Interview 1421 – Bruce Levine on Resisting Illegitimate Authority
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Dr. Bruce Levine joins us once again to discuss his book Resisting Illegitimate Authority: A Thinking Person’s Guide to Being an Anti-Authoritarian―Strategies, Tools, and Models. We talk about authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism, how dissent has been pathologized by power structures in the past, how it is pathologized today, and how anti-authoritarians can fruitfully resist and dissent against oppressive power structures.
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Terrific interview. I was bullied by teachers and my parents growing up for merely questioning the purpose of being in a school 5 days a week, 10 months a year for 12 years learning false history, fake economics, and learning no moral principles based on logic. They used the argument from intimidation instead of answering my questions. This work is necessary to give people the justification for questioning those who use violence to achieve their ends as opposed to voluntarism. Thank you James as always.
James,
Thanks for Another great interview. “They” (the manipulating authoritarians, have their money, but “We” (the truth seekers) have our souls.
Seek the truth and it will set you free, or at least educate you so that you are not likely to fall victim to being used as a tool for the evil doers. Money, Lies and Deception are tools used to manipulate and steal Souls. Jesus Christ only lived three years after he began to preach “Seek the Truth and you will be rewarded in Heaven” (the afterlife).
Indeed, this fight to free the minds of the masses, is not a new fight, however, we are entering into a new Age, (the Age of Aquarius). This only happens about every 2000 years or so. The Mayan Calendar pointed to the End of the Age of Pisces. The New Age will likely bring changes that mankind has not seen.
http://www.2012-spiritual-growth-prophecies.com/age-of-pisces.html
Keep up the good Work,
Dan
I echo the comments above, a great interview looking at a wide range of issues. Particularly striking was the segment on the pathologizing of those of us with a naturally questioning mind who rale against un-argued assertion.
I’ll have to go back in time and listen to the other interviews,
Thank you.
The “powers that shouldn’t be” are looking at adding lithium into our drinking water to mass medicate for “depression”
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/24/18010592/future-perfect-podcast-lithium-drinking-water-suicide
Total Number of People Taking Psychiatric Drugs in the United States:
https://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/people-taking-psychiatric-drugs/
Thanks for the link detailing psychiatric drugs taken in the US. That was eye-opening. I thought people were acting weirder than usual these days. OMG! over 80 million on some type of suppressant? Boy. And, when a pill is missed? Volatility. Makes everyone around them a target.
(As well, good reminder link about the hard-on authoritarians have for the idea of lithium drinking water.)
Part of finding the truth in plain sight and becoming aware of my surrounding have brought me face to face with all the sights of childhood. The Masonic Temple and its invisibility as it was in sight but I never saw it. Thankfully my father steered me away from it unlike himself. I don’t know for sure but I’ve come to believe the saying ” seek the truth and you will be rewarded in heaven” is a Masonic warning to the initiate not to rat out the Selects evil and dastardly plans being implemented . Don’t stick your nose in where it doesn’t belong , you may wind up dead. Classic esoteric double meaning. I hope it means what you said but ….they are a very old order.
Thanks James, a topic near and dear to my heart, as I have alluded to in the past. A great interview.
It would have been nice to have delved a little deeper into the terms “Illegitimate Authority” and “Legitimate Authority”.
As an anti-authoritarian, I have major issues with those who are deemed ‘legitimate authority’ figures.
Today’s Interesting Links
Russiagate In Flames: No Evidence Of Collusion, New Findings Challenge DNC Hack Narrative – Zerohedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-20/russiagate-flames-no-evidence-collusion-new-findings-challenge-dnc-hack-narrative
What I Mean By “The Left Is Going INSANE” – Timcast
https://www.bitchute.com/video/OW_xql5cVl4/
A journalist on the left explains how insane things have gotten.
He has another video about how the left already tries to blame “russian bots” for the next election.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6fD2BtB9Kpw/
This probably starts more censorship on diverse opinions.
From my outside perspective: the US has a real problem with the division that is caused by.. the CIA. With diversity of news and intelligent discussions one can actually see the US problems.
This is the Perfect Explanation of How the War Industry Works – Morphonius
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tYJpzNrSsQY/
The money and wars explained with banks and i$rael.
Upcoming Venezuela False Flag, US Seeks To Tie Iran w/ al-Qaeda To Justify War
– The Last American Vagabond
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7CsAcvgMXc0/
Great stuff as always.
Reason for war: “They have all that oil and they are right on our back door”
Same thing Saddam said about Q8
Where are the whistleblowers? – Kevin Shipp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMDFK-VEYmE
Explains the methods and laws and attacks that stop whistleblowers
On this other channel there are many interviews with the same person
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKCUlGy0t1lKWu6MF5nWMg/videos
He sometimes interviews FBI-whistleblowers with interesting new info.
Enough news for today.
Drone footage from Iraq
ISIS execution revealed in hacked drone footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AinFuoJ9jFM
The video of a US drone above Iraq shows that the US is
observing, but not interfering with the crimes of ISIS.
Like: Placing explosives in road, Oil transport, Execution
So let’s send them weapons
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-11/viral-video-claims-prove-us-support-isis-iraq
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-10/caught-tape-us-plane-allegedly-drops-weapons-isis-militants-iraq
The paradigm-change needed in Psychology & Psychiatry
The major problem with Psychiatry and psychology is that they
do not have the correct model for consciousness.
The brain works like an receiver.
This is clear from many characteristics:
1) The wiring is like an antenna (circular circuits, Phase-locked-loop).
2) The neural network is a adaptive signal processing system. It is by design not intelligent, but adaptive.
3) There is no controlling system of the brain.
Note: Neural networks are never self-controlling. This is done by the programmer.
4) No computer, not even a neural network, can solve the stopping problem.
Note: This means it can not make any real decision by itself.
5) Signals in the brain are chaotic and unstable. This means that some kind of control is needed.
6) The brain and nerves sometimes react AFTER the body or emotions are receiving the signal.
7) Single cells can already be very intelligent (slime-mold). This can not be explained chemically.
8) Brain-cells and bacteria can change their own DNA. So the DNA can not even be a controller.
9) Dreams. No, they are not learning-cycles.
Consciousness can affect the body:
I have my own subreddit about that.
http://www.reddit.com/r/paradigmchange/
(about the paradigm changes that are needed in science)
We have chi, auras, chakras, telepathy, near-death-experiences,
successful parapsychology experiments, etc.
Chi and chakras are easy to experience yourself, which makes it very testable.
But we know all of physics, don’t we?
Here is the problem with science. We know everything inside the box, but our scientific method makes it impossible to investigate consistently anything outside the box.
All laws of the physical world can still exist when we add extra dimensions.
Just like balls on a pool-table can be described accurately in 2D, instead of 3D.
And then we did not even include the human players.
Now where does this bring us?
If our model is wrong, it means that we miss something very crucial about our mind and feelings.
Instead we need a model that describes what is outside our physical knowledge and is still kind of accurate.
How? What?
If you can experience chi, chakra’s and auras, the world becomes very different.
Now you can actually observe the consciousness that is around living things
and around humans.
The interesting thing is that this consciousness has many layers and dimensions, as if the physical world is only a small expression of a much larger multidimensional world.
This is what we see back in our personal experiences, which is also on different levels simultaneously.
But let’s make it simple:
Problems in chi lead to low energy and depression.
Solution: physical exercise.
Problems in chakra’s lead to personality problems.
Solution: Play with different animals.
Problems in the aura leads to psychiatric problems.
Solution: Rest and meditate near a tree.
But we can go further: Let’s talk about my real job
And this may be very weird for many people,
but it is something that I do every day.
I help people with psychological and psychiatric problems.
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Ohw no. Too many words.. :'(
About the lucrative fabrication of mental disease and disorder:
“…Psychology Today
Climate Change Denial
Facing a reality too big to believe.
Posted Jan 12, 2019
Sara Gorman, Ph.D., MPH, and Jack M. Gorman, MD
Denying to the Grave
…Climate change denial is in some ways a new mental process for psychologists to understand. Of course, the concept of denial itself is well understood. Psychologists consider denial—the refusal to accept facts in order to protect us from uncomfortable truths—to be a primitive defense mechanism…
…But despite the fact that psychologists know a lot about denial, they have never had to face denial on this scale before. Millions of people share the phenomenon of climate denial. This is clearly not something that is amenable to individual or even group psychotherapy…”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/denying-the-grave/201901/climate-change-denial
With the active complicity of certain essayists in the alt news world who help to rigorously promote and normalize the use of terminology such as “climate denialist” while also propagating the bogus assertion that skeptics “deny the climate is changing”.
Essayists who one would have thought would have more scruples than to engage in typical MSM-style namecalling.
Great interview. Bought the book. Thanks!
The book is well worth reading. On a related vein
Michael Huemer – The Psychology of Authority –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOWpQrSDc5w
And on another related vein, I found University of Manitoba associate professor of psychology Jean Altemeyer’s 2006 book, “The Authoriarians,” an excellent read when I discovered it a few years ago.
A quick peek at the introduction just now reminds me why I liked it so much: I not only learned a lot about authoritarians, but I was pleasantly surprised by the author’s conversational, humorous, folksy tone: https://theauthoritarians.org/Downloads/TheAuthoritarians.pdf
Oops, the name of the author of “The Authoriarians” is Bob Altemeyer. Dunno where I came up with “Jean.”
Language, Labels and Magic Words:
“Anarchist” is a label with a history. Perhaps, James, you might consider identifying as an “Anti-authoritarian” until such time as THAT label becomes weaponized. A rose is a rose is a rose until the masses have been programmed to gag reflexively at the mere mention of the word.
“Science” is a magic word. It has replaced “God”. Only an Anarchist (i.e. tin-foil-hatter) would dare to take issue with a proclamation made In the name of Science.
These magic words provide useful shortcuts in conversation… AND … in our 5 second-attention-span-twitter-meme world, thwart the exchange of ideas before conversation can begin.
1) Identify magic words
2) Use them sparingly, deliberately and judiciously
And I would add, word meaning changes are deliberate in many cases because they slow the progress of real social change. When a word meaning is changed that meaning must, once again, seep into the social consciousness. Such a demanding process greatly slows down social changes in humanity–social change is unsavory to the elitist overlords. It disturbs the power structure.
Edward Snowjob? PLEASE! this audience is smarter than that controlled release stunt.
I just re-watched this, and Dr. Levine has a lot in common with Thomas Szasz, who has written extensively on the abuses of the “mental health” industry. There are many videos of Szasz as well.