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Paul John Moscatello

@liberatingreality / liberatingreality.com

- Writer | Disciplinarian | Counter Culture Engineer - Dismantling our dystopian status quo by exposing the fear-based conditioning and delusional ideologies that sustain it; persisting in passion, and realizing my potential, until my bones begin to splinter under the weight of my ambition.
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People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.

Amin Maalouf, The First Century After Beatrice

#Psychology#Philosophy#Politics#Media#Culture
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The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned, they lose their individual character. On the contrary, the sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology and arranged the means to give satisfactions which fit the pathology.
The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation, in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

#Psychology#Philosophy#Politics#Religion#Culture
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We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

Arthur Schopenhauer, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer

#Psychology#Philosophy#Politics#Culture#Wisdom
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As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions are highly addictive and far easier to indulge in (in a perversely satisfying way) than positive emotional subsets. Better yet, when you convince others of your helplessness, some people begin to regard you as a victim—someone to be adored and protected.

Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion

#Psychology#Philosophy#Narcissism#Culture#Wisdom
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In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,” about the courting of a young woman. Her suitor was a young man who could read her mind but did not tell her so. He simply appeared with what she wanted at the moment, beginning with strawberry ice cream for a study break. Step by step he changed her life, making her dependent upon him by giving her what she thought she wanted at a certain moment, before she herself had a chance to reflect. Her best friend realized that something disconcerting was happening, investigated, and learned the truth: “That is not love,” she warned. “That’s rape.”
The internet is a bit like this. It knows much about us, but interacts with us without revealing that this is so. It makes us unfree by arousing our worst tribal impulses and placing them at the service of unseen others.

Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom

#Psychology#Philosophy#Social Media#Culture#Critical Thinking
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Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

Susan Sontag, On Photography

#Psychology#Philosophy#Social Media#Culture#Truth
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Standing alone today demands even more courage and strength than it did in former cultures. From infancy, children have been programmed to perform. Rather than living from their own needs and feelings, they learn to assess situations in order to please others.
Without an inner core of certainty grounded in their own musculature, they lack the inner resources to stand alone. Pummelled by mass media and peer group pressures, their identity may be utterly absorbed by collective stereotypes. In the absence of adequate rites of passage, ad-men become the high priests of an initiation into the addictions of consumerism.

Marion Woodman, The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation

#Psychology#Philosophy#Consumerism#Culture#Advertisements
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I had discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper, or an advocate of rape and violence.

Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

#Psychology#Philosophy#Politics#Religion#Culture
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Divinity School Address

#Psychology#Philosophy#Imitation#Culture#Wisdom
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