DamianTV
01-07-2014, 03:03 AM
This term is used to describe the mindset of a person observing a fictional story.
When you watch a fictional movie where short people team up with also short people with lots of hair and one really tall guy with a stick go on an adventure, as a viewer, you know its not real. Every story you observe, there is generally one BIG lie. In the aforementioned story, the lie is that "this is the world". It allows extensions of the lie. Thus, in that world, you can have Magic. You can have Dragons, Talking Spiders, Supernatural, and a shiny gold trinket. But in order to observe the story for what it is, we temporarily suspend our disbelief so that we can believe the lie in order to enjoy the story. This is how we observe Fiction.
I've already made one of my wall of text posts about the mindset of the individual when it pertains to Cop Shows. In that post, I addressed that the greater the lie, the easier it is to return the mind to reality. But when the fiction so closely resembles reality, people seem to have a greater and greater time telling the difference between fantasy and reality. Hence, Cop Shows. Cops in some movies typically answer to no one authority, are always "bad shots", and wear military issued equipment, camouflage uniforms, and body armor when issuing a ticket for the illegal distribution of lemon flavored water both with and without sugar, and is demanded for the safety of the officers due to the very dangerous nature of pre-pubescent children.
The thing is, this Suspension of Disbelief is not a mindset that people have only when observing fiction. Many have this same mindset when watching the Nightly News. Thus, many people believe everything that comes out of the MSM as the Gospel Truth, even if the information presented is heavily biased and only a part of what is needed to establish an accurate conclusion. However, TV in general isnt the only place that we encounter this perception manipulative tactic.
Salesmen do it. Our product is better than their product because our product can do this many things and theirs cant. People suspend their disbelief that they dont need a product being sold and through that allow the "lie to be the truth, temporarily" way of thinking, people actually believe that the cheap knockoff is better than the real deal.
The reason for this post is to find out how far this paradigm has extended and embedded itself into our every day thinking. Around here, many of us are wise to this method. But we see the effects everywhere. Texting is more important than talking to my friends. Govt is our friend. People who see Conspiracies are insane. This religion is better than that religion because (insert reason here). My product is better than their product. This politician is good and honest, and the other politician is a slimeball and you should not like him because I told you to not like him. And it is often targetted at the most vunerable audiences, Children. Hell, I even see children shows creating the Conditioned Response (Pavlov's Dog) to laugh at anyone who says "It's a Conspiracy! Man!" Children are taught to think Cops are Officer Friendly, and Politicians are Moral People. If the cartoons that our children watched showed that Politicians were ALL corrupt, Banks manipulated the Politicians, NSA wants to know what you're thinking so they can use that information to manipulate you in the most effective way possible, taught not to consume, and that Cops were Serial Killers, our children would grow up to think very very different from the way the establishment wants them to think. Whatever our children are taught, the status quo does not want them to be able to resist their influences at any level. They want generation after generation of sheep producting more sheep.
The thing is, the Suspension of Disbelief is a very powerful tool, both for storytelling, and Group Psychology. Yet, I've only mentioned a few places that this technique is exploited to garner blind trust from the masses.
Where else have you seen the Suspension of Disbelief applied in order to manipulate people? And what do you do to resist? What do you do to resist the urge to accept opinions without evaluations because a group has accepted a set of opinions that you are supposed to share? What would you recommend to someone who is starting to wake up?
When you watch a fictional movie where short people team up with also short people with lots of hair and one really tall guy with a stick go on an adventure, as a viewer, you know its not real. Every story you observe, there is generally one BIG lie. In the aforementioned story, the lie is that "this is the world". It allows extensions of the lie. Thus, in that world, you can have Magic. You can have Dragons, Talking Spiders, Supernatural, and a shiny gold trinket. But in order to observe the story for what it is, we temporarily suspend our disbelief so that we can believe the lie in order to enjoy the story. This is how we observe Fiction.
I've already made one of my wall of text posts about the mindset of the individual when it pertains to Cop Shows. In that post, I addressed that the greater the lie, the easier it is to return the mind to reality. But when the fiction so closely resembles reality, people seem to have a greater and greater time telling the difference between fantasy and reality. Hence, Cop Shows. Cops in some movies typically answer to no one authority, are always "bad shots", and wear military issued equipment, camouflage uniforms, and body armor when issuing a ticket for the illegal distribution of lemon flavored water both with and without sugar, and is demanded for the safety of the officers due to the very dangerous nature of pre-pubescent children.
The thing is, this Suspension of Disbelief is not a mindset that people have only when observing fiction. Many have this same mindset when watching the Nightly News. Thus, many people believe everything that comes out of the MSM as the Gospel Truth, even if the information presented is heavily biased and only a part of what is needed to establish an accurate conclusion. However, TV in general isnt the only place that we encounter this perception manipulative tactic.
Salesmen do it. Our product is better than their product because our product can do this many things and theirs cant. People suspend their disbelief that they dont need a product being sold and through that allow the "lie to be the truth, temporarily" way of thinking, people actually believe that the cheap knockoff is better than the real deal.
The reason for this post is to find out how far this paradigm has extended and embedded itself into our every day thinking. Around here, many of us are wise to this method. But we see the effects everywhere. Texting is more important than talking to my friends. Govt is our friend. People who see Conspiracies are insane. This religion is better than that religion because (insert reason here). My product is better than their product. This politician is good and honest, and the other politician is a slimeball and you should not like him because I told you to not like him. And it is often targetted at the most vunerable audiences, Children. Hell, I even see children shows creating the Conditioned Response (Pavlov's Dog) to laugh at anyone who says "It's a Conspiracy! Man!" Children are taught to think Cops are Officer Friendly, and Politicians are Moral People. If the cartoons that our children watched showed that Politicians were ALL corrupt, Banks manipulated the Politicians, NSA wants to know what you're thinking so they can use that information to manipulate you in the most effective way possible, taught not to consume, and that Cops were Serial Killers, our children would grow up to think very very different from the way the establishment wants them to think. Whatever our children are taught, the status quo does not want them to be able to resist their influences at any level. They want generation after generation of sheep producting more sheep.
The thing is, the Suspension of Disbelief is a very powerful tool, both for storytelling, and Group Psychology. Yet, I've only mentioned a few places that this technique is exploited to garner blind trust from the masses.
Where else have you seen the Suspension of Disbelief applied in order to manipulate people? And what do you do to resist? What do you do to resist the urge to accept opinions without evaluations because a group has accepted a set of opinions that you are supposed to share? What would you recommend to someone who is starting to wake up?