"The problem is that there is what psychologists would call a cognitive dissonance. You have to bend reality, and stuff reality into a box and pretend it's not there ... And you can only do that for so long before you lose your mind."

Yep

Exactly my sentiments, Nick. Why is the media so ignorant???

I am the author of "If You Have Buttons, You're A Robot". A book about Integration techniques, trauma resolution, and eliminating emotional triggers. As such, I can answer questions about these subjects and sub-categories such as Energy Psychology, Mysticism (especially Christian), fundamentalism.

That's why its called christo-fascism.

Support for trump was always from the start what amounts to christo-fascism and apocalyptic theocracy. It's why evangelicals still support him by large margins. They desperately need their myths to be made true... see?

Let's do this: www.defiance.org

Insecure identity = hatred toward the "other". Without enemies, they don't exist. They must define themselves by what they are not, & hate the rest.

Dear White Christian Nationalists... is Reality really that hard to grasp? What part of "separation of church & state" do you not understand?

MAGA & Turning Point "performing" the ultimate identity politics. So tired of immature humans & malignant tribalism.

yes

The fascists will not stop and are only going to get more violent. The Democrats have betrayed us. It’s on us to stop this. We have to carry out a general strike and boycott even if we’re not ready. We have to kill this system before it kills us. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/shut-it-down

This is how malignant narcissists roll. It won't stop til it's stopped by the people.

Every day, dystopian creep gets nearer to you. Is it stoppable? 2035: Permanent Crisis – The World After American Unraveling collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2025/10/24/2...

For a mind that is fully Reality based deep alienation is hard to avoid in today's post-reality society & media environment. Watching Vance or Trump speak is like watching a cartoon aimed at third graders. We need emotionally mature adults to take the helm, the ship is running aground.

Had to do a bunch of carpentry before selling our home. I got out my magic carpenter suspenders & flew through it. We will be living by this river. This guy & his friends live there too.

I asked 'Grok 3' to write a short bio of Elon Musk. This was the concluding paragraph:

JD is not a good human, so...

If you're wondering what YOU can do? ... THIS is IT:

This is what my lates post is about: open.substack.com/pub/iamtseba...

Everyone deserves their autonomous personal freedom to BE. People who harm others should be stopped with the least amount of force it takes. Controlling humans need to be controlled. Only sane responses, not lizard brain reactions will work.

Learn powerful techniques to deprogram your lizard brain. [email protected]

The deeper we direct our thinking into Reality, the greater our understanding will be. Greater understanding = wiser decisions & actions. We are not going to "out-shout" fascism. We must out-think the by studying subjects like actual history, social evolution, social psychology, developmental psych.

This is a very good primer if you want the 40,000 ft view of our present Reality. Stay tuned to me if you want to ponder the 50,000 ft view.

I block at the first sign of abusive communication or stupidity

Written a week or so before the election: open.substack.com/pub/iamtseba...

In the face of madness, rationality doesn't make a dent. The thrashing lizard brain isn't tamed so easily. The source of the upset must be seen & defused.

On what planet is Trump not a malignant narcissist that will change his revenge attitude & adapt to positivity??? McCarthy is delusional & clueless about who Trump really is... still. www.politico.com/news/2023/12...

Starting in May 2023 Global Temp jumped the shark. Not comedy tho. The next year will be extreme in every way.

Reactionary is what the lizard brain does. They will seek and find any confirmation to justify their malignant tribalism. Guard your minds.

Recently someone I've known since I was a teen took some pills & alcohol & is in the hospital. I wrote this a while ago to help people avoid just such an outcome: iamtsebastian.substack.com?utm_source=n...

If I were a Liberal women I would leave any red state while I still could.

Just love this comic

Do not lose heart, Give Thanks & Appreciation menalive.com/overcoming-o...

...And good luck to all. I'm staying home.

Provisional ERA5 global temperature for 17th November from @CopernicusECMWF was 1.17°C above 1991-2020 - the warmest on record. Our best estimate is that this was the first day when global temperature was more than 2°C above 1850-1900 (or pre-industrial) levels, at 2.06°C.

The personal emissions of the global 1% "accounted for 16% of all CO2 emissions in 2019 – enough to cause more than a million excess deaths due to heat." And THAT is why flying matters. Flying is a huge faction of rich people's personal pollution. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mom can you come pick me up, the best minds of my generation are destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked —

I remember when problems were something we tried to solve, you know, for the good of humanity... All our problems are predicaments now. Resistance on every side.

People, let’s start re-posting other people’s posts if we think they’re good, OK? Don’t just “like”things.

Projection combined with confirmation bias.

If you value Reality & Sanity, Read: open.substack.com/pub/armoxon/...

So if every police force hires a black police chief, they can flush out all the nazis.