Regulating group mind
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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
- all evidence against its assumptions; and
- 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
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Merton | 1968 |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| File:Understanding 911 and 911 wars.pdf | commentary | 30 May 2004 | John McMurtry | A guide to understanding the events of 9-11 and the resulting wars for which it became the casus belli |
