olbermann: it is quite simply the opening salvo in the final battle between human stupidity and human intelligence.
So carry on Rep. Wilson and your defenders. Hold high the flag of myopia, racism, denial and prideful, willful ignorance. March ahead into the brick wall of physical and political reality. Sprint off the twin cliffs of paranoia and shared illusion. Smash your heads bloody in the expression of your own misunderstood fear.
If it weren’t so sad it would be hilarious. The apes and the monkeys are laughing uproariously at their more unconscious descendants. They somehow see the paradox of impaired minds turning away from the threshold of higher thinking even more clearly than the Birthers, Deathers, twits and screamers can see themselves.
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