The Power Of Guilt...

Sod-Haus...!!! Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:41 pm

The Power of Guilt
Eric J. Plosky

A couple of weeks ago, I got a mailing from March of Dimes, a charity that fights to prevent birth defects.
The included form letter was a standard donation request, but also in the envelope were 50 or so self-adhesive return-address stickers, each bearing my name and address (and a portrait of a bird).
I don’t remember if this was actually said or merely implied, but the resulting message was, “Here’s a gift for you.
Now, are you going to be a schmuck and just keep the stickers, or are you going to do the right thing and give us a few bucks for them?”

Guilt! It’s a complex emotion, but as March of Dimes cleverly illustrates it is simple to invoke and very easy to profit (or non-profit) from. Once you make someone feel guilty, his pockets are open to you.
Even I, a cynical New Yorker, was prodded into donating a few bucks.
I mean, could I use the March of Dimes address labels in good conscience if I didn’t donate?
Can I possibly sit calmly, affixing a free address label to my outgoing and probably decadent credit-card bill, while babies around the country are born defective for want of my teensy donation?
Of course not.

Parents and grandparents have successfully employed guilt for eons in order to manipulate their offspring.
Mothers and grandmothers, especially, are masters of the guilt trip.
Every one of us understands this, but for those that need a reminder, just watch a “Seinfeld” episode that features Jerry’s or George’s parents.
Or just think of your own parents, who are probably right now waiting by the phone for you to call.

Mike Nichols and Elaine May, some time during the 1950s, had a great little comedy sketch along those lines, a telephone conversation in which May played Nichols’ mother. Nichols, a young scientist, places a call home a few days after the call was expected.
“Uh, how are you, Mom?” asks Nichols hesitantly.
“Not too good,” replies May; “I haven’t eaten in three days.”
“Why not?” asks Nichols in alarm.
Replies May exhaustedly: “I didn’t want to be away from the phone and miss your call.”

A lot of television advertising tries to parlay guilt into charitable donations.
A famous example is Sally Struthers’s “Feed the Children” campaign, in which the actress pleaded with television viewers to donate a nickel a day to feed an impossibly cute victim of foreign famine.
How could a feeling person, surrounded by frivolous potato chips on a comfortable sofa, resist such advertising?
(Actually, many people have pointed out that Struthers’s obesity reduced their own guilt -- a grotesquely overweight spokeswoman for famine victims, the story goes, eliminated any sympathy they might have had for the cause.)

Still, guilt is usually quite effective, so much so that it’s beginning to appear in regular corporate advertising.
Some long-distance telephone ads actually say “Call your mother.”
Even Star Market has taken to putting smiley-face stickers on bread loaves that say, “Try me -- I’m on sale!”
To me, an admittedly more sensitive and emotional person than most, the sale stickers make the bread loaves seem as though they are desperately crying out for attention. Another guilt trip.

I was in Madrid five years ago and saw, on a shelf in a porcelain shop, three lovely little yellow smiling chicks.
They looked so happy all together that I decided to make a purchase.
How many figurines did I buy?
All three.
I couldn’t buy just one or two, because that would break up the bunch -- and then how long would they all smile?
It was guilt that induced me to buy the whole flock, guilt at the thought of separating one from its family (or at leaving only one behind).

As far as guilt and charity advertising go, the real vexer is that it’s impossible even to object to guilt being used in ads.
Guilt is so insidious that objectors are actually made to feel guilty for objecting to it in the first place.
“I object to the tone of the Feed the Children television ad campaign because it preys upon viewers’ feelings in order to... in order to...” Well, in order to feed the children.
Now, how can you object to that without sounding like a coldhearted monster or a Republican extremist?

There remains a question concerning the difference between guilt and sympathy.
It is easier to feel sympathetic than guilty; the latter emotion implies some halfhearted personal involvement that, because of a lack of determination, failed to resolve the crisis at hand.
Of the two, guilt is the more powerful motivator.

That is why ads that say “Look at all this famine suffering -- won’t you please help?” are much less effective than those that exclaim, “Millions are dying of starvation because you’re too cheap and lazy, and too busy crunching on Olestra, to write us a five-buck check, you stupid fat bastard!”

Only in an ideal world, I suppose, would it be unnecessary to use guilt as a shill.
For in an ideal world, there would be no famine and no suffering, no squabbling and no wanting.
It’s really quite a fascinating concept, and I’d love to talk more about it -- but I promised I’d give my mom a call.

Fuck 'Em I Don't Know These People,

And If I Did, Maybe One Of Them Would Turn Into An Idi Amin Or An Adolf Hitler,
Or Maybe An Albert Einstein...

I Am Not Responsable For A Famine In Africa,
An Earthquake In China,
Or A Cancer In England...

Keep Your Theiving Mitts Off My Hard Earned Money...

I Only Give To Lifeboats As A Charity...!!!

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Sod-Haus...!!! Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:05 pm

This Kitten Will Commit Suicide....

The Power Of Guilt... Kittendie

If You Don't Give A Donation To The Sodlike Benevelant Fund To The Betterment Of Mankind Within 3 Days...

Do You Really Want To Be Responsable For This Kittens Death...

I Got A Bloke Swimming Widths Down The Local Pond,

I Got Another Sitting In A Bath Full Of Baked Beans For The Weekend...

Are You So Selfish As Not To Give Up A Pint Or A Meal For Just One Day...

Blood Is On Your Hands...

The Kitten Will Die If Your Dosh Is Not Received Pronto...

If This Doesn't Work I Got A Couple Of Starving Somalians For Plan B...!!!

Sod-Haus...!!! Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:24 pm

David Icke said...

I have had many enormous challenges in the 20 years since I consciously gave my life to the cause of uncovering the global conspiracy and communicating the information that will break its stranglehold on human perception.
I have never talked about the vast majority of these challenges because they were, and are, my problem and no-one said that doing what I do would be easy.

It's like my arthritis.
I have been in pain to varying degrees since I was a teenager and today what would make most people wince in agony is just part of life to me because I am so used to it, almost immune to the impulse to say 'ouch'.
It is the same with the challenges that life sets before us and I am currently in the middle of perhaps my biggest one.

Words almost fail me. 99% of what I do, books, website, talks, I am doing for free.
I receive nothing from any of them.

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/9377-hey-king-of-the-molehill--open-your-eyes-

David Icke said...

Give Me You Donations To My Court Case Which You Are Not Allowed To Discuss

(Or The Proverbial Dog* Gets It Then...)

(*Dog Is A Metaphore For Dolphin Fucker)

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Sod-Haus...!!! Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:47 pm

Sod-Haus...!!! wrote:

Too Late...

The Power Of Guilt... Deadcat

While the Kitten inquiry appears set to declare Kitty's death a suicide and the national media are already treating it as a given, there are numerous red flags raised in the testimony and evidence at the inquiry itself.

Kittyy's body was likely moved from where he died to the site where two search volunteers with a search dog found it.
The body was propped up against a tree according to the testimony of both volunteers.
The volunteers reported the find to police headquarters, Thames Valley Police (TVP) and then left the scene.
On their way back to their car, they met three "police" officers, one of them named Detective Constable Graham Peter Coe.

Coe and his men were alone at the site for 25-30 minutes before the first police actually assigned to search the area arrived (Police Constables Tom and Jerry) and took charge of the scene from Coe.
They found the body flat on its back a short distance from the tree, as did all subsequent witnesses.

A logical explanation is that Dr. Kittyy died at a different site and the body was transported to the place it was found.
This is buttressed by the medical findings of livor mortis (post mortem lividity), which indicates that Kitty died on his back, or at least was moved to that position shortly after his death.
Propping the body against the tree was a mistake that had to be rectified.

The search dog and its handler must have interrupted whoever was assigned to go back and move the body to its back before it was done.
After the volunteers left the scene the body was moved to its back while DC Coe was at the scene.

Five witnesses said in their testimony that two men accompanied Coe. Yet, in his testimony, Coe maintained there was only one other beside himself. He was not questioned about the discrepancy.

Researchers, including this writer, assume the presence of the "third man" could not be satisfactorily explained and so was being denied.

Additionally, Coe's explanation of why he was in the area is unsubstantiated.
To the contrary, when PC Franklin was asked if Coe was part of the search team he responded, "No. He was at the scene.
I had no idea what he was doing there or why he was there.
He was just at the scene when PC Sawyer and I arrived."

Franklin was responsible for coordinating the search with the chief investigating officer and then turning it over to Sawyer to assemble the search team and take them to the assigned area.
They were just starting to leave the station (about 9am on the 18th) to be the first search team on the ground (excepting the volunteers with the search dog) when they got word the body had been found.

A second red flag is the nature of the wounds on Kittly's wrist.
Dr. Nicholas Hunt, who performed the autopsy, testified there were several superficial "scratches" or cuts on the wrist and one deep wound that severed the ulnar artery but not the radial artery.

The fact that the ulnar artery was severed, but not the radial artery, strongly suggests that the knife wound was inflicted drawing the blade from the inside of the wrist (the little finger side closest to the body) to the outside where the radial artery is located much closer to the surface of the skin than is the ulnar artery.
For those familiar with first aid, the radial artery is the one used to determine the pulse rate.

Just hold your left arm out with the palm up and see how difficult it would be to slash across the wrist avoiding the radial artery while severing the ulnar artery.
However, a second person situated to the left of Kitty who held or picked up the arm and slashed across the wrist would start on the inside of the wrist severing the ulnar artery first.

A reasonably competent medical examiner or forensic pathologist would certainly be able to determine in which direction the knife was drawn across the wrist.
That question was never asked nor the answer volunteered.
In fact, a complete autopsy report would state in which direction the wounds were inflicted.
The coroner's inquest was never completed as it was preempted by the Hutton inquiry and the autopsy report will not be made public. Neither will the toxicology report.

Two paramedics who arrived by ambulance at the same time as Tom and Jerry (some time after 9am) and accompanied them to where the body was located.
After checking the eyes and signs of a pulse or breathing, they attached four electro-cardiogram pads to Kittyy's chest and hooked them up to a portable electro-cardiograph.
When no signs of heart activity were found they unofficially confirmed death.
One paramedic (Vanessa Hunt) said the Police asked them to leave the pads on the body.
The other paramedic (David Bartlett) said they always left the pads on the body.

Both paramedics testified that DC Coe had two men with him.
Curiously, both also volunteered that there was a surprisingly small amount of blood at the scene for an artery having been severed.

When the forensic pathologist (Dr. Nicholas Hunt) who performed the autopsy testified, he described copious amounts of blood at the scene.
He also described scratches and bruises that Kitty "stumbling around" in the heavy underbrush may have caused.
He said there was no indication of a struggle or Kittly having been forcibly restrained.

However, the police made an extensive search of the area and found no indication of anyone, including Kittly, having been in the heavy underbrush.

Strangely, none of the witnesses mentioned anything about rigor mortis (stiffening of the body) which is useful in setting the approximate time of death.
Even Dr. Hunt, when was asked directly what changes on the body he observed that would have happened after death, failed to mention rigor mortis.
He only named livor mortis.
Hunt set the time of death within a range of 4:15pm on the 17th to 1:15am the next morning.
He based the estimate on body temperature which he did not take until 7:15pm on the 18th, some seven hours after he arrived on the scene.

A forensic biologist (Roy James Green) had been asked to examine the scene.
He said the amount of blood he saw was consistent with a severed artery.
Green works for the same private company (Forensic Alliance) as Dr. Hunt. A majority of the company's work is done for police organizations.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/101403_kelly_1.html

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