How does the State fail us ?
It fails us when politicians who claim to be ensuring the safety of its citizens put them at risk of injury either from overcrowding in mental health facilities, over-medication of patients by family doctors, and overreacting to mostly harmless people who daily beat the stigma.
Take, for example, the State's handling of mental health.
Only effective forms of medication are covered by state health insurance i.e. Medicaid/Medicare.
Medications deemed old and inefficient are not covered, nor are the newest ones approved in another jurisdiction universally available.
The State does so to protect people from harm, since it knows what is best for the People.
Yet it does not go further to protect the mentally ill from stigma, citing "free speech" when Hollywood stereotypes the mentally ill as evil in the guise of violent psychotics, zombies or agents of the Devil.
Could it be that the stigma of mental illness is manufactured by society to motivate each of us to pro-actively develop mental health strategies through education and therapy.
Perhaps the State implies through its administration of Medicaid/Medicare that medication does the least harm while allowing local government to section/hospitalize mentally ill people who pose potential harm to themselves or others.
At the same time, it surely cannot protect the People from benign sociopaths who become politicians. Why can't the State protect the People from politicians? While the laws of the State are often written to remedy social problems such as mental illness, they also ensure that "the rich get richer while the poor get poorer."
In this way, doing what's best for the People profits the State through the private sector. Hopefully it also helps us to promote the mental health of the People.
While ending the stigma of the mentally ill may not be profitable to the State, it still is a basic human right for the People.
Yet the free speech observed by Hollywood producers trades a few laughs gained by parodying the mentally ill for profit.
Even if the State fails us by helping the pharmaceutical corporations profit from increased psychiatric medication sales, that should provide adequate motivation to beat the stigma of mental illness daily.
If we want to end such stigma, then it is only worth watching a movie which casts mental illness in a negative light by discussing the stereotyping that casts the shadow stigma on the characters in it.
In that way, it is possible to educate family and friends about how stereotyping the mentally ill subtly promotes the stigma.
If we want to reduce the cost of lives lost due to over-medication, then prevention could save costs.
For not everyone wants to rush forward where the extremely nervous of people fear to tread.
Original post: June 25, 2010 1154H
Previous updated: March 15, 2013 2327H
Currently revised: November 28, 2013 0447H
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20131113
Political Correctness: Symptom of Authoritarianism or Fear of Freedom? (satire)
Political correctness may be a symptom of living in a subtly authoritarian State.
It begins in public schools.
In the end, few people realize they gave away their right to be totally free, mainly because all the kids who exercised their freedom openly were branded "bad" out of fear that they could be a "bad influence" on their socially compliant peers.
Since the exercise of freedom often conflicts with social order, the State is empowered by laws to check the freedom of those people who challenge the status quo.
In a subtly authoritarian State, compliance is still demanded to maintain public order. Those people who fight with the State over this are often maligned and sometimes given too much notoriety by the press. Consequently, some of them may become social outcasts.
While they feel they are entitled to their place in society, such people remain non-compliant with the rules of society, and may develop conduct disorders as a result of their anti-authoritarian behavior.
In a real democracy, there cannot be any distinction between people who do good and people who do evil just because the latter experience delayed character development due to their unwillingness to comply.
People with character defects may be narcissistic, and treat family and loved ones as extensions of their personality.
However, the only help which will deflate the ego of a narcissist is humility. For the character of people who believe the world should revolve around them is defective.
It is important for therapists, teachers and social workers to help the person with character defects to develop in character to face the challenge of a world where the importance of serving the greater good outweighs our potential for great evil.
IMO political correctness is a form of subtle authoritarianism that few of us recognize. It may misdirect people with character defects inclined to follow a path of narcissism but does not cause them to become social outcasts.
Indeed, it is mass media in the form of the press — along with other media such as the Internet and the film, radio and TV industries — that actually "manufactures" the stigma against social outcasts and brands any anti-authoritarian figure as outcast.
In doing so, mass media portrays the socially compliant people as serving the greater good and the social outcasts, as being "up to no good". This portrayal of the People places them in an Us versus Them scenario that is often simplistic and makes it easier to stigmatize the social outcast.
However, I refuse to maintain an Us versus Them mentality regarding compliant people who serve the greater good and people who are self-serving.
Although people have the potential for great evil, they also have the potential for great good.
When their acts are exceedingly self-serving and egocentric, their narcissism leads to them becoming social outcasts when they challenge authority and suffer the consequences without learning humility.
When their acts serve the greater good without fanfare, their service brings them acclaim because of their humility and compliance to social order.
Each person is unique in their qualities such as intelligence, physical health and attractiveness, yet these qualities are accidents of birth. Together the People represent a society that is a blend of distinctive ethnic cultures working together for the greater good.
While we may assume political correctness is always done for the greater good, sometimes our assumptions blind us to its misuse by the State.
This misuse of political correctness by the State is done to "divide and conquer" the People. By dividing society into the socially compliant and the social outcasts, the State does not serve the greater good of the People but only serves the lesser good of the elites.
Thus, the first three words of the US Constitution — "We the People" — refers all Americans, be they the rich and the poor, those of us with homes and the homeless, the mentally healthy and the mentally ill, the able-bodied and the disabled...
Yet "the State" also refers to the servants of the People, duly elected by the People to provide for the People the rights and freedoms that the Bill of Rights guarantees through laws which serve the greater good.
Political correctness not only occurs when the State censures the People, it also occurs when a group of people objects to a person who presents a position which different from theirs and refuses to listen to him lest it compromise their status quo.
In a real democracy, those servants of the People actually serve the greater good. In reality, a great many politicians appear to be self-serving but the few politicians who truly act as servants of the People deserve to represent the State.
This is why the Occupy movement arose, to provide direct democracy in action without a leader to mislead them. For direct democracy is why the Sudbury Valley School produced students who used their experience to innovate creative methods to succeed in college.
Yet mass media propaganda misled the public, predicting the Occupy movement was doomed to failure because it had no leadership. Very little time was given by the talking heads and even less column-inches was given by the press regarding direct democracy.
By omitting that fact mass media has done its version of political correctness by consistently omitting facts to serve the agenda of elites
Commentary from Down Under about the US health care system and American authoritarianism within the political system: http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/07/31/authoritarianism-its-bad-for-your-health/
Example of political correctness in the public school system: http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/school-orders-child-to-remove-god-from-poem.html
The Powers that be (phrase): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_powers_that_be_(phrase)
It begins in public schools.
In the end, few people realize they gave away their right to be totally free, mainly because all the kids who exercised their freedom openly were branded "bad" out of fear that they could be a "bad influence" on their socially compliant peers.
Since the exercise of freedom often conflicts with social order, the State is empowered by laws to check the freedom of those people who challenge the status quo.
In a subtly authoritarian State, compliance is still demanded to maintain public order. Those people who fight with the State over this are often maligned and sometimes given too much notoriety by the press. Consequently, some of them may become social outcasts.
While they feel they are entitled to their place in society, such people remain non-compliant with the rules of society, and may develop conduct disorders as a result of their anti-authoritarian behavior.
In a real democracy, there cannot be any distinction between people who do good and people who do evil just because the latter experience delayed character development due to their unwillingness to comply.
People with character defects may be narcissistic, and treat family and loved ones as extensions of their personality.
However, the only help which will deflate the ego of a narcissist is humility. For the character of people who believe the world should revolve around them is defective.
It is important for therapists, teachers and social workers to help the person with character defects to develop in character to face the challenge of a world where the importance of serving the greater good outweighs our potential for great evil.
IMO political correctness is a form of subtle authoritarianism that few of us recognize. It may misdirect people with character defects inclined to follow a path of narcissism but does not cause them to become social outcasts.
Indeed, it is mass media in the form of the press — along with other media such as the Internet and the film, radio and TV industries — that actually "manufactures" the stigma against social outcasts and brands any anti-authoritarian figure as outcast.
In doing so, mass media portrays the socially compliant people as serving the greater good and the social outcasts, as being "up to no good". This portrayal of the People places them in an Us versus Them scenario that is often simplistic and makes it easier to stigmatize the social outcast.
However, I refuse to maintain an Us versus Them mentality regarding compliant people who serve the greater good and people who are self-serving.
Although people have the potential for great evil, they also have the potential for great good.
When their acts are exceedingly self-serving and egocentric, their narcissism leads to them becoming social outcasts when they challenge authority and suffer the consequences without learning humility.
When their acts serve the greater good without fanfare, their service brings them acclaim because of their humility and compliance to social order.
Each person is unique in their qualities such as intelligence, physical health and attractiveness, yet these qualities are accidents of birth. Together the People represent a society that is a blend of distinctive ethnic cultures working together for the greater good.
While we may assume political correctness is always done for the greater good, sometimes our assumptions blind us to its misuse by the State.
This misuse of political correctness by the State is done to "divide and conquer" the People. By dividing society into the socially compliant and the social outcasts, the State does not serve the greater good of the People but only serves the lesser good of the elites.
Thus, the first three words of the US Constitution — "We the People" — refers all Americans, be they the rich and the poor, those of us with homes and the homeless, the mentally healthy and the mentally ill, the able-bodied and the disabled...
Yet "the State" also refers to the servants of the People, duly elected by the People to provide for the People the rights and freedoms that the Bill of Rights guarantees through laws which serve the greater good.
Political correctness not only occurs when the State censures the People, it also occurs when a group of people objects to a person who presents a position which different from theirs and refuses to listen to him lest it compromise their status quo.
In a real democracy, those servants of the People actually serve the greater good. In reality, a great many politicians appear to be self-serving but the few politicians who truly act as servants of the People deserve to represent the State.
This is why the Occupy movement arose, to provide direct democracy in action without a leader to mislead them. For direct democracy is why the Sudbury Valley School produced students who used their experience to innovate creative methods to succeed in college.
Yet mass media propaganda misled the public, predicting the Occupy movement was doomed to failure because it had no leadership. Very little time was given by the talking heads and even less column-inches was given by the press regarding direct democracy.
By omitting that fact mass media has done its version of political correctness by consistently omitting facts to serve the agenda of elites
Commentary from Down Under about the US health care system and American authoritarianism within the political system: http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/07/31/authoritarianism-its-bad-for-your-health/
Example of political correctness in the public school system: http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/school-orders-child-to-remove-god-from-poem.html
The Powers that be (phrase): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_powers_that_be_(phrase)
20130720
Propaganda Tools of the State and Their Function
"Race" is based on propaganda manufactured by the elites to control the Middle Class.
"The Poor" and "The Rich" however are NOT classes at all. They are simply vestiges of the feudal age which have morphed into an important propaganda tool called "class warfare."
Ultimately, "class" is based on propaganda, not one's station in life, be it rich or poor, or simply middle class.
Mass media (NBC) edited portions of a 9-11 call George #Zimmerman made on the night he shot Trayvon Martin in order to polarize the liberals and the conservatives in Western society.
Why? To distract people from the reality I just explained: "race", "class", "rich", "poor", and even "middle class" are propaganda tools of the State used to exercise control over the People.
"The Poor" and "The Rich" however are NOT classes at all. They are simply vestiges of the feudal age which have morphed into an important propaganda tool called "class warfare."
Ultimately, "class" is based on propaganda, not one's station in life, be it rich or poor, or simply middle class.
Mass media (NBC) edited portions of a 9-11 call George #Zimmerman made on the night he shot Trayvon Martin in order to polarize the liberals and the conservatives in Western society.
Why? To distract people from the reality I just explained: "race", "class", "rich", "poor", and even "middle class" are propaganda tools of the State used to exercise control over the People.
20130609
Even in A Free World, The State Will Spy on the People
Regarding the growing anger of Americans who just heard that NSA had access to metadata of Verizon customers, I can't see this as a big deal.
For Canada's CSIS has been spying on Canadians for just as long, but our spooks won't disclose anything for fear of compromising the sovereignty of Canada to foreign intelligence.
We won't even know the full details of the VIA rail bombing case currently before the courts because it would reveal the extent that the State goes to, spying on the People.
However, as a Canadian, I have nothing to hide because my right to privacy trumps the People's "need to know", which is daily manufactured by mass media without my consent.
For Canada's CSIS has been spying on Canadians for just as long, but our spooks won't disclose anything for fear of compromising the sovereignty of Canada to foreign intelligence.
We won't even know the full details of the VIA rail bombing case currently before the courts because it would reveal the extent that the State goes to, spying on the People.
However, as a Canadian, I have nothing to hide because my right to privacy trumps the People's "need to know", which is daily manufactured by mass media without my consent.
20130510
Seven Deadly Sins as Tools for State Control
Pornography is a tactic used as shock and awe tool by various agents contracted by the State to control the People.Thus, the use of the Seven Deadly Sins propagandized by such agents, be it Church or State, is not surprising.
In this case, Lust is promoted in a target audience (mostly men between 19 and 49) through erotica. As well, sex is extracted from its association with Sin, the major tool the Church uses to control its members.
Freed from this guilt by association, sexuality becomes a label with buying and voting power, as long as no one objects to erotica yet denounces pornography.
For the difference between erotica and pornography is only made through carefully worded propaganda by the pro-erotica agents (writers and publishers of erotic works). Only the anti-pornography agents blur the line between the two forms of sexual expression.
One could only imagine how gluttony is used to control how women eat and how they view themselves.
Catholic Church Makes a Fortune in the German Porn Business: http://www.sott.net/article/236941-Catholic-Church-Makes-A-Fortune-In-The-German-Porn-Business
20130117
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words
It is very dangerous to whip out your smartphone and video a police takedown from your front yard. If the cops see you, then they could arrest you for "obstructing justice" when all you are doing is watching the police.
In Canada, legal advice has it that it is illegal to take a picture of a person who may be identified in it and subject to slander, libel and similar injustices.
However, there is also a 50-foot exception since beyond this point, you need an expensive DSL camera to refine details in a picture.
Yet the state of technology of a camera depends on the resolution of a photo. If you choose a picture resolution of under 2048x1536, then picture quality will suffer for subjects 50 feet away from the camera lens.
E.g. the camera in my smartphone has a 8 megapixel (mp) resolution, which means a resolution of 3264x2448, which allows for more detail.
However at 50 feet, a 8 mp resolution still isn't so clear that a person is identifiable, considering that without anti-jitter and at low light levels, the image will still be blurry.
Cameras do the best with detail with portraits, up close.
At 50 feet, picture detail is compromised by low resolution and jitter.
Thus, taking pictures of State action with a smartphone at a distance of 50 feet of more isn't actually illegal. Given the quality of the image, it's possible to create reasonable doubt about anyone identified in the picture.
Therefore, it is imperative for social activists to enforce a 50-foot rule for known agents of the State. However, this means ponying up money to pay for this right.
In Canada, legal advice has it that it is illegal to take a picture of a person who may be identified in it and subject to slander, libel and similar injustices.
However, there is also a 50-foot exception since beyond this point, you need an expensive DSL camera to refine details in a picture.
Yet the state of technology of a camera depends on the resolution of a photo. If you choose a picture resolution of under 2048x1536, then picture quality will suffer for subjects 50 feet away from the camera lens.
E.g. the camera in my smartphone has a 8 megapixel (mp) resolution, which means a resolution of 3264x2448, which allows for more detail.
However at 50 feet, a 8 mp resolution still isn't so clear that a person is identifiable, considering that without anti-jitter and at low light levels, the image will still be blurry.
Cameras do the best with detail with portraits, up close.
At 50 feet, picture detail is compromised by low resolution and jitter.
Thus, taking pictures of State action with a smartphone at a distance of 50 feet of more isn't actually illegal. Given the quality of the image, it's possible to create reasonable doubt about anyone identified in the picture.
Therefore, it is imperative for social activists to enforce a 50-foot rule for known agents of the State. However, this means ponying up money to pay for this right.
20121229
You can Get Raped But Not Protest Rape in the World's Largest Democracy
While the lady raped on the bus in Delhi got emergency treatment in Singapore, the 17-year old girl who was raped recently by an auto rickshaw driver committed suicide.
The reason why has led to police officials getting canned.
Why should a minor who has been raped either choose between marrying the man who raped her or settling for blood money from his rapists? Especially when the police refused to file the rape complaint, which actually victimized the young woman as much as the rape itself.
If this is how the officials of the world's biggest democracy handle rape cases, it shows that the State is highly patriarchal in nature.
Even though India may be a nuclear power, domestically it seems democracy cannot inculcate in its men full respect for its women.
IMO it looks like in both cases, the men were investing in their manhood more than in any respect for women.
Their actions were predatory in nature, and in both cases, the police have failed in their duty to the State to protect The People.
The reason why has led to police officials getting canned.
Why should a minor who has been raped either choose between marrying the man who raped her or settling for blood money from his rapists? Especially when the police refused to file the rape complaint, which actually victimized the young woman as much as the rape itself.
If this is how the officials of the world's biggest democracy handle rape cases, it shows that the State is highly patriarchal in nature.
Even though India may be a nuclear power, domestically it seems democracy cannot inculcate in its men full respect for its women.
IMO it looks like in both cases, the men were investing in their manhood more than in any respect for women.
Their actions were predatory in nature, and in both cases, the police have failed in their duty to the State to protect The People.
20121223
Ethnic Solidarity in Fostering
Nothing in this blog entry is expert opinion but is based on observation of the effects of foster families. Hence it is biased and needs a rewrite. So if after you read this article and object to anything I recommend or say, then I urge you to comment to me.
It's not to hard to get a Gmail account and to become a GooglePlus member when that restricts comments. However, I am not a firm believer in perpetuating the evils of open comments, because the goods of rational discussion are not supported by the evils of spamming, and darkly negative comments which stop discussion dead.
Essentially, the family's cohesiveness ought never be challenged by the State. For the consequences of State involvement in the break-up of family are worse than the immediate situation IF and only IF the family is so dysfunctional that the children's security and safety are at threat.
During the interview to become a foster parent, it is up to the social worker to get a complete picture of the foster parents, his or her parents, and how everyone grew up. This thus will involve family therapists, and other mental health professionals. As it stands now, the gaping holes in the process leading up to being a foster parent need to be repaired.
Making these statements about foster parenting is in no way 'attacking' good foster parents. It is merely asking of social workers to enhance the security of family and the security of fostering. If this is actually done now, and my words are not in touch with today, then my words only show that I expect the process to continue to weed out "bad" parents.
One warning sign of "bad" parenting is when the social worker asks the question, "How are things going on in the home?" and there is an awkward silence followed by "Fine", "Things are alright and Sally is doing well", and "I really like it here. Thanks." Yet the foster parents and the foster child assigned to the home are not making eye contact with the workers.
If this is an Asian family with an Asian children, then the cultural trait of deference should be assumed. If they were suspected of having problems, then it's important to then say, "Well, off the record, are there problem between you, Joe and you, Jane?" and then after a minute, "How about you, Sally?" Finally, individual interviews need to be taken to help avoid the tendency for family groups to "put the lid on rotten garbage".
I actually encourage ethnic solidarity to be the practice of social workers. A lot of the problems in foster families is that the cultural milieu of the foster home may be at odds with the culture in which the child grew up. When the child is between 12 and 18, cultural traits are already hardwired and therefore, there will always be confrontation between the foster parents and the child being fostered. Therefore it is recommended that the child be matched by cultural origin, before other criteria are added to ensure fostering avoids the pitfall of any underlying agenda to continue the cycle of patriarchy.
Ethnic solidarity implies that both the child's cultural traits and the foster parents' traits match. When they do not match, then the foster parents are disqualified. Thus the home must be Asian if the child is Asian. However, the parents may be Asian or non-Asians who have adopted most of the Asian cultural traits through assimilation in an Asian community or country. This is not a racialist priotity; this is a multicultural priority.
Objection to this ethnic solidarity may be that any family is good enough to the child when his or her needs are met. I would argue that without a good ethnic match, the foster parents will rarely get the foster child from observing their family rules when the child has had a relax set of rules made arbitarily.
If you want confirmation of that, check out The World's Strictest Parents on Youtube.
It's not to hard to get a Gmail account and to become a GooglePlus member when that restricts comments. However, I am not a firm believer in perpetuating the evils of open comments, because the goods of rational discussion are not supported by the evils of spamming, and darkly negative comments which stop discussion dead.
Essentially, the family's cohesiveness ought never be challenged by the State. For the consequences of State involvement in the break-up of family are worse than the immediate situation IF and only IF the family is so dysfunctional that the children's security and safety are at threat.
During the interview to become a foster parent, it is up to the social worker to get a complete picture of the foster parents, his or her parents, and how everyone grew up. This thus will involve family therapists, and other mental health professionals. As it stands now, the gaping holes in the process leading up to being a foster parent need to be repaired.
Making these statements about foster parenting is in no way 'attacking' good foster parents. It is merely asking of social workers to enhance the security of family and the security of fostering. If this is actually done now, and my words are not in touch with today, then my words only show that I expect the process to continue to weed out "bad" parents.
One warning sign of "bad" parenting is when the social worker asks the question, "How are things going on in the home?" and there is an awkward silence followed by "Fine", "Things are alright and Sally is doing well", and "I really like it here. Thanks." Yet the foster parents and the foster child assigned to the home are not making eye contact with the workers.
If this is an Asian family with an Asian children, then the cultural trait of deference should be assumed. If they were suspected of having problems, then it's important to then say, "Well, off the record, are there problem between you, Joe and you, Jane?" and then after a minute, "How about you, Sally?" Finally, individual interviews need to be taken to help avoid the tendency for family groups to "put the lid on rotten garbage".
I actually encourage ethnic solidarity to be the practice of social workers. A lot of the problems in foster families is that the cultural milieu of the foster home may be at odds with the culture in which the child grew up. When the child is between 12 and 18, cultural traits are already hardwired and therefore, there will always be confrontation between the foster parents and the child being fostered. Therefore it is recommended that the child be matched by cultural origin, before other criteria are added to ensure fostering avoids the pitfall of any underlying agenda to continue the cycle of patriarchy.
Ethnic solidarity implies that both the child's cultural traits and the foster parents' traits match. When they do not match, then the foster parents are disqualified. Thus the home must be Asian if the child is Asian. However, the parents may be Asian or non-Asians who have adopted most of the Asian cultural traits through assimilation in an Asian community or country. This is not a racialist priotity; this is a multicultural priority.
Objection to this ethnic solidarity may be that any family is good enough to the child when his or her needs are met. I would argue that without a good ethnic match, the foster parents will rarely get the foster child from observing their family rules when the child has had a relax set of rules made arbitarily.
If you want confirmation of that, check out The World's Strictest Parents on Youtube.
20121203
Rise Like Lions
The Montreal student uprising is predated by the writings of Montreal university student Jamaleddine.
Everyone remembers the 2000 G-20 protests in Montreal. During that protest, evidence of police brutality came to light.
12 years later, when the student protests over student fees arose in April 2012, it was met with the same level of police violence as in 2000.
After these protests died as winter drew near, Gilles Vaillancourt,
the mayor of Laval and Gerald Tremblay, the mayor of Montreal had resigned in the wake of corruption charges against them.
Thus, Jamaleddine's words are very prophetic.
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.”
Post your Vs wherever adequate and repeat the words of ... Shelley.
Let it be your dream too, the day human kind joins in realizing we are bound by the same shackles.
Let North America be, once again, the model of freedom and bravery that it once was.
It is to every man and woman that has a yearning for liberty to rise and demand that our governing bodies remember that they are not to serve but we the people. -- Eyad Jamaleddine
Everyone remembers the 2000 G-20 protests in Montreal. During that protest, evidence of police brutality came to light.
12 years later, when the student protests over student fees arose in April 2012, it was met with the same level of police violence as in 2000.
After these protests died as winter drew near, Gilles Vaillancourt,
the mayor of Laval and Gerald Tremblay, the mayor of Montreal had resigned in the wake of corruption charges against them.
Thus, Jamaleddine's words are very prophetic.
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.”
Post your Vs wherever adequate and repeat the words of ... Shelley.
Let it be your dream too, the day human kind joins in realizing we are bound by the same shackles.
Let North America be, once again, the model of freedom and bravery that it once was.
It is to every man and woman that has a yearning for liberty to rise and demand that our governing bodies remember that they are not to serve but we the people. -- Eyad Jamaleddine
20121030
Middle Brother: The Foil between Big Brother and Little Brother Actors
In this article, I will introduce the term "little brother" as opposed to Big Brother, which represents oppressive control of the People by the State.
Specifically "little brother" is described as one or more members of an organised group, usually a family, who undermine the work of Big Brother, be it deliberate or unwittingly; through low tech methods such as gossip and white lies.
Within context of these two actors, the act of sabotage is known as "white lying"' i.e. when a Little Brother hides the truth to provide disinformation or misinformation to Big Brother. Its physical analog is an ID card that does not contain address and phone number, and the owner does not give such information.
"Gossiping" is when a Little Brother spreads rumours with manufactured facts and circumstances. Its physical analogue may be fake photo ID for an imaginary friend whose name represents no one living or dead or a fictional character. Admittedly, gossip is harmful when Big Brother has to assume that the information provided is truthful unless careful analysis by forensics detects the subterfuge.
Overall, Little Brother is a part of an undetectable and unorganised group. It is undetectable provided its privacy is protected by law. While Big Brother may spy on the People, the intelligence gathered is not a candid disclosure in-camera. Instead, the watchdog committee is able to communicate with Big Brother but not with Little Brother, due to the unreliability of witnesses.
Big Brother cannot detect Little Brother activity because a large organized group such as a spy agency, be it business, government or military, is unable to detect small unorganised groups which may or may not be practising counter-intelligence.
In fact, the main advantage of Little Brother has over Big Brother is its size — any group representing Little Brother contains 12 or less citizens, and sometimes may also consist of one or more family units.
Most Little Brother groups are not even aware that they are counter-intelligence actors until they are used by Big Brother or other State agency, or a corporation.
When an alleged whistle blower writes on a social media forum, the information cannot be authenticated as true when a pseudonym is used instead of a real name, complete with matching address and phone number and other additional information.
Therefore, alleged whistle blowers could be considered Little Brother actors unless they are committed to full disclosure for the good of the People. This disclosure of their identity may result of their cover being blown and expose confirmed whistle-blowers or sociopaths or even "crooked politicians" to public scrutiny.
Training of Little Brother actors is simple: protect children from child abuse and neglect as well as sexual abuse. Also protection of girls, women and mothers from sexual abuse and assault as well as domestic abuse will assure that children and especial young girls may be safe from harm until adulthood.
Conversely, children may also make great Little Brother actors by depending on their risk to abuse and neglect, bother sexual and physical.
Because it is more difficult for Little Brother groups to form large cohesive organizations, the Little Brother actors who were not adequately nurtured may fall into the following categories:
Criminals: Although not all criminals are from abusive childhoods filled with neglect, the majority tend to admit to abuse when young but become targeted by the State. Soon they learn to keep quiet. but may sometimes act out their respective childhood trauma through anti-social behaviour, provided no one suffers violence. This assessment may require more prison doctors and mental health clinicians to handle the actors who fall this category. Sometimes it takes a court order to break the doctor-patient relationship. Usually this is done in-camera without public knowledge and denied by all parties involved.
Mentally Ill: The mentally ill come in all sizes and shapes, While the actors with truly sick minds fall in this category, not all the people in group homes are that sick. Most of them need counselling to help precipitate a total breakdown before they can be moulded into Little Brother actors. It also helps to over-medicate them to inspire the brave ones to act. Even they may be moulded into Little Brother actors.
Addicts: Regarding criminals, the mentally ill and the addicts; the addicts are the lowest of the low. Sometimes though, it's hard to tell the difference. Physical addictions to drugs certainly motivate Little Brother actors. This is why non-violent actors associated with criminals and the mentally ill use a drug addict to use intimidation and violence against their enemies. One example of non-violent actors are the intelligent members of street gangs known to the State. Therefore addicts are useful human resources providing both non-violent and Little Brother actors, provided that the latter do not expose non-violent actors to embarrassment and ridicule; lest the latter make use of addicts and mentally ill to intimidate Little Brother.
Psychopaths: Well known as liars, these people may even become unwitting victims of child and sex abuse. For their lies make them perfect Little Brother actors, except that psychopaths may experience sudden death by "accidentally" getting in the line of fire. Indeed, the likelihood that the psychopath believes his own lies is unknown, for his choice of truth-telling may have resulted in quiet time in his room at home, detention hall at school, and even criminal arrest. Then at a certain point in adolescence, he realizes that being honest and telling the truth leads to frequent physical abuse from a parent, and lost connection with his grandparents which substitutes for motherly nurturing. Perhaps the only cure for psychopathy is time.
In conclusion, one question remains unanswered: do Little Brother actors actually exist? Is Big Brother able to detect said actors? The choice is yours to make.
For the author is neither Little Brother nor Big Brother. Rather he's the Middle Brother, the name for the actors who represent the dividing line between repressive control of the People by Big Brother and the freedom inherent in Little Brother's lack of organization.
Indeed, he is a representative of the People but also selectively votes for State actors known as politicians. He is not Anonymous because he is neither a John Smith nor a Jane Doe. Rather, he is merely a watcher, and is looking out for both of his Brother actors.
If you find a grain of truth in what I have written, then email me if you trust email, reply here if you trust blogspot, or reply on Google Plus if you trust Google. Without communication between us, I assure you that you will come to doubt me because you trust no one.
:edited 20121111.1620
Specifically "little brother" is described as one or more members of an organised group, usually a family, who undermine the work of Big Brother, be it deliberate or unwittingly; through low tech methods such as gossip and white lies.
Within context of these two actors, the act of sabotage is known as "white lying"' i.e. when a Little Brother hides the truth to provide disinformation or misinformation to Big Brother. Its physical analog is an ID card that does not contain address and phone number, and the owner does not give such information.
"Gossiping" is when a Little Brother spreads rumours with manufactured facts and circumstances. Its physical analogue may be fake photo ID for an imaginary friend whose name represents no one living or dead or a fictional character. Admittedly, gossip is harmful when Big Brother has to assume that the information provided is truthful unless careful analysis by forensics detects the subterfuge.
Overall, Little Brother is a part of an undetectable and unorganised group. It is undetectable provided its privacy is protected by law. While Big Brother may spy on the People, the intelligence gathered is not a candid disclosure in-camera. Instead, the watchdog committee is able to communicate with Big Brother but not with Little Brother, due to the unreliability of witnesses.
Big Brother cannot detect Little Brother activity because a large organized group such as a spy agency, be it business, government or military, is unable to detect small unorganised groups which may or may not be practising counter-intelligence.
In fact, the main advantage of Little Brother has over Big Brother is its size — any group representing Little Brother contains 12 or less citizens, and sometimes may also consist of one or more family units.
Most Little Brother groups are not even aware that they are counter-intelligence actors until they are used by Big Brother or other State agency, or a corporation.
When an alleged whistle blower writes on a social media forum, the information cannot be authenticated as true when a pseudonym is used instead of a real name, complete with matching address and phone number and other additional information.
Therefore, alleged whistle blowers could be considered Little Brother actors unless they are committed to full disclosure for the good of the People. This disclosure of their identity may result of their cover being blown and expose confirmed whistle-blowers or sociopaths or even "crooked politicians" to public scrutiny.
Training of Little Brother actors is simple: protect children from child abuse and neglect as well as sexual abuse. Also protection of girls, women and mothers from sexual abuse and assault as well as domestic abuse will assure that children and especial young girls may be safe from harm until adulthood.
Conversely, children may also make great Little Brother actors by depending on their risk to abuse and neglect, bother sexual and physical.
Because it is more difficult for Little Brother groups to form large cohesive organizations, the Little Brother actors who were not adequately nurtured may fall into the following categories:
Criminals: Although not all criminals are from abusive childhoods filled with neglect, the majority tend to admit to abuse when young but become targeted by the State. Soon they learn to keep quiet. but may sometimes act out their respective childhood trauma through anti-social behaviour, provided no one suffers violence. This assessment may require more prison doctors and mental health clinicians to handle the actors who fall this category. Sometimes it takes a court order to break the doctor-patient relationship. Usually this is done in-camera without public knowledge and denied by all parties involved.
Mentally Ill: The mentally ill come in all sizes and shapes, While the actors with truly sick minds fall in this category, not all the people in group homes are that sick. Most of them need counselling to help precipitate a total breakdown before they can be moulded into Little Brother actors. It also helps to over-medicate them to inspire the brave ones to act. Even they may be moulded into Little Brother actors.
Addicts: Regarding criminals, the mentally ill and the addicts; the addicts are the lowest of the low. Sometimes though, it's hard to tell the difference. Physical addictions to drugs certainly motivate Little Brother actors. This is why non-violent actors associated with criminals and the mentally ill use a drug addict to use intimidation and violence against their enemies. One example of non-violent actors are the intelligent members of street gangs known to the State. Therefore addicts are useful human resources providing both non-violent and Little Brother actors, provided that the latter do not expose non-violent actors to embarrassment and ridicule; lest the latter make use of addicts and mentally ill to intimidate Little Brother.
Psychopaths: Well known as liars, these people may even become unwitting victims of child and sex abuse. For their lies make them perfect Little Brother actors, except that psychopaths may experience sudden death by "accidentally" getting in the line of fire. Indeed, the likelihood that the psychopath believes his own lies is unknown, for his choice of truth-telling may have resulted in quiet time in his room at home, detention hall at school, and even criminal arrest. Then at a certain point in adolescence, he realizes that being honest and telling the truth leads to frequent physical abuse from a parent, and lost connection with his grandparents which substitutes for motherly nurturing. Perhaps the only cure for psychopathy is time.
In conclusion, one question remains unanswered: do Little Brother actors actually exist? Is Big Brother able to detect said actors? The choice is yours to make.
For the author is neither Little Brother nor Big Brother. Rather he's the Middle Brother, the name for the actors who represent the dividing line between repressive control of the People by Big Brother and the freedom inherent in Little Brother's lack of organization.
Indeed, he is a representative of the People but also selectively votes for State actors known as politicians. He is not Anonymous because he is neither a John Smith nor a Jane Doe. Rather, he is merely a watcher, and is looking out for both of his Brother actors.
If you find a grain of truth in what I have written, then email me if you trust email, reply here if you trust blogspot, or reply on Google Plus if you trust Google. Without communication between us, I assure you that you will come to doubt me because you trust no one.
:edited 20121111.1620
20121017
Be A Vigilante For the People, By the People, and Of the People (satire)
A common reaction to hyper-vigilance by the State is to stay at home.
It's more prudent to be vigilant of the State by observing what they do when they take down anyone who they suspect of terrorist activity.
Remember: agents of the State are State-sponsored terrorists when they terrorize the People. Agents of State terrorism light the fuse of tomorrow's global terrorists.
Choosing to stay home will lead to hikikomori.
People who never leave home tend to become so neurotic they think they have an anxiety disorder, or even a personality disorder.
Looking at four walls all day leads to cabin fever.
Get out and be vigilant of the State. It is not vigilanté-ism; it is the right of the People. So carefully observe the State.
Be a vigilanté for the People, by the People and of the People! Non-violent confrontation is allowable.
When the sheep look up, the wolves are already among us. When the wolves in sheep's clothing are exposed, stop being sheep and confront the wolves.
Or, you could stay at home and end up becoming hikikomori only to suddenly see your parents and/or loved ones hurt by your cowardice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
It's more prudent to be vigilant of the State by observing what they do when they take down anyone who they suspect of terrorist activity.
Remember: agents of the State are State-sponsored terrorists when they terrorize the People. Agents of State terrorism light the fuse of tomorrow's global terrorists.
Choosing to stay home will lead to hikikomori.
People who never leave home tend to become so neurotic they think they have an anxiety disorder, or even a personality disorder.
Looking at four walls all day leads to cabin fever.
Get out and be vigilant of the State. It is not vigilanté-ism; it is the right of the People. So carefully observe the State.
Be a vigilanté for the People, by the People and of the People! Non-violent confrontation is allowable.
When the sheep look up, the wolves are already among us. When the wolves in sheep's clothing are exposed, stop being sheep and confront the wolves.
Or, you could stay at home and end up becoming hikikomori only to suddenly see your parents and/or loved ones hurt by your cowardice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
20100624
China and Religious Pogroms Against Tibetan Buddhists and Falun Gong
China pretends the Dalai Lama clique exists, to distract the world from close examinations of the cliques in Beijing, which have more substance.
Also, there are more people who aren't in the cliques than there are those in them.
Indeed, there is no Dalai Lama clique. This is an invention by the CPP to fuel their paranoid accusations of the Dalai Lama as charlatan and fraud, and more specifically as a political leader wanting more than autonomy for his people.
In actual fact, the Dalai Lama only wants autonomy (self-rule) for his people, and the good of Marxism rather than the tyranny of the state which has been reified to replace the Three Spiritual Gems of China (Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism).
By doing so, the Chinese trample on Buddhist precepts because they only respect the cult of Mao which powers the State and its myriad cliques.
Their poltical repression of Falun Gong too is due to the cult of Mao.
Why? Because they fear Buddhism and Falun Gong will distract people from reverence for Mao.
Yet Buddhism and Falun Gong both preach service to others, and so are not China's enemies. CPP made them their enemies because reverence to Mao shows respect to the reified State.
Even though the CPP claims Buddhism and Falun Gong are superstitions which must be trampled, the cult of Mao too is a superstition. Reverence for Mao will not make China strong; what makes China strong is people inculcated with the willingness to be of service to the State.
Both Buddhism and Falun Gong preach this, and disproves that members of both religions are a threat to the security of the state.
Thus in trampling on the spiritual goodness of Buddhism and Falun Gong, CPP is showing religious hypocrisy. In claiming Chinese should be atheistic and should replace the "superstition" of Buddhism and Falun Gong with the cult of Mao, CPP only shows how ignorant its clique truly are.
Indeed, neither religion is an enemy of China; China's true enemy is reification of the State.
This is why the cliques ruling Beijing are living in interesting times. Each one claim to be true to Mao's word, yet are each in it for their own gain.
People there still practice Buddhism and Falun Gong without thought of revolt, for both religions encourage their devotees to be of service to others.
Thus the powers that be in Beijing have more to fear from their cliques than from the people. Their pogroms again Falun Gong and Tibetan Buddhists are merely distractions to confuse the world and China's people.
Yet not all people in China listen to the state on this matter. Only the people who believe in the state are afraid of Buddhism and Falun Gong. Everyone else carries on as they were, being of service to China.
No one cares if one lights joss sticks, studies Lao Tse or follows the Analects. All they care about is to help China be prosperous and strong.
Yet all China is doing by trampling on Buddhism and Falun Gong is make the State look stupid.
Therefore China should stop reifying the state, and instead accept the help of its own people, not distinguishing between Buddhist or Confucist or Taoist or Falun Gong or Maoist.
For even Mao demands that of its leadership.
Also, there are more people who aren't in the cliques than there are those in them.
Indeed, there is no Dalai Lama clique. This is an invention by the CPP to fuel their paranoid accusations of the Dalai Lama as charlatan and fraud, and more specifically as a political leader wanting more than autonomy for his people.
In actual fact, the Dalai Lama only wants autonomy (self-rule) for his people, and the good of Marxism rather than the tyranny of the state which has been reified to replace the Three Spiritual Gems of China (Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism).
By doing so, the Chinese trample on Buddhist precepts because they only respect the cult of Mao which powers the State and its myriad cliques.
Their poltical repression of Falun Gong too is due to the cult of Mao.
Why? Because they fear Buddhism and Falun Gong will distract people from reverence for Mao.
Yet Buddhism and Falun Gong both preach service to others, and so are not China's enemies. CPP made them their enemies because reverence to Mao shows respect to the reified State.
Even though the CPP claims Buddhism and Falun Gong are superstitions which must be trampled, the cult of Mao too is a superstition. Reverence for Mao will not make China strong; what makes China strong is people inculcated with the willingness to be of service to the State.
Both Buddhism and Falun Gong preach this, and disproves that members of both religions are a threat to the security of the state.
Thus in trampling on the spiritual goodness of Buddhism and Falun Gong, CPP is showing religious hypocrisy. In claiming Chinese should be atheistic and should replace the "superstition" of Buddhism and Falun Gong with the cult of Mao, CPP only shows how ignorant its clique truly are.
Indeed, neither religion is an enemy of China; China's true enemy is reification of the State.
This is why the cliques ruling Beijing are living in interesting times. Each one claim to be true to Mao's word, yet are each in it for their own gain.
People there still practice Buddhism and Falun Gong without thought of revolt, for both religions encourage their devotees to be of service to others.
Thus the powers that be in Beijing have more to fear from their cliques than from the people. Their pogroms again Falun Gong and Tibetan Buddhists are merely distractions to confuse the world and China's people.
Yet not all people in China listen to the state on this matter. Only the people who believe in the state are afraid of Buddhism and Falun Gong. Everyone else carries on as they were, being of service to China.
No one cares if one lights joss sticks, studies Lao Tse or follows the Analects. All they care about is to help China be prosperous and strong.
Yet all China is doing by trampling on Buddhism and Falun Gong is make the State look stupid.
Therefore China should stop reifying the state, and instead accept the help of its own people, not distinguishing between Buddhist or Confucist or Taoist or Falun Gong or Maoist.
For even Mao demands that of its leadership.
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