All that equals: Anti-Civilization. Everything in a progressives world is ass backwards.

Nice metaphoric summary Dob.

Isn't that exploration of the truth , an urge that a conscious objective human pursues from dawn to dusk or from birth to death. History is useful to those who desire to progress . That is why the controled public education system doesn't teach history. Progressives today act as sand in a gas tank of a mid century muscle car. Regulating and throttling innovation with crony capitalism and eviro czars .
The deluded power hungry leaders who will sacrifice lives for a spring rain shower(Mayan) or sacrifice the individual in deep state weapons bazaars.
Now with instant news via the net and billions of connected human receptors a well planned collectivist mind manipulation is under way.
The mainstream media , the education system,
the entertainment industry all push the altruism
that Ayn Rand warned of. Truth is the enemy of socialists and an early casualty. Free speech is under attack in this Uncivil war.

From justifying natural phenomena to Gods, to asking favors from ghosts, to denying scientific facts, delusion ruled for most of the history of mankind.

We saw that back on my Orwell post, he was there and the lamestream news reported falsehoods.

But to your point...mass delusion goes waaaaaay back, in the way back machine, to the Tower of Babylon...not to mention, going even further back...Oh about 200K years, with the fallen idiots.

Mass Delusion is not new. If I wanted to work that hard (I don't) I think I could point out the delusions going back in recorded history to the very beginning. I know that what I perceive to be the truth is often not the truth. Often, close to it or almost the truth but not quite there. People manipulating the truth, and people manipulating the people who manipulate the truth until there is no truth to be found, but only those claiming the truth convincingly enough to fool even the wisest of us. But the very worst are those "creating" the truth. Creating things that never happened in order to satisfy an agenda. Soon the truth lies at the bottom of so many layers of untruths that it becomes too difficult to dig down and find it. After a while a complete falsehood becomes accepted as the truth. No proof needed -- it's obvious isn't it?

I have observed that for quite some time...there are Not that many "Good" actors in the world...it's obvious that they believe their own bull crap.

Good point. They have no self awareness. Reminds me of the guys like James Taggart. They don't realize that it is their doing that leads to things like this

When Milo (dont remember his last name) tried to speak at Berkeley but violence erupted, I remember thinking that I would like to actually see or read what the dude has to say myself, rather than listen to the media.

So I bought his book DANGEROUS and started reading it. I find that he is not some sort of idiot kook, but is a real free thinker, loves Ayn Rand, and speaks his mind at the time (albeit a bit graphically and subject to being distilled into sound bites by the media). I would go see him speak if he did so locally, or watch it on TV (probably safer in this land of liberals). He doesnt pretend to be perfect, and he is right out there when it comes to speaking his mind, but I do detect a substantial glimmer of rationality in his thinking. For sure, I would rather have him as a neighbor than a hillary supporter...

Read the story about Royal Raymond Rife. His invention, and how the AMA sued him, destroyed him, for not letting them buy into his product. And, recently, scientists acknowledged the pleomorphism (a concept he was ridiculed for) is a real thing...

Hmmm...

Maybe because they created these creatures after their very own image???

Instead, I suspect they pay for trips to the Bahamas for doctors who push their product. That's what healthcare is, to a large part - a business for profit where products and services are peddled to an uneducated populace. (not that there's anything wrong with that model....) Haha...

I also can't believe that they really believe guys like the antifa black block people to be "good". Just like they act like they don't see what blm rioters are doing

I think the drug addict companies should pay the price and get these people off all prescription drugs...then, do business honestly, doing no harm or it's "to the mood alice" with them.

Agreed, it is just like the newspapers in Atlas Shrugged. It is not their objective to tell people the truth anymore (if it ever was). Their only goal now is ratings paired with control of the public

He is indeed one of the few people with influence who points out the delusions of the left. And I agree with Olduglycarl, hollering back is really tempting at times

Yeah. CNN, unfortunately, is fake news. A lot of mainstream providers are. I get no glee in saying that. Sad state of affairs.

Reminds me of my very first lesson in the media. It came from my high school head football coach, many decades ago, who instructed us to never, ever talk to the media. Seemed radical back then. I've stuck to it ever since and have seen many examples of people really harmed by faulty reporting.

".......“In our era of warring ideologies, in a time of battle for man’s mind, this question demands attention. What is mass delusion? How does it arise? What can we do to combat it? "

I was going to suggest, again, get a copy of "The True Believer," 1951, Eric Hoffer. But, if you are not familiar with the work, spend some time here

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Ho...

Lots of answers to the questions posed in the article.

I had a run-in with Vicodin when I had a bad injury in my 20s. They were prescribed with zero warning. This was a long time ago. I remember getting off them and what a horrible experience it was. Frankly, I think opioids have simply been mismanaged by an industry that has long been allowed to mismanage itself - the medical industry. What we are seeing now is the result. I know several people who have been on opioids for years. They are certainly hooked - they just don't realize it yet. When this newfound mission of the government to limit access kicks on for these people - lord help them. There will be some real suffering.

I am torn on government stopping drug usage. I go both ways. Either declare a TRUE war, and openly put out poisoned versions of the drugs, whereby only users die. (But advertise this). I am okay with this, as long as it is openly advertised.
Or leave it alone. Get out of the Business in its entirety. No FDA, no nothing. Let people do what they want. FDA drugs still cause more deaths every year!
But the long term effects of a drugged up populace are devastating.

Interesting thoughts. I certainly don't have the "only" truth on this, but I just don't see illegal users stopping...only those who wouldn't break the law anyway to get what they previously got with a Rx. They'll be presented with ineffective solutions - perhaps even choose to do without and suffer through the pain. While in the meantime, the illegal users will go their merry way. Honestly, this isn't the first time the government has tried to stop drug use. I don't ever seeing it as being effective.

The awful thing is, they are employing these Russian type psychologies in public schools, usually with parents unaware, or told teachers know best! GOP leaders are caving for one reason, they are feeding at the trough of big cash. Just look at the Clinton/Bush diversion supposedly of cash to drug warehouses, after their TV commercials together to get people to donate to the hurricane relief a few years back. No principles, just greed. Clinton wanted school to change to the current group think, and he did it. The Bush family have an equally sordid record. I think the FBI has become so corrupt, they need to fire most of them, they are running the show. I agree with OUCarl, I see cover up in Vegas also.

There is an ENTIRE side to the argument that the addictiveness of the opiods was DOWNPLAYED, and the prescriptions went up.
Then the "now addicted" are converted to illegal drug users to get their fix.
As a Migraine Sufferer, I know how debilitating pain can be. And for $2 to fix it...

Plus, the pain is worse, after treating it, and then stopping.

Now, I took codeine in 1990s and it worked so well, it scared me to never take it again!

So, some amount is this.

But I think this reflects a different reality. A sickness in people whereby they are just "Sick and Tired", and I believe many of the deaths are suicides of sorts.

Honestly, review their last 3-5 years. Mostly middle aged men. Australia has that as their fastest growing suicide groups.

Drugs are hard to want when life is good. But they cover up a lot of problems when life is not!

Yep...project Monarch...read it and weep from Cathy O'Brien's: The Trans-Formation of America.
She was a victim of the system from the beginning of her life. She was rescued by an FBI agent and they both testified in Congress.
I don't think Congress did anything about it and I also think it still goes on today. The most recent...Vegas shooter comes to mind.

Yes, my saying these things yet again, "Mr. Bad Hair Day" and "the flawed bull in a china shop who I voted for" is indeed the little boy who points out the paraded on proud display indoctrinated and assimulated naked delusions of the loopy left.