Maybe here are some more signs of depotism and fight against it The blue man Rock concert movement #237 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ01GtJk3xo
I hope you enjoy it and it can be helpful. Peace and best wishes. Xi On Nov 25, 2:22 am, Morpheal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SIGNS THAT YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM DESPOTIC TOTALISM: > > Now remember these are signs, indicators, and everything can happen, > by chance in unmanipulated life, outside of a dictatorship, totalism > or despotic system. However, the violently destructive patterns > causing resigned despair among the many, who urge a “sane” sense of > futility of striving, as their answer to what they see as “reality” is > something different. Distinguishing normative bad luck from totalistic > despotism is not always easy, but if the signs are too persistent and > repetitively experienced, you have a strong indication of where you > are pinned down. > > 1). You recognize a strong pattern, with few or no exceptions to that > pattern, across a significant number of instances, which is outside of > normal life expectations. This is harder for people who have lived for > a significant part of their lives under a totalistic, despotic, > regime. They are too accustomed to the patterns being abnormal and do > not know what a normal experiential pattern really is like. The > pattern you recognize has strong personal significance, and is an > obstacle rather than nurturing or facilitating development of your own > potential, contrary to personal aptitudes and interests, and > peculiarly damaging to efforts at achievement. > > 2). You experience social manipulation where you function as if free > to associate with whomever you happen to choose and who in return > allows you to associate with them, but the chosen relationships never > work out to any reasonably expected results. You find that the > development of those freely chosen relationships is peculiarly > difficult, or outright thwarted. Even if you severely limit your > expectations below social norms, the results still fall below those > expectations with routine predictability. This is to be distinguished > from outright hostility against your joining. The social door appears > open. You can enter. No one stands in your way or challenges you in > any significant manner. Nevertheless, you find that the results of > social investment do not have a payback, whereas you find other > groups, whom you have no desire or interest as to joining or > participating in pay a higher dividend, for nearly no social > investment. Clearly you feel someone is messing with your social > capital and thwarting your freedom to invest where you choose. Clearly > you are not in a social “free market” even if you were taught that you > are and are expected to claim that you actually are “free” to invest > socially and reap increase in social capital according to your own > free choice. > > 3). You experience sudden, inexplicable, repeated instances of loss > where you have reasonable expectations of continuity of social > dividends, from having invested more heavily than you tend to invest > in relationships on average. The relationships you value, for the sake > of social capital, are terminated without reasonable expectation, or > warning, often in exceptional ways, under peculiarly suspicious but > unexplained circumstances. You lose your investment. You get no social > dividends. You are discouraged from further investments of that type > by repeated instances of that type of unpredictable and exceptional > failure of social investment, and the damage from the loss is damage > tied to your efforts at achievement, in terms of your own potential, > personal interests and aptitudes, and your own free choices from among > the social spectrum that is accessible to you in your socio-economic > circumstances. > > 4). That brings us to that point of repeated disappointment. You > invest in what you believe in, are interested in (often shared > interests in common with others), and you find that the positive > beginning and the social investment, even if it appears to be going > well, is doomed to create disappointment. When this exceeds the > statistics of what is normative, and you know you have done nothing > unusually wrong, you know you are a victim of toalistic despotism. > > 5). You experience an unusually rigid class structure barrier which > stops you from communicating, relating, and collaborating with those > who are doing better than you are, in relation to your personal > interests, aptitudes, and goals. You find you simply don’t have any of > those chances, and you find that others at your own level start > pointing out how they, with less interest, less aptitude, lower > aspirations as to goals, and sometimes some very negative > characteristics and habits, have the chance, and can boast about it to > you with surprising regularity even if you never told them about your > own experience. They don’t know you that well, but their behavior is > strangely relevant, rubbing it in, outside of the statistics of > chance. > > 6). You experience tokenism. You get repeated instances of a chance to > sample, but you never really get more than a taste to wet your > appetites. Then it is gone, with remarkable regularity and nothing at > all to replace the desired opportunities, experiences, situations. You > were given the illusion that you were getting the chance, but as soon > as you believe in it, it is completely gone. Poof. Vaporized. Totally > an illusion. You find that that is at variance with the experiences of > some others who again take pleasure at your disappointment, if you > chance to express it. Well, that is all ordinary competition, isn’t > it ? Not quite, but their reaction might be. You find you are > becoming increasingly disillusioned, no longer able to believe in what > might be tokenism, being realizable as anything more than the fleeting > illusion that tokenism is. Then despotism has begun to win and you are > losing ground to its persistent violence. > > 7). You experience repeated instances of entrapment. You are > reasonably sold on something, and given a variety of apparently > disconnected, not communicatively or causally related, positive > experiences to sell you on the potential of the situation. When you > invest, buy into it, socially or financially, or both, you suddenly > find it is all a bill of goods. You have spent effort, time, and > money, to get nothing of what you were being lured to bargain for. > This can happen in personal relationships, occupational pursuits, > personal business endeavors, or attempts to develop talents and > aptitudes to their fuller realization. Now, once or twice, > disconnected by causality, is part of normative live. When it happens > too often, you know you are in totalistic despotism. > > 8). You feel you can choose freely, among available ideas, such as > are apparent in some others lives around you. However, when you choose > in any way outside the most mainstream and narrowly ideological > position prevalent in your society, you find that you only get the > most negative side of the experience of what you chose. Suddenly there > is no positive side for you to know. You only get the nasty side, not > the pleasant. It acts as a type of persistent conditioning of your > choices and responses to ideological conformity with the prevalent > system. You try to fight it by choosing differently, but you find that > the result is the equivalent of a high voltage electro-shock, even if > it is not physical, but rather socio-psychological in nature. Bad > experiences add up and too many bad experiences tend to put a person > off of whatever it is. Most people give up relatively easily, but some > persist, depending on the strength of the attraction and interest. > Some never give up. Might be some eventually die, still trying to > fight for their freedom of choice. Always some others have the free > choice in question. It isn’t unique and something no one else has got > and certainly it is never something that no one else has any positive > experiences of or within. It is always something that seems to be > available to choice, but ends up being unavailable to any positive > realization of the choice. Despotism particularly loves this little > trick as it is so very hard to fight against. The argument that there > is always prejudice against minority views, and minority interests, is > insufficient and in fact illogical when you examine society more > carefully. Despotism, however, loves that argument as much as the form > of torture that it allows despotism to utilize, often so > successfully. > > 9). You only get the opposite of whatever your personal choices are, > no matter what those attractions entail and quite without any real > moral or ethical justification. It is simply that free choice as to > what attracts is severely opposed beyond statistical norms for the > population. What attracts and what you strive to know is as if > completely unavailable to you. However, the opposite, and therefore > what you do not particularly like and perhaps cannot even tolerate > much if any of, is peculiarly prevalent and responsive. Whatever > attracts you is peculiarly non responsive. For instance if you are a > person who only feels strong enough sexual attraction to people who > are thin, and of the opposite sex, you find that those are completely > disinterested in you and unresponsive. Instead only fat people of the > same sex are responsive, and show real interest, contrary to your own > choices. Of course despotism likes the argument that some people fall > for that says that you were simply making the wrong choices for you, > and that you should be more open to what is interested in you. Well, > that doesn’t really hold up under real logical scrutiny in any real > way at all. Of course I used the sexuality and body type example > because it is easier to understand. It is not something limited to > sexual attraction, or body types. It could be that if you are > interested in being a particular occupation, and know you have some > talent for it, you find that the people you need to know and enter > into activities with in order to pursue your dream are peculiarly > disinterested in you and unresponsive to you. However, people in some > opposed occupation, which you have no personal interest in, and no > special talent for, will offer you more than statistical normatives of > what you needed from those others who _all_ suddenly went dead cold to > you, for no apparent reason. Negative and positive reinforcement away > from rather than towards what attracts your own choices. That is > despotism. It works that way. It dictates against your every choice, > to break your will power, and end any of your choosing. In this way > your political will is also broken. > > 10) If you take up a special cause and side with the group that you > feel is right and true in its position, you end up spurned, strangely > ridiculed, and ostracized, by that same group. Instead you find that > the opponents of that group, of the opposite position in life, welcome > you, take you seriously, and include you. Well, that makes a big > difference if you have black political activism on the one hand and > the KKK on the other. Similarly a big difference if you have achieving > peace as your goal, and you get kicked out of peace movements and > inducted into an army to fight a violent conflict, but with no other > choice as to belonging. You are simply forced into the opposite side > of the equation after making your own choice known as to your own > freely chosen position. > Apply the same idea to any similar situation. For instance male/female > equality and those believing in it reject your faith in that > fundamental principle, but those of religious fundamentalist > persuasion where the man must be always the “head” of the woman and > lead her to righteousness because she is deemed unable to do anything > right or good without his direction, quickly seek your inclusion among > their midst. Rejection and acceptance, totally manipulated is a sign > of despotic totalism. When it is ideologically blatent it is easiest > to discern, but many people still fail to discern it in their own > lives so it is tending to triumph. > > 11). Playing on your human needs, such as food, shelter, sex > (according to your own sexual gender and sexual predilection), and > perhaps social acceptance or inclusion, and certainly the very > important factor of some sort of support structure (in economic and > psychological terms) is another sign of despotism. Extremist religions > and extremist politics have used that forever. It’s not new, even if > the mechanisms for the manipulations based on playing on needs, on > deprivation and reward in terms of needs, and in terms of terrorism > with contrary situations than those that an individual is able to > adapt to and function properly within, tend to be increasingly subtle. > Could write a whole article simply on this one, but no need to. It’s > easier to discern. I recall those instances where someone could not > find a spouse, of any persuasion, unless they were first willing to > accept and prove psychological internalization of a belief in Jesus. > Well, it does happen in our North American world of today. It should > never happen, but it does. That’s only one example. Don’t stop at > religion. Don’t stop at the problem of Jesus. Don’t even stop at the > problem of people finding a match, as to having a spouse, and thus a > life partner and support structure. It goes far far beyond that. > > 12). You work hard, suffer incredible hardships, make amazing > sacrifices, to achieve the means and ways to do something you always > dreamt of doing and wanted to do. Soon as you have those means and > ways, in order, having suffered on a shoestring and nearly starved of > most of the pleasures of life, to get to having a chance at your > dream, whatever circumstances you needed for continuance of your hard > work on achieving it, is suddenly gone. It’s as if some evil genius, > letting you get that far, pulled the rug suddenly and violently right > out from under you. All your hard work to exhaustion. All your > searching and finding. All your researching through the jungle of > competitive lies. All your preparation and skills learning. All your > investment, in terms of time, money, and labor. All of it suddenly > attacked. Unexpectedly attacked. You are inexplicably, suddenly and > overwhelmingly undermined, sapped, and broken down. What happened ? > Ok, it was bad luck. Let’s use the normative thinking. You get up, > somehow from the floorboards, finding no one ever helps you up off of > them anyway, to begin again. So you pursue your dream. You build it up > again. You invest your time, money, effort, again. You see the holy > mountain of success not far forward in the distance. Then just as you > feel confident again, invigorated with the goal in sight, and feel a > sense of new progress, bang, it all comes down again. The rug comes > flying out from under you, completely unexpectedly, bringing you > violently and suddenly down. Now you still believe it was pure luck, > pure chance, purely a coincidence ? Try it three times, and tell me > then it was a pure luck, chance, coincidence... and some people have > tried that many times to achieve their dreams, their holy mountain to > climb and get to the top of. No, in totalistic despotism it isn’t > purely luck, chance or coincidence. Also you cannot expect that the > amount of effort, investment, and sacrifice that you put in will buy > the opportunity that you strive to gain. Someone else with no effort, > no investment to speak of, and no real sacrifices, might be seen > laughing at you from above. Then you know what despotism really > means. > > 13). Simple, usually fool proof, reliable as clockwork, situations in > life suddenly start to go wrong with amazing statistical regularity > and you get more and more entangled in trying to fix, rectify, and > remedy what should have been relatively logical, simple, easy matters > to take care of. Except that now they aren’t. They become major > entanglements consuming more and more of your time, money, energies, > and resolve. You get more and more beaten fighting fights you never > thought would ever need fighting, as to trivial issues that you never > were taught or knew could ever require that much fight. You become > more and more exhausted and no amount of pleas as to cooperation, > rationality and common sense are of any use. Now you know you are a > victim of despotic totalism. That’s the way it can work, and often > does. > > 14). You find that too man people whom you treated right, and with due > respect, and whom you made your effort to please, for their sake and > for mutual good of you, their selves and the groups involved (if any), > treat you exactly the same, irrationally wrongly. Now, remember, these > different people, not even knowing each other, treated you wrongly and > they all did something too similar to be ignored. Now there is a > problem. And nothing you could do about it. They all did you wrong. > They all did it similarly. They all disparaged, demeaned, ignored, and > failed to recognize your best efforts, what you really accomplished, > and of course your real potential (proven and as yet unproven). You > lose but you needed to win and you did your best to do everything as > right as the situation would let you. Well, you must have made one > small mistake. After all you are human. The key in this one is > different people, in all probability not knowing each other or you and > certainly not knowing much if anything on that, all became reflections > of each other, outside of statistical norms, and contrary to your own > best interests. They did similar damage to you. If you complain you > will be labeled paranoid. That won’t help, so shut your mouth. Besides > that you have no solid proof. No evidence as to their doing it to you. > And if there was a conspiracy, as is unlikely according to the facts > and very irrational and illogical to assume, outside sociological > norms for the situations involved, you could not prove it anyway. So > you take your lumps and move on, but you are damaged and you cannot > achieve what you sought to achieve in consequence of those contrary > and essentially unpredictable, unforeseeable, actions. A lot of people > ignore those types of patterns. I have heard about them happening. > They are more frequent than you might think. The root cause, however, > is despotism. Despotic pawns leading others in a despotic system which > manipulates its lesser despot pawns, but gives them some small > privilege for being despots and remaining manipulable tools of > despotism. > > 15). You are always treated differently, as if privileged in some way, > but it always proves to be contrary to your own best interests. You > get more work to do for less pay. You don’t get any of the “frills” > such as benefits, holidays, perks that others get, but you have the > position, the responsibility and the stress to deal with same as > anyone in the role. You simply don’t get compensated for it like the > others do. And heaven help you if you make even one mistake, but the > others make mistakes all of the time. Then no matter how long time you > manage to hang on and remain responsible, trying to equalize your > position with others by means of meriting it, you inevitably fail. You > must have made one mistake. That’s it. That’s the end of you. Well, if > you chance into that once, you might in fact be unlucky. Twice, really > unlucky. However compare your luck to the average and three, four, > five, times you know you are a victim of despotism. > > 16). You meet each challenge that you are given, and you exceed the > performance of others, repeatedly, in terms of some achievements, some > accomplishments, some dedication and endurance even when suffering > extreme adversity, opposition or deliberate distraction. However, you > can never achieve enough in anything, even in what you are best at and > particularly gifted at doing. No, its never enough. Never enough money > spent to buy your way in. Never enough social capital gained. Never > enough production. Never enough of whatever it is never enough of, but > always never enough of something else and something more. That in any > area of life. Ah, again you know you are a victim of despotism. In > totalism you can never be good enough, no matter how hard you try. You > are always a failure no matter what you do, and no matter how you do > it. > Eventually only the system is right, and you are forever and always > wrong. That is how totalistic despotism functions in the world. If you > see that trend you know you are its victim. > > 17). You invest heavily into something, in all the ways I mentionned > before, and everyone is eager to join in while you do so. Everyone you > ask is all for it. They are all friendly, inviting, socially > welcoming, smiling faces of encouragement. Then when you are ready > with the efforts, the means and ways, that they all were so > encouraging that you acquire, you find there is no one interested. No > one smiles anymore. No one is friendly. No one is available anymore. > Seems you were led down the garden path to nothing. Disillusion, > disappointment, and it can bridge across many social divides where the > people in each individual group do not even know each other, and yet > behave synchronously. You would never predict that happening if you > know conventional social psychology and sociology reasonably well > enough. It is not consistent with normative science, but you witness > it happening and you know you are a victim of totalistic despotism. > > I am sure there are more indicators of people being victimized by > despotism. I am sure there are far more ways to kill a man or woman, > without leaving a mark on their bodies and without using any substance > or implement of physical violence, than are dreamt of in most > imaginations. These are some signs of being killed by totalistic > despotism. The death can be slow, agonizingly painful but tends to be > unrelenting until those who are victims of despotic tyranny give up > their own lives, dreams, hopes, goals, and give in completely, > hopelessly, to the despotic system. After all, in despotic totalism no > individual has any real talent of their own. They have no real > accomplishments or worth of their own. They have no value as > individuals. They have no worth in anything they do or could ever do. > There is only the system. It is the only and highest worth. It is the > only value. There is no individual. There is only the jackbood of > despotism stamping forever upon a human face that forever ceases to be > recognizable. > > I know that knowing these signs of despotism others will find more > signs of despotism and will add their own to this little collection > that has been gathered in various ways, by various means, and that I > have attempted to expound herein. Yes, do so. Revealing despotism, > revealing tyranny, revealing totalism does tend to kill it, before it > kills us all. > > Robert Morpheal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
