| MORPHEAL'S SOCIAL COMMENTARY - 201208 |
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| Robert Morpheal, Bob Ezergailis, Morphealism (morpheal@yahoo.com) |
2008/12/20 01:52 |
Late Breaking CALIFORNIA Dreaming of Fiscal Bailout From Bush:
biggest corporate sugar daddy, California announced that it can no
longer pay its employees, further endangering state run services and
problem. Support for the Big 3 Auto makers follows those corporations
freely choosing their own massive investments abroad, and their own
unwillingness to sell off their own assets to raise money for their
now troubled ventures. Chances are that the Big 3 will continue to buy
abroad, including buying new investments abroad, rather than investing
in America, while taking big sugar daddy Bush for every penny they can
pick from his massive chief executive pockets. Not only that but the
president of the United States meddling in the business of the Big 3,
in any way, even in providing loans to them that they otherwise would
not be able to qualify for and get in the free enterprise fiscal
market, is illegal. Simply constitutionally illegal tampering with
Experiments Based on American Ideology Understate the Role of SADISM
in Human Life:
Santa Clara University in the USA has carried out another experiment
pain subjects would inflict when given permission by the experimenter.
attitude of the experimenters.
Millennia of humans fighting humans, in bloody carnage has shaped
human nature. Humans are programmed from the cradle to be ready to
kill other humans. It is built into human culture and has been that
way since tribal civilizations began. Perhaps even earlier. In Europe
evidence of public torture and cannibalism as punishment is abundant,
and mostly avoided by the historians. Language provides ample proof of
the prevalent ideas of the non metaphoric, more literal, time periods
when the languages evolved. That and we know what happened to whomever
was odd, weird, or pointed out, by their neighbors during the witch
and heretic hunts which took hundreds of thousands of lives from what
was then a relatively sparse population.
Primal killer instincts definitely play their role. Millennia of most
trained to follow command into battle, ready to kill or die, given a
few words of orders added to that fact. That was built upon even more
millennia of organized hunts for survival. All of that shaped human
nature into what it so obviously is. Mix that with sadism arising in
some as outlet for repressed anger, and most can be commanded to
unquestioningly wound or kill.
The Milgram Test and all subsequent variants of that study are very
misleadingly experiments, tainted with American ideology. Thus they
are very superficial, still assuming people are essentially good when
left to their innate and unconstrained human nature.. Human history
differs with America on that, and it differs decisively.
The Eye of the NEEDLING:
I see America as very attentive to the details, but only in respect to
details that consume attention away from larger and more significant
political, social, and economic issues. Yes, you can employ an army of
accountants, working on the tenth decimal place of any chart of
accounts, but not find even one whistle blower as the whole fiscal
temple crumbles and collapses in on itself.
Keep people occupied worrying about whether they are wearing the right
color and design of shirt, shoes, and whether their toothpaste is
effective enough, concerned about what every one else might think,
about any little detail in their lives, and soon you have a people who
are completely crippled when it comes to even the smallest
consideration of the questions that relate to the larger society,
political order, and economics of the world around them. Yes, you can
lock up people inside themselves, and within their own little worries,
and even more so when you give fashion trends a massive boost in ever
changing emphasis. Keep them busy trying to comprehend and keep up
with that, and soon you have a nice flock of sheep, willing to roll in
their own sheep shit and consider it the American dream come true. If
everyone smells the same, no matter how foul a stench it really is, no
one is that overly likely to notice it. That principle seems to work
remarkably well and it keeps incompetence in power.
The Persistent Loss of COMMUNITY in Our Pressure Cooker Societies:
We are kept increasingly busied with the details of our own lives,
trying to compete harder and faster for endangered places in our
societies. We are constantly reminded, in one way or another, if not
absolutely chastised, that we are never learning enough, accomplishing
enough, achieving enough, making enough money, doing well enough, nor
doing near enough for ourselves, leaving less and less for anything
that even remotely resembles community. When everyone is placed under
that type of pressure, community is largely destroyed. Everyone does
more alone and far less with others than 25 years ago. Partly because
personal relations have largely been replaced with formalism and
professionalism even in hobbies. The most difficult thing now,
compared to the experiences of many, 25 years ago, is for work and
personal relationships to overlap, such that couples form around their
activities, mutually sharing means and ways to mutually supportive
successes. Now, more often than not, competitive stresses intrude and
destroy the possibility, leaving most to struggle on alone, or with
partners who do not share their interests to be of any real mutual
help in any achievement of mutual successes. The exceptions are fewer
and further between than ever before.
Robert Morpheal
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