BEWARE: we are all deceived AND unaware of the extent of our own conditioning. That is the nature of conditioning.*
There seems to be a desire among young people to prove how “woke” they are by judging others online.
There is a balance that we must strike between self-examination and self-esteem. Just because we feel good about ourselves, does not mean that our minds are not playing tricks on us. Just because we think we are right doesn't mean we are.
Don't believe everything you think.
Don't believe everything you say.
Don't believe everything you hear.
Don't believe everything you read.
Like it or not, believe it or not, we have all been brainwashed since childhood by cultural conditioning through constant automatic downloading what we are told to think;
what to think,
how to think,
why to think.
This is sustained by its own invisibility and familiarity.
"As long as I don't see my own thinking errors, then 'I'm right.'" (invisibility)
"As long as those around me think like me, then 'I'm right.'" (familiarity)
This is an integral part of the lies we have been fed since childhood. A critical part of growing up and growing old is to learn to pay attention to the things we have been told that are not true. If we neglect the cognitive / spiritual discipline of discernment, eventually an alternative reality takes over and we never really become more wise as we grow old.
And now there are even more powerful lies being spread like a virus of the mind through social media and propaganda.
Does anyone know what "WOKE" means?
https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1637500132085182466?t=_U25nWzE5_zV9thhfaAeYg&s=19
BEWARE OF CONSTANT DECEPTION
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart." (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
"Two facts stand out as about contemporary electoral politics. The first is that almost nobody thinks they can be tricked or manipulated. The second is that almost everyone thinks lying politicians are manipulating the other side. These two facts ought to cause some pause for thought and introspection.
"Yet it is quite uncommon to think that this capability [of being tricked and/or misled] extends to our own side, let alone ourselves. This is our shared exceptionalism: the commonly held belief that everyone can be manipulated but ourselves.
"[An honest, needed response is] to admit that we are all capable of holding false beliefs, giving credence to bad arguments and having motivations other than we are aware of and tell ourselves we have."
The point is that they both presuppose that people are capable of being psychologically manipulated and being drawn to bad arguments.
http://armchairideology.blogspot.com/2019/
""I have what I call an 'iron prescription' that helps me keep sane when I drift toward preferring one intense ideology over another. I feel that I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I'm qualified to speak only when I've reached that state…
"That is probably too tough for most people, although I hope it won't ever become too tough for me… This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is very, very important in life. If you want to end up wise, heavy ideology is very likely to prevent that outcome.” {Charlie Munger]
CALL OUT CULTURE
There seems to be a desire among young people to prove how “woke” they are by judging others online. “This idea of purity and that you’re never compromised and you’re always politically woke — you should get over that quickly,” he said, to laughs. “The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids, and share certain things with you.”
The speaker continued to tie the issue to activism:
“I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media — there is this sense sometimes of the way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people, and that’s enough. If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself. Did you see how woke I was, I called you out. Then I’m going to get on my TV and watch my show … That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change. If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far.”
(Obama speaking at an Obama Foundation event in Chicago)
* Conditioning according to Krishnamurti: Let us take the first question first. We are conditioned - physically, nervously, mentally - by the climate we live in and the food we eat, by the culture in which we live, by the whole of our social, religious and economic environment, by our experience, by education and by family pressures and influences. All these are the factors which condition us. Our conscious and unconscious responses to all the challenges of our environment - intellectual, emotional, outward and inward - all these are the action of conditioning. Language is conditioning; all thought is the action, the response of conditioning.
Knowing that we are conditioned we invent a divine agency which we piously hope will get us out of this mechanical state. We either postulate its existence outside or inside ourselves - as the atman, the soul, the Kingdom of Heaven which is within, and who knows what else! To these beliefs we cling desperately, not seeing that they themselves are part of the conditioning factor which they are supposed to destroy or redeem. So not being able to uncondition ourselves in this world, and not even seeing that conditioning is the problem, we think that freedom is in Heaven, in Moksha, in Nirvana. In the Christian myth of original sin and in the whole eastern doctrine of Samsara, one sees that the factor of conditioning has been felt, though rather obscurely. If it had been clearly seen, naturally these doctrines and myths would not have arisen. Nowadays the psychologists also try to get to grips with this problem, and in doing so condition us still further. Thus the religious specialists have conditioned us, the social order has conditioned us, the family which is part of it has conditioned us. All this is the past which makes up the open as well as the hidden layers of the mind. En passant it is interesting to note that the so-called individual doesn't exist at all, for his mind draws on the common reservoir of conditioning which he shares with everybody else, so the division between the community and the individual is false: there is only conditioning. This conditioning is action in all relationships - to things, people and ideas.
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