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1967 Bruno
Bettelheim pens The Empty Fortress.
“Infants, if totally
deserted by humans before they have developed enough to shift for themselves,
will die. And if their physical care is enough for survival but they are
deserted emotionally, or are pushed beyond their capacity to cope, they will
become autistic.” - Bruno Bettelheim
Bettelheim theory of autism
includes the “refrigerator
mother.”
Bruno enjoyed decades as a media darling, appearing on
television as a regular on Dick Cavett Show. He served as top expert for
newspapers such as New York
Times and Washington Post, which improperly credited him with
“originating many of the
techniques and principles of modern child psychiatry.”
The refrigerator mother theory of autism
became zeitgeist gospel.
It turned a mysterious condition into a
simple problem of who was to
blame.
People rallied behind the idea cold mothers cause autism as
it comforted them.
"Even desperate
“bad” mothers embraced the idea, believing that if they could
fix themselves their children would
be cured.
Finally, an answer: They needed to sign up for intense
psychotherapy and send their autistic children to live with other families or
in residential programs.
Some mothers were advised to re-home their
healthy children as well, lest their “refrigerator” qualities
leak over and spoil another young
mind.
Many complied." - Ann Bauer, I Have Been Through This Before
The American Dream: downtrodden
peoples discover freedom from tyranny.
Now Americans find themselves
trapped in the tyranny of the ponerological
embrace of the materilaistic
pragmatism of manufactured
desire.
That manufactured desire includes an embrace of
American Exceptionalism - belief
that worldwide culture should mimic
Greenfield Village of
Henry Ford.
Church of Ford
proselytizes
an exceptionalist fantasy of
manufactured desire to
acculturate MICE culture assuring
uptake of transhuman
modifications.
"The populations
of dying empires are passive because they are
lotus-eaters.
There is
a narcotic-like reverie among those
barreling toward oblivion.
They
retreat into the sexual,
the tawdry and
the inane, retreats
that are momentarily pleasurable but
ensure self-destruction.
They naively trust it will all work
out.
As a species, Margaret Atwood observes in her dystopian novel
"Oryx and Crake," "we're doomed by
hype."
Absurd promises
of hope and glory are endlessly served up by the
circus industry,
the political and economic elite,
the class of courtiers who pose as
journalists, self-help
gurus like Oprah and religious
belief systems that assure followers that God will always protect them.
Collective
self-delusion, a retreat
into magical thinking." - Chris Hedges
"The American Dream has become what
the ruling class dreams for
us.
The American dream has become one where you step on everyone and
everything you have to in order to rise to the top of the scrap
heap.
It's time to remind everyone that this is not the real American
dream.
The
 Real American Dream
is:
a dream of a good
life for all Americans, the ability
to earn a decent living while
living freely in
self-determination with clean water,
food and
air.
Most of us have no need or
desire to "have it all."
We
just desire enough to live a
comfortable, simple life." - Bruce McDonald
"From Bernie Ebbers
and WorldCom to
Jeff Skilling and the Enron
boys, to Bernie Madoff's Ponzi
scheme, to the bait-and-switch that Bush and
Cheney used to take the country into war, this was the Decade of Deception.
No deceit was more
malevolently corrosive than the fiction that this was a period of expansive
prosperity in which
significant numbers of our people were able to share in the American Dream of Financial
Security.
A tiny minority of insiders, on the other
hand, did very well for themselves.
Economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas
Piketty report the highest earning 0.1% of Americans accounted for 8.2% of the
country's total pretax income.
That's the highest concentration of
wealth since 1917." - Tim Rutten
01/02/10
"Many wealthy people are little more than
janitors of their possessions."
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Industrial Revolution in America was the
motivating factor for the initial corruption of the American
Dream.
1868 Horatio Alger pens Ragged
Dick.
Rags to riches juvenile
novels teenage boys, through
studious labor, work hard to
escape poverty to become middle class
if not wealthy tycoons.
Horatio Alger forged the myth of
upward social mobility in
America.
The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship
American popular culture
places too much emphasis on
the acquistion.
Moments
of true value,
friendly
conversation,
time spent
with family,
enjoying
the summer breeze - all relegated to a subordinate position.
The
prevalent American philosophy, Social Darwinism, preaches that
survival of the fittest - in
the economic terms of acquisition,
control and
manipulation of resources - is
the mark of the successful
pursuit of the American Dream.
"The Industrial Revolution
concentrated labor into
mills,
factories, and
mines, but industrial workers
could never experience the sense of
satisfaction and pride that
craftsmen derived from their
creations.
Craftwork is a mentally
stimulating creative activity;
pushing a button is
not.
The best craftsmen were renowned as artists.
Some are
still renowned: Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite.
The integral
strength of Windsor chairs has never been
duplicated in a factory.
Handmade textiles,
Persian rugs, even
handcrafted toys are renowned
for their artistry.
Today that pride and satisfaction accrues only to
hobbyists, such as quilters, but never to
industrial
workers.
The Industrial Revolution degraded human life to
the status of coal.
People became fuel for
machines.
Bought cheap,
people are used until unneeded and then discarded like slag.
Individuality,
talent,
imagination, originality; the best
attributes of human beings are suppressed to the
point of extinction.
The Industrial Revolution sucked
the humanity out of the human race;
people became things." -
John Kozy
"We become what we behold. We shape our
tools
and then our tools shape us." - Marshall McLuhan |
Americans are constantly bombarded
by advertisements that manipulate the individuals sense of self-worth as
most people just desire a little
attention.
Much of what Americans purchase are called "positional goods" - objects
whose value is measured in relation to the purchases of other
individuals.
When an individual becomes
trapped in the hamster wheel of manufactured desire
a fine line between reality
and fantasy is bridged.
This "bridging" allows an individual,
through the use of mirror
neurons, to self-identify
with romanticized and aggrandized
fictitious characters.
"Consumerism needs
an infantilist ethos as it
favors laxity over discipline, values
childish impetuosity and juvenile
narcissism over enlightened
self-interest preferring consumption directed play to
spontaneous recreation.
This ethos feeds a
private market logic combating
the public consciousness fashioned by
a republican democracy." -
Benjamin R. Barber
The American Dream for the
founders of America was a vision in
which men were free to worship,
think and live as they saw fit - the
government was not to demand submission; was not
to decree morals; was not to
grant franchises and
privileges to entrenched
aristocracy; was not to encourage consumption and was not
to conduct a never ending
war.
The
American Dream has lost all resemblance to the
original dream of liberty.
Now
the American Dream is a dream of
bondage to permanent
war.
"What America really needs is
a policy vision which sparks
community building and coöperation among its citizens rather than
instructing them to simply spend their way into the American Dream.
What Americans don't realize is in so many ways it is
in their self interest to work
in coöperation." - Mark Winston Grifith
"Studies show that
happiness rises with incomes - up to
the point at which basic needs are met, after which it stagnates as
aspirations rise with income.
Nobel Prize-winning economist and
psychologist Daniel Kahneman calls this a "hedonic treadmill."
Like
proverbial rats, we run faster and faster - so do aspirations - the bottom line
is the old cliche: Money
can't buy happiness." - Andrew L. Yarrow
The American Dream is now
one of a utopian social order in
which every 'experience' under the sun is the
ultimate goal of "living a full life".
"What is the chief end of man? - to
get rich.
In what way? - dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.
Who is god, the one only and true? Money is god.
God and
Greenbacks and Stock - father, son, and ghost - three persons in one; these are
the true and only god, mighty and supreme." -
Mark Twain
"It may be too late
for this year, but next year the malls and stores can put up their
real symbol of the season and
Jews and
Christians alike will be able to get
behind it: a 12-foot gilded dollar sign, decorated with
credit cards and shopping
bags." - Marta Goldstein
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