Learned Helplessness - A.k.a. but I'm austistic give me money!

[TheFutureMrsMoon]

A shared trait of nearly everyone we watch on this forum.
In the rat king, it acts as a cultural expectation new trannies are indoctrinated with in order to fit in. At first, a ploy to cloak their privilage...it quickly becomes a disease. They internalize it and fear any form of responsibility because it threatens their asspats.
Looking at Phil, we can see the asspats diminish over time which only reinforces a sense of isolation and helplessness.

Can someone unlearnlearned helplessness?
How do we identity this in people we watch or people we meet irl?

Not trying to honeypot alt-righters.
A-logging over it is pointless.
Stepping back, learned helplessness seems to be a growing part of our cultural landscape.

 

[The Giver]

Looking at Phil, we can see the asspats diminish over time which only reinforces a sense of isolation and helplessness.

Phil is a bad example because he didn't learn to be a helpless piece of shit, it is just a natural talent of his.

 

[TheFutureMrsMoon]

Haha, true, those drawn on eyebrows send a clear message to the world that he was never really right.

 

[Positron]

"Learned helplessness" develops when try as you might, you can't change the condition that gives you stress. The classical example is a rat in a Skinner Box which requires it to press a lever to stop an electric shock. The set-up is then changed so that no matter what the rat does, the electric shock goes on. After an initial phrase frantic pressing the lever and trying in vain to stop the shock, the rat learns that it is futile, and would do nothing and endure the shock.

"Learned helplessness" does not mean "I learned from Tumblr that everyone oppresses me, so I give up and live on welfare, BTW donate to my Paetron". This is called "laziness" and "being spoiled rotten".

 

[Wallace]

I think you're confusing learned helplessness with victim mentality. The difference is that the victim will emphasize their own suffering to draw sympathy from their peers.

 

[Innocuous Banter]

What you described isn't really learned helplessness

Go to college you idiot

An example of learned helplessness is the research from Seligman conducted in 1965 when he expanded on Pavlov. (Bell ringing makes dogs salivate.) He had three groups of dogs, and one of these groups of dogs were shocked at random, and the dogs could not prevent the shock. It just happened at random

Then after those dogs were conditioned, he placed them in a box basically, and they could jump out at any time. The box was electrified and the dogs were not restrained. When shocked, the dogs remained in the box believing that nothing could be done to prevent the shock.

 

[ChuckSlaughter]

As others have pointed out it'd conditioned but it's more than that. Helplessness becomes a learned defense. There is a great deal of power making yourself the underdog in a compassionate society. Laying out every bad card that society as dealt you and sobbing uncontrollably