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You've all heard tales of the face of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the Pope, or maybe even Trump, showing up on the surface of a potato, on a burnt piece of toast, or even a kumquat or some other odd fruit, implying their likeness.
Then, when you actually see such a manifestation, you wonder how in the hell anyone could mistake some weird burn mark, growth malformity, or whatnot for the face of any human, let alone Jesus, Mary, or Trump.
But there 'ya have it.
People love to manufacture reality from non-reality. And they do this with little provocation. If the potato has some sort of malformation, it is easy enough to push that into looking like a nose, a mouth, a cheek, then voila, it's Jesus!! (or Trump!) They aren't lying when they tell you that is what they see. They honestly see it. They would stake their life on it.
Sometimes, you may see it, too. Especially if they explain it
, "See how this part of the potato turns up, and this little black mark here makes that turn up look like a nose," "Oh yeah," you might say,
"It does look like a nose." The more information you get about how the potato should look like something in particular, the more you are apt to believe it, and then see it the same way the person explaining it sees it.
Particularly if you like the person who first shows it to you. And most certainly if that person is in the "mainstream," or has a whole gaggle of folks around them who see Jesus' face on the potato as well.All of us are familiar with the
Solomon Asch Conformity Line Experiment Study, which consisted of
"experiments by Solomon Asch designed to investigate how social pressure from a majority group could influence an individual to conform." These experiments have been referenced again and again in an effort to show what is probably happening in the world today.
The "group" that influences all others to see the world a particular way is the "mainstream" group — the massive group of people who swear by whatever narrative is being blabbed out by mainstream media. We, on the other side of this, continually wonder why the mainstream is consistently blabbering out untruths, lies and "non-facts."
Of course, the irony of all this is that the side believing the mainstream is saying that we are doing the same thing — following an alt-stream media that is blabbering lies, untruths, and "non-facts"!
Do you know how to tell the difference?
Comment: Despite the citation of a less-than-stellar example of social media manipulation, Malone raises excellent points. Social media users be awake and aware!