The Reconstruction of Reality
(…or How Autists Saved The World)
I have had some interesting conversations in the last few weeks that explain why I am getting overloaded and struggling to take on tasks I would in the past have found unproblematic. A "diagnosis" of something like Asperger’s requires there to be an impairment. Whilst I have always experienced being different, I have never needed to medicalise or pathologize this — so I never bothered to get "treatment". Yet it seems to fit what I observe in my life right now.
I would like to share with you some of what I have learned, and put it into the broader context of information warfare — and an ongoing Marxist/Bolshevik style insurgency in the West, being executed via medical tyranny. Specifically, I would like to link my personal physical experience to the related cultural phenomenon of “autists”, who are a critical (but misunderstood) sub-community in this undeclared conflict.
To make this connection real from outset, the Israeli army has a special unit for those with gifted perception but who do not fit into the usual recruitment model. As The Atlantic notes: "Many autistic soldiers who would otherwise be exempt from military service have found a place in Unit 9900, a selective intelligence squad where their heightened perceptual skills are an asset."
The modern hybrid warfare battlefield has many “digital soldiers” of a conceptually different nature to the past, and I find myself a warrior in the midst an intense conflict of meaning. This is not an abstract human experience, and comes with psychological pain that I believe rivals that of traditional and bloody kinetic warfare.
WW3 is a bio-information war
We are in an information war where a psychopathic system is attempting to draw the majority into a "hive mind" (communism is one label), whereby the group is elevated over the individual. This suits psychopaths who see themselves as "keeps of the hive", with no concern for the individuals or their autonomy. They are seeking to impose their own moral relativism via the corruption of science, media, politics, industry, and religion.
“Autists” (like me) are the mirror of psychopaths. We are highly intelligent, with strong “affective empathy” (i.e. pure hearted), but lacking the malignant narcissism or manipulative intent of psychopaths: "In the spectrum of the social, sociopaths, psychopaths, and malignant narcissists are SAME BRAIN as autists, but in the empathy and moral opposite.” So an autist is an evil genius — without the evil bit.
Note that “autism” (the medical condition) is a vast grab-bag of attributes, from the genetic to the behavioural. The movie representation of savants in films like Rain Man can be a very long way from the lived experience of most people with such conditions. This tweet by @dspoonage captures it well for me: "I now work with somebody who has recently completed his PhD in Autism. I had an interesting conversation. He dislikes the phrase 'on the spectrum'. His take was we are all the human spectrum, autistic and Asperger's is just at the higher end of the human spectrum! Beautiful."
So to summarise thus far, “autists” are a culturally defined group of people highly adept at systematising information who overlap significantly with “autism”, but these are not the same thing. Some with autism have extreme gifts and few social impairments; others are the converse. I am a (cultural) autist; whether I have (medical) autism is not a matter I care much about, since it is not sufficiently well defined or relevant to me.
The power of hyper perception
The “beautiful minds” of the “autists” are the absolute forefront of a conflict to "reconstruct reality", since collective perception of what is real has been deliberately subverted over a long period of time. Autists have the easiest perception of what is truly happening, and are the least susceptible to propaganda and emotional appeals. We are the most resistant to being "hived off".
This is rooted in how we process information, as described in "When the world becomes ‘too real’: a Bayesian explanation of autistic perception" by Elizabeth Pellicano and David Burr: "We suggest specifically that attenuated Bayesian priors – ‘hypo-priors’ – may be responsible for the unique perceptual experience of autistic people, leading to a tendency to perceive the world more accurately rather than modulated by prior experience."
The idea of a "hypo-prior" is that you only have a weak attachment to existing beliefs when filtering incoming data. I will explore this in more detail below. Philosophers like Jiddu Krishnamurti have referred to this sense of “suspending evaluation” (to see things how they really are) as the "freedom from the known". It is both an innate capability, and a skill that can be developed.
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