Bizarre Reasoning Underlying the Prevalence of the Use of Negative Reinforcement in "Organizations"

I guess my posting, on hardcorephysiologyfun2.blogspot.com, referred implicitly to the folly in the use of negative reinforcement in "interrogations" or whatever the hell pathetic term people have for systematic abuse, but it's worthwhile to note that the highly-ineffective use of negative reinforcement tactics is common in many areas of society. One can argue, compellingly, that the educational system, particularly throughout high school and college, and also many aspects of the "work system" (i.e., the economy) rely on negative reinforcement as a way of sort of tensing everyone up and making them compliant or something. It's a sad thing to see that people or, rather, governments and large-scale institutions, seemingly of every kind, have so much contempt for their fellow life forms as to create the kinds of bizarre, restrictive barriers that create so many terrible things and ruin so many people's lives. Then there's the tendency to devise absurd, falsely-complex sets of justifications for these organized systems of oppression and to run around on Sunday talk shows and blab about a bunch of gibberish. It's the most bizarre thing to me to see this tremendous sense of bewilderment that people "get," once they have been "institutionalized (I mean that they have been rewarded by the existing set of power structures or whatever). I remember seeing the same kind of icy mindset among people at Harvard, when I was on my "way out" and trying to get them to change a few minor things, etc. It was as if they couldn't understand why a person would find it so utterly offensive to be expected to simply sit around and exist and perform mindless tasks, while having no sense of hope and no sense that any one of the people making decisions could have given a good god damn about any one of the countless, miserable students, traipsing around doing bizarre, medievalistic science or the like. I'll never understand that kind of "bewilderment at the dissatisfaction of people with robotic, obscenely-and-poisonously-confining" tasks. It's as if people who have been exercising or, in the case of CIA "officials," abusing [(http://jtonca.blogspot.com/2011/01/im-testing-effect-of-negative.html)] power, for too long, come to believe that just their presence alone should be sufficient to motivate people. It's as if they have forgotten that human motivation can't exist in a vacuum. It's so terrible to see that there's very little hope for anyone anywhere, anymore, and to see so many things being wasted by the icy framework of power structures that exists.