COMFORT
com ' fort: 1. to make strong; to invigorate; fortify; corroborate. 2. To assist or help; to aid. 3. To impart strength or hope to; to cheer; gladden; now usually, to relieve of mental distress...
1. ... a. Assistance; relief... 2. State or feeling or having relief, cheer, or consolation; specifically, contented enjoyment in physical or mental well-being; free from want or anxiety; freedom from pain, or trouble. Websters, 2nd ed., 1949. The above definition sounds reasonable. Comfort is the elimination of pain, emotional or physical pain and we all want relief from pain. My question to you is what event(s) in American history caused us so much pain that 'We the People' would need to take assistance or relief from something outside of our local communities and our States? ... ...The Great Depression is the first thing that comes to my mind. After the Great Depression FDR's New Deal siphoned Americans into a socialistic form of relief that came from the Federal Government. For the first time since the birth of our country 'We' relied on the federal government to 'save us' from events that seemed beyond our control. FDR's New Deal created a warm and fuzzy blanket that would protect us in a time of distress and would ultimately change our belief in the role of government. We the People" were no longer the government; 'We' were now the governed. My question is 'who'' do you think created these events? The Great Depression was predetermined (planned); it was created by those that would profit by it... Who are they, the profiteers? I believe that it was the Federal Reserve Bank (the major banking families) and the growing number of politicians in their pockets. You can not know comfort unless you have known pain and once you are comfortable and secure again you will give up a lot to stay that way. |
COMPLACENCY / APATHY
com·pla·cen·cy: 1. self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies. 2 : an instance of usually unaware or uninformed self-satisfaction
ap·a·thy: 1 : lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness 2 : lack of interest or concern: indifference. Retrieved from: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apathy?show=0&t=1361746940 Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension. JOHN DOS PASSOS, The Prospect Before Us It is ... far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, Democracy in America NORMALCY BIAS Almost everyone that visits this site is aware that something is very wrong in our country. The dollar is devaluing at an alarming rate, taxes are rising, manufacturing jobs that once supported a family have moved off shore, more are homeless as foreclosures skyrocket, over 47 million are on food stamps, and the bankers and their political puppets just keep getting richer and richer. Minimum wage service jobs simply do not pay the rent and allow us to purchase enough food. Americans are sicker, fatter, less educated, and less informed than they were 50 years ago; yet most think that this situation, that many of us are finding ourselves in, will be 'fixed' by the government. Most people do not see that we are being led down 'the green mile' by bankers, mainstream media, corporations, big pharma, and governments; they are our jailors! When we present people with information that exposes these despots, even when backed up with official documentation they call us conspiracy theorists; writing us off as nut cases. The theory of normalcy bias might help to explain their reaction. normalcy bias: the normalcy bias refers to a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects.The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred that it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation. Another way that we can look at the normalcy bias is that people who have a strong belief, whether based on fact or fiction, will cling to that belief because it is so ingrained in their mind that to challenge that belief would lead to extreme mental discomfort and possible alienation from the social circles that they move within. The despots understand this; they understand that people will regulate themselves and each other to stay within the boundaries of what has been established as normal and acceptable. |
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