Learned helplessness
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Learned helplessness is a psychological process whereby people internalise their inability to help themselves.
School
John Taylor Gatto used to recount how he was impressed by the owner of a flea circus, who explained what he referred to as the "trapped flea principle". Fleas trapped under a glass lid would try to jump out, but hit themselves on the lid. After a certain experience of trying to escape, they would eventually resign themselves to theeir incarceration and give up their painful attempts to gain freedom, even after the removal of the lid. Gatto used this as a metaphor for the schooling process, likening school discipline as the lid. He reported that it took 2-3 years to break most kids' wills to resist the system of mass compulsion schooling.
Origin
The term dates back to (rather cruel) experiments with dogs by Pavlov. When pain was unpredictable (unpredictability was the key property of the experiments) and externally imposed after a prolonged period of time, the dogs would not attempt to flee, even if a escape gateway was readily visible and available to them.
As with many extreme case studies the concept has been translated to a dimensional paradigm of undue influence of humans, i.e. in schooling, the military, lock downs, and numerous other scenarios where stress or punishment can be imposed in unpredictable time frames or by changing rules, when the subject has no or little influence on the process.
