Our present society was built but the Greatest Generation when they came out of the armed forces in World War after years of intense Obedience Training. They looked for new institutions to boss them around.
I used to work in prisons. Yes, smart ass, WORKED there! I could leave when I wanted to!
Very soon one runs into institutionalization, people have been in institutions so long that, despite the fact that they bitch as loud as anybody else, they don’t WANT to get out.
Like the Greatest Generation, they bitch and moan about Authority kicking them around, but they know no other way to live.
Prison is the ultimate Welfare State, It is the nearest to true Communism that a real human society can get. In an American prison, one is guaranteed “three hots and a cot,” and those three hot meals are INFINITELY better than the ones the average Moscow resident in the whole history of the USSR.
The space allotted to a prisoner is twice that for those in nuclear submarines.
His living space is comparable to one of a family living in a Moscow apartment under the USSR. And try to remember that people all over the USSR FOUGHT for the privilege of living in Moscow. When people came home after work in Moscow, they would get out on the exercise yard, the Moscow streets, and walk like New York immigrants in the 1890s when they lived 500 to 600 per acre.
Unlike the 1890s immigrant or the Moscow workers, the prisoner was guaranteed as much as he could eat when he came in from the yard. Prisons are kept relatively clean, even sterilely hygienic most of the time, since there is a lot of labor around to clean. In Alcatraz, Al Capone was referred to as “the wop with the mop.” When you mop, you get out of your cage.
Prisons are a hell of a lot cleaner than and just as safe as Harlem or the Barrio, to which most prisoners return.
But it is not he OBJECTIVE conditions make for institutionalization. People come to prefer having their whole lives controlled down to the last detail.
I hate to be down on the Great Drama of Prison Life, but all that stuff they are doing in there is childish. Grown men don’t run around twitching their fingers in Gang Signs or Proving Alpha like a bunch of chimpanzees, by confrontation and lifting weights.
Prison life never rises above the Kindergarten level. Which makes it a perfect refuge for the none-too-bright.
Yes, the announced average IQ for prisoners is often above 100. In a population made up mostly of blacks and Hispanics.
If you dispute the official figures, try to get prison authorities’ permission to check it.
Sounds like the good old USSR, doesn’t it?
#1 by Z on 04/02/2008 - 11:59 am
Obviously prisons are made up of mostly idiot animals. The thing that makes prison suck is not the lack of freedom, BUT THE OTHER PRISONERS.
If prison was made up of smart people, prison would be no punishment. People could just sit around reading books all day and having discussions about them. They could play sports, take naps, learn trades, and have a stress-free life.
But the people who go to prisons are UNABLE to live this way. That’s why they’re in prison.
#2 by Dave on 04/02/2008 - 12:46 pm
My fear is that I am a character in a real life “Ground Hog Day” movie. That’s because, the more you know real history the more you suspect that it is all a re-run.
When I was a kid, my Dad would say, “Just wait until you are 25 years old, you will see the world very differently.”
I spent most of my life at the gym or pool with other kids, and was real successful at avoiding adults, even at school. The athletic coaches were great, but I didn’t consider them real grownups.
When you are a kid it is impossible to take yourself seriously, because you know you are just a dumb kid. It gives you a big competitive leg up.
When I got to be 25 years old I discovered my Dad was wrong. I was still convinced grownups were crazy. The only difference was that at 25, I was a lot more afraid of girls (for the financial threat they represent) and for other very good reasons I need not discuss.
Now I am watching the Baby Boom generation enter (real) middle age. It’s horrible. They are already in their dotage. And they have the Internet to blow the ungodly flatulence of middle age. It is more awful than I ever could imagine, a downward spiral into senior citizen communities and worse.
Ben Bernake, the current FED Chairman, is the current poster child for the Baby Boomers.
He represents “mankind” in our “we are all really and truly morons” manifestation as well as Mick Jagger represented rock and roll back in the 70s.
Mick never made any pretense that he was anything other than a moron, an accurate self-assessment. (Can you imagine how embarrassed Mick must have been to be forced to receive a Knighthood from the Queen?)
Life is full of unbelievable traps especially when you are dealing with adults.
Robert Whitaker understands the “Groundhog Hog Day” real life movie we are in probably better than anyone.
Do you have any idea of how many people on our planet are discussing the problem of Wordism???
I think there may be 10 of us in total, all right here at BUGS.
Just 10.
This is in a world where all are agreed the voting franchise must be universal everywhere on earth. No matter that it has led to absolute ruin everywhere it is practiced, just like integration.
It is GOOD because everyone says it is GOOD. And everyone still agrees that the only way to save a Negro is to get him around somebody white. Even today, there is not one slight dent in this proposition. Its durability is amazing.
Ever see a kid pretend he is an INTELLECTUAL? Only a white kid could get sucked into this.
How can a mere kid be such a loser?
Even at MY AGE, I feel like beating him up.
#3 by richard on 04/03/2008 - 8:52 am
Bob, I recently bought a book at a secondhand bookshop called ‘I Rode With The Ku Klux Klan’ by Stetson Kennedy, published 1954. It’s a ‘fearless expose’ by an early version of the self-hating Southerner who ‘infiltrated’ the KKK. I’ve learned that many years later it was proved to be mainly fabricated.
Anyway, the author says that he was disappointed that so many young men in their 20s were joining the klan, and adds – “this is a sad reflection on the effectiveness of these young men’s army training”.
No doubt many 1950s readers thought ‘what has army training got to do with not wanting to join the kkk?’.
#4 by Simmons on 04/03/2008 - 10:59 am
Speaking of lickspittles to institutionalization over at v-dare they have post in their blog dealing with Stormfront and the Canadian thought police http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2008/04/02/jade-warriors-of-the-northern-human-rights-empire/
I guess there being a few “beyond reproach” white libs from Canuckistan who need the Mantra for their part in genocide.
#5 by mderpelding on 04/03/2008 - 9:30 pm
The best quote…
“Prison is the ultimate Welfare State, It is the nearest to true Communism that a real human society can get.”
My question…
How can any thinking human being accept the premise that putting a man in a cage will somehow reform him?
Would you be “reformed” if you were incarcerated?
#6 by thawat on 04/04/2008 - 12:18 am
Dave made some excellent points.
Essentially, I have spent a lot of time over the last little while explaining to my nephews the limits of Wordism, and how it must be studiously fought – at least in your own mind.
Thus, I have spent a LOT of time explaining to them what I have noticed – that people seem to be damn near in a hypnotic state, from salesmen who repeat their pitch verbatim, repeatedly, to “teachers” who I see are simply easily replaced clerical employees, who realize their true purpose is social indoctrination above all else.
And I realized a few things BUGS people might appreciate:
One, our Mind uses thoughts to create Words; our thoughts then become the CAPTIVES of the Words, and we must fight an incessant battle to use Words and other forms of communication correctly.
It’s like living in a different country.
Two, most people in Adult bodies are really trapped in an extended adolescence. This makes true communication all but impossible. Thus, for instance, they take prescription tranquilizers to avoid the pain that accompanies psychological – spiritual – growth.
They are trapped in a Groundhog Day life, where the Universe keeps giving them the lessons, and they take higher dosages to avoid the pain of the shattering of their Childish Illusions, and the Universe just ramps us the Lesson with greater Power, and so and and so on…
This is why I can not tolerate the self-proclaimed “Greatest Generation,” or those who wish to be their heirs…
Three, I realize Judaism only prospers in a Wordist society, and THAT is a singular Insight. Once you place Family above ALL – and I mean ALL – and see Family as the microcosm of Race, Race as the microcosm of Family, and Race as the Living Bridge between Family and Culture, you really become much less tolerant of what you see around you.
MUCH less tolerant.
I had an appointment in town, and usually take some reading material, so I can avoid watching the all-permeating Synthetic Reality of television.
For some reason, I took a copy of Frank Herbert’s Masterwork, “DUNE.”
Herbert pretty much said what we are saying…
I awake every morning with a sense of urgency I have not known since I was a much younger man, and time grows short.
My nephews are accepting that there is no “THERE,” where they came from, and they are going to have to think in terms of building Civilization anew.
They will have to be remarkably cold, and clear-eyed.
We are working on that.
Incessantly.
#7 by Prometheus on 04/04/2008 - 2:53 am
It reminds me about what the Ted Kaczinski (the Unabomber) wrote in his manifesto about Oversocialisation. I sometimes call it “Domestication”.
I used to work with someone who got out of Communist Eastern Europe. He actually talked about people who were institutionalised, but not there, people HERE. People who lived within a system, being passed from institution to institution and not being able to cope without one. That is what school prepares us for, the next institution and how to cope within it. You learn how to work the ropes of the work environment, which is completely detached from reality.
I think most people don’t know how to live outside of an institution anymore. They are so used to being passed around like chattel property that the concept that you yourself can have ownership over your own community and its fate is alien and scary.
#8 by shari on 04/04/2008 - 10:35 am
Most of the workplace is instituionalized, with all the childishness and coniving that goes with it. I can’t think of much that isn’t. So much for women’s lib, huh?
#9 by Z on 04/04/2008 - 11:32 am
Bob, do you have an email address that I can contact you with?