{"id":163240,"date":"2024-06-24T13:27:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T13:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=163240"},"modified":"2024-06-24T13:27:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T13:27:13","slug":"everything-in-our-civilization-is-stacked-to-keep-us-believing-the-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/everything-in-our-civilization-is-stacked-to-keep-us-believing-the-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything In Our Civilization Is Stacked To Keep Us Believing The Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not so much that people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are dumb, or because humans are selfish. Primarily, people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are lazy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-163241\" src=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-58-e1719235107563-300x204.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-58-e1719235107563-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-58-e1719235107563.png 531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By this I don\u2019t mean to say that people don\u2019t work hard enough or don\u2019t stay busy enough. When I say people are lazy, I mean we are lazy thinkers.<\/p>\n<p>And we are lazy thinkers for reasons that aren\u2019t really our fault. The human brain is wired to select for cognitive ease, which means we tend to favor pathways of thought which require less psychic strain in order to conserve energy\u200a\u2014\u200aprobably because our evolutionary ancestors needed all their psychic energy for important actions like finding food and avoiding saber-toothed tigers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"fitvidsignore\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m_aTN3yKOkY?si=h9ugzuYBArsO4eNl\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If that wasn\u2019t bad enough, our brains are also wired to preserve our existing worldview, so that the perspectives we form from our lazy preference for cognitive ease are held in place, and evidence which contradicts them will often be rejected. This is why facts don\u2019t tend to change people\u2019s already formed ideas.<\/p>\n<p>This lazy tendency to select for cognitive ease and defend the worldviews we construct as a result of that tendency is what gives rise to confirmation bias, because believing aspects which confirm our preexisting ideas about the world is easier than believing aspects which would blow our worldview apart.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re among those who\u2019ve gone from fully believing the mainstream propaganda worldview, to realizing that everything you\u2019ve been trained to believe about the world is a lie, then you know how uncomfortable and disruptive this shift can be. Our psyches are stacked toward avoiding that work and discomfort, in the same way they\u2019re stacked against exercising regularly even though we know it\u2019s good for us\u200a\u2014\u200awhich by the way also occurs because there was a time when conserving energy was beneficial for our species\u2019 survival, causing an adapted preference for rest over exertion.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"fitvidsignore\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S74C-XF9kYY?si=z-N4Cjiaxpn8TaqC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This glitch in our brains is exploited by propagandists, who serve up power-serving information for us in ways that is palatable and easy to digest. You can see this immediately by watching <em>Fox News<\/em> or <em>MSNBC<\/em>; both channels are a nonstop deluge of propaganda promoting the information interests of the US-centralized empire, differing only in the types of confirmation bias they\u2019re meant to appeal to.<\/p>\n<p>Silicon Valley reinforces this dynamic, with virtual communication networks algorithms dividing people into self-reinforcing echo chambers where empire propaganda can be easily slid down their throats without the slightest twinge of gag reflex.<\/p>\n<p>So consent is manufactured for a giant, globe-spanning power structure using propaganda which takes advantage of cognitive biases that emerged in our consciousness due to evolutionary conditioning which arose under circumstances that no longer apply to human life in the modern world. We no longer need to seek out cognitive ease and preserve our worldviews to conserve psychic energy for more pressing matters like avoiding prehistoric predators and other now-obsolete existential perils.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, in modern times our existence as a species is actually being threatened by those ancient adaptations. The fact that nowadays we find ourselves psychologically herded <em>en masse<\/em> into worldviews which consent to a <em>status quo<\/em> that is killing our biosphere while marching us toward nuclear armageddon means our very survival depends on our overcoming our psychic inertia toward learning the truth about our world, so that we can stop being propagandized away from revolution and start using the power of our numbers to force an end to that <em>status quo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"fitvidsignore\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/34LGPIXvU5M?si=FtSAw1VEpQuShzCq\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Everything in this dystopian civilization is stacked to prevent this from occurring. Our news media. Our entertainment. Our mainstream culture. It\u2019s all engineered to prevent us from understanding the truth about our nation, our government, our society and our world, because if we all had a lucid understanding of how badly the powerful have been screwing us over this whole time, there\u2019s no way the powerful would be allowed to remain in power.<\/p>\n<p>So our evolutionary conditioning is stacked against us on this front, and so is the entirety of our civilization. But that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s impossible. Just as we know it\u2019s possible to lose weight and get fit even when our evolutionary conditioning tells us to eat as many calories as possible and spend as much time resting as we can, and even when every part of our society is telling us to consume, consume, consume, it\u2019s also possible to overcome the obstacles toward forming a lucid worldview. We can move our bodies past the obstacles to our health because we are a clever species and we want what\u2019s best for ourselves, and we can move our consciousness past the obstacles to our escape from the propaganda matrix in essentially the same way.<\/p>\n<p>The coming years will decide whether humanity remains trapped in its ancient animal conditioning, or transcends its dysfunctionality and becomes a truly conscious species. Personally, I believe we have the freedom to go either direction. It\u2019s really up to us whether we want to keep this adventure going or not.<\/p>\n<p><em>Author: <\/em><em>Caitlin Johnstone<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>yogaesoteric<br \/>\nJune 24, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not so much that people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are dumb, or because humans are selfish. Primarily, people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are lazy. By this I don\u2019t mean to say that people don\u2019t work hard enough or don\u2019t stay busy enough. When I say people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-1602-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163244,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163240\/revisions\/163244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}