"Conceive of it this way. Far up in the sky you have people,
individuals, who are inventing the fulfillment of their most profound
desires, making them fact in the world, no matter what---and way down
below, miles under the earth, you have other individuals who could be
doing what the sky dwellers are, but they've bamboozled themselves into
thinking they can't. Instead, they think they're trapped in every
little response they might have to any old stimulus that comes along.
Both groups of people are creative, but they've channeled their
imaginations and creativity in vastly different ways. Waking up may be
hard to do, but you either do or you don't." (
Notes for Exit From The Matrix, Jon Rappoport)
Some brilliant media pundits are now suggesting that the accused San
Bernardino shooter, Syed Farook, may have been "triggered" by the Xmas
party at the building he later attacked.
You know, the existence of Xmas contributed to setting him off because
his religious faith was of a different type. Xmas was a grave insult.
There will be people, believe it or not, who think this "analysis" has merit.
"Well, sure, I can see that. Given the nature of his faith, it's
understandable that he would have left the party in a disturbed state,
gone home, put on military gear, picked up a few auto weapons, a ton of
ammo, and pipe bombs, waited for his wife to do the same, and then, on
the spur of the moment, returned to the building...he was
triggered."
"Triggered" is the new reality. It's mainly for the young and naïve,
especially those who are looking for a way to become known at colleges.
"Wow, I can get a few minutes of attention if I say I was triggered.
I'll go for it. It's easy. I don't have to do anything. I don't have
to achieve anything. This is all about
not achieving
anything. It's a perfect excuse. I'm paralyzed. And the reason is,
let's see, I wasn't warned by my professor that he was going to discuss a
subject that had triggers in it. Yeah, I like it."
Apparently, there is no bottom for idiocy. You think you've seen the worst, but no.
Yesterday, I included this quote from a
New Yorker article. It's worth re-reading:
"Individual [Harvard law] students often ask teachers not to include
the law of rape on exams for fear that the material would cause them to
perform less well. One teacher I know was recently asked by a student
not to use the word "violate" in class-as in "Does this conduct violate
the law?"-because the word was triggering. Some students have even
suggested that rape law should not be taught because of its potential to
cause distress." (Jeannie Suk, The New Yorker, 12/15/14)
There are several underlying principles at work here. One is: If you
give people an out, an excuse for not doing anything, a way to become a
victim, a significant number
who aren't genuinely disabled in any way will reach for it and grab it.
And they'll invent a back-story full of grievances. And traumas. And whatever it takes.
This is a form of art. Theater. It may be bad art and bad theater, but there it is.
"I wish I could write a play, a novel. Mostly, I wish I could create
the future I really want. But it doesn't look like I can. So I'll do
something different. I'll cast myself in a play that's already gaining
steam. I'll take on the role of victim. I'll be the person who is in
danger of being triggered every time I get out of bed in the morning.
If I put everything I have into that role, I might garner a few good
reviews."
There is a larger point here. The whole business of promoting
"triggering" is a propaganda operation. Its goal is to convince people
that they live in a stimulus-response world---and that means a locked-up
world. Stimuli appear...and inevitable responses follow. Period. End
of story.
Freedom? A myth. Individual choice? Impossible. The human being?
Merely a biological machine programmed to deliver x, y, or z, depending
on the external provocations of the moment.
Individual power? No such thing.
This is the Pavlovian wet dream.
Since the dawn of time, leaders and the men behind and above the leaders
have tried to install stimulus-response as the only form of human
activity, and for obvious reasons.
Stimulus-response is the essence of mind control.
The perversely clever thing about promoting "triggering" as a valid and
universal concern is: you will get people to program themselves.
They'll reach out for, and invent, any excuse to pretend they're being
negatively stimulated---and they'll demand protection, which in the long
run amounts to a fantasy about "safe spaces" they can inhabit---vacuums
where no adverse content can set off little emotional time-bombs.
Another underlying principle at work: never consider raising up people
so they can express and fulfill their deepest desires; no, instead take
everyone to the bottom, where the incurably injured live. That's the
goal.
And if you can't see the consequences of that program, you need a stirring wake-up call.
The Individual is endlessly creative. If, for whatever reason, he
decides and believes he can't consciously express that power in a way
that meshes with his deep desires, he'll invent his reality in a
different direction---and that is his problem, it's not someone else's.
The proof of the pudding? No one else can invent his desired reality
for him. It's his job. And it's also, if he would see it, his joy.
This is not a matter of what's fair or unfair, just or unjust. It's a matter of fact.
The individual has freedom and power. The range of these capacities is endless.
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