Mathew, I've recently been seeing examples of the 'Mandela effect' being circulated around the web. The most recent example I've seen involves Ed McMahon and Publisher's Clearing House. We all seem to remember him as a spokesperson for PCH but despite the many 80s and 90s sitcom references linking the two, the story goes that he was the spokesman for American Family Publishers, not PCH. Whether or not this is true seems largely immaterial to me. In keeping with your LARP theory, what I wonder is if these various 'Mandela effect' cases that have popped up in the last couple of years are a kind of a fortiori conditioning, to coin a term, sowing doubts in people's minds about small and insignificant things in order to condition them to later doubt their memories on far more significant items. If you have any thoughts on this I'd like to hear them. Thank you, sir.
Never heard that one. Ed used to call the sponsor "uh merkin famlee publishers" and we used to snicker about "merkin."
I do remember the VW logo and the Ford logo not being what they appear lately. The really interesting question is: if you move across narrative threads of reality, who moves you?
Many years ago in the pre-social media, pre-smartphone era I was banned for making unapproved comments on the ABC News site. ABC was the only site that ever banned me. Three days ago I was banned by X. I don’t care in so far as I could easily live without all this nonsense. Many times I’ve seriously considered taking a hammer to my iPhone. Someday it is likely I will. But I do find these events interesting particularly since I’m a nobody. A nobody that posts things questioning the City of London, Bank of England, Scamdemic, Theosophy, Neuralink, Antihumanism, Bitcoin, and a whole host of other things we nobodies should ever question. None of my friends do. And I’m their only one sans a college degree. Maybe that’s why?
Percussive maintenance is often like the mushroom cloud inside the steel cannister. You can let it out easily enough, but getting it to go back in is challenging.
We used to say that computers operate on smoke. Once you let the smoke out, they stop operating.
I am old enough and sufficiently unsophisticated to remember when we called it "acting" and the amateurs at the Renaissance festivals were more amusing than irritating. But that was long ago in another country and besides, Christopher Marlowe is dead.
Calling everything a LARP while a fine enough model is derealization.... an anxiety.
are you not part of the "matrix" wherein you show up on long form talks, the purpose of which seems to be where the audience then adapts by speeding up the talk, thereby training the audience to listen to fast talk and increase the audio processing speed.
Im staunchly 1x speed. This is a problem, for people's amygdalas. And solid point about the over use of the word LARP.
"Pretending to be your friend", its important enough to point out as a meta-layer. But beyond that, what would we call someone whose whole life is a LARP?
Hi Alex. I am unsure of what yo attribute the quote above so to do the best I can with the answer to the question. I suppose, we should reserve charcterologocal judgements against people from a position of discount of their perspective. There are too many ways people can be manipulated and misled. I like the quote from Steven Kotkin, "one can not be disillutioned without being illusioned." I think you have a good point there are emotional manipulations and other ways too.
What I think Mathew Crawford points too is interesting although my local theosophy chapter is rather anemic to be some kind of pretend force majeure. Religious manipulation and abuse is particularly nasty. It tears the abused (and abuser) from identity. It also cloaks the abuser as performing the greater good which is pretty common abuser perspective.
I am suspicious of the source but Samo Burja points to "live players." In doing so, it leaves uncharacterized those that are not live players which does seem more palatable as not punching down.
I guess there is a pretty rich perspective of illusion from Plato's cave, Jesus' vision miracles, to the Hindu perspective. The disbelieving society seeming to me a bit unbalanced by autism and hysterias is fertile substrate for such manipulations. I do think the theosophists (as opposed to the Theosophists) were really struggling with Eastern religion confrontations post World Wars. And I see, right now the outcomes of the world wars are being re-examined in force and contention. So, perhaps it is a useful concept.
Too me, agent sounds neutral. But perhaps role confused or role strained are sound as well. But of course there are other descriptions like actor, astroturfed and even larp which is a kind of costume play I guess. So, that would include some escapism, identity disturbance potential, and psychological regression or youthful play.
I do not rule out retro-causality, which may account for the Mandela effect. Most is probably misremembering. There is also the points made PKD's lecture 'How to Build a Universe that Doesn't Fall Apart 2 Day Later'. I think the fabric of reality itself is subject to fashioning beyond/outside the constraints of linear sequential time, which is cyclical (and rhythmical) rather than linear as it seems. Space/time/direct awareness/experience may all be the same thing, which may be where free will comes in. Synchronicity is all about timing, just as music. Rewind, DJ play it back, the remix. Seems alchemical too in a way. idk just rando brainstorming.
Mathew, I've recently been seeing examples of the 'Mandela effect' being circulated around the web. The most recent example I've seen involves Ed McMahon and Publisher's Clearing House. We all seem to remember him as a spokesperson for PCH but despite the many 80s and 90s sitcom references linking the two, the story goes that he was the spokesman for American Family Publishers, not PCH. Whether or not this is true seems largely immaterial to me. In keeping with your LARP theory, what I wonder is if these various 'Mandela effect' cases that have popped up in the last couple of years are a kind of a fortiori conditioning, to coin a term, sowing doubts in people's minds about small and insignificant things in order to condition them to later doubt their memories on far more significant items. If you have any thoughts on this I'd like to hear them. Thank you, sir.
Never heard that one. Ed used to call the sponsor "uh merkin famlee publishers" and we used to snicker about "merkin."
I do remember the VW logo and the Ford logo not being what they appear lately. The really interesting question is: if you move across narrative threads of reality, who moves you?
Many years ago in the pre-social media, pre-smartphone era I was banned for making unapproved comments on the ABC News site. ABC was the only site that ever banned me. Three days ago I was banned by X. I don’t care in so far as I could easily live without all this nonsense. Many times I’ve seriously considered taking a hammer to my iPhone. Someday it is likely I will. But I do find these events interesting particularly since I’m a nobody. A nobody that posts things questioning the City of London, Bank of England, Scamdemic, Theosophy, Neuralink, Antihumanism, Bitcoin, and a whole host of other things we nobodies should ever question. None of my friends do. And I’m their only one sans a college degree. Maybe that’s why?
Percussive maintenance is often like the mushroom cloud inside the steel cannister. You can let it out easily enough, but getting it to go back in is challenging.
We used to say that computers operate on smoke. Once you let the smoke out, they stop operating.
Excellent 3-part article on gaming and the military:
https://schwabstack.substack.com/p/reality-ends-here
I am old enough and sufficiently unsophisticated to remember when we called it "acting" and the amateurs at the Renaissance festivals were more amusing than irritating. But that was long ago in another country and besides, Christopher Marlowe is dead.
What gives? 🤔
https://substack.com/@sashalatypova/note/c-79399178
Calling everything a LARP while a fine enough model is derealization.... an anxiety.
are you not part of the "matrix" wherein you show up on long form talks, the purpose of which seems to be where the audience then adapts by speeding up the talk, thereby training the audience to listen to fast talk and increase the audio processing speed.
Im staunchly 1x speed. This is a problem, for people's amygdalas. And solid point about the over use of the word LARP.
"Pretending to be your friend", its important enough to point out as a meta-layer. But beyond that, what would we call someone whose whole life is a LARP?
Hi Alex. I am unsure of what yo attribute the quote above so to do the best I can with the answer to the question. I suppose, we should reserve charcterologocal judgements against people from a position of discount of their perspective. There are too many ways people can be manipulated and misled. I like the quote from Steven Kotkin, "one can not be disillutioned without being illusioned." I think you have a good point there are emotional manipulations and other ways too.
What I think Mathew Crawford points too is interesting although my local theosophy chapter is rather anemic to be some kind of pretend force majeure. Religious manipulation and abuse is particularly nasty. It tears the abused (and abuser) from identity. It also cloaks the abuser as performing the greater good which is pretty common abuser perspective.
I am suspicious of the source but Samo Burja points to "live players." In doing so, it leaves uncharacterized those that are not live players which does seem more palatable as not punching down.
I guess there is a pretty rich perspective of illusion from Plato's cave, Jesus' vision miracles, to the Hindu perspective. The disbelieving society seeming to me a bit unbalanced by autism and hysterias is fertile substrate for such manipulations. I do think the theosophists (as opposed to the Theosophists) were really struggling with Eastern religion confrontations post World Wars. And I see, right now the outcomes of the world wars are being re-examined in force and contention. So, perhaps it is a useful concept.
Too me, agent sounds neutral. But perhaps role confused or role strained are sound as well. But of course there are other descriptions like actor, astroturfed and even larp which is a kind of costume play I guess. So, that would include some escapism, identity disturbance potential, and psychological regression or youthful play.
Non-"live players" is an interesting concept. Could we distinguish this easily from a "live player" LARP?
Your mention of autism and identity disturbance rings of some truth, and youth generally (role)play across time and space.
Developing solutions then would involve (alternative) social conditioning, ie education. Probably in a green space.
Antisemitic ICC wins larp of the week
I do not rule out retro-causality, which may account for the Mandela effect. Most is probably misremembering. There is also the points made PKD's lecture 'How to Build a Universe that Doesn't Fall Apart 2 Day Later'. I think the fabric of reality itself is subject to fashioning beyond/outside the constraints of linear sequential time, which is cyclical (and rhythmical) rather than linear as it seems. Space/time/direct awareness/experience may all be the same thing, which may be where free will comes in. Synchronicity is all about timing, just as music. Rewind, DJ play it back, the remix. Seems alchemical too in a way. idk just rando brainstorming.