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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 37060 08-11-2012 10:06 AM

assimilate. v. to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb:

ubiquotous. adj. existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent:

ubiquotous assimilation: Always absorbing everything everywhere all the time.

How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?

Doublethink. Noun. The acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time. To deliberately believe in lies while knowing they’re false. Examples of this in every day life: Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I - I need to be thin. Famous. Fashionable. Our young men today are being told that women are whores. Bitches. Things to be screwed. Beaten. Shit on. And shamed.

This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty four hours a day, for the rest of our lives, the powers at be are hard at work dumbing us to death.

So, to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination. To cultivate our own consciousness. Our own belief systems. We all need these skills to defend, to preserve, our own minds.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 111697 08-11-2012 10:08 AM

wow, and I always thought it was spelled "ubiquitous"

either you're wrong or I just lost the spelling bee

sigh

**Chrysalis** · **Chrysalis** Hi. User ID: 51859 08-11-2012 10:09 AM **Posts: 8,448**

Critical thinking skills are fast becoming a lost art.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 111697 08-11-2012 10:11 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty four hours a day, for the rest of our lives, the powers at be are hard at work dumbing us to death.

Jeezus dude... take some freaking control of your life and your reality.

1. Turn off the tv.
2. Turn off the computer.
3. Go somewhere like the Grand Canyon for a few weeks.
4. Revel in the beauty of nature and the serenity of silence (save for the birds of course).

They can only affect you if you let em.

**Devout Agnostic**

Chrysalis Wrote:

Critical thinking skills are fast becoming a lost art.

I think fewer people are becoming exponentially more skilled.

**Chrysalis** · **Chrysalis** Hi. User ID: 51859 08-11-2012 10:50 AM **Posts: 8,448**

Devout Agnostic Wrote:

Chrysalis Wrote:
Critical thinking skills are fast becoming a lost art.

I think fewer people are becoming exponentially more skilled.

Yes, indeed. The dumbing down campaign is proving to be effective.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 78866 08-11-2012 10:54 AM

1. Turn off the tv.
2. Turn off the computer.
3. Go somewhere like the Grand Canyon for a few weeks.
4. Revel in the beauty of nature and the serenity of silence (save for the birds of course).

ya, and then come back home to your debt save life, go out there and get daddy some tax money

Lmao

by all means, drive to te grand canyon

chevron, we're there for you chuckle

**SpeaRitual** · **SpeaRitual** Courage User ID: 106706 08-11-2012 11:12 AM **Posts: 3,707**

Devout Agnostic Wrote:

Chrysalis Wrote:
Critical thinking skills are fast becoming a lost art.

I think fewer people are becoming exponentially more skilled.

Nice avatar chuckle

Theses days one can rely on Pavlovian reflex to the word: discrimination, as example.

Chrysalis Wrote:

Devout Agnostic Wrote:
Chrysalis Wrote:
Critical thinking skills are fast becoming a lost art.

I think fewer people are becoming exponentially more skilled.

Yes, indeed. The dumbing down campaign is proving to be effective.

Broadcast (and print) commentary style elicits, reinforces, base responses - calculated provocation, (manipulation). Black or white.

Gergen, K. J. (1991). The Saturated Self: Dilemas of identity in contemporary life. New York: Basic Books.
http://www.postmodernpsychology.com/Book...d_Self.htm

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 111697 08-11-2012 11:16 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

1. Turn off the tv.
2. Turn off the computer.
3. Go somewhere like the Grand Canyon for a few weeks.
4. Revel in the beauty of nature and the serenity of silence (save for the birds of course).

ya, and then come back home to your debt save life, go out there and get daddy some tax money

by all means, drive to te grand canyon

chevron, we're there for you

I have no debt. I pay no taxes because I quit my job so I wouldn't enhance the federal leviathan any more than necessary. I do my part, in my own way.

But laugh all you like. Doesn't bother me any.

And I go to the Grand Canyon often (4 hr drive from Phoenix) because it reminds me "YOU DIDN'T BUILD THIS" (LOL, right President Obummer?)... it reminds me that stupid humans with control issues aren't in charge of nature. GOD IS.

**Chrysalis** · (This post was last modified: 08-11-2012 11:25 AM by Chrysalis.)

SpeaRitual Wrote:

Broadcast (and print) commentary style elicits, reinforces, base responses - calculated provocation, (manipulation). Black or white.

Gergen, K. J. (1991). The Saturated Self: Dilemas of identity in contemporary life. New York: Basic Books.
http://www.postmodernpsychology.com/Book...d_Self.htm

Okay, let me try that again now that I have activated my quoting skills...
First, I absolutely agree that the "style" of broadcasting (print included, but most definitely television) has a major influence on those who don't listen and observe; rather, they hear and absorb. The tonality of the news and related television shows is harsh and extremely annoying and offensive to me. The inflection of the talking heads is artificial and obviously taught. Just completely unnatural.
Second, thank you for the book recommendation. I am interested in psychology and related subjects. It's nice to converse with people of like minds. Heartflowers