Ah! Child, you should read books which would teach you a little hypocrisy, which would instruct you how to hide your thoughts a little better. Some have considered the larger part of mankind in the light of actors, as personating character no more their own, and to which they have no better title than the player hath to be in earnest thought the king or the emperor whom he represents. Thus, the hypocrite may be said to be a player; and indeed, the Greeks called them both by one and the same name. In a subsequent study we got into, we asked half a group of seventy-two students to talk into a phonograph about the most severe mental or physical pain (trauma, torture, disturbance) of their lives; the other half discussed their plans for the rest of the day. As they spoke, researchers monitored their physiological reactions: blood pressures, heart rate, muscle tension, and hand temperature.  When people allowed themselves to feel their emotions, the research indicated that the patients displayed significant physiological changes, both immediate and long term. During their confessions, blood pressure, heart rate, and other autonomic functions increased, but afterward their arousal fell to levels below where they had been at the start of the study. The drop in blood pressure could still be measured six weeks after the experiment ended. However, power struggles were influenced and encouraged by the newcomers and fueled by the never-ending supply of new technology, weapons, and tools that were offered. This fever of greed and acquisition of material things started to separate the people from their own governing laws. Perhaps, they too easily accepted the appearance of this new “easier life.” The once peaceful people developed a new understanding and appreciation of the concepts of power and war and produced the serpent energy.  

 The serpent energy is patriarchal, and unnatural to any people of Earth. It is not the natural order of things for us to be war-like. We are, by nature, a communal and peaceful people. Over time, the acceptance of this serpent energy would prove, sadly, to be their demise. The result of interacting with these strange newcomers, who had forgotten the sacredness of all things, would inevitably and quite rapidly bring about the end of their whole way of life, as well as the physical World they knew. The actions of warring upon others would break the great peace, and it would officially bring about the fall of the Nation. Critics knew that the results of breaking this bond between families, friends, and government would bring about the ending of their way of life. Therefore, to speak, by knowingly and willfully abusing others, these critics might bring danger to what is left of the understanding, or might possibly invoke the wrath of God himself.  Insiders knew they were not supposed to allow laws and government understandings and practices to fall into the hands of the invaders because it might easily mark the end of the people themselves. It is now widely accepted that stressful experiences—whether divorce or final exams or loneliness—have a negative effect on immune function. However, when people were allowed to write about their torturous experiences or a superficial topic, they had fewer visits to the student health center, and their improved health correlated with enhanced immune function, as measured by the action of T lymphocytes (natural killer cells) and other immune makers in the blood. This effect was most obvious directly after the experiment, but it could still be detected six weeks later. Writing experiments from around the World, with grade school students, nursing house residents, medical students, maximum-security prisoners, arthritis suffers, new parents, and rape victims, consistently show that writing about upsetting events improves physical and mental health.  Another aspect of the research caught my attention: When patients talked about intimate or difficult issues, they often changed their tone of voice and speaking style. The differences were so striking that I wondered if I had mixed up the phonograph recordings. For instance, one woman described her plans for the day in a childlike, high-pitched voice, but a few minutes later, when she described stealing one hundred dollars from a cash register with the key left in it, unattended, both the volume and pitch of her voice became so much lower that she sounded like an entirely different person.

One thing people forget about investigating is that some people will tell the truth about what they did if you ask around. Another thing is that by investigating, when people know others will actively look into crimes, they become spooked and are less likely to commit crimes. By just letting people get away with crimes, or selective prosecution, it makes society suffer. There is no crime so dangerous, so detestable, as hypocrisy; it has the complicated guilt of every crime that it conceals.  Alteration in emotional states were also reflected in the subjects’ handwriting. As participants changed topics, they might move from cursive to block letters and back to cursive; there were also variations in the slant of the letters and in the pressure of their pens. Such changes are called “switching” in clinical practice, and we see them often in individuals with trauma histories. Patients activate distinctly different emotion and physiological states as they move from one topic to another. Switching manifest not only as remarkably different vocal patterns but also in different facial expressions and body movements. Some patients even appear to change their personal identity, from timid to forceful and aggressive or from anxiously complaint to starkly seductive. When they write about their deepest fears, their handwriting often become sloppier and disorganized and primitive. We see entire nations under the rule of dictators whose sense of morality seems almost alien compared with our own.  It seems significantly increasing the likelihood that you will do nothing in the face of a faction bent on committing atrocities (diffusion of responsibilities). Under constant threat, we live with the knowledge that our lives could be extinguished at any moment if we fail to follow orders (coercion). Citizens who obey or simply remain complacent are offered rewards (reinforcement). If patients who present in such dramatically different states are treated like fakes, or if they are told to stop showing their unpredictably annoying parts, they are likely to become mute. They probably will continue to seek help, but after they have been silenced, they will transmit their cries for help by not talking but by acting: with suicide attempts, depression, and rage attacks. We will only improve if we both appreciate the roles that these different states have played in our survival. The oppressor, Mayor Kevin Maurice Johnson, has a master plan of genocide and imperialism. The distinction between good and evil is almost always nuanced. We are legitimately defending our territory, and working to preserve all lives.