Learned Helplessness

Learned helplessness requires the following conditions:

• Frequent reminders of lower class status through the mass media.
• The portrayal of super-realistic lifestyles of people on television or in advertising.
• You never see those people excuse themselves to use the restroom.
• Perfect outfits and hairstyles, all the time.
• Perfect bodies, always healthy and fit.
• Frequent reminders of class lifestyle comparisons and identity.
• The payments on your credit card or loan debt.
• The high prices on fancy food items at the grocery store. You must settle for less, so you are less.
• Unable to shop at stores other than those mocked by higher status people.
• Unable to eat anything better than cheap, bland unenjoyable food.
• Unable to afford "popular" brands of clothes, vehicles or toys.
• Frequent reminders of class through denial of vital services due to lack of affordability..
• Medical care
• Dental care
• Home repairs such as roof, heating and cooling, plumbing, insulation, siding, paint.
• Transportation maintenance and repairs, like brakes, fluids, tires and lights.
• Unable to own a car or pay for a drivers license.

Symptoms of people suffering from Learned Helplessness:

• Anxiety
• Frustration
• Depression
• Anger
• Aggressive driving and road rage
• Seeking the slightest faults in other people in order to feel better.
• Feeling anger when someone at work who wasn't there as long as you, is paid the same as you.
• Negative criticism instead of positive criticism.
• Name-calling, public mockery of others' mistakes, "dressing down" someone.
• Short temper
• Frequent outbursts of anger in minor situations
• Domestic violence
• Substance abuse
• Smoking: If you think you enjoy it, you are in denial.
• Authority abuse
• Making an employee's life a living Hell by scheduling him to work on a day he requested off months ago.
• Murdering unarmed black people

The consequences of suffering from learned helplessness

• People within the same class substrata blaming each-other for their circumstances, instead of blaming those who socially engineered Learned Helplessness
• Delusional rationalizations justifying the above listed bad habits.
• The willingness to accept employment for less pay than you can really afford.
• Willingness to undercut fellow workers will earn you only contempt from the ruling class.

The Ruling Class is attempting to sow doubt about the truth of Learned Helplessness by calling the facts of our economy, a myth created by a cult of Populists.