How to Survive in a World that Lost its Mind
A small guide on how to make it through our sense-making crisis
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Humanity is experiencing probably its deepest meaning crisis since, well, maybe forever.
Can you still make sense of what’s happening out there?
Most people can’t, they’ve given up completely. And I don’t blame them.
Armies of the population have lost their homegrown ability to even think well. The result? They gladly outsource the authority over their own lives to third-party decision-makers likes Governments, Science and Technology.
How about you?
Can you still divide this complex world into digestible chunks so you can go to bed at night peacefully? Do you understand today’s complicated dynamics and apparently opposed narratives? Can you look beyond? Do you have the scope, capacity, and time to make meaningful connections?
To feel safe and belong in this world that has gone bananas?
Here’s some advice to make it through this meaning-giving crisis.
Ask Critical Questions
In this podcast, lawyer Reiner Fuellmich points out that democracy has its foundations in two things. People that are able to ask themselves and others critical questions and enough folks that have a sense of ethical and moral guidelines.
Here comes the first problem.
In responding to an apparent very critical pandemic-like situation, humanity decided to skip the critical questions part as a result of a worldwide emergency response.
Ever since we’ve forgotten to collectively switch the be-critical button back on again.
This, and widespread censorship of other ideas, comes from the alpha-narrative that has been introduced that we’ll only be able to fight off the nasty bugger if we stand in one line, give away our freedoms, and turn other people in that don’t by means of social blame and shame.
How odd.
Critical thinkers that dare to point out that the bug is less lethal than the flu or that mouth caps don’t work have now become ‘health dissidents’. Amongst them are thousands of Professors and scientists of high esteem.
They’re told to shut up.
Big Tech censorship will remind them that now, suddenly, it’s a bad thing to question things.
It’s always a bad idea to flush your critical thinking down the toilet in any situation
I get it, the mainstream media's global fear-mongering warfare has been bombing common sense out of millions of heads for a very prolonged period of time now, in an unprecedented aggressive way, but still…
Put in another way. All the things that haven’t been making sense, at all, not in a million years, should be food for thought for you. Not a reason to look the other way.
You are part of society and democracy. When you give up on critical thinking, democracy dies a little with you.
Take Prolonged Breaks of Social Media
You live in a world of hyper objects. This means that through the wonderful gift of the internet, the world has become your oyster.
But all the wars, disaster, terror, violence, and unbalanced shit are now also delivered on your doorstep 24/7. Unless it’s censored of course.
And…unless you switch it off.
Because of the constant information overload, you get triggered. It’s just too much. No human can take in all this hyper information, all these images of blood, death, and disaster.
But it happens to generate eye-balls so smart tech is serving exactly that what keeps you glued on the screen. Often highly traumatic for your nervous system but creating highly addictive dopamine.
The result of social media turning into attention economic driven pools of dopamine addiction is something that’s called digital anxiety.
Before Facebook, the average person was able to react in an analytical way to information, could take different viewpoints. You probably remember the time you had a healthy discussion with somebody with a different view on things. You might have even enjoyed that since it enriched your world.
After 15 years of data harvesting and A.I serving you a perfect information bias, data has become your prison instead of setting you free.
Your only way to respond to the constant overload is emotional. We fight wars over Twitter. We cancel people over 280 characters. We ALT-DELETE a President of the United States, regardless of his opinions.
It’s called cancel culture and big tech is highly responsible.
Don’t let screens hijack your attention any longer. It’s precious time you can use to watch a 3-hour long podcast about one subject, to read a good book, to engage in a respectful discussion.
To start making sense of a world that lost its mind.
Instead of canceling anyone, include the other.
Develop Global Ethics — Think in US
The field of ethics or moral philosophy involves developing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior — wiki
The problem here is that what’s right or wrong is a result of perception, conditioning, culture, values, and customs. The word stems from the Greek Ethos, freely translated as custom. It’s a universal value system as best and a cultural regional custom, as with the Greek, at worst.
For example, the Asian custom of shark fin soup might be high in the ladder of ethos in Japan and China, but highly debatable in the rest of the world. Especially when this 1 billion dollar market seems to lead to the rapid extinction of sharks, followed by the exponential collapse of others lower species in the ocean food chain.
According to the Netflix docu Seaspiracy, this kind of local custom-driven behaviour will eventually lead to a threat to the whole of humankind when in 2050, according to the movie, no fish are left in the oceans.
With the rise of globalisation and everything being connected to everything, one extinction event leads to the other in a cascading manner.
This calls for a global ethical framework, that comes from a unified awareness that we are one people, one species, one humanity.
Learn to observe beyond weaponized narratives that serve only billion-dollar markets when it comes to universal threats and challenges. Forget about your country, nationalism, borders.
Move beyond this false story of separation, it is no longer true since it isn’t serving humanity any longer
Think in us.
Stop Following Blindly — Develop Moral Awareness
Nothing ever good came out of masses of people blindly following a narrative that is, to say the least, highly ethically questionable.
Personally, vaccinating 6 months-olds with an untested new medical experiment is highly questionable if not downright abusive or even criminal. Children up to 12 have an amazing immune system. That’s my opinion. It’s my moral compass telling me what is right and wrong.
Call it moral awareness.
Moral awareness comes from the combination of compassion, being able to feel, an open heart space, experience, knowledge, and a deep sense of what is right, not only for myself.
And from the opposite of following fear.
Sometimes ethics enter a grey zone. For example, using lots of apes till science almost runs out of them to test a new medical experiment that can potentially save millions of human lives.
Wrong or right? depends on the intentions of the medical experiment and how much money is involved, who makes profits by harming what and putting the harm on which shoulders?
Very basic questions that anybody can ask. Are you asking them?
Look through anything that is mainstream
In many Western civilized countries in 2021, people that gather in a park, to peacefully sit together, get tons of water in their face, beaten apart by special police forces. For what?
They demonstrate for peace.
The crowd of silent protestors now has grown to hundreds of thousands, as the latest protest in London showed again.
People are concerned about a new form of ‘health segregation’ which is highly discriminating, rapes your privacy from all sides, and may lead to precedents we don’t want to see happen again in history.
Still, mainstream media treats these vast numbers of people, millions on the planet, as fools, conspiracy theorists, and not obedient civilians that should be socially punished.
One day soon the coin will flip. I don’t mean that BBC reporters will be chased through the streets of London. Please no.
MSM abuses its power of news distribution and chooses consistently only one dominant narrative backed with a tsunami of relentless fear. Not long ago they were seen as the fourth pillar of our fast-fading democracies. That time has passed.
They conspire with governments and the real hands of power behind our marionette politicians since they are cartels themselves. In this sense, they’ve become criminal players in willingly and consciously misleading the people, withholding information, and steering a one-story fits all narrative that seems less and less true as this shit show continues.
Dare to speak your truth
Finally, dare to speak your truth, like I just did.
I don’t worry about income, money, bribery, being censored anymore. I believe that when I am not willing to fight for my freedom, I am simply not worth it.
Ethics and morality are of the highest value in times of war. Nothing else counts more, really.
And yes, we are at war. A war for truth, equality, and unveiling the curtains of global power structures, information & narrative warfare, and even a conscious attack on your sense-making abilities.
Speaking your truth can be daring. It requires a special characteristic: being courageous.
It requires standing up when the rest of the room stays seated.
It requires turning your back and leave your home ground when your family and the rest of your village freezes in acquiescence and are well on the way to become zombies.
We need only a few very strong leaders, lightbulbs, truth speakers, to lit the dark cave of fear millions are left to rescue, believing only a jab in the arm will save them.
Are you one of them?