From ‘Sopranos’ to Super Bowl: Edie Falco Takes a Stand for Mother Cows in PETA PSA

 This is why I stopped eating dairy products.

 

"Kidnapping and violence may be everyday things for fictional mob wife Carmela Soprano, but did you know that they’re horrifyingly real for mother cows? This year marks the 25th anniversary of the TV series The Sopranos, and PETA Honorary Director Edie Falco, famous for her role as Carmela Soprano, stars in our 2024 Super Bowl ad portraying the daily nightmare inflicted on mother cows in the name of cheese. The new ad was directed by DeMane Davis of Boston-based production company, Sweet Rickey; post-production was by EDITBAR, with Chris Carl as creative director.

Cows produce milk for the same reason humans do: to nourish their young. Like humans, cows form strong maternal bonds with their babies and go to great lengths to protect them. On dairy farms, workers forcibly impregnate cows so they’ll produce milk, only to take their calves away from them—typically just hours after birth—so that humans can drink their milk instead. Mother cows often call out for their calves for days after these traumatic separations.

If someone doesn’t immediately slaughter the calves, the females are doomed to the same miserable fate as their mothers and the males are sold into the veal industry, condemned to be chained up and malnourished for the remainder of their short, miserable lives.

The dairy industry runs on cruelty. After stealing their calves, farmers hook mother cows up to milking machines at least twice daily so that they can steal their milk, too. They exploit cows’ reproductive systems through genetic selection, despite the negative effects on the animals’ health. They use artificial insemination, milking regimens, and sometimes drugs to force them to produce an unnatural amount of milk—today, the average cow produces more than four times as much milk as she would have in 1950.

PETA’s investigations into dairy facilities revealed that workers electroshock cows in the face, hit them with poles and canes, and abuse them in other ways. Once their bodies wear out from repeated pregnancies, they’re sent to slaughter.

PETA’s ad will run the Saturday before the Super Bowl on CBS during Late News in northern New Jersey, where The Sopranos was set. It will also air live on YouTube TV, delivering more than 5 million impressions to people watching instant replays, game highlights, and other Super Bowl– and sports-related content.

Those Who Want Respect, Give Respect

Whaddya hear? Whaddya say? You can live without cheese—but calves need their mother’s milk. The surest way to respect cows and spare them pain and misery is to stop buying cheese and other dairy items and go vegan today. When you choose vegan cheese, you use your power as a consumer to show that you won’t support this horrific cycle of pain."

https://www.peta.org/blog/edie-falco-super-bowl-ad/?utm_source=peta::e-mail&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=0124::veg::peta::e-mail::289473::petas-super-bowl-ad-exposes-dairy-industrys-dark-secret::::aa-em

Democracy

Some thing to learn from the Constitution of Brazil 🇧🇷 

A constitution is a set of rules that establishes the fundamental principles of a state or organization. It defines the relationship between the state's institutions, such as the legislature, executive, and judiciary. It also establishes the powers and duties of the government and guarantees certain rights to the people. 

Constitutions also define the various institutions of government, their composition, powers, and functions. Almost all constitutions establish legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. 

The United States' first constitution was the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.

 The Constitution has been amended 27 times since its ratification, with the process for making amendments being quite onerous to prevent arbitrary changes. 

Martin Miller is a Double-edged Sword

There is no doubt that Alice Miller's son Martin Miller was a trigger for all of Alice Miller's books. And if he had not been born, we would not have had Alice Miller's enlightened books to help us liberate ourselves from the emotional prison of our own childhoods. And I would probably be dead NOW or still living in an emotional prison. He is just like a double-edged sword.

Martin Miller's book is nothing but smoke and mirrors. It is very sad to witness Martin Miller get together with the people who betrayed his mother while she was still alive. All they accuse Alice Miller of is precisely what they are doing. They don't take responsibility for their own unresolved childhood repression and have mastered the art of projection and transference to perfection.

I feel that Alice Miller’s experience is very similar to mine. My love for my ex and my desire to help him led me to seek help, so we could save our relationship, and in the process, I freed myself.

Alice Miller, too, saw that her son had problems, and how ironic it is that they both have the same name; my ex’s name is also Martin! 

Alice Miller, like me, began lifting every stone to search for clues that would help her son, and in the process, she resolved her own repression and freed herself. Just like me, I went out looking for clues on how to help my Ex, and I ended up liberating myself in the process.

In the end, I had to let my ex go, and Alice, too, had to let her son go because once a person is an adult, no one, not even the mother, can make up for what we need as children, and we didn’t get.

Once we are adults, only we can save ourselves, and anyone who tells us otherwise is fooling us with false hopes and promises.

Alice Miller was driven to write her books to warn society of the dangers of childhood repression to save the children of the future, and help us face and resolve our own repression.

This is why it’s so essential for people to face their own repression before having children or at least become aware of their own childhood repression before their children become teenagers and adults because it’s not the trauma itself that causes long-term damage, but the repressed emotions caused by trauma that causes long term damage and if parents became aware of the damage done before their children became teenagers or adults, then they can help their children express their true feelings of anger, fear and hurt because the children are still emotionally dependent on their parents. Still, once the children become teenagers or adults, the defense mechanisms and walls have been built, and it’s out of the parents' hands; they can become the most conscious parents. Still, it will be too late because they can’t force teenagers and adult children to remove the walls to face and feel their childhood repression if they don’t wish to do so. 

To warn us, Alice Miller made herself very vulnerable to all the full-blown malignant narcissists, sociopaths, bad players, psychopaths, assholes, or whatever you like to call NOW these very evil or dangerously repressed people in the world -- her courage is astonishing!

As Alice Miller wrote in the answers below to one of her readers:

"I am also glad that you have the hope that we can pass on our knowledge to the masses. I had this hope 30 years ago when I wrote the Drama. I thought that showing the truth could change so much. Meanwhile, I became more skeptical or just more impatient after I discovered the fear of the beaten child in all of us that built up the omnipresent resistance against the truth." Alice Miller

(Me too. I had the hope that the writing of my book would help pass this knowledge to the masses, but like Alice Miller, I have become skeptical

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2022/08/martin-miller-son-of-alice-miller-is.html

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-son-of-alice-miller-should-have.html

I published this review on Amazon, and they rejected it, saying:  

We couldn't post your review of The True “Drama of the Gifted Child”: The Phantom Alice Miller — The Real Person.

We couldn't post your review because it doesn't meet our guidelines for one or more of these reasons:

• Profanity
• Harassment
• Hate speech
• Sexual content
• Illegal activity
• Private information

GoodReads didn't have a problem with my review, and I received an email from them stating that someone liked my review, which is what triggered this blog. Amazon censorship is sickening.

Sylvie (The United States)’s review of The True “Drama of the Gifted Child”: The Phantom Alice Miller — The Real Person

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4930536449

Amazon also deleted many good reviews of my book. They must fear me if they try so hard to repress my book.

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2017/11/amazon-deleted-some-of-my-book-reviews.html

Comments that Easily Trigger the Narcissist's Rage

saying "no" can trigger a narcissist's rage. Narcissists are hypersensitive to anything that might undermine their grandiose self-image. They thrive on constant admiration and attention, so rejection can trigger feelings of inadequacy and provoke a rageful response. 

Other things that can anger a narcissist include:

• When people see the blueprint pattern of their behaviors and try to figure them out
• When people set boundaries with them
• When they are called out and held accountable for their actions 
• When someone starts to become independent from them 
• Some other comments that can trigger a narcissist's rage include:

• "I see through you"
• "You're not as special as you think you are"
• "You're not as great as you think you are"
• "You always blame other people except yourself why is it that it's someone else's fault" 

Sadistic Narcissist

 A sadistic narcissist is someone who enjoys causing physical or psychological pain to others. They may be charming and charismatic, making them difficult to identify. 

Here are some signs of a sadistic narcissist: 

• Lack of empathy: They may feel pleasure from causing harm to others.
• Inflated sense of self-importance: They may have a need for constant admiration and attention.
• Manipulative: They may exploit others for their own gain.
• Emotional sadism: They may enjoy hurting someone by manipulating their emotions until they feel broken.
• Punishment: They may act sadistically when behaving this way generates or yields narcissistic supply. They may also punish sources of narcissistic supply who are perceived by the narcissist to be intentionally frustrating and withholding.
• Paranoia: They may operate with a great deal of paranoia and can't trust.

Some environmental causes that can contribute to the development of malignant narcissism include: 

• Childhood neglect or inconsistent care
• Childhood trauma or abuse
• Sexual trauma

"Narcissism in the Therapist

 I can testify to being abused by therapists. 

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/search?q=Julio+Machado+Vaz

"Unfortunately, narcissists in positions of high visibility or power, particularly in the so-called helping professions (medicine, education, and the ministry), often do great harm to others." 

I get it! And understand! Why do I have so many malignant narcissists and sociopaths targeting me since I published my book A Dance to Freedom: Your Guide to Liberation from Lies and Illusions? Who am I?! An ex-topless dancer and a gate attendant who never went to college could possibly know more about the human mind than those who went to college and have spent all of their lives working so hard and studying -- memorizing knowledge --- which they use like robots or parrots to fool others and manipulate them to act exactly the part they want you to act in their twisted drama.

https://sylvieshene.blogspot.com/2018/04/most-therapists-keep-themselves-others.html

"Narcissism in the therapist

Therapists need to recognize and own the personal experience of healthy or negative narcissism in their personalities and its effect upon all aspects of their own lives and clients’ lives.

The therapist does have power in the therapy room, and integrity is needed to acknowledge the reactions and responses of the client projecting the authority figure onto them, and the reactions and responses of the therapist themselves. Therapists know that a narcissist’s striving for power stems from a deep sense of humiliation suffered as a child. If a power struggle emerges between a therapist and client, then it is imperative for the therapist to reflect on their own degree of narcissism, as any supervisor would recommend. In fact, wherever power struggles emerge in life in relationships, families, groups, committees, organizations, and businesses, it seems this is a useful reflection for healing.

There are narcissistic snares within a psychotherapist’s career that show themselves as personal, unrealistic expectations and aspirations for caregiving. One is falling under the narcissistic snare of omnipotence, heal all, know all, and love all. It is an unrealistic, but understandable aspiration, in which the less experienced therapist may end up in trouble by taking on clients whose problems are well beyond their experience. Intuition and empathy are in a therapist’s point of reference, but need to be used wisely with where the reality is, and not where the therapist thinks the client is." 

-- Shirley A Ward Med DipEd

above excerpt from the article Narcissism: Humanity’s Secret Weapon of Mass Destruction by Shirley A Ward Med DipEd

www.shirleyward.org/narcissism.html

Shirley Ward's website www.shirleyward.org

AMETHYST Resource for Human Development Reading Room www.holistic.ie/amethyst/documents/readinglist.htm

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