Intro. Helplessness System
@international_ihorUpdated on 22 Nov 2022
Age limit: 21+
Subject: cycle of mental violence
Foreword: pain is made to be avoided
"...the system controls you while you are alike..." - Mr.Freeman, part 06
When everything is fine, you have to believe that everything will be alright.
"Alright, I think I should be going now.. Oh, without your boat? You don't wanna lose it, Georgie. Bill's gonna kill you." - Pennywise, It (2017)
Who is guilty? Georgie, Bill or Pennywise?
"Or maybe get off your ass and change the system?" - Mr. Freeman, part 63
Learned helplessness
"...the state of a person or animal in which the individual does not attempt to improve his condition ..., although he has such an opportunity." - Martin E. P. Seligman, "Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death."
Solution: what is happening?
"We know the future"
Unwillingness to recognize other possible scenarios for the development of events.
"Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future." - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2012)
Examples: conformism, optimism, pessimism
Solution: we don't know the future
Laplace's demon. Destiny
"...if someone knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe, their past and future values for any given time are entailed;" - Pierre-Simone Laplace, A Philosophical Essay On Probabilities
"There are no accidents" - Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda (2008)
Solution: "The law of the passage of quantitative changes into qualitative changes" - Engels, Dialectics of Nature
Moral
Normally, when the traffic light is green, you can cross the road, but it is better to wait until the cars stop.
"Everyone sees what they want to see." - Jennifer, "Love, Death & Robots" (2019)
Solution: taking responsibility for any resolutions in our life
Good & Bad Intentions
"Do unto others as they do unto you." - Anton Szandor LaVey , The Satanic Bible
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" - Luke 6:31, Bible ✝️
Everyone is trying to do their best so that everything is good
"Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works"
Solution: do what needs to be done to change the situation for the better
...human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion or belief in a deity...
"Machtmotiv" & inferiority complex
Power - the ability to impose one's will on other people, even in spite of their resistance
Solution: ain't me the same as you?
"We are both cool..." - my friend
Victima rerum
Black Death - is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the deaths of 75–200 million people, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.
Nobody wants to be a victim of circumstance.
Solution: but it happens sometimes
"And most importantly, this is not a game. This is a..." - Mr. Freeman, part 00
Mental pacifism ☮️
If all the soldiers of their own free will at one moment laid down their weapons, then such a thing as war would no longer exist
What is the real weapon?
Desire to change another person
Solution: make deals, not conflicts
See Samsara
Stockholm syndrome
Circumstances as an aggressor
Under the influence of a strong experience, the hostages begin to sympathize with their captors, justify their actions and ultimately identify with them, adopting their ideas and considering their victim necessary to achieve a "common" goal.
How to deal with the aggressor to let go of the victim?
Solution: aggressor is also a victim of circumstances
"She is a victim. Aggressor - circumstances. Escorts, incest, fraud." - life
⚠️ Warning!
Things may not be as they appear