Jocurile agresive- un simptom al societatii neosclavagiste  

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Copilul si animalul se joaca din dorinta de a invata, de a-si perfectiona indemanarea si de a socializa. Daca ne uitam pe geneza jocului vedem ca prin joc copiii de obicei imita niste acte ale adultilor (jocul cu galetusa si lopatica i.e.). sau isi perfectioneaza anumite skiluri (sotronul- ca precizie a aruncarii pietrei i.e.). Jocul de-a soarecele si pisica sau de-a mama si de-a tata presupun proiectii personale in interiorul acestor fiinte cu care copiii se identifica si care se pregatesc sa devina pe parcursul dezvoltarii spre viata adulta. Indiferent de pulsiunile agresive, distructive, mortifere pe care copilul le proiecteaza in interiorul jocului, rolul jocului si jucariilor este foarte important pentru dezvoltarea capacitatilor sale psihice si motorii. Dar, in acest nivel, jocul copilului si animalului pastreaza o doza de inocenta in actul jocului data in special de inofensivitatea activitatii de joc.

Unii adulti si-au pastrat aceasta nevoie de a socializa prin joc sau arta. Dealtfel in limba engleza „play” inseamna si joc si a interpreta un rol ca actor sau a canta la un instrument. In limba romana, pe langa acceptiunea actoriceasca, cuvantul joc se refera si la dans popular. Numeroasele jocuri dezvoltate de societatea umana de-a lungul timpului pentru socializare si ocuparea cat mai placuta si mai relaxanta a timpului liber constituie un reper important al civilizatiei umane. Acesta s-ar putea numi aspectul inocent sau infantil al jocului la omul adult. Din pacate pe langa acest aspect exista si jocul agresiv care atesta partea urata a civilizatiei umane, mai precis ramasitele ei salbatice. Recursul la joc, sublimarea unei agresivitati foarte pronuntate in activitatea jocului presupune un adult irascibil, agresiv, amenintator si determinat sa obtina „mai mult” dintr-o activitate anume. Aceasta determinare si ambitie atat de utila capitalismului sunt de fapt simptomele unei societati care nu se poate decide daca traieste in razboi sau in pace.

Pe langa simptomele paranoide, depresive, obsesiforme etc. cunoscute aceasta agresivitate specifica societatii contemporane se sublimeaza in spectacolul consumist (circ, filme de cinema, emisuni TV, ziare de scandal) sau jocurile de noroc, jocurile sportive si jocurile video. Despre jocurile de noroc s-a scris foarte mult. Exista chiar si o forma a unei entitati nosologice din psihopatologie cunoscuta cu sub numele de „jucatorul patologic”. N-am sa insist pe ea insa ea sa regaseste in celelalte forme de joc agresiv. Cert este ca tehnologia a permis prin jocurile video aducerea cazinoului clasic in casele oamenilor. Jocurile video sunt adevarate home casino! Probabil ca la un moment dat va aparea si „jucatorul video patologic” in descrierile psihopatologiei.

Fiecare dintre jocurile agresive seamana cu adevarate scene de razboi si competitie cu diferenta ca, cel putin pe moment, nu moare nimeni si nu se incalca vreo lege. Acest detaliu le-a facut sa fie numite tot jocuri. Ele au calitatea de a exacerba elementul agresiv din interiorul fiintei umane intr-o realitate paralela fara insa a fi incriminabil. Dat fiind faptul ca societatea a invatat sa pedepseasca punerea in act a agresivitatii brute, prin recursul la jocuri aceasta se manifesta nestingherit la un nivel mai mult decat fantasmatic traditional. Jocurile online sunt adevarate „second life” pentru astfel de impatimiti. Simularea realitatii prin tehnicile computerizate se face astazi la un nivel mult mai fidel decat a reusit vreodata sa faca jocurile traditionale de socializare si arta. Pierderea identitatii celor doua realitati se intampla deseori. Folosirea de nickuri dupa care se ascund persoane reale este un imbold de eliberare fata de regulile traditionale de pedepsire a agresivitatii puse in act. Am putea vedea in aceasta situatie o invitatie a tehnologiei la dedublare a perosnalitatii. Drept urmare in interiorul comunitatii online de jucatori insultele si amenintarile cu moartea sunt la ordinea zilei. Unii jucatori online merg mai departe cu agresivitatea cautand IP ul si datele personale ale dusmanilor online in intentia de razbunare concreta in viata reala.

Dar daca ne gandim la jocurile simple ale copilariei vedem ca de fapt aceste fenomene nu mai au nimic comun cu ele. Le numim jocuri pentru ca sunt activitati neproductive care imita o realitate anume. Insa diferenta dintre copilul sau animalul inocent care se joaca simplu si gamerul cinic si agresiv transpirat si tremurand in fata calculatorului sau in fata monitorului cu consola este ca de la cer la pamant. Cu toate astea granita inocent-agresiv in jocurile adultilor este foarte neclara si multi se iau la harta din cauza jocului desi scopul lui este tocmai socializarea. Din nefericire fenomenul se intampla si la unii copii si la animalele stresate care incep a se juca dar sfarsesc in lupta si in agresarea partenerului. Sunt foarte dese fenomenele agresive in jocurile sportive practicate de adulti din ratiuni de mentinere a conditiei fizice.

Sporturile facute de profesionisti cu perseverenta si indemanare nu mai sunt jocuri in sensul clasic ci adevarate meserii. Sportivul le practica din dorinta de competitie si din nevoia de dragoste din partea fanilor. Aceasta nevoie sporita de dragoste este de fapt o incercare de acoperire cu satisfactie maternalista a acestei stari sclavagiste transmise ereditar si perpetuate la nivel educativ. Pentru asta sportivul are un program si un stil de viata care implica o foarte mare presiune si mult stres. Satisfacerea nevoii fanului infocat de victorie este motorul acestei stari. Tumultul fanilor de pe stadioane reediteaza de fapt chemarea la lupta cu care armatele isi incepeau in trecut marsul si eventual atacul. Rezultatul este acelasi: cetatea fantasmatica care este o reeditare a cetatii concrete pe care armata clasica vroia sa o cucereasca. Acolo erau alimentele, bautura si femeile. Cetatea fantasmatica cuprinde o anacliza intre cele mai puternice instincte (cel nutritiv si cel sexual) la care se adauga distractia oferita de alcoolul gasit in cetate.

Nevoia de joc sau de spectacol in general este nevoia sclavului contemporan de evadare din conditia sa umila dupa modelul stramosului sau sclavul clasic. Majoritatea jucatorilor sunt indarjiti si dornici de o revansa ce seamana izbitor cu razbunarea. Adultii le practica datorita faptului ca uneori au timpi morti si ei sunt programati sa munceasca, sa aiba o activitate. De aceea consider ca problema e anterioara contactului cu jocul si nu neaparat jocul in sine. Starea asta de hiperstenie care il face pe gamer sau suporter de echipa/club sa aiba nevoie de intrecere si experiente SF este speculata subtil de industria jocurilor care treptat va inlocui industria filmelor. Nevoia de a-si umili adversarul si de a atinge performante care sa-l ridice in ierarhia competitionala este de fapt o reeditare fantasmatica a nevoii sclavului clasic de evada din conditia sa de "demn de dispret" spre rascoala sau razboi.

Cele mai populare sporturi combina in ele dorintele primare ale omului simplu (ca sclav contemporan) urmas al sclavului clasic. In fotbal sutul de la mare distanta este un deliciu al spectatorului. Un gol marcat de la mare distanta arunca tribunele in aer si spectatorii din fata ecranelor. Un astfel de gol este selectat pentru generice ca fiind un apogeu al frumusetii in fotbal. El este mai mult decat un gol ordinar pentru ca mingea sutata de departe seamana cu un proiectil rar pe care adversarul nu il are. In acelasi timp in aceasta perceptie este amestecata si traiectoria mingii care intra in plasa si care reitereaza actul sexual unde ea este penisul iar poarta este vaginul. Cu cat mai departat este locul sutului fata de tinta cu atat mai mare pare penisul in aceasta perceptie fantasmatica a actului sexual. Invingerea rivalului prin lupta si cucerirea femelei sunt predispozitii psihice ancestrale care se regasesc in simbolul golului inscris de la distanta in fotbal, al eseului inscris de un jucator ce depaseste multi adversari in rugby sau fotbal american sau a unui cos inscris de asemenea de la mare distanta in baschet. Desi exista variatii majoritatea jocurilor sportive presupun un loc fierbinte bine aparat de adversar dar pe care jucatorul trebuie sa il atinga. Delirul de bucurie al suporterului este de fapt bucuria anaclitica a satisfacerii fantasmatice a acestor pulsiuni. Fara suporteri nu pot exista nici maestrii sporturilor, legendele si vedetele lor care sunt platite din aceasta nevoie fantasmatica de evadare in bucuria cuceririi cetatii fantasmatice.

Gamerul video este un astfel de suporter care foloseste tehnologia. Fata de sporturile clasice unde era doar spectator sau antrenor fantasmatic, in jocurile video el este si vedeta. Desi majoritatea jucatorilor nu sunt profesionisti totusi majoritatea se apropie de aceasta stare mentala deoarece punctele, scorurile si tot felul de compensatii fantasmatice iau rolul dependentei vedetei sportive de dragostea fanilor. Desi rareori insista si pe simbolurile feminine cum sunt poarta/cosul/terenul tinta in sporturi totusi jocurile video au avantajul ca creeaza scene de razboi foarte reale. Majoritatea jocurilor video sunt shootere. Cetatea fantasmatica este simulata indirect prin gradul de simulare a realitatii oferita de tehnologia contemporana. Realitatea lor nu consta neaparat in fotorealismul obiectelor 3D din jocuri (desi odata cu nextgen acestea au devenit aproape imposibil de diferentiat de cele din filme) cat mai ales posibilitatea de interactiune cu ea.

Din acest punct de vedere jocurile video au luat fata filmelor. Dupa cum filmele de mare popularitate sunt productii consumiste de punere in act a fantasmelor sclavului contemporan in acelasi fel jocurile au ajuns sa creeze o poveste care sa atraga atentia jucatorului si sa-l intarate. Jocurile video au ajuns niste filme unde jucatorul poate sa schimbe cursul povestii. Toti gamerii cauta happy end-ul care de fapt nu se sfarseste niciodata cu desavarsire si nu mai vine niciodata. Asemenea razbunarilor clasice sau spiralei violentei nici jocurile video nu au un sfarsit. Chiar daca gamerul termina sau se plictiseste de un joc in scurt timp va apare altul cu dificultate mai mare. Frustrarile nerealizarii sarcinilor din joc, agresivitatea si in final bucuria rezolvarii jocului vor fi mai mari si din ce in ce mai mari. Asemenea consumatorului de substante psihoactive in acelasi fel si gamerul devine din ce in ce mai scindat intre manifestari de bucurie extrema si frustrare extrema. Insa continuand in felul acesta atat jocul cat si jucatorul se va rupe din ce in ce mai tare de comunitatea umana concreta refugiindu-se intr-o regresiune salbatica a razboiului perpetuu. Iata de ce scopul originar al jocului de socializare si dezvoltare a abilitatilor de functionare in societate este anulat de degenerarea jocurilor agresive care il rup pe jucator de comunitate. In locul consolidarii comunitatii ea pare mai mult sa se fractioneze astfel. Cat de degenerata si lipsita de obiect poate ajunge astfel agresivitatea umana in raport cu agresivitatea bruta, exacta si limitata in timp a animalului!

Jocurile video si spectacolul popular in general arata reperele falsei libertati pe care societatea contemporana o promite membrilor ei. In ciuda libertatii promise sclavul societatii contemporane este din ce in ce mai sufocat de reguli, legi si regulamente care il fac sa explodeze in sublimari auxiliare. Tendintele antisociale, suprauzitarea satisfactiilor instinctuale ca sexualitatea si nutritia excesiva se regasesc in tot ceea ce inseamna spectacol contemporan. Umilit la job de stare de inferior in ierarhia concreta a productiei, sclavul modern se razbuna seara luand virtual arma in mana (mouse-ul sau joystickul) si impuscand inamicii. In ciuda eliberarii jucatorul se prinde mai mult si mai mult in capcanele predatoriale ale consumismului. Urmatorul pas al agresivitatii este sa ia arma reala si sa-si impuste colegii sau fostii colegi. Cazurile de aceste treceri dinspre realitatea fantasmatica inspre cea concreta sunt multiple.

Jocurile video par un fenomen scapat de sub control. Shooterele au fost create initial de US Army care a incercat sa atraga mai multi tineri astfel catre inrolarea „de buna voie”. Intre timp ele au devenit marturie cum ca ceva nu este in regula cu societatea noastra. Cumva acest lucru este de inteles. Civilizatia umana este inca la inceput. Omul e mai aproape de conditia de animal in cautare perpetua de hrana si adapost decat un adevarat „homo sapiens” care sa actioneze ca un intelept. Cei care au asigurata aceasta bruma de civilizatie si nu mai trebuie sa aiba grija zilei de maine sunt o minoritate in comparatie cu restul oamenilor. Ba chiar ei folosesc resursele comunitatii pentru a-i inrobi si mai mult pe cei multi si in felul acesta ii frustreaza si mai tare provocandu-le mai multa agresivitate si resentiment. Asa ca pana una alta jocurile agresive reusesc sa foloseasca intereselor nu doar a corporatiilor care le produc dar si a supraprivilegiatilor sociali abatand astfel atentia de la ei din partea unor potentiali rasculati. Astfel ca, decat sa riste o confruntare cu fortele de ordine care au arme superioare multi dintre ei prefera un razboi de la egal la egal in spatiul unei retele de computere conectate la un server.

Freedom, equality and fraternity in psychoanalysis  

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First it should be said that the term "equality" although has a long and dense history still has a metaphorical shape. We know that even that twins who resemble each other more than they resemble themselves [:)] are not equal, one is usually faster than the other. This metaphor has political flavor and involves the Western society’s need for liberation from classic slavery. Granting artificial divine or extrahuman value to aristocracy or regality automatically implies the same artificial withdrawal of slave’s human value. In this case there is a negative compensation involved.


Meanwhile the classic slavery was replaced by the industrial or corporate slavery and the mixture of liberty with slavery led to the explosion of mental disorders (depressive generally) especially in the second half of the twentieth century, which continues to beginning of the 21st. I saw written at one time on a shirt “Liberté, égalité, desolé” ... The ideals of “liberty equality and fraternity” were replaced by the rhetoric of impossibility of existence neither equality, because people are different, nor freedom, because we are affected by the organic / psychological laws, and nor brotherhood because we are not all born by the same mother. I used the term “rhetoric” because these realities have become instruments to promote new slavery by the contemporary rule of law society. Since there is no absolute freedom that is a reason for the new slave owners to create a restrictive legal framework or social system that increasingly looks more to police state than open society. All of these can be justified in the name of no absolute ontological freedom. But when it comes to justify their colonial impulses (like the invasion of Iraq or Vietnam) the new slavery social systems emphasizes the very gift of freedom given to citizens that they liberated from the “tyranny”. Here is how this dialectic of meaning is used in each of the two exclusive versions depending on the politicians’ short time interests as usual. Instead of old fashioned gas used by Saddam Hussein to crush the revolt the rule of law uses delicate gas specific to police forces specific to ... Western democracy meantime implemented in Iraq. In this case and in all cases of emancipation (including the famous 19th century American antislavery war between north and south) we are dealing with replacing the classical slavery with the modern slavery.


From my point of view the slavery is the origin of mental disorders and, equally, stopping slavery will stop mental disorders aggravation (although not immediately but in time over generations). For me the mental disorder is a mixingof peripheral pulsional / behaviors / reactions / feelings / that belong to either of two different cultures or to two different environmental or social realities. The dose of political freedom obtained by contemporary individual mixed with corporatism masked slavery man causes mental disorder. The sexuality that Freud observed (excessively enlarged concept) as both hiperenergetic and inhibited by the neuroses (sublimated in symptoms or in everyday life psychopathology) is the very expression of this type of socio-environmental-cultural mixture. Mimicking a high life (or high class) but the actual living in harsh realities of slavery is generally sign of mental disorder. The solution for mental disorder moderation is not psychoanalysis, but the very cancellation of slavery. Psychoanalysis can solve only some superficial psychical conflicts.

The true cure of contemporary individual mental disorders needs both time for healing and also the cancellation of the factors that cause the injury. These factors are brief review above. The rules of the classical psychoanalysis are limited to the contemporary mentality of rejecting slavery but still denial its existence today and restricting the “slavery” term to the classical slavery only. However, this rejection is only a formal one, related to the traditional humanism pressures. But, under the exact model of sublimation, the hidden newslavery works quietly as a cancer under the mask of open society pure principles and participatory democracy. In other words, if the primitive survives in the modern, than certainly the feudal is still very active in it.

Therefore, for me the essence of psychopathological “cure” does not rely (any more) in individual therapy but in the whole social therapy. I’m not saying that individual therapy would be totally unnecessary but it is far from providing what seemed to provide by the Freud’s words: the “consciousness”, i.e. passing the representations (which can not be separated neither by affect nor by pulsion) from socalled register of unconscious eternity to the conscious temporality is just a metaphor. This metaphorical conception has no coverage in any facts since any psychological content crystallizes over time and loses its plasticity by becoming pulsion. The “plasticity of instinct" that Freud and psychoanalysis talked about is just a crystallization of such peripheral mental contents inside the body of instinctual pulsion. The psychoanalysis can not any longer change such content as the board is not necessary after the concrete has hardened.


If we pay close attention to it, the psychoanalysis has “settled” only the tip of the iceberg of the mental disorder inspite of its spectacular therapeutic at the early 20th century (which since then kind of became obsolete to put it on the right). No neurotic was completely “cured” in the true sense of the word. Many have (re) converted into... depressive. On the same note we can say that those who were “reborn” later were converted into manic ... becoming ardent apostles of a new religion. It is an evolution for the better indeed but not so great as psychoanalysts have presented it.


Classical (nowadays) psychoanalysis somehow reflects this ambivalent reality. When the slave comes to analysis (no matter if it is more emancipated since can afford such a fad) seeks for the limits of her or his freedom. The patient sees the analyst as its owner and negotiates with him or her that symbolic freedom that can not take on its own, because that was the education for thousands of years. It is said “the analyst can not give up its authority”. Indeed, the analyst can not give up its authority because he actually assumes this authority, it transforms into the traditional master figure that provides gratification for its slave. For many slaves the releasing of their children could be done by a sex affair or any kind of affair with the master. This transgenerational psychic crystallized social reality is repeated in side the analysis. Giving the freedom to enjoy the sexual desire or reliving early childhood enjoying motherhood, the psychoanalyst is for the patient that master who gives life and a certain level of freedom to the slave. “You may” and “You may not” are key phrases that the confused patient finds its peace nesting at the analyst’s breast milk transforming it from indifferent and cold into tolerant, kind and attentive to his needs and feelings.


The patient-analyst relationship is an ideal form of slavery because repeats at a certain micro-level the relationship between rulers and ruled. It is ideal because the analyst is probably the most human of all political leaders; no one gets out worse that was before from psychoanalysis cure. Psychoanalytic cure improves more or less well but any relationship with a (non psychoanalyst) leader will sooner or later turn into psychological erosion and increase of ruled specific psychopathological structure. But it is this slavery mentality prison makes the classical psychoanalysis and its typical frame rules a kind of political limited activity. Obviously, in this case, the classical psychoanalysis itself is caught in a vicious circle: it takes on a symbolic level the relationship between master and slave that is exactly what makes the slave to fall into psychopathological despair. It is like one treats alcoholism disease with a little drink or the drug addiction with daily dose of drug. The healing time seems.


Through its political docility the psychoanalysis itself agrees that state of political ambivalence because it can not see beyond the walls of the cave slave mentality. And the role of leader-ruled frame is just the level of limitation to this mentality. It is still in the ghetto. Classic psychoanalysis does not understand that it has the chance to become the most important institution in a future society in which the slavery (including that of today masked by the rule of law and democracy lies) would be totally eradicated. For now it can not accept the “equality” since it actually needs slavery system for to send victims to rags. It is dependent on slave mentality. In a world without any slavery a lot of elements of the psychoanalytical classical frame will spray. The analyst-patient discrimination is one of them.

Libertate, egalitate si fraternitate in psihanaliza  

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Acest articol s-a dorit initial un comment la articolul „Invata-ma sa te inteleg relationist” de pe cafe Cradiva publicat aici :

http://www.cafegradiva.ro/2011/11/invata-ma-sa-te-inteleg-relationist.html

Mai intai trebuie precizat ca termenul "egalitate" desi are o istorie lunga si deasa totusi e unul metaforic. Stim ca nici macar gemenii aia care seamana intre ei mai mult decat seamana cu ei insisi [ :)] nu sunt egali, de obicei unul e mai iute decat celalalt. Respectiva metafora are iz politic si presupune nevoia societatii occidentale de eliberare de sub sclavagismul clasic. Acordarea artificiala de valoare divina sau supra umana aristocratiei sau regalitatii implica automat o retragere la fel de artificiala a valorii umane a sclavului. Este vorba de o compensare prin negatie in acest caz.

Intre timp sclavagismul clasic a fost inlocuit cu cel industrial sau corporatist iar amestecul de libertate cu sclavagism a condus la explozia de tulburari psihice (in general de factura depresiva) in special in cea de-a doua jumatate a secolului XX, lucru care continua si la inceput de secol 21. Am vazut la un moment dat pe un tricou expresia "Liberté, égalité, desolé"... Idealurile „egalitatii libertatii si fraternitatii” au fost inlocuite de retorica imposibilitatii existentei nici a egalitatii, pentru ca oamenii sunt diferiti, nici a libertatii pentru ca suntem afectati de legi organice/psihice stricte si nici a fraternitatii pentru ca nu toti suntem nascuti de aceeasi mama. Spun retorica pentru ca aceste realitati au devenit instrumentele promovarii noului sclavagism al statului de drept contemporan. Daca nu exista o libertate absoluta asta e un motiv pentru noii stapani sa creeze un cadrul legislativ restrictiv sau un sistem social ce seamana din ce in ce mai mult cu statul politienesc. Toate acestea in numele faptului ca nu exista o libertate ontologica absoluta. Dar cand e vorba sa isi justifice impulsurile colonialiste (de genul invadarii Irakului sau Vietnamului) sistemele neosclavagiste aduc pe tapet tocmai libertatea pe care ele le ofera cetatenilor eliberati de sub jugul „tiraniilor”. Iata ca aceasta dialectica a sensurilor este folosita in fiecare dintre cele doua variante exclusiviste in functie de interesele de moment de catre politicieni asa cum le este specific. In locul gazelor rudimentare folosite de Saddam Hussein pentru a inabusi revolta vom avea gaze delicate folosite de fortele de ordine specifice … democratiei occidentale implementate intre timp in Irak. Avem de a face in acest caz precum si in toate cazurile de emancipare (inclusiv in celebrul razboi antisclavagist dintre nord si sud din SUA secolului 19) cu inlocuirea sclaviei clasice cu cea moderna.

Din punctul meu de vedere sclavagismul este originea tulburarilor psihice si, in aceeasi masura, anularea sclavagismului poate conduce la anularea lor (chiar daca nu imediat ci in timp pe parcursul generatiilor). Pentru mine tulburarea psihica este amestecul de pulsiuni periferice/comportamente/reactii/sentimente/ ce apartin fie a doua culturi diferite fie a doua realitati sociale sau de mediu diferite. Doza de libertate politica obtinuta de omul contemporan amestecata cu sclavagismul mascat al corporatismului determina tulburarea psihica. Sexualitatea observata de Freud (concept excesiv largit) ca suprapotentata si inhibata in acelasi timp la nevroze ( sublimata in simptom sau in psihopatologia vietii cotidiene) este ea insasi expresia acestui tip de amestec socio-culturo-ambiental. Mimarea unei vieti de high life (sau high class) dar trairea efectiva in realitatile dure ale sclavagismului este specificul tulburarii psihice in general. Solutia temperarii sale nu este psihanaliza ci anularea sclavagismului. Psihanaliza rezolva doar unele conflicte psihice superficiale.

Adevarata vindecare a tulburarilor psihice ale omului contemporan are nevoie de timp pentru cicatrizare si de anularea factorilor care produc rana. Iar acesti factori sunt cei analizati succint mai sus. Regulile cadrului psihanalizei clasice sunt limitate la dispozitia mentalitatii contemporane de a se dezice sincer de sclavagism. Aceasta dezicere este doar una formala, legata de presiunile umanismului. Insa, dupa modelul exact al sublimarii, sclavagismul functioneaza tacit ca un cancer sub masca curata a principiilor societatii deschise si democratiei participative. Altfel spus, daca primitivul supravietuieste in omul modern, cu siguranta feudalul e inca foarte activ in el.

De aceea, pentru mine esenta "vindecarii" psihopatologice nu (mai) sta in terapia individuala ci in terapia societatii. Nu spun ca terapia individuala ar fi total inutila insa ea e departe de a oferi ce a parut ca ofera prin insele vorbele lui Freud: "constientizarea", adica trecerea reprezentarilor (care nu pot fi despartite de afect si nici de pulsiune) din asanumitul registru al eternitatii inconstiente in cel al temporaritatii constiente este doar o metafora. Acesat conceptie metaforica nu are nici un fel de acoperire in fapte pentru ca orice continut psihic se cristalizeaza in timp si isi pierde plasticitatea devenind pulsiune. „Plasiticiatea instinctului” de care vorbeste Freud si unii psihanalisti nu este decat o astfel de cristalizare a unor astfel de continuturi psihice periferice in corpul fixat al pulsiunii instinctuale. Psihanaliza nu mai are ce face unor astfel de continuturi dupa cum cofrajul nu mai este necesar betonului care s-a intarit.

Daca o luam la bani marunti, psihanaliza nu a "rezolvat" decat varful aisbergului tulburarii psihice cu toata spectaculozitatea ei terapeutica de la inceputul secolului 20 (spectaculozitate care intre timp a cam intrat ea insasi in desuet ca s-o spunem pe drept). Nici un nevrotic nu a fost "vindecat" in adevaratul sens al cuvantului. Multi s-au (re)convertit in... depresivi. In aceeasi nota se poate spune ca cei "renascuti" s-au convertit in... maniacali devenind niste apostoli infocati ai unei noi religii. Este o evolutie in bine intr-adevar dar nu este atat de mare pe cat psihanalistii si-au prezentat-o.

Psihanaliza clasica (actuala) cumva reflecta aceasta realitate ambivalenta. Cand vine in analiza sclavul (fie el ceva mai emancipat devreme ce isi poate permite un astfel de moft ) cauta limitele libertatii sale. Analizandul vede in psihanalist pe acel stapan si negociaza cu el libertatea simbolica pe care nu si-o poate lua de la sine putere, pentru ca asa a fost educat timp de mii de ani sa se comporte. Se spune in articol „analistul nu poate renunta la autoritatea lui " . Intr-adevar, nu poate renunta la autoritatea lui pentru ca el de fapt isi asuma aceasta autoritate, se transfigureaza in figura traditionala a stapanului ce ofera gratificare sclavului sau. Pentru multi sclavi eliberarea macar a odraslelor lor se poate realiza printr-o legatura amoroasa sau de orice fel cu stapanul. Aceasta realitate sociala cristalizata psihic transgenerational se repeta in analiza. Ca ii da libertatea de a se bucura de libido sau ca isi retraieste copilaria bucurandu-se de maternitate, psihanalistul este pentru pacient acel stapan care ii ofera viata sclavului si care ii ofera si nivelul de libertate. „Ai voie” si „n-ai voie” sunt expresiile principale prin care pacientul confuz isi regaseste linistea cuibarindu-se la pieptul matern al analistului transformandu-l astfel din indiferent si rece in ingaduitor, binevoitor si atent la nevoile si trairile sale.

Relatia analist analizand este o forma ideala de sclavagism deoarece repeta la nivel microsocial relatia dintre conducator si condus. Spun ideala deoarece dintre toti conducatorii probabil ca psihanalistul este cel mai uman; nimeni nu iese dintr-o cura de psihanaliza mai mutilat psihic decat a fost. Cura psihanalitica face bine mai mult sau mai putin pe cand orice relatie cu un conducator (nepsihanalist) duce mai devreme sau mai tarziu la erodare psihica si la accentuarea structurii psihopatologice specifice condusului. Dar tocmai aceasta priponire in mentalitatea sclavagista face din psihanaliza clasica cu cadrul ei tipic o activitate limitata politic. Evident, in acest caz psihanaliza clasica insasi este prinsa intr-un cerc vicios: ea reia la nivel simbolic relatia dintre stapan si sclav adica exact ceea ce il face pe sclav sa cada in disperarea psihopatologica. Este ca si cum te-ai trata de alcoolism cu o dusca mica sau de sevraj cu doza zilnica de drog. Pe moment pare o vindecare dar in timp este de fapt o dependenta.

Psihanalizei insasi, prin docilitatea ei politica, ii convine aceasta stare de ambivalenta politica pentru ca nu poate vedea dincolo de zidurile pesterii mentalitatii sclavagiste. Iar cadrul rolurilor condus-conducator este exact stadiul sau de limitare la aceasta mentalitate. Ea inca se afla in ghetou. Psihanaliza clasica nu intelege ca ea are sansa sa devina ce mai importanta institutie intr-o societate viitoare in care sclavagismul (inclusiv cel mascat de minciunile statului de drept si democratiei actuale) ar fi total eradicat. Ea deocamdata nu poate accepta „egalitatea” pentru ca de fapt are nevoie de insusi sistemul sclavagist care sa-i trimita victime spre carpire. Ea este tributara mentalitatii sclavagiste. Intr-o lume lipsita total de sclavagism multe elemente ale cadrului clasic se vor pulveriza. Discriminarea ontologica analist-analizand este una dintre ele.

Looking back … Moving forward…  

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"Moving forward" seemed to be a sort of trilogy ending. After my doubts about the first Zeitgheist ("The Movie") and after my joy about the "Addendum" I expected a great deal from this 3rd part especially because it has over 150 minutes footage. Unfortunately I have not found the vitality of the "Addendum" anymore although monetary system analysis goes further in some respects. Maybe it was me that was already familiar with all the documentary themes, maybe I was accustomed to a community that accepts its specific ideas and maybe that is why I was not so excited to find fellow ideology elsewhere. Anyway, I agree with more than 90% of ideas presented in the film but I found a small number of new things that I am particularly interested. I will elaborate these affirmations in the following sections and I will begin with positive things of the documentary.




What I liked best in "Zeitgeist 3: Moving Forward"

From the very beginning I emphasize the fact that the technical and artistic achievement of this 3rd part documentary is indeed a step forward towards the other two made before. Peter Joseph knows his job. He knows how to deal with image and when to push different items on display, giving them amplitude. He is a true professional, one can see his experience in the field and the success of the other two documentaries motivated him even more to move forward on this side.

Regarding the ideas presented in the film the most I liked that of the correlation between physiological disease or mental disorder psychological disorder and the very social status in which they appear. I subscribe to this idea from 13 years ago when I wrote “The dynamics of abyssal psychology” . Starting from minute 1.25 Peter Joseph makes a very coherent and profound analysis of this state of facts that turns the classical psychoanalysis and genetics theories of seem a kind of newcartesianism. Insisting on the theory of “libidinal stages evolution” or hormonal and genetic disorders in the explanation of diseases and mental disorders as these theories do at the beginning of the XXI century is no longer a matter of ignorance or scientific failure, but complacency in hypocrisy.

Another thing that is worth noticing in the documentary is the attention to crime and, the fact that the criminal is a victim herself/himself that transmits on the frustrations and abuses received from the society or family. Instead of protecting children from abuses in order not to make them criminals today's society keeps strengthened by military and police forces of order designed to discourage their reflection back into society. Law enforcement develops directly proportional to citizens declining standard of living. As slave worker living costs and quantity of the work are increasing its aggression also increases. The barrier between respectable citizen and criminal becomes very unclear if the worker's life is getting worse. The criminal is that margin of error that goes beyound this border. Luxury and wealth are made by slaves by more or less subtle stealing of their work; as they make that luxury possible for the privileged social classes they also accumulate frustrations and criminal tendencies and their inhibition is done by security forces that keeps accentuate these frustrations. Just like the vicious circle of neurosis contemporary society proves itself a neurosis at the institutional level where Unconscious represented by criminals fight on life and death struggle with the repressing Conscious represented by security forces. Strengthening law enforcement implies addition expenses supported by society and in the very end supported by the same slave worker, which implies increasing of personal frustrations and propensity to crime. The justice system is the most organized of all crimes as others theorists have noted before (Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche, some ancient sophists etc.) Security forces prevent indeed such abuses that ex slave criminal can make to the society. But they mainly protect powerful people of society thus increasing the possibility for them to fire just over the helpless: children, women, the members of the criminal-victim. Today's society reports toward criminals the same way as the gangs and anti-government tight terrorist organizations reports to officials creating so-called spiral of tight terrorism and beyond such tight terrorism that politicians presents as the only terrorism its contemporary itself that behaves in a terrorist way as I pointed in this article. http://baldovinconcept.blogspot.com/2010/02/terrorism-as-pillar-of-state.html

Instead of investing in psychotherapists to find any abuse in the next criminals families today society invests in the military and police forces that have the main role to threaten the slave and to make it productive inventing various excuses and conflicts between nations in order to justify their existence and to discreetly wash up this dirty image. It's time to see what's wrong with the society itself in relationship with criminals beyond demonizing and perceiving them as the only ones responsible for their hateful acts. Unfortunately at this moment it is more profitable to invest in the army and police forces that protect you from the raging crowd. An open and humanist educated child no longer accepts the slave labor and slavery or contemporary newslavery system collapse in the lack of slaves. Justice is the "necessary evil" or “smaller evil" that frequently people say about. Obviously this formula is designed by the observer's point of view: for the privileged social justice is evident that the justice is the smaller evil because the institutions make their lives easier. They throw the garbage in the yard of the crowd. But for the criminal the lesser evil is crime itself that he or she had no choice but to do it and the greatest evil is the very state that brought the situation to commit the crime. So, as Fresco says at the late of documentary, the one who seeks justice finally comes to be defeated by it.


What I did not like in "Zeitgeist 3: Moving Forward"


There are plenty of real and productive ideas in the film, I do not insist on all of them because the reader can notice herself/ himself by simply seeing it. Right now I would like to focus on things that I did not like. First of all documentary seems to me to be too long and too out of shape. It seems to be a press conference where Peter Joseph responds to all the various themes proposed by the audience. From this point of view Zeitgeist 3 documentary somehow has not a consistent methodology, a melodic line. It passes from one topic to another without drawing a conclusion in the end in order to explain such a zigzag evolution of the speech. I think it would have been better to have three different one-hour or less for each documentaries instead of a big 160 minutes one. There could be one single project concerning the effectiveness of Venus, then another one about crime and its conditioning to the social environment and another one about robotic technology and end of the slavery edge. Peter Joseph did not make a detailed approach in no one of these topics and gave me the impression that he left them hanging in the air.

There are also several inaccuracies that do not belong in such a documentary and have no contribute whatsoever for the dynamics of argumentation. For example at the beginning of the film is said that schizophrenia is not genetically conditioned but suggested as largely being induced by the social environment. I commend and support the film intention to show up the excessive usage of genetics for explaining certain dubious behaviors particularly for protecting and justifying them and not to change them. Indeed the excessive usage of genetics argument is a disguised form of the older argument of "destiny" to exploit and rob common people by the social privileged ones. The theory of "divine right" * which lasted until close to modernity is a good example. Absolute genetics which is looking for gene for one behavior or another source become a contemporary source of myths painted in scientific precision colors. But despite of its vogue for now it is not a science in the sense of observation sciences, but an amalgam of experiments on rats and other animals. Just like neurology genetic too is still kidding, an early childhood science although they both have had remarkable results. Its spectacular shape comes from the fact that it overlaps the contemporary man ambivalence towards religion. On the one hand it confirms that people are genetic descendants from the ancestors so it promises that at one certain point will find out who was Adam. On the other hand genetics allowed the manipulation of the facts that were previously ascribed to God only. Slowly but surely humanity become convinced that children do not come from God, but are expressions of nature which, in this case are... genetics.

Despite its momentousness as a science it is full of assumptions and there is no typical verification tools to confirm or infirm them. Searching particular one gene for each behavior and explaining it through this genetics nebula refusing environment understanding even in parallel with the genetic paradigm looks like another kind of classic dualism painted in misleading colors of contemporary laboratories. Geneticists pipettes and tubes not impress me neither their scientists tired old-fashioned allure! When they would (re)create the first dinosaur then would be able to congratulate themselves for creating a serious science and for creating a consistent theory of genes. Until then, geneticists seem to worth more for capitalist propaganda!

Yet must not fall into the other extreme and believe that everything is pure environment just as it did Pavlov and his followers, the behaviorists, without understanding the predisposition genetic factor. Regarding DSM IV schizophrenia percentage is from 0.5 to 1.5% in the population (p. 308). But the risk of developing schizophrenia is 10 times higher for the first degree descendants of those who have this disease than normal (p. 309). I agree that social factors and education received may influence the shape of schizophrenic symptoms but the predisposition of general schizophrenia development is decisively influenced by genetic factors. Is not very good to put such errors in such a documentary! You lose credibility! Addition to this, such a theme has no meaning to the main interest of the film. There is no good reason for such an extra theme in the evolution of the documentary.

The situation is repeated at minute 1.15 where Max Keiser talks about the difference between those who occupy cynical functions in the economy or general social institutions and the normal people. This difference would consist in so-called “brain damage” after the words of the interviewee. I think one of the theoretical problems of Peter Joseph is just lack of training in psychology and psychopathology. The theme of brain dysfunction in psychopathology has sparked many controversies in recent decades. Even schizophrenia has not a clear verdict regarding such neurophysiologic dysfunctions although it is most likely to have. Even less such a small personality disorder (but unfortunately with very serious consequences on the world) as described by the interviewed one is unlikely to be due to organic dysfunction (hard) but more likely to be due to psychic conformation (soft). That is why DSM has replaced the old term "mental illness" that had in it the concept of organic dysfunction with "mental disorder" that appears closer to the actual soft informational-pulsional mental reality than the hard one of the cerebral organic system. Although the neurophysiology used to be expected to find new therapeutic solutions, however as it developed more in the second half of the twentieth century concluded itself that the physiological substrate is not the decisive element in psychopathology. The brain of the most mental disorders is normally functioning. Nerve impulses, hormonal control of the organs, reflexes, reactions to stimulus etc. works the same for mental disorders people as it works for normal people. The difference consists only in the intensity degree of these reactions.

Naturally when we see such a cyborg we have the tendency to say that there is something wrong with its brain but it is more a curse, a warm response than a precise and profound scientific statement. The human brain is not a barrel. A brain injury or a brain excision may produce extremely different effects depending on the place, time and intensity of its occurrence. The human brain seems like an inert body but everyone knows already that it is an entire universe. Such an organic brain damage can lead also to hiperempathy and hiperafectivity. One can not explain the inhumane behavior of some Wall Street employees as “brain damage”. In this case not only the half 20-th century Western psychiatry switching is not known by Peter Joseph, but he and others seem to go back to the 18th and 19th century views on mental disorder. Such a theoretical approach very much resembles to the untrained people vision who accuses her/his enemies as suffering from "insanity". Even if Peter Joseph did not directly express his opinion, however he tolerated and put it in this documentary which certifies the fact that he missed some studies in this area, lectures that are crucial for the work he begun.

At min. 1.40 is a statement with which I also disagree. It says that if we do not take into account the changes required there is very likely to disappear as a species because we are wasting resources and we pollute the planet by poisoning. I do not think that this is the line to justify the need for these changes. Actually, it was seen how hypocrite intentions of Al Gore and many corporations support environmental protection campaigns. It is very easy to refute such an environment disaster idea. The earth is mostly clean. Global warming is a hoax. Pollutants generally pollute sensitive Gothic civilization of cities. If you stay longer in the wild or out of urban congestion than pollution will no longer seemed a problem and with it they hypocritically want to induce notion that society should not reform because actually we have minor problems with pollution or no problem at all. This is not at stake! We need to change society in order to correct and make it fair. We need to change it to give us the rights promised in constitutions. We need to change it because when we were kids we were told at school to do what we were told in exchange for different promises that the system forgot in meantime. Many of us have forgotten this real contract between us as children and system but some of us have not so now simply ask the system to fulfill its principle obligations under the contract. Unfortunately most of these ideals are just words on paper and civilization is an empty and colorful set of lies. We live in a world of lies, frauds and wars. This is not civilization but smiling jungle. Typeface. Hypocrisy. Unfortunately again, many of us never had better parents or teachers to protect us from abuses east of such an inhumane contract and we fell into wild education trap.


Conclusions, surveys, evaluations


One can see an interesting evolution in the thinking of Peter Joseph that is to find in my own thinking. In the first Zeitgeist (The movie) evil in the world was focused on a kind of secret, elitist, implacable and invincible society that creates religions in different parts of the world in order to control the masses. In the second one (Addendum) this evil moved somehow to monetary system. In this third Zeitgeist spirit fixated on something else like in Hegel's speech :). Peter Joseph reached the point to says that there no politicians, neither banks, nor the military are responsible for the evil in the world but something else, thus introducing a new concept in its theme but somehow old and commonplace in psychology: "psychosocial stress" (1:28 min). I think that the openness to psychotherapy and psychology is the way Peter must follow in order to enhance his speech.

I myself want to do this in my art and my theories speech. After a period of several years of stressful life style that I put aside any possibility of solving current problems in today society now I go back to my old hobby: psychology. But that does not mean giving up the idea of revising social values as there are stressful and toxic information social environment in today's society. Psychotherapy alone can not change things as long as the social environment is more or less a terrorist one. I have friends in both Zeitgeist and psychoanalysts’ communities and I would like to attract the first for understanding their psychological background of a beyond the idealization of the endenic future Venus Project as much as I would like to take the others out of the maternalist exlcusivism understanding of family microsociety causality for human mind. The Lacanian and Freudian abyssal psychologies are both different forms of structuralism and thus they assume all the shortcomings of that thinking.

On the other hand, in terms of psychology, the Zeitgeist community members ignore almost at all the personal interiority and throw everything towards social exteriority. It looks to me as an emotional and factual exclusive investment in the Venus Project and not very much training regarding psychology. Peter Joseph has plenty unreadings even if there are also valuable insights (some of them discovered by others in the past...). After this statement there are a lot of other psychological ins and outs that Peter Joseph had not seen very clearly yet although he guessed them. There are more to say after this "psychosocial stress" but he stopped and ended.

For example, the informational and emotional toxic environment promoted by present civilized society has a very specific purpose which Peter Joseph seems not to notice. Inferiority complexes that sick people minds every second are spread into society on different channels just like radio waves spread into the ether. Their maim role is to and to convince slave soul to "voluntarily" work by buying unnecesary products and false technology (new design objects) which covers and satisfy this inferiority complex. Although this inferiority complexes are satisfied after the very moment of acquisition still, on long-term time this blind shopping traps harder the slave in slavery because she/he must perform additional work to cover the costs of their acquisition. Beyond microfamilial side described by Freud in this moment I am convinced that narcissism has a much more important macrosocial side as well said some 80 years ago the third founder of the psychoanalytic movement, Alfred Adler. Instead of death threat as used in classical age, the contemporary slavery system recruits its slaves by inveigling their narcissism. Firstly the system humiliates them starting since from the early school and then by all the commercials that systematically harass their psychodynamic background. The narcissism is a partial "healing" of this inferiority complex brought by classical culture and careful speculated by contemporary culture.

The result is a man who wants increasingly more and more, a dependent man as it is pointed out in this third documentary. We are talking about a greedy blind by consumption man who is slowly but surely destroying social relationships with others and who risk to destroy even the planet if continue on this way. But as I said above the nature through human nature has the power to regenerate and self-regulate so despite pessimistic I am convinced that things will change in better. But that does not mean we must forget the past and remain passive in the hope of a change that would come without an effort on our part and wait for the nature effort. Things must be very categorically named. Western society has been and remains a huge battlefield marked by a few islands of calm and piece. As being battlefield in sense of war or psychological battle, contemporary civilization proves to be wilder than what it shows in the constitutions of states that is why so many other papers full of propaganda neoscolastic texts are.

I would like Peter Joseph to continue exposing other social institutions also as he did with the monetary system in Addendum and even continued in this third one. But instead of something like this he shows the Venus Project that we have been talking on Team Speak for some time now. Venus, Venus, Venus ... I'm tired of talking about Venus as long as ordinary people do not have that basic political power to get out of the current political system. I did not need a futuristic city as I need the certainty that if I would relocate to live alone in the mountains the police would not come to arrest me for being an anarchist or a terrorist! Who would invest in a project like Venus if in the future comes the next George Bush with the military forces and accuse me of having chemical weapons? Let's give up the naiveties and large steps in the favor of smaller but more certain steps! If I get the minimum that political freedom then I not know if I would need to invest in a new city. I can easily use the old ones.

I think "Moving Forward" is a documentary of the Zeitgeist movement crisis itself beyond being a current society crisis documentary. Zeitgeist Movement had a powerful start. The first Zeitgeist was systematically removed by YouTube without realizing that they actually contribute to its popularization. After Zeitgeist Addendum became famous and after YouTube and realized that if they would continue to delete these videos which would undermine their own image, Zeitgeist has became a really mass phenomenon. Peter Joseph has been invited to hold conferences in different places and even has a radio show. Zeitgeist turned into an international movement and myself have attended meetings on Team-speak (Port: 9987 Password = tzm). After months of talking and plans for the creation of Venus Project people leave disappointed and so again and again. People come, get involved, organize things then get bored and leave. The truth is that there is not much to be done. Social cyborgs have everythin; they weapons, credibility, and media actors to take their defense in front of the crowds. You can not get out of the system no matter how hard you try. That is actually the contemporary newslavey. In the century of "freedom" you can see that if you want leave the present civilization you simply can not take your own goods out of it; you can leave only for a short moment but soon the taxes will steal your property which, paradoxically, the system makes a statue for. That is because the capitalist system actually does not defend your property but their properties. Those big properties... Their properties are as sacred as themselves. If you refuse to remain slave in the system then you will have no property whatsoever no matter how small it looks compared to theirs. Your property is not (any longer) holy (sic!) and has never been! The myth about the defense of property that makes the difference between our democracy and totalitarian systems is empty propaganda. How guts and insensitiveness must have the exponents of (wild) capitalism to accuse Peter Joseph of Marxism as long as Marxist (those that involve the dictatorship) and fascist elements can be seen so clearly in the capitalist system itself which they are lobbying them and hide its crimes!


Future projects


Somewhere in spring of 2010 the Zeitgeist Movement organized a bit pompous Z-Day. I say Pompous because many members of the movement have been tempted to identify this Z-day with the better known Second World War D-day that meant the Allied landings in France and a turning point for the further evolution of the war. Many believed that the same thing was happening in society at that moment and left the conferences disappointed. Many of the important members were disappointed themselves and left the movement. In these circumstances the triumphalist attitude at the end of this documentary looks very bizarre to me considering these issues. Peter Joseph is still culturally dominated by the imperialist attitude of people gather in large numbers and start a postrobotic crusade against tradition. How many of these illusions have been used throughout history! And the big concern is that this spirit Venus Project comes close to the danger of becoming a new capitalism painted in beautiful words such as communism itself regarding the bourgeoisie. Without inner psychological strength to get on our own frustrations and sublimation, without a psychoanalytic insight Venus Project will remain just a dream, just an illusion. If today society suddenly would become humanistic, if the armies and other institutions threats would disappear then and the people still would continue to stress and pain one another in the virtue of a social pattern imprinted for thousands of years in the poisoned soul of the Western mind. It's something inside that must be changed before or simultaneously with the change of our social exterior.

The situations is not pink at all and near future technology that seems to replace the building worker as presented in the film and even a future omnitechnology able to entirely replace the slave labor as Aristotle a dreamed over 2000 years ago still will not solve the humanity slavery problem. The disappearance of manipulation the contemporary (wo)man will see how actually broken (s)he is! Only when no one will lie her or him how beautiful and how successful in love (s)he is, only then (s)he would see how sad (s)he is and how much misery the last two millenniums brought in the soul of humanity. Then one would see an unprecedented explosion of depressions and suicides! I cannot be triumphant about of such a prospect! I wish cultural toxicity disappear, I want the politicians, army and police to go away, but history will not end (neither) after this episode. Mankind will not become a family after these steps in civilization will be made! Taking my hand with others in a kind of yoga spiral that pretend to be the end of history seems unnatural to me. There's nothing to celebrate! Not literally or figuratively.

One might have the chance to be smart enough and get a higher level job in the system after various tests so that more or less gets rid of slavery. However one needs the cynicism to not see others caught in the nets of manipulation and control system. Without this cynicism one can not promote the social ladder. I resigned myself with the situation. You simply cover your eyes and shut up because if protesting otherwise you might get penalties and persecution at job also in capitalism just as used to happen in communism. So please tell me dear comrades capitalists what about Stalinism and freedom of speech!? After such an experience you just have to get used with the idea that the social system is still wild and be careful with the many offers that very probable might be Trojan horses. You can still be glad that you did more than your parents or grandparents and have a better life than theirs. You have to accept the fact that you are not so smart to cross and reach above social barriers and also not so patiently waiting for the "enlightenment" of adulthood.



I think the real solution to the current social crisis is ceasing overvaluation the social metascams. The majority contempt against the false claimed elitist minority can cause either withdrawal in their ivory towers or social acceptance of humanizing measures. No need to think of how it can be done because they will think better. But as long as we tolerate their luxury, wasting and social poluting we are also responsible for their actions. The solution is simple: the boycott of political scams, refusing to give your vote to these heartless cyborgs the rob you with the smile on their faces. Street riots and violence solves nothing. After the experience of the French Revolution and after numerous protests by workers in the twentieth-century these mind killers have learned to counteract with the disinformation and manipulation techniques. Venus project is a spiritual step rather than the achievement of an exterior city. The obsession of materialization before a spiritual abreaction has an obsessional side indeed. Venus Project reminds me of the famous Jung's mandalas in which humanity has historically seen the embodiment of perfection. The way is: Work less - live more! Even if the current system still requires you to kiss somebody’s ass you have few advantages however to defend yourself. Get rid of TV, radio, get a friend or take an animal if you can not find someone worthy your friendship!













One can see rather half full than half empty. Despite all the cultural traps me and anybody else can still defend ourselves; we can choose and to work less and this is already an interiour liberation before any formal inner city act Venus. Their manipulation would be stranguled if I choose to no longer be a slave and no longer work. I also can buy products made automatically and have honor of not contributing to the enslavement of any worker. I have the choice of not buying products made in China or other countries where corporations have recently moved for the same reason. There are many choices that everyone of us can make to free ourselves from the tyranny of the painted in contemporary humanism colors state.

* "Divine Right" was seen in the classical edge as right upper classes to master the lower ones.

Mergand mai departe, uitandu-ne inapoi...  

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27 feb 2011

„Moving forward” se anunta un final de trilogie. Dupa rezervele mele fata de primul („The movie”) si dupa incantarea fata de „Addendum” ma asteptam ca aceasta a 3-a parte sa bubuie mai ales ca stim ca tine peste 150 minute. Din pacate n-am mai gasit vitalitatea lui „Addendum” desi analiza sistemului monetar merge mai departe in anumite privinte. Poate ca eram deja familiarizat cu toate temele din film, poate ca eram obisnuit cu o comunitate care accepta ideile specifice documentarului si nu mai sunt atat de entuziasmat sa gasesc colegi de ideologie in alta parte. Oricum, am fost de acord cu peste 90 % din ideile expuse in film insa am gasit cam putine lucruri noi care sa ma intereseze in special. Am sa detaliez aceste propozitii in sectiunile urmatoare si am sa incep prin lucrurile pozitive ale documentarului.

Zeitgeist - Moving Forward Romana



Ce mi-a placut cel mai mult in „Zeitgeist 3: moving forward”

Subliniez mai intai realizarea tehnica si artistica a filmului care s-a tinut de cuvant si este intr-adevar un pas inainte fata de celelalte doua. Peter Joseph stie meserie. Stie sa lucreze cu imaginea stie cand sa dozeze diferitele elemente de pe ecran, stie sa le dea amplitudine. E un profesionist, se vede ca a lucrat in domeniu iar succesul celorlalte doua l-a motivat si mai mult sa mearga mai departe pe aceasta latura.

Cat despre ideile expuse cel mai mult m-a bucurat corelatia intre boala fiziologica sau tulburare psihica si statutul social in care acestea apar. La aceasta idee subscriu inca de acum 13 ani de cand am scris „Dinamica Psihologiei Abisale”. De la minutul 1,25 Peter Joseph face o analiza destul de coerenta si profunda a acestei stari de lucru facand ca teoriile psihanalizei clasice si ale geneticii sa para un neocartezianism. A insista pe teoria "stadiilor de evolutie libidinala" sau pe disfunctii hormonale sau genetice in explicatia bolilor si tulburarilor psihice asa cum fac aceste teorii la inceput de secol al XXI nu mai e o chestiune de nepricepere sau insuficienta stiintifica ci este o complacere in ipocrizie.

Un alt lucru care merita subliniat este atentia catre criminalitate si catre faptul ca criminalul este o victima el insusi ce transmite mai departe frustrarile si abuzurile primite din afara. In loc sa protejeze copiii de abuzuri pentru a nu-i face criminali societatea actuala se intareste cu forte de ordine menite sa descurajeze reflectarea lor inapoi in societate. Fortele de ordine se desfasoara direct proportional cu scaderea nivelului de trai al cetatenilor. Pe masura ce costurile vietii si cantitatea de munca depusa devin din ce in ce mai mari agresivitatea muncitorului sclav devine si ea mai mare. Bariera dintre om respectabil si criminal este foarte neclara in situatia in care viata muncitorului se inrautateste. Astfel ca criminalul este acea marja de eroare ce trece aceasta granita. Luxul si bogatia sunt facute de sclavi si de furarea mai subtila sau mai vizibila a muncii lor; pe masura ce ei creeaza acest lux pentru clasele privilegiate acumuleaza frustrari si manifestari criminale iar inhibarea lor se face cu forte de ordine care le accentueaza frustrarile. Asemenea cercului vicios al nevrozei societatea contemporana se dovedeste ea insasi o nevroza la nivel institutional unde Inconstientul reprezentat de criminali se lupta pe viata si pe moarte cu Constientul reprimant reprezentat de fortele de ordine. Intarirea fortelor de ordine inseamna cheltuieli in plus fata de societate suportate in final tot de catre sclavul muncitor ceea ce implica accentuarea frustrarilor personale si a predispozitiilor catre criminalitate. Justitia este cea mai organizata dintre crime dupa cum au observat si altii inainte (Michel Foucault, Nietzsche, unii sofisti antici etc.) Fortele de ordine previn intr-adevar abuzurile pe care criminalul fost sclav le poate face societatii. Insa ele protejeaza in principal pe puternicii societatii crescand astfel posibilitatea ca ele sa se descarce tocmai asupra celor neajutorati: copiii, femeile ce fac parte din familia criminalului-victima. Asemenea spiralei terorismului restrans al bandelor si organizatiilor antiguvernamentale societatea actuala se comporta fata de criminali in aceeasi maniera dupa principiile statului terorist contemporan enuntate in acest articol .

In loc sa investeasca in psihoterapeuti pentru e descoperi eventualele abuzuri in familiile potentialilor criminali societatea investeste in forte de ordine si armata care au principalul rol de a ameninta sclavul sa fie productiv inventand diferite pretexte si conflicte intre natiuni pentru a-si justifica existenta si a-si spala discret aceasta imagine mizerabila. Cred ca a venit timpul sa vedem ce greseste societatea fata de criminali dincolo de a-i diaboliza si a-i face singuri raspunzatori pentru actele lor odioase. Din pacate in acest moment e mai profitabil intr-adevar sa investesti in forte de ordine si armata care te apara de furia multimii. Un copil educat deschis si umanist nu mai accepta o munca de sclav si atunci in lipsa de sclavi sistemul sclavagist sau neosclavgist contemporan colapseaza. Justitia este acel „rau necesar” sau „rau cel mai mic” despre care se tot spune frecvent. Evident aceasta formula este data de punctul de vedere al observatorului: pentru privilegiatii social evident ca justitia e raul cel mai mic deoarece tocmai aceste institutii le fac lor viata mai usoara. Prin parghiile statului ei arunca gunoiul in ograda prostimii. Insa pentru criminal raul cel mai mic este insasi crima sa in fata careia nu a avut de ales iar raul cel mai mare este insusi statul care l-a adus in situatia de a savarsi crima. De aceea bine spune Fresco spre sfarsitul documentarului ca cel ce cauta dreptatea si justitia ajunge de cele mai multe ori infrant de acestea.


Ce nu mi-a placut in „Zeitgeist 3: moving forward”


Sunt destule idei adevarate si productive in acest documentar, nu insist pe toate deoarece cititorul le poate observa si singur vazandu-l. As vrea acum sa insist pe lucrurile care nu mi-au placut. Mai intai de toate documentarul mi se pare prea lung si prea labartat. Pare o conferinta de presa unde Peter Joseph raspunde pe rand diferitelor teme propuse de audienta. Din acest punct de vedere documentarul e cumva lipsit de o consistenta metodica, de o linie melodica. Se trece de la un subiect la altul fara ca in final sa se traga o concluzie care sa explice o astfel de evolutie zigzagata a discursului. In loc de 160 de minute mai bine se faceau 3 documentare diferite a cate o ora sau mai putin pentru fiecare. Se putea face unul despre eficienta proiectului Venus, altul despre criminalitate si conditionarea sa de mediul social, altul despre tehnologia robotica si sfarsitul erei sclavagismului. Peter Joseph a intrat prea putin in fiecare din aceste teme si mi-a lasat impresia ca le-a lasat suspendate in aer.

Exista si cateva inexactitatati care nu-si au locul intr-un astfel de documentar si care nu contribuie cu nimic la dinamica argumentarii. De exemplu la inceputul filmului se spune ca schizofrenia nu e conditionata genetic si se sugereaza ca ar fi indusa in mare de mediul social. Este laudabila si sustin intentia filmului de a deconspira folosirea geneticii pentru a explica anumite comportamente dubioase in special datorita faptului de a le proteja si justifica si pentru a nu le schimba. Intr-adevar folosirea argumentului genetic este o forma mascata a vechiului argument al „destinului” unora de a-i exploata si jefui pe ceilalti. Teoria „dreptului divin”* care a dainuit pana in vecinatatea modernitatii este un bun exemplu. Genetica absoluta care cauta gene pentru un comportament sau altul a devenit un astfel de izvor mituri contemporane cu alura de precizie stiintifica. Dar cu toata spectaculozitatea ei deocamdata ea nu e o stiinta in sensul stiintelor observatiei ci un amalgam de experimente pe sobolani sau alte animale. La fel ca si neurologia si genetica e inca o joaca, o stiinta aflata la varsta primei copilarii chiar daca ambele au avut rezultate remarcabile. Spectaculozitatea ei este data de faptul ca se suprapune peste ambivalenta omului contemporan fata de religie. Pe de o parte genetica confirma faptul ca oamenii sunt descendenti unii din altii promitand ca la un moment dat se va afla cine a fost Adam. Pe de alta parte genetica a permis manipularea unor fapte care erau atribuite pana acum lui Dumnezeu. Incet dar sigur umanitatea se convinge ca copiii nu mai vin de la Dumnezeu ci sunt expresie a naturii, natura in acest caz… genetica.

In ciuda spectaculozitatii, ca stiinta ea e plina de ipoteze si nu exista instrumente tipice de verificare care sa le sustina sau sa infime. A cauta cate o gena pentru fiecare comportament si a-l explica prin aceasta nebuloasa genetica refuzand intelegerea ambientalista macar in paralel cu paradigma genetica mi se pare un alt tip de dualism clasic vopsit in culorile inselatoare ale laboratoarelor contemporane. Nu ma impresioneaza pipetele si eprubetele geneticienilor si nici alura lor de savanti obositi si demodati! Cand o sa (re)creeze primul dinozaur atunci se vor putea lauda ca sunt o stiinta si ca au o teorie consistenta despre gene. Pana atunci geneticienii se pare ca folosesc mai mult la propaganda capitalista!

Cu toate astea nu trebuie sa cadem in cealalta extrema si sa consideram ca totul este numai ambientalism asa cum a facut Pavlov si urmasii sai behavioristii fara sa intelegem factorul predispozitional, genetic. Dupa DSM IV procentul schizofreniei este de la 0,5 la 1,5 % in randul populatiei (pag 308). Insa riscul de a dezvolta schizofrenie la descendentii de gradul I celor care au aceasta boala este de 10 ori mai mare decat acest procent specific normalitatii (pag. 309). Eu sunt de acord cu faptul ca factorii sociali si educatia primita pot influenta diferit forma simptomelor schizofrenice dar predispozitia dezvoltarii este decisiv influentata de factorul genetic. Nu poti sa bagi astfel de erori intr-un astfel de documentar ! Iti pierzi credibilitatea! Plus de asta, o astfel de tema este si ea in plus. Nu foloseste la nimic in evolutia temei documentarului.

Situatia se repeta la minutul 1.15 unde un Max Keiser vorbeste despre diferenta dintre cei ce au functii cinice in economie si in sistem fata de oamenii normali. Aceasta diferenta ar consta in "dereglarea cerebrala" (brain damage) dupa spusele celui intervievat. Cred ca una dintre problemele teoretice ale lui Peter Joseph este tocmai lipsa de instruire in domeniul psihologiei si psihopatologiei. Tema disfunctiilor cerebrale in psihopatologie a iscat foarte multe controverse in ultimele decenii. Nici macar schizofrenia unde este cel mai probabil sa existe astfel de disfunctionalitati neurofiziologice nu are un verdict clar. Cu atat mai putin o psihopatie usoara (dar din pacate cu consecinte foarte grave asupra lumii) asa cum este descrisa de personajul intervievat este putin probabil sa se datoreze unei disfunctii organice (hard) cat mai curand uneia psihice (soft). Tocmai de aceea DSM a inlocuit termenul vechi de "boala psihica" ce avea in el conceptul de disfunctie fiziologica, organica cu cel de "tulburare psihica" ce pare mai aproape de realitatea soft, informational-pulsionala a aparatului cerebral decat de cea hard, organica. Desi se astepta de la neurofiziologie gasirea unor solutii terapeutice totusi cu cat s-a dezvoltat mai mult in a doua jumatate a secolului al XX-lea cu atat ea insasi a ajuns la concluzia ca nu substratul fiziologic este elementul decisiv pentru psihopatologie. Creierul majoritatii tulburarilor psihice functioneaza normal. Impulsurile nervoase, controlul hormonal al organelor, reflexele, reactiile la stimuli etc. functioneaza la fel si cazurile oamenilor normali si in cazul psihoticilor si psihopatilor. Diferenta consta in gradul de intensitate a acestor reactii.

Fireste ca atunci cand vedem un astfel de cyborg avem tendinta sa spunem ca are o "doaga sarita" insa asta e mai mult un blestem, o reactie la cald decat o afirmatie stiintifica precisa si profunda. Creierul uman nu e un butoi. Un traumatism sau o extirpare poate produce efecte total diferite in comportamentul cuiva in functie de locul, timpul si intensitatea in care s-a produs. O astfel de dereglare organica a creierului poate conduce in acelasi timp si la hiperafectivitate si hiperempatie. Pare el asa un organ inert insa creierul uman e un univers intreg. Nu poti sa reduci explicatia pentru un comportamentul inuman al unor angajati de pe Wall-street prin "dereglare cerebrala". In acest caz nu numai ca schimbarea de macaz a psihiatriei occidentale nu este cunoscuta de Peter Joseph dar el si altii par sa se intoarca la viziuni de secol 18 si 19 despre tulburarea psihica. O astfel de atitudine teoretica seamana extrem de mult cu cea a omului neinstruit care isi acuza dusmanii de "nebunie". Chiar daca nu e opinia lui exprimata direct totusi Peter Joseph a tolerat-o si a pus-o in acest documentar ceea ce atesta faptul ca ii lipsesc niste lecturi din acest domeniu, lecturi ce sunt capitale pentru munca inceputa.

La min. 1.40 se face o afirmatie cu care iarasi nu sunt de acord. Se spune ca daca nu luam in calcul schimbarile necesare este posibil sa disparem ca specie pentru ca ne-am risipi resursele si ne-am polua pana la otravire planeta. Nu cred ca pe linia asta trebuie insistat pentru a justifica necesitatea acestor schimbari. Dealtfel s-a vazut cum un ipocrit ca Al Gore sau numeroase corporatii sustin campanii de protejare a mediului. E foarte usor de combatut o astfel de idee. Pamantul e in cea mai mare parte curat. Incalzirea globala e o mistificare. Noxele polueaza sensibil in general civilizatia gotica a oraselor. Daca stai mai mult timp in natura si iesi din aglomeratia urbana poluarea nu ti se va mai parea o problema si odata cu ea de fapt vor in mod ipocrit sa induca si ideea cum ca nu trebuie sa reformam societatea pentru ca de fapt nu avem nici o problema sau probleme minore cu poluarea. Nu aceasta este miza! Trebuie sa schimbam societatea pentru a o corecta si a o face echitabila. Trebuie sa o schimbam pentru a ni se da drepturile promise in constitutii. Trebuie sa o schimbam pentru ca atunci cand eram mici ni s-a cerut la scoala sa facem ce ni se spune in schimbul unor promisiuni fata de care sistemul nu isi sustine promisiunea. Multi au uitat de acest veritabil contract incheiat intre noi ca si copii si sistem dar unii n-am uitat si acum ii cere sistemului sa isi respecte obligatiile in virtutea principiului contractului. Din pacate astea sunt doar vorbe pe hartie pentru cei mai multi iar civilizatia este un set gol si multicolor de minciuni. Traim intr-o lume de minciuni, escrocherii si razboaie. Asta nu e civilizatie ci manelimsm. Fatada. Ipocrizie. Iarasi din pacate multi dintre noi nu am avut nici parinti si nici profesori suficient de rasariti sa ne protejeze de abuzurile unui astfel de contract inuman si am cazut in plasa educatiei salbatice.


Concluzii, bilanturi, evaluari


Se poate vedea o evolutie interesanta in gandirea lui Peter Joseph evolutie care s-a regasit in propria mea gandire. In primul Zeitgeist (The movie) raul din lume era pus pe seama unui soi de societate secreta, elitista si imbatabila si implacabila care creeaza religiile in diferite parti ale lumii pentru a controla masele. Intr-al doilea (Addendum) acest rau se muta cumva pe sistemul monetar. In acest al treilea Zeitgeist spiritul s-a fixat pe altceva ca in discursul lui Hegel :) . Peter Joseph a ajuns sa spuna ca nu politicienii, nici bancile, nici militarii nu au fost la originea raului din lume si altceva, introducand astfel un nou concept in tematica sa dar cumva si banal vechi in psihologie: „stresul psihosocial” (min. 1 28). Deschiderea spre psihoterapie si psihologie se vede mult mai clar si cred ca acesta este drumul pe care Peter trebuie sa il urmeze pentru a-si intari discursul.

Eu insumi vreau sa fac acest lucru in discursul meu teoretic si artistic. Dupa o perioada de cativa ani de stil de viata stresant in care am dat la o parte orice posibilitate de rezolvare a problemelor societatii actuale in acest moment ma intorc la vechiul meu hobby psihologic. Dar asta nu inseamna ca renunt total la ideea revizuirii valorilor sociale atata timp cat exista mediul social stresant, toxico-informational din societatea de astazi. Psihoterapia nu poate schimba de una singura lucrurile atata timp cat mediul social este mai mult sau mai putin terorist. Sunt prieten si cu comunitatea Zeitgeist si cu comunitatea psihanalistilor si mi-ar placea pe primii sa ii atrag in intelegerea propriului fond psihic dincolo de idealizarea unui viitor edenic al proiectului Venus iar pe ceilalti mi-ar placea sa ii fac sa iasa din exlcusivismul maternalist al unicauzalitatii microsocietatii familiei pentru intelegerea psihicului. Atat psihologia abisala lacaniana cat si cea freudiana sunt ambele diferite forme de structuralism si ambele isi asuma astfel toate neajunsurile structuralismului.

Pe de alta parte in materie de psihologie membrii comunitatii Zeitgeist ignora cvasitotal interioritatea personala si arunca totul inspre exterioritatea societatii. Mi se pare o exclusiva investire emotionala si faptica in proiectul Venus si prea putina pregatire in domeniul psihologiei. Peter Joseph are destule nelecturi chiar daca are intuitii valoroase (destule insa descoperite de altii in trecut...) Sunt multe alte dedesubturi psihologice de vazut dupa aceasta constatare pe care Peter Joseph nu le-a vazut clar chiar daca totusi le-a intuit. Multe sunt de spus dupa acest „stres psihosocial” insa el a pus punct si s-a oprit aici.

Un exemplu este faptul ca mediul informational si emotional toxic promovat in societatea civilizata actuala are un sens foarte concret caruia Peter Joseph pare sa nu il inteleaga. Complexele de inferioritate care imbolnavesc mintile oamenilor in fiecare secunda sunt raspandite in societate de catre mijloace specializate la fel cum undele radio se raspandesc in eter. Rolul lor este acela de a mutila sufletul sclavilor si de a-i convinge „de buna voie” sa munceasca prin achizitionarea de obiecte si falsa tehnologie (obiecte de design nou) care acopera acest complex de inferioritate si il satisfac. Desi pe moment aceste complexe de inferioritate sunt satisfacute pe termen lung shoppingul orb incorseteaza si mai tare sclavul in capcanele sclaviei deoarece el trebuie sa presteze munca in plus pentru a acoperi costul achizitionarii lor. Dincolo de latura microfamiliala descrisa de Freud eu sunt convins ca narcisismul are o latura macrosociala mult mai importanta dupa cum bine spunea in urma cu vreo 80 de ani al treilea fondator al miscarii psihanalitice Alfred Adler. In locul amenintarii cu moartea asa cum se facea in epoca clasica sistemul contemporan foloseste momirea cu narcisismul pentru recrutarea sclavilor. Mai intai sistemul ii umileste incepand cu sistemul de invatamant si apoi cu numeroasele reclame care le hartuiesc sistematic fondul psihodinamic. Narcisismul este „vindecarea” partiala a acestui complex de inferioritate introdus de cultura clasica si speculat abil catre cultura contemporana.

Rezultatul este un om care vrea din ce in ce mai mult, un om dependent dupa cum se si spune si in acest al treilea documentar. Vorbim despre un om lacom pus pe consum care, daca ar continua in acest ritm ar distruge incet dar sigur relatiile sociale cu semenii si risca sa isi distruga inclusiv planeta. Dar, dupa cum am spus mai sus natura prin natura umana are putere de a se regenera si de a se autoregla asa ca in ciuda previziunilor pesimiste eu sunt convins ca lucrurile se vor schimba in bine. Dar asta nu inseamna ca trebuie sa uitam trecutul si sa ramanem pasivi in speranta unei schimbari care ar veni fara un efort din partea noastra ci doar din efortul naturii. Lucrurile trebuie spuse pe nume foarte transant. Societatea occidentala a fost si ramane un camp imens de batalie marcata de cateva insule de calm. Fie batalie in sens propriu, fie batalie psihologica civilizatia contemporana se dovedeste a fi mai mult salbatica decat cu adevarat ceea ce se prezinta a fi prin constitutiile statelor, si numeroasele alte hartii pline de texte fie neoscolastice fie propagandistice.

„Moving forward” imi pare a fi un documentar al crizei miscarii Zeitgeist in sine pe langa a fi un documentar al crizei societatii actuale. Miscarea Zeitgeist a pornit in forta initial. Primul Zeitgeist a fost sistematic sters de catre Youtube fara sa isi dea seama ca de fapt contribuie la popularizarea lui. Dupa ce Zeitgeist Addendum a devenit celebru si dupa ce Youtube si-a dat seama ca se compromite daca continua sa stearga aceste filme Zeitgeist s-a constituit intr-un adevarat fenomen de masa. Peter Joseph a fost invitat in diferite locuri sa sustina conferinte si are chiar o emisiune radio. Zeitgeist s-a constituit intr-o miscare internationala si eu insumi am participat la intalnirile de pe Team-speak (Port: 9987 Password = tzm) . Dupa cateva luni de vorbarie si planuri de creare a Proiectului Venus lumea pleaca dezamagita si asa mereu si mereu. Oamenii vin, se implica, organizeaza diferite lucruri, apoi se plictisesc si pleaca. Adevarul este ca e prea putin de facut. Cyborgii sociali au totul, au arme, au credibilitate, au mass-media si actori care sa le ia apararea in fata multimilor. Tu care vrei sa iesi din sistem nu poti. Asta e de fapt neosclavagismul contemporan. In secolul „libertatii” poti constata ca daca e sa parasesti civilizatia actuala nu poti pleca cu bunuri din ea; poti pleca pe moment insa in scurt timp impozitele te vor deposeda de proprietatea careia, paradoxal, sistemul ii face statuie. Pentru ca de fapt sistemul capitalist nu apara proprietatea ta, ci proprietatile lor. Alea mari. Ele sunt sfinte la fel ca si ei insisi. Tu daca nu ramai sclav in continuare in sistem atunci nu vei mai avea nici o proprietate indiferent cat de mica e in comparatie cu a lor. Proprietatea ta nu (mai) e sfanta (sic!) si nu a fost niciodata! Povestea cu apararea proprietatii prin care democratia actuala se deosebeste de sistemele totalitariste e propaganda goala. Cat tupeu sa aiba exponentii capitalismului (salbatic) sa il acuze pe Peter Joseph de marxism atata timp cat elementele marxiste (acelea care privesc dictatura) si fasciste pot fi vazute atat de clar in insusi sistemul capitalist carora ei ii fac lobby si ii ascund crimele!


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Pe undeva prin primavara 2010 miscarea Zeitgeist a organizat un pic cam pompos un Z-day. Zic pompos pentru ca foarte multi membri ai miscarii au fost tentati sa identifice acest Z-day cu Z-day-ul celui de-al doilea razboi mondial care a insemnat debarcarea aliatilor in Franta si o cotitura pentru desfasurarea ulterioara a razboiului. Multi au crezut ca la fel se va intampla si in societate si au plecat dezamagiti de la conferinte. Multi dintre membrii de baza au miscarii s-au retras ei insisi dezamagiti. In aceste conditii mi se pare bizara atitudinea triumfalista de final acestui documentar tinand cont de aceste probleme. Peter Joseph inca e cultural dominat de aceasta atitudine imperialista de a strange oamenii in numar mare si a porni o cruciada postrobotica impotriva traditiei. Cate iluzii din acestea s-au consumat de-a lungul istoriei! Si ingrijorarea mare este ca in acest spirit Proiectul Venus risca sa devina un nou capitalism vopsit in vorbe frumoase asa cum a fost insusi comunismul fata de burghezie. Fara puterea psihologica interioara de a ne intelege propriile noastre frustrari si sublimari, fara un insight psihanalitic proiectul Venus nu va ramane decat o iluzie. Daca dintr-o data societatea actuala ar deveni umanista, daca ar disparea amenintarile armatelor si a celorlalte institutii oamenii tot ar continua sa se streseze unul pe altul in virtutea unui pattern social intiparit timp de mii de ani in sufletul otravit al spiritului occidental. E ceva in interior ce trebuie schimbat inainte sau in acelasi timp cu schimbarea exteriorului nostru social.

Situatia nu e deloc roza iar tehnologia viitorului apropiat care pare sa inlocuiasca muncitorul in constructii asa cum e prezentata in film si chiar o viitoare omnitehnologie care sa inlocuiasca total munca sclavului asa cum o visa Aristotel acum mai bine de 2000 de ani tot nu va rezolva problema umanitatii sclavagiste. Odata cu disparitia manipularii omul se va vedea concret cat e de distrus! Abia atunci cand n-o sa ii mai spuna nimeni cat e de frumos si cat succes are in dragoste va vedea cat e de nenorocit si cata mizerie au putut lasa in sufletul umanitatii ultimele doua milenii. Atunci sa vedeti o explozie fara precedent a depresiilor si sinuciderilor! Nu pot sa fiu triumfalist la o astfel de perspectiva! Imi doresc ca toxicitatea culturala sa dispara, imi doresc ca politicienii, armata si politistii sa dispara insa istoria nu se va termina (nici) dupa acest episod. Omenirea nu va deveni o familie dupa acesti pasi in civilizatie! A ma lua de mana cu ceilalti intr-un fel de spirala yoga ce se da sfarsit de istorie mi se pare fortat. Nu-i nimic de sarbatorit! Nici la propriu nici la figurat.

Poate ai sansa sa ai o inteligenta peste media si sa primesti un job mai elevat din partea sistemului in urma unor diferite teste in asa fel incat sa scapi cat de cat de sclavagism. Oricum iti mai trebuie si cinismul de a nu-i observa pe ceilalti prinsi in aceste navoade de manipulare si control ale sistemului. Fara acest cinism nu poti promova pe scara sociala, m-am convins de asta si m-am si obisnuit cu situatia. Inghiti in sec si taci pentru ca daca protestezi vei primi sanctiuni si persecutii la locul de munca in capitalism la fel cum se intampla si in comunism. Ia spuneti dragi tovarasi capitalisti cum e cu stalinismul si cu libertatea de expresie?! In urma unei astfel de experiente iti ramane doar sa te impaci cu ideea ca sistemul e salbatic si ca trebuie sa fii circumspect la numeroasele oferte care oricand pot fi niste cai troieni. Te poti multumi macar cu gandul ca ai facut mai multe decat parintii sau bunicii tai si ca traiesti mai bine ca ei. Nu esti atat de inteligent sa treci barierele sociale si sa ajungi mai sus si nici atat de rabdator ca sa astepti „luminarea” maturitatii.



Cred ca adevarata solutie la criza sociala actuala este incetarea divinizarii metaescrocilor sociali. Dispretul majoritatii fata de minoritatea pretins elitista le poate provoca fie retragerea in turnurile lor de fildes fie acceptarea unor masuri de umanizare sociala. Nu e nevoie sa ne gandim noi la asta pentru ca se vor gandi ei mai bine. Atata timp insa cat noi insine le toleram luxul, risipa si poluarea sociala suntem si noi responsabili pentru faptele lor. Solutia este simpla: boicotarea escrocilor politici, refuzul de a da girul prin votul tau acestor cyborgi lipsiti de inima care te fura cu zambetul pe buze. Revolta de strada si violenta nu rezolva nimic. Dupa experienta Revolutiei Franceze si dupa numeroasele proteste ale muncitorilor din secolul al XX-lea acesti ucigasi ai spiritului au invatat sa le contracareze prin tehnici de dezinformare si manipulare. Proiectul Venus e mai curand o etapa spirituala decat realizarea unui oras exterior. Obsesia asta a materializarii inaintea unei abreactii spirituale chiar ca are o latura obsesionala. Forma proiectului Venus ma trimite cu gandul la celebrele mandale ale lui Jung in care umanitatea a vazut de-a lungul istoriei intruchiparea perfectiunii. Solutia e alta: Munceste mai putin – traieste mai mult! Chiar daca sistemul actual inca te obliga la a pupa in fund pe unul si pe altul ai totusi cateva atuuri pentru a te apara. Desfiinteaza-ti televizorul, radio-ul, fa-ti un prieten sau ia-ti un animal daca nu gasesti un om demn de prietenia ta!












Se poate vedea mai curand jumatatea plina decat pe cea goala. In ciuda capcanelor culturale care mi se intind (mie si tuturor) pot totusi sa ma apar; pot sa consum si sa muncesc mai putin si asta este deja o eliberare interioara inainte de orice punere in act a orasului Venus. Manipularea lor nu mai are nici un efect daca eu aleg sa nu mai fiu sclav si sa nu mai muncesc. De asemenea pot sa cumpar produse fabricate automat si sa am constiinta ca nu contribui la inrobirea vreunui sclav. Pot sa nu cumpar produse fabricate in China sau alte tari in care s-au mutat corporatiile tot din acelasi motiv. Sunt mai multe alegeri pe care le putem face pentru a ne elibera de tirania vopsit in umanism a statului contemporan.



* „Dreptul divin” era vazut ca fiind dreptul claselor superioare de a stapani pe cele inferioare.

Exemples of manipulation and obedience made by advertising and marketing  

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All the benefits of modern civilization are due to technology. Technology has brought really good things to humanity. The almost disappearing of classical western world Neuroses is mainly due to condoms and medicine development which allowed all sorts of sexual experiences and satisfactions with no fear for the burden of an unwanted child and no fear for sexually transmitted diseases. As I will closely show in one of the next entries morality, state of law, chances equality and kindness are due to machines that replaced old slavery. But today technology can not entirely replace the old slave. It had to change into becoming a leader and supervisor of machines. But the principles of slavery continued until today highest civilization in other forms and other plans. One of these is psychopathological consumption, excess consumption as discussed in detail in the previous entry.

Unfortunately technology (like science) can be used contrary to its evolution. The artistic design means involving lies in the object technological reality. When someone sees a sports car aggressive design that resembles with a bullet or a science fiction spacecraft such forms are used for telling false data to other people. That person uses and is used by the neoslavery social system through design to communicate her/his need to stand out on the line following the model of his ancestors who went to war and constantly threatened some communities with guns retaliation in exchange for delivering the goods. Caught in neoslavery nets ordinary contemporary man often takes this cultural refuge in the warrior phantasm of the conqueror but unconsciously and becoming the "target" advertising and marketing. Although has the illusion of fulfillness and liberations actually she/he sink down and louder neoslavery traps.

The criteria for true technology are not false performances of shape design or useless performances whatsoever. A car that looks more like a tank used not for seeing the wild nature but in particular to "impress" in urban traffic is an example of false technology. Such a fireball is an absolutely inhuman contempt of common sense as it takes place for two cars in traffic where road congestion involves daily frustrations. Nevertheless a sports car that takes the shape of a predator or of a bullet can attract the minds of primitive warriors. High speed traffic is very unsuitable and brings death and physical mutilation after the tragic events occurs rather than a genuine sharing of technology to everyone or a technological revolution.

As shown in the previous entry, advertising implies an overvaluation of the object offered for sale that show a human face a little to classical slavery by making it "voluntarily" accepted slavery by contemporary halfslave with the acceptance of consumption and price of object of the trade. Such overstatement is done either by image transfer or by dissociation from a frustrating situation. The image transfer involves a combination of two essential elements of advertising: the first is the valuable item which is a exceptional or a general elite cultural production towards the community has a particular respect; the second is the dubious item which has a bad image or low but who raises it up just by associating with a valuable item. Such a combination of two elements tend to balance each other value - dubious item takes value from the valuable item and the valuable item loses value to the dubious item. Simply placing the logo or name of an institution or corporation near to this community respect simply produces an image transfer from the valuable item to dubious item in such a way that the image perceived by the public is improved for the last one.

Dissociation from frustrating situation, solving all existential problems and personal fulfillment made possible by product acquisition is another facet of advertising. Sometimes the two sides can go parallel. Sometimes the technical and visual proximal association frame is negative situations, disasters, epidemics and other threats. In this case advertising is conducted concurrently with the news about impending disasters that bombards the subliminal dependent media slave mind. Associating directly with Traumatic Complex, the advertising is more likely to penetrate and settle in the “target” mind. I analyzed in detail the relationship between trauma and its Edenal reverse and in one of the following entries I will examine in detail the mass-media too. Such relationship is seen in the fact that human being needs greater pleasures and greater satisfactions if previously would be faced with a frustration, a nuisance, or a pain even on imaginary level only. The biggest pleasures in general are either followed or preceded by as large pains or dissatisfactions. The relationship between pleasure and pain is a retroactive one. Placing a loophole to escape within news or video content stressful or frustrating (which is the promising of false advertising), placing a Heaven in front of heavy solution of problems which appear to consumer is the key of advertising operation.

Advertising and marketing is a final stage of culture itself. As the classical culture was designed to associate and transfer its divinity and value to the power of lord in the same way the advertising associate a new technology or sports spiritual image with new lords: the corporations. Sponsorship and culture patronage are simply such developed, extended advertising on a bigger period of time. There are ads using simply a cultural production with which it is displayed even though between the two may be no logical or programmatic connections just like this one bellow:



Here's how the relationship between the traditional culture and the classical society of the lord protected by the classic army and that between advertising towards today's contemporary society of manipulation and political-corporate scam is the same. Therefore we can say without any fear of making mistakes that contemporary advertising is extending of the traditional culture.

The ad below is the prototype of advertising in general. Well done, with humor, with examples of the relationship between man and woman it has all the strengths to catch the target's attention:




The following advertisement is typical of what is advertising, marketing and PR. Such ad is meant to show black as white and that is the meaning of both today marketing and politics:



Although they advertise a brand of cigarette here is how the ad message is the opposite of reality smoking, respectively lung cancer. This ad is intended to counter warnings of smoking risks focusing on the phenomenon of bad luck. Although the wall player takes all precautions to avoid being hit, still the ad presents him only as the victim despite measures. A subliminal impression induced by this ad is this: "the precautions you take are in vain, living healthy won't help - if you're destined to die when you still die." Such an attitude makes the smoker to continue to consume tobacco enriching cigarettes companies.

That is the way the image is washed up today. You lied, you stole, you made promises without coverage and you started a war based on hidden commercial interests? It's okay! You can wash your image by manipulation professionals with a good PR strategy. With a good ad Hitler could be transformed in Jesus Christ.

As I said in the previous entry inducing idea of unlimited consumption, the acquisition of objects without any sense, but very very painful costs to the consumer work must provide for the costs of such reckless consumption is specific to contemporary society.

The irony for old things and the eternal search for new (which implies additional costs and therefore further work) can be seen in this ad:




The irony to the humble condition of the potential customer is one of the most important factors of marketing. Showing how oldfashioned and insignificant as you are and how suddenly you become important, respected and socially fulfilled is the key they use to transform you into anesthesiated manipulated consumer. It is the educational task to create further material for their success. An insecure, mentally unstable adult, shaped and humiliated by the school is the perfect target of the manipulation advertising war.


It may here be seen the crucial role of wild education in generating "genetic material" of new slavery marketing. Despite the "empowerment" of official education in civilized states, and despite its application in most cases, however, there is invisible and almost impossible to detect scope for despotism inside the behavior of teachers that perpetuate caste mentality of humiliation law class statute of those destined to become disadvantaged supporters to the wide economy. Convincing the slave to sit in "its place" and making it to do what you want since early childhood years as does the modern school - this is the real battle of contemporary neoslavery! If we add an aggressive, cynical and authoritarian teacher face then the wild education has fulfilled its purpose. That minimal almost imperceptible "margin of error" is enough to shape up contemporary halfslave hunger for affirmation and for getting out from its natural normal anonymous social state but perceived by the individual as a curse due to culture. If to these ingredients we add on the street crime [protected in "reasonable limits" (sic) by the authorities, enough obvious as to replace old armies abuses which threatened classic slave], and if we add on that discreet harassment made by public officials, and if we add on the negative news about the wars that politicians keep inventing them in different corners of the world and the illusions and we add also here the happy-end culture illusions, then we finally have the contemporary halslave general picture of “voluntarily and unhindered” doing what their lords want them to do.


Sexuality is the strongest instinct in terms of instinctual expansion in mental space. The association with sexuality and success in dealing with the opposite sex is the key of building false image of products. Forcing cultural association between sexuality and smoking counteracts the common idea that smoking cause problems with sexual health promotion and fulfillment of life. Such advertising is designed to create the false impression that the smoking is actually the promoter of the life instead of life destructor.



In the ad below one may see the combat of nerd image and the unspiritual mind of IT people. IT job stress has caused quitting the area for many specialists and so the system thought of such a method to attract others to replace them without having to increase the salaries to those already left.



Below we see a superstar image associated with the image of a product. Induction of the idea that consumption the product involves consuming star is the key for understanding this ad.



The Lamborghini car below is presented as a fighter plane of army and its aggression is ostentatious and cynical displayed including the text shape.




The average man can very easily become the victim of false technology due to advertising campaigns that acts as a decoy on him. Humiliated and pressed by the stressful task at work these people channel down the frustration into social regression to a primitive mentality of aggression and violence without realizing she/he gets into a terrible vicious circle. The huge money he/she pays for acquisition of fake technology objects is charged with more stressful jobs that cover those costs.


The ad below "target" gets the false impression that buying that car transforms it into a kind of high-class member with success to the opposite sex and with servants that parks it. In reality the purchase of such car will be indebted you to the bank or you will make you take another job to cover costs. Instead of an aristocratic life and getting out of lower class social state that simple people wants the reality of acquisition false technology leads to enslaving even more.



The following ad is a perfume commercial. Target: aggressive men, unable to socialize with a woman. The ad presents them as fatal men. The subject buys the product due to the desire to be perceived as fatal man.





Same subject, same target, same lies, only the presentation is changed:



Obvious examples are endless. There is no ad that does not frame into this deceiving pattern because all of them use that dubious exchange I talked about in the previous entry. If there would be just one ad or one product that shock down your attention and mental relaxation that would not be much. But when your attention is constantly harassed, minute after minute, our after our, day after day, month after month and year and years by such deceiving messages then there is no wonder then that modern civilized man is cautious, irritable, suspicious, cynic and ironic. After years and years of such Chinese drop supraexcitations treatment the psychodynamic system simply gets disturbed. Man no longer knows how to relax and enjoy the simple things of life that his ancestors used to enjoy. He or she is constantly unhappy by family, home, colleagues, friends and everything. In an eternal warning and suspicious about everything manipulated by advertising contemporary man gradually loses its heart becoming a robot that runs commands and forgot to live anymore. Obesity due to excessive consumption of food is one of these consequences: excessive dependence on food overconsumption combined with the food frustrations and shortages from its predecessors on genealogical line is due to these obsessive advertising messages that a person cannot escape not even in the highest mountains. Combined with past anxieties of transgenerational legacy these frustrations get ultimately create incredible range of psychiatric disorders that have exploded in recent centuries.

In a truly civilized and humanist state that treats its citizens with real respect as colleagues and not as objects or as slaves who are hypocritical called "gentlemen" commercial lies and manipulation should not be permitted. Within such a State there should be institutions to drastically control the truth and realities of a product meant for sale and not allow deceiving the buyer but to honestly tell what this product can and can’t make, what are the benefits or risks of its using and aggressive deceiving advertising should simply be prohibited.

But this is the current reality of the today social system itself. Deceiving and manipulating by advertising is an episode of complete serial of lies of today "civilized" social system. Similarly the politician is lying, similarly the policeman is lying, the officer is lying and even the academic scientist is intended to contradict or to counteract the ideas that show the perversity and falseness of modern state.

System chose profit instead of humanism. Instead of creating psychotherapists for curing children fears and for dignified education the system invested in wars and violence video games and generally war culture in order to make future adults to join the army later, besides the defense so-called and invented threats that are actually meant to threaten the slave unconscious tendency for rebellion and so halfslavery system to prosper. System studded whole world with commercials that retrograde ideas that capture slave attention so eventually hypnotize and systematic steals her/his work.

We live in a world where people deceive, mutilate and dehumanize each other only by state institutions. Humanity no longer behaves as a uniform species but the two species of hunter and hunted. So this looks less like a civilization and more like civilized painted wilderness.