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HoosierCowboy

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12. Like fish in water..
Mon Jan 6, 2014, 09:49 AM
Jan 2014

...the baloney is so pervasive we cannot discern its presence.

Most of us aren't aware that we have been conditioned into smaller and smaller attention spans by the MSM for all of their lives. The mysterious source of ADHD in our society isn't genetic or chemical, it's behavioral. It's behavioral and it comes right out of the box in your living room. In older societies without mass media, something else will do the job, whether it's religion or political propaganda.

Here's where the role of denial works so effectively. We think of ourselves as independent thinkers, but in fact we have been conditioned to think that way by the very forces we need to react against. It's only until the denial bubble cracks open that we can make our way out of the baloney forest.

...and as anyone in the therapeutic community will tell you, denial is usually the insurmountable obstacle in any recovery process.



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Baloney Detection Kit [View all] scheming daemons Jan 2014 OP
Seen too many of those fallacies recently in the woo wars. NuclearDem Jan 2014 #1
Excellent post. n/t tammywammy Jan 2014 #2
Awesome post! Katashi_itto Jan 2014 #3
+1 BobUp Jan 2014 #4
The Internet community is a self-regulating Baloney detector tridim Jan 2014 #5
I think the internet community is decidedly mixed. It's also a great propagator of Baloney stevenleser Jan 2014 #7
It's both, and each extreme is simple to identify. tridim Jan 2014 #8
The internet community... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2014 #28
If you're gullible. tridim Jan 2014 #30
Demon Haunted World - a great book Aldo Leopold Jan 2014 #6
The book literally changed my world view scheming daemons Jan 2014 #11
I need to get it... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2014 #29
A great kit, thanks for posting! riqster Jan 2014 #9
Kick! Heidi Jan 2014 #10
Like fish in water.. HoosierCowboy Jan 2014 #12
My husband told me about a product CrispyQ Jan 2014 #20
I'd ALWAYS K&R for Carl Sagan! MarianJack Jan 2014 #13
one of the best books ever written Chaco Dundee Jan 2014 #14
Huge K&R mountain grammy Jan 2014 #15
Common fallacies of logic and rhetoric: ..... Bonhomme Richard Jan 2014 #16
I always think "if it sounds too good/easy to be true, it most likely is" - so avoid or ignore! NRaleighLiberal Jan 2014 #17
Seems that all politics are baloney then, which I certainly don't disagree with. LanternWaste Jan 2014 #18
"The world misses Carl Sagan more than ever." CrispyQ Jan 2014 #19
Good advice - Ms. Toad Jan 2014 #21
common fallacies oldandhappy Jan 2014 #22
Now we're talkin. Blue Owl Jan 2014 #23
DU rec... SidDithers Jan 2014 #24
kick scheming daemons Jan 2014 #25
awesome post! mike_c Jan 2014 #26
Woop...woop! Joanie Baloney Jan 2014 #27
kick! onestepforward Jan 2014 #31
THIS THREAD IS THE WINNER!! LAGC Jan 2014 #32
haha thanx scheming daemons Jan 2014 #35
I wish I believed in life after death. Kablooie Jan 2014 #33
Here's my list of DC baloney words/phrases: blkmusclmachine Jan 2014 #34
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