The Psychology of a culture is revealed and perpetuated in how they relate to and treat their children and in how they relate to and treat the most vulnerable people within their society. Heal that and we can heal everything.
Showing posts with label Hierarchically Violent Societies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hierarchically Violent Societies. Show all posts
Putting up statues to venerate violent bullies was a lie about whatever happened in the first place.
OK?
If you do not understand that, I have just explained it. It is clear as daylight. Read it again.
Putting up statues to venerate violent bullies was a lie about whatever happened in the first place
You're welcome.
If you do not accept this - it is the truth here, no equivocation, no ambiguity - then you are unable to correct it and you are, obviously, unwilling learn anything useful about this matter, and you shouldn't even be in the room talking about this. You are unqualified. Period.
Monuments to violent bullies within violent cultures are lies.
Period.
Either you face the truth or you protect the lie.
The Colosseum is a lie. It is not a wonder, it is a monument to horror and cruelty.
Notre Dame is a lie. It is a monument to Hierarchy and cruelty.
Churchill's statue is a lie. It is a monument to propaganda and cruelty.
This culture itself, Industrial Civilisation, is a hierarchy of violence.
To not see this is completely a matter of intellectual weakness and emotional blindness beyond all rational comprehension.
So let's just grow up, really.
Enough whining already.
Be mature.
1. Biology responds to dynamic environmental changes by making precise changes to meet the dynamic changes to maintain the nutrient flow and balance. The old paradigm of random mutation is a lie, a piece of propaganda, designed to challenge an older lie, that of the supremacy of the Gods of the hierarchically violent societies.
2. We are biology at our base. Biology is fundamentally nurturant, it leads towards thriving communities of diverse organisms and living systems constantly modulating and responding to a dynamic environment.
Optimal Biological Health is a mandate for each individual, each species and the entire biome of Earth.
3. The Industrial Civilisation and all Hierarchies of Violence as social constructs are, by definition, an outright rejection of 1 and 2.
4. Fear is the worst driver of healthy change. Fear also drives Industrial Civilisation and Hierarchies of Violence. Likewise anger and hatred. They are in essence abuse systems that become Institutionalised. Bully systems.
5. The difference between a response and a reaction is key to how this genral issue is being framed in the public domain. A response looks at the situation, tries to understand as much as possible, and makes a choice and keeps an eye on what is happening, is prepared to meet new information and integrate it into the response.
A fear reaction tends to be knee-jerk, ideological and inadequate to the task of a fluid response.
6. Fear tends to urge people to look away, and seek a 'leader' to get them out of the shituation. Fear tends to suggest we are relatively powerless. Fear and 'leadership' are bed fellows in Violent Hierarchies.
7. A rational response would suggest various ways to maximise the changes, rather than trying to stop them. Which we cannot do. Climate has always, always changed over time.
8. Permaculture has all the design features to maximise the changing climate patterns, rapidly and accurately. It also contains indicators and practices that undermine concepts of hierarchical thinking and psychology. Permaculture is returning to biological optimal health. Fundamentals such a 'there is no waste' are meaningful.
9. The entire issue is directly linked to how we as individuals and small communities engage with governance and the administration of shared contributory resources - in essence the situation demands that we mature, that we devote time to the matters of governance and move away from careers, mortgage servicing, macro economics and become more connected again.It demands that we become more nurturant, we take personal and collective responsibility to ensure that nutrient cycles are maintained, for all life.
10. That is in effect a psychological and social climate change modality.... self governance is the oldest form of governance in the human species, it has been supplanted by Violent Hierarchies that tooled up to expand their reign.
11. The system of power itself, in evolutionary terms, is a vast human psycho-climate change, and we need to recognise that, we need to base ourselves in our fundamental biological 'nature' in order to respond more accurately and NO EXTANT GOVERNING OR ECONOMIC SYSTEM will volunteer for that.
12. They will manipulate and resist to the very end.
13. DO NOT LOOK TO THEM FOR WHAT YOU MUST DO YOURSELVES.
14. Don't worry, in 10,000 years it will be very different. We cannot kill the planet, we cannot destroy the life force of biology. We can only destroy our chances of healthy nurturant happy living. The planet is fine, the other species are fine, biology is fine.
15. The culture is the problem, not humanity. Gods are not the answer. This life is a glorious, full body, sensory jam, not a rehearsal.
16. With that in mind we are invited to stand up and confront and dismantle the systems of hierarchical violence with all the love and humour and robust physicality we can whilst remembering to love, party and laugh as often as we can, without dropping the ball.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
"Do what you love, it's Your Gift to Universe"
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Some flows of experiential and sensory societal drivers and behavioural dynamics, related to nurture, trauma, oppression.
Parts of the puzzle, stand back and try to see the whole. To be able to perceive the underlying patterns.
Right click, then view on new tab, on this link to view it in large scale.
This is a mind map I am looking at the two poles of Societal Behavioural Characteristics, which can be viewed as an adjunct from my previous article on those two poles of Society, and how we got here....
I am trying to describe flows of experience context as they relate to observed social behavioural characteristics of different kinds of cultures, ranging between Egalitarian and Hierarchically Violent.
It is only a brief outline of the difference in dynamic between a hierarchically violent society and an egalitarian empathy based society. A guide for further questioning and exploration.
It also works with this graphic ...
This outlines a flow chart of what can happen when a trauma or trauma pattern remains unresolved, or is resolved.
Healing and recovery are a core dynamic of all living systems, accidents happen, and organisms have evolved repair and recovery processes and dynamics precisely because accidents are common in any dynamically changing environment - wind, storms, snow, ice, rain storms, floods, moment of distraction and oopsie!
The difference for existing human culture is that the harm and stress caused is way beyond accidental, and there are no known mammalian biological processes designed for sustained chronic stress and toxicity.
We are not designed to handle chronic stress.
We need to really understand that that means that we humans are 'designed' to accommodate a degree of occasional stress. We are designed to be able to respond/react from a background of robust health - physiological and psychological.
I was ‘raised’ to believe that the British
Empire was cruel and vicious in it’s treatment of the Irish. The
Fight for Irish Freedom!
Stories of oppression were caricatured, and there was only image, polemic, emotion perhaps yet no
real feeling, no empathy for the poor as poor people; Ireland in
the 1970s was not a good pace to be poor. It was pitiless. In a very Catholic and bank friendly way.
I was also ‘taught’ to think of the British Empire
was a good influence on the World and all it’s peoples. Christianity, Commerce
and Civilisation.
The British Empire, and all empires are at the core of Human Progress. I passed all my exams.
I was ‘schooled’ in the History of Kings, Queens, Princes, Wars, Winners and
Losers and ‘learned’ to ‘celebrate’ their ‘achievements’ an to duly
‘appreciate’ their‘ legacy’
The reality of the lives of those who suffered at their hands was a rare
footnote.
Most often their bit part in History was to perform as ‘stout yeomanry’ who
fought ‘great battles’ or ‘simple’ folk, who toiled on the land, ‘protected’ by
their Lords.
Great movies of great battles with great speeches by well known celebrity actors, the historical drama, the almost documentary retelling of the myth is the most seductive manner possible. Heroes kissing their female conquests in between bloody battles, often still covered in the dirt of war; the woman soothes the warrior, she does not scold him.
There were a few bad apples, of course.
Just a few.
People like Spartacus and
Robin Hood sorted them out, put them in their place, if only for a brief
moment. This underpinned the sense that justice exists, with the subtext that
seeking it is futile and lethal alongside the inevitability of Power and Rulers,
War and Taxes.
All of this guaranteed by God.
As if it was all ‘normal’ human behaviour.
This is what I was led to believe.
I was ‘radicalised’.
I don’t believe any of it.
It’s all propaganda.
It’s shit.
1916 was a shit thing to do, a shit thing to be involved in.
In consequence many more shit things were done, guerrilla war,independence war, civil war, economic war, religious war…
leading directly to the Dictatorship of Church and State in Ireland, a cabal
that for 80 years masqueraded as beacon of Democracy on the International
‘stage’, all the whle managing the incarceration hundreds of thousands of men,
women and children in religious and state care, where they were subjected to
unfathomable, protracted, horrific physical, mental, emotional and sexual
abuse, which was covered up by people who were not the perpetrators, who were
‘in loco parentis’ and this double breach of trust is still being ‘managed’ by
Church and State in Ireland ….
That’s a shit thing to have done, to be still doing. And it’s not like the
current set-up has made an effort – what accountability exists, does so because
it’s all been driven by Survivors coming forwards and fighting with all their
might against a hesitant, obstructive state and resistant deceitful Church. T
1916! The Banks!
1916! The Tyrrelstown evictions!
1916! The Magdalene Launderies!
1916! Mothers and Babies Homes!
1916! Catholic Baby Trafficking!
1916! Enda Kenny!
1916! Charlie Haughey!
Yeah, Right!
1916! LGBT Rights! ????
They don’t go together. Those rights were attained by peace, by struggle yes,
but not by the gun. This supercedes 1916 in every way possible,and they are a maturation of the political
process amongst the grass roots of society, and the most effective way in which
to challenge and confront oppressions.
They were a recognition of humanity that has been dealt with openly, honestly
and with all due remorse and shame for the previous institutionalised
marginalisation and bigotry, and a desire in people for human justice, justice, justice!
1916, 1922, 2016…… look around you, my Irish brothers and sisters. What do you
see?
Be honest and fearless, and kind. Be very kind, indeed.
All the men with guns are terrorists, they are murderers. The legal definitions
are irrelevant to human flesh and bone, to the reality of that kind of
violence, on all ‘sides’.
I will not glorify it. I will not justify it.
I will subject it to a substantial critique based on the evidence, the outcomes.
Tom Clarke, the 'leader' of 1916 was driven by revenge, religion and ideology, not by love. He was a 'radicaliser', he was a 'mentor', a manipulator and he was a 'jihadist' teacher. He was a Wahhabist. Religion as justification for murder. Funding for militia. Training Camps. Those who want to can justify anything, defend the indefensible.
Understand 1916 in the context of 'The Troubles'.
The NI Civil Rights Movement that was about poverty; institutional discrimination and deliberate impoverishment. It was not about Republicanism vs Unionsim. That was injected into the shituation to undermine the Civil Rights narrative. Collusion. Secret undercover 'operatives' working for the British Security State, an all the militia, escalated the violence and the narrative changed. And they have maintained that pretense for decades. A movement of integrity that is seeking Civil Rights is more of a threat to Power than any violent militia.
The irony of the times, the 1916/2016 mirroring shows that whilst the people are growing in awareness, the rulers are becoming ever more blatant about their position, and their media parrots these lies and false narratives because they cannot acknowledge that growing awareness, as it's emergence after centuries of delusion exposes their primary insecurities, which being narcissistic in nature they take very, very personally and deep within their reactionary violence their souls are charged with fear.
Selfish fear. Lethal fear.
Power has one directive : to retain, enhance and project that power. Everything it does submits to these necessities. Everything it does can be understood through this paradigm. The Bully, the Institution. They are the same thing, at different degrees.
Remember, remember the 5th of November, then Remembrance Sunday.
It ought to be grief, horror and outrage rather than Nationalism and Celebration of Sacrifice. Guy Fawkes was Terrorist, a Catholic Jihadist. Tony Blair is a Catholic Jihadist. Both liars and psychopaths.
Joe Glenton speaks of war from direct experience and reflection. Watch this and forget about my polemic. really.
The theme of violence and the State's appropriation of 'our violence is a patriotic and civilising violence' and therefore moral, whereas the violence of 'our enemies' is always barbaric, primitive, dysfunctional and amoral.
What history tells us is that when a movement emerges within any population that seeks to strike parity between the State and the Grass roots of society, the poor, the vulnerable, the working for a living, the State introduces and escalates violence on all sides.
Northern Ireland, a different perspective.
In Northern Ireland, the Civil Rights movement was less a Catholic or Independence phenomenon than it was a civil rights awareness phenomenon that emerged as a direct result of the Civil Rights movements in the US, from African Americans to Women and Children's rights.... a matter of common decency and humane respect.
The State perceived this as a threat, rather than the healing it was offering.
The UK State infiltrated violent militia on all sides, and it's agents escalated the violence, and this put the matter of Civil Rights to one side, and allowed the UK State to alter the discourse, to make it about Irish Nationalism vs Unionism.... that was a strategic tactic.
It was already in practice in Yemen, in Korea and Vietnam, in the Philippines and many South American countries, in Africa and Australia and Canada, in Russia and China, across the Middle East.
Remember, remember.
So remember, remember the realities - that State violence, in the competing powers perspective, is the primary source of warfare, of trauma, of inter-generational psychological and emotional dysfunction and the preservation of mass poverty (war impoverishes all but the makers of the tools of war).
The Monarchy and the State (Established Power) as we know it is altering the climate of human relationships in the most adverse ways, and has been doing so for thousands of years - that 'competition' is psychopathic, is a pathology, an illness, a self inflicted disease state and they continually make great efforts to indoctrinate their home populations into accepting war as part and parcel of human nature. It's not. It's a cultural distortion, born of hierarchies of violence.
Spot the difference?
I'd like to see THAT climate change addressed as part of the issue of 'Climate Change'. - I think that success in the former would help the latter, whereas failure in the former ensures the latter will not be dealt with.
Remember, remember. Think, question, analyse, reflect and grow. Or not.
Heroes
Heroes? The troops?
They would not call themselves heroes.
1. They are trained to be that way - to remain competent under fire, so they can better protect each other, and be willing and capable of killing the enemy. Iraq was not a matter of defence, it was a matter of offence.
2. Calling them heroic is part of how the conditioning, the acceptance
of military violence is maintained. It masks the reality of applied
organised violence. It papers over the reality of shredded limbs, displaced peoples, torture, rape, poison, mass destruction, industrialised killing, indoctrination and bullying, which is what war really is.
3. They never use the word themselves, and not out of humility - rather they know what violence is like, and that it is not heroic. Yes, there are times when courage is shown. Sometimes those who desert are the bravest.
Soldiers are human beings who have been conditioned, lied to, manipulated and placed in harms way. As soon as the violence starts, they have to take action. They have no choice if they wish to survive.
To truly support the troops, we do not need to wave flags as they depart, we need to prevent that departure and that entail breaking the spell The State/Established Power casts over the population, destroying the propaganda with logic, evidence, empathy, kindness and determination.
And that means honesty, truth, the evidence over opinion, ideology and spin.
Prevention
For
me, this is the issue : the matter of the prevention of the creation of
yet more veterans. It matters more now than ever, in as much as the
past few decades we have allowed the Government of the UK to initiate
and escalate wars and violence across the Middle East.
Whilst preciously little effort was put into prevention, or conflict resolution.
The logic of Powers competing for Hegemony and access to 'resources' still dominates politics.
This is insane, it is pathological and as we see, lethal.
How can it stand?
The
hypocrisy is rank, the stench of dying by violence is blanked out, and
we are opiated, sedated and disempowered intentionally so that the
supply of potential candidates for combat veteranship is maintained.
Wear
a Poppy. And if you mean it, then act to stop your Government from using
War as a policy enforcement tool. And stop private companies from
making profits from war.
Halloween
I don't celebrate Hallowe'en in such fashion as is current 'fashionable' : it is largely a post-Celtic Christianised bastardised version of much older shamanic practices, where the practice was to engage with and feel a part of and honour the ancestry, that long, long line of experience and living, a line of nurturing experience within which in the older egalitarian societies placed themselves in their present and looked to how they could nurture the futures ahead of them, as their ancestors did. To draw on that wisdom.
Fully conscious. Fully present. Fully mature.
The post-Celtic Christianised bastardised version revolves around the gargoyle, the fear of the dead, the fear of 'bad spirits' and bears no sense of one's responsibility to the future, nor does it carry forwards the example of the past as a role model.
It's shite, trite and painfully insulting to the ancestry and the future children....
The Celts were violent hierarchies, just as the Romans were, so the transition was all too easy an assimilation.
I have practiced the call to the ancestry, the call to the future, to place myself fully in the present, and have been practicing this for over 2 decades.
I am a bag of bacteria, an aboriginal humane being and I reject the culture of the bully in every aspect, and I embrace the culture of nurture because it is that culture that creates the very possibility of a life of great beauty without the need for 'additives' or luxuries, power or grandiose monuments.
Remembrance.
This is another reason I experience deep distaste, a disgust with the various War Dead Remembrance Ceremonies of the 'good and the great', the pomp and circumstance, and the political abuse of people's genuine concern for the dead, the maimed, the refugees, the sufferings of war.
For all we claim, we have done nothing to undermine the Governments willingness to use War as a policy enforcement tool. Successive Governments have piled more dead upon dead, created yet more refugees, maimed and traumatised countless innocent, beautiful human souls and destroyed the shared resources of many varied and functional living communities, rendering them un-inhabitable.
20th Century Indian Residential School in Canada - hierarchical, and violent 'child care'
Child Abuse cannot be examined in isolation from the culture within which it takes place, or on it's own as some separate human flaw, with any degree of
accuracy.
Paedophilia should never, ever be used as a meme or leverage point to attack the current status quo of power, as a political lever.
Instead we must work to understand it as a dynamic trait, as expressing the essence of intentional abuse of a power disparity, expressed through sexualised violence.
To use CSA as a political attack meme targeting one group among many, as we see deployed with online conspiracy narratives. undermines the work of Survivors, their advocates and their communities everywhere.
Demand accountability, everywhere, equally. Demand prevention, at it's very roots.
Pedophilia cannot be understood without examining the psycho-social context within which it happens.
The
problem of abuse of Power pollutes human relationships across all
sectors and levels of any and every Hierarchically Violent Society.
From the organised rape of
children to local extortion, from War as a
tool of State Policy to Pimping, from FGM and MGM to Guantanamo Bay Detention,
from Bhopal to Fracking, from Domestic Abuse to Ad Hominem attacks
within discourse, the central issue is the same..
A psychology of Power that ignores the costs born by those who are most adversely affected by the exercise of Power over others. A psychology of Power that uses distraction to avoid the truth. A psychology of Power that claims an exclusive right to use violence. A psychology of Power that determines that indoctrination is an essential component of maintaining that power.
The issue is coming forwards in part because there is a growing
understanding of this situation, not least as an outcome of Survivors
testimony, brought before the public domain with great courage and determination from Survivors of organised sexual exploitation of children, to Survivors of State torture, from Survivors of colonisation and invasion to survivors of domestic abuse, and many more besides.
And also because the best research in
Anthropology, Neuro-biology, Neuro-Chemistry, Child Development, Optimal
Human Biological Health, Permaculture, Psychology, Endocrinology,
Honest History and Survivors insights all point in this direction.
When the natural bio-logically mandated processes of nurture are disrupted, pathology ensues.
This applies equally to the individual and to the society within which the individual lives.
It cannot be used to excuse or mitigate abusive behaviour, rather it must be integrated into the understanding of the situation as part of the process of an accurate recognition and description of the problem and in time, the resolution of that problem.
This is, in effect, the unspoken central plank of all single issue activism. The one understanding that must underpin all activism that seeks to be both effective and meaningful. Without this, healthy activism is lost in the rough and stormy seas of ideology and 'debate' with people taking sides and 'arguing' for their side rather than attempting to openly and honestly get to the truth of the matter in order to plan approaches that prevent further abuses, that mediate the harms caused, and that lead directly to much more healthy, functional and nurturing social organisation.
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A chart of social behavioural characteristics of different kinds of aboriginal cultures... https://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Profiles_Peaceful_v_Violent.pdf This
chart outlines some of the results of a survey of 49 different societies carried out by James Prescott, Phd in the 1970s and notes a
correlation between Hierarchical Violence as a social 'norm' and
incidents of abuse and the degrees to which child-mother bonding and
other empathy learning experientials mandated by our biology are
disrupted. The greater the disruption, the more violence and abuse is seen in any given society.
Further research in Anthropology and in a number of other scientific disciplines as mentioned above, and referenced throughout this blog (and there is so much more than the limited amount that I have referenced) corroborates Prescott's insights.
The way in which Power Institutions have sought to 'manage' the revelations of Survivors of child abuse within areas under direct control of those Institutions demonstrates both a lack of caring empathy and a wilful mendaciousness that most people at the grass roots of Society, and many activists, find difficult to grasp or truly understand. In
very simple terms, if one grows up in an environment where low level
bullying is seen as being within normal ranges of behaviour, it's that
much more difficult to see the behaviour for what it really is - a
dysfunctional pathology that has a root cause that, even as it is socially masked, is tractable, that is to say it is an problem that can be resolved.
There is a lot of anger as a reaction and response to inequity, to abuse and violence, of course there is, and most of it is understandable and justifiable, yet we need much more than anger to address the issues we are faced with; we need an accurate understanding of how such behaviour emerges, what kinds of social conditions underpin such behaviour, how it can be stopped where it is discovered and what kinds of social relations will serve to break the cycles of this kind of behaviour, which has to be the ultimate aim of all activism : prevention of further abuses, nurturing healthy human relations in all areas of concern.
We also need to understand how Power, by triggering anger and rage in the grass roots, through media reporting, conspiracy theories, the 'blame game' and suppression of Survivors who come forwards to testify as to their experience, is deliberately influencing what we are attempting to do as activists in order to co-opt and undermine the emergence of solidarity across the grass roots of Society.
