HYPERMANIPULATION

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Hindsite 2020 - We are all Skynet

The final phase of the Hindsite 2020 essays offer possible solutions.

First, the amalgam intellect.

https://www.hypermanipulation.com/2018/10/we-are-all-skynet.html

Saturday, May 30, 2020

The fourth phase of Hindsite 2020 concerns the Western Paradigm.

"America is in the saddest confused state of modernity and has no one to blame but itself."

America's Nervous Breakdown

Friday, May 29, 2020

Hindsite 2020 - The Semantic Deception of Dialectical Theses

The fourth phase of the Hindsite 2020 collection of essays concerns "the Western Paradigm."

When you are asked to believe two thoughts that oppose each other, your logical brain goes insane.

https://www.hypermanipulation.com/2011/01/semantic-deception-of-dialectical.html

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Mask On/Mask Off: The Neckerchief Returns

I'll be honest, I've wanted to tie a Neckerchief ever since I was a little boy and saw Clint Eastwood wear one in the Spaghetti Westerns.

Yet I always remained envious of the occasional real cowboy that passed my rural path. I feel the same about the Neckerchief as I do the beret, in that, they are fashion accessories to specific communities, to which either I don't belong.

Until now...

It's a perfect solution if your goal is to not spread your germs. Fold it once diagonally, tie the diagonal ends behind your neck, with the flat part of the triangle over your nose. Like you're going to rob a train...

Then pull it down off your nose and leave it alone around your neck. A Neckerchief...

Now rock that shit!

In the crazy world where you not only have to worry about protecting yourself and everyone else, you also have to adjust your habits just to live your life, you are now prepared to wear a mask if it's required, or if you want to, or maybe even if it's just going to make one person more comfortable. Like a sign of respect.

Remember, this isn't going to do much to protect you from getting sick. Just other people. It will protect a bit. It's proven better than nothing.

It's just a bonus that we're all going to look cool doing it.

Fare well, Friends...

Hindsite 2020 - Problems with Patriotism

The fourth phase of the Hindsite 2020 collection of essays concerns "the Western Paradigm."

Patriotism only has value in competition, therefore belongs solely to sport and war, everywhere else it is unhealthy.

Problems with patriotism

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Why you are here...

For thousands of years Philosophers have been social critics. Many have also had an inciting incident, or social event that spurred them to take up the pen.

I began writing philosophy and social criticism after the date of September 11th, 2001.

All my writing is based upon the following premise, borne of a desire to achieve a maximum possible eudaemonic virtue, via the revelation of a qualitative Authentic Self.

In a postmodern world where technology has created an amalgam intellect, where individuals are simultaneously anonymous and celebrity, where the engineered, yet unwritten social contract demands, more than ever before, we react to the spectacle of hyperreality as part of the day to day mechanics of what it means to live your life, to reveal your Authentic Self requires you Anti-Social Engineer the Hypermanipulated Self.

Also, obviously, it is my intention to help you understand these complicated, profound matters.

Such is it that here at this blog, I can happily blather on and on about the constituents of paradigm, anti-social engineering the hyper-manipulated self, authenticity, the rampant ineptitude of modernity, the self, the history of the self, the domain of morality or nearly any other facet of conscious actualization, up to and including simpler aspects of neurobiology... The unwritten social contract, the control mechanisms of social engineering, hyperreality, psychological manipulation, hypnotism, intentionality, the nature of reality and our perception of it...

In fact, I do...
But now, in 2020, it seems I must also help you transform fear into love. Hang in there...

My main thesis is summarised well in my book Anti-Social Engineering the Hyper-Manipulated Self
by Brian C. Taylor

Everything is breaking down around us and it's our fault. You & I are only partially culpable.
For our actions work only from within an exacting system.
The system itself is flawed, which is scary enough, particularly when one considers that nearly our entire lives are married to it and reliant upon it.
The system will not change itself and the power does not want it changed.
We must change the system by changing ourselves.
We must deprogram.

This is the 21st century Enlightenment.

This is Anti-Social Engineering the Hyper-Manipulated Self,
ISBN: 978-0-557-99909-5 http://stores.lulu.com/postpaper

Chasing philosophers through the ages,
following our own ideas about the self,
to dismantle both himself and modernity,
the author brings in this tiny work,
with candour, wisdom and depth,
a dismantling of thought,
a critique of the species,
a pathway to virtue.

"We are not talking about God here,
nor even the grand scheme of society,
we wonder about ourselves.
By realizing when someone or something asks us to believe in it,
in its intention,
to create some reality out of an idea,
we can begin to wonder about the value of following the rule."

"If modernity is the cause of complexity
and systemic complexity is the cause of the rampant ineptitude that keeps rearing its ugly head,
and we, in our infinite confusion,
attempt only to counter this problem by adding further complexity,
are we not just denying there is even a problem?"

"During the Enlightenment, people woke up from their conscious servitude. In this new Enlightenment we awake from our unconscious servitude."

Other books by Brian are available too!
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About the Author

Brian C. Taylor is an author, philosopher, filmmaker and musician.

Founder of Existential Intentionality in Society

Certified Practitioner of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

All Brian Taylor's creative work attempts to use logic and reason to examine his acute humanity, with virtue as his goal.

In this objective honesty, no facet of existence, no act nor thought, can be overlooked. All rabbits must be chased down all holes. Pulling no punches, holding little sacred, he tackles even the most controversial topics of the day: politics, society, religion, war, the economy, nationalism, culture, conspiracy, corporatism, the future, the individual, himself and you.

Brian Taylor is particularly concerned with the hyper-manipulation of modernity toward the apparent goal of overall systemic failure. He seeks the best possible choosing in a world where his choices are made for him, and poorly. His Anti-Social Engineering provides a way to combat the forces that work against our abilities and freedoms as individuals.

Brian has been creating content and blasting it into hyperreality since the 1990s.

Below you can see the Blog Archive, where you will find various essays on various topics. If the essay is numbered, it is meant to be read in order.

Take your time, bookmark the page and come back.
There is a lot to absorb and it perpetually grows.

Readers are also invited to send a message directly to Brian.

brian_taylor (at) live (dot) com