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Canadian academic [[John McMurtry]] introduced the concept of the '''regulating group mind''' in his 2004 paper, [[File:Understanding 911 and 911 wars.pdf | Understanding 9/11 And The 9/11 wars]].
 
Canadian academic [[John McMurtry]] introduced the concept of the '''regulating group mind''' in his 2004 paper, [[File:Understanding 911 and 911 wars.pdf | Understanding 9/11 And The 9/11 wars]].
{{QB|The facts of 9-11 which are disconnected from are now copiously documented. But why
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{{QB|The facts of 9-11 which are disconnected from are now copiously documented. But why and how these facts are ruled out by the masses and elites at the same time is not explained. The argument has been at the first-order level of the facts, not the lawlike operations on the facts by the collective thought-system that selects, ignores and reconnects them in new form - what I call the “regulating group-mind” (RGM). Only when we understand this meta-level of constructing the facts and their meaning in accordance with their conformity to and expression of a pre-existing structure of understanding can we know what is going on or, more specifically, can we find our way out of the anomalies and disconnects of our era.<ref name="911wars">[[File:Understanding 911 and 911 wars.pdf]], by [[John McMurtry]]</ref>}}
and how these facts are ruled out by the masses and elites at the same time is not
 
explained. The argument has been at the first-order level of the facts, not the lawlike
 
operations on the facts by the collective thought-system that selects, ignores and
 
reconnects them in new form - what I call the “regulating group-mind” (RGM). Only
 
when we understand this meta-level of constructing the facts and their meaning in
 
accordance with their conformity to and expression of a pre-existing structure of
 
understanding can we know what is going on or, more specifically, can we find our way out of the anomalies and disconnects of our era.<ref name="911wars">[[File:Understanding 911 and 911 wars.pdf]], by [[John McMurtry]]</ref>}}
 
  
 
McMurtry postulates a “regulating group-mind” or socially regulating syntax of thought and judgement which blocks out
 
McMurtry postulates a “regulating group-mind” or socially regulating syntax of thought and judgement which blocks out

Revision as of 10:16, 7 May 2014

A term coined by John McMurtry referring to the psychology of the mass of a population when dealing with "The Official Narrative" and their prediliction to believe it - however absurd.

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Canadian academic John McMurtry introduced the concept of the regulating group mind in his 2004 paper, File:Understanding 911 and 911 wars.pdf.

The facts of 9-11 which are disconnected from are now copiously documented. But why and how these facts are ruled out by the masses and elites at the same time is not explained. The argument has been at the first-order level of the facts, not the lawlike operations on the facts by the collective thought-system that selects, ignores and reconnects them in new form - what I call the “regulating group-mind” (RGM). Only when we understand this meta-level of constructing the facts and their meaning in accordance with their conformity to and expression of a pre-existing structure of understanding can we know what is going on or, more specifically, can we find our way out of the anomalies and disconnects of our era.[1]

McMurtry postulates a “regulating group-mind” or socially regulating syntax of thought and judgement which blocks out

  1. all evidence against its assumptions; and
  2. the destructive effects which reveal its delusions.

Hemispherical dominance

McMurtry's suggestion has an interesting (and unexplored) connection with the theories of Graham Gynn and Tony Wright about the confabulations of the (life-blind) left-hemisphere of the brain's uncanny ability to deceive itself about its limited comprehension of the facts by confabulation of erroneous explanations for otherwise unexplained events.

Importance

McMurtry goes on to suggest:

The RGM may lie behind every systematic social pathology of our era. In each case, it blocks out facts and connections of life-and-death significance, and in each instance, its exclusion is a variation on one life-blind thought regime, the “shadow subject” of our era.[1]

 

Related Quotation

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Consensus trance“Nine tenths of the news, as printed in the newspapers, is pseudo-news. Some days ten tenths. The ritual morning trance in which one scans columns of newsprint creates a peculiar form of generalised pseudo-attention to pseudo-reality... My own experience has been that renunciation of this self-hypnosis, of this particiption in this trance is not a sacrifice of reality.”Thomas Merton1968

 

Related Document

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
File:Understanding 911 and 911 wars.pdfcommentary30 May 2004John McMurtryA guide to understanding the events of 9-11 and the resulting wars for which it became the casus belli
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