Well, this certainly explains a hell of a lot.
Anosognosia is a condition in which the patient is suffering some severe neurological impairment but does not know it. The impairment is strictly neurological, in the higher processing regions of the brain. You might, for example, be suffering from paralysis of a limb, yet be unaware of it.
There are even some extreme cases recorded in which the sufferer is blind but does not know it! The eyes and optic nerves have normal function, but the brain centers that process visual stimulus are not working. To compensate, the brain makes up a visual field, trying to use cues from memory and the other senses.
It doesn’t work very well. You keep falling over things, but you can’t understand why.
Western society seems to have fallen into something like a social anosognosia. Our collective senses are gathering information OK, more than ever before in history in fact. But our collective brain is failing to process it, and compensates by making stuff up.
These things all came to mind when I read this February 2nd column by the notoriously Woke New York Times technology correspondent Kevin Roose ”How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis.”
Roose locates the reality crisis in two areas: “extremist groups and conspiracy theory movements.”
The only people he actually names as being an “extremist group” are the Proud Boys. His other references are to unnamed “white supremacist groups” and “far-right militias.”
Ctrl-F “Black Lives Matter”…no hits. Ctrl-F “antifa”…no hits.
Well hey, they’re the GOOD kind of extremists, see. And as Honest Joe declared after the Jan 6th insurrection, desecration of Democracy’s Holy Sepulchre™, and genocidal massacre:
No one can tell me if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that’s true.
Of course we do, Joe. Now, how’s about a nice cup of hot cocoa and an enema before your daily injections, eh? Then: naptime!
It is indeed true, although in a sense opposite to the one Joe intended. As Gregory Hood pointed out in an earlier column, if BLM had raided the Capitol, our political classes would have fallen over each other to appease them, kneeling reverently and draping themselves in kente cloth.
The media would have cheered to the rafters such a bold act of resistance, and corporations would have poured in donations.
If Capitol Police had then arrested any of the BLM intruders, compliant prosecutors would have dismissed all charges. Had any of the intruders been black—I believe there are a few blacks in the BLM movement—and if by mischance he had been shot dead by a white Capitol Hill police officer, there would have been national frenzy on a scale that beggars the imagination.
If the deceased had been a black female, shot without warning by a white male cop—well, the Earth would have left its orbit and gone crashing into the Sun.
Yes, Joe, BLM intruders would have been treated very, very differently. That’s reality.
And yes, we have a national crisis of reality, with tens of millions of Americans believing, like you, preposterous things that defy all reason and evidence.
Surely that’s a bit harsh, John. In fairness to President Of The Shitty Half Of Amerika Biden-Harris, he doesn’t really believe those things. In fact, he’s totally unaware of them, along with nearly everything else. He just says whatever words the guy with his hand up the back of his shirt puts into his mouth, that’s all.
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Can someone explain something. BLM just had a “Protest” in DC in which they marched around shouting “Burn It Down”.
Where were those National Guard Troops and why didn’t they do something about that?
*snicker*
Those are their “protesters” and their Storm Troops. No difference between the two.
Well, duh!
That would be because he doesn’t see BLM and Antifa as extremists.
Extremism in the cause of Progressivism is no vice. Moderation in the cause of Progressivism is no virtue.
Report to Re-education Facility Room 101, Citizen.
A quote from Barry Goldfinger. The basterd son of Barry 0 and Auric Goldfinger. DNA Splicing is here!!
And that’s exactly it – even random members of the public are now being hit by Red Pill after Red Pill as the mechanisms the Left uses to avoid Truth become ever more obvious.
Good.
I do so hope that the manufacturers of Red Pills are keeping up with the demand. I’d hate to see them become as scarce as ammo is right now.