The basic challenge is separating truth from fiction and manipulated truth to direct readers down the wrong path. In the medical Arena, it is overbearing.. about 20 years ago or so Dr. Wakefield an English physician did solid research that showed that the MMR vaccines have a higher risk profile which include includes the death of the infants. Inturn, he published his papers and he was attacked and drummed out of the medical profession in England. Since then he has been vindicated and his research has been validated. If you ask the AI programs about him, they will tell you that he was a fraud.
The exception is “Alter AI which provides the whole history and his vindication. So the bottom line is, how do we separate the lies from the truth when our communication systems are managed by special interest?
I do not trust AIs to do my thinking for me. When I have used AIs, I have tried to ask follow up questions and ask for their sources, I also ask the same question sets to several different AIs. Otherwise we are being lazy to just accept an answer from a corporation that owns and programs the machines. I am seeing too much of that now, especially as the push to use AI is everywhere.
The only one I like is Alter AI. It isn't 100% accurate and you may have to ask the same question in several different ways to get a solid answer. It has better access to data bases that all the other I have used. Including public records.
Hard to say. Driving home tonight Paul Offit was on c-span radio ranting and raving about the change in the vaccine schedule and how awful Kennedy is, how he ignores science, yada yada. Offit made a lot of unsupported assertions.
One that got me was a vaccine that had been given routinely at birth (I forget which) and was dropped. The mothers are tested. But he didn't say that they don't need it if the test is negative. Instead he railed about it, then said that a baby coming through the birth canal that was infected would get it. Well duh. You had to know the mothers are tested so that's why they didn't need it. Turns out, too, when asked if he profited, he gave a long answer about inventing the the vaccine but tacked on the end he doesn't own the company. Sure. IMO his ox got gored by the change.
He railed about people now getting sick because they avoid vaccines, but didn't touch on the other side where vaccines cause injury and those not getting them are actually healthier. I was thinking like, you know dude, healthy people get sick. That's the definition of "getting sick". You were healthy before.
I believe this scripture explains quite a bit about why so many people are so easily deceived in this realm.
Romans 1
so that they are without excuse: 21because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Believing loyalty in Jesus, each day, is the way. It is known.
I chose #1 because it feels like the WEF, WHO et al and so many governments are doing everything they can to reduce population
I am watching your DMSO stories with great interest I just started using it and seeing good results Very grateful for your research and brave posts All 3 options are important.
DMSO is potent, which means it should not be treated willy-nilly. Overuse risks metal translocation and excessive radical generation when adjacent to Cu/MB. It can also disrupt lipid antioxidant equilibrium.
You do not want to take DMSO with Methylene Blue because DMSO inactivates MB (keep 6 hours away) and keep 4 hours away from anti-oxidants, minerals, and Vitamins A and E.
DMSO dissolves metal ions and also increases membrane permeability, thus it can move metals around, to maybe not where you want metals concentrated. It's potency overrides natural mechanisms. That can be good, but bad if concentration increases past a toxic level.
I believe you are right about the WEF and WHO. I believe that their are many players that most people think are on trying to hold off these things happening that are actually on WHO and WEF's side. These people are not stupid and use different people in different ways and still be able to accomplish their agenda.
WEF and WHO are scratching the surface. The big governments and intelligence agencies and big corporations (aerospace, Pharma, university research labs, and military corporations) are involved in an integrated global control program - they work together.
China and Russia and the US are working together - what the media reports is misdirection. They've been working on secret control technology for decades. The Vaxx is just one layer of their total control program - the molecular-level biological layer. People have no idea what's happening.
Light plays a role in exacerbating the deluge of data, and why red light filters can help offset the dopamine spikes and addictive aspects of the screen.
The best data filter are the clouds that sift particles of light at a morning's sunrise - I find that resetting each day in this way brings clarity before the onslaught...
"the priming being so powerful, a self-reinforcing belief structure was frequently created that led to those trapped within it demonizing and excommunicating those who saw the world differently."- while that is how I was victimized in the first couple of years, now I find that now I can't tolerate to be in the presence of those who have not allowed themselves to see the reality. In other words, I have become as intolerant to preserve myself from extreme aggravation and nastiness, as they were to preserve themselves...Do you have any comments on this self-protective instinct? Is a friendship still a friendhip and company still company if one feels repelled that the person who holds erroneaous beliefs is damaging themselves and others?
For me it relates to knowing I have limited time left so I've created a tribe of sane (share my reality) people. I ignore the gullible with their shallow understandings. I have a few in my orbit but I end listening to their misinformed comments for a sec before i ask if they know about x, y or z and they say no. Then subject change!
I found the COVID circus to be suspect from the outset & was continually perplexed by responses both of ‘experts’ & laypeople.
I want to make just one point — when the ‘vaccines’ were about to be rolled out, I had spent enough time reading [‘researching’] to know that these were not traditional vaccines, but some new potentially dangerous concoction that required CDC to revise the definition of ‘vaccine’ so this new gene therapy variety could be included. Here’s the point — I visited one of the manufacturers’ websites (probably Pfizer, but I don’t recall) for the information they were providing. The site clearly stated that the shot was gene therapy that promised to prevent neither infection nor transmission, but only to reduce symptoms, thereby potentially reducing mortality. I relayed this information to family members to no avail — they were so enthralled by authority & by unreasonable faith in the cult of vaccinology that none were persuaded to avoid the jab.
Still, I cannot understand why, when so much information is available, particularly in a life-threatening situation, that so few of us will take even the most rudimentary steps to define for ourselves the best course of action. Why are most of us willing to accept any nonsense as truth when delivered by an authority/expert & only a few unprepared to accept anything at face value?
I think because their main source of info was the tv. The fear porn constantly proceeding from the talking heads was very effective. I don’t watch tv much, and one time I turned it on and watched NBC for 10 minutes and was amazed at how bad it was. They were basically preaching fear, fear, fear constantly, and I could understand how people would question reality if they consumed this stuff. It was pure psychological manipulation and I wasn’t desensitized to it, so it was very shocking.
I would like to see practitioners access a lot more information from practices outside the "standard of care" allopathic model. The exclusion of Chinese, Ayurvedic, Naturopathic and Homeopathic remedies has created a narrow, profit-oriented model that puts the patient on a grim treadmill using temporary fixes, like painkillers, antibiotics and unnecessary surgery which leads to more and more suffering and greater and greater expense. As the wife of a Chinese immigrant, I was fortunate to be exposed to Chinese medicine for a few different problems. Each exposure resulted in a complete reversal of the illness, and a feeling of surprise and even joy at how straightforward and simple the Chinese solution was. Earlier in life, when I was constantly tortured by terrible migraines, and recurrent bouts of flu, (due to poor nutritional habits) a naturopathic doctor, licensed as a chiropractor, saved my life by educating me about nutritional medicine, fasting, and proper food combining. Today's medical schools seem to be boot camps preparing doctors to be pharma-salesmen, and politicians to be pharma-lobbyists. I hope patients become far more vocal about what they want...demand....from doctors, refuse to sign the abusive contracts the medical profession offers them for treatment, and be willing to do their own research and refuse to pay for ineffective and dangerous treatments. Patients ...current and future....would to well to organize, unite, and inform each other ongoing. Doctors will get off their pedestals when patients get off their knees.
You bet they are. In cahoots with pharma and all "medical services", whatever scams they try to put over on the patient. A while back an uninsured friend got hit by a delivery bike rider and was hospitalized for a broken femur. A short time after she left the hospital, she got the bill....for a simple set of her broken bone....$80,000!
She contacted the hospital administrator and demanded an ITEMIZED bill before she would consent to pay for services. The administrator didn't want to provide it, and delayed for many weeks, but my friend said she had a legal right to this and would not pay until she got it. When the itemized bill finally arrived it was chock-full of unnecessary and undelivered services....speech therapy, for instance, massage, psychological counseling and medications never given! My friend wrote back itemizing all these absurd add-ons and stated that the charges were fraudulent, and that she would go public with an accusation of fraud. The administrator whined: "Oh but the insurance companies ALWAYS just pay the bill as we send it." "Yes" said my friend, that is why insurance is so outrageously high and why the medical system has become a free-for-all of corruption, bleeding patients, while only minimally helping them....or not!" My intelligent and determined friend got the bill down to $18,000 instead of $80,000. She thought is was still too high, but she was happy to end the cycle and to have maybe taught the hospital administrator a lesson.
Insurance companies are like a kind of medical Mafia, relying on threats, fear and ignorance to squeeze money out of us.
1) Buddhism says to become comfortable with the reality of your death. My experience of that is that we are "always dead, but sometimes we are also alive in a body, which is extremely distracting".
2) I think there might be more like 6% than 10% of us who really want to get to the truthful bottom of how everything works, more than we want to be "right" or socially-prominent...
I agree, but if you really want to get to the truth, read the Bible! It also tells us that we are spiritually dead in this body of sin, but that God has sent a remedy- Jesus, to pay the penalty for our sins. If we believe Him, receiving His gift of love and life, He puts a new life inside of us. But we must still endure and fight this body of death, until we are freed from it. We must “die to our sinful selves and be alive in Christ”. Then, one wonderful day, we will receive a new, perfect body, such as Jesus has. If you’re wise, you will investigate His claims, because no one can afford to be wrong about it, if it is true. (Spoiler alert- it’s true!) But applicable to AMD’s essay here, you must also wade through a lot of lies and false doctrines. However, if you ask God to help you learn the truth, He will. This truth is of the first importance to know, because it will be even MORE relevant after we die.
For Bible newbies, try starting with the gospels, especially John and Mark for a beginning. Pray first and ask the God who made you to open your understanding. Lee Strobel has some good books out, and “Evidence That Demands a Verdict” might help some.
"Ye shall KNOW The Truth and The Truth shall set you Free."
That is not words. That is knowing The Divine.
"Seek and ye shall find. Ask and it will be opened unto you."
You have to want to know, but you may have been born knowing.
I always knew that God knew my every thought when I was little, 3-4 years old, and it was spoken all around me, including by Jiminy Cricket in Pinnochio, but as years went by, it strangely dawned on me that the people in church who said those words did not seem to believe that they were actually true and real.
You have to Know to understand. Words don't get most people there, it seems.
You are already a spirit "in the image of God", ya-know?
Information overload indeed. I can relate because I a daily receive more than I can read even on topics I am very interested in. I can fairly easily filter out and dismiss the overload on places like YouTube. But, I love to learn and subscribe to too many substacks. Perhaps it is better to have too much info than not enough.
Contrarian Alert! Our problem isn’t not really information overload or using “filters” wrong. It’s that Globalists have instituted George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, and the average person has no idea. The media as a whole takes marching orders from a very tiny group of masters. These are the ones who changed the “colors” of Republicans to red, when prior that denoted Democrats; someone didn’t like their Dems in the same color as the ol’ Soviets! Yet, few people remember the switch. And the control extends to truly serious matters like printing too much money, fighting endless wars, and faking pandemics! All Orwellian stuff.
As for “filters”, they don’t create reality. Reality simply is. More importantly, Truth simply is. The trick is to follow teachers who share truth, not grifters or control freaks who want our obeisance & money.
The way out is to live not by lies, as Solzhenitsyn said. It’s to examine our lives, as Socrates said. It’s to watch out for lag between obsolete theories and new evidence against them, as Thomas Kuhn said in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
You’ve named three of my faves there! Vonnegut a distant fourth. All foresaw where we are now. Maybe it came on faster than they expected, cos of Moore’s Law. But their accuracy came mostly from knowing a lot about human nature.
So very true. As an ADHD/ADD sufferer, with some borderline autistic traits, I am easily overwhelmed and have had, perhaps, a harder time shutting out an excess of stimuli and information. Actually, excessive noise and light and stimuli are used as torture methods, I believe, as well as sleep deprivation.
When reading some of the science and medical emails I’ve subscribed to since Covid, I’ve sometimes had to skim over details at first, or things that I do not understand (complex statistics and science) and consider first the overall message and its importance to me. Then I look for proof of veracity or lack thereof. Finally, if needed or desired, I go back and go deeper. But there is just too much coming at us these days, a lot of it false. It can suck you in like a deep undercurrent, especially if you have some dysfunction or neurosis that compels you to try and understand it all. You can’t, and if you don’t let go and learn to relax and float (and trust God!), you will drown in an ocean of words.
The basic challenge is separating truth from fiction and manipulated truth to direct readers down the wrong path. In the medical Arena, it is overbearing.. about 20 years ago or so Dr. Wakefield an English physician did solid research that showed that the MMR vaccines have a higher risk profile which include includes the death of the infants. Inturn, he published his papers and he was attacked and drummed out of the medical profession in England. Since then he has been vindicated and his research has been validated. If you ask the AI programs about him, they will tell you that he was a fraud.
The exception is “Alter AI which provides the whole history and his vindication. So the bottom line is, how do we separate the lies from the truth when our communication systems are managed by special interest?
I do not trust AIs to do my thinking for me. When I have used AIs, I have tried to ask follow up questions and ask for their sources, I also ask the same question sets to several different AIs. Otherwise we are being lazy to just accept an answer from a corporation that owns and programs the machines. I am seeing too much of that now, especially as the push to use AI is everywhere.
The only one I like is Alter AI. It isn't 100% accurate and you may have to ask the same question in several different ways to get a solid answer. It has better access to data bases that all the other I have used. Including public records.
All queries to machines have to be precise to get the most accurate answer, even AI, words often having multiple meanings.
I use Lumo. It is private and I have found it to be quite accurate for health matters, though it tends to be medically conservative.
I remember reading about the Nazis in college and how keeping people confused and not trusting or believing is part of the plan.
Hard to say. Driving home tonight Paul Offit was on c-span radio ranting and raving about the change in the vaccine schedule and how awful Kennedy is, how he ignores science, yada yada. Offit made a lot of unsupported assertions.
One that got me was a vaccine that had been given routinely at birth (I forget which) and was dropped. The mothers are tested. But he didn't say that they don't need it if the test is negative. Instead he railed about it, then said that a baby coming through the birth canal that was infected would get it. Well duh. You had to know the mothers are tested so that's why they didn't need it. Turns out, too, when asked if he profited, he gave a long answer about inventing the the vaccine but tacked on the end he doesn't own the company. Sure. IMO his ox got gored by the change.
He railed about people now getting sick because they avoid vaccines, but didn't touch on the other side where vaccines cause injury and those not getting them are actually healthier. I was thinking like, you know dude, healthy people get sick. That's the definition of "getting sick". You were healthy before.
All three topics are of interest to me personally. Priority wise, I believe your next post should be a continuation of the current topic of DMSO.
100% agree!!!
Very timely article.
We really need this right now.
I believe this scripture explains quite a bit about why so many people are so easily deceived in this realm.
Romans 1
so that they are without excuse: 21because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Believing loyalty in Jesus, each day, is the way. It is known.
I chose #1 because it feels like the WEF, WHO et al and so many governments are doing everything they can to reduce population
I am watching your DMSO stories with great interest I just started using it and seeing good results Very grateful for your research and brave posts All 3 options are important.
DMSO is potent, which means it should not be treated willy-nilly. Overuse risks metal translocation and excessive radical generation when adjacent to Cu/MB. It can also disrupt lipid antioxidant equilibrium.
You do not want to take DMSO with Methylene Blue because DMSO inactivates MB (keep 6 hours away) and keep 4 hours away from anti-oxidants, minerals, and Vitamins A and E.
In a few words would you explain what is "metal translocation"?
(The few searches I just made all read like AI gobbledygook).
DMSO dissolves metal ions and also increases membrane permeability, thus it can move metals around, to maybe not where you want metals concentrated. It's potency overrides natural mechanisms. That can be good, but bad if concentration increases past a toxic level.
I believe you are right about the WEF and WHO. I believe that their are many players that most people think are on trying to hold off these things happening that are actually on WHO and WEF's side. These people are not stupid and use different people in different ways and still be able to accomplish their agenda.
WEF and WHO are scratching the surface. The big governments and intelligence agencies and big corporations (aerospace, Pharma, university research labs, and military corporations) are involved in an integrated global control program - they work together.
China and Russia and the US are working together - what the media reports is misdirection. They've been working on secret control technology for decades. The Vaxx is just one layer of their total control program - the molecular-level biological layer. People have no idea what's happening.
Light plays a role in exacerbating the deluge of data, and why red light filters can help offset the dopamine spikes and addictive aspects of the screen.
The best data filter are the clouds that sift particles of light at a morning's sunrise - I find that resetting each day in this way brings clarity before the onslaught...
"the priming being so powerful, a self-reinforcing belief structure was frequently created that led to those trapped within it demonizing and excommunicating those who saw the world differently."- while that is how I was victimized in the first couple of years, now I find that now I can't tolerate to be in the presence of those who have not allowed themselves to see the reality. In other words, I have become as intolerant to preserve myself from extreme aggravation and nastiness, as they were to preserve themselves...Do you have any comments on this self-protective instinct? Is a friendship still a friendhip and company still company if one feels repelled that the person who holds erroneaous beliefs is damaging themselves and others?
For me it relates to knowing I have limited time left so I've created a tribe of sane (share my reality) people. I ignore the gullible with their shallow understandings. I have a few in my orbit but I end listening to their misinformed comments for a sec before i ask if they know about x, y or z and they say no. Then subject change!
Good point. And question. I can relate.
I found the COVID circus to be suspect from the outset & was continually perplexed by responses both of ‘experts’ & laypeople.
I want to make just one point — when the ‘vaccines’ were about to be rolled out, I had spent enough time reading [‘researching’] to know that these were not traditional vaccines, but some new potentially dangerous concoction that required CDC to revise the definition of ‘vaccine’ so this new gene therapy variety could be included. Here’s the point — I visited one of the manufacturers’ websites (probably Pfizer, but I don’t recall) for the information they were providing. The site clearly stated that the shot was gene therapy that promised to prevent neither infection nor transmission, but only to reduce symptoms, thereby potentially reducing mortality. I relayed this information to family members to no avail — they were so enthralled by authority & by unreasonable faith in the cult of vaccinology that none were persuaded to avoid the jab.
Still, I cannot understand why, when so much information is available, particularly in a life-threatening situation, that so few of us will take even the most rudimentary steps to define for ourselves the best course of action. Why are most of us willing to accept any nonsense as truth when delivered by an authority/expert & only a few unprepared to accept anything at face value?
I think because their main source of info was the tv. The fear porn constantly proceeding from the talking heads was very effective. I don’t watch tv much, and one time I turned it on and watched NBC for 10 minutes and was amazed at how bad it was. They were basically preaching fear, fear, fear constantly, and I could understand how people would question reality if they consumed this stuff. It was pure psychological manipulation and I wasn’t desensitized to it, so it was very shocking.
I would like to see practitioners access a lot more information from practices outside the "standard of care" allopathic model. The exclusion of Chinese, Ayurvedic, Naturopathic and Homeopathic remedies has created a narrow, profit-oriented model that puts the patient on a grim treadmill using temporary fixes, like painkillers, antibiotics and unnecessary surgery which leads to more and more suffering and greater and greater expense. As the wife of a Chinese immigrant, I was fortunate to be exposed to Chinese medicine for a few different problems. Each exposure resulted in a complete reversal of the illness, and a feeling of surprise and even joy at how straightforward and simple the Chinese solution was. Earlier in life, when I was constantly tortured by terrible migraines, and recurrent bouts of flu, (due to poor nutritional habits) a naturopathic doctor, licensed as a chiropractor, saved my life by educating me about nutritional medicine, fasting, and proper food combining. Today's medical schools seem to be boot camps preparing doctors to be pharma-salesmen, and politicians to be pharma-lobbyists. I hope patients become far more vocal about what they want...demand....from doctors, refuse to sign the abusive contracts the medical profession offers them for treatment, and be willing to do their own research and refuse to pay for ineffective and dangerous treatments. Patients ...current and future....would to well to organize, unite, and inform each other ongoing. Doctors will get off their pedestals when patients get off their knees.
Are the insurance companies in cahoots with BigPharma? Since ins only covers what will support the Pharma industry? Hmmm 🤔
I am pretty sure they are. It seems obvious. I have read things in that line also.
You bet they are. In cahoots with pharma and all "medical services", whatever scams they try to put over on the patient. A while back an uninsured friend got hit by a delivery bike rider and was hospitalized for a broken femur. A short time after she left the hospital, she got the bill....for a simple set of her broken bone....$80,000!
She contacted the hospital administrator and demanded an ITEMIZED bill before she would consent to pay for services. The administrator didn't want to provide it, and delayed for many weeks, but my friend said she had a legal right to this and would not pay until she got it. When the itemized bill finally arrived it was chock-full of unnecessary and undelivered services....speech therapy, for instance, massage, psychological counseling and medications never given! My friend wrote back itemizing all these absurd add-ons and stated that the charges were fraudulent, and that she would go public with an accusation of fraud. The administrator whined: "Oh but the insurance companies ALWAYS just pay the bill as we send it." "Yes" said my friend, that is why insurance is so outrageously high and why the medical system has become a free-for-all of corruption, bleeding patients, while only minimally helping them....or not!" My intelligent and determined friend got the bill down to $18,000 instead of $80,000. She thought is was still too high, but she was happy to end the cycle and to have maybe taught the hospital administrator a lesson.
Insurance companies are like a kind of medical Mafia, relying on threats, fear and ignorance to squeeze money out of us.
1) Buddhism says to become comfortable with the reality of your death. My experience of that is that we are "always dead, but sometimes we are also alive in a body, which is extremely distracting".
2) I think there might be more like 6% than 10% of us who really want to get to the truthful bottom of how everything works, more than we want to be "right" or socially-prominent...
I'm quibbling...
;-}
I agree, but if you really want to get to the truth, read the Bible! It also tells us that we are spiritually dead in this body of sin, but that God has sent a remedy- Jesus, to pay the penalty for our sins. If we believe Him, receiving His gift of love and life, He puts a new life inside of us. But we must still endure and fight this body of death, until we are freed from it. We must “die to our sinful selves and be alive in Christ”. Then, one wonderful day, we will receive a new, perfect body, such as Jesus has. If you’re wise, you will investigate His claims, because no one can afford to be wrong about it, if it is true. (Spoiler alert- it’s true!) But applicable to AMD’s essay here, you must also wade through a lot of lies and false doctrines. However, if you ask God to help you learn the truth, He will. This truth is of the first importance to know, because it will be even MORE relevant after we die.
For Bible newbies, try starting with the gospels, especially John and Mark for a beginning. Pray first and ask the God who made you to open your understanding. Lee Strobel has some good books out, and “Evidence That Demands a Verdict” might help some.
"Ye shall KNOW The Truth and The Truth shall set you Free."
That is not words. That is knowing The Divine.
"Seek and ye shall find. Ask and it will be opened unto you."
You have to want to know, but you may have been born knowing.
I always knew that God knew my every thought when I was little, 3-4 years old, and it was spoken all around me, including by Jiminy Cricket in Pinnochio, but as years went by, it strangely dawned on me that the people in church who said those words did not seem to believe that they were actually true and real.
You have to Know to understand. Words don't get most people there, it seems.
You are already a spirit "in the image of God", ya-know?
;-}
When the covid scam hit the earth I knew God was watching over me because everything in my soul told me not to get the poison jabs.
It was easy for me because prior to covid I didn’t get vaccinated for anything.
Get to the truthful bottom of how everything works. Exactly! That should not be so difficult! Godspeed 🙏
Unrelated, are you a fan of coconut water?
I hope it’s good because I’m addicted to it. Unsweetened of course.
Yes but there is a huge difference between natural coconut water and what you typically get in the stores. I wrote more about it here:
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-remarkable-secrets-of-coconuts
Excellent. Thank you.
I also cook with coconut oil and I try to eat a teaspoon of the oil daily too.
Other than a natural, whole coconut, do you have any suggestions for a good coconut water source? God bless you Doc. 🙏
I look for the ones that are certified organic and also I noticed that the organic tastes delicious.
I live in a coconut island I do hope you stay sain and safe, all islands soil is contaminated with glyphosate
Supposedly the one that I purchased is organic.
Regarding your poll, I certainly wouldn't want you to "just focus on DMSO." I love the other work you do. Particularly on psych meds.
Information overload indeed. I can relate because I a daily receive more than I can read even on topics I am very interested in. I can fairly easily filter out and dismiss the overload on places like YouTube. But, I love to learn and subscribe to too many substacks. Perhaps it is better to have too much info than not enough.
Have been taking DMSO 5 days on 2 off. 1tbls w/ 4 oz water at bedtime…2 weeks so far. Many positive results..only negative is taste.
Contrarian Alert! Our problem isn’t not really information overload or using “filters” wrong. It’s that Globalists have instituted George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, and the average person has no idea. The media as a whole takes marching orders from a very tiny group of masters. These are the ones who changed the “colors” of Republicans to red, when prior that denoted Democrats; someone didn’t like their Dems in the same color as the ol’ Soviets! Yet, few people remember the switch. And the control extends to truly serious matters like printing too much money, fighting endless wars, and faking pandemics! All Orwellian stuff.
As for “filters”, they don’t create reality. Reality simply is. More importantly, Truth simply is. The trick is to follow teachers who share truth, not grifters or control freaks who want our obeisance & money.
The way out is to live not by lies, as Solzhenitsyn said. It’s to examine our lives, as Socrates said. It’s to watch out for lag between obsolete theories and new evidence against them, as Thomas Kuhn said in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
What do you read to relax?! How accurate were the "predictions" of Asimov, Bradbury, Orwell and Vonnegut? I shudder to guess who is most accurate now.
You’ve named three of my faves there! Vonnegut a distant fourth. All foresaw where we are now. Maybe it came on faster than they expected, cos of Moore’s Law. But their accuracy came mostly from knowing a lot about human nature.
If they had been historians with their writing style we would not be in this mess.
So very true. As an ADHD/ADD sufferer, with some borderline autistic traits, I am easily overwhelmed and have had, perhaps, a harder time shutting out an excess of stimuli and information. Actually, excessive noise and light and stimuli are used as torture methods, I believe, as well as sleep deprivation.
When reading some of the science and medical emails I’ve subscribed to since Covid, I’ve sometimes had to skim over details at first, or things that I do not understand (complex statistics and science) and consider first the overall message and its importance to me. Then I look for proof of veracity or lack thereof. Finally, if needed or desired, I go back and go deeper. But there is just too much coming at us these days, a lot of it false. It can suck you in like a deep undercurrent, especially if you have some dysfunction or neurosis that compels you to try and understand it all. You can’t, and if you don’t let go and learn to relax and float (and trust God!), you will drown in an ocean of words.