Groupthink

in response to the themes in:

https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/05/the-groupthink-pandemic/

#1 of 2

Nested or derivative and dissociated identity operates a hierarchy of control.

That which identifies us truly, opens fluid hierarchies of workable potential as the movement of our being. When we are wholly given to what we do we know freedom to be ourselves as a relational quality of our being.

The first represents fear blocking awareness of being in demands that deny the second.

The hierarchy of control is overtly denying individual right and freedom of expression and association as a kneel or be kneeled on chokehold of regulatory imposition and enforcement.

That which identifies us in living expression is not coercive upon us - but if we seek to usurp or control life, we meet an experience of being denied and controlled that may at first hide behind the mask of the belief we can control life, and that we want to.

Our capacity to deceive ourselves becomes a basis for a world of lies.

But if it is not true, then it is not the real world.

Curiosity and desire to uncover the truth is not in the world of lies - but has a reflection as a new way of seeing a world made to hide in.

Resistance to seeing may be intense, but aligning in willingness for truth is not a battle so much as a restoration of worth from which to give and receive.

Collective resistance to seeing may be represented in a global control agenda. Thus the recognition of cognitive dissonance or psych-pathy as a fundamental disconnect from which nothing sane or whole can come forth - but perhaps what does come forth reflects the nature of a locked-down, fear driven, masking deceit of coercion set over life - in which we have some correspondence or part or we could not recognise it in others.

Those who think first in terms of offence, guilt and blame, I cannot reach. Because that is the device by which to deny the freedom to look within and simply notice.

(I posted two other posts below that all relate to the loss of the capacity to think as a transparency to felt and living purpose below - and one to the 81% covid asymptomatic finding in over 65s - which really means healthy unless 'tested' under false parameters.

#2

https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/05/the-groupthink-pandemic/#comment-200556

Howard
“Groupthink” might be something of a misnomer. The “group” part is fine; but the “think” part implies the group’s members might be able to think more clearly if not influenced by the group. I seriously doubt that. Rather, their inability to put a thought together from start to finish on their own is precisely what draws them to “groupthink” to begin with.It’s like “If we put our heads together” we just might be able to piece together something resembling a thought. But I wouldn’t hold my breath.

If your group is enlivened and renewed by an expression of a freedom of association rather than a group derived identity - then it is a movement of living purpose in action.

Shared purpose is the nature of resonant recognition. You have to agree to have a battle - and so conflicting purpose can and does self-organise in patterns of managed conflict.

Compartmentalising conflicts can then lead to hiding the dirty washing of weaknesses of a group so as to focus in masking over unresolved or unfaced conflict, in narratives of self-justification.

Patterning that embodies a living movement gives form and creates structures that then become fixed identities set against change as fear of loss of self.

Shared purpose in free willingness opens creative potential, but the enforcement of 'common purpose' takes this insight and weaponises it to a fear and control agenda that actively undermines and usurps creative potential.

Relationships of two or more can be used to get identity from. But then they are not relational but contractual manipulations of 'getting'. that mask in social presentations of virtue set against vice - or representations of the hated or feared.

So what is relationship but a willingness to share life in ways that allow another to be themselves and receive a sense of being with - or connection - that does not conscript or constrict to demands I be something or someone I am not.

When we share a love or inspiration we may find common purpose serendipitously, but where the purpose is bounded and set with rules, we have to comply and conform to 'belong'. I don't contrast to judge - but to bring out the fact that a group can be a free-willing alignment or an imposed identity demanding support - or meet exclusion.

Thought arises naturally within the relational focus. If the focus is in maintaining social and personal armouring while going through the motions of a social engagement so as to get what you believe you need from it, then all your thinking will be self-serving relative to a sense of lack and may provide what others want in order to get something in return.

The nature of shared being is of a completely different order - because wholeness or presence is brought to the relationship as an opportunity to share in an abundance that overflows or extends to creative expressions. Life works without interjecting control agenda - but having identified in the mask, we cannot get out of our own way while assigning our shadow to others as a basis for gaining (the illusion of) control.

But we play out roles by rote - as adaptation to social codes that run undercurrent to a surface appearance. The roles 'think' according to their set of learned instructions, unless we drop the identity in role and re-evaluate our currently active purpose. Then we may open a thought of insight from a moment of actually noticing. Otherwise thinking operates the reinforcement to the active identity in role.

The control agenda sees thoughts as weapons by which to effect outcomes - and so only evaluates insight for ammunition in terms of new ways to mask in virtue so as to capture the target and deliver the payload.

I note Starmer signs up for 'unconscious bias training' (sic) - as if what is to be revealed or uncovered is altready PUT there by the inquisition. Yet becoming aware of our bias is a cause for celebration - even though it may initially feel terrible. Because we cannot change what we are unaware of and thus actively disowning - but the only reason to own a mistake is to bring it to the self-honesty of realignment that effectively corrects the mistake. But the seeking out of guilt in the Other - instead of owning or facing and resolving our own conflicts - is the targeting and sacrifice of the Other to pay for our 'sins' - projected to them and insinuating in their thinking through the leveraging of self-doubt into self-denial and self-abnegation.

Groupthink is generally a compliance and conformity that subjugates any true communication to the believed need to evade personal vilification and rejection and exclusion from the family, the group, the relationship, the society.

Clearly shame and blame culture (sic) is the collective context for withdrawal and withholding of presence to a masking strategy of survival.

Shaming blame is the willingness to join in hate as self-vindicating escape from fear of disclosure of the hateful as ourselves.