Posted on 01/31/2021 9:39:41 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
We’re all in this together. Stay home. Stay safe. We’ll get through this. It’s our new normal.
These words have been repeated so many times, you’d think they’re used for selling the latest superfood.
They’re not selling a superfood, but is it possible they’re trying to sell us something?
A Sequence of Events
Vanessa and I were playing our morning game of Sequence and drinking our coffee in early April (we’ve been playing card games before work since well before the COVID-19 chaos). Just before the news shifted to commercial, the newsperson stated, “Stay home. Stay safe.”
The commercials came on, with one after another using the phrases I mentioned above. That was the moment I first realized how often those phrases were coming at us. Of course, once you notice something like this, you can’t not see it and hear it anymore. Welcome to the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Perhaps my bringing it up to you will make you aware now too.
Whether the coordinated use of these phrases was some sort of nationwide scheme created by a group behind “the curtain,” or it was a simple coincidence, we’ve been primed, and it’s had a visible impact on people’s thoughts, words, and actions. Behavioral Priming
Though its effects are controversial, psychologists, researchers, and marketers have tested behavioral priming since the middle of the 20th century.
If you’re not familiar with priming, it is the ability to influence someone’s thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors without them knowing about it, through exposing them to a previous stimulus. For example, repeating the phrase, “Stay home. Stay safe.” could be a form of priming, as it has the potential to impact the way people think (or don’t think and just do), speak, or act.
As John Bargh explains in his article, published in the European Journal of Social Psychology,
The past 25 years have seen amazing empirical advances in our knowledge of the kinds of psychological concepts and processes that can be primed or put into motion unconsciously. Social norms to guide or channel behavior within the situation; goals to achieve high performance, to cooperate with an opponent, or to be fair minded and egalitarian; emotions that shape our reactions and responses to subsequent, unrelated stimuli; and of course, knowledge structures such as stereotypes and trait constructs for use in the comprehension and encoding of often ambiguous social behavior. And social behavior itself can be produced unconsciously in the same fashion.
Still more recently, though, priming effects of even greater complexity have been discovered, such as in the nonconscious activation of deep cultural ideologies and other interpersonal relations… Bargh JA, 2006
Consider this statement: We’re all in this together.
If you hear this over and over, and unconsciously believe it, then it means those who don’t follow the conventional recommendations aren’t in this with you. They’re outsiders. They are easy to target and hate and slander. It feels okay to treat them as outsiders because people believe they have the support of their pack to do so.
Or take this one: Stay home. Stay safe.
This implies that by staying home, you’re doing something that helps protect people. To not stay home then, would mean putting others at risk. It sets the stage for people to easily buy into the idea that if you don’t stay home, you’re selfish.
There’s nothing to prove this statement is accurate. Recent data says the opposite: 66% of hospitalizations in New York are from people sheltering in place.
Yet, if you asked the average person what they should do to protect themselves and others, they’d say, “I should stay home to stay safe.”
Behavioral priming can lead us to believe something is a fact even without evidence to support it. It would explain why some people feel it’s okay to throw stones at those who believe in something other than staying home. They want to slander doctors who suggest we’re actually safer being at work. Maybe their strong emotion comes from the fact that they’ve been well-primed over the past couple of months.
And finally, what about this? A new normal.
What a perfect phrase to prime you to accept a life that’s different from the life we lived up until 2020. If you believe whatever we’re told to do next is the “new normal” after hearing that phrase a thousand times, you’ll be less likely to question whatever that suggested normal might be. What if?
I’m not suggesting this is some sort of global conspiracy, or that a group of evil-minded people decided to take advantage of the situation we’re in right now to create a different way of living.
It’s possible somebody simply threw a few phrases together, and they took off faster than a contradictory video on YouTube, but with far less pushback. Maybe it was just a coincidence.
I’m only asking the question, “What if?”
What if the phrases we’ve constantly heard have shaped the way we think about our actions, the way we judge others’ actions, and the way we might accept life in the future, if it becomes different from what we’ve experienced in the past?
What if there are motivations behind all of this that aren’t pure? The only way to find out is to ask questions. The weird part in it all is that once people begin asking questions, they’re often met with an onslaught of hate and anger, which makes you wonder even more if there isn’t something behind it all.
What if, by you simply asking, “What if?” you start to feel less concerned about COVID-19, and more about where we’re headed as a country?
Of course, I could be way off base with my questions. If I am, I don’t mind. I’m simply asking questions worth considering. Wisdom comes from asking questions, not from simply following along with whatever we’re told.
We all need to ask more questions rather than accept all answers.
We're so screwed. I'm not sure we will ever truly be 'free' again. :(
I’m home, I’m safe.......
Also:
‘There is No Pandemic’ ~ Nick Kollerstrom (UK Opinion)
https://www.unz.com/article/there-is-no-pandemic/
Lots of charts and graphs to back him up.
The game is rigged.
We’re all being manipulated.
I think that Trump and the potential draining of the swamp was a chance to switch the game up. But, so far, it looks to me like that failed. Now we have China running our government and stomping on the accelerator to bring about the Great Reset. I don’t see how it gets stopped.
But everyone is “staying home and staying safe” so I’m sure we’ll be OK.
Stop watching TV.
Take off the mask.
Live your previously normal life.
At least this is what MANY of the Frontline Docs are saying...on how to get back to normal life for a virus that has a 99.5++% survivability rate.
Dr Simone Gold....
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gN7DeGRiZiFR/
Dr Lee Merrit....
https://www.bitchute.com/video/BLfw5ROCffa9/
I said that at the beginning too.
The lockdowns made NO rational or logical sense.
No no - we have to flatten the curve.
But the infections will just skyrocket again when we reopen (and they did)
No no - flatten the curve - FoLlOw ThE ScIeNcE.
And now the entire DNC - charged and sworn with upholding the constitution says we’re going to take part in the world globalization great reset and you have no choice in the matter.
That doesn’t sound like a government adhering to the constitution.
Until the pain associated with the accelerating degradation of the quality of life in middle class America exceeds the pain caused by the increasingly irrational fear of a disease with a 99.99 percent recovery rate, cowardice will reign in our country ... and that cowardice will be exploited by power- and celebrity-obsessed vile individuals until such time as former American "men" wake from their panic-induced stupor and put an end to this Liberty-destroying tyranny ... for the sake of their children if not for themselves.
There is no doubt as to the inevitability of that day of reckoning as the love of Liberty is inate as to American citizens -- more so than in any other country -- whether, in our year-long fearful state, we are aware of it or not.
*BUMP* :)
Your freedom isn’t dependent on what others permit. You take what is yours, defend it, embrace it, resist.
*BUMP* :)
Sometimes the innocuous is perceived as a malicious scheme. It’s okay to ask the question, but I would caution against making too much of it for two reasons. 1.) you do have an individual life to live among family and friends, and 2.) you have an awareness that manipulative schemes exist.
Civilization often engages in corporate behaviors out of a sense of the common good and welfare. Individuals have a responsibilty to question whether corporate behaviors as engaged and encouraged truly redound to that end.
I’m certainly glad I live a rural, somewhat self-sufficient life.
The only thing to change for me is less time with friends (Family? We see them regularly) and a change in my shopping habits so I can pick things up or have them delivered and not need to run around in a mask - which is still MANDATED by my douche of a Governor. *BLECH*
We go out to eat a couple times a week, stop by the local brewery once a week. We come and go as we please in the stores, no mask, no BS and no worries.
When I retired I refused to ever get on another airplane as long as I live so that scenario will never bother me again. Never wanted to take a cruise ship anywhere so that’s a non-issue. I stay away from blue states unless driving through to a red one and wont go near any city regardless of what state it’s in. Cities are infected with liberals and liberal think.
Rural America is where it’s at.
I refused to ever get on another airplane as long as I live so that scenario will never bother me again. Never wanted to take a cruise ship anywhere so that’s a non-issue. I stay away from blue states unless driving through to a red one and wont go near any city regardless of what state it’s in. Cities are infected with liberals and liberal think.
Rural America is where it’s at.
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THIS.
It is clear that 'someone' chose 2020 to begin the crushing of the world's freedoms and the institution of a new world order. The evil bastards have even told us there is coming a Great Reset, their planned great reset! How obvious does it have to get before the sheeple realize the wolves are manning the sheepfold? Mercy, what a society of lambs we've become! And the lambs are being led to slaughter thinking they are prettying up a parade! These bastards mean to kill off billions of us, they've even stated their assertion that there are too many humans on the planet so billions must be eliminated. Billy Gates and Georgie Soros are not our friends, People!
I rejected “the new normal” as gaslighting 10 months ago. I must admit shock at how easily society has capitulated to the nonsense.
Sociologists tend to be lefties, and those are the people pulling the Pavlovian strings right now.
Conservatives are out of the loop.
The justice department, specifically the fbi and cia, has been involved in psychological warfare since its inception. They have been collecting huge amounts of personal data, analyzing it, and using it to manipulate behaviour. After they were caught off guard in the 2016 election, they spent the last four years plotting the 2020 election coup. 2020 could be labeled as the year the justice department commandeered for the coup.
I’m envious. I live in a small town about 35 miles away from the Dark Hole of Seattle, where intelligent thought is sucked away never to be seen again.
Even at our outer orbit this town falls prey to the insidious stupidity and, as a consequence, rules by the same idiotic diktats.
So I can come and go as I please, but there isn’t anywhere TO go. The activities - the bars where I played, the car shows, etc. - are all suspended indefinitely (if not abandoned altogether).
In Brave New World, a process called hypnopaedia is used to teach moral and ethical lessons. ... The Director explains how moral education works by saying, ‘’Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.’’
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