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Aug. 20, 2022 - Lionel Nation
07:08
The Secret of Learned Helplessness Explained
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Learned helplessness is a condition in which a subject, let's say a laboratory rat or animal or subject, victim, is Subjected to a series of stresses.
Electric shocks, pain, extinction behavior, over and over and over again.
And the key is to let the animal, let the subject, let the object of the experiment not be able to figure out how this works.
What it can or can't do to make the punishment go away.
Just keep hitting it.
And give it the message, there's nothing you can do.
There's no behavior, there's no comportment, there's nothing that you can do to make this pain go away.
We, this environment, whoever your master is, is going to decide, whenever it wants, for whatever reason it wants, in a scheme that you will never be able to figure out.
You will never be able to comply, comport, or modify behavior to make the stress Punishment, pain, shock, go away.
And so what happens is, the individual who was in the experiment just gives up.
Just gives up.
Collapses.
And just takes it.
Over and over and over.
Have you ever seen a circus elephant?
You put a chain or something around its foot, hoof, whatever you want to call this thing.
And you attach the chain to a stump.
And at first, the elephant tries to become free.
It can't.
Eventually, all you have to do is just put the chain around its foot and it just assumes it can't leave.
You see, that's what every draconian, totalitarian, controlling regime wants to do to its subjects.
That's what's critical.
To let you feel, oh well, what are you going to do?
No bother voting.
No bother involving yourself.
Just whatever.
There's nothing you can do.
Just get along.
Move along.
That's politics.
That's the Republicans and Democrats.
That's Biden, Trump, DeSantis, whoever.
Whoever the object of this is.
Whoever.
It's perceived as running the show.
Because I, as a ghoulish overlord, I want to control you.
And I want to imprison my subjects.
And I want you first and foremost to understand that there's nothing you can do.
The locus of control, your ability to control something, which is the worst feeling, is gone.
I am in charge of that.
I am your captor.
I will keep you in your cell as long as I want.
I will turn the lights on, turn them off.
I will tell you when to eat or sleep.
I'm going to break you of your spirit.
Your will to resist.
Your feeling.
Your feeling, your sense that you can do something.
That you can change the course.
Of history or behavior.
That's what I want to do.
And the first thing I do is I do little things.
Number one, I give you the impression that there's no one in charge.
There's no police.
And what I do is I use my media, collectively, to reinforce the idea that there's lawlessness.
And the lawlessness may not be everywhere, but it doesn't matter.
I want you to think it is.
And the people who are going to be the inadvertent dupes, the people who are going to be actually promulgating and disseminating and distributing and broadcasting the information which is best for me as your captor,
as your overlord, as your jailer, as the warden of this weird penal experiment, that P-E-N-A-L, is going to be those media From what you would call conservative platforms, right-wing platforms, law and order.
They're going to do my work for me.
Because the left's not going to do it.
The left is not going to say, hey, look at this.
Nobody's in charge.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Their ideas, everything's fine.
We got what we wanted, I guess.
No.
The people, the media, The platforms, the strata that will be actually assisting me more than anything are those of the conservative bent.
Because thereafter ratings and clicks and likes and metrics and audience and advertising dollar and as such are the, I'll say it, the inadvertent mindless dupes of a Rather nefarious group of people that you don't ever want to meet.
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