Truth is Hidden

Remember, Remember, the 11th of September - The Nano-thermite, Treason and Plot! I know of No Reason why the Nano-Thermite Treason Should Ever, Be, Forgot!

That small bit of "remember - 9-11 was an inside job" happened to spark an exchange on my facebook page which totally reminded me of some Lobaczewski quotes. It seems, during so called 'happy times' that searching for the truth becomes inconvenient. Let's say that evidence indicated that your government was not at all working for your best interests, and in fact, was operating solely at the discretion of ultra-rich psychopaths. You might have to do something about it, right?

During “good” times, the search for truth becomes uncomfortable because it reveals inconvenient facts. It is better to think about easier and more pleasant things. Unconscious elimination of data which are, or appear to be, inexpedient gradually turns into habit, and then becomes a custom accepted by society at large. The problem is that any thought process based on such truncated information cannot possibly give rise to correct conclusions; it further leads to subconscious substitution of inconvenient premises by more convenient ones, thereby approaching the boundaries of psychopathology.

Such contented periods for one group of people - often rooted in some injustice to other people or nations - start to strangle the capacity for individual and societal consciousness; subconscious factors take over a decisive role in life. Such a society... considers any perception of uncomfortable truth to be a sign of “ill-breeding”. (Lobaczewksi, Political Ponerology)

In other words, to accept that our government was involved in 9-11, that certain parties committed treason of the highest order, would naturally force us to act. Our lives would be disrupted and we'd have a higher calling to fulfill - that of Americans honor bound, to seek justice for the lives of our slain family and friends. Simply put, our subconscious makes it difficult for this to occur, especially when reinforced by government propaganda that assures us 'all is well'. Continuing...

The most complex process of this type is substitution of premises thus eliminated by other data, ensuring an ostensibly more comfortable conclusion. Our associative ability rapidly elaborates a new item to replace the removed one, but it is one leading to a comfortable conclusion. This operation takes the most time, and it is unlikely to be exclusively subconscious. Such substitutions are often effected collectively, in certain groups of people, through the use of verbal communication. That is why they best qualify for the moralizing epithet “hypocrisy” than either of the above-mentioned processes.

The above examples of conversive phenomena do not exhaust a problem richly illustrated in psychoanalytical works. Our subconscious may carry the roots of human genius within, but its operation is not perfect; sometimes it is reminiscent of a blind computer, especially whenever we allow it to be cluttered with anxiously rejected material. This explains why conscious monitoring, even at the price of courageously accepting disintegrative states, is likewise necessary to our nature, not to mention our individual and social good.

There is no such thing as a person whose perfect self-knowledge allows him to eliminate all tendencies toward conversive thinking, but some people are relatively close to this state, while others remain slaves to these processes. Those people who use conversive operations too often for the purpose of finding convenient conclusions, or constructing some cunning paralogistic or paramoralistic statements, eventually begin to undertake such behavior for ever more trivial reasons, losing the capacity for conscious control over their thought process altogether. This necessarily leads to behavior errors which must be paid for by others as well as themselves.

People who have lost their psychological hygiene and capacity of proper thought along this road also lose their natural critical faculties with regard to the statements and behavior of {pathological individuals}. Hypocrites stop differentiating between pathological and normal individuals, thus opening an “infection entry” for the ponerologic role of pathological factors.

Generally, each community contains people in whom similar methods of thinking were developed on a large scale, with their various deviations as a backdrop. We find this both in characteropathic and psychopathic personalities. Some have even been influenced by others to grow accustomed to such “reasoning”, since conversion thinking is highly contagious and can spread throughout an entire society. In “happy times” especially, the tendency for conversion thinking generally intensifies.

And so it is entirely possible, not to mention likely, that due to the emotional pain suffered by considering the facts, the facts regarding 9-11 are completely ignored by most of the populace. They were covered up quite effectively, and thus not available unless one has the penchant to go looking for them. Personally, I didn't realize 9-11 was an inside job until well into 2005, after a flash animation caught my attention and I found myself digging deeper.

The funny thing is, this isn't really anyone's 'fault' per se`. We're all wired like this, and depending on how we were raised - whether or not we were rewarded or punished for discussing unpleasant truths - it effects us each a little differently. Barbara Oakley discussing the same phenomenon in her book, Evil Genes:

A recent imaging study by psychologist Drew Westen and his colleagues at Emory University provides firm support for the existence of emotional reasoning. Just prior to the 2004 Bush-Kerry presidential elections, two groups of subjects were recruited - fifteen ardent Democrats and fifteen ardent Republicans. Each was presented with conflicting and seemingly damaging statements about their candidate, as well as about more neutral targets such as actor Tom Hanks (who, it appears, is a likable guy for people of all political persuasions). Unsurprisingly, when the participants were asked to draw a logical conclusion about a candidate from the other - "wrong" - political party, the participants found a way to arrive at a conclusion that made the candidate look bad, even though logic should have mitigated the particular circumstances and allowed them to reach a different conclusion. Here's where it gets interesting.

When this "emote control" began to occur, parts of the brain normally involved in reasoning were not activated. Instead, a constellation of activations occurred in the same areas of the brain where punishment, pain, and negative emotions are experienced (that is, in the left insula, lateral frontal cortex, and ventromedial prefrontal cortex). Once a way was found to ignore information that could not be rationally discounted, the neural punishment areas turned off, and the participant received a blast of activation in the circuits involving rewards - akin to the high an addict receives when getting his fix.

In essence, the participants were not about to let facts get in the way of their hot-button decision making and quick buzz of reward. "None of the circuits involved in conscious reasoning were particularly engaged," says Westen. "Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones." {...}

Ultimately, Westen and his colleagues believe that "emotionally biased reasoning leads to the 'stamping in' or reinforcement of a defensive belief, associationg the participant's 'revisionist' account of the data with positive emotion or relief and elimination of distress. 'The result is that partisan beliefs are calcified, and the person can learn very little from new data,'" Westen says. Westen's remarkable study showed that neural information processing related to what he terms "motivated reasoning" ... appears to be qualitatively different from reasoning when a person has no strong emotional stake in the conclusions to be reached.

The study is thus the first to describe the neural processes that underlie political judgment and decision making, as well as to describe processes involving emote control, psychological defense, confirmatory bias, and some forms of cognitive dissonance. The significance of these findings ranges beyond the study of politics: "Everyone from executives and judges to scientists and politicians may reason to emotionally biased judgments when they have a vested interest in how to interpret 'the facts,'" according to Westen.

And so, when I discuss 9-11 being an inside job, those that suffer 'pangs of discomfort' now have a scientific basis to understand that their anxiety is biological in nature. A tendency to get angry with 'truthers' or to vehemently deny the facts of the matter indicates a mal-formed thought process based on truncated data and activation of the brains 'punishment centers'. Simply realizing the pattern, understanding it, and consciously studying the data and drawing new conclusions from it will interrupt the process and thus disabling the punishment centers and should allow the individual to derive conclusions based upon the data, as to opposed to how one 'feels' about it.