Sunday, August 15, 2010

Subliminal Messages

TV programs like America's Most Wanted that persistently berate their criminal prey with words like, „scumbag”, „sicko”, „pervert”, „monster”, and on, are doing more to solicit criminal behavior than they do to stop it; a lot more.
Of course, many people recognize that these types of programs are produced as purely entertainment, not the „social service” they pretend. So they perceive little harm done. But the criminals who are hunted and attacked by these programs watch too, and they receive the intended message loud and clear, „We're gonna get you!”
But the criminals who watch this show also receive even more powerful subliminal message as well.
A subliminal message is one that is received unconsciously. In this case it happens via unconscious association with the intended targets of the insults and threts. When a man who is experiencing thoughts of sex with a child, even though he has not yet contemplated actually acting on those thoughts, sees a „child predator creepo monster” being persecuted on one of these programs he will unconsciously associate with the persecuted „child molester”, and the insueing insults become messages to the otherwise yet innocent man, that tell him he is not innocent, that he is „a monster who cannot control his impulses to rape and molest” etc. etc.
Is it any surprise then when he begins believing these messages, that enter his mind unfiltered and uncensored? His fantasies become more frequent and obsessive, because that's what „perverts” do. Soon he begins to feel a compulsion rising from somewhere deep in his unconscious mind that compels him to act out his fantasies, because that's what „monsters” do.
I make these observations as a man who has managed to overcome my own subconscious programming, and now I hope that I can somehow expose these messages that we so unwittingly pour into the vulnerable minds of men. And this problem is made far worse by all the media and laws and polititions who send the same messages out. In this way, as a society, we are literally creating the very monsters and perverts we fear, and love to hate.

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