July 4th - Decolonise - Psychologies of Power - Neurolaw

July 4th - Decolonise

generally speaking monuments to power represent wealth-as-power narcissism.

The War of Independence had an underlying purpose rarely spoken of.

"A problem incorrectly understood is insoluble, a problem correctly understood is half way towards a solution."

The businessmen who ruled in the Colonies were the same group of businessmen who operated the Cromwellian Plantations in Ireland.

Those businessmen were oligarchs who had a long term objective of Colonising the whole of North America.

'Land without a people for a people without a Land.'

The had already institutionalised Racial Theory and Racism, as in White superiority, to divide the working population in the colonies, Europeans above all others, in their class war to prevent worker solidarity emerging to hold them accountable.

Native Peoples were not to be considered human, they were to be considered as animals.

The Plantation Owners had a problem around that in that Native Polities had treat arrangements with Britain and other European Powers that gave the Native Polities international state level legal status. They could form alliances with each other.

The Plantation owners understood that 'threat'.

Their objective then was to remove that 'threat' so that they could push westwards without any interference from European powers.

They knew well that pushing westwards would necessitate a well organised long term plan of intentional genocide, ethnic cleansing and settlement.
They needed to be able to say to all European Powers, especially The British Parliament within which many of the Irish and Colonial Plantation owners and shareholders sat, that 'it's none of your business, it is an internal American affair.'

USA has never been a healthy place for Native, Latino, African peoples.

Trump is merely all of that unveiled, so the delusion of the American Dream is clarified.

As to the Irish part in the conquest of The West, that's another story.

One that ought to be told, with exacting honesty, given what James Connolly wrote in 1908: "Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman".

He wrote this to discourage xenophobia and remind workers that Irish and others people have historically been working class immigrants across the globe, and that the enemy of the working class is the Owner Class, the Plantation Oligarchy, the Colonial Mindset.

Today, do not celebrate America, advocate for robust de-colonisation.

Psychologies of Power

Trauma and Society - a behavioural flow chart

In Wealth-as-Power psychologies a Leader is one who controls a group of people, directing and utilising the group according to his or her agenda, backed by by factions of competing supporters. The leader nominally holds all the power, backed by a bureaucracy to enforce that power. The group obeys.

"A problem incorrectly understood is insoluble, a problem correctly understood is half way towards a solution."

In egalitarian psychology a group that shares power and responsibility elects a spokesperson to transmit their decisions and approach. The spokesperson holds no power to decide on anything.
The latter is genuine democracy. The former will present as democracy, as a cos-play.
This is where we are.
Those who argue that Western Democracy is superior to everything else clearly do not understand this.

English Wealth-as-Power Power at University - The Bullingdon Club

Neuro-Law

Neurolaw is an interdisciplinary field exploring how discoveries in neuroscience affect legal rules, standards, and ethical practices. 

"A problem incorrectly understood is insoluble, a problem correctly understood is half way towards a solution."

It bridges brain science and the justice system, helping courts assess issues like criminal culpability, brain injuries, the insanity defense, and the reliability of eyewitness memory.

The intersection of neuroscience and the law fundamentally seeks to answer how human behavior should be legally regulated based on a deeper, scientific understanding of the brain. 

Practitioners in this field span from neuroscientists and legal scholars to ethicists and policymakers. It also includes anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists.

Unresolved Trauma and Chronic Stress alters behaviour adversely, marking out a difference between Survival and Thrivival as culture.

"Given the nature of the family, community and society I was born into, and given everything that was done to me that should not have been done to me, and every that should have been done for em that was not done for me, it is no wonder I feel the way I do."

This is not to be cited as an excuse, rather it is a starting point of understanding dysfunctional and harmful human behaviour.

It makes no biological sense for any species to present with harmful behavioural patterns as a normalised dynamic. It makes no evolutionary sense in our current predicament, where a minority pose such a profound and imminent threat to the health and safety of our human species, our shared environment and, off course, all other living species.

The necessity of accurately understanding the problem is paramount.

"A problem incorrectly understood is insoluble, a problem correctly understood is half way towards a solution."



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Fascism? Wealth-as-Power is a cultural invention.

Fascism?




1. Wealth-as-Power is a cultural invention.

2. Wealth-as-Power is where accumulated wealth operates as a dominant political force.

3. From war lords to monarchies to states, wherever a minority extracts wealth from the majority through exploitation, and accumulates that wealth over generations and controls it through inheritance they have to build a political force that protects the wealth extraction and the accumulated wealth from being held accountable for the avoidable harms of the exploitation that extracts the wealth by the populations that are exploited.

4. Wealth Extraction through exploitation is inherently unjust precisely because it causes avoidable harms and rejects being held accountable, rejects prevention of avoidable harms.

5. This hurts people. This injures people. This kills people.

6. Fascism is one formation of this system.

7. Western Liberal Democracies are another formation.

8. Fascism directs its violence internally and in the open when the exploited home population becomes too restive.

9. Western Liberal Democracies have always directed the violence externally - Colonialism and neoColonialism serve to maintain dominance over Global South raw materials and cheap labour as assets, through corruption and the creation of vassal state politics.

10. As Western populations have become much more aware of the avoidable harms not avoided, as we have become more aware of the vast harms caused across the Global South, as we have become more aware of the history of Colonialism as Capitalist Business model, we have become more restive.

11. Climate Disruption is a key element in this, in that most people understand now that the Fossil Fuel wealth holders understood the implications of pouring CO2 into the atmosphere more than 70 years ago, and chose not to avoid that avoidable harm.

12. Because we understand this, we have the receipts, we have enough evidence to demand the Wealth Holders be held accountable, because they are culpable and thus liable.

13. Wealth Holders are entwined into every major industrial sector through shareholding, via hedge funds. They operate as a global political lobby to protect their wealth and power. They corrupt legislators, they influence populations through media.

14. Wealth-as-Power saw the awakening that emerged in the 1990s as the internet grew, as information and analysis formerly limited to academics started to percolate out into the population, and they saw that the population became more active in campaigning.

15. Wealth-as-Power created 'think tanks' to counter that campaigning and to write legislation their corrupted pet legislators then put into law.

16. Wealth-as-Power invested huge funding to take over and expand control of news media and online media to counter that campaigning with Cognitive Warfare to disrupt grass roots activism in every arena, including campaigning that co-opted grass roots activism.

17. TERFs are one example of this co-option. Women in military combat teams, Women as CEOs of Corporate Power, Women behaving within the Patriarchy Wealth System as equals to the men already in place. The Trad Wives, the Manopshere, Climate Denial, the new Cold War, Conspiracy Theoryism, New Age Spiritual Fascism. All of these are Cognitive Warfare campaigns.

18. As those campaigns failed to deter grass roots activism which has grown more analytical skills with each regeneration, Wealth-as-Power has decided that full throated Fascism is now their optimal choice to evade accountability. Wealth-as-Power is fully engaged in a war against Democratic Legislative Accountability.

19. They cannot allow the population to gain traction through democratic legislative process to hold them accountable - they cannot allow us to hold Blair and Bush et all indictable for War Crimes. They cannot allow us to hold the fossil fuel wealth holders accountable for climate denialism.

20. They are marshalling misogyny and poverty as a utility to weaponise young men, as a divisive strategy, to become a new generation of patriarchy conditioned men. Setting men against women against men. The tool in this dynamic is cognitive warfare

21. They are marshalling Race and Racism and poverty as a utility to weaponise Europeans against all non-Europeans. The anti-immigrant movement is populated with people from relatively deprived sectors and communities of European populations. The tool in this dynamic is cognitive warfare.

22. They know that they cannot groom the entire population, so they are hoping to groom just enough people to sow chaos, to divide the electorates and to populate militia and other forces that can be deployed.

24. However, they have made an immense strategic error - they have revealed themselves, shown us who they really are, and they remain a minority, albeit a wealthy and well armed minority. The mask has been removed. The veil is off. The steel fist is revealed. They cannot hide. They are the minority.

25. Countering this will not be easy yet in the longer term, over two or three generations, it will be successful if we hold firm, build solidarity, act rationally and collectively and politically in our best interests and the best interests of all our children.

26. The best each generation can do is to do the work we can do so that our children do not have to do what we neglected to do, and they can then concentrate on what they must do to move this forwards.

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