| 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
which emanates from it - 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", just as can't any thought, 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; the only viewpoint which is capable of knowing
and experiencing it's 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 concept which 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 which 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 which 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 accepted "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. |
