Field Notes From My Dad: Trump is Using Anxiety to Control You

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My dad is dope. If you know one thing about him, you will know this: he contemplates, pontificates and writes with the absolute best of them.

If you know two things about him, you'll also know this: he is very lefty and HATES TRUMP.

Here's an explanation he emailed to me of What is Wrong with the World Today. And since he can't really get on board with any social media platforms, I'm going to share it here.

Also: WHAT IS WITH THIS PROGRAM? Why can I not edit this in a Word document and copy it over without that smaller version of my text appearing at the bottom of the 'Preview'? HALP.

I can explain most of the craziness surrounding us. It's both simple in concept, and hyper-complicated in how it works out in daily reality. I'm going to keep this as simple as i can. You can profit by reading it in a leisure moment...and thinking about how it works for you guys...and then studyiing how to adapt. Because understanding and adapting are the keys to it all.

ANXIETY is the core of what's making us all crazy, each in his own way.

There IS a Real Conspiracy to drive us nuts--particularly the normal, good people we mostly are.

Living in a state of perpetual anxiety is what drove otherwisee good Germans, Russians, Italians etc etc etc into doing the awful things they did do back then. After X days and weeks of being so anxious you can't stand to encounter "normal" life...you instinctively opt for what looks easiest for now. No matter how well you "know" that to be really Wrong. You simply don't have the immediate internal resources to think out something better. Your decisions and actions "default" into a sort of a hopefully temporary "auto-pilot."

Except...if the fabric of life compels you to keep being so anxious, short-term autopilot becomes "the way of life"...which begins to feel "right and natural" pretty soon.

This, in psychological terms, is how the Nazis drove so many good Germans into such horrible deeds. And it's why so many of them, afterwards, felt fully justified in saying "but i was just following orders, it's not MY FAULT."

The Russians know all about this...they've been running the same scam on their prople all along. And they're "teaching" Donald and his gangs the basics--which will work in this country if applied long enough from all sides. And of course, Donald is happy to be the King of a Soviet satellite state. And his crowd are happy to have their lives simplified by being told "what to do, to whom, and why and when." How? Just follow these simple "laws" and precepts--which are mandated and authorized by Our Supreme Leader, who wouldn't lead you astray, would he?

And, sadly, one of the strategems that the architects of Permanent Anxiety employ is, feed the media so much shit that they REACT in anxious ways--which makes them mostly "pliable" to the party's desires. This, in turn, cranks up the anxiety bombarding ordinary citizens--who then react in their own, various, not quite predictable but crazy ways.

Ergo---for instance, already unstable people with guns decide to go out and start shooting like mad.
Good parents suddenly decide, say, to drive their kids off a cliff because they can't take the stress...of an endless bombardment.
And lots of conscientious people resist by, say, having loud, vociferous rallies all over, to protest. Which lets them be identified by the thugs, for future use by the trolls.

And of course, the Party of the Trump all follow patriotically, as in fact they are doing in spite of it all.

And so on.
Almost certainly, all this derives from the Old Fight-or-Flight Instinct. You could Run...either run as far away as you can...or "escape" into the bosom of The Party...or blow your brains out. Fighting is a harder option--because only well-crafted "fight back" tactics are likely to do much good.

Well, what do you do about it? First and most important, "know, and thnk before reacting." Think before doing, and don't do if you still have questions.

And when i figure out some Practical Everyday Tactics for People in the Time of Anxiety, i'll lay them out.