Further to my article The Three D’s of Conversion under Coercion – I realised there are others, that go a long way towards people’s ability to be part of ‘the system’. Things which seem to facilitate the indoctrination process or at least make it a smoother process, at least for mayhem. It causes quite the stir when people or society are just trying to be ‘normal’.

Delusion – this plays a big part of many lives, whether it be a personal delusion, or a group one, people have a great ability to indulge them. And there are plenty of things that will play into that, ego, experience, need and circumstance. And I can’t always say it is a bad thing with a destructive end, as it may serve to help people as a coping mechanism at certain points in their lives.

Desensitisation – being switched off to reality, seeing it, experiencing it, but not feeling it. Again, there are a few reasons that may occur, but if you add to the amounts of toxins and chemicals we willingly ingest, that could play a key role there. More Than Pain gets Killed goes into that a little more.

Denial – or lying as some like to call it, for what it is. Lying to yourself or others, it is denying the truth. Which to some may not seem like a lie, because you think it is an opinion. But as in my article, If Truth be Told, there are two truths – personal ones and absolute ones. And the personal ones are the opinions and what you hold true to you, and the others are supposed to be facts. But the lines are being blurred between the two currently, and personal opinion is being touted as absolute fact. Disturbing to say the least. Yet it is the mechanism for denial that allows that trait to run riot, to override logic and reason is clearly there in many, the consequences of which we are seeing in society as it is also being facilitated by certain areas of society. To what end we can only wonder, but it seems to be there to destabilise cohesion and create a discord within oneself and others. Perhaps.

Deception – seems to be a strategy trait, to gain an advantage over your ‘opponent’. Because once you go down that road of deception, you are playing a game, and that person becomes your opponent, whether people are actively aware of it or not. You want to win, or to have more than them, or to keep something from them so are seeking to deceive for a purpose, and more often than not, it’s for a selfish purpose.

Dysfunction – not quite as easy as the others, although they can all be down to perception and opinion. But if someone adapts to the dysfunctional, therefore does it then become normal? And if you are surrounded by it, and act in the same way, how are you to really know it even is dysfunctional? And by default, doesn’t that then make it ‘normal’. Which is why maybe when you see people living in different conditions to you, or in a different way, it might only seem dysfunctional to one side of the view. Or what we now see as normal, was once viewed as batshit crazy. All a matter of timing and perspective, I guess.

Once you start to really look at how people function, and how much of it has been moulded by institutions and society as a whole, I guess the big D of disturbing comes into play, to overshadow all of the above, dragging with it doom, disaster and destruction as they might like us to believe. But I can’t help thinking that is just how it appears, that delusion has been used against us all, to keep us playing along with what we are told is the bigger picture, and the ‘greater good’. But maybe it needs to be scaled back a bit, for more personal responsibility for your thoughts, and to refocus on your surroundings and life, before they take your full attention for something happening somewhere else, to someone else. There is a time to be mindful of out there and others, and there is a time to bring it back to you, it’s about knowing when which one is right…

(c) K Wicks