What People Want

People don’t actually know what they want, in most cases, because they are so conditioned to being told what they want (behavior modeling happens outside of conscious awareness). If someone wasn’t constantly like: PLASMA TV PLASMA TV BARACK OBAMA WAKE UP AND GO TO WORK, then nobody would know what the fuck to do. People would just walk through the streets bumping into each other like zombies. But they wouldn’t even want to eat brains. They wouldn’t want to do anything because there wouldn’t be anything to do. Life would be so boring if we weren’t constantly absorbed in a stream of pointless tasks and irrelevant arbitrary goals. This is why America needs a strong dictator immediately!

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4 Reader Responses

1. SHE Who Must Be Obeyed. Says:
   February 11th, 2008 at 3:15 am

   Life would be AWESOME. I think of the future visions, over-optimistic as they were, of R.A.W. and Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Anxiety Culture dude, etc… That’s what it all should be about.

   But I assume you’re being sarcastic.

2. Ted Heistman Says:
   February 11th, 2008 at 9:48 am

   Being provocative are you?

   Well, actually I think without programming, people would split off into insular little tribes. That’s my opinion. The little tribes would be more or less self sufficient units.

   So there wouldn’t be as much mobility for adventurous types. Because everywhere you go outside your little tribe you would be tresspassing and wouldn’t speak the language.

   When people are more lemming like and live in big nation states, you can move around more. See the country. You don’t have to worry about “highwaymen” robbing you on the road, because there are police.

3. Ted Heistman Says:
   February 11th, 2008 at 10:03 am

   My theory though is that all people go by pavlovian conditioning most of the time. Some people get a little bit beyond it. There is a chicken and egg thing with a certian gene. Its genetics and behavior. Maybe certian environments turn on the gene, others might either not have it, or have it unactivated.

   Its the novelty seeking gene. So when things are really stable, the people with he novelty seeking genes often don’t fit in. They seem like freaks.

   But when disaster strikes, the novelty seekers survive. Because it lifts the boredom. It engages them. The pavlovian types begin to shut down. They can’t cope.

   Think of a bunch of people in a plane crash. Most die, of the survivors, most wait by the plane to get rescued, but end up starving to death.

   One little girl, who thinks the jungle is so cool and different, walks out to civilization after 19 days covered with insects bites but still alive. The soul survivor.

   true story.

4. alistair Says:
   February 11th, 2008 at 12:40 pm

   there are those who thrive on chaos. some of them try to create it. timothy mcviegh for instance, or possibly his handler….(s)

   p.d.ouspensky`s “a theory of mans possible evloution” discusses the natural levels of our sleep state. in it he suggests that we never really wake very often outside of a walking awareness filled with our dreams and fears. this clouds our percpetion of objective reality, and of course makes us prey to simple conditioning through bright flashing lights and the lure of shiny things. (oh yeah, and the balloons at car dealerships, for fuck`s sake.)