It Seems a Major Segment of Americans got THE STOCKHOLM SYNDROME

[opihimoimoi]

Some of us are Prisoners and don't even know it.

The Masters give us Pain and Misery....and we not only take it...some have learned to LIKE IT...Social Masichism?

Control...its all about CONTROL/DOMINATION....to THEIR END no less...we being the sheep led to OBEDIENCE provides the Fruits for THEM...and the crumbs ....of course, left for the rest of us to scrap over....

Where is the Solution? The Therapist? To reverse this ....this...National Condition?

Learn to Yearn for the Cure...the Challenge is to HEAL, to SOLVE, all that impinges our Human Advancement

[NYC_SKP]

1. This is true. Mass brainwashing, mass consumption, give us low gas prices.

Nothing else matters to far too many people. We've given up the concepts of freedom and participatory government. We just want more stuff and we want it cheaper.

:shrug:

[opihimoimoi]

4. Have we been TAUGHT to be SPOILED? While being Raped? Evidence strongly suggests

this is so.

The Dumbing Down of America achied its intended Purpose...Keep us stupid and they shall rule

If Ya can Fool...Ya can RULE

[NYC_SKP]

10. "The Century of the Self", a great BBC documentary. Watch pt. 4.

Episode four illustrates how political campaigns adopted the tactics of sales departments to sway voters.

It's available at the internet archive. I HIGHLY recommend watching it, at least part 4 from about 35 minutes on.

http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisCenturyoftheSelfPart4of4_0

Download the MPEG4 file and watch at your convenience. I'd be interested in hearing what you think if you get to watch it.

NYC_SKP :hi:

snippet from description of episode 4:

Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
Thursday 2 May 7pm-8pm

This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and fulfil the inner desires of the self.

Both New Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, used the focus group, which had been invented by psychoanalysts, in order to regain power. They set out to mould their policies to people's inner desires and feelings, just as capitalism had learnt to do with products.

Out of this grew a new culture of public relations and marketing in politics, business and journalism. One of its stars in Britain was Matthew Freud who followed in the footsteps of his relation, Edward Bernays, the inventor of public relations in the 1920s.

The politicians believed they were creating a new and better form of democracy, one that truly responded to the inner feelings of individual. But what they didn't realise was that the aim of those who had originally created these techniques had not been to liberate the people but to develop a new way of controlling them.

:hi:

[Joanne98]

2. True. They're raped day after day and STILL they defend their abusers.

It's pathetic!

[opihimoimoi]

5. The Therapists often tell us this is EXPECTED in these kinds of situations

Usually they speak on an INDIVIDUAL LEVEL....

The contention here:::: is it TRUE for a GROUP LEVEL??

If we dare to look....IT IS.....IT IS......

[polichick]

3. Apparently too many Americans need to hit rock bottom.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Pain usually elicits an analysis...taliking stock...looking in the mirror , etc

With improved Vision...some will awaken and seek ways to ESCAPE the GOP's Mental Prison...hopefully...forever

Its one of the First Steps toward REAL FREEDOM....

[depakid]

6. It's learned helplessness

People in some nations when they've had enough, will call a general strike, and just shut the country down.

Tends to get the government's and the corporations' attentions.

[opihimoimoi]

8. Call in Mme DeFarge...lol ..."To The Bastille"

Real Leaders are RARE....OBama has some of the SIGNS

[depakid]

9. I'm hoping there are some of those DeFrage's around...

and that there'll be a reckoning.

I agree- Obama does have some of the signs- but most of all, he's inspirational. We don't see that come along very often, and no doubt he'd help rehabilitate America's image around the world.

[opihimoimoi]

11. He might well be the Guy to bring about the Global Solutions desperately needed

one thing at a time.....