THE PHILOSOPHY OF RESPONSIBLE FREEDOM: SESSION 27.FEAR AND SOCIAL CONTROL (Academy of Ideas)
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF RESPONSIBLE FREEDOM: SESSION 27.FEAR AND SOCIAL CONTROL (Academy of Ideas)
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From the Academy of Ideas transcript:
“Fear is one of the most powerful human emotions. While highly useful in situations where threat of immediate harm exists, it is the most debilitating and dangerous of emotions when present unnecessarily. In this video we will examine how fear can be used as a tool to manipulate others, and how those in positions of power, past and present, have effectively used fear to control certain aspects of society.” https://academyofideas.com/?s=Fear+and+Social+Control
FEAR: THE FOUNDATION OF EVERY GOVERNMENT’S POWER by Robert Higgs “Were we ever to stop being afraid of the government itself and to cast off the phoney fears it has fostered, the government would shrivel and die, and the host would disappear for the tens of millions of parasites in the United States—not to speak of the vast number of others in the rest of the world—who now feed directly and indirectly off the public’s wealth and energies. On that glorious day, everyone who had been living at public expense would have to get an honest job, and the rest of us, recognizing government as the false god it has always been, could set about assuaging our remaining fears in more productive and morally defensible ways.” https://twitter.com/IndependentInst/status/1469343151672512515
SUFFERING FROM “DRAPETOMANIA” or "BATTERED CITIZEN SYNDROME"? TAKE THE VOLUNTARIST CURE, EXIT THE POLITICAL PLANTATION.
Below will be viewed in numerical order:
1.DRAPETOMANIA: COMPLIANT BLACKS [CITIZENS] SANE, RESISTING BLACKS [CITIZENS] INSANE Philadelphia Tribune by Michael Coard Mar 15, 2019 “On March 17, 1851, Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, a 58-year-old psychologist and surgeon who practiced in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi after having attended University of Penn Medical School, publicly announced the discovery of what he called “Drapetomania,” which he described as a disease that makes enslaved Blacks want to escape or otherwise resist. He invented the term “drapetomania” after combining the Greek words for “runaway” and “madness” to describe any Black man, woman, or child who didn’t want to be bought, sold, traded, leased, and/or held in brutal bondage forever with no rights whatsoever. He continued by saying, “It is unknown to our medical authorities, although its diagnostic symptom, the absconding from service, is well known to our... overseers. The cause... that induces the negro to run away... is as much a disease of the mind as any other species of mental alienation, and much more curable....” https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/drapetomania-compliant-blacks-sane-resisting-blacks-insane/article_0087a2d0-1acb-5364-870c-1205212e0a13.html
2.THE MENTAL DISORDER THAT CAUSED SLAVES TO RUN AWAY Anton Estrada, Feb 19, 2022. Video. 6:01
3.HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE “BATTERED CITIZEN SYNDROME”: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF WAR PROPAGANDA AND STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM Global Research, James F. Tracy, October 16, 2014 “Battered citizen syndrome is an extremely damaging psychological condition impacting individuals who are collectively subjected to emotional abuse and political disenfranchisement by the psychopathic types that all-too-frequently occupy public office in an era of political and socio-economic decay. This syndrome subdues individuals’ awareness of their own historical and political agency, and discourages them from seeking assistance for and ultimately remedying their unsafe situation.
There are various stages one will experience as a result of this condition.
1.DENIAL: The first stage of battered citizen syndrome is denial. Denial occurs when a victim of abuse is unable to acknowledge and accept that they are being subjected to political violence.
2.GUILT: After a citizen experiences the denial period they will move on the guilt stage. During this phase, victims of such coercive violence will undergo feelings of extreme guilt and dishonor by being fingered as potential terrorists themselves.
3.ENLIGHTENMENT: One of the most important phases of the battered citizen’s syndrome is enlightenment. This occurs when a target of abuse recognizes how they are not to blame for their ill-treatment. They will begin to understand that no one deserves to be subjected to state-inflicted terror and violence regardless of their personal characteristics or perceived shortcomings. Despite the realization that their fear, anxiety, and loss of civil liberties likely stem from the broader designs of treacherous individuals in power, victims will continue to accept overzealous state power and commit themselves to saving the seriously flawed relationship.
4.RESPONSIBILITY: Once a citizen recognizes how the psychological torment and terroristic violence they are suffering from is the fault of their government, it is only a matter of time before these victims understand the importance of taking responsibility and escaping their current situation. It is essential that an individual plan their escape well. Citizens who have decided to depart from their unfavorable situation should avoid the enticements of major political parties that are usually the root cause of battered citizen syndrome.” https://www.globalresearch.ca/human-consciousness-and-the-battered-citizen-syndrome-the-psychological-impacts-of-war-propaganda-and-state-sponsored-terrorism/5407954
4. ‘BATTERED CITIZEN SYNDROME' IS A CONDITION THAT WE NEED TO TAKE SERIOUSLY. Steemit, wff, 2018 “It may seem odd to compare our relationship with the state in the same breath as a domestic relationship with a spouse who is abusive, violent, controlling and manipulative. But when we take a look at the symptoms, a stark reality sinks in. 'Battered Citizen Syndrome' (BCS) is something that we need to explore if we want to find freedom.” https://steemit.com/ungrip/@wwf/battered-citizen-syndrome-is-a-condition-that-we-need-to-take-seriously
5.THE TINY DOT Larken Rose, March 8, 2011. Video. 6:48
6.BATTERED CITIZENS SYNDROME | WHY DO YOU MAKE EXCUSES FOR YOUR ABUSERS? Ida Foxy Queen, Oct 26, 2017. Video. 10:47
7.VICTORIA POLICE OFFICER FILMED ALLEGEDLY [OH!?] CHOKING AND PINNING WOMAN TO THE GROUND Guardian News, Aug 11, 2020 Video 1:09 Victoria police have arrested and charged a young woman in Melbourne who was captured on video allegedly being choked and pinned to the ground by a police officer. In video footage posted initially on social media, the woman – who was subsequently found to have had an exemption for wearing a face mask – can be heard shouting “He’s choking me” as she was arrested on Wellington Street in Collingwood on Monday evening. The woman has been charged with resisting police and assaulting police and the arrest has been referred to an internal police review body, the Professional Standards Command.
8.INVESTIGATION BEGINS AFTER WOMAN GETS TRAMPLED BY POLICE HORSE | APTN NEWS Feb 24, 2022. Video 1:00 Ontario's police watchdog unit is investigating an incident where a woman from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory was trampled by a police horse at the Ottawa protest.
9.FEAR: THE FOUNDATION OF EVERY GOVERNMENT’S POWER Independent Institute, May 17, 2005 By Robert Higgs “Without popular fear, no government could endure more than twenty-four hours. David Hume taught that all government rests on public opinion, but that opinion, I maintain, is not the bedrock of government. Public opinion itself rests on something deeper: fear.” https://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=1510https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_10_3_10_etc.pdf
10.THE POLITICS OF FEAR City Journal, John Tierney, May 20, 2020 “For economist Robert Higgs, Covid-19 is just the latest emergency justifying expanded government power. In the political response to the Covid-19 pandemic, everything is proceeding just as economist Robert Higgs has foreseen. But that doesn’t make it any easier for him to watch it. “I have an overwhelming feeling that I am reliving a bad experience I’ve lived through several times before, only this time it’s worse,” Higgs says. “I have no doubt that even if the current situation plays out in the best imaginable way, it will leave an abundance of legacies for the worse so far as people’s freedom is concerned.” Higgs sees government, as usual, vastly expanding during the crisis, and he’s sure that it will not shrink back to its former scale once the crisis is over. It never does, as he famously documented in his 1987 book, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, and in later works exploring this “ratchet effect.” https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-politics-of-fear
11.ROBERT HIGGS: WHY ARE POLITICIANS ALWAYS TRYING TO SCARE US? Part 1 of 4, Independent Institute, May 25, 2010. Video. 23:42 “An Independent Policy Forum held on 12/6/07. Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, discusses the false trade-off between freedom and security by showing how the U.S. government's economic and military interventions in the 20th and 21st centuries have reduced Americans' civil and economic liberties, prosperity, and genuine security.” BEGIN 16:25 “Famous people to develop the thought that all government rests on public opinion…I’m going to maintain that there’s something even below public opinion, and that something is fear”
12.HOW THE STATE LEADS PEOPLE TO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION by Robert Higgs cowfootman, Feb 7, 2012. Video 53:41
13.WHAT IT TAKES TO STAND UP TO AUTHORITY BBC, Future, Martha Henriques, July 13, 2018
Most people do what authority figures tell them to – even when they disagree. The reason, it turns out, is hidden in the brain. The good news? It can be changed.
14.FEAR AND SOCIAL CONTROL. Academy of Ideas, Nov 30, 2015. Video. 9:58
Excellent compilation of thought-provoking content on this topic. Thank you.
I love Higgs. I came to "know" him through Lew Rockwell's blog and the Mises Institute. He saw where the U.S. was headed and he exited to parts unknown in Mexico, I believe.