I just read an article posted by a facebook friend that explained the new finding that children who get spanked have lower IQ's. Asides from the contraversy as to the validity of IQ and psychometric testing and other extraneous variables compromising the studies integrity (i.e. could low IQ cause misbehaviour which leads to the use of corporal punishment) the study does demonstrate a clear correlation between punishment and low IQ.
Now what if we were to apply this reasoning to our society as a whole? If we substitute the institutions that comprise our legal system with parents, and substitute the kids with protestors, its no suprise that ultimatley so few feel inclined to take to the streets and resist the blatant injustices of the establishment. There simply isnt enough intelligent people left to stage a real revolution. And I dont mean the mass produced capitalist ready intellect manufactured in Americas universities, I am talking about global street smarts, something which has deteriorated alongside our explanatory systems we once used to engage the world.
The article states that when kids are beaten (corporal punishment) they dont think about their behaviour in the same way as do those disciplined using alternative/ non-violent methods. When they are not beaten they are compelled ruminate on their behaviors and form a deeper understanding of why its wrong. That is, they dont simply do something because it is entails punishment, they avoid doing it because of an indepth consideration of how that behavior will impact others. This exercise and critical thinking prepares them to make better decisions in later life. Does it imply that when people have no conception as to why they are being punished that they literally become dumber, and therefore perpetually less capable of challenging authority? It is clear that if a person is constantly told to ignore motives, like why drugs are illegal, or why Zionism is ok, that they will likely diminish in their capacity to evaluate other events, such as 9/11.
Its an odd paradox that the ideals of peaceful protest and authoritative disciplining could have evolved in tandem as they have in America. On the one hand you have a force of riot police who have learned their coercive ways from an establishment with one of the ugliest humanitarian track records and that has housed and committed abroad some of the greatest atrocities in history. Protesters are repressed without any explanation as to masses on mainstream news media as to why and are conditioned to believe it is because they are bad as opposed to the underlying dynamic and truthful reasons. The police need'nt any explanation for the orders they take, as both they and society as a whole has been conditioned to think they dont need one. It is not promising that in a social psychological experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960's almost half of the participants committed to harming another human being so long as they didnt have to take responsibility, these results were replicated in our more modern and 'morally evolved' society.
Now what if we were to apply this reasoning to our society as a whole? If we substitute the institutions that comprise our legal system with parents, and substitute the kids with protestors, its no suprise that ultimatley so few feel inclined to take to the streets and resist the blatant injustices of the establishment. There simply isnt enough intelligent people left to stage a real revolution. And I dont mean the mass produced capitalist ready intellect manufactured in Americas universities, I am talking about global street smarts, something which has deteriorated alongside our explanatory systems we once used to engage the world.
The article states that when kids are beaten (corporal punishment) they dont think about their behaviour in the same way as do those disciplined using alternative/ non-violent methods. When they are not beaten they are compelled ruminate on their behaviors and form a deeper understanding of why its wrong. That is, they dont simply do something because it is entails punishment, they avoid doing it because of an indepth consideration of how that behavior will impact others. This exercise and critical thinking prepares them to make better decisions in later life. Does it imply that when people have no conception as to why they are being punished that they literally become dumber, and therefore perpetually less capable of challenging authority? It is clear that if a person is constantly told to ignore motives, like why drugs are illegal, or why Zionism is ok, that they will likely diminish in their capacity to evaluate other events, such as 9/11.
Its an odd paradox that the ideals of peaceful protest and authoritative disciplining could have evolved in tandem as they have in America. On the one hand you have a force of riot police who have learned their coercive ways from an establishment with one of the ugliest humanitarian track records and that has housed and committed abroad some of the greatest atrocities in history. Protesters are repressed without any explanation as to masses on mainstream news media as to why and are conditioned to believe it is because they are bad as opposed to the underlying dynamic and truthful reasons. The police need'nt any explanation for the orders they take, as both they and society as a whole has been conditioned to think they dont need one. It is not promising that in a social psychological experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960's almost half of the participants committed to harming another human being so long as they didnt have to take responsibility, these results were replicated in our more modern and 'morally evolved' society.
The low IQ is further evidenced in the act of going to a protest to seek validation of your unpopular view that the system is corrupt and proceed to positioning yourself on the faultlines to sustain the predictable abuse that you knew all to well would follow. Over and over again. Only to have your efforts ignored by a media that is entirely controlled by the same people who control the police.
We do it over and over again because a) We are too dumb and fearful to contemplate the ineffectiveness of peaceful protest in a society that doesnt recognize it, and ignorant to exploring alternatives 2) because we have been conditioned to believe that any form of "extremism" is wrong and this is best explained by nothing more then fear of a baton cracking the side of your head. The fact is there will be no transformation of consciousness that will permit a peaceful approach to be successful as vaccinations, flouride, chemtrails, GMO fast food, and fast news coupled with the modelling effects of corporal punishment have long since diminished in most of us our capacity to recognize the problem, much less react in effective ways once we have.
The rich get richer while both the police and protestors get dumber. Here is some recent imagery of this cognitively degenerate state of affairs.
We do it over and over again because a) We are too dumb and fearful to contemplate the ineffectiveness of peaceful protest in a society that doesnt recognize it, and ignorant to exploring alternatives 2) because we have been conditioned to believe that any form of "extremism" is wrong and this is best explained by nothing more then fear of a baton cracking the side of your head. The fact is there will be no transformation of consciousness that will permit a peaceful approach to be successful as vaccinations, flouride, chemtrails, GMO fast food, and fast news coupled with the modelling effects of corporal punishment have long since diminished in most of us our capacity to recognize the problem, much less react in effective ways once we have.
The rich get richer while both the police and protestors get dumber. Here is some recent imagery of this cognitively degenerate state of affairs.
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