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.
We live within a social power system, a bully system, that we did not create.
It's not what our biology was expecting.…
1. One can live with as much personal integrity as possible, as the first step. Ruthless self honesty, total honouring of one's mind, body and being as a biological wonder designed for nurture. Extending that to all you meet, every day, as the mood takes you. Recognising that in all life. De-colonise oneself. Return to full human health, as biology intends.
2. One can also organise, with others to create safe communities. It helps if one is aware that the historical creation of the material social power system places us in historical situations - thus past, present and future becomes our context for action, which is informed by experience, (the past) as action is taken in the present, with envisioned impacts, and paying close attention to outcomes in the future, which further inform our efforts.
Feed back. Better feed back, than blow back.
The task is long term, longer than any single human life time... it is multi generational.
Do one's bit, cheerfully, with full passion, in one's area of skill, talent, aspiration, afinity, and with due diligence. And remember - The bacteria are the base of the forest. They are the base of me, and of you.
Bullying is not a biologically mandated evolved behaviour.
Social organisaiton based on healthy humane bonding is. Bullying
A version of what is known as The BioPsychoSocial Medical Model applied to assessing and relgulation of Disability Social Support.
A US think tank co-opts insight to generate twisted judgementalist medicalily peverse justifications for limiting support for disabled people by focusing on 'attitude'....'like, domore exercise...', 'get a job'.... etc
The amoral background to the UK New Labour/Conservative/LibDem lpong term neoliberal policy that is bullying disabled folk to death in the UK today....
A superb, clear and easy to read paper that examines the DWP's 'biopsychosocial medical miodel' basis for WCA, it's origins, and it's validity.
And it's outcomes.
Read about how a US Corporate think tank associated with the Health Insurance Industry directly influenced British policy design and implementation, in the back ground, in ways the EU could never occasion.
How that policy was clearly understood - that it would induce a nudge - a 'stress' to alter claimants behaviour positively, to urge/help them into work, upon an already chronically stressed demographic, leading to deaths.... and was still pursued.
Lord Freud supported this. It's in the Parliamentary record, Hansard.
Descendant of Siggy Freud. Relative of Edward Bernays. Nudge.
19th Century blame the distressed psychology
Identified as a non-medical functional assessment, the Waddell-Aylward biopsychosocial (BPS) assessment model was created at the Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research (the Centre), at Cardiff University, when sponsored with £1.6million by Unum (Provident) Insurance, who had been official UK government advisers on “welfare claims management” since 1994.
Commissioned by the DWP, The Scientific and Conceptual Basis of Incapacity Benefits was rapidly produced at the Centre in 2005, with the recommendation that the medical model should be disregarded when assessing claimants for out-of-work disability benefit.
The totally discredited Waddell-Aylward BPS assessment model as used for the WCA disregards the diagnosis, prognosis and past medical history of the ESA claimant. Deaths were always inevitable.
- DWP Policy based on flawed papers, which when peer reviewed are found to be utterly false.
In other words, wholly avoidable harm causation was not avoided, in pursuit of an ideological policy. People died as a direct result.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
"Do what you love, it's Your Gift to Universe"
Thank you for reading this blog. All we need to do is be really honest, responsive to the evidence we find,and ready to reassess when new evidence emerges. The rest is easy.
* apologies to early readers, for the horrendous lay-out.. edit, 21:57
MuralGate:
A mural was created on a London wall. In 2012. Jeremy Corbyn made a comment about it, without having seen it, and his comment was related to free speech, rather than the particular, specific image.
The mural, depicting white old men playing monopoly, on a board which is carried on the backs on kneeling non-white people, and there is an all seeing eye/pyramid above them....
It's about state colonialism,empire, wealth and power and the harms
6 years later, this becomes a media storm, insinuating that Jeremy Corbyn, and by extension, those who support him, are anti-semetic.
The mural has been tagged.
This is Mear One, the graffitti artist speaking about this piece, his mural. This video is on facebook. A few things I would like to add.
1. There is no such thing as Race. Racism is built on fantasy, not reality. Treat it as such. So too misogyny, patriarchy et al.
2. Many millions of non-white people, under the table, as a cultural, ethnic and continental population are poorer because of European State colonisation.
The European Scramble for Africa; conquest, and then continued dominance of those European origin interests after 'independence' to the extent of covert military operations, economic warfare, debt inducement, supporting dictators and anyone willing to support that continued economic or corporate dominance over Africa.
3. This is part of a global pattern of institutionalised hierarchical power and militarised violence determining the fates of millions upon millions of ordinary people.
Russia On the matter of the spy-poison soap opera, this from Yes Prime MInister puts it in it's place...
The International competing powers dynamic is a dysfunctional set of relationships and it is a pathological behaviour set, which is causing immeasurable avoidable harms and any honest discussion about the Russians, The Americans, The Israeli's, or anyone else engaged in that behaviour must be set in that context, or it inevitabley perpetuates the dynamic.
This is that the painting is about..Breaking the spell.
The poor, the low income worker, and the middle class are all exploited by a hierarchy of power and wealth.
I suggest one take's this as a starting point, rather than the media and ideological statements.
“What did the artist intend?”
An insight.
A black friend of mine pointed out that no one was shouting about the black people under the monopoly board, their voices had no place in this 'debate' ..... that revealed another layer of hypocrisy.
I checked out the artists words on the image (see above), and for him it was nothing to do with Jews, or Israel in particular.The mural was about the entire hierarchy of power (the all seeing eye) and money (the bankers) ruling the world sitting on the backs of the poor. The majority of whom are non-white skinned...... he was using symbolism to articulate a fact. Political power is dominated by the interests of great wealth, much more than the welfare of the people's…
The hypocrisy of the media claiming the mural is about Jewish Bankers, tht support of the mural is anti-Semitic when the only genuine identifiers of people in the image are the white monopoly players, and the naked non-whites kneeling under the pressure of the white men's game of monopoly.
Pure manipulation, trolling...
The entire episode is a nasty manipulative PR gimmick.
Anti-semitism and generalisations
To all those who use the generalised terminology of 'The Jews' and complain about Jewish Bankers, or 'The Muslims' etc... The Christians, the Russians, The Chinese, the Lefty Commies, the Snowflakes, the Rednecks, the Brexiteers, the Remoaners, Women, Men, Humanity etc. The abusive usage of generalisations, caricatures, etc is causing more discord, rather than understanding, and it is ineffective for any citizen engaged in the political and community spheres of interest.
So many generalisations in so many postings, mutterings, videos, essays, blogs, comments, so often laden with ad hominems.
Not much different to the Daily Mail. Publishing triggers.
No information, just an opinion. To get a reaction.
So here is my cue on how to thwart that dynamic
Address the specifics of the behaviour, not the personality or any group.
Identify the behaviour, the actors, the outcomes and deal with the evidence, honestly.
Name the behaviour - stop the narrative, correct it.
Otherwise the narrative is manipulated into merely stirring anger, and that is selfish and counter-productive.
It is also politically irresponsible and reckless. Name the behaviour, name the outcomes, name the actors, stick to the evidence, provide accountability on a peer to peer level.
Bullying
Bullying is the behaviour, and the bullies justifications, or their religion, skin colour, gender are irrelevant - there are more in any group who are just like you and I, ordinary vulnerable, working people who being born there, are stuck in it, not of their own making. Just getting by.
The use of generalisations includes all those ordinary people as the abusers.
THAT is deeply divisive.
Worried about facebook and the security of your data?
Quick critical analysis:
Don't be worried.
Here's why I say that.
1. Every computer platform we use will surveil, it's built into how computers talk to each other, Every platform will retain and use user data, one way or another.... you input the data, you know what is there. and if you are worried about that, then why?
Really. Most of what we input is dribble, it's useless information, irrelevant to how power operates, none of us are doing anything seriously dangerous to the system of power as it stands. Banal day to day stuff. Trillions of terrabytes of the stuff. We input it. It's mostly garbage of a consumer life style, which is a culturally imposed lifestyle. And there's plenty of useful stuff there too, and lots of nastyness... it's a reflection of Consumer Society after all. What is the risk in all of that data?
Where the risk lies is if I am manipulatable (is that a word?). If there are buttons in me that can be pushed to stimulate me to react emotionally in predictable ways, and if I cannot regulate that reaction that is where the only key of the entire process that I can turn, either way, lies... regulating my emotional reactions..... especially to print and video... if I fail to do that, then I am vulnerable.
Then, if someone knows how, and has to technical ability to do it, and wants to target a given peer group of people with 'insecurities' similar to mine, to trigger that demographic to influence our political decision making at the grass roots, or anywhere else on an emotional level, rather than with evidence led, transparent analysis..... that person can push my buttons, and my reaction hands that person psychic control of me for a brief moment.
On a collective level that has to be exposed for what it is. It is psychological and emotional grooming.
The bullies in Power have been doing that with pamphlets and billboards since before the printing press, and it was done with the Bible, The Torah, the Koran and many other texts before.... it's nothing new.
The vulnerability is not in facebook, it's not in SCL, or surveillance, it's in our minds, our conditioning, our prejudices.
Our insecurities - we must get to know them, and spot when they are being triggered, if we wish to be an effective citizenry seeking egalitarian governance.
We need to be able to spot the behaviour, name and stop it, and rthus etain control of the narrative.
The targeting works - the triggering works. Look to the roots of the problem.
Everyone is so worked up! Perhaps not as many as some would like to think? So much rage being printed, and video'd, yet I think, as I said before, there is a lot of deliberate hype, duplication, replication that makes some things appear much bigger than they are and that there's lots of social movement right now against that, seeking evidence based governance in all areas of our social systems.
Key to this is our social conditioning, by institutional systems of education, indoctrination and ideological academia, news media, film media and marketing. The sources of our insecurities are not all biological, some are en-culturated, indoctrinated or a direct result of oppression, bullying or trauma.
Institutions are tools.
If I fear the tool being used to manipulate me then that is a matter for me to deal with, in the first instance.
Rejection and critical thinking are the only correct response to any attempt at psychological manipulation.
The story about Cambridge Analytica is not about using Facebook, it is about directing manipulative, triggering, trolling political marketing material at targets based on their self published vulnerabilities and insecurities..... in order to influence peoples behaviour in order to undermine an evidence led decision making process, so that the target can be exploited.
THIS IS GROOMING. It is wholly abusive psychological grooming.
And it's a fully integrated behaviour of the system as things stand...
And I think the education system is a core component of that behaviour, in that so many leave with without learning critical thinking skills. Why does our Schools Eduction system fail in that regard?
THAT IS THE STORY HERE.
Facebook is not the problem.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
"Do what you love, it's Your Gift to Universe"
Thank you for reading this blog. All we need to do is be really honest, responsive to the evidence we find,and ready to reassess when new evidence emerges. The rest is easy.
The Green Party Ad with the
Bullying Children. I found that video really disturbing.
Children as bullies and monsters..... in the context of 'traditional parenting' and the mistreatment of children who show signs of non-compliance, who do not 'fit in', who are reacted to rather than responded to. a pattern which is a very, very strong behavioural pattern in the UK.
Many adults are dismissive of children who 'act out' and the mainstream attitude is to punish the child to avoid confronting the parent or the social setting within which children learn to become bullies. 45% of UK School secondary school children report being bullied. The response these children who are bullies need is not more punishment and sanction. They need help. Which often means their parents need help. After all where does a child learn his or her emotional behaviours?
The comparison is impossible.
Comparing wounded children to the adult sociopaths
who wield power and abuse it intentionally whilst manipulating almost everybody
they interact with and covering up the more nasty side of their abuses with the
intent to maintain their position is like comparing a boot to a hole in the
ground saying they are the same because one can put ones foot into it.
Being dismissive of or pretending an air of 'superiority' over the adult sociopaths who abuse institutional and political power is futile. They have to be challenged and confronted with evidence, head on. That is hard and serious work, and not to be taken lightly.
The video is also a mirror of how the adult world views
wounded, who 'act out' children.
It's appallingly bad taste.
There's an element of the derogatory spleen to it, that is more often seen in
mainstream media and comment threads.
It's trolling.. It is profoundly
inaccurate, divisive and pretty much delusional. Its off topic.
To a pediatrician or child development scientist or counsellor
it's a horrific indictment of the Green Party's unwillingness to speak TRUTH to
power, not least amongst themselves.
That was a VERY expensive add to make. A waste of our funds.
I can see why some see the humour in the
add. Nonetheless ...... it is a grave PR error.
Had they focused on the mistreatment of the
disabled, the loss of the NHS as a publicly owned institution and the reality
of off shore tax avoidance and money laundering and off shore tax evasion, which was already a big story we all know about....
they'd have hit gold...... with the release of the Panama Papers it would have
struck home BIG TIME.
Hindsight, eh?
How about a bit more foresight, depth to their campaigning? For starters!
There is no benefit in dumbing down or caricature in the serious
business of political lobbying, which is what we are involved in, here. There is no benefit it stooping to the methods of the DM, Sun and others.
Corbyn refuses to engage at that level. He does not attack the other side, with personalized trolling, he confronts and challenges the false premises upon which they stand.
None.
It's demeaning.
The add is obviously designed as a taunt, an insult. That is how it will be
taken.
And that will harden the resolve of people on the fringes ofsupport for the right wing and the left wing
who still believe in the bird,.
When they see this kind of stereotyping and insult mixed, which is so banal,
and which we rightly deride in the Daily Mail and Sun et al they will react
rather than respond.
It’s a rather futile attempt in terms of addressing the world of Governance and
power.
I wonder what ad agency convinced them that that
would be a good idea?
Was it a set up to see how much depth there is to the Green Party’s strategic
and tactical understanding?
If so, they know now.
Power thinks about these kinds of things and has
way more practice in such matters than any of us ever would..... by a long
shot.
When one looks into modern endocrinology, for example, which can now describe the differences between a healthy functioning endocrine system and one that has suffered shock or is dysfunctional in some manner and plot a correlation with the health of the individual,we begin to see something else as well.
This evidence suggests that a healthy state of empathic, autonomous, connected extended family into community relationship is the base line of optimal human biological health.
That is when the hormonal cascading within the human being is working at its optimal state. The specific chemical interactions, messaging, outcomes of healthy functioning are known.
This basically happy state is the baseline of optimal human biological health, for another reason : it contains within that the ability to deal with sudden shocks, occasional illnesses, accidents and direct threats in productive, creative and healing ways. We live in a dynamic bio-space, the surface of Earth.We are elastic, we must flow with regard to those dynamics, or we make life more difficult and more complicated for ourselves.
Conditions are always, always, moving.
There has to be room for mood variation, for sadness and anger, rage and fear.
What we find is that space, that recovery ability is much reduced if stressors become chronic, unending, inevitable. Then we see the breakdown of endocrine system function, along with a host of other symptoms.
In other words we are already perfectly adapted for Peace, and like all organisms, we need a nurturant environment as Mothers, infants and children to develop those qualities through experience, into adulthood.
We are not adapted for chronic stress. I think that is made rather obvious by the massive size of the NHS and the relative health of our Society, both physically and psychologically.
Indeed there are no organisms that we know of that are adapted TO chronic stress.
Trolls in the Public Domain - a healthy approach to a common problem.
Be it muslim people, christians, jews, germans, disabled on benefits, unemployed, out of favour foreign leaders or attention seeking celebrities, facists, anti-facists, conspiracy theorists, covert agents, or mad, angry, frustrated, desperate people, when ad hominems are deployed in the media, it's a mirror of 19th Public School Boy behaviour, hazing, joshing with intent, pecking orders, corporal punishment for the mind, etc ......
And with actual military power in the hands of the Governing bullies, (political realism does not forget that aspect of power) that makes things a little more complicated.
For everybody. It's a bio-psyche-social issue.
When trolling infiltrates political and policy discussions,matters of ethics, war and corruption, everybody loses. We are all dehumanised by trolling it is nasty, agressive, disturbing behaviour and profoundly immature.
Nonetheless......
Trolling is a form of bullying, it is a tactic of intentional emotional abuse and it is ultimately a weakness.. one has to understands that, and utilise it.
When there is no viable substance to the ad hominems, no mention or rational discussion of the policies, the principles, the ethics or the corruption. Just the insult. That is all useless information. The only information contained in such assaults is that the writer is a bully. That's ALL it is.
And how best to deal with trolls? How do you undermine the bully?
This is my take on this. This is how I say 'No!'. and how I try to turn it onto a 'Yes!'.
I ignore the insult and treat it as a bit of information; depersonalise it. I do not let it get to me. It's all in the bullies head. All over his keyboard.
Then, I respond if I wish to engage, and use the incident by identifying the bullying as such, point out that it is a known and rather obvious tactic that to maintain a false narrative in the face of facts by disrupting a discussion and initiating or antagonising an aggressive argument to derail the discussion. I then dismiss that as immature behaviour, in polite terms, of course.
"It ain't working, Buddy! These fish are not biting on that bait!"
... and then I attempt to reframe the narrative, articulate the policy, the principle, the ethic in the context of all the evidence available, and bring it back on subject, and suggest the resolution of the matter.
And I ensure that I keep each expression as clear as I can, irrespective of the reaction.
It's never just the few who are writing, it's all those who also read, and observe the discourse.
Amongst the readers who read that will be some who are on the edge of understanding and who will learn from this. Others will find reassurance. Some will be enlightened.
That way I USE the troll to clarify the issue, in public, for the benefit of all. Call it performance art, call it a waste of time, call it what you will.
I do it without reacting to the insult, or being drained by it.
I learned the hard way, slowly.
I aspire to do it with an optimally functioning endocrine system, to do it with LOVE!
And it doesn't always work.
We must lead.
We have to lead.
We have to become the directors of Government, local and national, by doing both we become truly international.
I call for The Resolution.
Not a revolution, not a repetition of a cycle from a fixed point. A resolution of the problems that are resolvable, that are problems in human relationships, that are subject to choice, volition - these are all resolvable matters.
I pray for the healthy resolution of conflict, pollution, corruption, bullying. That is where I am headed. A healthy humane society. We have been there before and it was good. We have it in us.
And when I write the word 'we', I am thinking of many cultures, languages, accents, shades and this includes all the decent people, whatever our belief systems and experiences are, we are good people who can work across diversity to find the common humanity in all matters, and we must engage .... the genuine lovers of life must unite as a Governing force. It's a miracle that we still retain that immense humanity in the face of what we are born into, what we are presented with.
Let's use that miracle.
From the grassroots, from the bacterial populations within our guts that make our lives possible, from the deepest of our humanity, the bottom of what you might call my soul, as a biological species standing for itself.
