The Targeted Individual Experience as a Coming of Age New Novel Experience

Karen Barna
6 min readAug 7, 2021

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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane was a coming-of-age novel where the main characters had to question the notion of “civilized society” and “social honor.” The author of this post makes a literary connection between War, the Targeted Individual, and the notion of “coming of age.”

I find myself questioning society’s notion of “civilized living.” That is, questioning society’s idea of “honor” when men use very individual and varying forms of “protection” in protecting their interests. Every day people can be corrupt like the denizens of industry; businessmen and politicians. People who manipulate many variables in their pursuit of protecting profits and interests, while violating the personal boundaries of others. The bottom lines are always profit, sales, and personal interests. It’s a social game of thrones.

In comparing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to The Red Badge of Courage I find similarities in my own personal experience with Electronic Targeted Physical Assaults and Psychotronic Torture as a Gang Stalked and Targeted Individual. Similarities in comparing the two novels and the experiences of the Targeted Individual:

•The main characters have to explore the notion of “civilized living” in the societies where they exist. That is to say, they have to question society’s notion of what is “honorable.”

•Each main character has to question the behavior of his male role models and his male peers. (Except for me, I find myself questioning both female and male role models as well as female and male peers). Something that is decidedly different when comparing the above two novels because they were about men, and not women.

•Each main character encounters challenges.

•Each main character witnesses behavior that makes them question their role models. (Of course, this would implicitly suggest that the purpose for my targeting is that I am a “child” who needs to “grow up.”)

•Each main character question their former beliefs.

I suppose “coming of age” as a male is decidedly different than coming of age as a female. Is it not? And the answer to that question I suppose should be, “It depends.” It depends on the culture in which you live. Personally, as a woman, I have been used as a receptacle (vehicle) for sexual pleasure as well as physical violence. I have been made the canvas with which one gets to dispel their anger, hate, violence, and frustration on to. Used for a purpose, I often wonder what it’s like for men? Of course, the answer to that question would be, “It depends on which culture you live in.” I sometimes feel it’s the greedy, cold-hearted who fair the best in this “system of civilized honor” that depends on one’s skill in the social game of thrones. That to possess an element of sadism is to possess a piece of success I suppose. As a Targeted Individual, I am dealing with an intelligent operator who is networked and belongs to a certain “culture.” That is to say, the past incarcerated type of culture.

It’s funny to discuss such notions of “coming of age in civil society” when many have not made it to the “coming of age” benchmark. People who are still rooted in their destructive infantile narcissism. I remember in 7th grade wondering about what it would be like upon my “coming of age” as a young married adult female when I would experience a challenge by something on the outside in young adulthood. Who could have predicted my detour? The people who were influencing me at the time; other lost peers and the uneducated. And shouldn’t my eating disorder have been an indexical sign that something was seriously wrong? My parents didn’t have money for proper health care, I, therefore, did not receive treatment and even the pediatrician said “Just let it be. It’s just a phase she’s going through.” I never got routine blood tests. My mother couldn’t afford to pay the fee unless I was sick with fever and unless the doctor said it was necessary the test would not get performed. And now, at the mature age of 53, they want to “fix me” of my so-called “ill” with electronic targeted assaults? When it’s more like fix me of my so-called “ilk” so someone else doesn’t get inconvenienced by my presence. It appears some masked veiled person(s) in society are screaming, “Get fixed girl! You’re broken.” And I’m telling them, “Go fuck yourself asshole! Because you are violating my basic civil rights!” It’s the smoke and mirrors of an illusionist playing an illusionist’s game. A veiled operator behind the curtain making the car levitate on fish wire and pulleys.

I have often asked myself where were the loving parents who failed this veiled impoverished predator? What happens to the children who are unwanted? When people get cast aside, what happens to their psyches? Did I reject this operator at some point in my past? When parents can’t afford their children, don’t they grow up on a type of “Offal Court” down on “Pudding Lane” like in the Prince and the Pauper? Romy Reiner tweeted she wanted to find a husband who looked at her like her parents did. Not me. My parents wanted to abort me. How do you think the Pauper’s parents, the character Tom Canty, looked at him? To find a husband who shares that sentiment is like a death wish. When the love I needed the most failed, why would I want a husband like that? Or maybe, it is like Shakespeare said, that is the rub. We can never find that “holy” love because we are all just hell-bound lovers perpetually bound in leather and chains to our past ambivalence. When will that next thorn pierce us?

Someone posted a question over Quora.com. They asked if it would be unethical to arrest someone before they committed a crime, even as a baby if the authorities had prior knowledge of future wrong-doing like in Minority Report? If you have knowledge of specific probable outcomes in children, why not offer interventions instead of full-on castration of the subject through incarceration? The question baffles me.

And why is saying poor so much more unpalatable than saying, “I have no money?” Because to be poor might also mean destitution. It might mean an absolute poverty, the type of poverty where a person has not even friends or relatives who care. To say, “I have no money” means temporarily broke and that might mean you will be getting more money soon, and so, are not really destitute or “poor.” Just poor in the moment.

Yesterday, August 6, 2021, I was targeted again with electronic physical assault and psychotronic torture. They used electronics that sedate me at the operator’s will as they used on me in Captial Health Systems at Fuld in their psychiatric holding area but why? I slept in my home for quite a few hours today as a result. My body is being managed by an unknown perpetrator that is violating my 4th amendment rights. The connection to this phenomenon IS with the mental healthcare system which is violating my rights. The connection is this. Yesterday I receive a reminder phone call that I had an appointment with a psychiatrist today (Saturday, August 7, 2021). An appointment at Oaks Integrated for “aftercare” follow-up on a Saturday? They don’t have appointments on Saturday. But yet there is the connection to being electronically targeted in the privacy of my own home and my appointments with behavioral health. I was attacked yesterday because of someone’s sick game. Someone is using electronic targeted assault as a form of punishment against me. This would be consistent with a research sample percentage of people claiming they are being targeted so as to get them to attend meet-up groups or meet with psychiatrists to receive treatment and additional federal funding. To make them think “They’re crazy” and be awarded disability benefits. The same research paper reports that 42% of the respondents suffered some type of psychological damage with 26% reporting a lifestyle change. The content narratives were gleaned from internet-based searches for websites, blogs, and forums data mining terms like “gang stalking,” “group stalking,” “gang stalking stories,” and “victims of gang stalking,” “targeted individuals,” and “TI.”

Sources:

Grace Fleming. How To Compare To Novels In Comparative Essay. Thoughtcom. Published August 11, 2019. Retrieved online August 7, 2021. https://www.thoughtco.com/comparing-two-novels-1856981

Sheridan, L., James, D., & Roth, J. (2020). The Phenomenology of Group Stalking (‘Gang-Stalking’): A Content Analysis of Subjective Experiences. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(7),

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Karen Barna
Karen Barna

Written by Karen Barna

I am a Targeted Individual suffering electronic harassment. I write about gender difference and object relations and feminism. I am Gen. X

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