Context is everything when it comes to deriving meaning. And there are often multiple contexts that can be applied to any situation when we’re trying to understand something.
A quick example:
A woman walking down the street gets mugged. She’s minding her own business and someone attacks her - she’s a victim, he’s the attacker. Clear right/wrong.
What other meanings might be derived?
The sociology context would says yeah, she’s a victim but the crime is an example of a larger societal breakdown, which includes the offender, who is operating out of desperation and so also a victim. Less clear right and wrong.
Or we could look through a religious/spiritual lens and derive yet other meanings which might include themes of sin and redemption, forgiveness and karma, etc. We’re all innocent and we’re all guilty. Ambiguous.
Then there’s the current favorite framing - the woke context - in which everything is upside down - she’s a privileged white person, he’s avenging the crimes of the toxic paternalistic culture, so she’s guilty and he’s a hero.
So many contexts. So many meanings.
Then, also, there’s the whole matter of what we don’t know. Has that ever been more obvious than it is now?
As this clip, humorously demonstrates.
Still, we want to create meaning. We want to have a clue here. Fully understandable.
And this not knowing what we don’t know makes us apt to make many mistakes and say and do many incorrect things in our attempt to find meaning.
The great thing about taking into consideration all the things you don’t know; can’t know - is it has an instant humbling effect.
Humility is an admirable quality that is never bestowed - it’s earned. To access it, we have to get out of our own way, admit our ignorance, where we’ve been wrong, and then humility simply surfaces. (Mike Yeadon comes to mind.)
Another benefit is, if you can get comfortable with humility, you can switch into the curious and wondering part of yourself, the part that doesn’t have anything at stake.
The questioning part doesn’t have to be right. It doesn’t have to sound smart. It knows it’s not an expert or a leader because it knows it doesn’t know. It’s just another witness here at an amazing time humbled by all the ways its been duped and wrong and misled.
The hierarchy of our societal order, part of our shared reality (always highly flawed) has been fully upended. The very authorities and experts we held previously in esteem have proven untrustworthy and wrong at best, and, at worst, treacherous liars and criminals.
Whereas before we may have taken some voices as credible and others as suspect, much of that has inverted. The still maligned “conspiracy theorist” is having a good few years while the doctors and scientists have, well, disappointed. (With important exceptions.)
Higher education has become an oxymoron as it churns out wokians incapable of critical thought. Political leaders are universally understood to be compromised pretenders.
I could go on.
In this backdrop we still try to comprehend where we are. Who we listen to, who we trust has never been more in question. Controlled opposition in ongoing PsyOp world has reoriented us to be less trusting, to be sure, and this is both good and bad.
In the current reality, where reality itself is in question, the carnival barking ex-bounty hunter is equal to the MD. Their resumes mean nothing. I’m listening and looking for other clues as to their intentions and motives, their sincerity and what informs their opinions. (Recognizing as well, that they will both include their personal biases in their attempt.)
And I’ll be imperfect in my assessments. (Just try not to make a mistake or get it wrong in this terrain. I dare you.)
Still, even taking into consideration that backdrop and all we don’t, can’t know - humans are meaning-making creatures. It’s what we do.
We like to know; we grab onto the things that make sense to us and we take off. And it works, until it doesn’t.
We like to collect knowledge bits and create a mosaic out of them which over time gives our lives their own uniqueness. Like kids working on art projects, we assemble these bits, and in delight might step back to admire our creation.
The more effort we put in, the greater the achievement, and the prouder we are of our creation.
That, whatever we have made is a temporary image; a snapshot in time, is likely not what we are thinking while in the throes of creation. If it’s a truly sophisticated and intricate thing, we may become quite attached to it and want to keep it as is, frozen in time. (I’m instantly reminded of my son on a beach day creating an impressive sand castle and wanting to take it home with us.)
If our creation is really great, maybe we’ll even frame it, or encase it in glass and stick it on our wall or mantel to admire. We’ll point it out to people who come visit: “Here, look at what I made.”
While it can’t really be a permanent feature, in our changing reality, we may treat it as such. We impose a level of importance and meaning to it that doesn’t actually exist, so overtime it becomes a sort of talisman, a magical piece, and even if it no longer reflects what it once did, we still believe in it.
We want it to matter. And not just to us, to everyone; it took a long time, and people made a big fuss about it once. Surely, it still matters now?
Should we discover, that the collection of knowledge that went into our creation (which is, of course, is a reflection of us) turns out to be wrong, or incomplete, full of lies and real deceit, what does that do to us - as its inventor?
More specifically, what does it mean to be an expert in a field that brought destruction and death? That fed big lies and opened pathways to harm? What if we, in believing those lies, made choices that were detrimental to ourselves and our loved ones?
What if our precious creation - that assortment of knowledge we assembled with care - turned out to be the very same things that led to those very bad choices? What does “expert” even mean in that context?
These sort of questions would naturally provoke - for many of us - a crises of identity. Understandably. A come-to-Jesus moment or at least a serious re-evaluation.
Or.
It could, for some hypothetical “expert” simply induce a need to find a new avenue in which to maintain its expertise and identity. A new expert-identity opportunity.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
It might be tricky, but it’s doable.
One of the perks of going this route, is you don’t have to humble yourself. Nice.
You can avoid the deeply uncomfortable part that comes when discovering you’ve invested a whole bunch of time, effort and money in something that turned to shit.
Cause that sucks. None of us like to see where we’ve played the fool, so this course of action - the new expert-identity course - means you can skip that part.
A win-win. Right?
You can expertly criticize the very thing that made you an expert in the first place. You’ll become an expert-hero even. It makes sense. I mean, who would know better than you? You were there. You knew what they were doing, you were inside the belly of the beast. You know about those DARPA contracts. You know a lot. (But not enough unfortunately, to find that smoking gun that would make any of them culpable of intentional harm.)
In exerting this newly brandished claim as hero-expert, (minus the self-evaluation that could lead to humility) you simply go around all the stuff you were wrong about, all the things you didn’t know, all the ways you were fooled.
You can certainly skip apologizing for any unintended consequences of your previous expertise. No need for that.
I mean, sure, there will be detractors. There will be name-callers and those who question your new expert-identity. Some may wish to point out questions or problems with this new expert-identity claim you’re making.
They may ask those very questions you chose not to ask yourself. Questions, had you asked, they would not have needed to. But no matter, you’ll forge on.
If they get loud - you get louder. You can play the victim card as easily as you can unleash lawyers against those detractors. I mean who do they think they are? You’re obviously an expert-hero who doesn’t need any of that noise. You have other things to do with your time. You’re being selfless by piping in with your expert opinions.
Fortunately, your new identity also comes with a “leadership” role in addition to expertise.
You have loyal followers now and they’ll have your back.
Yes, this is the better way forward.
So much better.
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Lots of fatalities occur in people that think jesus magic exists! The reality is that more have DIED POST COVID VAX (2 years) than in the century of all previous 'vaccines' added together (100 years).
Covid Vax was not regarded as a 'VACCINE' because as it's proven UNSAFE and Ineffective!
They recently changed the dictionary meaning of VACCINE to accommodate this useless and frequently deadly concoction. I'm glad you dodged a bullet with your gullible acceptance of the necessity to make Big Pharma richer. Hopefully you'll avoid the temptation next time it's offered?
Religions enable humans to rely on fiction to save them and do nothing to investigate and contest the words of those that Profit from tragedy and man-enhanced illnesses.
And still this 'Bio-weapon' technology continues in readiness for the next stage of WEF World domination Plan.
Mick from Hooe (UK) Unjabbed and looking for Schwab!
Mandates and coercive measures for a product that had no long-term safety data, was new technology and had not been shown to prevent the spread cannot be simply ascribed to idiocy, ignorance or anything but nefariousness.