{"id":20278,"date":"2009-12-13T13:24:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=20278"},"modified":"2009-12-13T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T22:38:16","slug":"are-americans-a-broken-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/are-americans-a-broken-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Americans a Broken People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20286\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/225_usa_flag_milo_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20286\" title=\"225_usa_flag_milo_\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/225_usa_flag_milo_.jpg?resize=225%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"American flag near a field of milo, Kansas, 1998. Photo by Eric Francis.\" width=\"225\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/225_usa_flag_milo_.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/225_usa_flag_milo_.jpg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American flag near a field of milo, Kansas, 1998. Photo by Eric Francis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>A psychologist asks: Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The last people I would turn to for help in remobilizing a demoralized population are mental health professionals &#8212; at least those who have not rebelled against their professional socialization. Much of the craft of relighting the pilot light requires talents that mental health professionals simply are not selected for nor are they trained in. Specifically, the talents required are a fearlessness around image, spontaneity, and definitely anti-authoritarianism. But these are not the traits that medical schools or graduate schools select for or encourage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>By  \t\tBruce E. Levine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not &#8220;set them free&#8221; but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States?<\/p>\n<p>Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?<\/p>\n<p>What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged U.S. population?<\/p>\n<p>Can <em>anything<\/em> be done to turn this around?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/144529\/are_americans_a_broken_people_why_we%27ve_stopped_fighting_back_against_the_forces_of_oppression?page=entire\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more at this article on Alternet.org<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A psychologist asks: Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves? The last people I would turn to for help in remobilizing a demoralized population are mental health professionals &#8212; at least those who have not rebelled against their professional socialization. &#8230; <a title=\"Are Americans a Broken People?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/are-americans-a-broken-people\/\" aria-label=\"More on Are Americans a Broken People?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}