Dualistic Pigeonholing

The other day, I had a strange reaction to ASMR. When I walked into the room and heard it, it felt superficial to me instantly…. this is only because it ‘seemed to be’ trying to incite a sexual feeling within me. (To me, sounding like you’re inside someone’s orifice is sexual. [shrug]) 

I realized with a little time that it was my own stereotypes related to ASMR, as well as the knowledge I have of how advertising works, that was creating the negative experience. 

Just like with advertisements, I knew that I had realized somewhere along the line that the ASMR had the potential to put me into a state where I was suggestible, and I was not happy with it. The stereotypes I felt reflected this, and they reminded me of advertisements. Ads seemed to encourage a type of casual, pseudo-care of “whatever a person was”. Yet, instead of listening to what a person felt about themselves deep down, advertisements and stereotypes were all based upon judgments of what we were *supposed* to be.

Advertisements and media as a whole definitely won’t shy away from pigeonholing us: in fact, they rested their entire marketing strategy upon the premise that they WOULD HAVE been able to pigeonhole us.

They took it upon themselves to cite our worries. Then they manipulated, provoked us, and triggered our most likely difficulties…

Allllllll in order to sell a product, by getting you trapped into emotional loops based on new, faulty programming being added into the mix.

First off, it is kind of funny, no? I mean, the fact that you ever let the advertisements sculpt your own self worth to begin with. This kind of revelation can lead us away from the cultural grain, helping us to understand our own inner wants and desires. This is a common insight of DMT trips.

Our DMT trips are ritual to us, because they use our inner metaphorical language.

Make no mistake about the universe at hand, as well: society IS a ritual which takes some of its information from ancient occult principles and practices. Some of the modern resulting values are seeped in relative morality, which, as we all know well, can quickly turn to a steep hill of quicksand.

When it comes to a mass advertising spell, it would seem that the documentation archives on humans are typically consulted. Then, a special arrangement of information is used thereof, in the commercial’s (for example) ritualistic stance. The results are intentionally used in the greater process at hand, leading to what some may call predictive programming.

The process by which the people are to manipulate the passers-by is based upon previously-collected information on consumer reactions to: previous products, ads and situations.

For instance, ads for products that try to emanate the feeling of what is SUPPOSED to indicate being attractive to people of the preferred sex, actually portray the feeling of self-worthlessness.

These ads are obsessed with cleanliness, image of purity, and hygiene. The cold and clinical feeling stands in sharp contrast with the idea that what REALLY gets people off is being raw, dirty and unafraid to be oneself. In short, confidence is sexy.

Since confidence itself is sexy, then products cannot be sold without engaging in the provocation of a discrepancy in the mind of the potential customer.

How do we prevent this rift from forming, and, if it has formed already, how do we reformat the development of our own stereotypes in regards to what we think we should  be, merely because someone told us we ought to be at some point?