Politically Incorrect Thread About Pod People (Page 2 of 16)

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Zenden,  I appreciate your comments in your posts - I forget what you do again - are you a doctor or nurse type? It sounds like you must be on the front lines of the medical profession, where you are, and I admire you for it.  As you said, if you deal in people for a living, you sometimes see way too much - and can get extremely burned out from it.  It's like there is this sheer, huge, MASS of pod people - much as you love them, much as you are puzzled at the very idea that you can even be THINKING of them as something "other" than you ('cause I have always been one of those humanistic "everyone is equal" types of girls)....you can't deny that there is this extremely bizarre (to the point of science fiction bizarre) thing going on.  People who are mindless and absolutely prone to taking directions from others, the whole enslavement mentality.  And this can happen in extremely bright people, so it's very upsetting to see.

And in my own life I certainly grew up with that bias of thinking that doctors know everything and that for every cough, bruise, or sniffle I should go to a doctor.  That was indoctrinated into me because I had a near-fatal bout of asthma as a baby and had troubles with bronchitis throughout my childhood. I'm sure it scared my parents into worrying about me all the time and thinking that every sneeze indicated something potentially worse - and it did sometimes.  But in my picking up THEIR fear and THEIR beliefs, I ran into that same thing when I was younger of believing that I needed somebody to tell me about my own most basic bodily functions.

Thank goodness I developed an early interest in herbal healing, anatomy, energy healing, alternative health, etc.  I don't go to doctors anymore because of all the really frightening advice they gave me on numerous occasions.  I saw how fragile the entire system is, how we give our trust to these overworked, well-intentioned professionals who are forced to go through the inhuman rigors of working 48 hour shifts in residency as they get trained, and what kind of life is that?  And then we expect our medical people to CARE and to take lots of extra time with us, when they have huge malpractice insurance bills and equipment bills to stay on top of and are paralyzed by HMO's and can't spend more than five minutes with a patient because they go bankrupt if they don't see dozens of patients a day.

I might not be expressing that accurately, but that's my overall assumption of some of the extreme stresses doctors and owners of practices deal with. And it's not good for them, and it's not good for the patients.

Then there are good people like you, Zenden, obviously doing everything you can within that challenging system to help people, and then you see how your patients refuse to learn even the basics of first-aid and become utterly dependent on authority figures to tell them what to do.  Which isnt good, either. And then these patients often have tons of children, who in turn aren't educated about self-care. And the cycle just keeps continuing.

Crazy world we live in.  Kudos and cheers to you, Zenden, for keeping on with it, because the front lines of medicine are the most difficult to be in.  Big energy hugs to you!

LipstickMystic aka Jennifer

I completely agree with you, Jennifer. The problem I face with Pod People is that I try to help them realize their potential through advice and such, but they never take the advice, or feel uncomfortable when that advice is given because it infringes upon their security blankets. The funny thing is, they will come to me later and tell me that I was right and that they should've taken my advice, but then they continue on their routine of not taking my advice and the windmill effect continues to dominate their lives. I admit that I have my own set of flaws that could be considered apart of the Pod Framework, but I am by no means dominated by them. My problem is that I can't stop trying to help the sheep find their own inner power, like it's a psychic reflex, even though I do try to just let them be after they have refused to take my advice, I can't stop trying. Speaking of which, I once met a woman that I could tell was a lot like me, so I decided to tell her how I attempt to help people, and she said that she gave up trying to help people a long time ago, so maybe I'll eventually give up as well...maybe not.

Zenden thanks a lot for writing these. These are some issues really hard to face. We're on the same boat, in health business. Just as u wrote I see a lot people who doesn't seem to know how to stay healthy and always search for some kind of authority. And this authority is mostly doctors. Manipulate a doctor and you can have hundreds/thousands of people in your hand. Lately I began to think this may be really artificial breeding by some forces - and this is not for the good of humanity.

Insider's list which Visavis wrote is very important too. These really seem to be the ways to keep us in the cage. Take a look at the list again. This is hard to face too, because this is how most of us live.

By chance (?), I just watched Deadalive episode of X-Files (season 8) last night and there was a very interesting scene there, an abductee's skin literally errupts and he gets up from a hospital bed renewed. Although he looks a lot healthy, his eyes are empty and he says "Now I know the truth. They're here to save us". So it seems this breeding has it's purposes.

Mutant Mouse, Yes I have encountered the "personality vampire" before. The one I met not only copied your personality but your talents as well, and sometimes could do it better than you could or just completely screw it up.

I’ve actually met quite a few Non-Pods here and there at this café I used to work at. The funny thing about these run-ins is, the conversation would start up when I was on my break and someone would either ask me for a lighter, a cigarette, or just sat next to me. One time I was actually talking to this realtor who had to be in his early 50’s about Bohemian Grove and he told me that his nephew used to be a waiter there. But all in all, most of the people I know and have met are Pod People.

Speaking of this cliche, I was at the airport a week ago and I noticed a guy in such a get-up, and I was watching him because he was checking out anything that was female, little kid, teenager, middle-aged, seinor citizen. When we finally were boarding the plane, all I could do was laugh to myself for some reason.

The sports thing.......oy!  What is that about?

Actually, I attended my first ever football game two years ago and was able to enjoy it, in a sort of "So this is how the other half lives" spectator way.  It was a Princeton game, and I have to admit I was more focused on trying to get the mascot guy dressed as the tiger to come over to our side of the stadium rather than watching what those ball players were up to.  But it was fun in its own weird way.

It came to me some time back another aspect of this pod people thing.

Pod people are into experiencing life by proxy.

Meaning, instead of directly seeking experiences for themselves, they plug into proxies or stand-ins who have the actual experience for them. 

So the football crazed sports fan who can't talk about anything else, yet has never played ball himself, and who probably doesn't even attend the actual games but watches them on TV....he's experiencing life by proxy. He's plugging into all that tribal stuff about physical power and competitiion, which is universal in human experience.....but he's doing it through a proxy who is actually playing the game for him.

What's amazing is how personalized it gets for these people. They can truly end up all depressed and bummed out if "their team" doesn't win.  Even though they don't actually "own" that team. It's "theirs."

Pod people do the life by proxy thing.  They need other people to be on the front lines actually DOING, while they watch or comment, several steps removed from the action.

I absolutely adore adventurous people who have had the balls to get down in the mud of life, experience stuff, get dirty, make "mistakes" and learn from them. I fully believe that's what we're all meant to be doing if we want to discover our full potentials.

And I get absolutely annoyed at opinion makers and passive audience members who will loudly go on about such and such without having had any direct, first-hand, personal experience with the thing in question.

Television, the Internet and blogs, newspapers, etc - it all creates a feedy frenzy for the armchair dwelling life by proxy person.

I am guilty of this too because I have to incorporate silly celebrity gossip into some of the columns that I write for newspapers. And when I find myself scanning yet another mindless celeb gossip site or magazine, I can feel what's left of my wee, tiny brain turning to total mush.  I want Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan, and all of these other inexplicably famous non-talents to be taken off to Mars in a space shuttle and left there. 

Commenting on other people who are the ones actually living, doing, and experiencing - that's pod people culture.  Life by proxy.  Don't actually DO anything with your life.  Fear of failure, fear of censure from the "tribe," and all that factor into how the pod folks monitor each other.

Here's to being what Hermit Brad above calls the "non-pod." Love that!  Can we start a Non-Pod Club?  What would our insignia be? Think of the secret handshake!

LipstickMystic aka Jennifer