Learned helplessness: 'Nobody's coming to save us'

In the first five minutes of this propaganda film, a man talks about how he cried when his mother told him that Superman doesn't exist. He says he cried because it was then he realized that "nobody was coming to save us."

With that one line he has illuminated the biggest problem many poor people of all racial backgrounds suffer from: that of learned helplessness; of depending on the benevolent government to "save" them from themselves.

If you've been alive longer than 20 years, you have learned by now that the government isn't here to help people, but to disarm them and render them helpless, to render them unable to help themselves, and are therefore easier to control, both at the voting poll and in life in general.

Do a google search for "Americans Suffer From Learned Helplessness".

This movie is disturbing, because so many people are unaware that many "documentary" films like this one are really nothing more than neoliberal propaganda.