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Are We a Broken People? Why We’ve Stopped Fighting Back

Feb 13

Posted by Parents Place Admin in Activism, Government, Media, Modern Renaissance | 1 Comment

Bruce E. Levine
AlterNet
Thursday, Dec 17th, 2009

A psychologist asks: Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves?

Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not “set them free” but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States (and Canada)?

Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?

What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged population?

Can anything be done to turn this around?

Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not “set them free” but instead further demoralize them?

Yes. It is called the “abuse syndrome.” How do abusive pimps, spouses, bosses, corporations, and governments stay in control? They shove lies, emotional and physical abuses, and injustices in their victims’ faces, and when victims are afraid to exit from these relationships, they get weaker. So the abuser then makes their victims eat even more lies, abuses, and injustices, resulting in victims even weaker as they remain in these relationships.

Does knowing the truth of their abuse set people free when they are deep in these abuse syndromes?

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How Television Works

Feb 9

Posted by Parents Place Admin in Child Abuse, Child Exploitation, Children, Government, Health, Modern Renaissance, Parenting | 2 Comments

Tags: 9/11, alpha, chomsky, commercials, conspiracy, control, devon, fight or flight, films, grey, how, hypnosis, jerry, lindy, mander, marketing, mind, noam, question, receptive, subconscious, technology, tele, television, thoughts, tv, Updoc, works

TV and Your Child’s Brain – EXPLAINED

Jan 20

Posted by Parents Place Admin in Children, Parenting | 2 Comments

I looked at some research into how TV affects the viewers brain. I will try to explain it in simple terms (because I am rather simple myself)

The stimulus (TV/Porn/Movie/Music video/etc) sends A/V signals to the subject’s brain.
The subject’s brain then processes what it is experiencing with eyes and ears.
The subject is stationary, usually at rest, in a familiar setting and is comfortable there.
The violent stimulus triggers natural fight or flight reactions in the subject’s brain, but the subject is not in any real danger, so the subject’s brain suppresses any reactions.
Change the stimulus and the respective reactions take place in the brain, usually contrary to the subject’s state, and the brain suppresses further.
There are no exciting videos of people sitting on their couches. The SIMS is the closest you’re going to get to that, haha, so the stimulus is almost always in direct contrast to the viewer’s current state.

Now, with that said, what happens when the brain reacts, then is suppressed – repeatedly? Well, over a 120 minute movie with the action, romance, and drama peaking and falling throughout, the brain gets a good workout. As an adult you’re used to it, but with a kid, they’re just learning to suppress these things, and what happens is they build up the feelings rather than suppressing them. So, at the end of a fighting movie they want to release that build up, and they act-out. At the end of a sad movie they might be on a downer, or appear saddened. Over time, they develop coping mechanisms, but some kids don’t and they act-out all the time, and as they grow up they act-out on a larger scale.

Think About It.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/10/20/how-television-affects-your-brain-chemistry-and-that-s-not-all.aspx

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