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11-29-2003, 07:18 PM
Top of the morning.... "Tadit Anderson, I.D.E.A.S. Inc.
ideasinc@ee.net
Terror and Psychic Numbing
I appreciated Dr. Carol Wolman's essay "Nuclear Terror and Psychic
Numbing In The New Millennium," particularly as a part of a discourse
related to worldview Peace-fare. As a text it seems as much a
commentary as an agenda for activism. From my personal perspective I
believe that simple activism and faith are inadequate to the task. I
believe that there are elements of our entire self image and self
understanding as a society and, writ larger, as a "civilization" that
are more in need of renewal and truth telling, than a restoration of a
normalcy of privilege and. consumption. At this point the sustainability
of our species has long been intertwined with the use of warfare to
achieve the control of limited and strategic resources in preparation
for war under other names. The strategic nature of those resources is
deeply entwined with the consumption patterns of the colonializing
culture and its sustainability economically or ecologically. Little has
changed from the second Royal charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
which assured the British access to mast height trees for their navy and
merchant ships.
The Viet Nam War (also described by the era's spin-mechanics as a
"police action") may have been ended due to confrontation and resistance
on the domestic front in part supported by the relatively open and
unfiltered coverage of the military actions and campaigns. The same
interests and priorities that led the US into that foreign policy
adventure, strategic global positioning and access to strategic or
limited resources are apparently still primary. These priorities have
apparently also provided the motivation of the more recent actions in
Afghanistan and Iraq. This agency has demonstrated their ability to
learn by preventing media coverage of returning body bags, of civilian
fatalities as collateral damage, and by embedding journalists in a very
controlled and distorted perspective of this military colonization campaign.
The peace and anti-war activists have only begun to demonstrate a
similar level of resourcefulness. Examples include Foreign Policy in
Focus and the International Forum on Globalization. Peace activism,
defined as "anti-war," has tended to be primarily a reaction based
response rather than also including a pro-active response. The base
motivation has seemed to be to return to a sense of non-martial
normality. Further, the response seems more directed to ending warfare,
than addressing the interests that apply warfare as tool of policy and
self defense in the interest of the elites. The cumulative positive
effect of the anti-war response can be measured by the fear of
politicians to engage in full blown military actions. Enhanced
complicity and monopolization of public media have emboldened the
political and economic elites somewhat. The "anti-terrorism" version of
warfare seems to be another stratagem to elevate the acceptable
application of military force in the interest of corporatist foreign and
domestic policies.
In essence the fundamentals have not changed. At most, maybe the deck
chairs were re-arranged a bit. The resistance and confrontation did not
accomplish very much beyond short term and limited goals, and the usual
tales of youth and heroism for some. The point is not that the
resistance to warfare should not have been done, but to measure by the
results whether any fundamental change has been accomplished. Speaking
truth to power is a low risk, low yield commitment without changing the
life patterns that have created that power.
Something more is needed beyond waging limited peace. The technology
of the internet, though it has been useful as an education tool, unless
the programming of our society and "civilization" is changed in a deep
way, the best we can hope for is a return engagement. It is a point of
dark humor that the primary advocates of warfare as domestic and foreign
policy have recently been primarily the chicken hawks that lack any
personal risk or experience. The negative features of what is going on
now in terms of domestic and foreign policies is a product of long term
commitment and the application of significant resources. Confrontation
doesn't seem to result in anything other than intimidation in either
direction.
There are a few threads in Dr. Wolman's essay that I'd like to touch on.
Nuclear terror may have terrorized some, particularly those who are
the self aware hostages and peasants. For those for whom a nuclear
Armageddon seems like the foretold conflict prior to the rapture,
mutually assured annihilation doesn't seem to pose much of a
disincentive. The wealthy elites who profit from warfare will always
have their bunkers and will happily pollute and poison someone else's
homeland The nuclear dimension is without a doubt a serious aspect, with
devastation implied on a global scale or nuclear pollution measured in
hundreds of thousands of years. It is true that as a species our
apparent capacity for committing terror at a distance has increased.
The tactical value of threatened violence is always terrorism either by
states or non state agencies. Those most likely to pull the nuclear
trigger seem to lack a value for life other than their own. The
resultant eco-catastrophes seem equally meaningless except as a basis
for terrorism. But then the likely results of bio-technology as the
creation of profits out of genetically designed pesticide tolerant
varieties whose treatment results in the death of insects and small
animals will create an equally damaging eco-catastrophe, which could
require thousands of years to repair. The application of similar
bio-technologies as bio-warfare against racially or ethnically related
genetic traits will result in a master race of the elites and vassals on
a genetic basis. Biological warfare has been used for centuries, there's
no reason to believe that it won't be used in more sophisticated forms
when its application will benefit the elites. And then the bio-warfare
being waged against the rest of the community of life is no less
catastrophic by the sheer amount of the water and arable land devoted
solely to support the growth of human bio-mass. The result, again, is
nearly the same.
The psychic numbness, distortions, and splitting are produced by the
thought control, passivity, social fragmentation, abstraction from
physical reality, and materialism seem to be parts of a strategy
accomplished incrementally if not deliberately. The benefits of the
Reformation and of Democracy have been resisted and obstructed by those
wishing to restore feudalism from the very beginning. Colonialism is
feudalism extended beyond national boundaries. Expecting to emancipate
the elites from their control and assumptions seems like a futile
possibility, except under the threat of losing their positions of
privilege. It seems to be useful to examine the nature of our cages and
shackles.
I believe also that the numbness, distortions, passivity, splitting, and
social fragmentation are intrinsic to our assumptions about our
societies and "civilization." These symptoms reflect a fault line
deeply socialized and programmed into our personal and collective egos.
For me this explains more clearly the symptoms than the capacity of
nuclear armaments. For better examples we have to go deeper into
history and anthropology. The mutually assured destruction at the level
of societies and civilizations may mark the collective mental limit to
the escalation of terror as a tactic.
Within the Jungian perspective it has to do with an element of the
shadow of our collective selves. To the extent that the collective
unconscious is programmable and inheritable by socialization we share
its features as individuals. Not to dispute the possibility of a
collective unconscious generic to the species, the nature of this form
of unconsciousness is that it is produced by ambient socializing which
we are for the most part unaware as part of our everyday life. In these
terms the split and paralysis is produced by denial of certain negative
content of the collective shadow. Denial will lead to the autonomy of
the shadow aspects of our society, as it has, and to the paralysis of
the body politic. Doing the shadow work to sort out the capacities and
choices involved begins the balancing.
The Dawkins/Quinn perspective of memetics identifies the autonomous
elements of the collective shadow as also contradictions produced
between long held assumptions and the realities of physical and
biological limitations. To name these lethal memes they could be
described as the "higher knowledge" meme, the "crown of creation" meme,
and the "exemption from the community of life" meme. The assumption
relative to both perspectives is that we can choose to reprogram our
culture as product of our self awareness, otherwise we are simply
waiting for self imposed extinction and the inevitable result of our
commitments to contradictions. o avoid writing book I'll defer on further
development of these themes for the moment.
The core suggestion is that peace-fare will involve rather than a
separate curriculum, a different approach to the entire content of the
human sciences. Thankfully, there are writers and practitioners that
have contributed to this re-newal, though they have not been supported
appropriately due to the nature of the challenges they present to
current conventions and assumptions."
The following is the introduction to a new model for discovering and
reclaiming mental health.http://www.tidal-model.co.uk/
There is an excellent page here involving the Metaphor for Psychological
Distress at:
http://www.tidal-model.co.uk/Metaphor3.htm
The Tidal Model acknowledges the central importance of 'nursing', in the
social rather than professional sense.
Please look at this good website :)
http://www.gedenkstaettesteinhof.at/index.shtml?lang=en;style=small
its in English and it deals with the Viennese psychiatric institute
steinhoff and the medical mass murders.
Sunday, November 9, 2003 copyright 2003 San Francisco Chronicle | Feedback
URL:
sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/09/ING9C2QSKB1.DTL
"How American corporate philanthropies launched a national campaign of
ethnic cleansing in the United States, helped found and fund the Nazi
eugenics of Hitler and Mengele and then created the modern movement of
'human genetics.' "
http://www.waragainsttheweak.com/
Edwin Black"
"DR. LOREN MOSHER, "LIBERATING MADNESS: HEALING WITHOUT MEDICATION" Contact
Freedom Center (413) 582-9948;
info@freedom-center.org; or
www.freedom-center.org for more information. Loren R. Mosher M.D., a
Harvard-trained psychiatrist and author of more than 100 scientific
publications, is former Chief of
the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia at the US National Institute of
Mental Health, and former editor-in-Chief, Schizophrenia Bulletin. Mosher
founded the Soteria Project, a non-drug, home-like, residential treatment
facility for schizophrenics and acutely
psychotic persons that proved the effectiveness of alternatives to
medication.
6 NEWS BRIEFS: Freedom in Mental Health - 22 Sept. 2003
http://www.MindFreedom.org * * * please forward! * * *
Psychiatric "Mind Control Implant" Technology
is Now Real and Getting Debated in Philadelphia
What are the Bush Administration & Pentagon Links to the
Stanley Foundation, the Main Pushers of Implants?
Other news: David Hilton Remembered... Jonathan Harte...
17-Year-Old Alex Asch.... Electroshock... Fast Fallout
The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers
Katherine Greider Public Affairs, $14, pp 189 ISBN 1 58648 185 1 Reviewed
by Ray Moynihan.
We at Truehope would like to inform you that Truehope and the research
behind Empowerplus entitled, "Impossible Cure?" on:
TruehopeNutritionalSupport888-TRUEHOPE www.truehope.com
An article from a friend of mine, John Breeding,PhD who is a strong advocate
in the battle to stop the drugging of children with Schedule II drugs. This
and Bush's agenda are Captialism at it's worst. Profit before People, other
species, and the environment.
More about John and his organization at :) www.wildestcolts.com
These may be a good movement to connect with especially regarding
globalization of electroshock, meds & other western approaches: I went to a
talk given by 3 visiting members of the Peoples Health Movement. (they have
a very simple and straightforward approach- not a web-site to get lost at).
www.phmovement.org
News from our friendly FDA and the pharmaceutical industry..All drugs
containing PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE are being recalled
http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/ppa/default.htm
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com
http://www.InclusionDaily.com
"It is the theory that decides what we can observe." ~ Albert Einstein
As always, feel free to copy and share, as well. "Painting is poetry which
is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not
seen." ~ Leonardo da Vinci "Prison is designed to break everyone's spirit
and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit
every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of
individuality, all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each
of us human and each of us who we are." ~ Nelson Mandela
"If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy
and balanced development
is the best form of conflict prevention." ~ Kofi Annan U.N. Secretary
General 1999
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The
latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to
hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
~ Albert Einstein
"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, effects all indirectly."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy
and balanced development
is the best form of conflict prevention." ~ Kofi Annan U.N. Secretary
General 1999
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The
latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to
hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
~ Albert Einstein
"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, effects all indirectly."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
~ Mahatma Gandhi, "we must be the changes we wish to ee in the world."
Enjoy an autumnal eve' as you can. Ciao, for now. i look forward.... What do
you think? Viva la evolution, viva green party. james m nordlund reality
(aja) :) Good Holidays.
ideasinc@ee.net
Terror and Psychic Numbing
I appreciated Dr. Carol Wolman's essay "Nuclear Terror and Psychic
Numbing In The New Millennium," particularly as a part of a discourse
related to worldview Peace-fare. As a text it seems as much a
commentary as an agenda for activism. From my personal perspective I
believe that simple activism and faith are inadequate to the task. I
believe that there are elements of our entire self image and self
understanding as a society and, writ larger, as a "civilization" that
are more in need of renewal and truth telling, than a restoration of a
normalcy of privilege and. consumption. At this point the sustainability
of our species has long been intertwined with the use of warfare to
achieve the control of limited and strategic resources in preparation
for war under other names. The strategic nature of those resources is
deeply entwined with the consumption patterns of the colonializing
culture and its sustainability economically or ecologically. Little has
changed from the second Royal charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
which assured the British access to mast height trees for their navy and
merchant ships.
The Viet Nam War (also described by the era's spin-mechanics as a
"police action") may have been ended due to confrontation and resistance
on the domestic front in part supported by the relatively open and
unfiltered coverage of the military actions and campaigns. The same
interests and priorities that led the US into that foreign policy
adventure, strategic global positioning and access to strategic or
limited resources are apparently still primary. These priorities have
apparently also provided the motivation of the more recent actions in
Afghanistan and Iraq. This agency has demonstrated their ability to
learn by preventing media coverage of returning body bags, of civilian
fatalities as collateral damage, and by embedding journalists in a very
controlled and distorted perspective of this military colonization campaign.
The peace and anti-war activists have only begun to demonstrate a
similar level of resourcefulness. Examples include Foreign Policy in
Focus and the International Forum on Globalization. Peace activism,
defined as "anti-war," has tended to be primarily a reaction based
response rather than also including a pro-active response. The base
motivation has seemed to be to return to a sense of non-martial
normality. Further, the response seems more directed to ending warfare,
than addressing the interests that apply warfare as tool of policy and
self defense in the interest of the elites. The cumulative positive
effect of the anti-war response can be measured by the fear of
politicians to engage in full blown military actions. Enhanced
complicity and monopolization of public media have emboldened the
political and economic elites somewhat. The "anti-terrorism" version of
warfare seems to be another stratagem to elevate the acceptable
application of military force in the interest of corporatist foreign and
domestic policies.
In essence the fundamentals have not changed. At most, maybe the deck
chairs were re-arranged a bit. The resistance and confrontation did not
accomplish very much beyond short term and limited goals, and the usual
tales of youth and heroism for some. The point is not that the
resistance to warfare should not have been done, but to measure by the
results whether any fundamental change has been accomplished. Speaking
truth to power is a low risk, low yield commitment without changing the
life patterns that have created that power.
Something more is needed beyond waging limited peace. The technology
of the internet, though it has been useful as an education tool, unless
the programming of our society and "civilization" is changed in a deep
way, the best we can hope for is a return engagement. It is a point of
dark humor that the primary advocates of warfare as domestic and foreign
policy have recently been primarily the chicken hawks that lack any
personal risk or experience. The negative features of what is going on
now in terms of domestic and foreign policies is a product of long term
commitment and the application of significant resources. Confrontation
doesn't seem to result in anything other than intimidation in either
direction.
There are a few threads in Dr. Wolman's essay that I'd like to touch on.
Nuclear terror may have terrorized some, particularly those who are
the self aware hostages and peasants. For those for whom a nuclear
Armageddon seems like the foretold conflict prior to the rapture,
mutually assured annihilation doesn't seem to pose much of a
disincentive. The wealthy elites who profit from warfare will always
have their bunkers and will happily pollute and poison someone else's
homeland The nuclear dimension is without a doubt a serious aspect, with
devastation implied on a global scale or nuclear pollution measured in
hundreds of thousands of years. It is true that as a species our
apparent capacity for committing terror at a distance has increased.
The tactical value of threatened violence is always terrorism either by
states or non state agencies. Those most likely to pull the nuclear
trigger seem to lack a value for life other than their own. The
resultant eco-catastrophes seem equally meaningless except as a basis
for terrorism. But then the likely results of bio-technology as the
creation of profits out of genetically designed pesticide tolerant
varieties whose treatment results in the death of insects and small
animals will create an equally damaging eco-catastrophe, which could
require thousands of years to repair. The application of similar
bio-technologies as bio-warfare against racially or ethnically related
genetic traits will result in a master race of the elites and vassals on
a genetic basis. Biological warfare has been used for centuries, there's
no reason to believe that it won't be used in more sophisticated forms
when its application will benefit the elites. And then the bio-warfare
being waged against the rest of the community of life is no less
catastrophic by the sheer amount of the water and arable land devoted
solely to support the growth of human bio-mass. The result, again, is
nearly the same.
The psychic numbness, distortions, and splitting are produced by the
thought control, passivity, social fragmentation, abstraction from
physical reality, and materialism seem to be parts of a strategy
accomplished incrementally if not deliberately. The benefits of the
Reformation and of Democracy have been resisted and obstructed by those
wishing to restore feudalism from the very beginning. Colonialism is
feudalism extended beyond national boundaries. Expecting to emancipate
the elites from their control and assumptions seems like a futile
possibility, except under the threat of losing their positions of
privilege. It seems to be useful to examine the nature of our cages and
shackles.
I believe also that the numbness, distortions, passivity, splitting, and
social fragmentation are intrinsic to our assumptions about our
societies and "civilization." These symptoms reflect a fault line
deeply socialized and programmed into our personal and collective egos.
For me this explains more clearly the symptoms than the capacity of
nuclear armaments. For better examples we have to go deeper into
history and anthropology. The mutually assured destruction at the level
of societies and civilizations may mark the collective mental limit to
the escalation of terror as a tactic.
Within the Jungian perspective it has to do with an element of the
shadow of our collective selves. To the extent that the collective
unconscious is programmable and inheritable by socialization we share
its features as individuals. Not to dispute the possibility of a
collective unconscious generic to the species, the nature of this form
of unconsciousness is that it is produced by ambient socializing which
we are for the most part unaware as part of our everyday life. In these
terms the split and paralysis is produced by denial of certain negative
content of the collective shadow. Denial will lead to the autonomy of
the shadow aspects of our society, as it has, and to the paralysis of
the body politic. Doing the shadow work to sort out the capacities and
choices involved begins the balancing.
The Dawkins/Quinn perspective of memetics identifies the autonomous
elements of the collective shadow as also contradictions produced
between long held assumptions and the realities of physical and
biological limitations. To name these lethal memes they could be
described as the "higher knowledge" meme, the "crown of creation" meme,
and the "exemption from the community of life" meme. The assumption
relative to both perspectives is that we can choose to reprogram our
culture as product of our self awareness, otherwise we are simply
waiting for self imposed extinction and the inevitable result of our
commitments to contradictions. o avoid writing book I'll defer on further
development of these themes for the moment.
The core suggestion is that peace-fare will involve rather than a
separate curriculum, a different approach to the entire content of the
human sciences. Thankfully, there are writers and practitioners that
have contributed to this re-newal, though they have not been supported
appropriately due to the nature of the challenges they present to
current conventions and assumptions."
The following is the introduction to a new model for discovering and
reclaiming mental health.http://www.tidal-model.co.uk/
There is an excellent page here involving the Metaphor for Psychological
Distress at:
http://www.tidal-model.co.uk/Metaphor3.htm
The Tidal Model acknowledges the central importance of 'nursing', in the
social rather than professional sense.
Please look at this good website :)
http://www.gedenkstaettesteinhof.at/index.shtml?lang=en;style=small
its in English and it deals with the Viennese psychiatric institute
steinhoff and the medical mass murders.
Sunday, November 9, 2003 copyright 2003 San Francisco Chronicle | Feedback
URL:
sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/09/ING9C2QSKB1.DTL
"How American corporate philanthropies launched a national campaign of
ethnic cleansing in the United States, helped found and fund the Nazi
eugenics of Hitler and Mengele and then created the modern movement of
'human genetics.' "
http://www.waragainsttheweak.com/
Edwin Black"
"DR. LOREN MOSHER, "LIBERATING MADNESS: HEALING WITHOUT MEDICATION" Contact
Freedom Center (413) 582-9948;
info@freedom-center.org; or
www.freedom-center.org for more information. Loren R. Mosher M.D., a
Harvard-trained psychiatrist and author of more than 100 scientific
publications, is former Chief of
the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia at the US National Institute of
Mental Health, and former editor-in-Chief, Schizophrenia Bulletin. Mosher
founded the Soteria Project, a non-drug, home-like, residential treatment
facility for schizophrenics and acutely
psychotic persons that proved the effectiveness of alternatives to
medication.
6 NEWS BRIEFS: Freedom in Mental Health - 22 Sept. 2003
http://www.MindFreedom.org * * * please forward! * * *
Psychiatric "Mind Control Implant" Technology
is Now Real and Getting Debated in Philadelphia
What are the Bush Administration & Pentagon Links to the
Stanley Foundation, the Main Pushers of Implants?
Other news: David Hilton Remembered... Jonathan Harte...
17-Year-Old Alex Asch.... Electroshock... Fast Fallout
The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers
Katherine Greider Public Affairs, $14, pp 189 ISBN 1 58648 185 1 Reviewed
by Ray Moynihan.
We at Truehope would like to inform you that Truehope and the research
behind Empowerplus entitled, "Impossible Cure?" on:
TruehopeNutritionalSupport888-TRUEHOPE www.truehope.com
An article from a friend of mine, John Breeding,PhD who is a strong advocate
in the battle to stop the drugging of children with Schedule II drugs. This
and Bush's agenda are Captialism at it's worst. Profit before People, other
species, and the environment.
More about John and his organization at :) www.wildestcolts.com
These may be a good movement to connect with especially regarding
globalization of electroshock, meds & other western approaches: I went to a
talk given by 3 visiting members of the Peoples Health Movement. (they have
a very simple and straightforward approach- not a web-site to get lost at).
www.phmovement.org
News from our friendly FDA and the pharmaceutical industry..All drugs
containing PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE are being recalled
http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/ppa/default.htm
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com
http://www.InclusionDaily.com
"It is the theory that decides what we can observe." ~ Albert Einstein
As always, feel free to copy and share, as well. "Painting is poetry which
is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not
seen." ~ Leonardo da Vinci "Prison is designed to break everyone's spirit
and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit
every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of
individuality, all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each
of us human and each of us who we are." ~ Nelson Mandela
"If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy
and balanced development
is the best form of conflict prevention." ~ Kofi Annan U.N. Secretary
General 1999
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The
latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to
hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
~ Albert Einstein
"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, effects all indirectly."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy
and balanced development
is the best form of conflict prevention." ~ Kofi Annan U.N. Secretary
General 1999
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The
latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to
hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
~ Albert Einstein
"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, effects all indirectly."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
~ Mahatma Gandhi, "we must be the changes we wish to ee in the world."
Enjoy an autumnal eve' as you can. Ciao, for now. i look forward.... What do
you think? Viva la evolution, viva green party. james m nordlund reality
(aja) :) Good Holidays.