Die Heart-er: Nanoamnesia

Confession of a former patient

The Chinese character 忘 for ‘to forget’, a combination of 亡 ‘to die’ atop 心 ‘heart’. Can you see a stylized drawing of a heart on the bottom? Seal style calligraphy by 徐三庚 Xu Sangeng.

I’ve been thinking about amnesia for a while now. I only came up with a distinction between microamnesia and macroamnesia five days ago. I made up the term mesoamnesia the next day. And I coined nanoamnesia two days ago - even though I’ve had it for years.

As recently as this summer, in fact, when I was assuming I would vote for Trump.

If microamnesia is when an individual changes their stance and forgets their previous one -

If mesoamnesia is when a whole people changes their stance and forgets their previous one -

If macroamnesia is when a whole people forgets who they were -

then nanoamnesia is when an individual holds contradictory stances and forgets one when they’re in the mode for the other.

I’ve opposed the convid fake-cines for years now. Yet for most of that time I was expecting to vote for Trump, the father of the fake-cine! I knew about Operation Warp Speed. Who didn’t? I had no excuse. I just chose to forget about it when the topic of voting came up. I had compartmentalized convid and politics.

I don’t have time to explain why, but for now I will quote Lawrence Dunegan’s recollection of what Richard Day said in 1969 (emphasis mine):

Somewhere in the presentation he made two statements […]

One statement: "People can carry in their minds and act upon two contradictory ideas at one time, provided that these two contradictory ideas are kept far enough apart."

And the other statement is, "You can know pretty well how rational people are going to respond to certain circumstances or to certain information that they encounter. So, to determine the response you want you need only control the kind of data or information that they're presented or the kinds of circumstance that they're in; and being rational people they'll do what you want them to do. They may not fully understand what they're doing or why."

I will explain how “two contradictory ideas are kept far enough apart” in my next post. The short answer is infocontrol.

Trump supporters are infocontrolled. Everything they consume is curated so that they never put two and two together.

I’ll close with a grotesque failure of addition. I spent years in Alt Right Dissident Right circles filled with guys obsessed with Jews and Israel.

Guess who they supported for president.

“The best friend Israel has ever had in the White House,” in the words of Netanyahu, the man they might hate more than almost anyone else.

And vice president?

♥ANCE, who said, “If you’re going to punch the Iranians, you punch them hard.”

Those guys eat up political news. They know what Orange Jesus and JD said. But they forgot it when they went to vote.

And they, the supporters of Zionists, would hate me if they knew I quoted (gasp!) and even respected (onoz!) Jews here. Oh, and I like Jerry Seinfeld too. (President Seinfeld, a.k.a., Zelenskyy? NO.) Pure evil, that’s me.

But who voted for hyper-Zionists? Them. Not me.

Who voted for the father of the fake-cine? Them. Not me.

I voted for Trump twice. Two times too many. Never again.

No more amnesia for me.

No more cope.

Consistency, not CONservativism.

No more serving conmen!