Hi. It's been a while.

 I fell into a deep, deep hole of consuming alcohol to alleviate my boredom. Luckily, I didn't get into any trouble. I'm struggling to climb out. I'm still here. I'm trying to learn how to cook my own healthier food. My loneliness and my social anxiety are at odds as usual. I finally have the best job ever in my life and I'm close to retirement in just a few years. I can't make any promises. Have a good weekend.

Disinformation or Information

 Deception is a key element of disinformation. There are those among us who can't recognize disinformation because they were not taught how to discern the difference, but eventually find their way to the truth by developing critical thinking skills.

Critical thinking requires that one does not take information at face value. What is "face value?"

"Face value" is measured by who produces the information, what anecdotes or stories support the information, and finally, evidence that supports the information.

Unfortunately, that last part, evidence, is ignored by a roughly one-third of the population of not just the United States, but the whole world. Aristotle called it the "modes of persuasion," Logos meaning logic, the actual evidence that supports the argument, Pathos meaning emotions and feelings, where the story told is relatable to the audience, and Ethos meaning credibility and ethics, or the importance and popularity of the person telling the story.

That last part is especially important, because for a large portion of our population, it doesn't take much to become popular. All it takes, apparently, is the willingness to sacrifice one's own legitimate reputation to attack fellow intellectuals. To tell lies that you know will ruin your reputation among fellow elites. But they won't call you out. They will applaud your victory over the minds of Simpletons and Troglodytes.

These days it only requires that you claim you have files that show you are right, without even producing them for anyone to see. It's hard to believe that people are really like this, yet there are those who believe that the old films like 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' and 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' are secret coded entertainment for child sexual grooming.

Films back in the day were meant to entice film studio executives to fund projects. The couch casting must have been phenomenal.

It's all totally fake. There is nothing here but fools. Disinformation affects only them. The most dangerous among us make themselves visible to society to criticize, and eventually arrest for crimes of civil rights.

The State of the World

 I'll start with the punch-line: The world isn't what you think it is. 

Reality includes an enormous variety of matter and energy that humans are incapable of perceiving and / or processing.

Your perception of the world is biologically limited only to what your species needed to survive. Some animals need more, like flying animals that must process their surroundings much faster, some animals need less, like bottom-dwelling ocean scavengers.

Your perception of the world is also filtered by your neurology, hormones and other brain chemistry. Limitations of your neurobiology determine how you make inferences and assumptions about people, surroundings and situations.

The subtle differences in our neurobiology between each-other is what makes our personalities.

What is considered a "normal" range or spectrum of behavior is managed in two ways: Natural social development, I will refer to as "Natural Morality," and arbitrarily mandated morality of edicts I will refer to as "Arbitrary Morality."

OUR THREE SOCIETIES

If a truly normal range of naturally moral behavior dominated our society, the word "law" would not exist.

Unfortunately we live in a three-tiered civilization, one of which should be incarcerated.

• NATURAL MORALITY
• EMPATHY, LOGIC, FAIRNESS
• HIGH EMOTIONAL SELF-AWARENESS
• ABSTRACT REASONING WITH TIME, EFFECT & EFFICIENCY
• HIGHLY IMAGINATIVE AND CREATIVE
• HIGHLY ACCURATE INTUITIVENESS
• MIX OF NATURAL AND ARBITRARY MORALITY
• MODERATE GREGARIOUSNESS AND TOLERANCE
• COGNITIVE BIASES AND LOGICAL FALLACIES
• MODERATE SELF-AWARENESS BUT EMOTIONAL
• SOMEWHAT SKEPTICALRIGID, ARBITRARY MORALITY
• DOGMATIC UNREALISTIC BELIEFS
• EXTREMELY DISTORTED PERCEPTION OF REALITY
• EXTREMELY VULNERABLE GREGARIOUSNESS
• HIGHLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO CULT MANIPULATION TACTICS
• RESORTS TO BIGOTRY TO MAINTAIN SELF-ESTEEM

The bottom tier was once considered Paranoid Schizophrenic and were incarcerated and treated. They've since been released and exploited by the mass media for profit and politicians for votes.

They are manipulated by Dark Triad Personalities - self-serving megalomaniacal narcissists. Cult leaders, politicians, preachers, anyone seeking a permanent throne of power over anything, even a book club.

They are driven by such political rhetoric as "Take back America" and in the attempted process on January 6, 2021, nearly destroyed the U.S. Constitution's authority and destroyed Democracy, the very thing they are constantly told to be afraid of losing.