#44 - Weaponizing Psychology

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Sep 28

Written By Roberto Publico

The Mental Health Industry is built out of fictitious elements. The illnesses are made up; the solutions are based on what sounds good or serves a particular purpose. There are no principles, rules or laws and no agreement about anything. There is nothing you can try or test. The industry practices psychobabble and bamboozling. Mental Health has done a good job of fooling the public and establishing and maintaining a scientific face. In reality, it’s a hoax.

The weaponizing of psychology first occurred in Russia in the mid-Eighteen Hundreds. Up until the early 1800s, insanity and debt and other personal problems were handled mostly by the local Church and affiliated charities. People helped each other and communities provided a safety net to their own citizens. Then, under the cover of Intellectual thinking, handling individuals became the province of the government who used “psych” logic to label people crazy. Particularly troublesome people were labeled crazy and then sent to gulags in Siberia. All someone had to do was get a psychologist to say someone was crazy or insane and the government could come in, arrest the “trouble maker” and ship him off to a gulag. It was, and probably still is, the primary tool for controlling people. This is is how it was done leading up to and during the Revolution. It continues today.

What does this have to do with education in America? Plenty! The same cry has erupted is the US, recently. Speak up against the system and you’ll be labeled as insane or racist and threatened with ridicule or incarceration.

How did they takeover the system? First, the “experts” said that many of the elements of education were governed by psychological principles, and therefore, they were the only authorities and we should do as they, the authorities, suggested. We then paid them for being an “expert” and granted them virtually full control of the system.

After the Civil War, people in the South, later identified as Progressives, got the idea that school children could be influenced through teaching and bending students’ opinions towards the Confederacy was a positive thing. Very cleverly, they promoted the idea that the education system was old and tired and in need of change. Once that idea got some traction, the Progressives had their foot in the door. All they needed to do was label something a problem (dressed in psychological terms) and then declare a solution giving it a scholarly name. It could then be solidified by a white paper or some other form of publication.

A left-leaning press backed the psychological community which helped cement their ideas in place. Nearly everything they do is justified by this “we’re the ones who know how it works” attitude. They use a lot of psychobabble and bamboozle techniques. The psychological community, disguised as educational scholars, has been able to hold and grow its foothold.

Unchallenged, their concepts and “discoveries” have become irrefutable and are now mainstream. While there have been some positive advances, most of these invented concepts have become cardinal rules blindly followed by non-discerning teachers and administrators.

There’s no particular beef with psychiatry. Properly used, it has the potential to be developed to help people. Our objection has to do with bad actors who use a fabricated science to fool and control others - and at our expense. In the meantime, our kids suffer.

And, just try to buck the system. The experts will claim superior knowledge, the press will label you crazy and people who are unwilling to stand for anything will withdraw any support for you.

The system is weaponized and the target is you.