Demoralization Campaign's Assault On Men, 70+ Years In the Roll-out

I talked with my husband this morning about the “demoralization campaign” staged against America.

It’s been used in essentially every regime change process in the world.

Evident even in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

We were talking about this in the context of what has been happening to men in the last few decades; a sort of assault on men. 

I thought it had started first against black men, in the 70’s. When movies like Shaft came out. To me, that was a cultural component of the demoralization campaign primarily targeting “African-American” men.

Candyce Owens at Turning Point USA is doing a brilliant job of raising awareness on this issue.

(As a side note, I believe that one day Candyce will become President of the United States. She is definitely someone worth watching, and learning from.)

I thought perhaps the demoralization campaign has been in operation for about 40 years, affecting 3 generations.

He disagreed. He said there were indicators of it even back in the 50’s. (Before I was born, but well within his personal memory. :) )

He puts the length of this campaign as at least 70 years. Affecting about 5 generations, maybe 6.

Values, Attitudes And Behavior

When I taught at the 17^th Air Force Leadership School in the 80’s, we taught our students about the differences of values, attitudes and behavior.

At that time, the US Air Force was at the leading edge of how to successfully integrate people from a wide range of backgrounds into a cohesive harmonized group.

During the 80’s, many large corporations were actually studying the Air Force model to try to build better cooperation and collaboration within their companies. The companies that Forbes listed over the years as companies of excellence, with high satisfaction and productivity among their employees, were companies that had adopted the Air Force model.

Right now, you may not see this so much, but that is because the contract media has been deep into a demoralization campaign for several decades. Mainstream media does not reflect reality.

During that time the military was still early in the process of integrating women into the force. I was at the front edge of that process. I was often the first woman that the men had to work with, and I can attest to the fact that they struggled to make that adjustment.

Real racism was still an issue back then, too.

The Air Force did some research and discovered that it is difficult to influence a person’s attitude.

It’s almost impossible and not worth the effort to try to change a person’s values. But, you can have what is called “standards of behavior” required.

The reason for this is that people’s self-identities are tied to their values, and to some degree to their attitudes. When you try to change someone in a way that they self-identify, it triggers their survival mechanisms, and they resist the change.

Or to phrase it in way used in pharmacy terms, they become antagonistic to the efforts to change them.

The Air Force decided to bypass trying to change a person’s values or attitudes and instead focused on the behaviors. The decision to focus on behavior essentially solved the integration problem for the Air Force.

People could feel or think whatever they wanted, as long as that didn’t show up in their behaviors in the work place.

This is essentially the gist of professionalism.

A way of behaving that allows smooth, harmonious interactions in the workforce.

The natural result is that as people worked more harmoniously together, their attitudes and values shifted to be more respectful of each other.

A couple of rules of thumb came from this research.

• Praise in public. Criticize in private. (To mitigate triggering the brain’s survival mechanisms.)
• When counseling, focus on the behavior, not the person. (Which would include their attitudes and values.)

Patterns In Human Behavior

While there are basic human patterns in human behavior, the way each person is wired inside themselves is unique.

In addition to cultural differences, and differences in the stages of culture a person is operating at, there are also personality differences, communication style differences, temperament differences, and differences in the ways we access information, different learning styles, and so on.

In the 80’s we taught the MaslowHierarchy of Needs.

The idea was that people progressed through the levels as the basic need of each was met, culminating at Self-Actualization.

This is a model, and models, like maps, are tools. They can help us better understand and navigate ourselves and our lives.

Another useful model, is Spiral Dynamics. It’s a group dynamics model. One of the best out there, in my opinion.

Very informative.

In this image you can easily see the relationship of the Maslow Model to the Spiral Dynamic Model

(I prefer the model before Ken Wilber got a hold of it and merged it with his Integral System.)

It’s a curious anomaly; the more you understand and accept yourself, the more understanding and accepting you can be of others.

One critical component of the companies that were able nurture a Stage 5 culture is that they made it very easy for people to learn more about themselves.

They worked with much better models of understanding basic human behavior than companies operating at the other Stages.

There are tons of free tools for learning and understanding more about yourself, and human nature, in general.

Any one can do this, if they want.

Another Example Of Living From The Inside-out

Another example of of how we all live from inside-out comes from my early days in the Air Force.

There was a sign in the shop I worked in, kinda like the memes that people used to fax before, and as they are now shared on Twitter, or Facebook.

It showed a person at the base gate asking, “What’s this base like?”

The answer was a question, “What was the last base you were at like?”

The guy at the gate responded, and was told, “That’s what’s it like here, too.”

I remember reading that cartoonish sign and being a bit perplexed as to it’s point?

I didn’t have enough life experience at that point to grasp it’s meaning.

Maybe it was the shop supervisor who clued me in on it’s meaning.

I’m curious and always asking questions.

It’s a basic observation of human behavior.

Decades later, when I ran my own business, I used this understanding in my interview process,

“Tell me what your last job was like?”

A very effective question in determining if the person was going to be someone I wanted to hire.

Where ever you go, there you are.

The Center Of Life

Life is very interesting in that somehow, in all forms of life, from a microbe, to a spider, to a whale to a human, every one experiences life as if they are the center of the universe.

People talk about narcissism, or ego, but the fact is, the perception that we are the center of our lives, is hardwired into all lifeforms. I find this fascinating and curious.

There is a mathematical construct beneath this that I would like to understand better.

An artifact of this is that most people think and feel that the way they experience the world is the way everyone else experiences the world.

There are common patterns to be sure, but the assumption that I think this way, therefore it IS this way is not really accurate.

Because I’ve done a lot different jobs in my life, and have lived in many different places, I’ve been able to see how the same patterns repeat in various spaces.

Or maybe, I’m just wired this way. When I was a kid I had more fun organizing my toys than playing with my toys. I was always sorting by different patterns.

I’ll offer an example of what I’m talking about from when I worked as a pharmacy tech in a retail pharmacy.

There was this very bizarre requirement from the corporate level that the pharmacists were to always say that the script would be ready in 5 minutes. Which is unrealistic. But, the pharmacists did what they were told.

The reason why the corporate level had this bizarre requirement probably came from some MBA fresh out of school, with lots of book smarts and no real world experience. It was goals oriented. Which often loses sight of “effectiveness.” Goals are easy to measure, effectiveness, not so easy.

The result was that people stood around waiting because they thought their script would be done in 5 minutes.

However, most of the time it was put in a queue of the scripts ahead of it and on a good day would take at least 15 minutes.

So, customers would hang out in front the of the pharmacy waiting for their script and getting increasing impatient in their energy, because they had been told it would be 5 minutes.

There’s this thing called the 2 minute rule. I remember learning about this when I was teaching leadership while in the Air Force. I’ve heard and seen this applied in all sorts of ways.

True to the 2 minute rule, the customer would realize at about 13 minutes, this is taking longer than 5 minutes and I may as well go take care of something, and leave.

This was frustrating the pharmacists to no end. They felt that people were hovering and glaring at them while they were working. And when the script was finally ready, the customer was no longer there.

After watching this a bit, and seeing the level of stress and tension building and building in the pharmacists. And this is a fairly common reaction among pharmacists which I’ll explain in a bit.

I pulled them aside and suggested a few things to help them better understand the situation.

I suggested that they ignore company policy and tell people the truth. If it will be 15 minutes before the script is done, tell them it will be 15 minutes. If the queue is so huge that’s it’s going to be 45 minutes, tell them it will be 45 minutes.

The truth is actually more respectful to the customer. Every one lives busy lives and and feels stretched for time. No one enjoys waiting unnecessarily.

I also explained that the customers waiting in front of the pharmacy was not thinking at all about the pharmacist. They were thinking about what they were going to make for dinner, or the argument they had with a co-worker that day, or what they need to do next on their to do list, and so on.

People live in the center of their lives.

A lot of people spend an enormous amount of time, energy and focus judging against something that is simply human nature. It’s not good or bad, it just IS.

Lots of suffering comes from resisting what IS.

It’s not effective to try to fight reality, it’s much more effective to work with it.

I remember reading this adage once, and it’s spot on.

Don’t worry about what people are thinking about you, because they’re not.

QAnon

Politics and QAnon

Another rough draft: Section of Confessions of a New Age Christian

Confessions of a New Age Christian

“When science begins to experiment with non physical phenomena it will make more progress in a decade than all it’s previous centuries combined.” -Nikola Tesla

When I was around tens years old I had an obscure experience that seemed like nothing at the time, and yet, in retrospect, looking back as an adult, I now see was a turning point for me. A tiny experience that in the long term changed my whole world view.

In a bit I will share with you the story of this experience but before I do I want to share with you something else I noticed from that same time frame.

You see, it was also around the age of ten that I began telling anyone who would listen – Shoot, I even told people who wouldn’t listen. I repeated over and over, to everyone, (I was nearly obnoxious about this, lol), 

“In the future, science and mathematics would prove the existence of the soul.”

I was adamant about this.

I knew the truth of this statement down to the depths of my bones. It was an unshakable belief and understanding. At ten years old!?!

It wasn’t until I was well into my forties, as an adult, reflecting back on my life, that I made the connection. Maybe my newfound certain belief and understanding that science and mathematics would prove the existence of the soul when I was ten was in some way related to the obscure experience that happened around the same time.

Life happens that way, you know. 

As a child we take things in without really questioning them. Most everything we experience seems “normal” to us, because we haven’t yet learned how to step out of our experiences and reflect upon them. That happens later in our development, when we and our brains have matured more.

I’m sure that you have noticed simple patterns in your life. Experiences that you had as a child that you didn’t necessarily notice at the time.  Yet, later in life took on more meaning, as you remembered those experiences from a different and more mature perspective.

I find this is so. 

Nearly everyone I talk to, when I ask them, remember odd experiences from their childhood. Experiences that aren’t neatly explained by the boxes of our current mainstream culture. When I first start talking with people, they are hesitant to remember these experiences. Or if they remember them, they are hesitant to talk openly about them. 

This is changing though … more and more, people are becoming comfortable with themselves, their whole selves, not just the bits and pieces that fit into the culturally acceptable boxes of our past

Go ahead, think about those times, right now.

Jot down what comes to your mind in the journal I suggested you start back in Chapter 1. Pop on over to my website or any of my social media channels and share these stories if you want. (See the links to these in Appendix B)

Come along with me on this journey of self-discovery, self-appreciation and self-understanding. Remember you matter.

Renaissance Humanity: Chapter Outline (Draft)

I apologize for my delay in getting back to this.  There was a death in the family and this has temporarily turned my attention elsewhere.  It'll be a while before I get back here.

However, to pique your curiosity, I thought I'd leave a rough draft outline of the chapters for Renaissance Humanity.  (This is for a friend, because he asked... )

Chapter 1:  Where Have All The Creative Culturists Gone?
(Setting the premise.)

Chapter 2:  Rosebud, Whisper Thy Name
(Some history, or herstory, lol... )

Chapter 3:  Confessions of a New Age Christian
(Bridging the extremes)

Chapter 4:  The Gatekeeper Within
(Will, consciousness, brain, objective mind)

Chapter 5:  Metamorphosis in Action
(Maserati metaphor, After the healing; creation.)

Chapter 6:  The Language of a Culture
(Includes personal theory on education)

Chapter 7:  Synarchy, The Politics of Universal Consciousness

Chapter 8:  Holy Cow, I Love Your Eyes
(The power of perception)

Chapter 9:  Listening Within 
(Dancing the Silence)

Chapter 10:  Small is Beautiful
(Ecology of a Human Economy, Human Scale)

Chapter 11:  WTF is Infinite Intelligence
(The Anatomy of DNA Intelligence, Nature Intelligence ...)

Chapter 12:  Vi Na, Where Do We Go From Here, ... You Decide

Bear in mind this is a work of creative non-fiction.

And since I'm eclectic, this work will also be eclectic.

And fun.

There are repeating sections at the end of each chapter that allows for interactivity and personal experimentation with the ideas presented.  To test the ideas out against your own personal experience.

I tentatively plan 3 Appendix sections, too, along with footnotes and a bibliography. 

Mockingbird Media

I have a confession to make.  

Last year I didn't follow the election much.

I had a lot on my plate and really didn't feel supportive of either of the main candidates.  I thought the election was already rigged in Hillary Clinton's favor.  And therefore, not much our votes would do. 

I figured that whoever won the election won.  And I would deal with the fallout of it, once it happened.  And kept my nose to the grindstone of several projects I was working on during that time.  I completely missed all the hate-fest of the election cycle.  And was probably much happier for it, too.

I knew a lot of people who were going to vote for Trump.  And I understood their reasoning.  But I didn't feel good enough about Trump to support him with a vote.
Come election day, I didn't vote for anyone on the ballot for President.  Even though this was tantamount to throwing my vote away, I decided to write in Rand Paul.  He wasn't even qualified.

Rand Paul ran on the platform of Audit the Fed.  And I feel very strongly that we cannot truly address the hi-jacking of our government if we do not take a serious look the Federal Reserve.  And all the central banks for that matter.

I wanted to put it out there in the universe in some way, to take that stand. Let's reign in the whole central bank control system. 

A few days after the election, we were contacted by a family member asking us for help with their daughter. ...

Where Have All The Creative Culturists Gone?

“It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.”

                                                                                – A.A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh

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No one tells you this.

You're not taught this in school.  You're not taught this in church, in university, in our modern culture, but it's vital to know, especially now.

Reality is fluid.

Once you get this, everything changes.

Oh sure, everyone dances around the edges of it, but no one truly dives in and explores the full ramifications of just what this means. There's a reason for this, which I'll talk about later. For now, let's just call it as it is in simple terms.

Reality is fluid.

Reality is fluid and infinite.

Reality is so much larger than our conscious mind can manage. The part of our mind that we’re aware of is our conscious mind. But that part of our mind is only a tiny sliver of our whole mind. I call every thing that we are not consciously aware of the OTC Mind, Outside-The-Conscious Mind. It’s also referred to as the non-local mind or the subconscious mind.

Keep this in mind as we go forward and I use the term, OTC Mind.

We don’t really know how our mind’s work. We know even less how consciousness works. Even less of how our OTC Mind works. And for all of the studies on biology. We still don’t even know how to define Life.(footnote khalidi book) But the consensus among every day people is that consciousness and life somehow go hand and hand. They appear to be related to each other in some way.

When I talk about how reality is fluid I am thinking in terms of plasma. Plasma dynamics. How fire and water work. The way each moves. Like liquid plastic each morph in shape. When it comes to water, you could say the container determines the shape. With recent discoveries into how our universe is electric(footnote Thunderbolts Project), in addition to chemical and mechanical, every day world scientists are just now beginning to explore the nature of a plasmic universe.

The stuff outside of earth’s atmosphere that I remember learning in school was supposed to be a vacuum, is not a vacuum. It’s full of energetic particles, an electro-magnetic soup. Plasma. Fluid.

(Description) Frederick Douglas the 19th century … one said that it takes about 200 years for humanity to catch up with it’s discoveries.(footnote-biography)

I remember reading this as a kid and thinking to myself, “ What would a world look like, what would a world be like, when it has caught up with Einstein’s Theory of Relativity?” I had not yet know anything about Quantum Mechanics.(hyper-link to QM site)

What I was aware of though was that there is a difference between our perception of reality and reality.

It took many more years for me to understand that when I asked myself that question, I wasn’t really asking about the world. I was asking about the culture of humanity. What would the human culture be like when people caught up with Einstein and later Feynman and lived from an inherent understanding of the Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. And now, the emerging science of Quantum Biology. (footnote)

There’s a difference between having an intellectual understanding, which happens in stages, and living from an inherent, visceral, embodied understanding. Visceral knowing, deep knowledge, comes from application of intellectual knowledge. We could do a lot better applying these scientific principles in our lives. And if fact, we will do better. Because of the times in which we live.(footnote/link to explanation of the spirit of the time) We have an opportunity to quantum jump our selves and humanity as a whole into a state that resembles more closely that of Carl Jung and Abraham Maslow’s concepts of actualization(footnote/link), rather than mere survival of our bodies.

First, let’s recognize that opportunity. It does exist.

Then, let’s decide … how we will respond to the opportunity.

This is both an individual and a collective decision. Refusing to see the opportunity is itself a decision. Delaying the decision, is a decision. Making no decision is a decision. And, for each unique human, there is no right or wrong decision. This is not a moral choice before us. It is simply a choice.

However, how you decide, how I decide, how we decide, determines the future we will be born into.(link to article) There are results to our choices. And it for this reason that it’s important to clearly see what I’m talking about, it has effect. Period.

There’s a good chance that you have been responding to this choice for a good long while now. Maybe you call it voting with your dollars? Voting with how you choose to eat? Voting with how you choose to spend your time? Voting with the way you treat others?

At the end of the day, all decisions are essentially voting. When a person votes they are exercising the ability to decide. When you make a decision. Any decision. No decision. You are voting.

An interesting phenomenon that became apparent to some researchers back in the 90’s, at least it’s interesting to me, was the emergence of what researchers Paul H Ray and …. Called Cultural Creatives.(Footnote/link)

Brief summary description of theis discovery. Include this quote in some way

“Imagine a country the size of France suddenly sprouting in the middle of the United States.”

“Culture” is an interesting concept. It’s become a buzz word since 2014, (Note to self, look for the research article on this)

One of the best way of understanding culture comes from looking at Bruce Lipton’s work as he describes it in “The Biology of Belief” (Note to self, turn this into a story, Bruce’s story, or my story … yes … my story of how I discovered Bruce Lipton. The dreams all night long. Try to find this in my journal if I can, to get the dates and details right.

If you have been voting with your dollars, your food choices, your time choices, and your attitude, value and action choices, then you are probably a Cultural Creative. Here’s an insight from Paul H Ray and …. That you may find interesting.

Changing the culture…. Quote in prologue of book (footnote)

Later I will share with you a brief history of how certain factions within our culture seem to hijack these natural emerging movements of people. Very often this is done through the tactics and strategies of advertising, marketing, and media manipulation.

When the researchers of cultural creatives wrote their book, they did so in hope that cultural creatives would become aware of themselves and each other. This emerging nation within a nation, global culture within a global culture, was not self-aware. The traditional idea of movements is that they have leaders inspiring and guiding the masses at a grass-roots level. The research of …. Indicated that this natural movement of people did not have someone at the helm orchestrating it and steering it into expression. It was truly and genuinely a grassroots movement, springing forth from the consciousness of humanity.

The fact of the existence of the vast silent movement of humanity has stayed with me over the years. There is something very powerful about this phenomen that calls me to revisit it from time to time.

When I recently looked up Cultural Creatives I discovered that the concept had been hijacked by the advertising, marketing, and media communities. It’s now referred to via an (acronym marketers use to describe cultural creatives). And if I ask people on the street if they are familiar with the idea, I discover that people are not.

Like so many emerging movements of the past, the Cultural Creatives movement has been hijacked and steered for commercial interests. Except, the cultural creatives really haven’t gone anywhere. They are still here. We are still here. Quietly and silently changing our culture from within the culture.

Hello, it’s nice to meet you. I’m extending my hand for a hand shake. Let’s become aware of who we are, and know we are many. Millions of us, in the nineties have become billions of us in this decade. We were approximately one -third of the US population in the 90’s. I can only imagine how many we are now.

We are more than a marketing label.

We are very human. W holistically and synergetically, HUMAN.

And we share common values, ideals, and principles.

(Summary of what the researchers discovered in the 90’s.)

The more we learn about ourselves. The more we learn about our bodies, the human body, the human instrument. The more we learn that we are a community of intelligences, trillions of cellular and microbial intelligences working in cooperation together.(footnote on Microbiome stuff). A synergy of being, in which the elements of our human instrument become something entirely different and more that the mere parts of it, if separated from the whole.

We can take the analogy of what we learning about ourselves as individual beings and apply the ideas to Humanity as a whole. When we do this,

Humanity is a work in progress, an evolution of consciousness, expressed through our human instruments. While we may consider the constraints of our biology rigid, it is more like the banks of a river, or the shape of a vessel, through which the water of life flows.

We are that which flows, not merely that which contains the flow. Or perhaps we are both. The container and the energy. Our lives are the dance between the two.

What feels important to me to understand from the Spirit of OUR Time is that there is a larger Being of Humanity that flows through Humanity as a whole. We/It have an evolution on a collective level just as we do on unique individual levels. It is a synergy of the parts to whole.

If you apply the ideas and principles of Carl Jung and Abraham Maslows principles of self-actualization, then you could say that right now, Humanity is experiencing various states of transition from being driven by base biological needs for survival and moving into the state where the primary drive is self-actualization.

This flow of Human evolution cannot be stopped. Trying to control this flow of consciousness evolving would be like our pinky trying to dictate the action of our body.

Trying to control the flow of the evolution of our consciousness isn’t working and the attempt to do so is the underlying cause of much of the unresolved issues and problems we are facing in our global culture right now.

(Renaissance Humanity.  Very first rough draft of the beginning of Chapter 1 - Where Have All The Creative Culturists Gone?  Messy, huh?  

The intent of the first draft is to simply write, don't stop for spelling corrections, notes, ect... it's to empty the initial thought process onto the page, like a messy blob of clay.  This is the initial material from which the writing process, the craft of writing emerges.  It's perfectly okay to be messy.  It'll be interesting to see how this eventually turns out, through all the editing processes.)

Prologue

Prologue

The future enters into us … long before it happens. ~ Rainier Maria Rilke

The Last Time I Remember Seeing Him

I’m standing atop a concrete wall. My tiny bare toes curled over the edge. Looking across a paved lot. The air was luminescent, glowing with light. Just like it always is when the light beings visit me.

I’m wearing a flannel granny gown with a ruffle trim that comes to just above my ankles. It, too, is glowing. When the light beings visit every thing glows.

This is why I call them light beings. Because when they come for me, every thing reflects light. Even the air.

I’m in my pajamas because it’s sometime in the middle of the night.

The light being standing next to me is very tall. As I look to my left, I can see his knees and his pale light glowing skin. He wears a robe that comes to just above his knees.

He is holding my hand to ensure I don’t fall off the edge of the concrete wall. He is so tall he has to bend downward toward me because my arms will not reach high enough to hold his hand otherwise.

This will be the last time I ‘see’ him. It’s a sort of good-bye visit.

He wants me to remember something.

It is very important to him that I remember what he is telling me.

He is pointing across the lot to a white neon-like sign. Bright white. Radiant.

For the longest time, this is all I can remember from this visit.

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The Future Enters Into Us ... Long Before It Happens.

The Future Enters In Us ... Long Before It Happens.  

Rainier Maria Rilke.

The above quote has been sitting on my desk since sometime in the nineties.  I think about this idea every day.

I'm a work in progress.  We all are really.

One of the best things you can do for yourself is to become friends with your future self.

Imagine Future Humanity, reaching back now, into our present.  And guiding us into our highest noblest expression.

All the wisdom traditions of the sages share an understanding of how Infinite Intelligence speaks to us.

Through the wind.

Through signs in the sky.

She is We.

OUR Future

The Wave

The 'breakdown' of the 'globalist new world order initiative' has long been forecast as 'unleashing' a huge wave of 'creativity', and 'sparking' a 'global renaissance'.

clif high ALTA Report Feb 2017, p10

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I was one of those kids who saw weird visions.

By this, I mean around the age of 3 - 4.
After a while, I somehow managed to turn off the visions, so I could function in the mundane world.
I blocked what I saw from my memory. I honestly don't remember them now.
But, I've lived with the knowledge of them my whole life. It's made me odd to say the least.
It's a part of my beautiful weirdness.

Even now, when I ask my Mom about the visions I used to tell her about when I was a kid, she gets uncomfortable. 
She'll say, "They were disturbing." And won't tell me any more.
Because of my knowing, I have a sense of what they were about, and can understand why she would find them disturbing.
A key element though, that she has confirmed for me was "the wave".
I've been inherently curious to try to understand this for as long as I can remember.
 

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Welcome

Heya,

Thanks for popping by.

Here's a cool thing I discovered about Blogger.  It sits here and doesn't go away for as long as Google is.  I did an initial post back in 2009 that has simply stayed there even when I did nothing with this blog for years.  (I've updated this post to serve as a welcome post on 16 May 2017.)

I've returned to write about philosophy and current events.  Lot's been happening lately, that has me thinking... lol.

Welcome to this quiet corner.  And if you feel.  Join me in thinking, too.

When people think together for the greater good of humanity, interesting things happen. 

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