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The Thursday Thesis
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Episode 169 - Brainwashed

19/9/2019

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Episode 169 - Brainwashed
The Thursday Thesis  - 19/9/2019


Happiness is a choice, made in the  face of a toxic sea of negativity. Modern life’s turbulent dark waters engulf us in wave after wave of bad news, advertisements torment us with images of a life made good by products, without which we are nothing.

Now we are online 24/7 the onslaught has no let-up: our minds are under siege and nobody is coming to the rescue. Continuously updated with all the latest bad news, celebrity wankfesting and the propaganda masquerading as news,  we are herded – willingly – into a state of anxiety and given a sense of powerlessness, and from there we seek escape into more of the very entertainments (definition) that got us into this bloody mess.

This is reality, and failing to recognise it is to delude oneself – and that is the first step toward insanity.

Governments (to regulate and control), business interests, media, and the many agencies identified by their abbreviations are happy to provide us with the soundtracks and storyboards of our lives, based upon their agendas for us. Make no mistake – their agenda for you and for me will in no way have our best interest at heart: recognise this and deal with it. Only a fool would believe that other people are more interested in what we want than what they want – this is the great lie of the Communist ideal, even in its watered-down form we call Socialism. For Socialism/Communism to function the individual must surrender their freedom of choice and submit completely to the power of the state; in recognising this simple reality the deceit of “the common good” falls on its self-righteous arse.

Politics aside, what can you do about it?

Make a choice: either one chooses to bathe in the sewer of negativity or one chooses to extract oneself from it. You can’t swim in a shitstream without getting whiffy.
  1. Turn off the TV. When a BBC anchorman rages against the bias and there is widespread shock about it, then something is fucked up. You can’t spend more than a few minutes on mainstream media without noticing the bias against the following:
    1. Men – feminists are happy to make vile generalisations about anyone with a penis, just like men used to make ridiculous generalisations about anyone with a vagina. It’s the same old game, the players have simply changed ends.
    2. White people: ditto the above, but substitute race for gender.
    3. Heterosexuals: there are so many positive portrayals of homosexuality that being gay is now cool, and gay voices shout and prate about how gay they are, lest we forget that they are special.
    4. Wealthy people: in the divisive rants about economic equality it’s easy to forget that wealthy people are usually wealthy becaue they got off their arses and DID something to become wealthy. Usually they work bloody hard, took risks and delayed gratification in order to accumulate wealth. These are very positive traits, not evil actions – why are we not encouraging our kids to strive, work and aspire, instead of coddling them in the false beliefs that everything will be ok? Everything will NOT be ok unless we – every single one of us – makes a bloody effort and makes a difference. Nobody is coming to the rescue.
  2. Get away from the phone. Those pings and vibrations are constantly calling you to swipe, scan or PIN the phone. Missing just one message or notification, on e Tweet or status update could ruin your day, so don’t miss out... There’s constant anxiety and perpetual FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), cranking up your stress hormones and spoiling your peace of mind. Lock the phone away, on silent and out of sight. Don’t get me started on the fucking retards who plunge their 2-tonne steel boxes on wheels past my house at 60-70 mph (it’s a 40 zone) whilst clutching a phone to the side of their cretinous heads. Have we so lost touch with reality that we think this a good idea?
  3. Stop reading the papers.  Choked with stilted stories, manufactured celebrity gossip, slanted editorials and adverts for more shit you don’t need, newspapers are just another way for negative programming to be entered in to your neck-top computer. Disconnect and debug yourself.
  4. Offline Yourself. Have a whole day without the internet – no laptop, no phone. Revisit writing with a pen and paper, read a print book, walk, run, climb, knit...whatever you do, try it without YouTube, Facebook and Google. Shop without Amazon or Ebay, talk to real people and look at real scenery.
One way or another, someone will be programming your necktop – shouldn’t that someone be you?

I’m advocating positively brainwashing yourself in a way that’s positive and meaningful for you.

Given the choice between hearing bad news all day long, of constant disturbances and distractions leaving you in an anxious and powerless state,  and being exposed to good news and inspiring ideas all day – leading you to feel happy, optimistic and positive – which would you choose, knowing that you had the choice?

It’s a no-brainer, isn’t it?

But how many people that you know have made that choice – how many of your friends, family and colleagues even know they are making that choice every single day of their lives?

So now you know, what are you going to choose to focus on, what are you going to allow into your life?

You get to choose.

Choose well, choose wisely.


© Neil Cowmeadow 2019

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