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Show The real problem: How do you 'see'? people spend 20 years or more in educational systems, institutions and the like without ever learning any tiling. The intellectual crimes committed commit-ted daily by the media extend the dream and fantasy worlds for so many who live their lives as shadows. sha-dows. And this shadow-like existence exist-ence comes from individuals who project their shadows or dreams along with millions of others to produce the American Dream (or nightmare if you will). Motivational research With the development of motivational moti-vational research (the psychology of making people do things) has created a subtlety in the media that is unbelievable. In commercials; commer-cials; the motivational researchers find the qualities that we as humans hate in ourselves most and then advertise it so that we can feel guilty enough about this part of ourselves to totally negate it physically and psychically (deodorants, toothpastes, etc.) Yes, we are taught to hate ourselves our-selves and to enjoy doing so. And this self-hate, as I have said before, be-fore, is projected to others. Look at newscasts Look at the newscasts. Most people see a black on television doing an uptight emotioy ,i -d r sure television' make sure that no sane black? gets a chance to say an 1 nations want to foster the image primitive physical savage a ts -diately the public mto seeing a blacks u The media wants this h J? sensationalism to keep L f J-t people will not tPhin8 the immediate problems a,? How about that unsensa poor black who makes $75 a and is trying to live. Ifsa Pie of the od maxim "PeS believe anything." How do you "see" things? Rational thinking with nooui-side nooui-side help is now in order for ma people. What are the real U lems? How do you "see" thj; "Seeing" another human being's black (since the media describe; him this way) represents a cerlai-reduction cerlai-reduction in one's level of p ception. Why have someone else contiti your thought processes? You ci trust yourself. Everyone is t individual and can do things. Al one has to do is do them, fc then the things we do depend on how we "see" things in the Sis place. BY DONALD BATISTE Special to The Chronicle The problem of perception is a major difficulty we meet in solving solv-ing real life problems. How we solve our problems depends mostly most-ly on how we see the problems in relation to ourselves as individuals. individ-uals. The largest part of the difficulty dif-ficulty in communication between people is how we see each other, or more accurately, how our minds eyes' see each other. There is a definite difference in seeing and perceiving. Seeing is indicative in-dicative of the sensory mechanism of sight being capable of operation. opera-tion. But perceiving connotes seeing and understanding. How many people can see a situation and understand it at the same time? Not many. Reality excluded Many of us "see" things with our emotions rather than with our minds. To many people, things that arouse similar emotions are thought of as being the same. This means that reactions to these things one "sees" emotionally are actually reactions to inner worlds of fantasy. This means that, in these instances, reality is excluded from the mind's eye and that a structuralized world of fantasies, dreams, and illusions (the ego) form the basis for reactions to the real existing external environment. environ-ment. System of delusions Many of us see things from a system of delusions. Delusions of others doing things to us. Delusions Delu-sions that we are grandiose, etc. From this system of delusions (formed because of a feeling of worthlessness) is developed first fear of the self and others. And from this network of delusions comes paranoia. Because in feeling so worthless one sets out to destroy de-stroy his individual being. But in fearing this, he also projects this feeling of worthlessness onto others and projects his internal destructive wishes. And to be sure, there are many citizens in our society who want to destroy themselves. But in their fear of doing so, they attempt to destroy others. (How's that for the cave man solution?) Absorbing the world Many people see themselves as: 1) Being absorbed by the world, or 2) Absorbing the world. In number num-ber one, all of the objects that the person sees he "causes" with his emotions. And in number two, the person feels dependent on the environment instead of independent indepen-dent of and related to it as in ordered logical persons. Let's get back to talking about that "world of structuralized dreams, fantasies and illusions" (the ego). This world of fantasies is brought about by external educational edu-cational influences in the environment. environ-ment. (Radio, television, newspapers, news-papers, other people and other places besides one's own immediate immed-iate surroundings). The educational educa-tional influences of the American society are so primitive that some |
