escaping abilene paradoxes and the future of the public square, by el gato malo

Here’s a perspective on the “narrative” that’s opposite most of those that fill the alternative media. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:

is society succumbing to delusion or waking up from it?

many (like gatopal™ jd) have opined that we live in a truly delusional time.

but is it especially delusional? i’m not so sure.

certainly, our time is beset by delusion and intensely inhabited hallucination.

but does that make it unusual?

what if instead, the atypical aspect of right now lies not in our level of deludedness but rather in our ability to see and surface truth and thus to recognize delusion?

i have spoken in the past about abilene paradoxes, an odd state of affairs where a group of people almost all thinks “not X” but agrees to “X” because each person in the group thinks that all the others think “X” and fail the asch conformity test to stand up for their real thoughts, knuckling under to the crowd and presuming themselves to be somehow defective or an outlier.

this is what a true gulag looks like

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One response to “escaping abilene paradoxes and the future of the public square, by el gato malo

  1. Gandalf Carlin

    Love the mongolian yurt ad!

    In need of a kayak for not being there when the sh1thouse goes up in flames as William S. Burroughs said and I don’t care what he did in his private time.

    A true gulag of mediocrity and conformity uber alles is no way to go through life.

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