someone successfully acculturated into the #cogsec network of "sanity" throughout normal phases of childhood development, wouldn't have the faintest idea how to *become* sane, i.e. intentionally/consciously establish a correctly-functioning perception-cognition-reaction loop that serves them appropriately.

it's like the fish who had no notion of water.

(observation: i now feel vaguely threatened every time i use #metaphor or #culturalreference.

#countermeasure in effect!)

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so, our true-believing good citizen sees the sociopaths reinforced for maintaining low collective #CogSec:

for all their speaking lies and nonsense and bullshit with impunity; for all their treating fellow humans with cruelty; they have now been rewarded with a #CognitiveProsthesis:

the #LargeLanguageMachines proper. some ones you have as an app on your phone right now. 🧶

(see, people! you don't need AI to make fools of yourselves with batshit rants! do it the old way like God commanded 😁)

so, psychotic pet theory about psychosis:

by the time you are designated #psychotic, it's already too late.

the "phase shift" occurred earlier, when you lost your capacity for #RealityTesting; and, with it, for #ConsensusBuilding, i.e. for meaningful and meaning-making communication.

you are now on the other side of the #CogSec fence.

proximates never knew how to help, and are only happy to #ShootTheMessenger to keep emotional pressure within limits.

metaphorically...

you hope. 🧶

#user begins to #research, or - since their #CogSec was what failed after all - more like to "do one's own research" (pejorative) with requisite slight #resentment for the "#ivorytower" of actual science

and that's where #user gets got with the #conspiracy theories; which are basically #ads for #wireheading

just-so stories #designed to give a sense of #understanding, #belonging, and #community. then harness for political ends.

let's call those 1st gen #nonlethal #countermeasures 🧶

so, #CogSec = practices that protect the individual, as well as the community, from #subversion of #worldmodel

i.e. from being *made to believe* useless, counterproductive, or outright harmful ideas

incidentally, how's the West been doing in that department? lol. lmao

what does #CogSecFail do to a #ProSocial #Allist holding the honest belief that "as long as you put in honest work, and treat fellow humans with kindness, at the end of the day, things will likely turn out fine"?

welp 🧶

#CogSec: being able to recognize when a term is being misused; when thinking is being conducted incorrectly. in the scientific community, this is socially normative.

in other contexts, *caring* that thinking is being conducted incorrectly is the high road to psychotic states. any adversarially-minded person can cause you emotional pain by inducing cognitive dissonance 🎶

in such environments the degree of #CogSec is low already, so this form of #abuse passes below threshold of recognition 🧶

so... suppose we were to talk about #CognitiveSecurity (#CriticalThinking)

you know, the thing which gives you and your community some degree of resilience against #MassPersuasion (#Propaganda)

in terms of #CogSec, I really don't think modern communities have progressed much past "pronounce the #Shibboleth correctly"

more advanced shibboleth: "demonstrate incapacity for metacommunication". (yknow, like how authorities talk. otherwise #Solipsists would just run circles around 'em 😁)

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