Ever wonder why everything is shifting rightward? It's not only because of the Repub -lite Dem's have bought into the sick belief systems on the right.This pro-sociopath inversion of status values happened a LONG time ago,like soon after the founding of this country.They who own, they who are "merchants" have no loyalty to anything but making money.
It has gotten to the point psychopath behavior directed at others is what rewards a person with status in this culture~literally. A non-psychopath can't ever negotiate anything with psychopaths.Because as soon as you do your integrity is gone,and it further dies with each little encroachment the abusive little fuckers take from you with their forked tongues and threats to status they blackmail compliance with..Those on top want to "win" the hearts and minds of anyone who feels vulnerable socially and make allies of those ruthless heartless ones below them.. But what these politicians and corporate /religious,military,bully THUGS DO to us and whom they cater to speaks more about the pursuit of STATUS in THEMSELVES than most anything else does.When you hear people saying they "EARNED it" Whom gave them permission to have it or do it is what to ask yourself.When you hear "earned it" for human rights like speaking out or the right to do__ that is harmful,deprives or harms another,ask youself,who rewarded them with the reward they sought, and now enjoy,who or what gave this reward to them? Was it someone"higher up in status?" or was it THEMSELF giving themself permission because they CAN.
Why does Status matter in this unseen but socially very real mess we live our lives inside surrounded by it from birth? Because truth is the lower down the pecking order you are at, means you have less power,less social support,less of everything you need to live & lots of what destroys your life, a bad/dangerous place or no place to live,abusive demeaning treatment from others,stress,financial abuse,other forms of abuse,a bigger burden of costs, less opportunities,and many dreams deferred and potentials wasted and even social abandonment.
Being higher in status means that a person can achieve and maintain security,healthy homeostasis or thriving as a living organism much,much easier,and they are well respected by others,more easily believed as telling the truth,perceived as being better ,wiser,more worthy,and always have people that are seeking a boost in status that the high status person can go to for help or exploitation without fear of repercussions or responsibility.High status people are treated like they MATTER more to everyone else than they really do,so they tend to believe their own bullshit philosophies that reinforce and keep them in their own high place of STATUS.
The ABUSERS of the biological function of Status seeking itself have inverted the means of achieving status and have corrupted it and inverted it.It has become a self propelled destructive system of reward for those who reinforce this status inversion.It punishes those who do not reinforce it. abuse DO deserve to be blamed, shamed & raked over the coals for their schemes,but to do that with any kind of effect one must know shit from shine-ola and present it in a way both elitist psychopaths ,the two faced pwned Dem's,and joe stupid out there can grasp what and who gave the country this status based mind-rot that is hurting the poor and working poor the most. There has to be a change in what gives a person STATUS in this world.
To some tribal cultures being the most giving and caring the most about others well being was what earned you status in your community.
I dunno if this is true about totem poles in general,but as an analogy to illustrate what I'm getting at it works..
I was told before the envied place for the people in the tribe,was the least.It was reflected on the totem pole.
The real place of status wasn't represented the winged being perched on the backs of all the other beings carved in the pole. The place of honor was at the very bottom,the ground level it represented the most valued people,those who's compassion ,caring and giving earned them the kind of strength to give it all,and uplift the community as a whole so everyone thrived.Not just 1%.
Humanity would not have survived to this level of sophistication without a natural tendency to ALTRUISM.
When the shit hits the fan,altruism makes hero's of those who give all to others.In these times inverted status is abandoned and the forgotten truth is revealed about non-psychopath human beings.For those times of crisis status seeking values are restored to what they are instead of what we are abused into believing and are taught by the people thriving in this inverted status,that socially destructive lie..thought of by most as 'normal life', business as usual.
And little people's altruism to their fellow human beings so often in this twisted culture is invisible.Only when a high status person gives is it so lauded even though in reality considering what they HAVE already,it's a drop from an ocean compared to the less than wealthy who DO give more.Why is this? STATUS inversion!
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-national/rich-give-33-less-to-charity-despite-sharp-rise-incomeIn our country's culture we think the jackass on the top of the pole is the place to be, this inversion of the original purpose and most healthy altruistic place that status should be honored to keep everyone thriving,has been inverted status is now placed at the top of the heap and if you are not on top you are nobody and so mental illness is rampant,people suffer despite wealth available,and abuse is so common and normalized.Because to deny countless others status and make them pursue it by climbing over others is the root of what capitalism calls "competition".Once you are secure on top the status you gain by dominating the lives of millions is,you become like a king.And for kings to keep status they abuse others,build a posse,hoard wealth and step on any"little people" that dare break the chain of"command"
Those outside the status seeking crap who see through it are by default marginalized ,outcast.Because they are the most dangerous to the status quo the high status assholes maintain over others so they can thrive at everyone else's expense. The means of gaining status and health in our culture has become INVERTED.That's the problem.And as long as people see life in a zero-sum way,they will never stop climbing over the backs of others as they have been taught is the only way to get status they know.Status seeking is biological.So either it can be earned via altruism or by ruthlessness.Ruthless people that are psychopaths will never be altruists,so they build empires glued together through classes, divine rights of kings etc.etc.
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It's a similar feeling to walking alone at night and sensing that someone is about to attack you from behind: perhaps not as intense but it's the same fear response. This discovery about the brain explains why people sometimes react with the human equivalent of a dog baring its teeth and growling when you tell them they've done something wrong: their brain thinks someone is about to hit them. Because of the intensity of the status-drop experience, people go to great lengths to avoid situations that might risk their sense of status. This includes staying away from any activity they are not confident in, which, because of the brain's relationship to novelty, can mean avoid anything new, impacting quality of life.The threat response from a perceived drop in status can take on a life of its own, lasting for years. People work hard to avoid being "wrong" in a situation, from a simple typesetting mistake, to an error of judgment about a major strategy. Think of some of the big corporate mergers that have gone bad, and the executives involved avoiding any responsibility. People don't like to be wrong because being wrong drops your status, in a way that feels dangerous and unnerving.
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And only in a culture that has values and beliefs that elevate the psychopathic over the non-psychopath do people respond with fear of abuse for being wrong.We are not brought up in a pro social way,we are brought up in an authoritarian model.This primes us for living in an empire,instead of a community of equals.It keeps us anxious and afraid to act, it keeps us over obedient and unwilling to give or share with others if it harms our status..
Soon if things keep going as they are..the middle class will be poor and as soon as they realize they cannot"elevate themselves" out of poverty by will or positive thinking,they will go through the vain hope the rich care about their lives and realize they don't care and are not going to care because our cultures elevate high functioning psychopaths as an ideal.They will explode in frustration,take it out on those they perceive as less then themselves or 'other',because they are becoming what they are taught from day one is "bad".So desperate to have a higher status they'll become more like the psychopaths on top,in an attempt to regain the status they lost.They won't admit the ways to social status are inverted until those with status lose their place.
Some people faced with a loss in status may even blame themselves and deny they are worse off for not being able to make it.Those that lose status are going to be behaving as if confused until they too accept they "lost".
If we want to change maybe it has to come from our hearts and minds, teaching discernment of psychopathy from non-psychopath,our sharing,our attention given,our place to be that offers them a new way to get status that HELPS the whole..If more could learn to reject inverted status zero sum bullshit and reach out to each other as people include the the downwardly mobile,and the poor as part of the community as valuable as anyone else is.We need to reject the culture of psychopathy,and relearn the original way to get status again sharing what we ALL crave deep down,non-abusive,non-exploiting relationships,acceptance ,a community of allies that accept them,filled people that care, carefully weeding out psychopaths from the community and anyone who excuses or spouts the self serving"philosophies" of the status inverted.
The culture of empire not only financially abuses most people in this country it emotionally abuses ,physically abuses (health"care"policy) sexually abuses..If a tipping point can be reached in the numbers of people in this country who can be brought to understand how they are complicit in their own abuse by seeking status in an inverted way hurts the world and themselves without blame or abuse.We can release hearts and minds that were once spoils of the winners...While we blame forked tongued abusive assholes peddling excuses in the form of ideas and beliefs they hold that reinforce this inverted status quo they benefit the most from because they are high functioning sociopaths..Maybe after things get bad enough for most people they'll be forced to question those values espoused by those equals they are forced by inverted status seeking to see as their betters and reject their values and system of status seeking that is killing life..
Maybe who's left can salvage something from the ruins that this country . Things may very well become worse as long as corporations pretend they're people and money creates status that is more valuable than life itself. One day people might realize status has been used against life,it is a problem beyond the profit system that is holding them hostage and prisoner in the twisted empire..When will people realize the prison is in their own MINDS because of what BELIEFS they hold onto that have been instilled into them because of the inverted status that harms everyone?
There is a physical phenomena of REWARD the brain sends people when they screw over others...I think the author of the link below is stupid in how he frames the facts,because this STATUS problem affects everyone not just politicians or right wing fuck-wads or dem fuck-wads,it effects all people..and the only way to overcome status is to destroy the abuse and beliefs underpinning it and offer a BIGGER emotional reward which is FREEDOM from the fears and other evils that come from the pursuit of STATUS found only in an egalitarian close knit abuse free community of equals who openly & fearlessly share ourselves without profit motive that is FREE of abuse and psychopathy,authoritarians and narcissism..
Whatever framework you think is important, when your perceived sense of status goes up, or down, an intense emotional response results. As a result,people go to tremendous extremes to increase or protect their status.
"What we found is that when people were excluded, you see activity in the dorsal portion of the anterior cingulate cortex, which is the neural region that's also involved in the distressing component of pain, or what sometimes people call the "suffering component" of pain. Those people who felt the most rejected had the highest levels of activity in this region." Exclusion and rejection is physiologically painful. A feeling of being less than other people activates the same brain regions as physical pain.
http://hubpages.com/hub/This-is-The-Problem-Between-Conservatives-and-Democrats
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