Thread by @mhbx

@wfrolik @Mikel_Jollett This would be an excellent line to explore. I think you are spot-on.

One of my aphorisms is
"You cannot see what you are not looking at"
W. the implication that if your axiomatic framework does not allow you to see a thing, you simply - not only will not - but cannot.

@wfrolik @Mikel_Jollett 2/ The "wisdom level" ponder to this point is to wonder about the quality of the "Guardians" who are charged with being wise for the country/system - it is at root their only job. If you are constitutionally incapacitated from not only understanding, but even acknowledging

@wfrolik @Mikel_Jollett 3/ reality....What kind of "Guardian" are you?.
We have our answer shoved in our face daily. Today's idiocy is this diversion nonsense around Dr Suess. Tomorrow it will be something else.

It occurs, having come this far, that there is some group psychosis in play. I don't

@wfrolik @Mikel_Jollett 4/ know the clinical terms, but the syndrome is of a person, anyone, whose system of understanding the world is so overwhelmed w facts & events that do not have a place in their "World View", that they break down into various levels of infantilization. Making simple what is

@wfrolik @Mikel_Jollett 5/ complex, until it is reduced to a level that can be compreheneded.

Somewhere in this process reality tips into religion. And what might have once been questions, wondering what is, becomes dogma, no more questions, here are the answers to what the world is.

Complexity

@wfrolik @Mikel_Jollett 6/ Complexity becomes a bad word. As you say, it has no place in the framework, and therefore, by the definitions and precepts of the group/tribe/religion, it is to be shunned. Or destroyed.

In times past they burned heritics on much the same model.
Nothing is allowed to

@wfrolik @Mikel_Jollett 7/ contradict the dogma. If there is enough power in those who hold the dogma, then you get excommunicated.
In our times L.Cheney experienced this, as she challenged the groupthink basis of the Republican Party. Along w the others.

I think you can lay this framework against

@wfrolik @Mikel_Jollett 8/ many of the 'current events' and see the consequences work themselves out.

At root then, there is a dreadful fear, more august & terrifying than almost anything... That your god is not, and your beliefs have been shredded. Unable to grapple with reality.

It starts wars.

@wfrolik @Mikel_Jollett 9/ Which may be a fair description, in terms of deep, seismic and systemic Cause & Effect of our condition not only nationally, but even globally.

And every day the headlines parade today's examples of the syndrome.

Now What?