Peak Trauma Social Disaster (PTSD)

 

 

Kerry Kennedy McCarthy: spoke at the 2013 JFK Lancer conference.

"My sister, Cheryl, whose career is in the medical world, often compares what happened to this country on November 22nd to the shock and trauma of war experiences - and now I wonder if perhaps she isn't more correct then I realize. Because our nation does seem to have been in a state similar to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder."

 

The MSM and RFK Jr.: Only 45 years Late this Time
2/3/2013
Further demonstrating how only in the MSM can the fairy tale exist that RFK and the Kennedy family abided by the Warren Commission, consider the words of Kennedy cousin Kerry McCarthy to Debra Conway in 1997. McCarthy was a speaker at Lancer's November in Dallas conference. She told Conway that, whatever the Kennedys say in public about the JFK murder, when you visit their homes, you will see several of the JFK assassination books lining their shelves.
https://kennedysandking.com/news-items/the-msm-and-rfk-jr-only-45-years-late-this-time

 

www.jfklancer.com/Dallas2013/speakers.html#Kerry%20McCarthy
Kathleen (Kerry) McCarthy
John F. Kennedy's Cousin

Kathleen Mary McCarthy, named for mother Marylou's beloved cousin Kathleen (Kick) Kennedy Harrington, is an acknowledged historian of the Kennedy Family lineage. She is the owner and curator of the Loretta Kennedy Connelly Collection. She has been a source for most major published biographies on the Kennedy family. She has appeared in a myriad of documentaries produced and aired both in America and Europe. Her research has been used for over 4 decades by the JFK Presidential Library. She is a published author with articles on Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and has done research for The New England Genealogical Society. Kerry is a governmental affairs and public relations consultant. For over thirty years she has also been a radio and television host and reporter in Florida.

Kerry has attended and spoken at many JFK Lancer Conferences and joins us again after some years of absence for the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of her cousin John F. Kennedy's death.

 

Kerry Kennedy McCarthy, JFK Lancer 11-22-1997 DALLAS, TEXAS
www.jfklancer.com/Kerry.html
KERRY McCARTHY'S SPEECH AT JFK LANCER AWARDS BANQUET

a crime referred too often to as the "crime of the century." Perhaps what is truly is the crime of the century is that Jack Kennedy was taken from us, and our world became more crime- ridden.
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We are a generation ill at ease with ourselves. Unsure of ourselves. And we represent a country of people my age that have been lost since he was taken from us. In admitting that, one has to admit that indeed his loss was important enough to change the life and the history of a nation. That is a very heavy statement, and one that would have made Jack Kennedy himself very nervous.
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This assassination work has become a tribute, in effect, to his life - and I am keenly aware of that. He loved history and he loved literature. And you, too, through your work, I feel sure we would have his appreciation for the research that you do to bring history into focus and to present that history into factual terms. If Jack Kennedy had not have gone into politics he would have remained a writer. He would have continued a career in literature. And to see those of you publishing your ideas and your thoughts and your theories in an event such as this I think is a fine tribute to a man who inspired people to think - but a man who worshiped ideas. His own Profiles In Courage told us of people who got into positions who were scared - the most remarkable thing they did was to not quit. And I urge you tonight: Do not quit in the work that you do. For we need you.

I see the parallels of the work that you present. And I see the friendships that have developed listening to some of you in the hall greeting one another. For you have a life that is unknown to many of us. You have a life filled with facts and figures, trajectories and understanding of facts that we have not been privy to. Even though in hushed tones in my family scenarios have been discussed and rumors have been flowing. There were times when Bobby's depression and sadness over his brother's death brought out conversations--perhaps feelings of guilt. So I may know things said and overheard by a child that may be different from that you know. But what we all know is: None of us know it all yet.

There is destined to be doubt in America. And even if the truth is ever told - from the animation and the program that was presented this morning to the discussions that resulted in three days of work - we will probably not even know the truth when it is presented to us because we have for so long wondered if it would ever be given to us. But the truth is that the work that you do - that the truth that you know is important even if there are varying ideas, even if there is a dissention of agreement. The truth that you know is that you care. His death was not an act of anger. It was a premeditated murder of our nation's leader. Motivated for very specific reasons and benefiting those that ordered it. The people of this nation know that. And they still hope for answers. They are a trusting lot, and we are part of that group.

My sister, Cheryl, whose career is in the medical world, often compares what happened to this country on November 22nd to the shock and trauma of war experiences - and now I wonder if perhaps she isn't more correct then I realize. Because our nation does seem to have been in a state similar to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Look at our society. Mary and I spoke of it earlier. Courtesy is hard to find. Civility is almost impossible to find. We see the symptoms of detachment and inability to develop relationships with others. A depression, distress, and sometimes even a feeling of helplessness which has led our country to manifest these problems into anger, and violence, and self-centered behavior whose only indication is self-concern.

I believe, as my sister first stated to me a few years ago, that our belief system was destroyed in front of our eyes. We must take it back and the one thing you can believe in is yourself. Jack's death never took us away from us. It only took him away. It took away the role of a government that most of you were raised to trust. Your responsibility was to be citizens who met the criteria of citizenship: decent, caring, honest. The type of people grew up in this room where doors were unlocked, and Jack's death was more of a death knell to that lifestyle then even to his own life.

Fractal Trauma

genocide

"Witnessing genocide is overwhelming; writing about it is soul shattering," Mr. Blatt said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/world/europe/thomas-blatt-who-escaped-death-camp-during-revolt-dies-at-88.html?_r=0
Thomas Blatt, Who Escaped Death Camp During Revolt, Dies at 88
By SAM ROBERTS NOV. 2, 2015

living with nuclear war

 

climate chaos and peaked everything

 

 

Surviving S-Town

By Richard Heinberg, originally published by Post Carbon Institute
April 7, 2017 http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-04-07/surviving-s-town/

... I sometimes call it toxic knowledge: once you know about overpopulation, overshoot, depletion, climate change, and the dynamics of societal collapse, you can't unknow it, and your every subsequent thought is tinted. There's only one justification for inoculating my readers with this awful news: the hope that it will act as a mental vaccine leading to behavioral change that both reduces the severity of the coming global crises and increases survival chances for the knowledge recipient. Denying the information—or never having been exposed to it in the first place—offers no solace: the crises will come anyway.
... Informed collective action is healing. That's why my organization calls its most public website Resilience.org and not We'reScrewed.net.

Albert Bates • 18 hours ago
I agree with much of what you say but I think the reference to Guy McPherson at the end was unfortunate. Guy vacillates in his predictions from 18 months to 10 years but I'd venture to say he as uncertain as any as to the timing of non-linear responses to unprecedented climate forcings and feedbacks — and has said as much. Guy also says that while he thinks false hope is a waste of time, building resilience with permaculture design and transitioning yourself to better, ecologically harmonious living arrangements is the best prescription for despair. The antidote to toxic knowledge is not withdrawal and isolation, which is where John McLemore took it, but making community and sharing. In my opinion, that is also where real power over our never pre-ordained fate resides.

Tami Beans • 14 hours ago
Someone who feeds themselves a diet of pessimism day in and day out is unlikely to end up well balanced or happy, without the carrot, the stick is all that remains, and some people would rather give up than be beaten endlessly...even if they are doing it to themselves.

 

https://qz.com/948909/ecoanxiety-the-american-psychological-association-says-climate-change-is-causing-ptsd-anxiety-and-depression-on-a-mass-scale/
Depression, anxiety, grief, despair, stress—even suicide: The damage of unfolding climate change isn't only counted in water shortages and wildfires, it's likely eroding mental health on a mass scale, too, reports the American Psychological Association

9/11

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/at-rally-trump-tries-to-spin-impeachment-probe-as-attack-on-his-supporters-1.5317626

At rally, Trump tries to spin impeachment probe as attack on his supporters

Minneapolis rally the first since impeachment probe began

Lyndsay Duncombe · CBC News · Posted: Oct 11, 2019 11:01 AM ET | Last Updated: 10 hours ago

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To understand this moment in the United States, "it helps to know more about psychology than politics," said Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center who worked for three Republican administrations.

Wehner believes conservative Trump supporters may be experiencing what he calls "cognitive accommodation" — they've adapted to so much unusual behavior that to turn on the president now would be too hard.

"At this point, condemnation of Trump is condemnation of themselves," said Wehner. "It's too painful. It's less about defending Trump than defending their own defense of Trump."