Fear, Loathing, and Horror.

[SmokeyMcChickenson]

In high school I cut every class and went to the library and out to the woods and educated myself.

I did pretty well.

Yes, that Wilhelm Reich Orgone technology has made you the man you are today.

His body of work it quite a bit larger than the topic of orgone energy. I would have assumed such a scholarly lad such as yourself would have known that.

Here is one of my favorites from his catalog.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism

[Doktor Howl]

Did I ever tell you about the time I proved Einstein's theory of relativity wrong?  Funny story.

Jesus Christ.   

[SmokeyMcChickenson]

Did I ever tell you about the time I proved Einstein's theory of relativity wrong?  Funny story.

Jesus Christ.   

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You just don't GET IT, do you, Dok?  He doesn't care, and is bitter about his education!

I was bitter about education my first day of kindergarten.

Alright everyone get in a single file.

Fuck This!

The American education system is a fucking sham.

In high school I cut every class and went to the library and out to the woods and educated myself.

I did pretty well.

The stoners who would cut class to come out to the woods and hang out with me and learn about what I was reading would get credits for it.

My principal and guidance counselor thought pretty highly of me.

I aced the state required testing and graduated without ever sitting in a classroom

I dropped out of third grade and  taught myself under conditions of poverty, deprivation, abuse, and neglect. I had a bicycle and a library card... the library was five miles away.

Yet, miraculously, I STILL learned critical thinking.

But you know NOTHING of monopole magnets and perpetual motion!  NOTHING!

 

[LuciferX]

Ehhm, I remember this album by one of those hipety-hopety djs that equated the horror with the passage of time.
It was terrifically funny.

Then I was like, what about the confirmation bias?  If having to integrate horror is difficult on a neuro-chemical level, because of having to work against dominant feed-back loops, is this not the same as explaining things from the perceptual level?

Dopamine feeds that seeking behavior that rewards recognition over loss.
The confirmation bias supports recognizing things that already conform to a worldview over whatever horrible truth that may threaten it.

Recognition is the monster...

[axod]

Recognition is the monster...

Sounds fucking fine but this cognitive shrink I like to sodomize reminds me a little of the Semmelweis reflex.  Really, you should look her up. 
 

[Epimetheus]

I put a piece of cantaloupe

Underneath the microscope.

I saw a million strange things sleepin’,

I saw a zillion weird things creepin’,

I saw some green things twist and bend–

I won’t eat cantaloupe again.


-Shel Silverstein