You are right
@SilverbladeTE , I was thinking Batfink "Your bullets cannot harm me! My wings are like a shield of steel!" is one of my all time favourite catch phrases.
I understand where you're coming from. People repeat familiar patterns of behaviour and psychs are no different, in fact they are more likely to have underlying trauma which is the reason they chose the profession in the first place.
It takes a lot of strength and self awareness to identify and correct poor behaviour in oneself. Many people kick the metaphorical cat when they've had a bad day - as Mr S says "Shit rolls downhill". Those of us with a conscience try not to take our feelings of inadequacy out on those weaker than ourselves.
When trying to understand the thinking of some of the BPS crowd I wonder how many are baby boomers, grammar school scholarship boys who've fought their way up the class ladder and achieved power, influence and status. I wonder how this affects their thinking and judgement. They will have been raised by the traumatised survivors of the war. They must carry the burden of being made to feel inferior to their peers who have come from the public school system whilst feeling superior to the people from the communities they came from. And of course when an individual has achieved power they must maintain it.
I'd imagine a person must need to do some complicated cognitive gymnastics to cope with all that dissonance.
Sorry if this post makes little sense, I'm having problems with nausea while my new meds settle in and it's hard to think in straight lines today. And really sorry you're having a bad time at the moment, it's disgusting what the Tories are doing to the benefit system, they obviously hope we'll all just give up and die quietly in a corner. Hang on in there SilverbladeTE.
loved Batfink as a kid
yeah i'ts a sick system that acts like an "oroborus" snake swallowing it's own tail
the Rat Race, the spiral of ever worsening BS chasing their own needs to feel safe, superior etc
My Dad was traumatized by what happened to him in WW2 as a kid (one of the many reasons I loathe the British Establishment), and that caused him to have psychotic violent episodes, he'd just snap.
tragic as he was actually very gentle nice fella, I can understand it better now, sigh, forgave him very long time ago but it's not nice to be so grumpy etc.
Watching him slowly be eaten away as a person by dementia and then left like...shrivelled up shell of a man sure didn't help, poor sod, what an obscene thing to happen to anyone
not just the Tories, Labour started it, or rather "new Labour", those swine brought in ATOS so I ended up getting zero points....
the NeoLiberal Agenda is spreading, modern day Fascism, same ends, just treading more softly as they know if they boil us frogs gently we won't protest until it's too late....
such slime can never be bargained or reasoned with and it would take a Divine Act to wake them up.
traitors of the worst kind, sold the country bit by bit down the river, while beating their breasts saying how big and tough and rich we are....pfft!
One bloody destroyer and 3 minelayers to protect the WHOLE of the UK's waters.
Aircraft carriers with no aircraft.
Mad determined to waste £100 billion on Doomsday weapons we went invaded Iraq over (supposedly) and no one questions the fact that junkie child abusing criminal incompetent ratbags have their finger on the nuclear trigger?
The biggest "Bubble" in history ready to deflate and wipe out our economy (London Housing Bubble, which the government just helps keep inflating)
Ram rodding through a Chinese nuclear reactor, while slashing support for renewables and the amount of deadly dangerous nuclear materials we have stored at Windscale is stark raving mad, enough to make about 5000 nukes never mind the rest.
so I stay in Fallout 4, or read books where the British Fleet Air Arm wasn't screwed by the "Whitehall wallahs" of the RAF Air Ministry before WW2 and thus WW2 went a hell of a lot better AND avoid the atrocity of the terror raids we did against German civilians
HATE the BBC's bull**** lately making WW1 and 2 look so "jolly good fun!", utter rubbish, horrendous times, total cock ups for first 2 years in each case that cost tens of thousands of lives needlessly
kind of from that interesting link to our problem and this post
during WW2, the Uk government commissioned a bunch of scientists etc to come up with plans for how best to prosecute the air war
they came up with the plan of "area bombing", mass murder of German civilians to ruin German morale and war production
not only was it murderously inhuman and criminal, it was utter bull****,
some truly brilliant people had worked out the mathematics etc, but screwed up, or the actual facts were "smudged" to give the Air Ministry what they wanted to hear, the right to have a huge bomber fleet to burn tens of thousands of German civilians to death
their sums were wrong, they needed at least 3 times more aircraft than they actually had during WW2 to do it.
they still murdered over 600,000 German civilians between the RAF and USAAF, and Germans moved their production plants underground or split them up into small back lot factories and used slave labour from across Europe. so the mass bombing was largely useless. enormous numbers of UK, Commonwealth and USA pilots died in that, and took part in a great evil, even if they didn't mean or think of it so.
if instead they'd concentrated on precision bombing using Mosquitoes and the likes of 617 Squadron, ahd supported the Fleet Air Arm before the war, had worked on ground attack aircraft and coordination with the army before 1939, they could have avoided so much slaughter and hammered important targets maybe even taken Hitler & Co out at the end of a 10 ton Grand Slam bomb.
the RAF top brass refused to believe that dive bombers were any use and demanded a push on heavy bombers, so at start of the war, despite lessons learned from US experiments and Spanish Civil War, Stuka dive bombers blew the living hell out of UK and French forces with comparatively excellent accuracy compared to the high altitude bombers which had trouble even hitting a city at the start of the war.
but it was easier mentally, lazy, cruel, selfish and barbaric to wish a huge force the "top brass" could preen their ego with, and get "revenge" on the "germans", most of whom didn't support the Nazi atrocities, especially in Hamburg and Berlin which of course got firebombed to hell.
note, top aircraft pilot of the entire war was a German Stuka ace, NOT a fighter pilot. may loathe the man's politics and beliefs but not his bravery or skill. if only the RAF had had such aircraft....
Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions on the Eastern Front of World War II. The majority of these were undertaken while flying the Junkers Ju 87, although 430 were flown in the ground-attack variant of the
Focke-Wulf Fw 190. He was credited with the destruction of 519 tanks, severely damaging the battleship
Marat, as well as sinking a
cruiser, a
destroyer and 70 landing craft. Rudel also claimed to have destroyed more than 800 vehicles of all types, over 150 artillery, anti-tank or anti-aircraft positions, 4 armored trains, as well as numerous bridges and supply lines. Rudel was also credited with 9 aerial victories, 7 of which were fighter aircraft and 2
Ilyushin Il-2s. He was shot down or forced to land 30 times due to anti-aircraft artillery, was wounded five times and rescued six stranded aircrew from enemy held territory
the parallels to our situation are there, and also where some of the emotional etc damage that has spurred some of the folk and cabals screwing us, as you note.
the inertia, wilful stupidity, cowardice, cruelty, arrogance of the Establishment has done more harm to us all over the last 250+ years, than any enemy action ever has.