THE PSYCHOLOGIST : Some interesting and some not so much

Some interesting and some not so much

Folks, if you get a chance click here to listen to an interview that Radio 2GB’s Ray Hadley did with Corrective Services Commissioner Ron Woodham about his 40 year career. It’s under the heading Best of Ray Hadley 13/04/07, I heard most of it on Friday and it’s very interesting.

The commissioner talks about his dealing with some of Australia’s worst criminals, the Cobby killers, the Middle Eastern gang rapists, what life in ‘super max’ jails is like, how the prisoners have become madder and badder etc, it’s about 17 Meg so be patient if you’re on dialup.

On a previous occasion the commissioner mentioned that the notorious gang rapists were model prisoners, or as he put it weak as water, they give them no trouble and were just cowards. No surprises there, when it’s 10 men against one woman, then it’s Leb-style and holding each others balls, but pull them apart and send them to jail and they are exposed for the sniveling loathsome cowards they are.

He talks about certain hardcore criminals for whom ‘jail is just an occupational hazard.’ He also mentions some interesting incidents about counselors or prison workers that fall in love with some of these murdering scumbags.

I remember, some time last year a convicted killer who got a sex change was released on parole into the community, at the time there was a lot of anger and outrage and I remember a woman, a nurse or something, called into Ray’s program and defended the fellow in question, apparently he was a nice fellow from her experience. When Ray mentioned as politely as he could that the fellow was convicted for murder and rape whilst in the prison, the woman said something flippant like, oh yes I’ve heard he’s killed someone a while back.

It’s like there is some sort of disconnect with reality, like we can’t judge someone as a failure in life because they failed an exam at some point in their life. In the same way this woman was of the opinion that yes some court somewhere may have found the fellow guilty of killing someone somewhere else, but until he slits my throat and watches me die, I’ll believe he’s a good person. So I guess we shouldn’t be surprised there are some Pollyanna’s working with criminals.

In other more dramatic news, remember Pink, yes the punk rockster or was it princess. Remember that whole wool industry thing, when she joined PETA and was banging on about boycotting Aussie wool, well she ended up with a rather large amount of egg on her face because of her own stupidity. Well looks like she’s starved for attention again, so gather round folks, it’s time for us all to hold hands and nod our heads somberly while Sienna, stifling back sobs, recounts the harrowing tale of her time in Bush’s gulag under the White House.

The punk princess recently appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” to discuss the lyrics of her latest track, “Dear Mr. President." And she says she's been prohibited from pitching her political views on other radio and television shows.

“Dear Mr. President” is an open-letter attack on Bush’s domestic and war policies. In the salty songs, Pink questions: "How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?

What is it about these celebrities and the supposed trampling of their right to free speech? It’s like those leftist authors protesting about being silenced while bookstore shelves groan under the weight of their slow selling books. Does George Bush even know who PINK is, apart from the fact that it might be his daughter’s favorite color or something? Here are some of the lyrics from PINK’s song, you know the one that’s being censored, muzzled, prohibited, banned, would brutalized be too over-the-top?

Dear Mr. President, Come take a walk with me.
Let's pretend we're just two people and You're not better than me.
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How can you say No child is left behind?
We're not dumb and we're not blind. They're all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell.
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Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you 'bout hard work

Rest assured all of you on struggle street, she knows your pain, minimum wage, she knows that, lost your house, she feels you.

Can someone tell this drama Queen that, it’s not that folks are ‘prohibiting’ her from speaking, it’s just they don’t care for her political views. It’s like those fools banging on about refugee rights every year outside Australia’s detention centers, just because we don’t turn up to listen to them, doesn’t mean they are not allowed to whinge and whine, we just don’t care what they have to whinge and whine about.

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The essence of conservatism is caution. The essence of Leftism is anger

This blog is written solely by John Ray, who has a Ph.D. degree in psychology and 200+ papers published in the academic journals of the social sciences. It does occasionally comment on issues in psychology but is mainly aimed at giving a conservative psychologist's view on a broad range of topics. There are very few conservative psychologists.

The blog originated in Australia and many (but not most) posts discuss Australian matters. Australians have an unusually good awareness of events outside their own country. Australian newspapers feature news from Britain and the USA not as an afterthought but as a major part of their coverage. So Australians do tend to have a truly Western heart, which is the reason behind the old name for this blog. So events in Australia, Britain and the USA all feature frequently here, plus occasional coverage of other places, particularly Israel.

A primer in American politics for non-Americans:

SCOTUS is the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court in the land

The "GOP" stands for "Grand Old Party" and refers to the Republican party. The GOP is at present center/Right, while the Democrats have been undergoing a steady drift Leftwards and now have policies similar to mainstream European Leftist parties.

The ideological identity of both parties has however been very fluid -- almost reversing itself over time. In the mid 19th century, the GOP was the party of big government and concern for minorities while the Democrats advertised themselves as "The party of the white man" -- an orientation that lasted into the mid 20th century in the South. The Democrats are still obsessed with race but have now flipped into support for discrimination AGAINST whites.

Was Pope Urban VIII the first Warmist? Below we see him refusing to look through Galileo's telescope. People tend to refuse to consider evidence— if what they might discover contradicts what they believe.

Global warming

Calibrated in whole degrees. Larger graph here

Climate scientist Lennart Bengtsson said. “The warming we have had the last 100 years is so small that if we didn’t have meteorologists and climatologists to measure it we wouldn’t have noticed it at all.”

The term "Fascism" is mostly used by the Left as a brainless term of abuse. But when they do make a serious attempt to define it, they produce very complex and elaborate definitions -- e.g. here and here. In fact, Fascism is simply extreme socialism plus nationalism. But great gyrations are needed to avoid mentioning the first part of that recipe, of course.

Two examples of Leftist racism below (much more here and here):

Beatrice Webb, a founder of the London School of Economics and the Fabian Society, and married to a Labour MP, mused in 1922 on whether when English children were "dying from lack of milk", one should extend "the charitable impulse" to Russian and Chinese children who, if saved this year, might anyway die next. Besides, she continued, there was "the larger question of whether those races are desirable inhabitants" and "obviously" one wouldn't "spend one's available income" on "a Central African negro".

Hugh Dalton, offered the Colonial Office during Attlee's 1945-51 Labour government, turned it down because "I had a horrid vision of pullulating, poverty stricken, diseased nigger communities, for whom one can do nothing in the short run and who, the more one tries to help them, are querulous and ungrateful."

Defensible and indefensible usages of the term "racism"

The book, The authoritarian personality, authored by T.W. Adorno et al. in 1950, has been massively popular among psychologists. It claims that a set of ideas that were popular in the "Progressive"-dominated America of the prewar era were "authoritarian". Leftist regimes always are authoritarian so that claim was not a big problem. What was quite amazing however is that Adorno et al. identified such ideas as "conservative". They were in fact simply popular ideas of the day but ones that had been most heavily promoted by the Left right up until the then-recent WWII. See here for details of prewar "Progressive" thinking.

R.I.P. Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet deposed a law-defying Marxist President at the express and desperate invitation of the Chilean parliament. He pioneered the free-market reforms which Reagan and Thatcher later unleashed to world-changing effect. That he used far-Leftist methods to suppress far-Leftist violence is reasonable if not ideal. The Leftist view that they should have a monopoly of violence and that others should follow the law is a total absurdity which shows only that their hate overcomes their reason

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a war criminal. Both British and American codebreakers had cracked the Japanese naval code so FDR knew what was coming at Pearl Harbor. But for his own political reasons he warned no-one there. So responsibility for the civilian and military deaths at Pearl Harbor lies with FDR as well as with the Japanese. The huge firepower available at Pearl Harbor, both aboard ship and on land, could have largely neutered the attack. Can you imagine 8 battleships and various lesser craft firing all their AA batteries as the Japanese came in? The Japanese naval airforce would have been annihilated and the war would have been over before it began.

FDR prolonged the Depression. He certainly didn't cure it.

WWII did NOT end the Great Depression. It just concealed it. It in fact made living standards worse

Joe McCarthy was eventually proved right after the fall of the Soviet Union. To accuse anyone of McCarthyism is to accuse them of accuracy!

The KKK was intimately associated with the Democratic party. They ATTACKED Republicans!

People who mention differences in black vs. white IQ are these days almost universally howled down and subjected to the most extreme abuse. I am a psychometrician, however, so I feel obliged to defend the scientific truth of the matter:

The average African adult has about the same IQ as an average white 11-year-old and African Americans (who are partly white in ancestry) average out at a mental age of 14. The American Psychological Association is generally Left-leaning but it is the world's most prestigious body of academic psychologists. And even they have had to concede that sort of gap (one SD) in black vs. white average IQ. 11-year olds can do a lot of things but they also have their limits and there are times when such limits need to be allowed for.

America's uncivil war was caused by trade protectionism. The slavery issue was just camouflage, as Abraham Lincoln himself admitted. See also here

Did William Zantzinger kill poor Hattie Carroll?

Did Bismarck predict where WWI would start or was it just a "free" translation by Churchill?

Leftist psychologists have an amusingly simplistic conception of military organizations and military men. They seem to base it on occasions they have seen troops marching together on parade rather than any real knowledge of military men and the military life. They think that military men are "rigid" -- automatons who are unable to adjust to new challenges or think for themselves. What is incomprehensible to them is that being kadaver gehorsam (to use the extreme Prussian term for following orders) actually requires great flexibility -- enough flexibility to put your own ideas and wishes aside and do something very difficult. Ask any soldier if all commands are easy to obey.

A good article on Leftist hate

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