We can easily enter the awareness illusion, where we believe we are operating at a higher level of awareness than we really are. We will believe what our eyes see, ears hear, and emotions feel. And that’s all you need to anchor someone to an opinion on an issue: give their eyes, ears, and emotions ingredients that will lead them to interpret reality in a way that anchors them to the desired opinion. Once someone is anchored in anything, they view reality with a filter that is designed to validate the validity of the anchor. Once someone is anchored in anything, it becomes burdensome to move their opinion on issues they are strongly anchored in. Once someone is anchored to one side of an issue, they are likely unable to be moved to the other, regardless of new information.
And that’s how we have the Police Brutality Delusion. Police brutality is a real thing. You can probably think of an example right now, although the degree of its seriousness is subjective. But any serious adult agrees there are real examples of police brutality. There are real examples of anyone in any profession doing wrong to someone. It is an issue. Yet a real issue can also be warped into a mass delusion, making it appear as a bigger issue that it really is in order to exploit the exploitable. And that is what we are dealing with in America: The Police Brutality Delusion.
The Police Brutality Delusion is twofold: it is the belief that police brutality is one of the biggest problems in society, and that police brutality disproportionately affects people of color. Wrong and wrong. Like, way wrong and way wrong. Police brutality effects such a small percentage of the population that you would not even know it is a problem if you didn’t see a video example of it that algorithms boosted. And when you look at the data, police brutality disproportionately effects white people more than people of color because of the disparity in violent crime. More whites are victims of police brutality despite having fewer police encounters and less violent crime. What does it say about some Americans when popular belief and reality are misaligned so radically? It suggests much of America is currently living in a mass delusion.
What does it say about the awareness of humans when the popular belief is Blacks are disproportionately killed by police, yet a simple review of data reveals that white people are disproportionately killed by police? What does it say about the awareness of humans that for every video of a Black man being shot by police, you can find 2-3 videos of a white man being shot that fit similar criteria, yet the belief is that these do not exist? It says a lot about the awareness of humans. And it says a lot about the ways in which information is presented to the public and the algorithms that affect what we see. Algorithms give people versions of an issue that will anchor them to one side of an issue based on the reality they are operating in. Much of America is now anchored on the side of police brutality that is false.
Those anchored in the police brutality narrative are being exploited. Remember what I said about anchoring. Once someone is anchored in a delusion, the way in which they view reality is skewed to confirm the delusion as valid. Smart, powerful people know that someone who is anchored in the police brutality narrative now has a reality filter that will interpret what is felt and observed as confirmation that the delusion is valid. Smart, powerful people can now exploit these people to leverage and sustain power. This is observable almost every day in America.
Sad and disgusting.
What does being exploited look like in this context? Simple. People are fed police brutality information that confirms the delusion, triggers an emotional response, and leaves them vulnerable to exploitation. Exploitation in this context means that a person is now able to be assigned opinions now that an emotional response has been triggered. The false police brutality delusion is like a parasite: the host is being sucked of life, energy, and power, but the parasite is getting stronger. What’s the parasite? Most of the public is not ready to learn about that yet.