Anti Patterns

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Pattern MODEL

Arranged marriage

God emperor or Theocracy  ?!?

Dehumanization

Fatalism

Denialism

Caste system

Activism Delegitimization

Protest Zones

Criminalizing Poverty

Uncommons

Misinformation super highway

Ignorance is bliss

Glass ceiling

Narrow-mindedness

Green mile – Corporal punishment

Barefoot and pregnant – rigid gender roles

Fundamentalism

Eye for an eye – retribution

Indentured Servitude

Passive Aggression

Greed

Drug wars

Societal Apathy

Chain gang

Elitism

Labor over education

Public executions

Oppression – martial law

Profit-motivated health care

Consumerism

The hidden mute button (silenced voices)

Social Control

First World Problems

Conception Deception

Money = Power

Distorting History

Dumbing Down

Misplaced Blame (Defending failure)

Weapons of mass distraction

ultra-nationalism

segregation

racism

unbalanced lifestyle

economic inequality

consumerism

radicalism/fundamentalism

violence

coventry

exclusion/exclusive

isolationism

xenophobia

7 deadly sins

propaganda

media bias- State run media? information control

hoarding resources

throw-away society

social darwinism

monopoly

treating symptoms

political polarization

secret societies

compartmentalization

politics of purity

sustaining world hunger

money hiding and laundering

pollution

throwaway culture

entitlement-getting what you don't deserve

Mock Public Space

defunding failure

Over-simplification

Obfuscation

Bad Education (includes Factory Education, Education for Deaffirming, Lifeless Education, Gradgrindism, etc.)

Automatic Thinking

Semantic Gerrymandering

Forbidden Opportunities

Selfishness as Virtue

Sloganocracy

The Good Life as Defined by Corporations

Consumerism as the Good Life

Celebrity Divorces (pattern includes celebrities that have put on a lot of weight)

Blame the Victim

Delink Food and Health

Freedom Equals Soda Pop (or is it cigarettes?)

We Are Better Than They Are

Fear Washesh Over Us

Wear The Flag Proudly

Absolutism

God Talks to Me; Not to Thee

Media Monopolies Bagdikian and Herman and Chomsky

Advertising-Based Media Herman and Chomsky

Sourcing (public relations professionals as “journalists”) Herman and Chomsky

Flak Herman and Chomsky

Anti-Terrorism Rhetoric (formerly known as “anti communist ideology” Herman and Chomsky)

Exterminism See E. P. Thompson

Privateering

Rationalism Über alles

Environmental Plundering

Environment as Toilet