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Mike Smith's Political Commentary. Where the truth hurts 02 July 2014

Resistance to resistance - Learned helplessness and the psyche of White South Africans

In the history of genocide and atrocities we often see people not fighting back. Whether it is the Nazi holocaust, Stalin killing 20 million Russians. Mao killing 70 million Chinese in his “Great Leap Forward” or the Hutus massacring the Tutsis in Rwanda…The story is always the same. Millions of people are slaughtered without fighting back or even fleeing to improve their situation. Rather it seems as if they simply accept their fate. The same can be said of people in Communist hellholes such as North Korea and the former GDR. Sure some tried to escape and were successful. Most of them probably wanted out, but stayed even if the opportunity was there to escape.   Why?   It is a question I have often battled with, because it is difficult for a sane mind to grasp the psychology of the victims of atrocity.  

If genocide is the macro scale, then the micro scale would be the battered wife of bullied child. We see an almost identical situation. The woman being abused by her husband for years doesn’t fight back or flee to improve her situation. The same goes for the child being bullied at school for years. He/she doesn’t flee or fight back and simply accepts the situation.

 

In South Africa, I see that same kind of mentality amongst the whites. They are openly discriminated against and marginalized with institutionalized racist laws and policies such as Affirmative Action, Black Economic Empowerment, racial quotas in universities, sports teams, etc. White farmers are brutally killed in their thousands, white people’s houses are being broken into and the occupants brutally maimed and tortured for hours, raped and killed, often with nothing stolen…yet they do nothing.

 

The whites in SA, especially the Afrikaners, see how their schools, universities and language are being destroyed. Yet they do nothing. There is a depressive, lethargy reminiscent of a deer staring into the headlights of an oncoming truck. Why?

 

This “battered wife” syndrome is actually called Learned Helplessness and was discovered by US psychologist, Dr. Martin Seligman. What he did was probably not so nice, but he defends it by saying the discovery led to the saving of human lives.

 

Basically he shocked some dogs in a cage through the wire grid they were on. He found that the dogs would at first try to avoid the torment, but when they realized that nothing they did would change their condition, they would curl up and simply accept their condition. He found that dogs that in the beginning were given the chance to escape by jumping over a small gate would do so. Those who were tied down in a harness and who had no chance of escape would simply accept their fate.

 

The interesting part is that the dogs who originally escaped, if put in the cage again, would forever try to escape again and would NEVER accept their condition and would escape again at the first opportunity. However, those dogs that originally could not escape and accepted their fate would remain so and even when given the opportunity to escape won’t do so.

 

Funny how this exact behavior can be observed amongst South African whites too. Some SA whites have adopted Stockholm syndrome and are actually in love with their captors, expressing positive feelings, empathy or sympathy with them, sometimes defending them or identifying with them.

 

Others have accepted their roles as prisoners and their meted out punishment from the “guards” in a bizarre gigantic Zimbardo Prison Experiment Fact is that most of the whites in SA do not even know that they are suffering this condition of Learned Helplessness. If you point it out to them, they will attack you. You would expect people who are being oppressed to take up weapons and resist their oppressors. Why don’t they? I have noted down ten main reasons.

 

1)They are concerned about their family members and dependents. Any action by the fighter will put them at risk.

2)A Lack of firearms and ammunition.

3)A lack of funds.

4)Hope for an easy solution and a belief that the situation will resolve itself if ignored long enough.

5)A lack of good and respected leadership who can organize and encourage individuals.

6)A lack of motivation due to Learned Helplessness.

7)A lack of initiative. Waiting for somebody else to make the first move.

8)A perceived lack of support and a belief that “Nobody is going to help me if I start”.

9)A lack trust. Who is a government spy or who will rat me out if I start?

10)A fear of prison or death.

 

If people are made aware of their psychological condition, they can be conditioned against it. Dare I say cured? If these “resistances to resistance” can be carefully analyzed it can be overcome. It will be the first steps towards finding a solution to our oppression.

 

Then the time will come where one person will just say, “Stuff it. I had enough. Let’s go. Let’s get the show on the road. Let us rise up and throw this yoke of Communist oppression off our shoulders”.

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