| The approach of modern psychology throws out any and all concept of consciousness,
awareness, thought, will, etc., because to the behavioral psychologist none of these
things can be observed by a second party. This is absurd because each of us knows full
well that we are conscious, have thoughts, act on will and are aware. Are we to believe
that these don't exist because some over-intellectual fool with a Ph.D. after his name
says these things don't exist, for all practical purposes, and are useless? By abandoning all concern for the mind, modern psychology
began systematically ignoring and denying the existence of the actual source of every
decent and great thing ever to come into existence. They truly believe that if it
"can't be seen in a test tube" or "quantified" in some way that it
doesn't exist. This institutionalized denial and suppression of Man's mind is the actual
reason for much of what is wrong in modern societies. When the mind is denied so is
everything that emanates from it , including ideas, thought, reason, hope, creativity,
imagination, will, intention, awareness, consciousness, responsibility, attention, and
morality. Is it any wonder things aren't doing so well? Every one of us, who has any
degree of awareness or observational ability, knows we have thoughts. But no one else can
see them or experience them directly. The truth is there may very well be a soul or
spirit, which is just as real as any thought or feeling any of us experiences, but because
it can't be directly "seen" or detected, just as with any thought or feeling, it
gets ignored, denied, and thrown into the garbage can. The theories and practices of
behaviorism are anti-human, anti-life, anti-mind and anti-spiritual. It denies your
personal viewpoint completely. Your personal viewpoint is the only viewpoint capable of
knowing and experiencing its own mind and inner world of thought.
Watson, who is representative of the views of all modern behaviorists, clearly admits
his concern is with animal behavior. He,
and them all, view you as an animal. They discard the "being" part of the
"human being", keeping only the "human" or animal part. The term by
itself displays the concept that we are each a combination of two notions - the physical,
human, or animal part, and the invisible mind, being or spiritual part. It's right there
in the definition.
Ignoring the human mind and all it does has drastic consequences in theory and in
practice. Behaviorism deals only with the "lower" part of what Man is.
Various urges, drives, desires and needs come from the physical part. Eating, sleeping,
procreating, and excreting. The lofty and wonderful things such as creativity, reason,
intelligence, understanding, communication, empathy, compassion, meaning, purpose,
imagination, and responsibility come solely from the mind - the quite invisible aspect of
Man. These are ignored, and actually oppressed in practice.
The clearly stated goal of the behaviorist is to control human behavior. Maybe he only
does it for "fun", the "thrill of discovery", and
"learning", but who will want to use this information? Obviously ayone who whats
to manipulate others and coerce them to do their bidding - primarily governments
and intelligence ognaizations (i.e. CIA, KGB). In fact, these two groups have spent the
most money and the most time experimenting with the subject of behavioral psychology.
Watson says he wants to get people to act differently "working in the interests of
science". What interests does "science" have? "Science" is a
method og observing and testing reality. Also, "science" is largely simply a concept
that doesn't even exist anywhere, not really. Once again, as with all modern psychology, where
did the actual person or any concern for the person disappear to? Any decent person
should and would work in the interests of humanity, or individual people. This is
not so with modern psychology (or psychiatry).
These fields want to control human behavior. For who? In what way? Who decides what the
"right", "proper" or "correct" behavior is or will be? In
the end, the individual person is forgotten and forced to conform to someone else's
notions of "proper society", "social harmony", "community
order" or "group health". Again, more vague, meaningless concepts, which
exist more in their own minds than anywhere else, and that are used as excuses to oppress
individual real people. Strangely, they deny the mind of Man, but accept their own
weird notions of social perfection, ideas that exist almost completley and only in the
very same type of minds they claim don't exist! These guys simply think too much, to
the harm of us all. If we put them all in experimental cages or rat mazes and shocked them
every 10 minutes I suspect the world would be a much better place to live in - their
absence wouldn't be missed at all.
Their methods will be used only by people and groups who want to alter your behavior.
Behavior should be altered by appealing to reason, intelligence, and one's
observational abilities, with the result of personally making decisions, setting goals,
and using intention to control one's self-determined actions (i.e. behavior). This depends
on open communication between thinking beings. Their theories and methods deny the
possibility of self-determined, responsible human interraction. What type of world can
ever exist with such inane philosophical assumptions about Man? They don't believe
thinking beings matter or even exist, so their method is to alter behavior through subtle
hidden operations, and devious plans. And in the end, the world created by the successful
aplication of their methods will not be a very nice place.
Behaviorism isn't "science". It's a kicked-in-the-head system of flawed basic
assumptions about Man and his relationship to the environment, which have been accepted
and endorsed by big money interests, government and members of the powerful
"scientific community". It is a modern day
"religion", with a complex ideology, orthodoxy and even faith. It is believed implicity, and as with various past religions,
commits all manner of atrocities on others in the name of "truth",
"rightness", and "goodness". It's a sham.
Find out more and read about the actual history
of German experimental psychology and the spread of modern psychology throughout the
USA. Discover the facts about the history of modern psychiatry. |
