{"id":4972,"date":"2016-06-11T16:08:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T16:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2016-06-11T19:24:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T19:24:13","slug":"disclosure-in-case-you-missed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=4972","title":{"rendered":"DISCLOSURE! In Case You Missed It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joking<\/p><\/div>\n

What still needs to be disclosed? Scant little, I\u2019m afraid.<\/p>\n

Just in case you haven\u2019t noticed, everything has already been disclosed. It\u2019s all out there already… in the public domain. You\u2019ve heard of the internet, right?<\/p>\n

This article is just attempting to follow up on something said in a recent public discussion between my friends Randy Maugans (OffPlanet Radio) and Shane Bales (The Ruiner). An important point was made, and I simply wish to draw some additional attention to it… in my own irascible fashion.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, the point under discussion, as I\u2019ve already hinted, is that \u2018disclosure\u2019 has already happened. Virtually all of the juiciest, dirtiest, mind-bending-est, paradigm-shattering-est, most discombobulating \u2018secret\u2019 information you could ever imagine has already been revealed. The beans have been spilled. People love to talk… and gossip… and even make formal presentations with high production values. Obviously, disclosure is an ongoing process… and it always has been. Sometimes it\u2019s a trickle, sometimes a torrent. I would suggest that these are torrential times.<\/p>\n

So those who are still screaming for disclosure, what are they actually demanding? It appears that they are asking for a slightly different form of disclosure. They want disclosure to be spoken through the mouthpieces of authority. They want all of the sordid \u2018secret\u2019 nastiness to be delivered to the masses through the \u2018trusted\u2019 authorities. Authorities trusted by whom? By the braindead masses who are utterly incapable of thinking for themselves because they will not entertain any possibilities lying outside of their rigidly narrow views, that\u2019s who. And that would change everything, right?<\/p>\n

Fuck no!<\/p>\n

Maybe half of them would be capable of realizing that they\u2019ve been lied to… and could subsequently adopt the newly disclosed program from their trusted authoritarian programmers. The other half would likely stand firm in their denial. You see, the problem was never one of non-disclosure; it\u2019s always been more about closed-mindedness.<\/p>\n

Is there some supreme yet hidden virtue in refusing to consider alternative possibilities? Is having a rigidly-defined narrow view of the world actually a desirable thing? If so, please explain to me how this is so. Isn\u2019t extreme closed-mindedness more accurately a sign of mental deficiency or perhaps even illness? I always thought that the expansion of human consciousness– the ability to hold many possibilities in mind, even contradictory ones– was a desirable and healthy trait? Isn\u2019t that what imagination is for?<\/p>\n

Closed-mindedness IS a mental illness. There, I said it!<\/p>\n

Whatever form disclosure \u2018needs\u2019 to take, it won\u2019t cure the illness. For those on whom such authoritarian disclosure would have an effect, it would just be a matter of overwriting old programs with updated ones. But the non-thinkers would still remain non-thinkers… they would remain as automatons living out someone else\u2019s programs. And the outright deniers will still be as delusional as ever!<\/p>\n

Disclosure isn\u2019t the problem… or the \u2018lack\u2019 of disclosure isn\u2019t the root cause of our collective difficulties. It\u2019s simply the inability to entertain other possibilities that thwarts real and significant change in the world. Isn\u2019t that so fucking obvious that it hurts?!<\/p>\n

How many times have we heard that the only constant in this universe is change itself? And yet, humans– on the whole– have been deeply conditioned to loathe change. We\u2019ve been sold on false programs of security and stability, on schooling over education, on facts over possibilities, on rote memory over imagination or intuition. We\u2019ve been relentlessly pressured to give up any identity as adventurers, or even as living, growing beings… so that we can become… what? Placeholders? Statistics? Good little citizens of the World-Devouring Machine? So we can be productive, contributing members of a society hellbent on destroying all life on this planet?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not about disclosure (other people telling other people what\u2019s what); it\u2019s about what we each DO with what\u2019s been disclosed.<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re just waiting for some newfangled disclosure event, you\u2019re part of the problem. I sincerely hope that we get just the kind of disclosure event that I too once dreamed of– when I was still young and stupid, like, just a couple of years ago– so that we can finally get past the idle waiting (and endless re-disclosure loop among the supposedly open-minded crowd) and see that \u201cHuh, how \u2018bout that… disclosure didn\u2019t solve a fucking thing!\u201d And finally move on\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What still needs to be disclosed? Scant little, I\u2019m afraid. Just in case you haven\u2019t noticed, everything has already been disclosed. It\u2019s all out there already… in the public domain. You\u2019ve heard of the internet, right? This article is just (…)<\/p>\n

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