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Good Paranoia, Bad Instincts: Trust your Brain not your Gut

Published August 10, 2021 by V

We’ve all got that one friend… maybe today, it’s more than one.

You know, the friend that goes down every rabbit hole and comes up with expertise on why the world is ending and how “they” are trying to get you.

Even with context, this friend usually sounds a little nutty, but today— a lot of us are that friend.

It’s hard to escape the madness. We’re all hurting for moderates but it seems like no one wants to be in the middle about anything.

Either you’re anti something or pro it, an enforcer or freedom fighter.

We’ve all arrived to a point where everything is up for debate, and most can’t meet in the middle on anything.

How do you know when it’s paranoia? How do you know when your gut feeling is right?

For a long time, I trusted my gut over everything. I’m not going to tell you I was wrong either, because I wasn’t.

That said, my gut isn’t good at critical thinking.

It’s good at raising alarms.

If your instincts are shooting through the roof right now, than they’re doing their job.

Unfortunately, a lot of us stop here. The gut says this political party is evil and wants mass control, no research needed… and that’s where it stops.

If you want to go off-grid camping, and never come back– that’s fine. But I want a good life, and that requires moderation.

“The truth is in the middle” comes to mind here.

Neither party is right, and your friends blindly following one side or the other are just as dumb. A party is groupthink by definition. That doesn’t mean the science is wrong or they get everything right or wrong, it means you shouldn’t be so easily influenced.

People stay “informed” by being told what to do and believe.

There are too many LAZY thinkers.

The only way to know how to move forward in life, is to see for yourself. The challenge here, people find the information they secretly want to– unknowingly.

Social media makes it even harder.

There are people I want to follow for topics unrelated, but today these same people have become experts in science… at least, so they think.

My only word of advice?

Dig for yourself.

Nothing is personal, even when they’re personally trying to tell you what to do. Everyone lives out their own delusions, whether they are right or wrong they do this.

It’s human nature.

If we’re going to make the right choice for ourselves, we need to find the uninfluenced, un-politized data.

#AlwaysThinkforYourself

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24/7 Recruiting: You’re Nothing But a Number to a Group

Published August 1, 2021 by V

Everyone thinks themselves independent.

They proclaim they’ve done their research and so that’s why they stand where they do, cozying up against the comforts of back-up, surrounded by the same individuals with the exact same opinions.

Every single person today is an expert.

And if you’re not an expert, you’re supposed to blindly trust them– as if they’ve never been wrong.

As if society actually gives a shit about you one way or the other.

People go wild within groups. They can express repressed emotions, let out feelings they’re normally unfamiliar with, are easier influenced, and lose their touch with rationality.

There is no such thing as the “GOOD GROUP.”

If you’re a part of a group, you give up your individuality to conform– to join, that is the nature of the collective. It doesn’t matter what color your team is: blue, red, green, no one cares.

So why do it anyway?

Because a lot of people are cowards.

They’ve never faced themselves, spent their entire lifetime avoiding conflict, avoiding introspection, avoiding thinking– and to be apart of a group and finally be able to vent the pain that comes from repression, it feels good…. in the short term.

But it doesn’t change what’s going on. These are not the people you should be listening to or following or even giving the time of day.

They say learn from everyone, sure. I can agree with that, but not what they say– rather observe their actions.

Where does this individual become irrational?

Where are they hypocritical?

It’s amazing to me that faced with a global threat, rather than come together– we split up the haves and have-nots, or the vax and anti-vaxed. Each side naming the other “the problem,” which is lazy and pathetic and completely untrue.

But you if your research comes from your team and only your team, your voice isn’t worth listening to.

You don’t even know what you’re saying.

This is true for most people.

My only point for this post is to speak to the individuals– those who’ve decided to stand alone and not run to a group offering free candy, don’t pick.

Stay Alone.

You’re right to be independent, you’re right to not trust either. Do your own research and make your own mind on these things.

The hard part is to not get consumed by either side, but as an individual you’ll odds are great.

Don’t listen to actual FOOLS.

#MindYourself

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