People are eating Tide Pods.
If you haven’t figured out yet why understanding
logic and having good reasoning skills are
important, just consider the fact that people
are eating Tide Pods.
Procter & Gamble had to start a campaign to
tell us that laundry soap is for washing clothes.
Stupidity has been glorified to the point
where teenagers actually need to be told not
to eat these things.
This is why we say that reason must be placed
above all else, including things like emotions
and faith.
This is a primary principle of Hyperianism.
Because if you don’t know how to reason
properly, you won’t know how to make the
best decisions for your life, like not eating
Tide Pods.
You won’t know how to recognize when someone’s
trying to take advantage of you or use fallacious
logic to influence you.
As surprising as it sounds, people are not
good at critical thinking and often rely on
emotional factors, and because of this, most
people have no idea when their emotions are
being used against them and that they’re
being manipulated on a daily basis by people
who do know how to press emotional buttons
and get others to react with anger or fear
or sympathy.
You can see this everywhere.
Just look at the cosmetic industry.
We have TV and magazines, the Internet , and
on sides of buses, these Photoshopped images
of people with perfect figures, amazing hair,
and beautiful skin, and right next to them
are ads for lotions and crèmes and serums
and makeup that will lighten and brighten,
and diminish or intensive whatever areas are
not good enough.
You know, we’re bombarded continually with
ads specifically designed to make us afraid
that we don’t measure up to what is desirable
in society so that we’ll buy the products
to try to turn ourselves into that perfect
image.
And even if you are aware of some of the manipulative
tactics and think you’re immune, consider
that one of the most important aspects in
marketing a product is the packaging.
In fact, sometimes, it’s the packaging that
sells the product.
It’s well known in the advertising business
that people are far more likely to make decisions
based on emotional factors than on rational
ones, and I’ll bet that you can remember
times when you chose a product not by comparing
labels or even necessarily by price, but by
what the product looked like, even though
that’s completely irrational.
And then there’s politics, which is another
obvious area where people constantly try to
influence your opinion.
In order to be elected, they have to get you
to support them.
And considering that people are really distrustful
of politicians these days, you’d think they’d
be extremely rational in analyzing candidates.
But look at the current President of the United
States.
How did that happen?!
It happened because Trump used a bunch of
manipulative techniques.
He appealed to fear and anger and authority.
He deflected or brushed off direct questions
with flippant comical answers that allowed
him to avoid providing a rational argument.
It seems unbelievable to the people who recognize
these tactics that anyone could be taken in
by them.
Yet, here we are.
Rational thinking skills provide a tremendous
advantage in navigating through life, but
they’re not even taught until school high
where you might get an introduction to logic.
The education system is too absorbed with
standardized test scores and teaching kids
what to know rather than how to think.
And in other areas of life, there are people
who would like nothing more than for you to
remain ignorant, uninformed, and incapable
of understanding logic.
Because the more you understand, the easier
you see what’s happening all around you.
Religions depend on followers having poor
rational thinking skills because religions
are based on faith, and in fact, rational
thinking is often actively discouraged since
thinking leads to questioning, and questioning
leads to a lot of problems that can’t be
defended logically.
This world is a game, and if you don’t understand
how it works, you’ll be a pawn by default.
Without the ability to think rationally, you
are a prime target for the people who know
how to trigger your emotions and manipulate
your behavior.
They’ll keep you busy focusing on some passing
news story or fad, and when the fury from
that dies down, they’ll just dangle another
distraction in front of you.
You need to know how the top players have
rigged the game in their favor and keep you
too busy fighting the other pawns to unite
and take back the board.
And this is one of the most important reason
why people capable of rational thinking are
needed now more than ever before.
We need more people who see the state of the
world for what it is.
We need more people who recognize that there
is something very, very wrong in the staggering
inequality gap with 42 people holding as much
wealth as the 3.7 billion who make up the
poorest half of the world’s population (according
to a recent report by Oxfam).
We need more people who understand that a
completely new system is needed to turn this
world from a prison planet into a freedom
planet.
And if you want to change this world for the
better, you need to understand what’s going
on, and rationalism is absolutely necessary
in order to understand the nature of reality.
And what’s more important than understanding
how the universe operates?
It’s through reasoning that you’re able
to recognize the limitations of the senses
in providing knowledge of the objective world,
and it’s through reasoning that you recognize
the limitations of empiricism in discovering
the mathematical foundation of reality.
Understanding the nature of reality IS what
will move people to unite together and together
to create a new system, a better world.
You can find more information on Hyperianism
at Hyperianism.com and on the Facebook pages
of Hyperianism, MorgueOfficial, and Apollonius.
And please don’t eat Tide Pods.
