Capitalism Rewards Sociopathy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Capitalism Rewards Sociopathy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
You can tell how backwards our society is by how much easier it is to thrive in it as a sociopath than if you have any other serious mental disorder.
If instead of money our society valued connection, emotional intelligence and empathy, people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or other severe psychological issues would get all the support and care they need, while sociopaths would flounder. It would be a handicap instead of an advantage, because attributes like compassion and vulnerability would be valued instead of the willingness to do whatever it takes to get to the top no matter who it hurts.
A highly emotionally conscious world is what we should all want, since most of our world's problems are ultimately due to the fact that people without functioning empathy centers in their brains get to the top in the way we have things set up now. If we become deeply caring and healthy, sociopaths won't be elevated.
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Capitalism is like polyamory; sure it might work okay for some people, but generally the ones who reap the most rewards from it are those who don't care about other people's feelings.
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Biden was appointed to get things back to normal, but there can be no "back to normal" for a dying empire in a rapidly shifting global paradigm. You can tell by how hard they're having to work to spin this desperate, ridiculous clusterfuck as a normal presidency.
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All the fangirling over Jen Psaki is getting really gross. She's supposed to be charismatic you dopes; she's responsible for managing the perception of an entire empire. The world's most destructive government having skilled perception management is a bad thing, not a good thing.
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US presidents always get praise for the small smattering of half-decent things they do, but no blame for the far, far greater mountain of evil things the US empire does during their presidency. People look at the everyday butchery and oppression of the empire as normal, required stuff.
When you try to inquire as to who is to blame for all the everyday evils of empire, the wars, sanctions, oppression, exploitation, propaganda, authoritarianism and ecocide, you can't get any straight answers. It's widely thought of as something that kind of happens magically, by itself.
And that's just so revealing, for a civilization which prides itself on its respect for the individual to refuse to place any blame on any individuals responsible for the worst crimes being committed on our planet right now. Individualism is for the little people.
It's hard to blame people for believing dumb conspiracy theories about the powerful, considering the fact that proven conspiracies by the powerful are usually a lot worse. The conspiracy of the US power alliance to slaughter children in Yemen and lie about it is far worse than all the QAnon stuff, for example.
Corporate media propaganda is another example. Wealthy elites and government agencies are indeed conspiring to manipulate the thoughts of the entire population; this is a fact that has been studied and documented for decades. It happens in a mundane way, but it's a huge, creepy conspiracy. I mean, just think about it: powerful elites are engaging in mass-scale mind control to justify murder and genocide around the world. This is a fact. The only reason it doesn't give people the thrill of 5G nanobot mind control conspiracies or whatever is because we're used to it.
If everyone could just truly see the empire and what it does with fresh eyes, just the verified facts that we know about, they'd tear it all down bolt by bolt. That's why so much energy gets poured into ensuring that they don't see it.
People keep waiting for a big reveal, for some investigative journalist or leak to expose the abusive dynamics of the powerful. Thing is, that already happened: there's enough public evidence already. It's just that people can't see it with fresh eyes. That's what we need to change.
The big reveal already happened. If there was some massive WikiLeaks drop or whatever ripping the veil off all the ugliest secrets of the empire, we'd still have what we have now: a propagandized populace ignoring all the mountains of evidence for horrific acts of the powerful. The problem isn't getting the information, the problem is getting people to actually look at it. That's what I place my emphasis on: finding new ways to get people to look with fresh eyes and really see the ugly monster that's right in front of their face.
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Our priorities get skewed by the way the powerful think in global mass-scale terms while normal people don't. Even well-intentioned people think police violence is more of a problem than war, or that lockdowns are more dangerous than brinkmanship with China, because it's something local that can affect them personally.
This is just a product of normal human psychology. If I'm a store clerk I'm unaffected by things happening on the other side of the world, so I don't think about them. If I'm a war profiteer or empire architect those dynamics affect my bottom line, so I do think about them.
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In 1964, Americans were told that North Vietnamese PT boats had attacked a US Naval vessel. Years later, we learned that there was no attack and were told, "We're sorry. We lied, but we promise never to do it again."
In the 1970s and 80s, we learned that most of the Warren Report was a fabrication and the Church Commission revealed Coinelpro. Legislation was passed that said, "We're sorry. We lied, but we promise never to do it again."
In 1990, Americans were horrified by the behavior of Iraqis taking Kuwaiti babies off incubators and leaving them to die. We knew the government had lied about Tonkin, but they had confessed, said they were sorry and promised never to do it again, so we believed the Kuwaiti princess who testified before Congress and the embedded "journalists" who reported favorably on the outcome of the war. A few years later, Americans were told, "We're sorry. We lied, but we promise never to do it again."
In 2002, we were told Saddam Hussein had WMD and was trying to build a nuclear weapon. We knew the government had lied about Tonkin Gulf and the incubator babies, but the perps had admitted the truth, said they were sorry and promised never to do it again, so some of us accepted as truth that the smoking gun might eventually turn out to be a mushroom cloud. After the US invaded Iraq, no operational WMD could be found. The elites didn't even bother to tell us, "We're sorry. We lied, but we promise never to do it again." The American people were apparently in a dysfunctional relationship with their elites, much like Charlie Brown's relationship with Lucy and her "truth" football.
In 2011, we were told that Khadaffi was giving his troops Viagra so they could rape more innocent Libyans, that he was preparing a civilian massacre in Benghazi based on the prior deaths of "demonstrators" there. The UNSC authorized a "no-fly zone" over Libya, but today we know that the Viagra story was made up, that there had been an insurrection in Benghazi and little threat of "genocide" there, and that the "no-fly zone" was used as cover for air attacks against Libyan government troops in support of jihadi rebels. We knew we had been lied to about Iraqi WMD, but many of us accepted the narrative on Libya because after all Khadaffi was an "evil tyrant" who had spoken ill of Israel. The result has been a failed state, racist slave markets, a massive refugee problem in Europe and the impoverishment of the Libyan people who prior to 2011 had the highest standard of living in Africa. Once again, the elites didn't bother to tell us, "We're sorry. We lied, but we promise never to do it again," but many of us assumed their contrition and that they would not do it again. Others had succumbed to a Stockholm Syndrome reverence for identitarian idols Barack and Hillary.
In 2014, Victoria Nuland organized what George Friedman, director of Stratfor Institute, called "...the most blatant coup in history.” When 95% of the people of Crimea voted not to go along with the coup and instead rejoin Russia, Americans were told that, unlike Kosovo's separation from Serbia, Crimea's decision to be re-united with Russia was "illegal" and that the actions of Russian troops, stationed by treaty in Crimea, to enforce the will of the Crimean people were an "invasion." This time, most of the American public continues to believe the lies and expect no confession or promise from their elites. The Stockholm Sydrome had taken over.
Later in 2014, a caliphate was declared in Syria and quickly invaded northern and western Iraq, threatening even the Baghdad. The Iraqi military was unable to fight back due to supply shortages, which were withheld by the US pending Nuri al-Maliki's compliance with US diktats. This was all quite apparent at the time. Later publication of a 2012 DIA report warning of the danger of an ISIS caliphate, along with a "hot mic" admission by John Kerry, made it clear that US policy in Iraq and Syria had been to allow the strengthening of ISIS in order to put pressure on the governments of those countries to step down or acquiesce in balkanization, with Iraq being split into 3 pieces and syria splintered into numerous pieces of Sunni, Kurd, Alawite, Shiah, Christian and Turkmen. Once again, most Americans succumbed to the Stockholm Syndrome of identity politics.
Today, most Americans are totally unaware of the massive OPCW scandal that has totally discredited the report on the 2018 Douma and by extension its analysis of Skripal blood samples, because the corporate media simply do not report on these well-established facts. Worse, a cacophony of slanders and character assassinations are used to drown out a multitude of whistles blown in an attempting to alert the public to the lies and fabrications told by the WHO and most Western Imperial lackey governments about Covid-19. But people are not just unaware of all the whistles; they actively participate in the shaming of their fellow citizens and suppression of dissent.
Thus have the citizens of the imperial core and vassal states progressed from innocent victims in a dysfunctional relationship, into Stockholm Sydrome sympathizers and finally into active participation in terrorism similar to Patti Hearst, but these "citizens" will not be held accountable any more than Patti Hearst was, unless the empire is eventually defeated like Nazi Germany.
You forgot to add that in a healthy society you'd be on MSNBC every night. I know, crazy, huh?