Thread by @CinephobiaRadio

There are two distinctly divergent realities operating in the West currently. We can broadly define them as #Conservatives & #Liberals, or a little more accurately perhaps as #Reactionaries and #Radicals, although these identitarian deranged so-called radicals...

are certainly not radical by any traditional measures. Due to decades of corporate influenced, partisan conditioning, the #NewRadicals are now pro-war, pro-Wall Street, pro-Pharma and pro-Government. Incredible, but true.

Either way, I refer to these camps as #NippleDippers...

and #Gibbleheads. I realize some don't like that I use such colourful terminology however, I grew up reading Orwell and Burgess and feel compelled to invent my own terms, very much as they did. To be honest, I think Orwell was far more insulting (DuckSpeak? How humiliating!)

So you can blame it on the malignant influence of those great writers. Nevertheless, the Nipple Dippers and the Gibbles live in wildly different realities. And if you have the cognitive flexibility and a primary understanding of ideological constructs in general, it is possible..

to learn to see the world through the eyes of the Gibbles or the Nipples. Now, given that the vast majority of us are partisan skewered into one of these directions to begin with, chances are, you're already looking at the world through at least one partisan lens.

However, the problem for most is they mistake that ideologically coloured perception of reality as a form of objective reality itself. And that's where all the trouble starts.

Literally. That's where ALL the trouble starts. However, it is possible to train your mind...

to view the world through the different ideological lenses that define the polarities within our present day socio-political culture. I know it's possible because I've done this very thing myself. The way the #CoronaPanic and all the propaganda was so cleanly partisan-skewered...

has been a life-changing experience for me and perhaps the most earth-shattering, eye-opening experience of my adult life. This is one of the gifts of getting older, is that it's impossible to have these epiphanies without a few dozen repetitions around the sun.

So as someone who has voyaged back and forth to these divergent ideological universes and can now flip back and forth between the partisan-skewered perspectives almost instantaneously, what is my assessment of these competing cultures?

You're all fucking insane, you know that?

FIN