From the book "The Psychology of Self-Esteem" by Nathaniel Branden, circa 1969...recommended by a friend. The essence of the book is that, like food, water, shelter, security, etc. "self-esteem" is also a vital human need and that if goes unmet in many regards, pathological behaviors and tendencies ultimately arise. Anyway, the passage of particular interest was this:
pp 167-8: "Then there are the persons who are basically lacking in intellectual sovereignty. The worst guilt is reserved for this psychological type, i.e., those whose approach to moral judgments is authoritarian. In such cases, the force of their moral beliefs derives, not from rational understanding, but from the say-so of "significant others" [sic "experts/authorities"]. And when the authorities' rules are breached, there is no healthy core of inner sovereignty to protect the transgressors from feelings of metaphysical worthlessness. To themselves they are nothing but their bad actions. This is one of the reasons why pathological anxiety is often experienced as fear of the disapproval of others. "Others" are perceived as the voice of objective reality--calling them to judgment. It is among such persons that guilt is most often a conscious part of the anxiety experience. Also, it is among such persons that the anxiety itself is likely to be most severe."
This matches up very well with David Hawkins' work on developing his scale of consciousness in which he suggests that the lowest rungs of the scale are shame and guilt in which the person locked in these emotions is unable to properly apprehend reality and distinguish truth from falsehood.
What I found most interesting in this passage was the feelings of "Metaphysical Worthlessness". I'm translating this as a sense of purposelessness emanating deeply from within.
My rough translation of our current predicament is: The cabal is deliberately trying to create these pathological disorders through popular culture and then preying upon these people by creating the appearance of "Popular causes" (I support the next thing) that then temporarily fills the void of the NPCs/SJWs "metaphysical worthlessness" for a short while. In short, these people are 'adrift at sea' with a deep sense of purposelessness that are easily recruited to sustain the next "insane" thing they throw at us.
I'm curious as to what you all think of this...please share/discuss!
Our belief systems are almost always passed down from past generations - we then alter them to degrees based on our own experiences. Self-esteem is part of this - if your family unit teaches you real skills at a young age, you develop the idea that you are a capable person and therefore experience self-worth, or self-esteem. Ego and stubbornness are different animals.
You are right. Perhaps it was better to say that being stubborn with the wrong mindset for the time is dangerous.
I agree with this. While I wasn't actually taught that many skills, I was fortunate enough to be in an environment where I was left alone with resources to learn things on my own. While my father didn't teach me many skills, he was there to tell me stories and he bought me 2-3 sets of encyclopedias to read and eventually got me a computer for me to learn how to program on when I was a kid.
My mother wants to 'do everything' for my niece and nephew even if it's trivial and I know it's dangerous for their development. I stop her and tell them to learn how to do things on their own. I take the time to make them participate with cooking and I've taught them to lift those 5 gallon distilled water containers from the door to the kitchen, made them butcher and debone a whole chicken and then batter it up when they want to eat breaded fried chicken. When my nephew wanted ice cream, I made him walk with me in the rain to the store to get some so that he'd understand what it took to get ice cream under those conditions.
I'm aware that it's very hard to break out of being raised in a bad environment, but we're not all dealt the same cards when we start.
I believe I've read that it takes about 3 generations to subvert a society, based on what Yuri Besmenov said in his video. That would mean the current generation that was raised wrong and can't adapt will have to die out due to their poor upbringing and decisions before the survivors who got it right can raise a new generation with the proper values. The kids they leave behind will fall into hardship and that will hopefully give those that survive to grow up a better mindset.
All excellent points and I can tell that your kids are going to be part of the solution as opposed to begin part of the problem. I have also heard the '3 generations' theory and it sounds accurate to me.