Colorado Jyms is thinking about learned helplessness. What do we do when all the disasters are more than we can handle?
Back in the 80’s there was a song called ‘walk the dog’ by Laurie Anderson. The important lyric is, “When I came home, you were on fire, the house was on fire… so I decided to walk the dog. Walking the dog… walking the dog.”
When I think of the complete and utter disaster in Iraq, the end of oil around the corner, global warming and the fact that Zefrank is stopping his show… I wonder just how true these lyrics are. How much can we take before we simply snap and decide that the best thing to do is to walk the dog, not put out the fire?
The psychological term is ‘learned helplessness’. There was a bunch of sick scientists who discovered they could shock a dog so often that when the door out of the room that is shocking the dog is open, he doesn’t see it.
Are we there? Are we so used to being shocked that we cannot see an open door out? Why are the democrats SOOOOO afraid of issuing articles of impeachment for the lies this administration told to bring us to war? How can we put out the fire if we are not even willing to see it.
I’m ambivalent about impeachment. It’s never been more justified than it is today, but there simply aren’t the votes for it. There are better ways to use our time and energy. We need to fully expose the crimes and incompetence of the whole right-wing machine, so the whole country learns to help itself and keeps throwing the bums out.
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