if you were actually powerlessness the billion-dollar media structure that convinced you of that would be a massive waste
(it's a waste either way, but it seems to work for the state and capitalists)
if you were as helpless as you believe you wouldn't need to remind yourself daily or weekly for years or decades
if you feel safer when your agency is diminished, then what fuels your feeling of safety is capture
safety is not found in captivity
you're looking for solidarity
@ZLabe Article seems to tell us she feels responsible for keeping business-as-usual as profitable as possible as #climatebreakdown unfolds, rather than trying to do anything about it. #Learnedhelplessness at this level is unspeakable; please tell me I've misunderstood!
@CStamp @ZDL @mikelovesbikes @wendinoakland @todymotmot @profdc9 @GutterPoetry @zakalwe
you would think people would notice the extensive #psyop to convince the #left to not vote, via various methods: #learnedHelplessness, #toxicIdealism, premature empty cynical capitulation, "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe" and other endless bullshit, and understand that what they should do is #vote
it's a human #psychology hack dovetailing into a #political and #social play:
you beat someone on the street, they run away, they fight back
you lock someone in a cage and you beat them daily: they give up, they adopt #learnedhelplessness, and hew to the #abuser. simply to reduce their beatings
you can rule through #consent or you can rule through #fear
and people are giving up on consent as #plutocracy eats it away. perversely, many then flock to the monster killing them
point is, whether the #learnedhelplessness and mindless #cynicism brigades are wildly successful or just an annoyance, whether they are a controlled #troll farm #psyop or just loud people with various social and personality disorders: they are dead weight either way
worry about what we can change
the rest, if all they have is endless whining and zero effort to do the slightest bit of work, a #vote, for better, because they don't get perfect: fuck 'em. pathetic cancerous drek
@MikeF @CptSuperlative @Huntn00
a lot of them on #socialmedia are #maga or #geopolitical #troll farms
working #psyop angles of #learnedhelplessness, #toxicidealism, mindless #cynicism, impotency driven by emotional overload, etc
to suppress the #vote
unfortunately there are marks out there for the con job
people have issues. we all do
and some can be worked over by anonymous manipulation to be rendered ineffective on the concerns they care about: better positioned as the enemy of perfect
@mmiasma
You do realize that these skills can be learned?!?
#LearnedHelplessness
Hope that she's able to leave her confinement before long and that she's found some pleasant ways to pass the time.
#COVID
Helpful advice.
Biden Is Trying to Jolt Us Out of Learned Helplessness About Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/opinion/biden-trump.html
#BidenTrump #LearnedHelplessness #JoltUsOut #Opinion #NYTimes #2024 #Politics #News
The left's opponent isn't the right - it's cynicism.
