Exposing the Mechanisms Used to Manipulate Your Thoughts, Actions and Beliefs.

Guilt: “ A bad feeling caused by knowing or thinking that you have done something bad or wrong. ” “ You are an educator and educators are the most guilt-ridden people on earth.   It is time for you to break your life pattern…demand from the cosmos what you deserve…” William Livingston, “ The Destiny of Our Past ”  Well, the former quote is Webster’s definition of guilt.  I believe most people think guilt hurts, but serves a higher purpose; even Freud said that guilt is what kept society together as it caused people to feel bad if they did something contrary to the established norms of society. However, while it may be that it does serve as a “policeman in the head” of the average person; it can be taken to pathological levels and used to control society beyond just maintaining the notion of not hurting others. Guilt stifles us, chains us and prevents us from acquiring the goals we otherwise might attain. It is a mechanism we must understand in order to ha...

“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children .”   Charles Darwin “Children are a heritage from the Lord…” Psalms 127: 3-5 I was in a discussion with a small group of people a while back in which the topic of marriage and family ideals came up.   One young woman said her goal was, upon graduating college, marriage and having a large family. A young man, influenced by environmentalism, said that maybe his not having children would benefit earth. The woman noted she had studied the topic and that the “overpopulation myth” was more propaganda than reality. She presented her position quite well, but I doubt she converted him. And no wonder since the idea that we should see childbirth as a bad thing is firmly institutionalized in western culture since the early 1970s. No wonder the birthrate has plummeted to record lows. Ironically, there are people of influence in international bodies, academia and environmentalist groups that, de...

“Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.” Niccolo Machiavelli I recall a conversation I had with a young woman recently. She said she just couldn’t understand how journalists and politicians could be attacking President Trump so harshly. She noted that even really bad people have some redeeming attributes but these are being ignored by those who have declared a vendetta against him. I then noted to her that two professions with high percentages of psychopaths are politics and journalism and maybe a study of psychology might shed light on not only how the powers-that-be are treating Trump, but politics and media in general.  I will describe psychopaths in detail in just a moment, and the picture presented in popular culture is often not accurate. They don’t generally hide in their mom’s basement cutting out newspaper articles, or lurk in the bushes to attack you. They are more often the people you see on TV in expensive d...