Friday, December 16, 2022

How to Execute a Proper Graveyard Spiral

Continuing with the death spiral theme, what if the instruments on your console consist of the NY Times, Bezos Post, CNN, NBC, and the rest of the matrix media? This isn’t just a potentially fatal situation collectively, but individually, since a person with faulty information cannot exercise prudence. 

For prudence involves judgment -- i.e., practical wisdom -- and judgment comes down to whether something Is or Is Not. Poor judgment means acting on the belief that what is isn’t, or what isn’t is.  

For example, think of all the parents who are making fatal judgments about the sex of their child, in the belief that it can be changed through drugs and mutilation. 

Why do they believe such a patent falsehood? Partly because they are relying on instruments that are systematically feeding them misinformation. They don’t know they are being gaslit, and that attempting to change one’s sex is the most effective means of which we know to cause a person to attempt suicide.
Ten to fifteen years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of comparable peers (https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/sex-reassignment-doesnt-work-here-the-evidence).
If there’s another variable that is as predictive of suicide, Id like to know what it is. Whatever it is, I’m sure it is another form mental illness, or in other words, the same thing in a different guise.

I don’t really want to continue down this path, but my instruments are leaving me no choice.

For example, with regard to Twitter, we’re all finding out what everyone outside the Matrix already knew, that in recent years it had became one of the most effective means for the Regime to keep those millions of NPCs -- AKA Biden voters -- herded into the ideological Matrix. 

Now that I’m on a roll, I want to say that the younger generation is even more vulnerable to this widespread pneumectomy, since they spend such an inordinate amount of time passively staring into the mirror of what they’ve already been programmed to believe by the State-Big Tech Industrial Complex. 

Here we see an alternative mechanism of the death spiral, in that this generation is not only “instrument trained,” they know of no reality that isn’t spoon-fed them through their handheld instruments. Rather, their problem is that they need to look out the fucking window because that’s a mountain up ahead.  

Another deadly trend that comes to mind is the widespread rejection of some of our most reliable instruments such as IQ testing, SAT, MCAT, LSAT, etc. Now our elite pilots want to fly the plane based on such instruments as skin color, genitalia, and sexual peculiarity. The end result is an elite class of morons and/or crazies from Karine Jean-Pierre to Sam Brinton to Barack Obama. 

So, being instrument-trained is of no assistance if your instruments are inaccurate, especially if you have no idea they’re inaccurate. The news may be fake but the instruments are real, as are the consequences of using them to guide your plane. One way or another you will eventually crash, unless chance intervenes.

I rate that last statement of mine only partially true, because there is clearly another factor that can help pull us out of the nosedive, this being….

Here we once again confront the problem of religious terms and the preconceptions of what they entail. But we’re talking about things such as “grace,” “providence,” “destiny,” or holy happenstance, each of which going to a kind of vertical conspiracy to prevent us from ending up where we’re headed if we persist in relying on our own charts and instruments.

Another problem here -- similar to the problems of history and individuality --  is that there is no General Rule, only anecdotes. Every reader will have his own story of how he was miraculously prevented from going down that path, making that choice, hitting that wall, going over that cliff, derailing that train, etc. And not just one time, but many. 

In short, there was some nonlocal energy or influence or presence or telos exerting an unseen influence on our flight. 

And the reason why it happens more than once is that for most of us it takes awhile to both recognize and cooperate with this invisible instrument. Once we do cooperate, then fewer dramatic midcourse corrections are necessary. Once we set the course toward our transcendent end, there will still be deviations along the way, but we can’t be permanently dragged off course.

In short, we're all on a graveyard spiral, only some of us are pointing up.

We'll end with an aphorism: 
One who does not observe the stars is lost in history.

5 comments:

julie said...

Now that I’m on a roll, I want to say that the younger generation is even more vulnerable to this widespread pneumectomy, since they spend such an inordinate amount of time passively staring into the mirror of what they’ve already been programmed to believe by the State-Big Tech Industrial Complex.

Exhibit A): "In terms of academics the curriculum at the middle school where I teach is about 80% (1) social justice (slavery, Jim Crow, and intractable white racism) and (2) climate change. The remaining 20% of classroom time is devoted to a variety of miscellaneous topics. In other words, it’s remarkably similar, both stylistically and in terms of content, to a typical day’s programming on National Public Radio."

julie said...

Once we do cooperate, then fewer dramatic midcourse corrections are necessary.

Indeed & amen.

John Venlet said...

I've mostly discarded my old charts, and as for my personal instruments, I've allowed them to be updated, daily, by His charts and the invisible instrument He wields. Failing that for guidance, I lift my eyes to the heavens knowing my groaning reaches there too.

Gagdad Bob said...

The more I think about this metaphor -- of the instruments and the death spiral -- the more fruitful it is...

Van Harvey said...

"So, being instrument-trained is of no assistance if your instruments are inaccurate, especially if you have no idea they’re inaccurate. The news may be fake but the instruments are real, as are the consequences of using them to guide your plane. One way or another you will eventually crash, unless chance intervenes."

Kant's master instrument panel was "You cannot know the thing itself", only the instrument - reality cannot be known, all we can know is what other people's instruments tell us. IOW: "Dive! Dive! Dive!".

The best way to deal with that: "...look out the fucking window because that’s a mountain up ahead."

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