Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Happy Wednesday Common Sensers, Seekers of Sanity & Civility, Triggeratti, Phamily, Friends & Refugees and of course all you ADD Irregulars and WSN Vagabonds!

Welcome to the Age of Apophenia! Apophenia, a rather recent word added to this collection of mostly older words. Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connection's in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad who defined it as a 'unmotivated seeing of connections' accompanied by a 'specific experience of abnormal meaningfulness.' Klaus Conrad was an eminent German psychologist.

The author goes into much detail about various accounts and experiences of apophenia as it effects our perceptual experience and our mind's connection of things previously unnoticed. Sometimes the connection is only caused because we have just awakened our mind to see more of a recent relevant experience like buying a new car and now noticing how many people drive the same model.

Apophenia - I think it is a good follow up to yesterday's word verbigerate others mindless repeating word of empty meaning while some minds connect dots of meaning - empty or not is to be determined. Noticing patterns might save your life or drive you crazy. Noticing connections might give you insight into something previously ignored or it may well turn you into the cuckoo we all politely smile at while finding the quickest exit.

In an age of misinformation and intentional manipulation one ought to connect the dots rather loosely as it were. To become positively certain about a now noticed pattern, a deeper connection of the deeper currents might make you an insightful person who has stumbled upon something profound or it make you the newest poster boy, girl or imagined gender clad in your tinfoil hat and accompanying wardrobe.

A couple of weeks ago I came across and shared this quote.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. - Francis Bacon

In the end the truth (or something as close as we can get to it) will prevail but the people the truth impacted may well all be dead and gone. Authority can tell you all the lies it wants, promote all the fears it can find (2020 - The Explosion of Authoritarian Bullshit by the Fearmongers and Puppet Masters in the Cabal) and blatantly lie to your face knowing you are mostly powerless to do anything about it until you or enough or you realize you are not powerless. One person with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson One of my favorite presidents even with all his flaws and failings, and he had many. The guys in my teenage gaming group (still friends) roasted me 20 years ago for including Jackson in my top 5 Presidents. - Washington - Jefferson - Madison - Coolidge and Jackson all made my list. Lincoln was #6 because I am on the fence about his preserving the Union (a great good) and empowering the Federal government (a great misfortune).

One person with courage can change more than we might ever imagine and I think and talk about courage often because of this age of cowardice that we have entered. I'm still butthurt over the BS of mid-2020 and it's soft piano messaging that we can all be heroes by doing our part and hiding at home, obeying our betters and trusting the narrative to see us to wellness and greater security (and a lot less freedom).

Apophenia - HD Awareness - are the connections meaningful, impactful, and full or insight or are they just random things your mind has assembled together in some private narrative for your amusement. Happy Wednesday Digital Neighbors!