The 'Tardation Study: Five by Five

Tardation: a manufactured and artificially installed psychological malady emulating an addicted state of life where irrational political beliefs are deliberately sublimated into a life as the working counterbalance for the equally deliberate creation of a dysfunctional psychology within the victim.

 

With another federal election cycle bearing down on America now is a good time to return to this series. After all, from the get-go the concept of 'Tardation has been that it is a very deliberate and generations long effort, an effort crafted by ethically challenged members of the mental health profession working the will of amoral political power players who always desire (and apparently have acquired!) a reliable mechanism to enforce their will on the thought processes of the electorate that empowers them. 

Essentially 'Tardation resolves as an attack on democratic self rule,  a weapon of Covert Cultural Warfare attacking freedom where true freedom begins: between the ears of the electorate.

Beyond the insult to Democracy, attempting social control on such a scale is a very dangerous thing, it really is.  The long term collateral damages such a weapon might cause in the fabric of society are both massive and beyond  accurately predicting.  Even with the most dystopian efforts of modern digital technology no weapon of covert cultural warfare can be targeted accurately enough to not produce  deep and lasting damages well beyond the original intent of the weapon.  The diluted and distorted forms of the weapon that will inevitably spread friend to friend, pastor to flock, professor to class and, most critically, parent to child set this much closer to fact than assertion. 

Just how bad is the situation? From all evidence floating my 'best guess' is that between five and eight percent of the current population has been exposed to, and is heavily influenced approaching functionally controlled by, the mechanisms of 'tardation.  Where that is a best guess number it is not a WAG (wild ass guess) number. 

Those who know no more social statistics than I do know it is not likely to have been an accident when the good old bell curve… that thirty years ago represented a normal distribution of political  attitudes and orientations … now shows the perfectly symmetrical polarization seen on the American political scene.  The chances for such polarization to accidentally remain so close to balance are approaching zero.  

If the entire curve (median value) shifted one way or another along the axis of that attitude I'd say it was a naturally occurring phenomenon… but to accidentally hold such a balance while increasing the intensity of the extremes?  Kurtosis like that is not very likely to be accidental, not at all.  That five to eight guess is a thumb against the horizon estimate (I've not run the numbers, if you've the ability please feel free to improve my accuracy) of how many individuals would be needed to produce what is seen.

No, the evidence indicates the work of an external force impacting on the system, and more… use of that force has to be equally available to the leadership representing BOTH polarities for their competition to be stalemated to the point of such a balance enduring for the length of time observed!  The fact of the endurance of the situation is solid circumstantial evidence that the force does not originate from within the system.  If one side or the other had originated that force their "first move" advantage would have broken the balance some time ago and the situation, the polarization, would now be reversing back towards a normal, even if heavily shifted, distribution. 

Captain oh captain, this one is strange even for me…

=== originally published 11/11/2014... but, with elections back on the horizon it might be a good time to revisit this thought... ====

I was browsing on me favorite tabloid blog today and came across something that simply begged for a paranoid conspiracy theorist comment.  Of course, being a legitimate paranoid conspiracy theory buff there was no way in a bikini clad Viking hell I was going to fill in all the blanks to post the comment where I saw the article, c’mon.  But being a loyal citizen of me native land I figured I’d post one here and let our black hat spy vs. spy  guys get the laugh instead of theirs, and anyway, no need for the Department of Mental Manipulation to waste tax money finding me twice.

[ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2827518/Found-viral-infection-makes-nearly-HALF-stupid-lasts-YEARS.html ]

The point of the article was an asserted-as-emerging bit of science crossing up the realms of Botany and Psychology.  Turns out there is a virus only found in nature in certain fresh water algae that in a quicky grab and go study was also  found in 44% of the humans tested.  The kicker is this: regardless of any and all other factors those carrying the virus performed significantly below those without in a series of tests designed to indicate cognitive functionality!  Yes, that is what that means: those with the virus were universally dumber than those without.  A random 44% universally dumber than the remaining 56% where the only discernible difference was the presence of this otherwise apparently totally benign virus.  Ok, so according to those findings dumb really can be a disease. 

One problem facing the intrepid researchers was that no common contagion vector presented in the group they studied.  Nothing nada zip to explain why some had it and others didn't.  In the world of pathology this is a frightening thing, the virus had to get from the algae into the humans somehow. 

With science tapped out (for the moment) to provide a good answer it’s time for PCT International to go to work.  It’s otherwise benign, and it makes people dumber for quite a few years if not permanently?  OH MY GOD… this gentle reader is a political campaign manager/professional spin doctor’s ABSOLUTE WET DREAM!!!!  She’s gorgeous, sweet, steaming hot, she’s savant sexy skilled and totally willing to do anything to make your wildest fantasies come true! Oh yea, they’d kill to have her loyalty, no question about that.

So, if I were investigating the potential contagion vector of such a virus the very first place I’d look is in the public school lunchrooms (those commodity grade vitamin fortified lima beans to be specific, but that’s just a hunch based on acidity and etc).  I’d be willing to bet a beer against a Bronx cheer it will be found, and in far higher concentrations in the rural red regions rather than in the urban blue.  But that’s not the truly paranoid part of the theory.

The paranoid part of the theory goes like this:  allowing for the fact that the hardcore red (say 48% of the overall population) is host and home to the greater majority of the infamous 2% of citizens holding most all the wealth (which would be 4% give or take of the 48%), and allowing for the 2 percent’s absolute need for a voting majority who will never challenge their right to rule the question simply screamed from the rooftops goes like this: were the lima beans infected by an ignoble blue agent, or by a draconian desperate red one? Or worse, by some orange agent representing those who run both and report to MommaMeggaCorp International?  Tag, your guess is as good as mine.  Oh yea, knowing the truth about that one out could get a boy killed.

Phaedra and the Pheromones

Originally Published 8/31/11

No, the title of this post does not refer to some obscure 1950's do-wop band. For several years now I’ve been investigating the hidden power of the erotic on the lives of the people I see around me. It is a subtle subject, and not nearly as titillating as some who don’t understand the true nature of the erotic might think. The latest epiphany to come to light from this subject is actually about as far removed from titillating as is possible to get, in point of fact it resides in the portion of psychology dealing with childhood development. I’ve never heard any mention of this being investigated before. Not to say it hasn’t been mentioned, lord knows what I don’t know about the subject would be a much, much larger book than what I do know, but still the thought is new to me, and it goes so very far in explaining a great many things.

Some years ago science confirmed the existence of human pheromones, chemical messengers carrying the current state of life on a scent so subtle it is rarely if ever recognized by the waking mind for what it is. Of course the cologne industry jumped on this new knowledge, the retailers and singles bars incorporated it into their offerings, it ran wild for a bit and then faded into general knowledge. But one place I've never heard of it being considered was in how the subject effects the children who are equally exposed to these messengers (yes, mommies and daddies produce them just like everyone else) in the development of their personality.

Juris... Prudence?

Now Jimmy and Johnny are dual you see,

Dwelling within the same head

And Jimmy had found him a lovely sweet lass

Who delighted in sharing his bed.

But Johnny got jealous and hurt the poor girl

She ran off with Billy instead

Which left little Jimmy in such a sad state,

'Twas not anything that he'd said.

So Jimmy resolved to the law he would turn,

He'd sue for the hurt of his heart

Compel on his other most burdensome days

For affections his other tore part.

Of course Jimmy sought out high counsel,

Hocked half of his savings that way

To instigate motions and plead for his case

In the court of most pertinent say.

The language was fierce in such obsolete words

On the papers the Sheriff would serve

To let Johnny know that his other had turned

Where he'd need hire his own legal bird.

Johnny was shocked right down to his core

That Jimmy would be such a turd.

If a fights what you want I'll give it he said,

Save our life from that sad silly nerd.

Spin down the days, ten months all in all

Before a Judge sat to the case,

Full well took aback to discover in fact

Both parties in one woeful face!

Deep went his thought into justice set right

By a ruling of wisdom and grace,

For he knew he'd be cursed, last going first,

To set precedence in such a place.

The Judge earned his robes, there on that bench

His ruling it stands to this day

Turning back all attacks being filed by the hacks

Representing the great APA.

The bailiff said rise, 'twas fire from his eyes

As justice delivered its' say:

Johnny, he said, you did yourself wrong

So both lawyers you get to pay!