5 Characteristics of the Mindless Massess

The effective way would have been to look at it from the reverse, positive perspective. i.e:


* 5 Characteristics that make a Successful and Productive person.


....then listing the positive bullet points which make up the minerals of that type of person.

Controversy perks eyes and ears however the negativity in this case does the opposite of what the message should do. It should be a "Get up and go!" not a "Slag off the populus" because those people could well be the market.

The Bible also says "Love they Neighbour".


Daniel

It's an opinion, not a fact; and from a particularly toxic perspective at that, in my opinion.

The only way to know if "most" people are like that is to devise a way to test for it and then test a large enough cross-section of people to have statistically valid representation ... and even then it's just representative sample.

I doubt if the author or you have done that.

However, if the author wants to position himself as better than others, that's his right. He can expect to be challenged on that position though, and so can his sheeple.

I just see these points as the extremes of what people with dead end lives marinade in. I have worked with people (when i had a formal job, of course ) that used the last two points to DEATH making it a pretty horrible work environment.

Steer clear of people who have all of these attributes though. Most people will glean over one of two of these, maybe one or two more at times, but it's those people that are continually in their own dead end little worlds that have ALL of these traits plus more (gossipy, heavily hypocritical etc). You really want to steer well clear of those people

The newspapers, in my opinion, have devolved into a propaganda tool for government and big industry. Setting that aside for now, the news by its very nature focuses on the negative extreme more often than not. I wouldn't call what they report a good measure of the average person. In fact, if the average person was like the newspapers portray, I'd agree with you to a certain degree.

Yes, and we need people just exactly like that for society to function as it does. If those "inglorious" jobs went undone life would be very different, and I speculate that most of us wouldn't like the change.

Many people find their comfort zone in "the program." That's no reason to look down on them. That does not make them mindless. It only means we all fill different roles and find our purpose in different ways.

This doesn't surprise me. I don't mean that as an insult, it's just that when you look down on people few of them will look up to you. In other words, perhaps they're reading your disdain for them and responding to your energy.

"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us."- James Truslow Adams

It takes time. Time to change and time for others to realize the change. Sometimes we have to change our circle of friends too, or spend less time with them. Don't give up the fight, it's worth it.

I don't concern myself with what others believe -- that's their business.

People only change when they want to change and are ready to change. I can empathize with you not having a lot of people in your life you can trust or count on. I was in that same situation when I was young. That will change for you. The best thing I can tell you is to be the kind of friend to others that you want to have and the pieces will fall into place.

As for not being able to build websites, there are software programs that practically do everything for you. Learning to code by hand like I do isn't even that hard. You can learn it if you want to. It's easier than learning NLP, in my opinion.

What other people think and believe is their business. How much credence you give to what they think and believe is your business.

Look, I'm probably a lot older than you, so forgive an old guy if I've gone to far, but there's a reason I called that "mindless masses" a toxic perspective. It doesn't hurt the masses, it hurts the person who holds that attitude.

Our thoughts and attitudes give off a subtle (or not so subtle) energy that others can pick up on, at both the conscious and subconscious levels. If we want to be accepted, we have to be accepting of others. If we want to receive love, we have to give love. And so forth...

What happens when we give an attitude of superiority? That, too, is reflected back to us in different ways.

This is why I cautioned you to be careful about how much you let this writer influence you. That attitude he promotes is one that will isolate you from others. Life is hard enough without making it harder on ourselves.

If I got too personal and you'd like me to delete my posts let me know.

Good luck. I wish you well.

PS - I do agree with you in a way. Humanity as a whole, with our wars, greed, vanity, and so on, doesn't seem very enlightened. The difference is, I see myself as a part of the masses, not apart from them. We will live together or perish together. There is no them and us in the cosmic sense.

I'm not looking down on anyone. If anything it's other people that are looking down on me because I'm not rich and because I don't have a degree or am some kind of celebrity because they think that they are better than me and that's total BS.

Psychology calls those types of people Narcissists. They are in love with themselves and think that they are entitled to everything because they don't want to work hard for anything.

That's total BS and it's not how I operate. Like most people do I struggle from paycheck to paycheck just trying to make ends meet and I'm sick of it, but I'm also not the type of person that believes in get rich quick schemes either. I've seen too many of those and I know that most of them are scams.

In my book there is only one way to get anywhere in life and that is to honest, ethical, realistic, intelligent and to work hard for anything that you get.

Contrary to popular belief the government and corporate America is not going to save you. To them you are nothing but a disposable number and that's been proven time and time again.

It was proven in the late 90's when thousands of middle managers who thought that they had secure lifetime jobs in a large corporation were suddenly let go citing cutback reasons.

Over half of them decided that instead of returning to the unforgiving corporate grind that they would start their own businesses.

Anyone who thinks that corporate America feels any compunction to keep you is an idiot because they don't and that has been proven time and time again in the current economy.

Many companies now, because of the recession have made things even more difficult for people by taking the responsibilities of two or more jobs and combined them into one and more often than not they can and will feel that unless you have at least a 4 year degree in something, then you are not qualified. I disagree with that concept and theory big time.

Many companies are also requiring people to take behavorial assessment tests that are nearly impossible to pass. Some of the questions on these tests are utterly stupid and retarded.

I've seen one question that asked 'What would your high school teacher say about you?'.

I don't know and I don't care either because high school for me was a long time ago and I certainly did not hang around my teachers for any reason. The only time I even remotely interacted with them is when it related to the assignments that they handed out. Outside of that I didn't care because like everyone my age at the time I didn't care about school. What I along with countless others my age at the time cared about was having fun and getting laid.

Those were the priorities back then.

I agree with what you are saying and there certainly are a lot of people like that out in the world. I myself try not to be like that. I try to keep and open mind about everything and I try to do what I can to create my own luck while at the same time being as honest and ethical with both myself and with others that I can be and know how to and I think that is what is truly important.

Yep - this list seems quite accurate in describing most of the attitudes of the "sheep".
btw: isn`t this sheep vs wolf stuff from some kind of movie "wolf of wall street"?

While it is not always the best idea to just focus on the negatives, I do think it is legit in this case. And there are many of those lists around in the internet. So basically I do not fully understand why the thread starter got a ton of negative feedback.
If it poisons ones mind or not is still to be tested (as testing has been suggested earlier).

One more aspect I like to add to the discussion: I find it really astonishing how most of the people are living in such a negavtive millieu like listed here. They do it for decades and most of them do not really get sick of it. I have seen it myself in a big and quite successfull multinational company, it is like a djungle and those negative traits are seen everywhere.

Walter, while this may be right what you re saying - I can see every day that this attitude of the "mindless" is hurting them a lot. Those standard jobs are more than often a jungle with survival of the fittest rules. However most of them do not have the energy to escape that struggle. Only very few are enjoying what they are doing and what they experience every day.
As some member wrote, the whole system relies on all those people to do what they do e.g. drive taxis, make meals, etc - but I highly doubt that they would do it if they would see clear what age we are in, what opportunities the world offers nowaday, and how they are fooled by society.