The Psychopathic System I Work For...

[ScarletBegonias]

I am a public teacher in the USA and have observed that I took on anti-social behavior at the end of my last semester teaching as a response to the anti-social behavior the system has been subjecting my students to. I am very disappointed in myself for having fallen into the trap of temporarily taking on such behavior, but at least I have been able to recognize the root of my acts.

While reflecting on psychopathy and the system I work for I started thinking of something my friend told me at the end of the school year. I had told her that I wanted to try to raise money so her classroom could have a class set of school books next year, but she told me not to bother. She said we might get the books after all, because the budget hadn't yet been determined and that if I got the books it might be a waste. Well, the budget for the books has been determined and there isn't one, so the students will go without this year...I told her we were being forced to be apathetic and that it made me angry. She agreed, but our hands are tied...

These may be my biased views from having worked on the inside for so long, but IMO, it's as if the people at the top of the system are forcing their psychopathic traits onto us. I became enraged at the end of the spring semester this year and took my rage out in an anti-social way, which is a trait of a psychopath. My friend and I, who are generally concerned for our students' well-being and education were forced to become apathetic with the books and countless other things too... We can go out of our ways to try to make things better, but all the caring in the world isn't making a difference so we are forced not to act on our emotions. We have to become emotionless in certain cases just to survive as teachers, it seems, and perhaps this is the reason many people leave the teaching profession.

I think we public school teachers are trained at the schools we teach at to be like slaves in charge of future slaves. It's all too chilling to watch it unfold on a daily basis, but I am fortunate to teach art and therefore to be out of the limelight when it comes to a lot of it...I try my best to get the students to think about things and not just accept them for face value, but I have observed that they seem to enjoy activities where they can do things without thinking. It's really scary to watch that they seem to respond more favorably to easy activities rather than to ones where they are required to do things like critically think. I recognize that learning is not easy and that sometimes they want the "easy" way out, but I tell them in the long run that it would come back to bite them if they do not learn...

It's pretty scary to observe how we are so easily cattle-prodded and I want to fight it...:(

 

[mcb]

...These may be my biased views from having worked on the inside for so long, but IMO, it's as if the people at the top of the system are forcing their psychopathic traits onto us...

Uh, yes. That does seem to be how things work on this planet. This comes out clearly in Lobaczewski and in Laura's books. Your work may expose you to it more directly, however, than what some other people here experience.

I just finished an interesting book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen. I will warn you, the end of the book is not teacher-friendly, although if you resist the urge to throw or burn the book then he does allow for some exceptions. Clearly, though, teachers (generally) function as part of "the system." Without ever mentioning pathocracy or the control system, I think he provides a great case study of how it works, and offers some good history lessons at the same time.

 

[ScarletBegonias]

This book sounds really interesting and I'm ordering it, thanks Megan! It's brutal to watch this happen and to see everyone play their parts in the game, but perhaps this is how it is in many fields everywhere...I feel so helpless. I just want to do something about it, but all my struggles to fight it have just caused me to suffer more over it...

 

[andi]

I had told her that I wanted to try to raise money so her classroom could have a class set of school books next year ...

Hi Scarlet, why not form a comity of parents, if the effort make sens, and see what you can do from there. I think parents are not being stimulated enough to look for after-class alternatives. You could collect money to use it for the purpose and even make an after-class class where they would be doing stimulating things - if that is even possible in the US without getting in trouble somehow.

As for the pathological school administration - terrible just to think about the implications.. May.. may ...so sad ...

Best of lucks Scarlet ! :)

 

[andi]

I just want to do something about it, but all my struggles to fight it have just caused me to suffer more over it...

I'm sorry to hear you are going through a hard time - I feel you ! Keep up and seek to undestand the best you can the situation you're in. The world is in need of people that care. So whatever you do just keep your head up

 

[LQB]

Hi Scarlet,

These may be my biased views from having worked on the inside for so long, but IMO, it's as if the people at the top of the system are forcing their psychopathic traits onto us.

I think they are although particular individuals may not be aware how their policies are being "orchestrated" by other powers (ie maybe 4D). I think it goes on throughout many industries/professions - especially big ones connected to government. I saw it throughout 30 years in the aerospace industry as an engineer. Before years of research into the nature of the controlling mechanisms culminating in Laura's work, ponerology, etc, I experienced similar outbursts and episodes in reaction to perceived growth in this irrationality. In my case anyway, knowing what you are dealing with makes all the difference when it comes to these negative effects. After learning about the nature of it (slowly), I was able to focus on the visible effect on others and less on my own rage. This brought with it a different way to navigate that had an element of the awareness of others in the mix. Hard to describe, but the awareness of the nature of the forces and the awareness of the effects on others, changed the way I reacted to these forces.

It's pretty scary to observe how we are so easily cattle-prodded and I want to fight it...:(

It is scary how the ponerization process works collectively and individually (kind of like "damned if you do, damned if you don't"). Knowledge Protects. Knowledge and the desire to use it can really make a difference. My 2 cents anyway.

 

[ScarletBegonias]

I had told her that I wanted to try to raise money so her classroom could have a class set of school books next year ...

Hi Scarlet, why not form a comity of parents, if the effort make sens, and see what you can do from there. I think parents are not being stimulated enough to look for after-class alternatives. You could collect money to use it for the purpose and even make an after-class class where they would be doing stimulating things - if that is even possible in the US without getting in trouble somehow.

As for the pathological school administration - terrible just to think about the implications.. May.. may ...so sad ...

Best of lucks Scarlet ! :)

These sound like great ideas andi, thanks! I just think it would be too much for me to try to take on though, because I have so much to focus on with my six classes already.

I want the books, but like my mom told me a few months ago, it's the teachers that make the difference...I just have to keep that focus regardless of however much the system erodes around me. I can't let it get to me this year. I must refuse to allow my system to endure abuse from this system I work for.

In my case anyway, knowing what you are dealing with makes all the difference when it comes to these negative effects. After learning about the nature of it (slowly), I was able to focus on the visible effect on others and less on my own rage. This brought with it a different way to navigate that had an element of the awareness of others in the mix. Hard to describe, but the awareness of the nature of the forces and the awareness of the effects on others, changed the way I reacted to these forces.

Actually this makes perfect sense and I can relate to it well, thanks LQB! Knowing why some people act the way they do has made me less upset over many things. I am able to understand it and this helps me not to waste energy being angry so much.

I have become very frustrated over this topic lately, mainly because of how hidden it is from the general public's attention. I have the urge to incorporate information on psychopathy and narcissism into some of my educational lesson plans to teach my teenage students. Since I started teaching art five years ago I have incorporated philosophy into my lessons so I don't see why I wouldn't be able to incorporate some psychology too. Right now I'm just thinking of designing some posters for my classroom that share startling, yet highly useful information. Hmm, well these are just my ideas right now...

 

[Griller]

I had told her that I wanted to try to raise money so her classroom could have a class set of school books next year ...

Hi Scarlet, why not form a comity of parents, if the effort make sens, and see what you can do from there. I think parents are not being stimulated enough to look for after-class alternatives. You could collect money to use it for the purpose and even make an after-class class where they would be doing stimulating things - if that is even possible in the US without getting in trouble somehow.

As for the pathological school administration - terrible just to think about the implications.. May.. may ...so sad ...

Best of lucks Scarlet ! :)

One could always try to find a more open-minded parent with a good head on one's shoulders and with some free time to do that too, if that parent would be willing to study and teach those techniques. One issue in the modern world is, it's not easy to get anyone without money involved, but when people's childrens futures are at stake, they tend to find some interest to act.

 

[Maia]

Scarlet, TPTB don't want a group of individuals that think for themselves, "I want a nation of workers, not thinkers" - John D. Rockefeller.

My most memorable teacher was Ms. Wright. She was really into Ray Bradbury and Author C. Clarke - told us, "Learn to think for yourself, to determin your own moral parameters, to constantly grow and expand your knowledge base and to explore and not allow the powers that now rule us to stifle your thinking, to turn you into drones."

Welcome to The New World Order.

It's here, and unless we UNITE AND REBEL, it will only get worse.

 

[mcb]

...Welcome to The New World Order.

It's here, and unless we UNITE AND REBEL, it will only get worse.

You will find some other ideas here in the forum and the reading materials. If you truly see what we are up against, uniting and rebelling might not seem like the answer. But there are other alternatives.

 

[cubbex]

It's here, and unless we UNITE AND REBEL, it will only get worse.

Just reporting I have my horse and spear ready.

I agree with megan, rebelling towards won't do nothing right now, because it's not really the "bad people" or "new world order" who are the problem, its our own ignorance, without it, no one can be weak to one of those.