Exploring the Social Imagination

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Coercive Methods for Enforcing Compliance in the Social Imagination...


Leicester families are finding it harder to escape domestic abuse during  coronavirus - Leicestershire Live 

In the previous blog post, the discussion was about the so-called melting pot in America. In that discussion, the question was put forward...  "So, where is the so-called division coming from in our free society?" And, the answer postulated... likely the 1% ... which is composed of the corporate wealthy and or political power global elite. 

Such people actually want to create a harmonious whole to control. They don't actually want diversity, they say they do, but they don't. They want control over you because they want to save lives, right? They have their methods; here is one idea posited years ago by psychologist Albert Biderman.

 

In 1956, Albert Biderman, developed a framework for understanding the methods foreign armies used to extract false confessions from prisoners of war. Psychologists now believe that abusers in many different situations use the same methods to achieve control over their victims. For example, victims of domestic violence or childhood abuse often report having experienced similar treatment. These methods include:

 Isolation

 Monopolization of perception

 Induced exhaustion / debilitation

 Threats

 Occasional indulgences

 Demonstrating ‘omnipotence’ and ‘omniscience’

 Degradation

 Enforcing trivial demands 

Let's look more closely at the first item on the list... isolation. What is its purpose? The purpose of isolation is to deprive victims of all social support of their ability to resist. It capitalizes on the developing intense concern with self (this could be home environment) making the victim dependent. Complete solitary confinement or partial isolation fixes attention upon immediate predicament and thus eliminates information not in compliance with demands.

It punishes independence and /or resistance. Physical isolation and restricted movement makes resistance more ‘costly’ than compliance. Resistance is further punished with demeaning insults and thus weakens the mental and physical ability to resist. Threats create anxiety and despair especially threats against family.

To encourage resistors, occasional indulgences are put into action... positive motivation for compliance.  As well as occasional favors and or rewards for partial compliance demonstrates the futility of resistance in light of the omnipotent leaders with their omniscience in context of the desired goal.  This enables the abusers to introduce total compliance as in enforcement of ‘rules’... JP of the current admin just told us that the rules are now being discussed and laid out in terms of forward strategies. 

We have just heard that there will be possible informants as in surveillance operatives for businesses that halfheartedly comply or not at all.  

To enforce President Joe Biden’s forthcoming COVID-19 mandate, the U.S. Labor Department is going to need a lot of help. Its Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn’t have nearly enough workplace safety inspectors to do the job.

So, the government will rely upon a corps of informers to identify violations of the order: Employees who will presumably be concerned enough to turn in their own employers if their co-workers go unvaccinated or fail to undergo weekly tests to show they’re virus-free. Mmm, doesn't say cv one niner free... but virus free. No man or woman on the face of the earth has been or will be virus free. So, coercive methods will be ongoing.

 

 

 

References
  • Biderman, A. D. (1957). Communist attempts to elicit false confessions from Air Force prisoners of war. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 33(9), 616-625 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov archive.org
Online Sources ~ https://www.psychologytools.com/resource/coercive-methods-for-enforcing-compliance/

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/whistleblowers-play-key-role-enforcing-vaccine-mandate-81059518?fbclid=IwAR1_1-cEPd7S5UkDhY2KD8Aphex1fX9R8NIXEvVraUc4GQJUNzM3ahBJEH0

https://www.strath.ac.uk/media/1newwebsite/departmentsubject/socialwork/documents/eshe/Bidermanschartofcoercion.pdf. and https://www.strath.ac.uk.

 

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