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Anger at visible wrongdoing produces helplessness when action changes nothing, making people more obedient.
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learned helplessness
Anger at visible wrongdoing produces helplessness when action changes nothing, making people more obedient.
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Glossary
A psychological theory Jiang presents as the model behind enhanced interrogation: breaking a fighter into passive victimhood.
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Learned helplessness is the first function of disclosure: the more angry people become at known wrongdoing, the more helpless and obedient they feel when nothing changes.
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Enhanced interrogation is interpreted as an experiment in learned helplessness intended to transform a Ra-like fighter into an Osiris-like passive victim.
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diagnosis
Jiang links learned helplessness and positive psychology through Martin Seligman and provocatively calls school-taught positive psychology brainwashing.
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"...over them. The first reason is the idea of learning. Learn helplessness. And so the idea is, okay, let's just say that everyone knows..."
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"Then what? Nothing. Right? So the idea of learned helplessness is, like, the more angry you get, the more helpless you feel, and therefore..."
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"...change the mentality of these terrorists. And the theory is called learned helplessness. You can basically take someone like Ra, the virtuous hero, and..."
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"...one such trend. Identity politics is really the celebration of individual helplessness. Okay? We're all individuals and we all require the state to help..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's conspiracy lecture: Apollo, JFK, 9/11, Freemasonry, bureaucracy, and the number 33 become one model of spectacle, disclosure, guilt, and perception control.
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The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
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