Social Conditioning

So much of what gets us into trouble or keeps us from thriving is a result of social conditioning...  Anthony, checks in on this topic...

On Sep 5, 2011, at 10:43 PM, Anthony wrote:

You may have deprogrammed me.  Did you intend to?

I saw a brief clip of Ron Paul talking about FEMA.   He basically said the "shock" a person feels at what he says  is a reflection of the person's social conditioning.   Then I began to think about deprogramming and the stages of deprogramming. 

1. Discredit the figure of authority: the cult leader .... John discredits government.

***Don't the discredit themselves?  Isn't "news" largely how government has failed?***

2. Present contradictions (ideology versus reality): ....John points out how government distorts the market.

***But the government can merely propose, hardly impose, it is people drinking the kool aid that is the problem...***

3. The breaking point: When a subject begins to listen to the deprogrammer; when reality begins to take precedence over ideology... John starts to make sense

***these are hardly my ideas, my inquiry started when I crossed the border from hong kong to china in 77...***

4. Self-expression: When the subject begins to open up and voice gripes against the cult.... Anthony starts sending John articles about bad government.

***Well, other's articles is hardly your expression...  when you begin to test nuclear fallout on your own, that is self-expression...***

5. Identification and transference: when the subject begins to identify with the deprogrammers, starts to think of him- or herself as an opponent of the cult rather than a member of it....Anthony becomes a free market advocate.

***I am not so much opposed to the others system, as pro-free markets... altough I think anarchy is best, I'll settle for panarchy...let them have their system...***

OR, have I been REPROGRAMMED!   

***Maybe, but the point is to take charge of your own programming...***

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