Can we still “Wake People Up” at this Point? – Epi-3562
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Talking to some of my fellow podcasters, content creators and influencers lately I have heard many of them say things like, “I don’t even bother red pilling people any more”. I often wonder if any of us have actually ever successfully “red pilled? anyone, ever?
For people not familiar with the term it comes from the movie the Matrix and simply means to reach someone who has believed the lies of media and government in a way where they wake up, like Neo in the movie and see “the matrix” for what it is, a lie.
I think if you’d of asked me if TSPC red pilled people back in say 2014, I would have proudly said yes. Today I don’t think so, I don’t think we do it now, I don’t think we ever did and I don’t think anyone “red pills” anyone else.
Why? And what does it matter to our lives? Tune in today to find out.
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- Think about it, Neo had already awoken in the movie before he got the red pill
- Even then the pill was still a choice
- Minds were only awoken in the movie when young and when they were already waking up
- What this tells us a a metaphore about life
- The most accurate, articulate and fact filled argument will fail to reach the person who does not want to be reached
- Most people would chose to be a lion in a zoo, well fed and protected vs. living free in the wilderness
- People are not woken up by others, rather by their life experiences and a mental predisposition
- Once they wake up we can and should help them as we can, but the sleeping should be left to enjoy the illusion
- What happens when someone wakes up to the current reality
- Messiah complex
- Everything seems worse than it is
- They want an easy answer, a solution, a hope someone can fix it
- Then tend to panic and follow extreme voices at first
- Then they either wash out and go back to sleep or mature into reality
- The truth you must come to accept or you may as well just plug back in
- Most people want to be led, controlled and “protected”
- There is no way to fix this, you can only improve your life and work with the willing
- You will need to work with people who are still plugged in and let them be so
- There are solutions but they are individual and community, there is not political party, no ideology, etc. to change it all for the better
- Government is always trying to get more power, you will never change that, ever
- There is no winning here, there is simply not losing
- What you think won’t effect what happens, thinking, however, can show you what is likely to happen
- Final Thoughts
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I came up with 10 concepts related to the psychology of this type of situation and why it is often hard to talk to people about these things. I don’t always try to convince people anymore but it is a moving target. This is clear because the number of conspiracy theorists has dramatically increased because of circumstances. I didn’t wake them up but they appeared on the scene nonetheless.
I do have specific reasons why I take a political position which I sometimes mention. I can tell you why I left the democrat party and why I didn’t like Obama specifically. If people don’t believe in conspiracies, I may mention that it seems obvious that MLK was killed by the government, some of the details of the gulf of Tonkin or obvious crimes of the FBI. I just do that to try to take the position that conspiracies exist and maybe leave it at that
The 10 concepts:
1 – People trust the government and institutions
2 – people are influenced by propaganda and don’t believe in conspiracies
3 – people have a political bias
4 – many subjects related to current events involve sensitive topics that are not always easy to discuss
5 – people often have a need to demonize someone
6 – people have a desire that their beliefs translate into political power or have a sense of nationalism in relation to that
7 – there is a desire for cordial relations rather than argue with people
8 – people tend to rationalize things
9 – many things are complex
10 – many people express apathy or a lack of interest in understanding things
After many years of trying to boot people out of the matrix, I would say NO. During the Bush/Obama era I did podcasts, wrote articles, passed out DVDs, called my Congress critters, and howled at the moon. And the resounding effect of all my gnashing and wailing? Crickets. People who called into our shows would usually be one of two types. Either they would be mindless idiots who’d yelp out the typical ‘you’re a crazy conspiracy loon’, or they’d say, ‘well you’re kinda right, but your big bad guy is all wrong. It’s really the ___ who’s behind the curtain. So you’re just a shill, blah blah blah.’
And now 15+ years later alternative media is basically dead. The internet has successfully shifted people over to controlled media platforms. People don’t follow media or information on their own any more. They are ‘directed’ to consume that which is available on said platforms. Blogs, podcasts, and the the like don’t have the effect or the reach they once had, mainly because of the effort one has to go through to find the information.
I could go on for hours about that, but the way I could summarize it is sports teams. How many people do you know had the Dodgers as their favorite baseball team for their entire childhood, then suddenly switched over to liking the Rangers or the Yankees? Yeah, probably not too many. People seem pre-destined to think and act a certain way, influence or information be damned. I can’t tell you how many times I’d digest news, read articles, then spout off some finely tuned argument with all the right data, and the person I’d be speaking to would just say, ‘oh that’s from some conspiracy site, that’s all been debunked by CNN.’
The frog in the pan metaphor definitely still persists. If you went back 30 years in a time machine and showed people in that time things that are currently happening now, they’d lose their minds. But since we’ve had mission creep where information and trends shift very slowly, people don’t notice. Sometime down the road we WILL see martial law in American cities, gun confiscation, and probably nuclear exchanges between world powers. And you know what? People will accept it as normal and maybe even necessary. Events and human behavior are always going to be manipulated into a status quo because of things like cognitive dissonance and normalcy bias.