Media is now the space between us, as a people, that conducts our knowledge of ourselves and our world

The space between us has been taken over by an element made unaccountable with an error of the courts. The error can be corrected but there is a possibility a decision soon to be made by he courts, will make that reversal difficult to gain.

We cannot expect that conditions created by this nearly unthinkable "taking" will improve unless we, the people, for our purposes, uniformly exert whatever democratic potential we have left.

What you are going to learn here is very subtle and has been implemented within psychological manipulation upon American masses for the last 20 to 30 years. If you think carefully about the rest of what is presented here, particularly the following list, then compare it to the American inability to unify in their democracy, you will gain perspective upon how deep our affliction is.

The below is an example of what psychology has labeled "cognitive distortions". Behavioral psychology made observations over time that were reasoned to be emotionally, cognitively, dysfunctional, by comparisons to functional behavior. The following factors are the basis for a disorder of the unconscious that comes from patterning in ways that give it unhealthy or dangerous control over the conscious mind. Fears, wants and desires are used continually to direct the viewrs thinking. Major dissociations, forgettings, can occur within a persons mind that has been exposed in certain environments to the following psychological manipulation that could be termed warfare; over a lifetime, raised by parents; suffering from the same manipulations.

In the future, the use of much of what is below, after carefully reading and considering, will be evident to you when watch commercials and other programming. News commentary will occasionally contain very overt examples of these distortions.

COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS

(General, conditional, subliminal message examples contained in media in italics. Reciprocity by dramatic presentation added to these, creates a potential for a dynamic social disorder, with the intentions that are present, never before seen on earth.)

1. All or nothing thinking: Things are placed in black or white categories. If things are less than perfect self is viewed as failure.

If that happens then you will (think, feel, know, do) (this or that) to be a success and get what you want to feel good about yourself.

.2. Over generalization: Single event is viewed as continuous failure.

Accepting this is easy because this is so, it will always be that way and makes sense because of (this and that).

3. Mental filter: Details in life (positive or negative) are amplified in importance while opposite is rejected.

When these things happen, (you, we, us) find it easy to (think, feel, know) how important (it, they, that) is, and you will be afraid of what people (think, feel, know) about you.

4. Minimizing: Perceiving one or opposite experiences (positive or negative) as absolute and maintaining singularity of belief to one or the other.

When these things happen you will (think, feel, know) that this is the way it will always be.

5. Mind reading: One absolutely concludes that others are reacting positively or negatively without investigating reality.

When and if this happens you will (think, feel, know) that they are thinking (good, bad) things about you.

6. Fortune Telling: Based on previous 5 distortions, anticipation of negative or positive outcome of situations is established fact.

Because, if (1.2.3.4.5) have happened you will (think, feel, know) that something is certain.

7. Catastrophizing: Exaggerated importance of self's failures and others successes.

Because you are able to (think, feel, know) this so easily, your successes will be wonderful and make you (think, feel, know) how much more you want what you can have like everyone else has.

8. Emotional reasoning: One feels as though emotional state IS reality of situation. ie. "I feel bad, so I must be bad."If you feel good it is because you are good.

Feeling (this, that) about (this, that) really makes (we, us, you) know that (we, us, you) really have to (think, feel know) we have to be (afraid, angry, sad, worrying, eager) and (think, want, do) something.

9. "Should" statements: Self imposed rules about behavior creating guilt at self inability to adhere and anger at others in their inability to conform to self's rules often coupled with #8 above.

If you feel like (we, us, you) want to be a success it is because you can get what you want, more comforatbly, everyone will know you are doing it the way we all (think, feel, know) things (need, want) to be done. NOTE: often the "confusion" factor between want and need are injected here.

10. Labeling: Instead of understanding errors over generalization is applied.

You are a success because (we, us, you) (do, do not) wake up on time and that might be all you need to be a (success, failure) in life.

11. Personalization: Thinking that the actions or statements of others are a reaction to you.

They (say, do,) things to (we, us, you) about what they do it is because you might not be as (good, happy, confident) as they are and you will (think, feel, know) that you are not as good as them unless you have what they have but you can always appear to be as good as them if you just go along with what they say.

12. Entitlement: Believing that you deserve things you have not earned.

If all of these things happen like this (we, you) will believe that the world is yours to use as you want to get what you want in your life because you deserve and have earned what everybody else has.

Keep in mind that all media coming before us is scrutinized for content and no media that does the OPPOSITE of the distortions of the list, sees production. Media seeking to unify people with democracy is rarely is approved. It does not matter whether the media is radio, television, magazine, video or film; little or no corporate investment has been encouraged.

Example: Toll free phone numbers are used for telethon type events and sales but rarely for function development of opinion in conjunction with consistent programming guiding The art of filmaking subtly converted to an impliment of design. Designed to subconsciously compell even just a small part of one of the above cognitive distortions to be "understood" (effecting distortion). Understanding is a VERY powerful influence upon the human mind.

This how America arrived at its present state.

People who think they understand, can believe anything.

Do you trust what you are reading? Let it be understood that the intent of the author of this site is to unify with other Americans in the protection of; life, air and water, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The question is now, can you believe that your understanding of optimization has the ability to transform our democracy?

If you do, the first action to take is to communcate to all organizations working for peace, environment, social justice etc. in an effor tto help them understand, what you understand. This cannot be done alone, it must be taken on by a group as a simple "matter of fact" understanding. Posting on the bulletin board your perceptions will give others opportunity to know your perspective and the board will serve to unify your understanding of the optimization process and how to present it.

The history of media and its failure to reduce the exploitation of sex and violence in rpogramming is just the tip of the iceberg but it shows a history of onerous exploitation. Deceptive news and news oriented programming takes the situtation over time into another, darker and dangerous area of abuse and exploitation of power given time to work on successive generations.

The purpose of this web site is to develop an introduction to the optimized methods of thinking about change in America or the worldby using available information to arrive at a reasonable evaluation of the unreasonablenesss of our situation, then create unity and organization empowering democracy to make it reasonable.

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