Psychology

Contemporary psychology has been defined as commencing sometime around the 1700's. However as spirituality and organised religion focus on the mind as opposed to the physical, it is almost impossible to assign a start date to the discipline.

As a result of the various shifts in the political agendas of ancient societies such as Rome and Egypt, humanity has been controlled in the way that it thinks for many millennia. The use of technology to control the thoughts of mankind dates back to a time before writing was even a widespread phenomenon. Consequently, that which contemporary homosapiens consider to be progress in the science of psychology is merely a latest best effort guess. Estimates based on observation, reproduction and the age old process of trial and error. As an adjoining discipline, pharmacology has developed from the practice of herbalist alchemy which has been present throughout human history. As the understanding of the conscious and subconscious has developed, various wrong turnings in psychology have become consolidated. Possibly the most egregious of these wrong turns is still practiced today in the form of ideology. Responsible for more death, misery and suffering than any virus or bacteria, ideological beliefs have brought entire cultures to their knees. Many of whom did not recover and exist only as part of the historical record.

Among the earliest practitioners of psychology that we can identify, would be the culture of dynastic Egypt. Thanks to the people of Egypt utilising the mummification process and including medical papyri in their burials, their records survived flooding, fire and other natural disasters. As a result we know more about how the Egyptians of the 4th millenia BC thought, than we know how Britons from the 5th century thought.

Simultaneously mankinds greatest strength and greatest weakness is their ability for self delusion. This is celebrated through such otherwise benign media such as film and theatre. The audience revel in the spectacles created with light and sound and the resulting dopamine releases provide them with distraction from the banality of their existence. Currently the greatest example of this is seen in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA where an almost twenty thousand capacity venue, featuring a sphere of video screens both inside and out leaves the audience utterly spellbound by the 18k video presentations. In many ways, the curators of the presentations have recreated an ancient witch doctor capability. They are able to transport the viewer outside of their cognitive experiential mindset and subject them to realities hitherto unimaginable. Unlike the magi of old, over two billion dollars worth of technology negates the need for the use of mind altering substances among the audience.    

Unfortunately when ideology and self delusion combine, there exists the ingredients for a perfect storm. This is reflected today in the recent phenomenon of both the environmental lobby and the medical industrial complex. Since the 1970's various funded academics have been fear mongering on the subject of natural resources. Peak oil was grossly flawed science, yet it ushered in an ecological ideology that persists to this day as climate change. The psychology behind the coronavirus response took ideological thinking to a whole new level. The logic behind every facet of the Covid narrative is highly flawed yet still billions believe in the veracity of the assertions made by governments and the media. In some ways the W.H.O have achieved what the former USSR attempted. They have managed to superimpose an irrational belief system over the existing belief structures of the global population. The former Soviet Union spent nearly half a century attempting to mind control their population and the W.H.O achieved it globally in less than five years.  While it is unclear exactly how many people truly believe in the Covid19 ideology, there certainly are plenty who go along with it.