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Opinions/Editorials Title: Poster RLK: His Legacy: 'The Analytic Papers Series', Article 12: "I Can't Get No Satisfaction'' The repeated unsuccessful attempts to find satisfaction through devouring life, not only orally, but in general, can develop to a level called Oral Rage. The condition is like much like Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones used to complain of in his songs: “I can’t get no satisfaction.” The concept of oral rage may be a little imprecise for suitable understanding at advanced levels, but it is occasionally useful and interesting. - snip - Paradoxically, many of the most socially and economically successful people are the most bitter and tormented. Many of them express their bitterness in a diffuse attack upon the American social and economic system to the point of virtually making war on every aspect of American society. The resentment and antagonistic liberalism of many successful actors, musicians, entertainment personalities and other public figures is well known. In contrast to the general population, an incredible 87-89 percent of the news media voted for George McGovern in 1972 as a deliberate slap in this country’s face. Nearly 25 years later, another 87 percent to 89 percent of the same professional group voted for Bill Clinton. These were highly paid and highly visible people who ostensibly have everything in the world, but have a bitterness toward this country. Successive generations of wealthy families often degenerate into bitter chaos. Many people who supposedly have everything are the most diffusely frustrated and angry. - snip - I don’t think at any time in the history of mankind have so many people had so much, but been so unhappy and bitter–not only at life in general, but at the very systems that have provided them with their abundance. For analytical purposes, the phenomenon can be dissected into five facets. 1.) Fashion.
It is socially fashionable to criticize and hate America. 2.) Attention-seeking, theatrical or otherwise.
Many people want to make themselves different, want to make themselves interesting, and want to generate attention to themselves...[as] political and social provocateurs. They use this role as a substitute for a real personality. They simply have nothing else going for them. 3.) The intrinsic effects of hedonism.
The pertinent point is there is an intrinsic limit upon simple physical pleasure without values. Those who pursue such pleasure are often doomed to the most excruciating dissatisfaction as they become successful in finding satisfaction. 4.) The unsupported brilliancy factor.
Many artists, actors, intellectuals, and whatever making up a cultural axis are chronically angry at the disinclination of the rest of the world to recognize their brilliance. Their claim upon brilliance is based primarily upon self-evaluation and upon evaluation by those who either share their opinion or share their anger.[Like Democrats and Hollywood] In many cases they mistake or mislabel their protests against the process of maturation as being intellect. In most cases they don’t have nearly as much to say as they believe or wish they did. That leads to a constant hostility toward society. 5.) The attainment of superficial and hollow goals.
Many people have a superficial show-and-tell shopping list of life roles or accomplishments they have been talked into and pursue superficially. They’re programmed to function up to the time they have done and checked off every item on the list. They have no idea what to do, or what’s going to happen, when that list is completed. They are lost when they have finished the list. And so it is with a proportion of successful public personalities, writers, actors, directors, comedians, newspeople, and so forth who express a diffuse disillusionment, resentment, bitterness and antagonism. Their disillusionment should be with themselves, but they attribute it and direct it externally toward the social and economic structure. Many of them don’t know how to live. Many of them have a monkey on their back. This explains the apparent paradox of many of the rich and glamorous hating America. They hate the country because of over-satiation, because they are bored, because they are disappointed in their wealth and success. They are bored and angry because they don’t know how to live. We are now entering into a new national, and perhaps international, crisis. To the extent that economic and social systems work, they produce certain classes of people who become bored with their lives and disgusted with everything that made their boredom and disillusionment possible.
The Analytic Papers Series is a compilation of essays written by Robert L. Kocher. Robert L. Kocher is the author of “The American Mind in Denial,” as well as many other articles. He is an engineer working in the area of solid-state physics, and has done graduate study in clinical psychology. His email address is steiner@access.mountain.net. Robert L. Kocher’s work is rather prolific, and although we are determined to present a complete set of his works, at this time we have only a portion of them. We invite you to visit often to be able to benefit from the essays we will be continually adding. All material on the website is copyright 2002 – 2011. Poster Comment: This is a spectacular analysis and essay. It especially sheds light on the reasons as to why Dem-Left-Hollywood drama queens and theater on the Left seem so angry ALL the time, *always* advancing and promoting hatred of America, the Constitution, freedom, conservatives/Republicans, and so forth. (from RLK's/Robert's blog): Robert L. Kocher, an articulate analyst and critic was the poster known as "RLK" for many years at FR, LP and LF. (Robert, are you still with us?) Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest why the wealthy -- many of the "Elites" of the greatest, free-est, nation on earth -- are perpetually bitter Really? The wealthy elite of America are Bezos, Gates, Buffett, Bloomberg, Immelt, the Kochs, the Waltons, Zuckerberg, Ballmer, the Mars's, Dell, Cuban, Trump . As I look up and down that list, I don't see one single bitter man.
When I look at the court jesters - the actors, actresses, singers - there I see people who are often bitter and drug-addled. But they're not really the wealthy elite, they're just the entertainment. The REAL elite are solid people with clear heads who make the economy run.
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