Archive For The “The Mind Game” Category
The techniques of many cults fall under the general rubric of brainwashing… Consciously and manipulatively, cult leaders and their trainers exert a systematic social influence that can produce great behavioral changes. – Margaret T. Singer, professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley Deprogramming the neighbors. My inclination would be to explain quietly,…
A delusion is a false fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, hallucination, or some other misleading effects of perception, as individuals with those beliefs are able to change or readjust…
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. – Jodi Picoult Barker Ajax been called a lot of bad names by many many people, since…
If you can dream it, you can do it. – Walt Disney Lottery Winner Moves To Key West & Becomes A Famous Artist In His Old Age…. Uncle Walt Disney Never Dreamed Goofy Would Be Played By Matt Gaetz…. Putin Forces Ukrainians Onto Reservations. What The Fuck, Vlad?…. 2-4-6-0-7- You can figure the last number…
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a…
Boswell’s elaborate self-examination makes him a prime modern case of those who believe that fame and recognition will satisfy their desires to be complete, “uniform,” and filled with character, only to discover that nothing is really sufficient to satisfy the hunger within. You have probably never heard of Professor Leo Braudy. He is the unknown…
My dad raised me to believe we are what we accomplish, that what matters isn’t who we are, but what we do. He said we’re all paper cups, disposable and replaceable, that the work we contribute to the world is what we hold in our cups, that the work we do is what we’re worth….
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. – Elvis Presley I would urge you to see the truth of your situation. That is my advice. It is not for me to say what you should have done. Or not done. I only know the world …
I used to teach a writer’s workshop at the University of Iowa back in the 1960s, and I would say at the start of every semester, ‘The role model for this course is Vincent van Gogh—who sold two paintings to his brother.’ – Kurt Vonnegut Van Gogh is one of my sanity triggers. Whenever I…
Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain. – Emil Dorian When Covid came to town, I’ll be honest, I was already completely busy growing old. Fully occupied slowing down. When nothing is going on, every day continues to amaze me – don’t need no…