What the underlying military-industrial-financial crime syndicate that controls our government is doing, both domestically and internationally, is so horrifying (please see my article Homeland Insecurity http://www.awakeninthedream.com/insecurity.html) that it is literally traumatizing to consciously bear witness to it, to experience it. When we become traumatized, we become stuck, literally "frozen in time," as our ability to creatively respond and mobilize ourselves in the present moment into effective action in the world becomes in-operative. When we become overwhelmed by trauma, we are not able to creatively express our internal experience in a way that dis-charges what has been triggered in us. We feel impotent. We are unable to give voice to our experience, as our power to be ourselves has become foreign to us. We become mute. When we become traumatized, we lose touch with our inner voice, which is our guiding spirit, our true genius.
Bush and his regime could only be getting away with the atrocities they are perpetrating not only because there are an insufficient number of people who see what they are doing, but because there are enough people who see what is happening and remain silent (please see my article Breaking the Vow of Silence http://www.awakeninthedream.com/vow.html). To quote Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Abuse, "The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable." When our nation is seen as a family system composed of interrelated roles that do not exist in isolation from each other but rather in co-relation to one another, the people in the role of the abuser, Bush and his regime, depend upon the tendency for most people to split-off from and deny the horror of the atrocities they are perpetrating to be able to get away with them. When we deny what is happening, we are not able to speak about it, for to speak about what is happening is to invest our experience with a living reality, which is the very thing our denial ensures doesn't happen.
As perpetrators of the abuse, the Bush regime will do everything in their power to promote our denial, pretense, and silence. Our becoming silent is the very thing which allows them to literally get away with murder. They need to induce our denial, which is an internal cover-up, as a necessary requirement for them to act out their role as "perpetraitor." Denial is an integral dynamic which sustains the pathology of the victim-perpetrator collusion. The abuser's refusal to hear the voices of those they are exploiting is crucial to their continued domination.
When the abuse is so horrific, it forcibly overwhelms the human psyche so as to split the psyche from itself and shatter its wholeness, which is the very root of trauma. When the atrocity is so inhumane, we dis-associate from the experience, creating a self-protective amnesia for ourselves. An (arche)typical response to trauma is to simply "forget about it" and try to go on with our life. Like Bush himself counseled us after 9/11, we should just continue shopping. It is the strangest experience to walk around town and see so many people just going about their day, drinking their cup of coffee in their favorite café and reading the sports page as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening, while in the same moment on another part of the planet bombs are being dropped on innocent people with our names on them. A more perfect image of collective denial is hard to imagine. "Hey, did you hear the Yankees took two yesterday?"
To be in denial is both an unconscious, primitive, and magical defense, as well as on some level also being a conscious choice. There is a collective denial that most of us support by acting out our own personal denial in our individual lives, which in turn simply feeds into our collective madness. To the extent that we aren't completely outraged with what our government is doing, we are in denial, for what could we possibly be thinking? To the degree we are in denial about the horror that is playing out in our world, we are, to that extent, complicit.
When the abuse is so overwhelming, we become numbed, desensitized, and anesthetized, as if a psychological "operation" (psy-ops) is being done on us (please see my article The War on Consciousness http://www.awakeninthedream.com/warconsc.html). Instead of being enlivened by the abuse, we become "deadened," as if we have become dehumanized. Devalued, we become incapable of "feeling." In this covert operation, our ability to respond creatively and responsibly becomes disabled. We can become incapacitated with inexpressible rage, hopeless despair and a feeling of worthlessness. The worst of the abuse isn't even so much what the external abuse actually is, but what it creates in us internally.
When we are overwhelmed by abuse, we are literally coerced to disavow our perceptions, which is to betray ourselves. To quote the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "At some point, silence before a lie becomes betrayal." Betraying ourselves, we become a stranger to ourselves, forgetting who we are. We become disoriented, as our bedrock connection between psyche and reality has been severed. Moment by moment we insist on building a wall between our inner selves and the outer world. Splitting off from the abuse, we invariably internalize the abuser and police ourselves. We lose our connection with our inner nature, as well as with nature itself. Our sense of meaning, and our identity as sovereign meaning-generators, becomes scrambled. When the nightmare that is playing out is so horrible, we marginalize and deny our very experience itself, as we literally "split" (which means both "in two," and "leave" _ i.e., go far away from the present, as well as from our true selves). A part of us pretends that what is happening is not really happening.
It's funny to see Hugo Chavez shuts down a TV station and the citizen's in that country have riots demanding he step down.In the United States our leader send's people to war to get blown up over proven lies and all us citizens do is argue about it in forums.The United States Citizens have completely lost there balls.
What are the American people going to do about it? There going to whine and complain about it in forums such as these and thats about it. As a society we are all spoiled brats who really have it made and will never revolt against our government because 99% of the population realise that it's simply not worth it.Life is to good in the USA, we may complain about the lies to this war and the possibilty of all these conspiracie's but when it all comes down to it does it really effect your lives that much?
Turn off the TV and you will see that all this crap you see on the news doesnt really matter if you never knew about it in the first place. We will do absolutely nothing about it.
Last edited by NinthSith on Jun 7th, 2007 at 12:31 AM
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Proven lies? You can't prove that something wasn't there, you can only prove something isn't there right now. Even with many facts in a blur of confusion, one remains clear. We toppled a dictator and in Afghanstan, we removed a extremist regime. These are bad things apparently.
As for collective denial, its bullshit. Simple as that. 9/11 was horrible and horrific but after the first couple of week, it didn't effect our daily lives. The American people have forgotten. And now they've turned to bickering and debate over what "really" happened.
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Because Americans and our pathetic media are more interested in whether or not Paris Hilton is going back to jail than the fact that our government is controlled by a Nazi-like regime.
sumtimes, it makes me wanna pull my hair out just how quietly people in the usa take transgressions of law and moral. before, things like TRANGRESSION OF RIGHT OF A PRESIDENT {i.e telephone probes, illegal war on false pretext, continuation of that war, veto ing stem cell research, etc etc etc} actually carried WEIGHT, but now, its like yeah, the president committed a crime, hey what really matters is the WEATHER GIRL. or hmm, 2.5% of the population of iraq is verifyably dead{and the real number is probably 5 to 10 times that} so what, theyr just images on a camera or statistics, nothing imortant, im comfy in the states, lets not give a second thought. its RIDICULOUS.
sad but true.I cant understand what the hell has happened to the american people these days.whatever happened to the good ole days when we had people like martin luther king and everybody protesting on the steps of washington dc for several years over many issues that truly mattered? I myself would like to get that going but Im just one person,i cant do it all by myself.
I'll tell you what's wrong. We're not being gang-raped and mass-murdered by extremist dictators enough. If there's more of that, we'll do something.
Oh, wait, we don't have extremist regimes or evil dictators that have people mass-murdered within their own country. Right, forgot that we're First World. Sorry about that...
I agree with Beta-Wolf.
Meanwhile, I didn't know that The Nile was the 51st state... *womp-womp*
how ignorant you are as usual.for one thing women get gang raped in america all the time, thats in the news all the time.second of all,Bush IS an evil dictater that congress is afraid of.,Along with Cheney and Rumsfield,Bush murdered over 3000 people on 9-11. They wanted it to happen.yes we do have people mass murdered within our own country by evil dictaters.Clinton did the same thing with WACO and oklahoma city,with the CIA controlled media though ,you wont hear none of that from then though.
lol. appropriate to call it the opium of the ignorant political masses. same way relegion is the opium of the general man. denial i mean.{btw, saw "shooter" liked it}.
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May 30th, 2007 11:53 PM
thats in the news all the time.second of all,Bush IS an evil dictater that congress is afraid of.,Along with Cheney and Rumsfield,Bush murdered over 3000 people on 9-11. 
