Big Lies siteUSA 1964; UK 1966, Andre Deutsch: UK Penguin outside UK, 1967; Penguin, inside UK, 1968 - This review 23 Dec 2017
Individuals-only 'transactions'. Nothing to do with groups.
Berne was an MD, who graduated from McGill University, Montreal. (I'm taking this from the 1968 Penguin edition). He 'later' moved to the USA, interning in psychiatry—not psychology, which is for non-medicos. He studied 'at the New York and San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institutes'. He 'served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps' during WW2. And various similar things. His first book was The Mind in Action (1948). His second book (as far as I can tell) was Games People Play. I'm uncertain if it was intended to be popular; most of the book is in note form, appropriate to a consultant or journal. And mostly he deals with mid-20th century concerns, such as salesmen, mortgages, marriages.
His games are given short handy titles: 'Let's You and Him Fight', 'Cops and Robbers', 'Greenhouse', 'Busman's Holiday', each with its thesis, and usually an analysis. There is 'structural analysis', showing each person with his/her own Parent/ Adult/ Child, obviously a psychoanalytical schema. All this is worked out reasonably enough: some games are good, some are three-handed where an onlooker or participant is needed, all have some sort of self-justification, some are dangerous. Quite a few are medically based. Incidentally, 'Let's You and Him Fight' is treated as a woman with two men (with the option of a third), not as the traditional Jewish activity.
This is all rather specimen-like, and a bit unrealistic: do many women really play 'The Stocking Game', provocatively showing their leg and a laddered stocking? Or 'Schlemiel', spilling things, breaking things, and making messes? Berne introduces variants, not part of the scheme, for example the game of 'Stupid'. And 'Man Talk', 'Lady Talk', 'Ever Been There', 'How Much', 'Morning After', 'PTA', and so on. Any psychiatrist must have classificatory systems, and most of Berne's are everyday material—really serious cases must be too complex and often unpleasant for such a treatment.
However, I was more interested in the possibility Berne might have evidence of specifically Jewish games. How about 'Schul' for example, or 'How stupid are Goyim'? But there's nothing of that. Incidentally I could find nothing related to his WW2 experiences, which surely must have meant something to him. And nothing drawn from professional battles, except such material as a state-funded woman who actively assisted a few people to get work, to everyone else's annoyance. So it's very much a top-down book, including patients, victims, unreasonable people, and so on. Tasks such as opposing corruption in high places, and trying to get people to co-operate, and delicately exposing fraud, and the Jewish speciality of group lies and complaints, are not here. (Berne has a short section on 'Underworld Games'—the thrill of outwitting the police being more important than gains—though he doesn't even begin to approach such realities as Pearl Harbor and the Gulf of Tonkin and 9/11).
All this is part of the Jewish victory in the world wars: the pathologisation of whites and their lives, and the mushrooming of pseudo-professions, under the strait-jacket of Jewish money and fanatical control of opinions by the media. All this is tricky, and of course usually inserted in passing; for example, 'foreigners moving into white neighbourhoods' is put into the mouth of 'certain types of middle-aged women with small independent incomes'. The first in his 'Thesaurus of games' has 5 games, portentously called 'Life Games'. These are 1 Alcoholic, 2 Debtor, 3 Kick Me, 4 Now I've Got You, You Son of a Bitch, and 5 See What You Made Me Do. Apart from 'Debtor', dealing partly with mortgages—people in their own country being forced into long-term debt—and enforcing payments—there's a sense of bitterness in Berne, suggesting he may have had trouble collecting.
Berne has nothing on careers, on lifes' work, on extended families, on communities, on art, or even on religion. I wonder if the US slang 'shrink' refers to the constricted Jewish worldview, and not the so-called 'shrunken heads'. What was often noticed, without understanding—Mrs A N Whitehead said American women's homes made her want to scream; they were all the same, the women had no self-confidence—little boxes, made of ticky-tacky—was post-1945 conventionality, the result, in my view, of awareness of control, without knowing its roots, mostly in Jews and their puppets. It's actually worse not to know, since many Americans must have felt it dangerous to step outside the official bonds of thought, without knowing why—awareness of Jews is at least more of a 'game'.
Another view: 'James Allen' of pieceofmindful.com tries his best:
“Eric Berne was born on May 10, 1910 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as Eric Leonard [or Lennard] Bernstein. He was the son of David Hillel Bernstein, MD, … “. “In 1939, Berne became an American citizen and shortened his name from Eric Lennard Bernstein to Eric Berne…”.
Eric Berne served in the military and the Veteran’s Administration as a psychologist. So, according to Basic MM101, once in the military intelligence, always in military intelligence.
What is one difference between the Military Culture and the Civilian World? It’s always easier to see the command structure in the military. [sic—except Jews?]
When giving a presentation to a committee the first task for the speaker is to recognize who is the person that will make the final decision if your project goes or not. You need to recognize and address the Top Dog, not the quislings [sic] around that person.
So, Berne’s book is a manual for behavioral top-down control applied to Corporation Culture distilled from his military experience. Before Berne’s book there was the book “The Organization Man” by William H. Whyte (1956) describing the growing “collectivist ethic”. Note, the military has a series of manuals titled “Leadership for 3 & 2” or similar. They can turn a nobody into someone who can lead a group of people by game playing.
One of the first Military games learned is in Boot Camp, “How Not to Be the Sacrificial Lamb”. How do you control a company of ninety pissed off draftees when there is only one of you? Designate someone to be the “F*ck Up”, the person who didn’t fold their underwear properly causing the company to fail their inspection, pre-arranged result of course. Punishment for the company is two thousand jumping jacks with or without rifle. Now, all the anger and frustration of being drafted is not directed at the Company Commander but at the “shitbird” who caused the punishment. A blanket party follows. O.k., the C.C. lost one person to the hospital but still has control of the company. The shitbird will be recycled to another company later. If boot camp is twelve weeks then you lost twelve recruits but have eighty-eight turts [sic] to ship off to country. Not bad.
Side bar: The sixties were the backdrop for “Games People Play”. The Vietnam ‘Conflict’ was taking off and there was a demand for “grunts” to be broken down in Camp Moloch. What is the fastest way to shit these civilians out, break down and reprogram?
Question: What is the difference between the Military and an Occult group?— The Military is bigger.