(I just wrote this in response to something I read at DU from a former teacher who wrote 'What's the Matter With Kids Today.' I was horrified by what I read and had to respond. The key words related to mind control here are 'Biderman's Chart of Coercions' and 'Rockefeller's General Education Board.' The same psychology is at play in the Follow-the-Leader weaponization of religion.)
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From 'What's the Matter With Kids Today' by Tina Blue-
"We are not born socialized or civilized. Despite the sentimental nonsense we like to spout about how innocent and adorable babies are, the fact is that babies and small children are adorable to serve their own purposes, not ours: to get us to do what they want, and to prevent us from turning on them when their insatiable demands and impulsive, outrageous behavior start to push us over the edge."
"It takes an enormous amount of time, energy, and attention to socialize an infant, to make him fit for human company."
Sentimentality of innocence?!! Insatiable demands!?
>>>>!!??Fit for human company??!!<<<
This characterization of a human child's needs as PSYCHOPATHIC indicates the author's own besieged mentality at the same time Tina Blue correctly describes an entire culture of isolation from community that sabotages parent and child alike.
While the problem of un-socialized children acting out their rage and pain is common to her essays (and I agree that's true), the root of their disruptive angst is wrongly claimed to be a sentimental permissive 'love' matches James Dobson's authoritarian views promoted by fascists-have the courage to beat them until they know "who's boss." There is so much more to socializing happy healthy humans.
Yes, the stress of the poverty this fascistic culture demands is mentioned in Tina Blue's essays. But the idea that children (and citizens) are vicious monsters who must be policed into submission is
EXACTLY how FASCISM BEGINS IN THE HOME. Terrorism is intentionally made a part of our psychological environment to justify the police-state and embed an emotional 'early-scorning system' in people to divide and conquer the masses lest they cooperate peacefully.
I can't stress this enough!>>>>>CONSIDER THIS>>>>>>
Amnesty International codified the 8 common methods used on prisoners to break their will and control their minds.
It is called 'Biderman's Chart of Coercions.'
http://www.actabuse.com/chartofcoercion.html STUDY THIS CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT SHOWS WHAT EVERY CHILD GOES THROUGH TO BE SOCIALIZED BY LARGER ADULTS AND AUTHORITY FIGURES.
Domestic abuse counselors now refer to it because of its applicability to abusive relationships where usually women are terrorized. I suggest it is the core of the Republican Party Platform.
1) Isolation
2) Monopolization of Perception
3) Induced Debility and Exhaustion
4) Threats
5) Occasional Indulgences
6) Demonstrating 'Omnipotence'
7) Enforcing Trivial Demands
8) Degradation
HUMAN CHILDREN ALL COGNITIVELY EXPERIENCE TORTURE IN THE SOCIALIZATION PROCESS WHILE GROWING UP. Some get a gentler version than others.We all have unique brain chemical dispositions and experiences which determine how well we endure and recover from the torturing socialization of childhood.WE ARE ALL CHILDREN OF ABU GHRAIB.
These coercions are institutionalized AS A WAY OF LIFE for the entire population in fascist America's isolated and fearful culture that was beautifully exposed by Michael Moore in his movie 'Bowling For Columbine.'
Blame the left over brutality of 'might-makes-right' animal survival mechanism that our species has been outgrowing while only barely beginning to institutionalize a kinder gentler life with democracy and nurturing of the weak. This brutality is intentionally being kept in place by the need for fearfulness and bullying which CIA-influenced TV induces in the service of the Military Industrial Fascist Complex and its economic policies of eugenics and permanent war.
Children are at the front lines as a source for obtaining worker drones and cannon fodder. Public education was designed to serve the needs of society’s financial elite who require an inhumane societal construct for their ends. It is working just as designed.
Whoever isn’t helping ‘their team’ compete with ‘the opposing team’ is starved, imprisoned, or killed, "with us or against us."
http://www.sntp.net/education/gatto.htm>snip<
This is taken from John Taylor Gatto's book, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling.
This speech was given by the author on 31 January 1990 in accepting an award from the New York State Senate naming him New York CityTeacher of the Year.
THE PSYCHOPATHIC SCHOOL
"1 don't think we'll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we're going to change what's rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the school institution "schools" very well, though it does not "educate" that's inherent in the design of the thing. It's not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. It's just impossible for education and schooling ever to be the same thing.
Schools were designed by Horace Mann and by Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and by Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and by some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce, through the application of formulas, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled."
>snip<
Gatto explained that The Behavioral Science Teacher Education Project "identified the future as one 'in which a small elite' will control all important matters, one where participatory democracy will largely disappear. Children are made to see, through school experiences, that their classmates are so cruel and irresponsible, so inadequate to the task of self-discipline, and so ignorant they need to be controlled and regulated for society's good. Under such a logical regime, school terror can only be regarded as good advertising. It is sobering to think of mass schooling as a vast demonstration project of human inadequacy, but that is at least one of its functions."
>snip<
(As a bit of background, the industrial titans of the 1890's began to think that not only could the production line be engineered, but people's lives could be engineered as well, in order to work like homogeneous robots with the machines. People like Rockefeller and Carnegie gave huge sums to prominent academics to see if this could be realized through the educational system. They found that to a considerable extent it could, and it is still being done today as evidenced in the Congressional Record during the Clinton administration. This is the story that John Gatto has to tell.)
Please read this speech by Gatto where he quotes the eugenics-embracing robber barons who designed schooling to be mind control for their economic benefit:
http://4brevard.com/choice/Public_Education.htm(A Short Angry History of American Forced Schooling)
>snip<
"Between 1906 and 1920, a handful of world famous industrialists and financiers, together with their private foundations, handpicked University administrators and house politicians, and spent more attention and more money toward forced schooling than the national government did. Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller alone spent more money than the government did between 1900 and 1920. In this fashion, the system of modern schooling was constructed outside the public eye and outside the public's representatives.
Now I want you to listen to a direct quote, I have not altered a word of this, it's certainly traceable through your local librarians. From the very first report issued by John D. Rockefeller's General Education Board -- this is their first mission statement:
"In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions of intellectual and character education fade from their minds and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into men of learning or philosophers, or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters, great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, (he's really covering the whole gamut of employment isn't he?) statesmen, politicians, creatures of whom we have ample supply (whoever the pronoun we is meant to stand for there). The task issimple. We will organize children and teach them in an perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way."
>snip<
Yikes. Long before EMG technologies could skip the senses on the way to the brain, here is the root of fascism in America and why parents and schools are producing a New American Brownshirt movement amplified by Fox News.
Because schools DO WORK!!
Once parenting, schools, and the economic constructs of society stop resembling Abu Ghraib, we will see adults who aren't acting out their rebellion from their torturers. And teachers will have classrooms that resemble peace rallies more than prison riots.
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