Stereotypes

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[UPDATE: While finishing this post and working on the last few sentences I started hearing someone's voice in my apartment.  I couldn't make out the words but was given the impression someone intended to influence what I was writing.  That was accompanied by muscle spasms in my back, loss of circulation in my feet and toes (they became cold to the touch), and a little more effort needed to breathe.  I rewrote the last few sentences of this post 2 more times to make sure the words were mine.  During that time the effects I noted above continued to build.  Will keep trying to describe and explain them on this blog.  In the meantime here's one way to mitigate and stop it from having an effect - Mitigating an invisible but physical force on Schizophrenia Playbook]  

   Culture and society are littered with stereotypes that hang on to existence no matter how inaccurate or fictional they are.

   One in particular has helped move countless movie plots but hardly achieved more than mocking laughter and derision in the real world.

   You're probably way ahead of me and pictured the stereotype already:

• Unkempt hair, little or no personal grooming, wearing wrinkled clothes that were slept in.
• Wild, unstable personality lacking in basic social skills.
• Minimal to no technical knowledge or background but still attempting to scientifically explain all kinds of perceived problems.

   Have you every wondered why this stereotype is so well known and easily recognized?

   Like other answers offered here it should exist in plain sight.

   What leads to someone apparently turning the stereotype into their reality is:

• The reaction a person has when the unconscious part of their mind perceives it's being attacked by something the conscious part of their mind doesn't perceive.
• One of  the possible end results that occurs as the:
• Unconscious tries to raise one red flag after another to signal an alarm to the conscious
• Conscious tries to cope with, make sense of, and understand that an attack is going on that it doesn't directly perceive.
• As long as the conscious part of the mind doesn't raise a white flag this cycle continues.
• Should the conscious part of the mind and the unconscious be on good terms:
• Not having reason to distrust each other
• Not having reason to give up on the other with one part taking more control over the whole mind to try and resolve the situation
• Then 'time is the only thing that separates us' explains that eventually the mind will reach awareness and find a solution
• Should both parts of the mind not be on good terms it's impossible to know what happens next.  But history can provide more than enough examples for an overall picture.

   As long as whatever initially was perceived as an attack is gone the mind can figure out what needs to be understood and be fine.

   If that's not the case or the attack is taken up again... things can get much worse.  To simplify a description of this let's call the source of the attack an "enemy".  It might be an oversimplification but if an attack was launched twice it most likely wasn't from a friend.  And a true enemy wouldn't attack someone then exit the battle to forget it ever happened.  If they thought they'd won there would be a celebration.  If they thought a mortal wound had been inflicted they 'd watch to see it run it's course.  Either way, a source of information is required.

   In the unlucky event that one part of the person's mind refused to stop raising red flags and the other part of their mind refused to raise a white flag, then the cycle might continue out of sheer stubbornness.  And if that cycle became outwardly visible and made it's way to an enemy what naturally happens next is:

• An enemy should of course learn everything they can about the situation, looking for weaknesses.
• An enemy should of course actively probe for weaknesses to know where to focus effort next.
• An enemy should of course take these things and create a feedback loop to increase the damage and make it the fault of the person being attacked.

   When done with planning, execution, and organization, the person being attacked should collapse under the weight of more than just the one stereotype.

   That last statement is actually backwards...

   There doesn't need to be any careful planning, coordinated execution, or recognizable organization to attack someone in this way.

   It still can work just as well.