Healing journal (tw) Angering / strong emotions

[StartingHealing]

Hi Dark.art.girl

Your avatar looks like something from the animation Danny Phantom.  That was a decent show.   

I savvy that urge to be "informed" about what is going on. I had been attempting to find that line between being informed without being overwhelmed.  Then once I went cold turkey on that .. it was uncomfortable because in a weird way I think that becomes something that is addictive. 

Perhaps I'm incorrect here but my default setting is that if it's "news" or advertising it's a psyop.  It's a manipulative mechanism in an attempt to influence me into taking action that is not for my highest good, it's for someone or some org's benefit.  With that in mind, the algo's are intentionally designed to push engagement with feeding us content to push our emotional buttons while our patterns of reactions are gathered, monetized and sold. 

I've also looked at all the "new" smart devices that are being pushed and .. well let's just say that the data collection extends to every single device that is connected to the web.  The intel about it is out there. In my opinion it's that people get so bombarded all the time with male bovine fecal matter of this notification, that advert, this crisis, that crisis, that thing, this other (cuss word) thing, and, and, and, and, and, the processing bandwidth gets intentionally over ran.  Just like having a logic bomb go off and the OS is glitching out because there is no more RAM left. 

What happens in us when a notification goes off on the mobile device? It's startling, it breaks concentration, and for a split second throws us into a flee/fight response.  How is that good for health? And if, like I used to be, it's not startling then I was always on edge, always splitting my awareness to listen for the notifications.  Us humans are analog.  We are the same folks that were the hunter gathers however many thousands of years ago.  Our nervous system ain't wired for the environment that has been created. As such it's way to easy to hijack it to push behavior that results in negative outcomes for us while benefiting those companies / orgs / etc that are { insert cuss word } up the world.   

If the new currency in the digital spaces is attention, who or what is benefiting from that? How they getting paid?  Servers, power, storage, ain't free ... 

Chase Hughes (his vids are great) explains really well on how propaganda and manipulation works.  I see now how the manipulation tactics of the former spouse worked and where my weaknesses were.  And that led directly into propaganda and how all that gets done.  Holy [ fecal matter ]     Which then led me to wondering about other things that share the same methodology.

Interesting little thing to do, an advert starts, mute the sound and watch the visual. Take notes, what is being put forth?  Then next time the same advert plays close your eyes and listen, really listen.  What does the languaging put out there?  Write down what is noticed.  then compare both sets of notes with no media on at all. What buttons are they trying to push?   We are awash in manipulation and propaganda and it's been ramping up since the invention of newsprint.  Every "new" technology, more psyops.  Books, newsprint, radio, tv, internet, all distribution channels  A thing to look into is the ad campaign that got women to smoke back in to roaring 20's I believe.  That's really enlightening not only in the social narrative aspect, but also from a psyops aspect.  It's actually really horrifying.   

I know that at times I can appear to be needing a tinfoil hat.  BTW actual foil out of tin hasn't been made since the 1930s if memory serves. It's been aluminum ever since. chuckle.   At the same time, all I have been doing is tracing back the threads to the root cause(s) and coming across other information that unfortunately checks out.  I wish it was only a theory.  The more I dig though, the more conformation comes to light.

I'm not saying that "everything" is manipulation / propaganda.  However, when spun up emotionally, us humans lose the ability to discern what is manipulation / propaganda and then make decisions that are based in fear, anger, jealousy which typically ain't good for us long term.  The former PD spouse used that aspect of my normal human reaction to her advantage. I don't know if going from single human scales to general population lineally.  However, look at the excessive consumerism.  I'm not saying that buying stuff is bad.  Far from it.  I dig getting something that will make my daily easier.  At the same time, I'm done with the glitter and smoke.  I'll buy but only if the object is of value.  As a result, I'm the person that buys once and buys right and it's not on a whim.  I'm starting to look harder and harder at clothing made from hemp.  More expensive sure, lasts longer, better for the environment, gets softer and softer the more it's worn.  : thinking emoji :

At the same time, going hard ethical, is manipulating consumers into purchasing fecal matter that isn't needed honest business?  Is manipulating the results from medical studies to "prove" a certain outcome, honest health care?  Is putting the amount of protein on a pet food label, that requires soaking in 20x stronger acid than any pet ever had for multiple hours to free up the protein honest labeling?  different areas .. same bovine fecal matter being done, to us. 

Wishing you all the best.