Re:5G Virus Conspiracy Theory Fueled by Coordinated Effort
by carapace on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:10PM
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Did you ever read Robert Anton Wilson's "Illuminatus Trilogy"? It's basically all about this process and the higher-order manifestations of it. (It's about a lot of other things too.)
Specific to what you're talking about there is a bifurcation (really a series of them) when the system detects the invalid data and re-calibrates. Often this takes the form of a "conversion experience", and some people build specific rituals (initiations) to try to engineer them artificially.
He once described society as "open warfare between competing gangs of magicians" or something like that. By "magicians" he meant people who deliberately program the "reality tunnels" (his jargon) of others.
What you're talking about, in the context of RAW's models, is a kind of transcendent goal: allegiance to truth itself. (And critical thinking, evidence-based data collection, etc. All that good stuff.) You're part of the great anti-conspiracy.
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Now that I think about it I seem to recall that RAW had a piece where he talks about experienceing the Santa Claus disillusionment. I think George Carlin does in his autobiography.
Specific to what you're talking about there is a bifurcation (really a series of them) when the system detects the invalid data and re-calibrates. Often this takes the form of a "conversion experience", and some people build specific rituals (initiations) to try to engineer them artificially.
He once described society as "open warfare between competing gangs of magicians" or something like that. By "magicians" he meant people who deliberately program the "reality tunnels" (his jargon) of others.
What you're talking about, in the context of RAW's models, is a kind of transcendent goal: allegiance to truth itself. (And critical thinking, evidence-based data collection, etc. All that good stuff.) You're part of the great anti-conspiracy.
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Now that I think about it I seem to recall that RAW had a piece where he talks about experienceing the Santa Claus disillusionment. I think George Carlin does in his autobiography.