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The gullible mind explained Thursday, May 05, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
(NaturalNews) In light of the string of the blatant falsehoods being
announced by the U.S. government these days (FDA, DHS, White House,
etc.) it's interesting that so many people still believe whatever they
are told by "official" sources. It brings up the question of the functioning of their brains:
How could a person swallow official information so gullibly and so
completely without even asking commonsense questions about the
reliability or factual basis of that information?
These people, it turns out, are operating from what I called The Gullible Mind. It is a psychological processing malfunction that filters out information based on its source
rather than its integrity. People who operate from The Gullible Mind
tend to have misplaced trust in governments, institutions, mainstream
news networks, doctors, scientists or anyone who wears the garb of apparent authority.
Whereas a normal, intelligent person would raise commonsense questions about information they receive from all
sources, the Gullible Mind wholly accepts virtually any information
from sources that occupy the role of apparent authority in society.
Governments never lie
But how does this work inside their heads? It's an interesting process. Gullible Mind people do believe it is possible for a government (or institution) to lie; but they believe that governments, institutions and doctors choose NOT to lie even when it would serve their own self interests to do so.
Follow
this carefully, because this is the fascinating part. These Gullible
Mind people effectively believe that even though a government official could
lie about something, they would never actually do so. And why wouldn't
they? Because, ultimately, the Gullible Mind crowd believes that
governments, institutions and mainstream media outlets operate from a
sort of honor code. So even if it were in the interests of our
own government to lie to us, it would never happen because that would
violate this imaginary honor code.
Where does this honor code
exist? Where is it written down? Nowhere, of course. It is imaginary.
But to The Gullible Mind, it seems real. Interestingly, even though this
"honor code" only exists in the imagination of The Gullible Mind
person, they project this honor code onto sources of authority, imagining that they abide by it.
Extreme gullibility
This
is how The Gullible Mind person believes that network news always
reports the truth. The news networks have a sense of "honor," they
believe, and this sense of honor requires them to always report the
truth and never manipulate the news for any nefarious purposes. So news
networks never "shape" the news and they only report what is factually
true without any consideration whatsoever of politics or advertiser
profits.
This view of the world is, of course, laughably naive. And yet it is the core belief system of at least half the population -- the Gullible Mind half that believes everything it is told by its own government, media or authority figures.
Interestingly, the Gullible Mind is also inwardly gullible
because it does not recognize its own gullibility. Instead, it believes
it is operating as a Rational Mind. This false Rational Mind believes
it functions as a critical filter of incoming information, but even this
is self deception. In truth, this false Rational Mind is on "auto
filter" so that it filters out any information that conflicts with the
information it is receiving from official sources.
This is the key to understanding the Gullible Mind -- it isn't the quality of the information itself that matters; it is the confirmation of the story from official sources that "makes it real" in the Gullible Mind.
The Easter Bunny killed Bin Laden!
For
example, let's say a Gullible Mind person comes across an announcement
that says the Easter Bunny has killed Osama Bin Laden. The report claims
that colored eggs were found near Bin Laden's body, and there was evidence of feathers being left at the scene, which proves the Easter Bunny was there.
Now,
an intelligent, rational mind would have a lot of questions about this.
For starters, rabbits don't have feathers. And the Easter Bunny is a
piece of fiction, too. On top of that, how could the Easter Bunny kill
Osama Bin Laden? An intelligent person would, upon reviewing the holes
in the story, be forced to conclude the story is fiction. The only logical conclusion from that is that the government is lying to them.
A
Gullible Mind person, however, would not ask whether rabbits have
feathers, or whether the Easter Bunny is capable of conducting a military raid. Instead, the Gullible Mind person would first look to other confirming news sources
in order to determine the reliability of the story. They would turn on
the TV or surf the internet, looking for the news to be repeated through
"official" sources.
Once they found CNN, or Fox News, or some
other "official" source reporting that the Easter Bunny killed Osama Bin
Laden, then that news report would instantly become "real" in their
minds. Suddenly it has shifted from their mental processing queue to the
"absolutely truth" part of their brain, and from that point forward, no one can question that reality in their heads.
Don't bother arguing with a Gullible Mind - they are immune to facts
At
this point, their rational mind is completely shut off on the topic. No
accumulation of facts can, at that point, rattle their "reality." For
example, a person who believes the government's story of 9/11
has already embraced the Easter Bunny version of terrorists flying
airplanes into the World Trade Center towers. So how did this act cause
the WTC 7 building to collapse in a demolition-style free-fall a few hours later, when WTC 7 was never struck by airplanes? How can a steel and concrete building suddenly and magically collapse in perfect structural synchronicity merely from being on fire?
The
answers don't matter to The Gullible Mind, you see. There is no room
for facts inside their heads, because all the space has been taken up
with what is essentially a cult-like belief in institutions of
authority.
We saw this in the Heaven's Gate cult in California a
few years back. The leader of that cult, a man named Applegate,
positioned himself as the one and only source of authoritative
information among the cult followers. So HE became the authoritative
source whose information was wholly accepted without questioning or
skepticism of any kind. At that point, he was able to quite easily
convince his followers that an alien race was going to land a UFO on the
far side of a comet, and that if they killed themselves, they would be
transported onto the alien ship (or something like that).
The
belief in such a story may seem silly... until you realize that the
governments of the world use the exact same cult-like tactics to get
their own "followers" to believe everything they say, without question.
So if President Obama
announced that an alien race was going to land a mother ship on the
White House lawn, and that people who voted for him would have their
consciousness transferred to an immortal alien body, the remarkable truth is that millions of people would believe that. Perhaps tens of millions. They would even worship him as an interstellar saint.
Remember Orson Welles' radio program that announced aliens had invaded the Earth and were destroying our cities? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wa...) Huge numbers of people believed it was really happening... and not because it made any sense, but because the information came from the source they trusted. To those people, the alien invasion was just as real back then as Bin Laden's official death is to government followers today.
Throughout history, many conspiracy theories have turned out to be true
Government
lying, of course, has been going on for as long as governments have
existed. Not all conspiracies theories are true, of course, but so many
of them turn out to be true that the idea of "not believing" in
conspiracies makes no rational sense.
To not believe in
conspiracies means you don't believe two people have ever sat down and
plotted to take advantage of others in some unethical and deceptive way.
Well gee, that describes virtually every board meeting of every large corporation
in the world! Conspiracies are not just commonplace; they're
practically synonymous with modern-day capitalism! Even right now, Apple
is being accused of a conspiracy to keep employee wages artificially low: http://www.appleinsider.com/article...
I wonder: Do the Gullible Mind people also not believe in that conspiracy theory? Are all conspiracy theories automatically tossed out merely because of the word "conspiracy?"
For those who don't know their history, here's a list of 33 conspiracy theories that turned out to be true: http://www.newworldorderreport.com/...
The
Manhattan Project, of course, was a secret government conspiracy. The
Tuskegee Syphilis experiments on African Americans was a secret medical
conspiracy. Operation Northwoods was a conspiracy plot to create support
for a war on Castro by staging terrorism events in U.S. cities.
These
are all historical facts. They are indisputable. But to The Gullible
Mind, none of this history exists. What's real is only what they are
being told right now by the White House. When George Bush occupied the
White House, the daily fibs were things like, "The Iraqis want us to
occupy their land with military personnel because we are setting them
free!" Oh yeah, that's a bit of twisted logic, for sure. But it's no
different from Obama's version of the war fairytales, which includes
such gems as, "We're only dropping humanitarian bombs on Libya." Or,
"It's not actually war. It's only kinetic military action."
But
you see, it makes no difference whether anything they say is actually
true... at least not to The Gullible Mind, which believes there is no
such thing as a conspiracy theory. There is no such thing as a nefarious
government, either. Heck, when Columbus landed in the New World, his
entire crew shared food
and wine with the Native American Indians, we're told. There was no
raping, no murder, no genocide. That's why we continue to celebrate
Columbus Day every year! Because the Gullible Mind wants a reason to get
off work for a day, even if it requires a complete revision of actual
historical facts.
The most popular issues of Gullible Mind people
Vaccines are good for you
- Vaccines are "safe and effective" merely because doctors and the CDC
say they are, not because of any reliable scientific evidence.
The economy is in great shape
- Gullible Mind people are easily influenced to stop thinking about the
$14 trillion national debt that's growing by the day and simply go
along with whatever economic fictions are being woven in Washington.
Governments and corporations are looking out for your best interests - The drug companies
only want to find cures and make everybody healthy. The government is
here to help. We should all stop asking questions and just do what we're
told.
Nothing will ever run out - There's no such thing
as Peak Oil. Our world can continue its throwaway economy without end,
they believe. We'll never run out of gas, water, soil or natural resources. Keep using stuff up and throwing it all away!
Food additives are good for you - Otherwise, the FDA wouldn't have approved them, would they?
There's no such thing as a cure for cancer - The ultimate pessimists, the Gullible Mind crowd believes cancer has never been cured! And if a cancer cure
did exist, we would know about it by now, right? (Because our
scientists already know everything that's worth knowing, you see...)
There are no other non-terrestrial civilizations or beings in our universe - Amazingly, we are the only intelligent forms of life
that have ever existed, they believe. Any talk of non-Earth
intelligence is just a bunch of "fringe" nonsense. There was never any
life on Mars, either.
Herbs and plants have no medicinal value
- That's right, only conventional medicine can "treat" you, because
that's what the doctors say. Herbs and plants have zero biological value
beyond their calories alone, they insist.
... and on it goes, one delusion after another. A Gullible Mind, it seems, will believe almost anything
if it comes from a "trusted" source. But that same Gullible Mind will
discount straight-up facts if they don't come from those same trusted
sources.
How to stop being a Gullible Mind
Interestingly,
most of the people who are intelligent, skeptical thinkers today used
to be Gullible Mind people at one time or another. There was a point
where they simply "awakened" and began to consciously question the world
around them.
Intelligent, informed skeptics are the people asking questions like:
• Why do twenty different mainstream news sources all report the exact same news, using the exact same words, on the exact same day? (http://www.naturalnews.com/032022_m...) If they were all investigating and writing their own news, wouldn't their news be different?
•
Why did Wall Street get a multi-trillion-dollar bailout from Washington
while the American people are still required to pay taxes that involve
sending money to Washington? If Washington can just magically create a
trillion dollars overnight, why do we pay taxes, then?
• Why does the USDA now actively conspire with GMO seed companies to keep approving genetically modified seeds even without any scientific evidence of their long-term safety?
• If mercury is one of the most toxic substances known to modern science, why is it still being deliberately placed into the mouths of children in the form of "silver" fillings? And why are they called "silver" when they actually contain more mercury than silver?
• Where does the fluoride used to fluoridate the public water supplies really come from? (http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=42652...)
And if fluoride is so good for people, then why is it so hazardous to
handle, and why is it considered a hazardous chemical by the EPA?
•
What really happened on 9/11? How did WTC 7 collapse if it was never
hit by any airplanes? Why did they sweep away the rubble before a proper
forensic analysis could be performed?
• Are vaccines really safe? Where's the study comparing vaccinated children with non-vaccinated children? Why won't the vaccine industry allow such studies to be conducted?
• Why does the cancer industry seem a lot more interested in treating cancer and recruiting
cancer patients than actually curing cancer and ending the epidemic?
Why does the industry refuse to talk about cancer-causing chemicals or
the anti-cancer effects of vitamin D?
• Why are toxic food additives still allowed in the food supply? What's the real story on aspartame and the FDA? Why did the FDA oppress stevia for so many decades?
•
Why is the medical police state now using guns to force parents to
medicate their children? In what kind of medical system is it necessary
to use the threat of violence to force compliance?
• Why did
Clinton bomb the Sudan in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky crisis? Why
did Obama suddenly announce the death of Bin Laden in the middle of his
"birther" crisis?
• Why do we still have the DEA's "War on
Drugs," especially since there is ample evidence that the war is a total
failure that only increases the prison population while actually enriching the drug gangs with higher street prices?
• Why is the TSA still reaching down our pants at the airports if Bin Laden is now dead? Wasn't he the whole reason we created the TSA and hired on those 60,000 security agents in the first place? (http://www.naturalnews.com/032267_B...)
An
intelligent, skeptical thinker would ask these questions (and many
more) as a natural course of basic human curiosity. But a Gullible Mind,
attacks the questioner for even daring to ask such questions.
Who are some of the awakened people?
That's why the Gullible Mind is more than merely gullible: It is a cowardly mind.
It is afraid to ask questions on its own, and it simultaneously attacks
those who have the courage to stand up and actually ask those questions
(like Jesse Ventura).
Most members of the conventional press are, of course, cowardly minds.
They almost universally buy the corporate spin (or the White House
spin) and never ask any tough questions anymore. Some of the REAL heroes
-- the people who are asking intelligent questions about our world --
include:
Alex Jones
Jeff Rense
Charlotte Gerson
Jonathan Landsman
David Icke
Jesse Ventura
Gerald Celente
Ron Paul
Robert Scott Bell
Dr. Andrew Wakefield
Suzanne Somers
Dr. James Forsythe
George Noorey
Do
you see a pattern here? Each one of these individuals has been
marginalized or viciously attacked and slandered simply because they chose to ask intelligent questions
about the world around them. Now, I don't agree with every single thing
said by each one of these people, but I admire each of them for having
the courage to ask the questions that need to be asked if we are to move forward as a society (and civilization).
These
kind of people represent the complete opposite of The Gullible Mind.
They are, instead, the "true skeptics" of the world. The reason they are
viciously attacked is because our world is so steeped in deceit and
conspiracy that only Gullible Minds are tolerated. Those who question the status quo are not merely annoying to the powers that be, but actually dangerous because the most dangerous activity in which you can engage today is helping others awaken to what's really happening around them.
It
is that "awakening" that is so utterly despised by the web of
corporations, governments and media lackeys that they will do everything
in their power to
prevent any sort of awakening from taking place at all. The functioning
of the Matrix, after all, depends on people believing in the illusion.
And
it is so much easier to govern, of course, if people just believe
whatever you tell them. Gullible Minds make great voters and willing
slaves. But lousy company.
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