A post I have nicked from a blog I follow daily.
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Learned helplessness is what socialism is all about. Think about what defines quality of life for most ordinary people and then think about how simple it is to destroy that.
For me, and for many others I've spoken to, a good quality of life means comfort (as in warmth, relative aesthetical pleasure and a decent place to sit, nothing majorly flash) at home, an interesting job for a few hours a day, four or five days a week. It means a bit of competition, close ties with family, and good friends I can have a conversation/laugh/rant [delete as applicable] with of an evening or at the end of the week. It means pride in doing one's work well. The chance to raise a family if you wish and live peacefully off your own steam and without interference. It means being able to keep your home safe whilst being allowed to face a bit of risk academically, or by choice by way of various outdoor adventures and pursuits.
How many people actually have all those basic entitlements? Not many, I'd suggest. And if there are, they don't live in Britain.
In order to create a helpless, slavish, dependent state for the benefit of your ambitions and those of the Bilderberg types, you need what starts off as a very simple plan.
First; divide. Create divisions in every corner and pocket of society and increase the width of those divisions as time wears on, using measures such as "equality" legislation, which actually means supremacy legislation. They don't have to be racial or cultural differences. It can be simply a matter of smoke and alcohol consumption that divides people. Promote supremacy of some groups over others. Declare victims and oppressors and make it tribal to maximise seige mentality, and do it visually (all white people are racist, all smokers are killing your children, even though we're not). Posters and the TV are key. Start fights and breed fear and loathing of fellow humans in order to impose what follows.
Eliminate choice of employment; No mining here any more. Little manufacturing. It costs the price of a small cottage to become an airline pilot and thanks to Ed Balls, today's school leavers aren't going to become scientists, or even shelf stackers, despite being promised they'd be managing directors by the age of 21. So that leaves you with very little choice, and a lot of resentment and possibly despair when you find out the hard way. You either work at the checkout slaving away for a mega corporation, or you work in a sweaty office for 12 hours a day, again slaving away for a mega corporation. Choice limited, stress high, pay low.
Destroy the family and friend structure; This one isn't too hard. In fact, in destroying competition (see below), you destroy local businesses too, meaning people in small towns and villages have to move to towns and cities where, in theory, nobody knows anyone else. Attack parents. Make them evil. It's them killing off the fluffy polar bears with their dirty cars (and it's only right to tax them to the hilt) and their fag smoke is killing the chiiilldren. Butt in, offer up free and confidential contraception and "sex talks" to school pupils without any knowledge passed onto the parents. Render parents pointless and make traditional powers of discipline arrestable offences.
Destroy competition; This one is really playing to the emotions. It's bad to have sports days because some children might lose a race (but they might be good at Maths, except that's bred out of them too). Nobody must ever win out over the others because if you do it Our Way, everyone's a winner. Small businesses must be crushed by heavy taxation and red tape to a point where their owners never have time to run the places. Business taxes are high and paperwork endless. It's not meant to be doable, don't worry.
Socialising; After a long week of being exactly the same as everyone else, doing exactly the same as everybody else, and not talking to anybody else (like everybody else), there's to be no socialising. Destroy the pubs. Attack anything people find enjoyable in a social situation, such as drinking, smoking, or eating. Ban smoking indoors, then ban drinking outdoors, and make eating such a totally boring, methodical, harassment filled process that's it's merely something you do to pass the time whilst bored rigid at your work computer. Then go home and watch the propaganda box when you're knackered and won't (in theory) be in a good frame of mind to question it.
Prevent defence of one's own home and body; Arrest and imprison anyone who attacks a intruder. Don't imprison those (often violent) intruders so they come back cocky and armed. Breed fear. That and the pubs closing is what keeps people at home and sat in front of the Labour Box behind bolted doors, with no interest in the outside world at all because they now either fear it or despise it. Either way, the want no part of it. Not even for a stroll in the park with the dog. Although dogs are due to be legislated against too. They don't know their neighbours so they won't bother going nextdoor for a few beers or to watch the Champions League.
The end result? Well, we all know that. No competition, no camaraderie, no interest, no socialising, no defence, no pride, no family and no children that are your own. The proles will look to the State for validation, and for safety. Some will part with anything they've got just for a peaceful night's sleep. Others will demand more laws, tougher laws, and will likewise be prepared to part with even more money and liberties if they think there's a chance they'll get them. Then those laws will be used against law abiding proles, and the process continues, the anger builds, to a point where contingency controls become "justified". You afford yet more supremacy to other groups in order to keep them cocky, whilst doublethinking them into believing they are victims in order to keep them radicalised. Watch the show. Welcome to the Society Factory.
Anyway, the point of this ramble is to prove that you DO need to understand people to be a politician. Or at least have advisers that do. There are books available to help, although sadly for them, it seems those of us who can read, do. I never ever assume that what has happened to this country, and is happening to others, is down to stupidity. But it isn't that clever any more either. And some of us can help lots of us to see through it all.
We've had some of the worst politicians, and worst human beings, this country has ever produced, running the show for the last 13 years, and possibly before. But they do hate it when you figure them out, so keep on doing it guys.
I've had a bad day at work and more than a glass of red, but less than a tanker of Guinness. So forgive any typos or factual errors. I mean I don't think I'm wrong, but you might ;-)
Learned helplessness is what socialism is all about. Think about what defines quality of life for most ordinary people and then think about how simple it is to destroy that.
For me, and for many others I've spoken to, a good quality of life means comfort (as in warmth, relative aesthetical pleasure and a decent place to sit, nothing majorly flash) at home, an interesting job for a few hours a day, four or five days a week. It means a bit of competition, close ties with family, and good friends I can have a conversation/laugh/rant [delete as applicable] with of an evening or at the end of the week. It means pride in doing one's work well. The chance to raise a family if you wish and live peacefully off your own steam and without interference. It means being able to keep your home safe whilst being allowed to face a bit of risk academically, or by choice by way of various outdoor adventures and pursuits.
How many people actually have all those basic entitlements? Not many, I'd suggest. And if there are, they don't live in Britain.
In order to create a helpless, slavish, dependent state for the benefit of your ambitions and those of the Bilderberg types, you need what starts off as a very simple plan.
First; divide. Create divisions in every corner and pocket of society and increase the width of those divisions as time wears on, using measures such as "equality" legislation, which actually means supremacy legislation. They don't have to be racial or cultural differences. It can be simply a matter of smoke and alcohol consumption that divides people. Promote supremacy of some groups over others. Declare victims and oppressors and make it tribal to maximise seige mentality, and do it visually (all white people are racist, all smokers are killing your children, even though we're not). Posters and the TV are key. Start fights and breed fear and loathing of fellow humans in order to impose what follows.
Eliminate choice of employment; No mining here any more. Little manufacturing. It costs the price of a small cottage to become an airline pilot and thanks to Ed Balls, today's school leavers aren't going to become scientists, or even shelf stackers, despite being promised they'd be managing directors by the age of 21. So that leaves you with very little choice, and a lot of resentment and possibly despair when you find out the hard way. You either work at the checkout slaving away for a mega corporation, or you work in a sweaty office for 12 hours a day, again slaving away for a mega corporation. Choice limited, stress high, pay low.
Destroy the family and friend structure; This one isn't too hard. In fact, in destroying competition (see below), you destroy local businesses too, meaning people in small towns and villages have to move to towns and cities where, in theory, nobody knows anyone else. Attack parents. Make them evil. It's them killing off the fluffy polar bears with their dirty cars (and it's only right to tax them to the hilt) and their fag smoke is killing the chiiilldren. Butt in, offer up free and confidential contraception and "sex talks" to school pupils without any knowledge passed onto the parents. Render parents pointless and make traditional powers of discipline arrestable offences.
Destroy competition; This one is really playing to the emotions. It's bad to have sports days because some children might lose a race (but they might be good at Maths, except that's bred out of them too). Nobody must ever win out over the others because if you do it Our Way, everyone's a winner. Small businesses must be crushed by heavy taxation and red tape to a point where their owners never have time to run the places. Business taxes are high and paperwork endless. It's not meant to be doable, don't worry.
Socialising; After a long week of being exactly the same as everyone else, doing exactly the same as everybody else, and not talking to anybody else (like everybody else), there's to be no socialising. Destroy the pubs. Attack anything people find enjoyable in a social situation, such as drinking, smoking, or eating. Ban smoking indoors, then ban drinking outdoors, and make eating such a totally boring, methodical, harassment filled process that's it's merely something you do to pass the time whilst bored rigid at your work computer. Then go home and watch the propaganda box when you're knackered and won't (in theory) be in a good frame of mind to question it.
Prevent defence of one's own home and body; Arrest and imprison anyone who attacks a intruder. Don't imprison those (often violent) intruders so they come back cocky and armed. Breed fear. That and the pubs closing is what keeps people at home and sat in front of the Labour Box behind bolted doors, with no interest in the outside world at all because they now either fear it or despise it. Either way, the want no part of it. Not even for a stroll in the park with the dog. Although dogs are due to be legislated against too. They don't know their neighbours so they won't bother going nextdoor for a few beers or to watch the Champions League.
The end result? Well, we all know that. No competition, no camaraderie, no interest, no socialising, no defence, no pride, no family and no children that are your own. The proles will look to the State for validation, and for safety. Some will part with anything they've got just for a peaceful night's sleep. Others will demand more laws, tougher laws, and will likewise be prepared to part with even more money and liberties if they think there's a chance they'll get them. Then those laws will be used against law abiding proles, and the process continues, the anger builds, to a point where contingency controls become "justified". You afford yet more supremacy to other groups in order to keep them cocky, whilst doublethinking them into believing they are victims in order to keep them radicalised. Watch the show. Welcome to the Society Factory.
Anyway, the point of this ramble is to prove that you DO need to understand people to be a politician. Or at least have advisers that do. There are books available to help, although sadly for them, it seems those of us who can read, do. I never ever assume that what has happened to this country, and is happening to others, is down to stupidity. But it isn't that clever any more either. And some of us can help lots of us to see through it all.
We've had some of the worst politicians, and worst human beings, this country has ever produced, running the show for the last 13 years, and possibly before. But they do hate it when you figure them out, so keep on doing it guys.
I've had a bad day at work and more than a glass of red, but less than a tanker of Guinness. So forgive any typos or factual errors. I mean I don't think I'm wrong, but you might ;-)
From where I am sitting an accurate state of affairs but what can be done to reverse it?
Many parents are producing the worst children this country has ever produced, at an alarming rate. So nothing is going to change very soon.
Will a few hard years of austerity be the kick up the backside this generation needs?
Yet more complete rubbish Mr. Fisher!
Admittedly, I only skim read it, but phrases such as "all white people are racist", "Learned helplessness is what socialism is all about" and "We've had some of the worst politicians, and worst human beings, this country has ever produced, running the show for the last 13 years" pretty much summed this up. Yet more of your borderline xenophobic, anti-establishment rantings, which contain only subjective opinions, unsupported by facts and, which are only in tune with the absolute nut cases that, despite small numbers, have an increasingly louder voice, due to their tendency to shove their opinions into people's faces.
Perhaps what you are forgetting is, that some of the richest, cleanest, nicest and happiest places to live are socialist to varying degrees. Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Finland, Australia, Austria and Spain are all better places to be than the UK, by various definitions, none of them have elected fringe nutters into power (that means left and right) and they all have a government in which a socialist party is either a leading member of the main coalition, or is the ruling party.
I don't think how rubbish a country is depends on the government, however. It is the people, after all, who elect the government, so perhaps the reason why we are doing so poorly is because the UK is a country full of idiots, who wouldn't recognise a sensible policy if it slapped them in the face. The kind of idiots who are prepared to write and distribute complete nonsense about the government and hold uneducated views. The kind of people that seem to forget that the government was democratically elected, so actually what ever it is they are spewing holds no water against the overall opinion of the country, and seem to forget how insignificant they actually are in this sense. These idiots have their right to spew, don't get me wrong, but they are nevertheless idiots -more so for being pathetic enough to continue. That's my view anyway.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/6261469/Britain-slips-out-of-top-20-best-countries-to-live-in.html
Hello again DaviDavid
I do wish you'd read properly before criticising.
These words are not mine. The person in the link at the beginning of the post is the author.
I never said I agreed or disagreed with what he or she says.
I never commented on the post at all. I'm just bringing something different to the table as you have with your comments.
The fact you 'skimmed it' and then launched into a diatribe of your own speaks volumes!
If you think the post is complete and utter rubbish then follow the link at the top of the page and go and tell the author.
Derek
The fact they left you with a link to the Telegraph speaks volumes!!!!!
Do you have your own place DavidDavid where I can go and argue some of your more ludicrous points with you?
If so please post a link on here. I'd love to debate real socialism with you.
For example you quote that socialists have brought about great things in Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Finland, Australia, Austria and Spain and you state they are all better places to live than the UK (obviously you must have had experience of living in each of these countries so you must be truly 'multi-national' Tony would be so proud of you!)
Yet the UK has had a socialist government for 13 long years and the country has not kept up with these 'leading socialist countries' you list and in fact has been all but bankrupted much like Iceland a country you list as better than here!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why is this the case DavdidDavid?