A significant shift regarding adult thinking and thought control is becoming more and more apparent in today’s world. What has been published, particularly if it is a book, is becoming an expected or sometimes required source upon which people are allowed to express or base any knowledge or thinking. Wisdom has become almost obsolete, unappreciated, and not always empirically or data driven, so it is becoming irrelevant. Too often, because someone has written a book about a topic, he or she may now be considered an “expert” to “consult” for what to think. Yes, there may be considerable “research” noted by an author and there may have been considerable thought put into the writing (or not), but how impressed should anyone be by a book or its author?
It appears nowadays that most adults may feel more comfortable and credible saying or “knowing” something when there is a “source,” other than one’s own brain, preferably a book, to reference when expressing an “opinion.” This should not be happening. For example, anyone with a brain still functioning could figure out that the covid plandemic and dangerous “protocols” sheeple followed (some still do!!) would cause many more injuries than just anxiety disorders among not only children, but most of the population in one way or another. A new book explains that for us in detail—details which might be interesting. However, if one did not grasp the nature of the covid plandemic early in 2020, there may be some weaknesses in his/her thinking capabilities. Anyone should know that creating fear is a foundational tool for developing a compliant population. Covid was the obvious mechanism for an exceptionally successful social and medical experiment. A book about this may provide those, who need to base their thinking on a book’s words, with solace and renewed confidence in what they think, but a book should be used only for information, not as a basis for accepting obvious truth.
A divergent idea about reading books comes to mind. Have we been trained to stand in awe of those who write books (which more often than not are simply regurgitations of what should be intuitive wisdom or plain and obvious facts or outcomes) so that we can reference a source for our knowledge and justify what we are thinking? Why is this happening? Writing a book certainly does feed the ego of a person with time to research and write, but what more does it prove about most of today’s writers? Is this the death knell to original, independent thinking?
Think about the “art” of writing, which incidentally today takes far less brain power than it has ever before—anyone remember the days of typewriters or handwriting? In those days writing required mental strength and the ability to manipulate an amazing amount of information and thought in one’s brain, instead of moving it around on a computer screen, that is almost non-existent today. Research was much more demanding and complicated before easy access to endless data to support almost any perspective (although open avenues to information and ideas that don’t support the global narrative are becoming harder to locate). So as more books are readily published, frankly, we should be less and less impressed by books or often by the writers, and more and more impressed that, well, at least some of us could figure out what books might say. Further, some of us are doing this without having to read a book written by an “expert,” explaining for us lesser creatures a growing number of what should be self-evident pieces of knowledge and even wisdom.
Unfortunately this trend of emphasizing the importance of reading to shape thought reflects the pedagogy and outcome of public education, which incidentally, is precisely designed to discourage the free thinking, wisdom, and common sense of human beings and replace these attributes with reliance on “sources,” “experts,” and those who write books. Perhaps we should be thankful that someone writes books so we can parrot their findings with credibility. After all, we no longer value the wisdom of “regular” people who can still think.
Oh, so we need to have some sort of “research,” documentation or other supporting data from an outside source to support our thinking? Well, when did people learn to distrust their own ability to figure things out, rely so heavily on experts, discount the value of simple common sense, and abandon individual and often original thinking, creativity, and true understanding? Many of us are blessed with a brain that still works. Pretty much a given that one’s brain will not work very well after thirteen or more years in the public education system. However, that brain will be very well trained to rely on someone else’s thinking—a key to population control.
Surely we could all learn something from books sometimes, so it may continue to be helpful to share the titles of books that may bolster weaker thinkers who are afraid to rely on the brain God gave them. However, let’s hope no book surprises anyone with all of its observations, at least in part because the reader has already independently reached the best interpretation or understanding of the events unfolding before us.
This bizarre world we have entered is stimulating novel perspectives and fundamental changes to human behavior and human nature. Fascinating, but if we don’t wake up to what is being done to our minds, we are toast. We live in a world of incredible psy-ops that have been going on for decades. Those who have TV they watch regularly have been captured wholly or in part whether they know it or not. It will take a serious struggle for most human beings to rediscover the power of the divergent and independent thinking once enjoyed by a far greater percentage of humanity than occurs today.
Here are a couple of suggestions to prevent a book from damaging the process of individual thinking.
First. BEFORE reading a book to find out what to think, spend time and energy using the brain God created to seek understanding and perspective on what you already know, what you can observe, and what it means in context.
Use books mainly to seek confirmation of your thoughts instead of what they are supposed to be, acquire, if desired, supporting facts to confirm their accuracy, and find more occurrences of similar results, facts, interpretations that make sense and support independent thinking and conclusions.
Advice: Use targeted books primarily to gather information and facts not readily available in the controlled sources now widely promoted. Use your brain to think about what you have gathered. Develop an understanding, take time to make your own judgments, connections, interpretations, implications, assessments of truth and logic, and any other attributes that might correlate with the information gathered. Then you might want to do further reading to locate other people who understand or confirm your thinking and find other points of view to measure against your own determinations.
Ironically, if you have read this piece and cannot make any of the connections herein, then it is almost certain that you are a victim of reading and the books you have read.
The above suggestions might serve us well when watching television, surfing on the computer, listening to “experts” or other speakers. Every possible avenue is being used to stifle divergent thinking. Protect the only place where you have true autonomy—within the confines of your own physical, moral, spiritual, and emotional being.
This article was stimulated by an email from a friend recommending THE ANXIOUS GENERATION by Jonathan Haidt. Probably a good read, but, as noted above, may it be interesting only as it enhances the understanding each reader has already independently reached about the manipulation of our minds, bodies, and futures that is occurring today.
This article is also an outgrowth of a earlier publication written in 1981 to warn of the dangers of early reading. That article is still available. Access it HERE.
