It has a vicious grin, and its fangs are frightening. You feel its green eye watching you constantly in the streets, bore into you on a bus or the subway. Having noticed the advertisement monster, an adult quickly turns his head away, but a child with his vulnerable psyche will remember for a long time the horrible image of the man-beast. Having come home, he turns on a television set and gets another shock, watching a violent or horror film.
Any aggressive piece of advertisement or a film may become the straw that broke the camel’s back, says Professor Valentyn Maliako, Ph.D. (Psychology), an academician in the National Academy of Sciences. True, we still cannot say for sure what may trigger any particular case of violence. Compounded by the social instability and deepening economic crisis with which we must live, the daily watching of television programs filled with violence, murders, corpses, vampires, and sadists turns into a strong and constant irritant to our already traumatized psyche.
In the industrialized countries all video products are subjected to a strict selection to block an objectionable film or a television program. This job is done by three departments responsible for culture, education, and health care. The rating of television programming has to become part of a daily work of the relevant ministries and not only commercial organizations.
Our psyche has two systems of protection. The first system is based on the genetic memory of our ancestors. The second evolves during one’s lifetime.
In fact, aggressiveness is not characteristic of the Ukrainian mentality. This is why our genetic memory cannot protect our psyche from aggression. The huge massifs of Western pseudo-culture pouring into Ukraine (the true culture in this country and in the West is of high standard) harm our children more than children in the West who show more resistance to the influences of the pop culture that has been evolving there over centuries...
Science has proved that we all without exception are susceptible to being turned into zombies. The degree of susceptibility is different in everyone. To psychologically program a person’s actions and behavior is enough to turn him into a zombie. The modern world afflicts our psyche in one way or the other. Some time ago, Kashpirovsky practiced such things on huge audiences putting them in a zombie-like state. Various types of information that flood us round-the-clock can program our actions by influencing our mentality in a thinly veiled way.
It is scientifically established that the human memory forgets nothing. Man’s brain “tapes” everything he sees and hears, storing whole massifs of information. If for a lengthy period of time we have experienced only negative emotions, having been witnesses to brutality and wild behavior, bad dreams will be the most harmless consequence of those experiences. At worst, our mental health will be irreparably damaged and we become the slaves of those negative images. The weaker our psyche, the more susceptible we are to external negative influences that threaten to eventually turn us into puppets. A man does not necessarily have to be a criminal to be prone to unmotivated actions. Even a mentally balanced person can sometimes behave strangely. All of a sudden, he may become rude to his close ones, friends, coworkers, shout at them and even hit them without reason. When the fit of anger passes, he cannot explain his behavior. Quite possibly a piece of “blocking” information or a violent scene he witnessed sometime earlier got into his protective system and provoked his aggression.
Many experiments have been carried out to establish that our sight and hearing subconsciously register the most subtle pieces of information. Like a time bomb, this information can explode any moment. The time when the explosion takes place is impossible to foresee. There are many things about which we have little if any knowledge. On the other hand, modern science can provide material substantiation to some non-physical images and symbols so widely used in metaphors, proverbs, and fairy tales. For instance, the human soul was considered something unreal. On the basis of countless experiments, Japanese scientists have established that the human soul is situated near the heart. Long before the Japanese made their discovery, a group of Leningrad parapsychologists led by Vasiliev, a follower of the Bekhterev school, proved that the heart is capable of absorbing the finest signals that the brain fails to register. The Vasiliev laboratory has conducted a series of successful studies of human mental abilities.
Thus, scientific data convinces us that any aggressive information — no matter how short or insignificant it might be — can damage our mental and physical health. It is quite possible that man has more than six senses.
Academician Valentyn Malyako is pessimistic about the psychological condition of our nation:
“I can say nothing cheerful in this respect. The situation is just catastrophic. Our nation is swept by a pandemic outbreak of psychological disorders. One of them is the hidden panic syndrome, which originated in the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe that took place at the Chornobyl. Later the deep economic crisis made this syndrome a norm of our life. As a result, the nation is severely depressed. You can hardly find a genuinely happy person in the country. No wonder, we have nothing to rejoice about. Today only a degenerate or an imbecile can feel completely happy. The whole population needs psychological help, 100%, me included. I happened to come to know recently that there is an icon of the Mother of Jesus Christ that is called by people the icon that ‘adds brains’. I think ‘more brains’ would do none of us harm.”
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God save us from becoming slaves to these images!







