In democratic societies, where votes are still relevant (we trust), stopping thought processes, diverting them, or better yet, preventing them from occurring, is the most valuable thing to power interest to continue to have an unfair advantage in systems designed to give each citizen an equal say.

This means pre-existing bias to not know the world, or not to know what is attempting to go on behind the scenes to rig the system to events favored by the powerful few, is held to a premium. Those institutions and ideals that lend themselves to non objective conclusions are then the easiest vehicles for public manipulations. These will be promoted by predatory and manipulative elites to control cultural development.

There is a reason why in general, the more educated one is, the more liberal one tends to be. The nuance and complexities of life are comprehended, along with the dangers of subjectivist based group-think. This does not mean that liberals cannot be fooled, and quite easily, it is more of an indication of the liberal tendency to grant that leaping to judgement, particularly over personal behavioral issues, is intrinsically immature. Liberals should know that the reasons for behavior are a factor to be reckoned with, and not just denied, blamed, or controlled as if their influence does not extend beyond physical manipulation.

It is immature to just react to dysfunction and think the cause is addressed, for we are not each the sole god of creation, nor able to judge each others actions as irrational, in the sense that we would not have done the same thing if in “their shoes”, even if the act is obviously wrong. If one believes in a rational universe and or Creator, one acknowledges that events occur for a reason. Yes, even if that reason is a convoluted, twisted mess of subjective rationalizations. This brings up the requirements for empathy, compassion and forgiveness even amidst great harm. Otherwise, one takes in and magnifies the dysfunction by empowering its negative hold and appeal to the dysfunctional. Much ancient wisdom understood this. Politics, however, seeks to erase deeper knowing for surface judgements.

And so liberals tend to believe in growth and reconciliation and not necessarily in the deterministic view that once you have done something, it cannot be addressed for the better. We can have the odd reversal of beliefs where, while liberals believe in rationalism, they may well be forgiving, while conservatives who may well believe in a smorgasbord of subjectivist philosophies, tend to have a might makes right view towards addressing human behavioral dysfunctions.

In the US, the conservatives are most always negative based; if it isn’t the plague of crime and “sin”, it is terrorism and endless threats. While some of these concerns may have a certain validity, they can be used as a foil to forever maintain societal structures that impinge on both individual freedom and justice–the right to live not based solely on how much money one has or favor with hierarchical power structures.

This, then, is where the conservatives gather; they tend to demean “intellectual elites” while ceaselessly promoting ad-hominem leaps of judgemental faith. They are this way even when many have religious beliefs that are highly liberal, instead they select out, or cherry pick that which reinforces a cosmological view that tends to grant themselves much leeway and favor, while condemning many who act or look or believe differently.

They are used by those interested in an inherently antidemocratic societal calibration, that does not favor equality or justice, but instead, sees the world of privilege as some kind of Divine or just outworking for the rich and powerful. Again, this is at odds with democracy and freedom at fundamental levels. Yet the emerging corporate control of the state and the commons is seen as some inevitable and irreversible force. all of life’s necessities become relegated to have or have not–money and or connection to its privilege.

We are witnessing now as I type, the power interest adjusting public perceptions and understandings, all mostly quite under the radar. News of Iraq and Afghanistan have dropped precipitously off the media radar screens, even though Afghanistan is having major conflict arise and more troops died their in May than in Iraq.

This is not a coincidence given that it is both an election year, and the more conservative party is controlled by predators of the commons who have everything but equal rights and access in their minds and hearts. This is how ignorance gains its value; by not having all the facts, (as many as can be had), the public is much more likely to jump to the desired conclusions of the power groups controlling society and the information medias. All these groups tend to be intertwined and know what philosophy, or lack of objective awareness, keeps them on top of you.

This will be the campaign of control, to attempt to keep the public divided, to keep rumor and innuendo afloat, and to release theory as fact, and selected facts, as the proof to the presumed insecurity zeitgeist intended to swing enough of the unknowing to side with authority in times of stress. Which often approx. 70% of population do, and do at their own and others peril. The power of what is kept from view is phenomenal.

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