Jan 10, 2011

Normalcy Bias #1 " Is Dancing With The Music"

Common Sense Commentary: The Apostle Peter warned of  "Normalcy Bias" in 2Pet.3:3-4, "....There shall come ... scoffers.. saying ... all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation." King Solomon also warned his people of it ... "Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth".
Proverbs 27:1.

"Normalcy Bias" is one of several mental malfunctions of the brain in both animals and humans. It perverts the judgement and hinders understanding of everybody, at one time or another, and is  common among the majority of people. It reveals itself, over a long period of time, in whose who have become  locked into the opinion that certain extreme changes cannot possibly happen ...."Because they have never happened before". Blind in mind. It is not normal, not the norm, and so extremely different that it simply "won't happen", no matter what the evidence. Now, stop for a moment, and think about it.

The plain fact is that "Normalcy Bias" was in play and very widespread preceding every War, Flood, Revolution, Famine, Tsunami, Assassination and Empire failure which ever happened on earth. It is also an obvious fact, mostly mentally avoided, though it has never happened before, that your husband, wife, child or parent could die in a car crash, heart attack, fire, flood, lightening or a hundred other ways next week. Those things happen to others not my family.... Normalcy Bias.

It is my opinion that Normalcy Bias has probably never been so thoroughly prevalent, so embedded in the minds of an entire nation as it is in ours today. Most of us have never known calamities such as have been commonly experienced by many other nations. Can real catastrophe happen in America ? Let's wake up old Rip Van Normalcy Bias and ask his opinion. "Hey Norm, can Revolution or Anarchy or Poverty or Civil War come to America ?" "Don't you believe that negative nonsense Preacher, read your Bible, 'War no more'. 'Peace in the valley' an them other verses." Well, Norm, we did have a Civil War one time. It could happen again. "Ah phooie, this is the U.S. of A., the Civil War was a one time only Historical Event. It can't happen these days. It's happening in other nations, Norm. "Yeah, but that's them ... this is us. It's never happened here and won't.  And them Tsunamis only happen away over there on foreign shores. Volcanic eruptions happen 99 % of the time on islands like Italy. And Famines happen in Africa or Asia but never have happened in good ole U.S.A.
Yeah, I know, the Great Depression happened back over a hundred years ago but that was caused by some Republican vacuum cleaner guy named Hoover and he's long gone." But that was a world-wide depression.
"Who says ? Anyway, so what ! Don't be so smart aleckie and negative. What about Hyper Inflation, Norm ?
Now your just throwin out big words. It cannot and will not happen here ! A hundred other nations didn't think it could happen to them either ...but it did ... and not so long ago.

Rule out all the natural disasters and just consider this one disaster caused by politicians and the Federal Reserve Bank ..... National Babkruptsy ...INFLATION...  which is eroding the value of our money.  Food and energy prices going up is NOT Inflation. That is the result of Inflation. Inflation is caused by the printing of too much currency by the Federal Reserve and eroding the buying power of our money.It is a government hidden tax used to supply politicians with money to give the voters more free stuff to gain votes. The only reason Hyper Inflation is not too obvious in our country yet is that the Gov. is increasing the speed and amount of new money and flooding it out across the nation and the world. Millions of roosting Chicken Littles are asleep with the roosters and hens, the fox is in there too with a menu, And ole Fido is on guard at Fort Knox making sure no gold gets in, and the Canaries in the coal mines are all dead ... So what to do ?

My challenge to America is, Wake up to the music of our very own Pied Piper Printing Presses playing our new national anthem, " Free Stuff, MY Free Stuff". Old Norm and young Pied are leading the national parade down that Yellow Brick Road to ... where it disappears ... Bridge Out ! When the flood of "free money music" STOPS ... Our Nation stops working, but to keep printing may delay, but compounds the depth
of calamity when it does come.

It's rather like "Musical Chairs". Everybody is dancing around a circle of empty chairs in rhythm with our other National Anthem, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" when suddenly the music stops and everybody lunges for a chair. But there are not nearly enough chairs, so most frolicking Americans are left standing... without a chair, a pot or a peso. That, my friends,is not normal nor expected of 99% of Americans. It is Normalcy Bias before the tragic fact.

A word to Mr. and Mrs. Norm Bias, save your money ... But Not in green paper promises.

Pass it on. RB

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