Originally posted by
Aianawa
May need a new word, as this lull is something else. Feel we will be busy forum wise soonish, dataT
You may (and probably will) disagree with me, but while you are still expecting some kind of consciousness expansion in the foreseeable future, I am seeing the exact opposite happening.
I am seeing people's consciousness fall back into a hypnotic alpha state, whereby a mental disconnect occurs between what people see on their screens and their sense of self. As an example, when I say that you have to start with yourself if you want to change the world, everyone will agree, but nobody will be doing it. Their minds simply don't make the connection anymore between the concept of what should be done and what they themselves should be doing. They have become mere spectators, instead of being participants.
It is the same kind of phenomenon as what takes place when people are watching soap operas, and by now also TV news broadcasts. It even goes so far as that it suspends their disbelief and completely obliterates their Theory of Mind. They're not capable anymore of seeing someone else's opinion or someone else's recount of a certain event as being exactly that: someone else's narrative. "They said such and so on the news, so it must be true", or "This person on the internet says so and so, so that's how it must be."
And it's not just in the mainstream that this happens. It is the same thing here within the so-called alternative community. Some talking head on YouTube blabs out something in a video, and they get thousands of subscribers and thousands of likes, and everyone will believe whatever that talking head says. Shall we bring in The Ruiner? Or Corey Goode? Or David Wilcock? Or Joseph P. Farrell? Or Michael Salla? Or Alfred "don't forget my middle name" Lambremont Webre? Or Laura Eisenhower? Or Kerry Cassidy? Or what about Bentinho Massaro? Because it's the exact same mechanism as what subjugates the people inside a cult/sect.
There's even a funny joke about this phenomenon which some people use as the signature to their posts on Usenet, and which I myself am using as a "part" message on IRC — i.e. the message that is shown when I leave a channel/chatroom without actually going offline from the server...
"People will readily accept any quote on the internet if it confirms their preconceived notions."
(Abraham Lincoln)
The bottom line is that it's not a lull. It is, alas, the very sad reality that awaits humanity. Smartphone zombies have been around for a couple of years already, and they are only one manifestation of this mass hypnosis. For teenagers, the online world is all they still really know. In a recent poll, they've actually even openly made it clear that they prefer talking to each other via a social networking chat app on their phone over talking face to face.
And Facebook is part of that, but Facebook has already been around from before the invasion of the smartphones and the zombies attached to them. There have already been people who have killed — yes, killed, as in "murdered" — other people because they had been de-friended by them on Facebook, just as there have already been dozens of teenagers who've committed suicide because they were being bullied or publicly shamed on Facebook or other social networking sites.
So instead of a world of sheeple (© David Icke) waking up to a broader and deeper consciousness, all I'm seeing is the sheeple turning into zombies. And if someone were to tell me tomorrow that they've now also started eating each other, then I wouldn't even be all that surprised anymore.