"alternate facts" gringos, who would even deny now that they won WWII, the cold war, star wars, ... to me that would be like denying Nazism
gringos don’t have a history as a people that is why they need Hollywood
For gringos history is: "look at that shopping mall we built there!"
the brave honesty with which they (German people) own their own history
I find really strange that it doesn't mean -absolutely anything- to gringos and canucks that they wiped out the people's living in North America. Those "kill the Indian and save the man", "Indians did not have property rights ..." kinds of ideations that were and still are constituent part of the gringo freedom loving mindset are not even taboos they prefer not to mention, they just don't mean anything at all to them. I like very much about Germany that they use their own history as lesson themes to teach morality. I know, I know, … Germany does that because they lost the war, because they are inherently, genetically crazy, because it was a condition of the Marshall plan, ...
I would suggest the following consciousness study: take a representative sampling of gringos and put them into an fMRI scanner, then (after prepping them experimentally) ask them two questions:
1) What do you make of most of the space out there in the Universe being void?
2) What do you know about the people living in North America before the arrival of Europeans?
In some tests in the U.S. kids checked that Fidel Castro was the president of Mexico ;-), but that consciousness study will definitely be more interesting.
Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Stephen Kinzer have written and talked about such "Yes, we can!" themes, but gringos hear them as a "freedom of thought" kind of thing, not as if they were actually talking about them:
// __ BA on genocide of Native people, broken treaties and "peculiar" development of capitalism in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFGyI4Qb_HI
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and here is Donald Trumps' mother's opinion:
// __ Audio: Ayn Rand on Supporting Genocide of Native Americans (with text)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPC7lCSI5Cg
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As with her son I like about those kinds of people that they do us the favor of articulating it explicitly and putting it squarely on our faces. Those kinds of folks to me are always less damaging, pernicious than the Obamas and Killarys.
Of course, part of why gringos collectively see themselves historically the way they do is the kind of freedom loving education they get. Take a history book in Germany and the U.S. and compare them to what their own media was talking about at the time about themselves and the people they were invading. That would be a great corpora-based Anthropology relating to the consciousness study!
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antiquated "treatment" that is no longer used
Again, if you see something in that documentary you can't understand I could explain it to you. I assure you that all that is said in that documentary is true and even though they showcased Germany, what they say is not much different to what you could find out by yourself about the U.S. In fact, in Germany they stopped short of making "psychology"/"psychiatry" illegal. In NYC all the NYPD needs is the signature of two psych* idiots you will never see in your life to institutionalize you, which I personally was very aware of, "feared", since USG/the FBI/NYPD didn’t like ****** me a bit.
You wonder why are psychologists like a cast in themselves in the U.S.? Why are those kinds of psych* impostors the 7th best paid professionals in the U.S.? Why are they the second most hired profession by USG? Here are the Regents style multiple choice answer options for you:
a) because they provide society with a most needed service
b) because, as part of USG's "social control", they help the government drive people to become controllably crazy consumers with all that propaganda and those false beliefs gringos are abused with
c) because, they prey on the fact that we human beings are the 5th monkey
d) because the powerful farma industry could no exist without them
e) because they team up with lawyers to do USG the favor of controlling, "keeping" the social fauna
f) because people in the U.S. watch too much TV
g) [you may explain your own opinion as an argumentative essay with less than 4 paragraphs]
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a profession that helps hundreds of thousands to this day, myself included
I don't care that much about visual things, but based on your avatar it seems, they haven't helped you see the functional connection between problems and solutions that well.
Are you sure it is a doctor providing you with "professional help"? It may be the screenwriter of the most hilarious comedy I have ever watched: "a fish called Wanda (1988)", posing as a doctor/therapist.