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Telegraph -- Like baboons, our elected leaders are literally addicted to power
'Submissiveness and dominance have their effects on the same reward circuits of the brain as power and cocaine. Baboons low down in the dominance hierarchy have lower levels of dopamine in key brain areas, but if they get ‘promoted’ to a higher position, then dopamine rises accordingly. This makes them more aggressive and sexually active, and in humans similar changes happen when people are given power. What’s more, power also makes people smarter, because dopamine improves the functioning of the brain’s frontal lobes. Conversely, demotion in a hierarchy decreases dopamine levels, increases stress and reduces cognitive function. But too much power – and hence too much dopamine – can disrupt normal cognition and emotion, leading to gross errors of judgment and imperviousness to risk, not to mention huge egocentricity and lack of empathy for others.' -- Political power is the dizziness of loss aversion.
dopamine  addiction  psychology  psychopathology  sociopathy  power  politics 
23 hours ago by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Exclusive Interview: Jeffrey Berwick [Daily Bell: What is your take on Ron Paul?]
'...the US is bankrupt and on the verge of complete collapse. If the US government defaults by going bankrupt and refusing to pay its debts we would see turmoil and a deflationary depression that would make the 1930s look like Disneyland. Granted, if the government stayed out of the way it would be a brief, harsh depression... but it would be so dramatic and terrifying to most people that they'd likely call for the most dictatorial of all politicians to "fix it" which would only make it go from weeks or months to lasting years and decades. Alternatively, if they continue to print dollars to paper over the ongoing default then we will soon go into hyperinflation, which is even worse, and we could be headed for a few years, or more, of a Mad Max style environment in the US. In either case, I'd rather see someone like Obama sit there and be president when they have to announce there is no more Social Security and Medicaid or when the US dollar becomes worthless. My nightmare is that Ron Paul becomes president and a few months later the US collapses and the powers-that-be convince people that the reason it all collapsed was because of his free-market policies and we enter into a deeply dictatorial form of communism in the US.'
america  politics  government  delusion 
october 2011 by adamcrowe
The Archdruid Report -- Pluto's Republic
'If you want to influence the thinking of a nation, or even a community, you have to paint with a very broad brush. That means, first, you have to aim at one of a few powerful nonrational drives that affect most people in much the same way; second, you have to pile as much pressure as possible onto whatever drive you have in mind, so that you can overwhelm whatever the psyche of the individual might throw at you; and third, you have to weaken the reasoning mind, because that’s the part of the self that most often trips up efforts to work magic off basic drives, especially when those efforts aim at goals that most of the targets think are against their best interests. Political thaumaturgy ... relies on mass media, and relies on repetition and compelling verbal or visual patterns that sidestep the critical faculties of the reasoning mind. ...the political thaumaturge is always affected by his or her own magic. ...you can’t spend your time creating words and images that appeal to the nonrational mind without your own nonrational mind being influenced by them, and the more compelling your thaumaturgy is, the more surely you will be caught by your own spell. ...it’s par for the course for political thaumaturges to end up as true believers in their own propaganda...'
magick  sophistry  politics  propaganda  projectiveidentification  puppetry  sociopathy  psychopathy  psychology 
october 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Blame Republicans for the Depression
'The great central banking families that want one world government seem to be driving the West toward bankruptcy in order to get their way. Yes, perhaps the economic degeneration will not cease until global governance is achieved. People will be forced to cry out in grief and pain, accepting the political, monetary, military and judicial centralization... They will be driven toward one world government like beasts herded toward an abattoir. Is there some other explanation that makes sense? This economic system with all its dysfunction and ruin is premeditated. It didn't just "evolve." There are central banks all over the world now, where 50 years ago there were not. Most of these report to the Swiss-based BIS. And what the heck is the BIS? Did you ever hear a news item about the BIS? Did you ever see a reporter standing in front of the BIS, explaining what was going on inside? The BIS may as well not exist. It is part and parcel of a system that does not explain itself...'
globalgovernment  oligarchicalcollectivism  fabianism  centralbanking  forcedmemes  politics  dialectics  puppetry  from delicious
september 2011 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1955 Sunday Show 17 July 2011 - On Politics (MP3)
"Politics is all about getting unmet needs met through the state. And the unmet needs are childhood needs. What people are really trying to do when they want political solutions is they are trying to avoid the pain of dealing with what was missing in their childhoods."
childhood  neglect  avoidance  ideology  politics  statism  StefanMolyneux  attachment  from delicious
august 2011 by adamcrowe
The Social Alter by Lloyd deMause
'...people first become hypervigilant and paranoid as catacholamine imbalances and serotonin depletion lead them to expect attack, then engage in sacrificial restaging rituals that are usually both sadistic – inflicting the trauma upon others – and masochistic – destroying your own wealth and even sacrificing your own lives. The result is a feeling of relief that we have survived the apocalypse in our heads plus a feeling of triumph produced by the manic opioid surge. Thus our early traumas become wired into separate emotional memory module and become projected onto the historical stage in such a manner that they appear to be happening to the group rather than being internal, creating group-fantasies so intense and compelling that they take on a life of their own, a life that is imagined as happening in a dissociated sphere called "society." These group-fantasies are dissociated and seem to have a life of their own, a life we term "social" or "political" or "religious."'
psychohistory  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  dissociation  repetitioncompulsion  reenactment  projection  ideology  politics  religion  groups  trance  fantasy  society  history  *  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
The Onion -- Fiscally I'm A Right-Wing Nutjob, But On Social Issues I'm Fucking Insanely Liberal
'It's all about striking a balance, really. I only wish there were more people out there as open-minded as I am.'
TheOnion  politics  statism  relativism  narcissism  unwarrantedselfimportance  satire  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: The State as Family
'Why it is so hard to get people to think rationally about the state?' -- "Your parents own the house, so you have to obey them, or leave. The government owns the country, and so you have to obey it, or leave. Don't you see the pattern? If you want to change the government, change the family. If you want a more peaceful society, have more peaceful families."
statism  government  family  politics  StefanMolyneux  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- TheAntiTerrorist on Government
"A laughable waste of time, effort, and energy."
government  politics  parasitism  protectionrackets  extortion  TheAntiTerrorist  from delicious
april 2011 by adamcrowe
AnonNews.org -- Comments for Divide And Conquer: The Union Protests In Wisconsin And Ohio Are Increasing The Hate Between The Left And The Right
Comment: Anon: 'lol left and right... every one want the same food, shelter and joy.... look at those overlords instead of looking to the left or the right. wtf is wrong with people.. they are above you look up spit them in te face.. so your on the right side and poor well lets take it from the left side his is poor but hey we suppose to hate them and visa versa.... and i'm just a 15 year old lol so manny dumb people in this world'
oligarchy  dialectics  politics  government  delusion  from delicious
march 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: The Truth About the Tax Cuts - Leeches, Parasites and the End of Us All
'Why no politician can ever talk about how government spending is going to be cut.'
economics  statism  parasitism  tax  politics  government  delusion  StefanMolyneux  from delicious
january 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: True News: 'No Place for Violence in our Political Discourse' ?!?!?
'It's hard to get upset with people who are so deluded...' -- "Politics is violence. Government is force. 'Laws' are violence. Prison is coercion. The police kidnap and imprison. National debts are theft from the unborn. Taxes are theft. Tariffs, regulations are all the initiation of force. The State is a monopoly agency for the initiation of force in a geographical area. The State is the very definition of violence. Government is exactly what people don't want to do because they have to be forced. Whatever someone is doing when they have a gun to their head, is exactly what they don't want to do."
statism  violence  government  delusion  politics  fantasy  denial  gulit  2+2=5  2+2=4  oldspeak  philosophy  StefanMolyneux  *  from delicious
january 2011 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1793 Sunday Show 21 November 2010 [Pathocracy] (MP3)
"The true purpose of power is to have huge vats of the population that you can vomit your own poison into rather than deal with it yourself."
mysterybabylon  psychohistory  childhood  abuse  trauma  projectiveidentification  power  politics  statism  pathocracy  StefanMolyneux  projection  selfattack  regression  poisoncontainer  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'(2) Martial Solution: If an external enemy can be found who will co-operate by humiliating the nation as they felt humiliated by their parents during childhood, this enemy can now be seen as the source of all their fears, and military action can be taken by the now-heroic leader in order to clear out the pollution and produce a rebirth of national strength and purpose. Wars are often preceded by apocalyptic growth panic movements, "Great Awakenings" and other end-of-the-world group-fantasies. The leader is split into two parts, and the "poison" part is projected into the "enemy" leader, who agrees to engage in a mutual humiliation ritual and then fight the cosmic battle between good and evil and "flush out" the nation's fears. The nation feels often enormous relief by the designation of the enemy, rather than being fearful of war's destructiveness. The finding of an external enemy as a poison container produces a burst of dopamine-filled euphoria.'
psychohistory  history  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  growthanxiety  sacrifice  democide  war  politics  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'(1) Regicidal Solution: If the leader fails to find an appropriate enemy, he himself can be designated as the enemy of the nation, and a ritual slaying is enacted, either by actual regicide or by throwing him out of office. Should he be reelected at the end of his first term, a symbolic death and rebirth ritual is enacted, and the leader has more time to find a solution to the growth panic.'
psychohistory  history  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  sacrifice  regicide  politics  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'#Strong Phase: The leader is portrayed as grandiose, phallic and invincible, able to ... contain the unconscious anxieties of the nation; #Collapse Phase; #Upheaval Phase: The leader begins the upheaval phase pictured as a wimp, overwhelmed by poisonous forces, impotent to ward off disaster... Anti-children crusades multiply, attacking people's projected inner child for being spoiled, sinful, greedy and out of control. When the growth panic is at a peak, "poison alerts" are declared and fears of maternal abandonment and wishes for maternal engulfment and rebirth proliferate. Rational national progress seems to be unimportant, group-delusions and group-trance projects are at a peak, and action becomes irresistible as the nation searches for some magical restoration of potency. This restoration, rebirth or revitalization wish turns into a group ritual that at times can take one or more of three forms: (1) Regicidal Solution, (2) Martial Solution, (3) Internal Sacrifice Solution'
pathocracy  psychohistory  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  displacement  collectivism  nationalism  statism  politics  growthanxiety  violence  sacrifice  regicide  politicide  democide  intergenerationalwarfare  war  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'The notion that leaders really lead, not follow, is as much a group-fantasy as the leader's charismatic power to command the sun's rise and fall. A leader is a single individual sitting at a desk in one corner of one city. The power we conditionally delegate to him resides in the group-fantasy, since the leader's function is to act as a poison container for our group-fantasies. If he should unexpectedly die, the container disappears and our fears return to us in a rush. Even if he has been a totally incompetent leader, we panic. ...the charisma of leaders is purely a defensive grandiosity of our own, compensating for our feelings of childhood helplessness. Thus a leader's strength seems inevitably to decay. ...there are four phases of group-fantasies about leaders, as they become less and less able to provide grandiose manic solutions to the nation's growing growth panic: (1) strong, (2) cracking, (3) collapse and (4) upheaval.' ...
mysterybabylon  psychohistory  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  dissociation  displacement  groups  collectivism  statism  learnedhelplessness  idealization  politics  projectiveidentification  grandiosity  heroism  fantasy  delusion  poisoncontainer  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'...the leader is less a figure of authority than he is a delegate, someone who "takes the blame" for us. As poison container for our dissociated social alter, the leader is expected to absorb our violent feelings without collapsing. Many societies actually designate "filth men" to help the leader with this task, relatives who exchange blood with him so they can "intercept" the poisonous feelings of the people directed at him. In modern nations, cabinet members are our "filth men," and are sacrificed when the leader is under attack. This leadership task of being the delegate of irrational desires of the people makes leaders experts in masochism, rather than sadism, as traditional power theory requires. Only by carefully following our unconscious commands are leaders followed. We might follow them into war and lay down our lives to combat an enemy they alone designated, but the moment they try to ignore the group-fantasy and avoid our hidden commands, people simply do not hear them.'
mysterybabylon  pathocracy  masochism  psychohistory  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  dissociation  displacement  groups  collectivism  statism  politics  violence  democracy  government  delusion  duckspeak  puppetry  poisoncontainer  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'Political leaders are intuitively aware that their main function is to provide grandiose manic antidotes to growth panic. Every society acknowledges somehow its function as a defense against maternal engulfment. The more primitive the dominant childrearing mode of a society, the more growth panic must be defended against. The fears of abandonment that are triggered by social progress are felt by nations to be dramatized in their relationship with their leader, who is felt to be growing more and more distant and less and less able to provide grandiose manic projects to defend against their growing growth panic. The increasing impotence and weakness of the leader can be seen in the much-watched "ratings" he gets in his public opinion polls, which, after starting at a peak, usually decline during his term, unless revived by some particularly effective defensive manic action that the leader engages in. ...growing growth panic makes [leaders] seem more distant, less potent.'
mysterybabylon  pathocracy  psychohistory  psychology  parenting  childhood  abuse  trauma  displacement  groups  collectivism  statism  politics  grandiosity  delusion  hysteria  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'The central fantasy function of the leader of any group, small or large, is to defend against repetitions of early trauma and abandonment, along with handling wishes for merging with the terrifying mother. The group is a mouth ...essentially female and maternal... One of the most active, or rather paralyzing, unconscious group representations is that of a Hydra: the group is felt to be a single body with a dozen arms at the ends of which are heads and mouths... ready to devour one another if they are not satisfied. When the leader is imagined to be strong, he can successfully defend against the group's engulfment fears; when the leader appears to weaken, all growth is dangerous, and desires for merging and fears of maternal engulfment increase, so the leader must somehow act to defend against the growth panic. ...the group leader is imagined to have mastered the group-as-mother and thus to have gained some of her [power] for himself. This makes him a threat as well as a protector...'
mysterybabylon  goddess  war  pathocracy  psychohistory  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  dissociation  displacement  groups  collectivism  growthanxiety  politics  violence  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'Our social alters contain early levels of our unbearable hurts ("Why didn't mommy want me?" "Why did daddy hit me?"), restaged as fairy tales ("Are there witches?" "Will the monster kill me?") and then as social questions ("Shall we take children away from teenage mothers?" "Is Saddam Hussein a new Hitler who will blow up the world?"). The adaptive function of social alters is that they allow people to go about their daily business without being overwhelmed by traumatic memories... By dissociating early persecutors into our social alters and then identifying with these persecutors in our social lives, human beings manage to live more sane daily lives, while warding off unseen but felt dangers by "feeding" victims of society to terrifying religious, political and economic divinities. So important to our sanity is the social alter that when a poison container for a group-fantasy is removed, tremendous anxiety is aroused that has to be defended against by creating a replacement.'
psychohistory  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  dissociation  mysticism  mythology  fantasy  politics  idealization  projection  violence  displacement  poisoncontainer  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'It was useless to point out to people who are dissociated and in a social trance that children or other poison containers were helpless human beings who were the victims of their actions. The children were full of our projections; they weren't real to us. Ultimately our social alters merge with the perpetrator of early traumas. In group-fantasy, we merge with the aggressor in order to avoid feeling helpless and then inflict damage upon child-scapegoats under the guise of "saving children." We see this merging with the perpetrator in every scapegoating group-fantasy. When anti-Semites persecute Jews, they are merged with the abusing parent and punishing the abused child. Jews must be persecuted... Adult events, political and economic history, usually provide only proximate causes of scapegoating group-fantasies; their ultimate cause lies in earlier traumatic events.'
psychohistory  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  projection  scapegoating  politics  violence  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'If helpless children of the poor were seen as bad babies, then obviously they were all scapegoats who were "poison containers" needed by the nation to feel early memories of hunger and despair at being unloved and abused. Without poison containers, we would have to feel these feelings ourselves. The childhood sources for Gingrich's political program are so overt they should be obvious to all, yet because we are in a social trance when we hear him we collude to deny them. The media widely reported, for instance, that Gingrich was a child of a teenage mother, but carefully didn't connect it with his speeches on how teenage mothers should be punished... The traumatic events of his infancy had to be restaged and millions of children made to feel his despair because in his social alter the child feels responsible for his or her own abuse and neglect, and so a scapegoat for the child self must be punished. As always in politics, the social alter's primary identification is with the abuser.'
psychohistory  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  projection  scapegoating  politics  violence  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Evolution of the Psyche and Society - The Emotional Life of Nations by Lloyd deMause
'In religions and politics, people turn to idealized authorities to avoid the risk of depending on themselves and to restage the painful feelings of abandonment by parents when they tried to individuate as children. Religions restage traumatic events encapsulated in dangerous alters. This is why the word "sacred" (sacer) everywhere designates "poison," "dangerous," "taboo," because the sacred is where we store our most poisonous, dangerous early memories. Gods, demons and spirits are not just containers for haphazard projections; they are highly organized and endurable, and so must first exist as durable, organized sub-selves in individual brains. It is through religious questions about God that people in the past asked their most important questions about Mommy: Why does she hate me, why did she tie me up, leave me abandoned in my feces, let me starve, why did she beat me, why did she strangle my baby sister, what does she want from me, what did I do wrong to deserve such torture?'
mysterybabylon  goddess  god  parenting  childhood  abuse  falseself  projection  mysticism  religion  politics  growthanxiety  psychohistory  psychology  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
War as Righteous Rape and Purification - The Emotional Life of Nations by Lloyd deMause
'...dissociation into traumatized alters occurs more in [large] groups because one feels more helpless and more depersonalized, particularly in the largest groups, nations, and therefore more fearful. When we think of acting in society or even [speaking] in front of a large group, one feels more open to attack, to humiliation, and one can more easily switch into the traumatized hemisphere. Our first line of defense when in a social trance is to cling to a "strong" leader or a "strong" subgroup, merge our alters with them and join in various group activities, often violent ones, to defend ourselves. Thus it makes sense that the inevitable characteristics of a group [are] invincibility, grandiosity, irresponsibility, impulsiveness, suggestibility and fearfulness, all qualities of the neglectful and traumatic figures stored in our social alters. Without the laterality of the brain, neither politics nor religion can exist, as they do not in other animals who do not have divided selves.'
psychohistory  psychopolitics  childhood  abuse  reactionformation  falseself  grandiosity  herd  groups  collectivism  religion  politics  war  psychology  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
The Seven Phases of Going to War - The Origins of War in Child Abuse by Lloyd deMause
'If we grow, we will never be what Mommy or Daddy wants us to be, and we will never get their love.” Entire societies react to innovative, progressive historical phases by defending against the loss of parental approval. They move toward war through seven phases [of a building war trance], first splitting off both the Bad Motherland and their Bad Self and projecting them into “enemies,” who are then killed, sacrificed, because they have fused with an all-powerful Killer Motherland. #1 FREEDOM: Increasing independence, innovations, growth of real self #2 FEAR: Growth panic, loss of parental approval, disintegration of real self #3 FISSION: Splitting into “in-group” and “out-group” #4 FUSION: Merging with powerful punishing Killer Motherland #5 FRACTURE: Projection of Bad Self into helpless victim “enemy” #6 FAKED PROVOCATION: Faking a provocative attack by an “enemy” #7 FIGHT: Becoming the “Hero” of the Killer Motherland and being sacrificed for Her while killing the Bad Self “enemy”'
psychohistory  childhood  abuse  reactionformation  splitting  falseself  projection  war  selfattack  growthanxiety  psychopolitics  psychology  sacrifice  masochism  politics  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
The Independent -- Modern art was CIA 'weapon'
'For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. To pursue its underground interest in America's lefty avant-garde, the CIA had to be sure its patronage could not be discovered. This was the "long leash". The centrepiece of the CIA campaign became the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a vast jamboree of intellectuals, writers, historians, poets, and artists which was set up with CIA funds in 1950 and run by a CIA agent. It would be the official sponsor of touring exhibitions; its magazines would provide useful platforms for critics favourable to the new American painting; and no one, the artists included, would be any the wiser.' -- Art?? We have no need of art! We simply do everything as best we can.
america  psychopolitics  psyops  propaganda  art  kipple  psychohistory  psychology  politics  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Drinking With Bob: Jon Stewart Rally Was a Joke...
"This is an endless cycle of stupidity."
drinkingwithbob  government  politics  spectacle  lulz 
november 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: Bribing the Present, Billing the Future - The Reality of Democracy
'Why would you vote for people who are selling your kids off limb by limb?'
childhood  abuse  statism  government  democracy  violence  debt  slavery  politics  StefanMolyneux  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1615 God, the State and the Family - Sibling Abuse Part 4: Marxism and Christianity (MP3) (7)
"Parental/sibling trauma has to go somewhere. The more it goes into the state, the less it needs to go into religion, which is why marxists were virulently anti-capitalist, anti-corporatist, anti-democratic/existing quasi- monarchical governments within Europe in the 19th century. They had given up on God and therefore all of their projections [went] out of God and into the state/corporations – which is why marxists are so virulently anti-capitalist, because the capitalist is the elder sibling and the state is the parent. That's why they focus so much of their rage onto the capitalist because the capitalist is the intermediate power, [the elder sibling who has] more power than the worker [(the younger siblings)] but less power than the state. But they can't focus on the evils of the state because if they focus on the evils of the state, they have no solution because their solution is an ultimate state."
psychohistory  family  parenting  childhood  siblings  abuse  trauma  reactionformation  projection  religion  statism  marxism  socialism  "capitalism"  libertarianism  republicanism  conservatism  ideology  politics  emotionalintelligence  StefanMolyneux  psychology  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1615 God, the State and the Family - Sibling Abuse Part 4: Marxism and Christianity (MP3) (6)
"On the other hand, you would then assume that people who were not religious but also drawn to the same [family abuse] paradigm... that because they don't have God or Satan to project their family/sibling abuses into, they would be far more ferocious about the existing state and existing corporations. So if you're an atheist or agnostic or skeptic or rationalist or non-fundamentalist – then you don't have the big bag of God – therefore your projections have to go somewhere else. Which explains why the more secular, humanistic/left-wing/marxist cadres within society tend to be so virulently anti-corporate and anti- existing state." -- Continues...
psychohistory  family  parenting  childhood  abuse  trauma  reactionformation  projection  religion  statism  marxism  socialism  "capitalism"  libertarianism  republicanism  conservatism  ideology  politics  emotionalintelligence  StefanMolyneux  siblings  psychology  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1615 God, the State and the Family - Sibling Abuse Part 4: Marxism and Christianity (MP3) (5)
"So the more religious [people] are, the more they will tend to be free-market and less afraid of corporations because corporations don't have the projection of sibling abuse... However, Satan and God has all the projections. In the same way, to some degree, it would explain why more religious people tend to be less statist because – in the modern world, the modern libertarian paradigm – they have God into which they place all of their parental projections and therefore they can look upon the state as a thing itself rather than a big bag of emotional projection. So [religious people] can criticize the state because they're not unconsciously criticizing their parents. But if you criticize God, they get very angry and offended because then you are criticizing their parents. If you say God is not virtuous, they hear: my parents are not virtuous on an unconscious level. But because they don't project that onto the state, they can criticize the state very heavily."
psychohistory  family  parenting  childhood  abuse  trauma  reactionformation  projection  religion  statism  marxism  socialism  "capitalism"  libertarianism  republicanism  conservatism  ideology  politics  emotionalintelligence  StefanMolyneux  siblings  psychology  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1615 God, the State and the Family - Sibling Abuse Part 4: Marxism and Christianity (MP3) (4)
"All unprocessed trauma must find a route somewhere, and if it does not find it's route in the truth, then it will find its route in mythology: the mythology of nationalism, of racism, of collectivism, of religion, of superstition, and so on. If trauma is not processed it will find substitutes in mythology. If that is the case – and sibling abuse is the last great unprocessed trauma of society – then this theory is able to explain some interesting set of phenomenon that occur within the realm of libertarianism -to- marxism. -- So Satan is a stand-in for the elder sibling; God is a stand-in for the parent. Corporations are a stand-in for the elder sibling; the state is a stand-in for parents. If that is true then we would expect... that those who are more religious would tend to be less critical of corporations. Why? Because they have the big receptacle, the big black bag of Satan to project all of their sibling trauma into." -- Continues...
psychohistory  family  parenting  childhood  abuse  trauma  reactionformation  projection  religion  statism  marxism  socialism  "capitalism"  libertarianism  republicanism  conservatism  ideology  politics  emotionalintelligence  StefanMolyneux  siblings  psychology  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1615 God, the State and the Family - Sibling Abuse Part 4: Marxism and Christianity (MP3) (3)
"The temptation is to blame the younger sibling as if everything is equal. In this way, the republicans blame the poor for being poor; blame the blacks for being in ghettos; blame women for making less money; and so on. And then the younger siblings say they need the state to protect them from rapacious corporations and polluters and so on – when, of course, the government produces the corporations and polices and regulates them already – so if corporations are doing evil and the government is far more powerful than the corporations and regulates the corporations, then clearly it is not the corporations that are at fault – it is the government that is at fault since it has all the power. But it's far easier to blame the elder siblings and excuse the parents than it is to place the blame for evil within the family where it properly belongs, which is with the parents."
psychohistory  family  parenting  childhood  abuse  trauma  reactionformation  projection  religion  statism  marxism  socialism  "capitalism"  libertarianism  republicanism  conservatism  ideology  politics  emotionalintelligence  StefanMolyneux  siblings  psychology  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1615 God, the State and the Family - Sibling Abuse Part 4: Marxism and Christianity (MP3) (2)
"And we see this repeated over and over in human thought. So when things go bad for government, the statists blame the corporations or they blame the party in power – they can never blame the [state (the parents), or the] principle of coercion which is the foundation of statism. And when things go bad in the world, religious people can't blame God because that would be to question virtue of God and foundation of their propaganda. [So they] invent someone else to blame, and in religion it's all sibling blame. So the elder sibling is Satan and the younger sibling is humanity. Blame the victim is absolutely essential for destructive families and for statism and religion. -- And what about the elder siblings? Certain punitive forms of libertarianism or republicanism which blame the victim are the elder sibling's and/or parent's response to the vulnerability of the younger siblings when they are hurt, ([usually] as a result of the actions of the parent or elder sibling)." -- Continues...
psychohistory  family  parenting  childhood  abuse  trauma  reactionformation  projection  religion  statism  marxism  socialism  "capitalism"  libertarianism  republicanism  conservatism  ideology  politics  emotionalintelligence  StefanMolyneux  siblings  psychology  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1615 God, the State and the Family - Sibling Abuse Part 4: Marxism and Christianity (MP3) (1)
"...given that infanticide was so common throughout history, children who displeased their parents would very often be abandoned or killed. This is why the taboo has remained so powerful into the modern world. Questioning the virtue of parents arouses live and death anxiety for a lot of people. When you have a fantasy of virtue in a situation of evil, the only way that you can maintain the fantasy of virtue is for there to be a stand-in which explains the evil. So in general, whenever you have an absolute power, a non-power, and an intermediate power; parents, younger siblings, elder siblings – the youngest sibling, in order to preserve the illusion of the virtue of the parents, is going to pretend that the evil he's experiencing is coming from the middle power, the elder sibling, and that he must appeal to the parent in order to protect himself... But the reality is that the parents create the abuses of the elder sibling by being abusive themselves. And this is why it doesn't work."
psychohistory  family  parenting  childhood  abuse  trauma  reactionformation  projection  religion  statism  marxism  socialism  "capitalism"  libertarianism  republicanism  conservatism  ideology  politics  emotionalintelligence  StefanMolyneux  siblings  psychology  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: The Idiocy of Politics
"Voting: The suggestion box for slaves."
statism  government  politics  delusion  StefanMolyneux  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- A Coming Republican Onslaught?
'...the Internet is gradually doing to the political system what is had done to the mainstream media—shove socialism and conservativism to one side and then present minarchism or libertarianism (anti-statism) as the alternative. This movement is gathering energy, though it has been manipulated by such political entrepreneurs as Dick Armey and Sarah Palin who have attempted to reintroduce "national honor" (as if a country can be "honorable") and militarism into the dialectic. This is the current, ongoing struggle. What is our point in all this? Only that while a Republican "victory" seems in the offing during the November mid-term elections, upcoming in the United States, the mainstream and even pollsters may be misreading what is taking place. ...we would argue, that it is only going to take a few more political cycles before the frustration and anger aimed at Democratic socialism spills over into the military industrial complex.'
america  politics  forcedmemes  statism  backlash  internet  cognitivesurplus  dialectics 
october 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: The Bomb in the Brain Part 4: The Effects of Child Abuse: The Death of Reason
'The scientific evidence underlying the near-universal resistance to reason and evidence. If you want to change the world, you first must understand the unconscious barriers to thinking.' -- '"None of the circuits involved in conscious reasoning were particularly engaged," Western said. "Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaledoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then get massively enforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones."
*  philosophy  thinking  ambivalence  emotionalintelligence  psychology  parenting  childhood  abuse  trauma  reactionformation  defencemechanisms  2+2=5  ideology  politics  addiction  fear  hysteria  StefanMolyneux  psychobiology  irrationality  argumentation 
october 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: An Introduction to Philosophy (Playlist)
'An introduction to the power and practicality of philosophy - from the host of Freedomain Radio, the most popular philosophy show on the Internet.'
philosophy  economics  politics  concepts  ethics  morality  StefanMolyneux 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Philosophy, Politics and Economics
'Philosophy, Politics and Economics (abbreviated to PPE) is a popular interdisciplinary undergraduate/graduate degree. The design of the programme emanates from the view that to understand social phenomena one must approach them from several complementary disciplinary directions and analytical frameworks. In this regard, the study of Philosophy is considered important because it both equips students with meta-tools such as the ability to reason rigorously and logically, and facilitates ethical reflection. The study of Politics is considered necessary because it acquaints students with the authoritative structures that govern society and help solve collective action problems. Finally, studying Economics is seen as vital in the modern world because political decisions often concern economic matters, and government decisions are often influenced by economic events. -- PPE at Oxford has traditionally been a degree read by those seeking a career in politics, public life and journalism.'
government  politics  journalism  complianceprofessionals  phalanx  from delicious
september 2010 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing"
'...is a psychology non-fiction book on brainwashing and mind control, by Robert Jay Lifton. Lifton outlines the "Eight Criteria for Thought Reform": #Milieu Control #Mystical Manipulation #Demand for Purity #Confession #Sacred Science #Loading the Language: The group interprets or uses words and phrases in new ways so that often the outside world does not understand. This jargon consists of thought-terminating clichés, which serve to alter members' thought processes to conform to the group's way of thinking. #Doctrine over person #Dispensing of existence: The group has the prerogative to decide who has the right to exist and who does not. This is usually not literal but means that those in the outside world are not saved, unenlightened, unconscious and they must be converted to the group's ideology. If they do not join the group or are critical of the group, then they must be rejected by the members. Thus, the outside world loses all credibility.'
psychology  psychopolitics  indoctrination  magick  MK  mindcontrol  brainwashing  hivemind  borg  vanguardism  exceptionalism  elitism  cults  predictiveprogramming  realityprogramming  totalitarianism  psychohistory  politics  from delicious
september 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Political Paralysis Spreads to Australia?
'Democrats and Labour often adopt fear-based promotions that emphasize resource depletion and over-population. Republicans and Tories seem to focus on defense issues and protection of the realm, often over resource issues. The system is a clever one because no matter what concerns people have decided to hold, the solution ends up being more state control, even global governance. What is increasingly clear to us is that people's increased disaffection for political choices is beginning to put the proverbial sand in the gearbox of modern Western democracy. In Britain and now in Australia, the choices have obviously proven increasingly difficult for the electorate to make. The results are "hung" governments that may have little mandate to govern. We would argue that something similar might take place in America during the upcoming Congressional elections in November. At some point, there may well be an upswelling of support generally for LESS government.'
politics  delusion  statism  government  democracy  forcedmemes  problemreactionsolution  dialetics  dialectics  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Britain Changes Little Under Tories
'This conforms to our perspective that politics are also an elite dominant social theme designed to give citizens an illusion of control over a system that is not being run on their behalf. It is only when people better understand their own victimization that real change (as opposed to faux political change) will begin to occur. We will continue to argue that such change is underway, in large part thanks to the Internet, and that it likely cannot be halted at this point – though the elite manifestly will do everything in its power to derail it. -- Governments are not businesses and in the era of the Internet it is increasingly difficult to pretend they are. Austerity currently is being justified by the bogeyman of "deflation" but in fact the entire process in our view is another – subtle – fear-based promotion. This is an important observation to internalize in our opinion ... adoption of the austerity meme – among other themes – only presages a further evolution of federal control.'
statism  politics  stockholmsyndrome  government  austerity  authoritarianism  incrementalism  globalgovernment  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Issendai's Superhero Training Journal -- How to keep someone with you forever
'...create a sick system. A sick system has four basic rules: #Rule 1: Keep them too busy to think. Thinking is dangerous. If people can stop and think about their situation logically, they might realize how crazy things are. #Rule 2: Keep them tired. Exhaustion is the perfect defense against any good thinking that might slip through. #Rule 3: Keep them emotionally involved. Enmesh your success with theirs. Keep everything on the edge. Make sure there's never quite enough money, or time, or goods, or status, or anything else people might want. Insufficiency makes sick systems self-perpetuating, because if there's never enough x to fix the system, and never enough time to think of a better solution, everyone has to work just to keep the system from collapsing. #Rule 4: Reward intermittently. -- Once you're out of the system, it makes no sense at all. None of the carrots they dangled before you mean anything, and you start to truly comprehend just how much stress you were under.'
*  statism  socialism  behaviorism  psyops  mindcontrol  manipulation  predation  abuse  slavery  government  politics  relationships  cults  2+2=5  irrationality  from delicious
june 2010 by adamcrowe
The Onion -- Obama To Make Reassuring Eye Contact With Every Last American
'"I know a lot of people out there are nervous. They're worried about unemployment, the oil spill in the Gulf, and whether or not I am making the right choices in Washington," Obama said during a rally at Rockland District High School. "To those Americans, I offer you this inspiring, confident gaze." Obama then stepped down from his podium, walked into the 2,000-person audience, and peered comfortingly into each person's eyes. After taking 45 minutes to methodically work his way from the front row all the way to the balcony, and punctuating each look with a gentle pat on the shoulder, Obama returned to the stage, collected himself, and addressed the silent group before him. "There," he said. "All better."'
TheOnion  america  politics  happytalk  lulz  satire 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: The Death of the West Part 1: Prehistory to World War One
'Why and when the free West died... The roots of the century of genocide.' -- Thesis: Gods and the priestly class were invented by the aging alpha male to maintain political power as his physical strength declined.
history  statism  violence  religion  magick  politics  StefanMolyneux  *  documentaries 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- We Have to Start Saying No...
'...we need more politicians who are less concerned with being "liked" and more concerned with what's best for the country!!!'
economics  politics  entitlement  drinkingbob  drinkingwithbob 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Does Anti-Obama Fever Drive US Elections?
'Humans are labeling creatures, but just because something—a trend, a movement—is named doesn't mean it has been accurately identified. -- It is certainly possible to try to explain the frustration that exists in America today as generated by one political party or another. But our perspective would be that the electoral rage (not too strong a word) is aimed at the system itself and will likely be increasingly difficult to channel neatly into the confines of a two-party structure. It is a problem for those who wish to perpetuate the system as it is, and one that likely has grave economic, investment and sociopolitical ramifications. It is therefore not a repudiation of one political party or another, but a growing rejection of America's modern political environment and business-as-usual. What comes next is currently difficult to see, but it may be much different than what has gone before, and even radically so. Denial and misleading explanations will not necessarily defer its arrival.'
america  politics  dialectics 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- TheModernMystic: The Two Realms
"Politicians are masters in the realm of words but there's another realm that they're not masters of and that is the realm of numbers. There is only one Sorcerer that is both master of the realm of number and the realm of word and that is the Central Banker."
economics  centralbanking  debt  media  words  magick  rhetoric  politics  empiricism  numbers 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
Gillian Duffy (GillianTheBigot) on Twitter
Someone always has to take it a bit too far. (You're supposed to be lambasting the politicians, not each other. Remember who has/wants the guns.)
twitter  impersonation  slander  defamation  bigotedwoman  politics  discourse 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Geithner Dislikes Wall Street
'...who exactly is the politician a public servant to? More than ever before, the modern politician serves not the electorate but the ruling power elite of the day and reinforces its dominant social themes. The goal is indeed the centralization of power and wealth and the elite's fear-based promotions are a tool employed to this end. In America and Europe especially, politicians make their living by accommodating these themes and passing legislation that buttresses their effectiveness. There is really no other way to explain the behavior of modern public servants. ...they continue to add to the complexity of regulation in such a way that fewer and fewer firms are able to entirely comply, let alone function properly. The net result concentrates industrial power in fewer and fewer hands, which could be said to be a main focus of a power elite that would like to deal with a few, large entities when pursuing its global goal of greater, one-world consolidation.'
statism  mercantilism  corporatism  politics  cronyism  oligarchy 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
Tagminster -- Crowd-sourcing UK opinion on our politicians
'A collective experiment in the public’s perception of UK politicians. All tags are generated by people like you and do not reflect the opinions of the site owners or anyone else they know. Have fun.' -- Stickup kids is out to tax
politics  sentiment  crowdsourcing  tagging  polling 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: Infiltrating the Mafia...
"Do you see how it looks a little bit silly?"
government  politics  delusion  StefanMolyneux 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
Land Value Taxation Campaign -- What are the barriers to LVT?
'#Fear of Change. #Fear it will be just another tax on top of all existing ones. #Ignorance on the part of those in positions of influence. #Failure to understand economic laws. #Failure to understand LVT by economists. #Non-comprehension of incidence of taxation. #Belief that land and buildings are not separate. #Embedded self interest namely the great land owners, the church, universities. #The House of Lords. #Pension schemes. #Effective lobbying by those who currently benefit. #Common people's liking for the notion of 'property owning democracy'. #Desire for house price windfall. #Living on unearned income. #Calling it Land Tax. The name we give it. #Belief that economics should be separate from morality. #Cultural resistance - attachment to 'My Land'. #Lack of real public debate. #Hereditary monarchy. #Requires a paradigm shift in understanding. #Not a vote winner. #Disliked - seen as unfair (like rates) or last straw. #Belief of the fairness of Income tax.'
economics  land  taxreform  uk  rentseeking  sociology  politics  rent  geoism 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- BOB&TOM TV: "Obama Man" by Greg Morton
Well, you're just a racist.
politics  satire  lulz 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- UK 5-year-olds Take Compulsory Lessons on Money
DB's draft curriculum introduction: 'Dear British Schoolchildren: "Welcome to your course on learning to handle money. Before we get started with the basics, it is important that you understand the larger frame of reference when it comes to money. What you need to know, dear children, is that Britain is not yours. It belongs for the most part to a few very powerful individuals. These individuals do not care much for Britain even though they lead it and own it. In fact, they are trying to do away with Britain, or at least British power. They wish for Britain to be subordinate to larger powers - specifically the EU. The EU is a creature of the Anglo-American empire and like a vampire, the EU is being positioned to sink its teeth into Britain's neck and drain its commerce, energy and ambition slowly, almost imperceptibly until Britain is no more. Sorry if that image upsets you children. Now we will start to learn about the British pound which is shortly to be replaced by the euro."'
economics  politics  uk  europe  euro  regionalcurrency  incrementalism  globalgovernment 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
The Last Ditch -- The end of days?
'The British population is not, on average, stupid or insane. It is however in deep denial. It cannot face an economic truth quite so horrific. Perhaps voting for the agents of economic apocalypse is psychologically the very best way of denying it's happening? God knows. -- Labour hates wealth creation. Its puritanical creed revolves around the chastisement of the men and women who do it. It is not, and it has never been, more than the ideologicalisation of Envy. Perhaps the best way to counter it would be to found a political party based on another of the other Seven Deadly Sins? Lust might give them a run for their money.'
politics  uk  envy  class  irrationality 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Big Journalism -- The New Fascists: Part 5 - The Synthesis
'Humans need a comfortable reality to operate in, so they find an ideology to use as the basis for the way they look at the world. The Big Government [ideology] sells the idea that we can reach paradise as long as we can get people to behave according to “the correct way” thinking. But if you look at the people making these claims they’re often perfect examples of why human beings are flawed. They cling to their [ideology] because it gives them hope that they can get to heaven by playing a game rather than paying their dues. Understand that their followers are not the enemy. They’ve been fooled. [M]any of them are just people who think—or who have been brainwashed into thinking—that they’re on the right side of history. They think they’re trying to make the world a better place and that [constitutionalist?] conservatives and libertarians are trying to stop human progress. They haven’t figured out that they’re actually helping the side that’s against human progress and freedom.'
politics  statism  progressivism  socialism  falseconsciousness  authoritarianism  totalitarianism  utopia  irrationality 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Big Journalism -- The New Fascists: Part 4 - The Marching Minions of the Frankfurt School
'The Frankfurt School developed an approach to overthrowing Western Civilization so it could be replaced by Marxist thought. "Critical Theory" sought to destroy western culture by attacking every aspect of it and dividing everyone, setting them on each other so there is no unity. Big Government statists achieve consent by propaganda designed to anger their followers. They encourage everyone to be upset about whatever the successful are doing. They have to demonize whoever doesn’t follow their script. This is why you see so many corporations and rich people taking the progressive line. They don’t want to be turned into an enemy. [Progressives] train others to follow them. To be mindless minions marching to the beat of their drums. Their followers are all so angry because they’re constantly being told to hate the opposition. To fear them. To see them as evil and stupid, so you will never seek to understand them. There is nothing “liberal” about progressives. They are illiberal.'
politics  statism  illiberalism  criticaltheory  postmodernism  relativism  subjectivism  demoralizaion  division  dialectics  marxism  progressivism  incrementalism  socialism  demoralization 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Big Journalism -- The New Fascists: Part 3 - [Fascism, Socialism, Progressivism and 'Liberalism']
'Many American elites were enamored of the control that a Marxist government promised. It meant mastery over every aspect of society. In the minds of these elites, it could be used to create a utopia of their own devising. These people called themselves Progressives. -- After the defeat of the Fascists in Europe, America became a world super-power. And in that time, the wealth of this country was turned against the people in a slow process of wearing us down through endless guilt and propaganda. The income tax has been used to bribe citizens with their own money, and to pit Americans against each other in the name of “class.” The statists funded their excessive government expansion using the people’s money. The American statists, who had dropped the progressive name and erroneously referred to themselves as “liberals,” pushed for more statism. This lead to even greater expansion of the Federal bureaucracy and the erosion of the freedoms Americans once took for granted.'
politics  statism  fascism  socialism  progressivism  vanguardism 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Big Journalism -- The New Fascists: Part 2 - [Religion, Communism, Socialism and Progressivism]
'Communist governments rejected religion and tried to replace it with their political ideology. But [communism] lacks the moral core that religion provides. It tries to supplant [morals] with laws. [W]here Socialism and Communism have been attempted, more people died due to the vagaries of its leaders and their policies than all the wars of the 20th century combined. While communism has been largely discredited, the lovers of socialism keep trying to sell it under different [“progressive”] guises, claiming it’s never worked because “it hasn’t been done right yet." Socialism provides a way for the state to control all the resources and production while appearing benign. By providing “benefits” to the people, they were tricked into thinking they were “sharing the wealth.” In truth, the leaders lived in wealth and excess while the rest were forced into a narrow kind of poverty of which there was no escape unless you “joined the party” and became part of the corrupt political class.'
politics  statism  progressivism  incrementalism  socialism  communism 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Big Journalism -- The New Fascists: Part 1 - A Political Primer
'Forget everything you think you know about politics. It is probably wrong. There is no left or right. Communist, Socialist, Liberal, Conservative, Progressive, Democrat, Republican, those are all meaningless terms. They are used to confuse people so they miss the point. There are only two schools of [pro-state] political thought [Big Government and Limited Government] and they have predictable results. All the names and labels for them are just smoke and mirrors. Political ideology is designed by elites to trick the masses into doing what they want. Each side tells you something designed to get your emotions going so they can play you. They get you to agree to give them more power, money and control over your lives by telling you some kind of story. We need to put that vicious cycle to an end. There are only two real political choices to make. And it has nothing to do with parties. It has to do with core beliefs. Do you want to be a slave or a free person? It’s your choice.'
politics  statism 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Warren Pollock: Last Man Standing - Dennis Kucinich
'A few very striking quotations from a backpedalling article written by Dennis Kucinich entitled, "Last Man Standing." The words of Kucinich stand as an inditement of total political failure of the US system of government. The government continues to avoid solutions in favor of special private and corporate interests. How much failure can the citizens of the United States and the World endure? Liberty, freedom, and rights? Where?'
america  politics  government  cronyism 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Amazon.com -- Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation by Jason Mattera
Sounds interesting. Probably lacks critical distance since it's written from 'the right'. -- 'In 2008, Barack Obama lobotomized a generation. For an entire year, otherwise clear-thinking members of the most affluent, over-educated, information-drenched generation in American history fell prey to the most expensive, hi-tech, laser-focused marketing assault in presidential campaign history. Twitter messages were machine-gunned to cell phones at mach speed. Facebook and MySpace groups spread across the Internet like digital fire. YouTube videos featuring celebrities ricocheted across the globe and into college students’ in-boxes with devastating regularity. All the while, the mega-money-raising engine whirred like a slot machine stuck on jackpot. The result: an unthinking mass of young voters marched forward to elect the most radical and untested president in U.S. history.'
books  politics  propaganda  brainwashing  cults  theadvertisedlife 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Lies of Neo-Communitarianism?
'So now we begin to see the next rhetorical response to the truth-telling of the Internet. For make no mistake about it, the Internet is responsible for the rise of the libertarian rhetoric that Brooks seemingly bemoans. It is remarkable from our point of view that the ideas of Res Publica have become so popular and influential so quickly. It just shows the desperation of those who want to justify state power. It would seem those who want to become rich and influential right now need only come up with some sort of public discourse justifying statism. This tells us two things. One, the Internet itself has been extraordinarily effective in letting people know that only competition and a free-market can raise the standard of living and create wealth. Two, ideas have consequences. In fact, free-market thinking dispersed by the Internet has been so effective that those who want to oppose it seem to have few arguments left at their disposal.'
politics  statism 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1351 Political Parties: Greens (MP3) (2)
Gisted -- In the green mythological fantasy there are three major players: #1. The Cowering Victim (Mother Earth, feminine), #2. The Raping Perpetrator (capitalism, masculine), #3. The Superhero Saviour (The State, gender neutral) -- So to relate these players to the family, there's a brutal father and a depressed, passive-aggressive mother. But where does the State come from in this fantasy because there's no State in the family? The superhero State is the child's projection fantasy of power and omnipotence which is the only possible psychological response to helplessness in the face of violence. Greens, by abstracting and projecting their need for power onto the State, have ensured they will never gain any real power in their lives and that the State will just take from them without offering anything in return. Grandiosity is a form of helplessness; it allows us to ignore the pain our own experiences. The experiences we repress or project onto others always end up controlling us.
+  *  philosophy  psychology  politics  statism  environmentalism  projection  fantasy  grandiosity  StefanMolyneux  heroes 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1351 Political Parties: Greens (MP3) (1)
Gisted -- When you start to look at political activism of any kind, when people act in a resolutely anti-empirical way, you know that psychological defenses are at work. Their government fails at everything except predation and destruction but people continue to turn to it like a white knight. There's this endless frustration as to why statism isn't working. Not realizing their belief in the State is a psychological defense, statists continue to escalate in the same way parents who use violence to obtain obedience from children tend to escalate: because it doesn't work. The State is viewed as a saviour because it represents the grandiosity of the helpless and this is why the fantasy of statism is so hard to break for people. If the State were to disappear tomorrow, people would actually have to deal with their pain, they wouldn't have this receptacle for their childhood helplessness and anger. That's why if you talk to people about getting rid of the State they get very upset about it.
+  *  philosophy  psychology  politics  statism  environmentalism  projection  fantasy  grandiosity  StefanMolyneux  heroes 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1351 Political Parties: Democrats (MP3) (4)
Gisted -- The real tragedy is that women were made to feel powerless. And when you feel dominated by a local authority, there's this irresistible temptation to invent a super-authority that can save you. One of the first movements that women's suffrage gave rise to was the prohibition. Why would women want to ban alcohol? Because many of their husbands were drunkards and they were powerless to leave them. Similarly, women got behind the idea of social security to force their husbands to save for their old age. When women feel oppressed by an immediate, real, and often patriarchal authority, they have this 'white knight' fantasy that an external authority called the State will rescue them. Of course, all that happens is they do gain some measure of security, but they pay for *everything* they get, and they haven't rid themselves of authority. -- Why do women often support wars? Women will cling to the patriarchy when there's a perceived external threat. Better the devil you know.
+  *  philosophy  psychology  politics  statism  liberalism  socialism  class  patriarchy  nearfar  StefanMolyneux 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1351 Political Parties: Democrats (MP3) (3)
Gisted -- The Democrats' argument is fundamentally not about class. If you examine class conflict in its essence, it's really about the exploitation of the more dependent by the more powerful. Why would anyone believe all this class stuff about marxism and so on? Well, the reason it is so believable is because it is the historical experience of women being controlled by brutal patriarchs and not being allowed any say in the matter. One of the main arguments against the validity of class conflict is that workers *can* leave their jobs. But in marxism the workers are considered helpless and can't leave—and why is that still believable when everyone knows you can quit a job?—well, it's believable because historically women have been functionally unable to leave marriages, unable to own property, unable to have jobs, etc. Class is simply an expression of the patriarchy where the evil 'capitalists' are the patriarchal fathers and the 'workers' are the helpless women and children.
+  *  philosophy  psychology  politics  liberalism  socialism  marxism  class  patriarchy  StefanMolyneux 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1351 Political Parties: Democrats (MP3) (2)
Gisted -- Whereas the Republicans seek the muscular control of the government's guns, the Democrats seek verbal control of the government's guns. The war of words is historically waged by the powerless: they attempt to hook their physically stronger oppressors with the barbs of guilt and the puppet strings of verbal control. If you look at the focus of Republican efforts versus the focus of Democrat efforts you can clearly see they tend to fall along gender lines. The focus of the Republicans is: law and order, protecting the borders, protection of property, war, justice, punishment – all very much masculine concerns. Conversely the concerns of the Democrats are: healthcare because it's women who generally take care of the sick, and it's pensions and social security because it's women who often take care of the aged, it's education because it is mothers who are traditionally responsible for, and invested in, the education of the children.
+  *  philosophy  psychology  politics  liberalism  socialism  class  patriarchy  nearfar  StefanMolyneux 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1351 Political Parties: Democrats (MP3) (1)
Gisted -- Whereas Republicans are like angry dads who manage through fear, the Democrats are like guilt-inducing moms who manage through manipulation. For Republicans the threats come from outside and from the growing strength of the young -- unless, of course, those young are in the service of the military. For Democrats the threat comes from the patriarchy inside society and there's a lot of sympathy for the young. Because guilt is a more sophisticated method of control than fear, it is a step forward to go from Republicanism to Democrat—not morally—but in terms of the relative sophistication of their class-based argument (when contrasted with the Republican's proximity-based one) and the emotional and intellectual apparatus needed to sustain it. People who can handle more complex concepts tend to be less aggressive because aggression is an hysterical reaction-formation to cover over feelings of doubt and ambivalence when a dogmatically held virtue is being challenged.
+  *  philosophy  psychology  politics  liberalism  socialism  class  patriarchy  nearfar  StefanMolyneux  ambivalence 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1351 Political Parties: Republicans (MP3) (2)
Gisted -- Hysterics believe *everything* is personal responsibility and don't take into account the wider context. This is because of their deep-seated need to punish. The reason all hysterics have a need to punish others is because they are reproducing the intense punishment they received as children. In the absence of enemies, enemies will be invented. Religious people are constantly inventing enemies to attack because they have invented a God that attacks them constantly and in order to restore any kind of 'sanity' or equilibrium they have to invent enemies to attack because the whole religion is the invention of an enemy called the true-self which they have to attack. Thus they will attack their own human natures, their sexual lives, their curiosity, their reason, their skepticism, their empiricism. This is why religion is such a cancer. You'll notice Republicans are distinctly ill at ease when they're without an enemy. All their *real* enemies are, of course, within themselves.
+  *  philosophy  psychology  politics  conservatism  religion  falseself  abuse  punishment  selfattack  hysteria  StefanMolyneux  childhood  masochism 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- #1351 Political Parties: Republicans (MP3) (1)
Gisted -- With Republicans it's the Old Testament. With Liberals it's the New Testament. Republicanism is highly correlated with religion. And religion is, of course, fundamentally hysterical: an 'All-Powerful God' is obsessed with not only your every decision and action but also your every thought! -- Republicans are fundamentally hysterical; they employ a lot of fear-mongering. People are hysterical that way because their inner lives are dead and where their heart, empathy, and sympathy should be is just a dead moon crater of nothingness because the impact of their early childhood has completely snuffed out any possibility of a lively, curious, and engaged interaction with life. When people are emotionally dead, they require drama: they require enemies, they require danger, they require conflict, they require anger, they require self-righteousness, they require all this false-self bullshit. Republicans are trolls, basically.
+  *  philosophy  psychology  politics  conservatism  religion  falseself  abuse  punishment  hysteria  StefanMolyneux  childhood 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Alex Jones TV: Max Keiser Details The Banking Cartels Financial Criminality in Pillaging Europe 4/5
Max: "The way Obama attacks healthcare is he looks at healthcare stocks and if they're going up he thinks he's doing a good job, and if they're going down, he thinks he's doing a bad job. Obama is a day trader. He looks at all the policies in front of him and he trades them. He's just nickel and diming trying to end the day with a few more bucks than he started with." -- CHANGE!!!
america  mercantilism  corporatism  politics  numbers 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Recession for a Whopping 20 Years
'...social and economic advances ought to be made PRIVATELY. It is the ONLY way to ensure that mercantilism is eradicated, or at least radically pruned back. If there is little or no government, there is little or no mercantilism. What other choice is there? More government but less mercantilism? Life doesn't seem to work that way. -- The pace of dominant social themes (promotions) has picked up in the 21st century just as the Fabian Society promised. Is it possible that the sudden rush of promotions and subsequent globalist solutions have as much to do with the Internet as they do with the sudden evolution of humankind's globalist sensibilities? The world's economy is in a shambles. The globalists meet endlessly. And endless war is fought for endless peace. But we would ask you to defy, dear reader, the Orwellian hopelessness that you are supposed to feel. Don't be enervated. Times are changing. All is not lost. We think the power elite is in for a rough decade or two. At least.'
economics  mercantilism  corporatism  cronyism  politics  oligarchy  dialectics  fabianism  incrementalism  problemreactionsolution  1984  internet  cognitivesurplus 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
The Last Psychiatrist -- Wrong About Obama II
'After the election—and anyone who didn't vote for Obama will know exactly what I'm talking about—you didn't dare say a negative thing about Obama in public. Certainly not a flippant slander, the kind that are common when discussing Presidents. If you were in a restaurant, before you said anything about Obama you took a serious look around to see who else was near you, and only if it was safe (read: white) could you quickly whisper some veiled comment. You weren't even allowed to be pessimistic about Obama. That was the climate. Again, if you didn't vote for Obama you will know what I mean, if you did you'll think I'm exaggerating. I'm not. Fast forward to last week. This is what I heard a guy announce in a crowded downtown restaurant, and I'm quoting: "Fuck him. Fuck Obama, fuck him, and fuck his horsefaced wife. I'm sick of his shit." That man doesn't hate Obama, he hates Obama supporters.' -- Corollary: He hates self-pwning idiocy, Obama supporters being the most depressing example.
america  politics  falseprophet  bigdaddyissues  unwarrantedselfimportance  narcissism  consensus  consensusreality  duckspeak  echochamber  idiocracy 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
The Onion -- My Constituents Care Way More About Political Gamesmanship Than Jobs, Health Care, And The Economy
'I assure you, the last thing my voters need is some well intended, do-all-I-possibly-can-to-help-the-little-guy congressman running around Washington, working across the aisle, and fighting tooth and nail for jobs, health care, and financial reform to ensure their tax dollars never end up in the hands of banks capable of holding our entire economy hostage. No, sir. My constituents deserve better. They deserve a leader willing to roll up his sleeves and play the types of twisted, greedy political games that, by their very nature, tear apart the fabric of our democracy for the sake of assuring reelection. How could I stop being the greedy, myopic scumbag they elected me to be?'
TheOnion  politics  lulz  satire 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: State Blood Milk Addiction
'The reason that political action will not work is that it is simply a numbers game -- here is the proof.' -- State Crack. Do junkies snitch on their dealers?
statism  politics  delusion  StefanMolyneux 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: Practical Politics
'Anarchists should abandon their mad hopes and buckle down to some REAL political action - the argument from practicality...' -- Starve the Beast
politics  voluntaryism  anarchism  StefanMolyneux 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
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