This is a short essay on the prevalence ofgullibility in our society. I am notnearly so negative as quite aware that most of humanity is simplyintellectually lazy and cautious of most they do not understand. This sets the stage for accepting informationfrom authority. Unfortunately the mediahappily set themselves up as authority and often end up peddling the mosterrant nonsense.
A trusted source is easier to acceptparticularly when it does nor affect oneself in the first place. Been told that UFO’s are merely a mistakemeans that the bulk of the population can forget about it. Only the enthusiast will actually check itout and they lack the bully pulpit.
Like elections, the public pay attentiononly when they feel they have to. It isthen that peddlers of nonsense slink away.
Unfortunately with medicine, a lot ofuseful knowledge is been largely ignored simply because no specific agency canprofitably spend the money to establish the public awareness.
The best thing that could be done forpublic health today is to establish the following protocols:
1 Displaceall sucrose in the manufactured food chain with glucose and stevia.
2 Integratesufficient vitamin D in specific staples to ensure an ample supply in excess oftwo grams per day.
3 Integratesufficient vitamin C in specific staples to ensure a daily consumption rate often grams per hundred weight. Everysoft drink and every fruit juice is a great start.
If this were mandated, we would watch acollapse of the majority of cardiovascular disease and of most cancers savingsociety from the massive related outlays. I suspect it is as simple as that and if one wants to test it, apply itto a single state first such as California
Thegullible mind explained
Thursday, May 05, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
(NaturalNews) In light of thestring of the blatant falsehoods being announced by the U.S.
These people, it turns out, are operating from what I called The Gullible Mind. It isa psychological processing malfunction that filters out information basedon its source ratherthan its integrity. People who operate from The Gullible Mind tend to havemisplaced trust in governments, institutions, mainstream news networks, doctors,scientists or anyone who wears the garb of apparent authority.
Whereas a normal, intelligent person would raise commonsense questions aboutinformation they receive from all sources,the Gullible Mind wholly accepts virtually any information from sources thatoccupy the role of apparent authority in society.
Governmentsnever lie
But how does this work insidetheir heads? It's an interesting process. Gullible Mind people dobelieve it is possible fora government(or institution) to lie; but theybelieve that governments, institutions and doctors choose NOT to lie even when it wouldserve their own self interests to do so.
Follow this carefully, because this is the fascinating part. These GullibleMind people effectively believe that even though a government official could lie about something, theywould never actually do so. And why wouldn't they? Because, ultimately, theGullible Mind crowd believes that governments, institutions and mainstreammedia outlets operate from a sort of honor code. So even if it were in the interests of ourown government to lie to us, it would never happen because that would violatethis imaginary honor code.
Where does this honor code exist? Where is it written down? Nowhere, of course.It is imaginary. But to The Gullible Mind, it seems real. Interestingly, eventhough this "honor code" only exists in the imagination of TheGullible Mind person, they project thishonor code onto sources of authority, imagining that they abide by it.
Extremegullibility
This is how The Gullible Mindperson believes that network news always reports the truth. The news networkshave a sense of "honor," they believe, and this sense of honorrequires them to always report the truth and never manipulate the news for anynefarious purposes. So news networks never "shape" the news and theyonly report what is factually true without any consideration whatsoever ofpolitics or advertiser profits.
This view of the world is, of course, laughably naive. And yet it is the corebelief system of at least half the population --the Gullible Mind half that believes everything it is told by its owngovernment, media or authority figures.
Interestingly, the Gullible Mind is also inwardly gullible because it does not recognize its owngullibility. Instead, it believes it is operating as a Rational Mind. Thisfalse Rational Mind believes it functions as a critical filter of incominginformation, but even this is self deception. In truth, this false RationalMind is on "auto filter" so that it filters out any information thatconflicts with the information it is receiving from official sources.
This is the key to understanding the Gullible Mind -- it isn't the quality ofthe information itself that matters; it is the confirmation of the story from official sources that"makes it real" in the Gullible Mind.
TheEaster Bunny killed Bin Laden!
For example, let's say aGullible Mind person comes across an announcement that says the Easter Bunnyhas killed Osama Bin Laden. The report claims that colored eggs were found nearBin Laden's body, and there was evidence of feathers being left at thescene, which proves the Easter Bunny was there.
Now, an intelligent, rational mind would have a lot of questions about this.For starters, rabbits don't have feathers. And the Easter Bunny is a piece offiction, too. On top of that, how could the Easter Bunny kill Osama Bin Laden?An intelligent person would, upon reviewing the holes in the story, be forcedto conclude the story is fiction.The only logical conclusion from that is that the government is lying to them.
A Gullible Mind person, however, would not ask whether rabbits have feathers,or whether the Easter Bunny is capable of conducting a military raid.Instead, the Gullible Mind person would first look to other confirming news sources in order to determinethe reliability of the story. They would turn on the TV or surf the internet,looking for the news to be repeated through "official" sources.
Once they found CNN, or Fox News, or some other "official" sourcereporting that the Easter Bunny killed Osama Bin Laden, then that news reportwould instantly become "real" in their minds. Suddenly it has shiftedfrom their mental processing queue to the "absolutely truth" part oftheir brain, and from that point forward, no one canquestion that reality in their heads.
Don'tbother arguing with a Gullible Mind - they are immune to facts
At this point, their rationalmind is completely shut off on the topic. No accumulation of facts can, at thatpoint, rattle their "reality." For example, a person who believes thegovernment's story of 9/11 has already embraced the EasterBunny version of terrorists flying airplanes into the World Trade Center
The answers don't matter toThe Gullible Mind, you see. There is no room for facts inside their heads,because all the space has been taken up with what is essentially a cult-likebelief in institutions of authority.
We saw this in the Heaven's Gate cult in
The belief in such a story may seem silly... until you realize that thegovernments of the world use the exact same cult-like tactics to get their own"followers" to believe everything they say, without question. So ifPresident Obama announced that an alien race wasgoing to land a mother ship on the White House lawn, and that people who votedfor him would have their consciousness transferred to an immortal alien body,the remarkable truth is that millionsof people would believe that. Perhaps tens of millions. They would evenworship him as an interstellar saint.
Remember Orson Welles' radio program that announced aliens hadinvaded the Earth and were destroying our cities?(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wa...)Huge numbers of people believed it was really happening... and not because itmade any sense, but because theinformation came from the source they trusted. To those people, thealien invasion was just as real back then as Bin Laden's official death isto government followers today.
Throughouthistory, many conspiracy theories have turned out to betrue
Government lying, of course,has been going on for as long as governments have existed. Not all conspiraciestheories are true, of course, but so many of them turn out to be true that theidea of "not believing" in conspiracies makes no rational sense.
To not believe in conspiracies means you don't believe two people have ever satdown and plotted to take advantage of others in some unethical and deceptiveway. Well gee, that describes virtually every board meeting of everylarge corporation in the world! Conspiraciesare not just commonplace; they're practically synonymous with modern-daycapitalism! Even right now, Apple is being accused of a conspiracy tokeep employee wages artificially low: http://www.appleinsider.com/article...
I wonder: Do the Gullible Mind people also not believe in that conspiracy theory? Are all conspiracy theoriesautomatically tossed out merely because of the word "conspiracy?"
For those who don't know their history,here's a list of 33 conspiracy theories that turnedout to be true: http://www.newworldorderreport.com/...
The
These are all historicalfacts. They are indisputable. But to The Gullible Mind, none of this historyexists. What's real is only what they are being told right now by the WhiteHouse. When George Bush occupied the White House, the daily fibs were thingslike, "The Iraqis want us to occupy their land with military personnelbecause we are setting them free!" Oh yeah, that's a bit of twisted logic,for sure. But it's no different from Obama's version of the war fairytales,which includes such gems as, "We're only dropping humanitarian bombs on Libya
But you see, it makes no difference whether anything they say is actuallytrue... at least not to The Gullible Mind, which believes there is no suchthing as a conspiracy theory. There is no such thing as a nefarious government,either. Heck, when
Themost popular issues of Gullible Mind people
Vaccines are good foryou - Vaccines are"safe and effective" merely because doctors and the CDC say they are,not because of any reliable scientific evidence.
The economy is in great shape - Gullible Mind people are easilyinfluenced to stop thinking about the $14 trillion national debt that's growingby the day and simply go along with whatever economic fictions are being wovenin Washington.
Governments and corporations arelooking out for your best interests - The drug companies onlywant to find cures and make everybody healthy. The government is here to help.We should all stop asking questions and just do what we're told.
Nothing will ever run out - There's no such thing as Peak Oil. Ourworld can continue its throwaway economy without end, they believe. We'll neverrun out of gas, water, soil ornatural resources. Keep using stuff upand throwing it all away!
There's no such thing as a cure for cancer - The ultimate pessimists, the GullibleMind crowd believes cancer has never beencured! And if a cancer cure did exist, we would know about it bynow, right? (Because our scientists already know everything that's worthknowing, you see...)
There are no other non-terrestrial civilizations orbeings in our universe -Amazingly, we are the only intelligent forms of life thathave ever existed, they believe. Any talk of non-Earth intelligence is just abunch of "fringe" nonsense. There was never any life on Mars, either.
Herbs and plants haveno medicinal value -That's right, only conventional medicine can "treat" you, becausethat's what the doctors say. Herbs and plants have zero biological value beyondtheir calories alone, they insist.
... and on it goes, one delusion after another. A Gullible Mind, it seems, willbelieve almost anything ifit comes from a "trusted" source. But that same Gullible Mind willdiscount straight-up facts if they don't come from those same trusted sources.
Howto stop being a Gullible Mind
Interestingly, most of the people who are intelligent, skepticalthinkers today used to be Gullible Mind people at one time or another. Therewas a point where they simply "awakened" and began to consciouslyquestion the world around them.
Intelligent, informed skeptics are the people asking questionslike:
• Why do twenty different mainstream news sources all report the exact same news, using the exactsame words, on the exact same day?
(http://www.naturalnews.com/032022_m...)If they were all investigating and writing their own news, wouldn't their newsbe different?
• Why did Wall Street get a multi-trillion-dollar bailout from
• Why does the USDA now actively conspire with GMO seed companies to keepapproving genetically modified seeds even without any scientific evidence of their long-term safety?
• If mercury is one of the most toxicsubstances known to modern science, why is it still being deliberately placedinto the mouths of children in the form of "silver"fillings? And why are they called "silver" when they actually containmore mercury than silver?
• Where does the fluoride used to fluoridate thepublic water supplies really come from? (http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=42652...)And if fluoride is so good for people, then why is it so hazardous to handle,and why is it considered a hazardous chemical by the EPA?
• What really happened on 9/11? How did WTC 7 collapse if it was neverhit by any airplanes? Why did they sweep away the rubble before a properforensic analysis could be performed?
• Are vaccines really safe? Where's the studycomparing vaccinated children with non-vaccinated children? Why won't thevaccine industry allow such studies to beconducted?
• Why does the cancer industry seem a lot more interested in treating cancer and recruiting cancer patients thanactually curing cancer and ending the epidemic? Why does the industry refuse totalk about cancer-causing chemicals or the anti-cancer effects of vitamin D?
• Why are toxic food additives still allowed in the foodsupply? What's the real story on aspartame and the FDA?Why did the FDA oppress stevia for so many decades?
• Why is the medical police state now using guns to force parents to medicatetheir children? In what kind of medical system is it necessary to use thethreat of violence to force compliance?
• Why did
• Why do we still have the DEA's "War on Drugs," especially sincethere is ample evidence that the war is a total failure that only increases theprison population while actually enrichingthe drug gangswith higher street prices?
• Why is the TSA still reaching down our pants atthe airports if Bin Laden is now dead? Wasn't he the whole reason we createdthe TSA andhired on those 60,000 security agents in the first place? (http://www.naturalnews.com/032267_B...)
An intelligent, skeptical thinker would ask these questions (and many more) asa natural course of basic human curiosity. But a Gullible Mind, attacks the questioner for evendaring to ask such questions.
Whoare some of the awakened people?
That's why the Gullible Mind is more than merely gullible: It isa cowardly mind. It isafraid to ask questions on its own, and it simultaneously attacks those whohave the courage to stand up and actually ask those questions (like JesseVentura).
Most members of the conventional press are, of course, cowardly minds. Theyalmost universally buy the corporate spin (or the White House spin) and neverask any tough questions anymore. Some of the REAL heroes -- the people who areasking intelligent questions about our world -- include:
Alex Jones
Jeff Rense
Charlotte Gerson
Jonathan Landsman
David Icke
Jesse Ventura
Gerald Celente
Ron Paul
Robert Scott Bell
Dr. Andrew Wakefield
Suzanne Somers
Dr. James Forsythe
George Noorey
Do you see a pattern here? Each one of these individuals has been marginalizedor viciously attacked and slandered simply because they chose to ask intelligent questions about the worldaround them. Now, I don't agree with every single thing said by each one ofthese people, but I admire each of them for having the courage to ask the questions thatneed to be asked if we are to move forward as a society (and civilization).
These kind of people represent the complete opposite of The Gullible Mind. Theyare, instead, the "true skeptics" of the world. The reason they areviciously attacked is because our world is so steeped in deceit and conspiracythat only Gullible Minds are tolerated. Those who question the status quo are notmerely annoying to the powers that be, but actuallydangerous because the most dangerous activity in which youcan engage today is helping others awaken to what'sreally happening around them.
It is that "awakening" that is so utterly despised by the web ofcorporations, governments and media lackeys that they will do everything in their power toprevent any sort of awakening from taking place at all. The functioning of theMatrix, after all, depends on people believing in the illusion.
And it is so much easier to govern, of course, if people just believe whateveryou tell them. Gullible Minds make great voters and willing slaves. But lousycompany.
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