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Cognitive liberty or compassionate coercion?
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by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News
June 2, 2007Cognitive liberty or compassionate coercion?
Can you remember the difference?
Not if the government has anything to say about it.
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Our cognitive liberty is a HUGE
civil rights issue, and mostly ignored.
Empathy is the key to social intimacy and power sharing in relationships.
Destroy empathy, you destroy humanity 's humanness and all you are left
with is a flesh machine.
One characteristic of a machine is it is
OBEDIENT to whomever programs it, and it obeys its programming.
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It has no
choice. A machine is coerced to perform. Or it does nothing.
A person,
however, is a whole different animal. To make a machine out of a person
you have to take the original personality out of the person by making his
life crazy and painful, by breaking it, than remaking it. The military does
this with every recruit it trains, or more accurately, abuses.
Abusers and cults share that method of
break and remake. People seeking domination over people are willing to
go to extremes we dare not consider, to get their flesh machine's loyal
obedience.
Brain implants
The Department of Defense, as I have written about before, seeks to make
soldiers able to kill people on command, without regrets or remorse, so
they can face the battle without getting PTSD, which is damaging and
costly to the people who would rather spend money colonizing other
countries, breaking, and remaking more people and gathering corporate welfare.
The politics of pain and the uses of torture
Scientists are developing drugs that could
eliminate traumatic events from our memories
Would it be wise to remove a person's feelings of remorse after they did
a crime, even with permission of an authority figure, with a chemical?
Hell no. In 2002, the Office of National Drug Control Policy coined the
term "compassionate coercion".
"Compassionate Coercion? Is that like Compassionate Conservatism? or
Friendly Fascism? Means the same thing to me. Regardless of whether the
perpetrator hurts me with a smile, pretending like he "cares" for my wellbeing, or with a sneer -- the results are always the same.
Bush recruits religious youth groups
as ground troops for the 'drug wars'
Coercion or the willful and deliberate disregard of another person's right to
give or deny their own consent by using manipulation, by censoring
information, or by bullying is never compassionate, and it is not ethical. Ever.
The option to say NO, I do not want what YOU offer me is a cornerstone of
cognitive freedom in a social 'relationship'.
Coercion (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Coercion is defined as the use of force
to restrain, dominate or threat
I am certain that the DoD has more than one motive for developing drugs to
destroy memories that induce guilt. Trying to cure PTSD with an
eraser may also destroy human sensitivity, empathy, and I think it is a
BAD IDEA. Because a guilt-free population is what the most sneaky and
ruthless sociopaths would love to have.
If
we don't remember, how can we feel remorse for what we could have done in
a bad situation when we could have learned from it? How would we know
how to respond the next time a similar situation arises and we fail
again to act to help and others suffered for our inaction and we'd
forget it and feel no guilt for this? Exactly HOW would this help
humanity protect itself from predatory people?
We build our whole interpretation and understanding of the world based
upon experience, or on the accuracy of our memories. If you disrupt those
memories, remove continuity, what you have is an erosion of person-hood.
You dissociate from your own experiences you basically get all the
amnesia of PTSD without ever knowing the painful reasons of WHY you are
suffering a seperation from yourself. Finding out what hurts is a step
to healing the problem.
And if we start using a drugs to erase conscious recall in PTSD patients,
it only makes sure nobody remembers all the war crimes, the torture
done, the abuse. Nobody who does these things will be made accountable
for their crimes, because no-one will recall. Everyone will sound like
Alberto Gonzales testifying to Congress...
Someday you may be able to take a pill to forget painful recollections
Making monsters
There are grave dangers to forgetting experiences that hurt, dangers to
the non-sociopath population, which is about 3/4ths of all of us on
Earth. Non-psychopaths are the only people who have a conscience because
they can feel GUILT over doing bad things to others.
Abuse to a child creates misplaced guilt can cripple the adult later on.
So if a psychopathic adult tortures a child, they do it by abusing power
over in some way. It can be done by inflicting psychological or
emotional abuse or neglect. To create the effect of boundary disruption,
it does not require sexual abuse or beatings, so they might become an
adult who has unclear boundaries.
What your child remembers --
New discoveries about early memory and how it affects us
Developing healthy boundaries
It all gets worse if society is in denial. Normalizing toxic people and
relationships denies their prevalence and pain. When the caregivers
are too self-absorbed and the kid is scarred by a memory they dare not
express, the kid will take on the guilt that should belong to the
abuser. Because a young child blames them-selves by default. Because
non-psychopath kids are compassionate, because they need to bond with
others to survive they do this.
The significance of infant bonding in the
development of self and relationships
Understanding preemie parents
Children reflect the treatment they receive
A baby and many other animals will die if it is not cuddled and treated
with love. Its brain shuts down. Babies and kids are seeking to create
bonds to other people by nature, so abuse or neglect, rejection or taunts
by caregivers, peers or trusted adults who are narcissistic, psychopathic
or authoritarian will twist that compassion inward as guilt and shame
for something that never was the child's fault.
Abuse can give the child
the feeling compassion is dangerous. Or that love hurts.
Children who blame themselves for domestic abuse
How do kids feel?
The individual and the community
So is forcing people to bond and supervising what they do, as in
compassionate coercion, a sane way to create a 'community'? No. No more
than democracy can come from the barrel of a gun.
"Community" by coercion: Behind the Bush administration's "compassionate conservatism" and revolutionary foreign policy
is a dangerous collectivist ideology called "Communitarianism"
Our culture sees individual pursuit of self-happiness as a sacrosanct
right. Most people have no clue what it IS they seek, and the market
takes FULL ADVANTAGE of all types of human suffering and repackages
it. Pursuing this fake self-happiness that our culture promotes gets in
the way of developing true compassion for others' plights and joys. It
interferes with the trust and honesty needed to let people be who
they are, without destroying them to form 'communities' with them. Self-happiness feels good to the self, and true compassion feels pretty
damn bad sometimes. But sometimes it can feel very good.
Good or bad, it has to come from the individual's own heart, from their own true
compassion, not from state CONTROL wearing a mask of compassion.
Compassion of the mind
Through painful experiences of cognitive dissonance facing abuse is one
factor confusing boundaries in our culture. Self-blame is a child's way
of protecting itself from predatory people by pleasing the abuser, by
becoming a perfect child, or becoming a protector against all odds, or
shrinking and making themselves invisible -- to avoid more abuse and to be
able to exist being dependant on people it needs, and whom the child is
hurt by at the same time. Sorta like how we depend on the state and
corporations, but do not trust or like their abuses, and we try to
eke out a living without going over the edge.
It is the non-psychopath personality types who need
to have clear self-protective boundaries to protect themselves and each
other's well being from people determined to coerce them out of being
who they are, to control them. So forgetting the hurts done to you in the
past basically erases not only symptoms, it also erases the
emotional force behind the why of why someone would want to erect a
personal moral barrier against abusing others or make a decision to not
go by-standing while others get abused.
Healthy non-psychopaths' boundaries are mostly regulated internally , by a
conscience, and it effects their behavior in external relationships in a
positive, pro-social survival way. If the person breaks his own rules he
might feel shamed by himself -- and not do it again. When a person's
boundaries are messed up from abuse before the child could form their
own boundary system, the person does not know what to do with their own
compassion. They freeze and stand by, unsure of where the boundary IS, and
wait for someone else with an authoritative stance to take the
responsibility or "lead" the response.
If boundaries are non-existent as
in psychopathic personalities who also happened to have been abused, then abuse,
by-standing, and crimes will occur without the guilt, remorse, or any self-restraint beyond how to get away with the crime.
Self-responsibility and laissez faire
US use of psychological torture systematic and unabated
The inequalities revealed by death
Non -psychopaths are the only people who CAN restrain the damage these
toxic personalities cause. And acting on the compassionate urge to
intervene in an abuse situation it isn't always something that evokes
feel good feelings. I can be like diving off a cliff into an unknown
situation.
So of course to get away with abuse, psychopaths want to make everyone
be like themselves and not care what people do.
Will a happier future be a nastier future?
Psychopaths do everything they can to ensure they do not have to deal
with social boundaries or consent. They fancy themselves elite, and they
are ruthless and manipulating of non-psychopaths and kids who
have had no chance to learn boundaries. Psychopaths from the beginning of
time have declared open season on the non-psychopaths. Psychopaths like
to get away with abusing others in every way one can be abused, so if
people are drugged to never feel guilt or remorse when others
suffer, who will care enough to stop a psychopath from abusing someone or
abusing privileges in a position of authority?
Toxic managers: The problem of corporate psychopaths
Consent or Coercion: An anarchist case for social
transformation
and answers to questions about anarchism
Guilt and remorse have a important social survival function. They
really do, they stem from thwarted human empathy, and they enable us to
control ourselves on the inside, so we can co exist without destroying
each other on the outside of self, in relation to each other in the
world.
In other words, non-psychopaths self regulate their own ethical
boundaries. Only giving one's inner locus of control to an authority
figure can blind a soldier to the murders he commits in war, so once the
responsibility is shifted back to the soldier's conscience, and he might
develop PTSD, not only from trauma but from guilt, when he realizes
obeying orders from authority figures won't negate his own
moral responsibility as a human being.
Sociopaths or those personalities
who do not feel guilt or remorse for their actions are predators upon
all non psychopath people. If you take away guilt and remorse you
chemically create a criminal, from a non toxic personality, literally. I
dunno about you, but to me that's some scary shit.
Narcissism: an innate force or tendency opposed to relationship and
community. Without empathy no relationship can fill the poverty of a
narcissist's inner life. Without reciprocity intimacy perishes.
Touch in labor and infancy
Supermaximum security prisons, sensory deprivation
and effects of solitary confinement
The science of evil and its use for political purposes
Because the definition of power as the ability to compel obedience fails
to distinguish between coercive and non-coercive means of securing
obedience, it is imprecise and potentially misleading.
Psychiatric coercion serves the drug corporations and the ruling class, not patients
'Soul catcher' computer chip due
Immortality, capitalism-style
Some are born psychopaths.
Twins study finds genetic cause for psychopathy
Biological brain differences found in criminal
psychopaths when processing facial emotion
Others might be made psychopathic:
The rise of the chemical soldier
Beyond therapy: Biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness
Fake your way to the top!
Compassionate coerciveness and neurotechnology
In this world, I have not found any true friend. The whole world is
attached to its own happiness, and when trouble comes, no one is
with you. Wives, friends, children and relatives - all are attached
to wealth. When they see a poor man, they all forsake his company
and run away.
The institutional separation of society
The evolution of psyche and society
| | Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. You need one because you are human. You didn’t come from nowhere. Jane Howard |
Excerpted from "I'm not in Love," by the Talking Heads:| |
... Feeling!
Take it easy baby...
Don't let your feelings get in the way.
Some day, I believe,
we can live in a world without love.
I can answer your questions,
If you won't twist what I say.
Please respect my opinions,
They will be respected some day.
Because we don't need love.
I believe that we don't need love.
There'll come a day when we won't need love. |
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The death of intimacy
© by the author.
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Underground Panther in the Sky
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If we don't remember, how can we feel remorse for what we could have done in a bad situation when we could have learned from it?
How would we know how to respond the next time a similar situation arises and we fail again to act to help and others suffered for our inaction and we'd forget it and feel no guilt for this?
Exactly HOW would this help humanity protect itself from predatory people?
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