Natural Child, Natural Society

What is Egalitarian Culture? What Do Babies Want? Alloparenting?

Four videos looking at elements of human cultural behaviour variations.... with information and wisdom to offer terms of nurturing ourselves, our families, our communities, our land.

The how to maintain a healthy sustainable culture problem is mostly a matter of human to human relationships than it is of a question of technology.

Power Hierarchy culture generates unhealthy behaviour at scale. This is well evidenced and incontrovertible. This is because Power becomes the means to maintain Power.

Those who occupy positions of Power will tend to internalise the positions root values which are power and maintenance of power. 'L'Etate, c'est Moi!' and so on. "I represent the institution, not myself, yet I have internalised the institution." That is a profoundly unhealthy psychological state to be in.

Over time, and with wealth the Ruling Hierarchy culture have extracted the ruling class have worked to institutionalise the population into instruments to promote and maintain those values, do the work, fight in the battles. All the time understanding fully that this is oppressive cruelty, that it generates resistance, naturally enough.

They understand the injustice. And so they live fearful of the majority population, and the maintenance of dominance becomes an endless end in itself, a way of life.

That is a behavioural and cultural problem.

We have brilliant minds and imaginations set to solve problems by understanding them correctly, these are innate critical thinking skills.

If those minds are deeply rooted in healthy relationships that nurture, then their efforts will produce nurturing resolutions, if that is materially possible, to avoid avoidable harms.

We're literally born with that in mind, in evolutionary terms. That is what our DNA and biochemistry is in : a default setting to learn behaviour that is healthy.

To cooperate and live mutual aid is optimally healthy for human species.

An egalitarian culture on a gathering mission, at play. In spite of being surrounded by extinction level threats.
~Two Videos :~1. What is Egalitarian Culture? The evidence. A talk, and a Q&A.
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2.
What Babies Want - Evolved for Nurturing Brain Development - a moving, inspiring documentary.

3Allan Schore: the study of neurobiology of brain development.
The carer brain to infant brain relationship and the biology of healthy brain and endocrine development.
No species is evolved for less than optimal biological health of each organism, and for the species.

In my mind, these three subjects intersect to inform a more radical understanding of human health presenting as nurturant behaviour as the biological optimally healthy state, psycho-socially and practically.
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In addition, Mothers and Others. Alloparenting and human behavioural evolution.What are the behavioural implications of evolving for alloparenting?

Alloparenting is when all the members of a group care for all the children, collectively.It is close correlated with Egalitarian culture.Healthy human relationships.Peace.

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Fake News, Aphorism Wisdom and a sense of humour.

hmmmmm.... what kind of culture generates this kind of politically manipulative content, and calls it free speech? It is incitement, and it undermines the meaning of Free Speech.
Free Speech is the political and legislative directive that the State must never seek to prevent honest political and cultural discourse amongst the people, or any of their associations.
It was not thought of as Freedom to Incite or Manipulate using relative beliefs to escalate bigotry.
Those freedoms already existed under Law as religious freedoms.
Set out your belief, set up a text, a church and register as a charity.... belief what you like, convince others to adopt same belief, get them to pay all your life expenses, and more. Manipulate and incite as much as you want, do not aim at the State.
That was the context in which modern Free Speech emerged.
--- Be honest ---
A short graphic video covering the progression of news presentation since the 1500s, right up to tomorrow and the foreseeable future. There's a fundamental design flaw in public service political and general news presentation.
~aphorism : "we are not our skin, we are the person within, skin deep is colour blinded."~
I think this graphic video is quite cool, clever, direct, unassuming.

Please enjoy!
Here's my take, my opinion if you will.

Opinion posing as prima facie evidence for public news content is fake news.
If we understand public news function as informing the reader, informing the population at large, with reliable accurate record and knowledge of matters that affect their lives, so that they might agitate for improvement of society, as the population are the majority. Seems like a reasonable concept. As such it remains so.
An opinion page is not news, nor is it information. Telling people what to think embedded within text content that is not reporting the event, that is instead forming an opinion for the reader to agree with based on known biases. Is not Public News.
Let people form their own opinions based on honest information. Lay out all the facts and evidence, record the witnesses testimony, say who did what, what it was , what the outcomes were and then listen to what response the population has to that accurate information - with a lean towards forming evidence based understandings being the normal, the cultural normative of transparent democratic governance. Context. The condition in which we are forced to live our lives.
I don't think it's a lot to ask, even though I know those who would reject that, and adopt a defensive stance are indeed mighty institutions populated by people who have internalised the cultural values of the institutions.
They will defend the institutions as if defending themselves, their sense of self informed by internalising system values.
What are those institutional values?
Prime among them are Wealth and Power, for without either one cannot do much, certainly one cannot wage war without both in ample supply. And so forth.
Those values if they become an end on and of themselves will always corrupt and distort human relations, and disrupt healthy relations between different parts of our human family, our species.
Fake news tries to mask that and spread choice making and behaviour rooted in emotionally charged reactive opinion as a democratic weaponisation of the voting system. Get loads of angry people to vote, based on different themes, set them against each other. Sell ads while doing that - it is the exact same industrial process.
It needs to stop.
Utter cruelty.
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Continuous Traumatic Distress is a condition Palestinians live in, it is not a disorder. The violence of apartheid occupation is the disorder.

47% of the known fatalities caused by Israeli War against Palestinian Civilians are children.There are many more buried under the rubble.

Continuous Traumatic Distress is a condition Palestinians live in, it is not a disorder. The violence of apartheid occupation is the disorder.

Dear Representative,

I recently wrote to you urging you to support the South African application for an adjudication at the International Courts of Justice.

I present the following 25 minute interview with two psychologists working in the area of children and trauma in war zones, with particular reference to conditions in Gaza and The West Bank, and a representative of Save The Children.

In this interview, a new condition is described - Continuous Traumatic Distress, without the adjective 'disorder'. Imagine being deliberately and intentionally traumatised every day, 247, year after year. Where is the true 'disorder'

I respectfully suggest you view this important interview, so that you understand clearly the condition Palestinian Children are in, and have been in for decades.

Can you think about a child who grows up in a war zone who cannot even imagine peace or at the very least the cessation of violence because that is all they have ever known, because the child has internalised that state so deeply, he or she has no concept of anything else?

Millions of children are now utterly dependent upon the International Community to now take action to stop the violence of the Israeli State in Gaza, The West Bank, the occupation, the illegal settlements. As these interviewees state, as things stand, there is nothing the Humanitarian community can do to help those children right now, until the violence is stopped.

These children need safety from violence as the first step towards improved condition, as the only way to ensure all appropriate aid is provided to them, to meet their unmet needs.

I urge you once again, having viewed this interview, having understood the realities of life for these children, to at the very least demand our Governments take the action required to force Israel to cease this atrocious violence or be held accountable at the ICJ and the ICC.

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Letter to all elected members of Irish Dail and Seanad regarding South Africa's application the the ICJ

Who the hell votes against a ceasefire in a Genocide?

Mike Pence, former US Vice President, signing artillery shells in Southern Israel last week.

Dear representative,

The South African Government has made an application to the International Court of Justice, which rules on serious criminal offences between States, to initiate an indictment of the State of Israel for its current violent assault upon the people of Gaza, and the West Bank. They are asking that the courts rule on the situation, to charge it as an act of Genocide, to demand that all states party to the Genocide Convention take action to prevent this genocide from continuing, as International Law requires.

Ireland has ratified the Genocide Convention, as has South Africa and Israel, and most States around the world that form up the United Nations General Assembly.

It follows then, that the Irish Government, as a member of the UN, and in recognition of the long oppression of Irish people carried out by the English State and our in depth understanding of the history and adverse impacts of colonial conquest and genocidal actions designed to destroy the culture of the Irish, our language, our customs, culture, land tenure and polity by the English State, and later the British Empire, should support this application to the International Courts of Justice.

Can you please confirm that you will be taking the appropriate action to require the Irish State to uphold the Convention on Genocide, and other International Laws of War and the Humanitarian Law and join the South African application, to support it in full, without reservation?

Kindest regards

Corneilius Crowley (Irish Citizen)

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I think that Offensive Militarism is psychopathy institutionalised. It MUST be dismantled.

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Here follows a brief interview with International Human Rights Lawyer Francis Boyle, who has taken and won a number of adjudications at the International Court Of Justice, regarding Herzogovinia/Bosnia and Yugoslavia.

Genocide and Complicity.

When it comes to Genocide, it is being witnessed by all of us ordinary people across Earth. We know that in Gaza, in Palestine, whether we are looking at it or not, a Genocide it is being made to happen.

Even as I write it is being committed. I feel impotent. I cannot help in any immediate way.

Genocide is being broadcast as it happens. This genocide is being televised by citizen journalism.

Mobile phones and cameras and drones are recording and broadcasting the gory detail that shows what war really is - perhaps for the first time ever - to a mass global civilian population who every day are now seeing the immediate impacts of industrialised hi-tech total warfare waged against civilians. It is a horror of horrors.

Every war waged upon a civilian population has done the same, and we've never really seen it, we've only tales of survival, hagiography of the victors, governments call for more budget for 'defence'. So now we know. No going back from that. This cannot be un-seen.

Deliberate, being made to happen.

It is being made to happen, men and women are making decisions to ensure the slaughter and destruction and collective punishment does not stop, and it should not ever be happening. It MUST stop.

Men and women are deciding to commit war crimes. Ordinary people are being needlessly harmed beyond all tolerance.

The opinions of anyone of us are beside the point. The justifications being made by those who justify such atrocity are beside the point.

The legal, moral and humane intelligent empathy side of this matter is united.

It Must Stop.

Supporting those engaged in the dominant violent position is complicity, by degree. It just is. This is not a judgemental statement, it is a statement of fact. By degree means the further away from a position of power to influence matters, the less one's complicity is.

Now, there's little complicity of the average liberal democracy or theocracy or authoritarian tax payer compared to others in their respective states who hold high officer and wield political and civil power to support the violators of War and Humanitarian Law in this matter. And in all matters of a similar nature.

Us ordinary folk - you and I and our neighbours, the people's of urban dwellings all about us, are the ones who always pay the full cost of war.

We are, as individuals, impotent in the face of military violence and corrupt national and international diplomacy. The ruling class want us to internalise enough of the nation state to protect them from us, with them hiding behind the state.

They are happy when we accuse each other of complicity, even more so when we argue their opinions, and vote according to the public defined opinions, rather than the evidence.

Our individual complicity is minor. Throwing it at each other as an accusation is a futile cause, it does not serve us ordinary people.

Establishing a humane political and civil power base

Where we do have a reliable resource of political power is in each other, as a community of ordinary folk, understanding we are all accidents of birth, understanding our need and desire, born of healthy common sense, that we would be best served if we were to look out for one another, in mutual aid, and turn that to political association.

We have yet to establish this power, and when we do, we will do what we can to undo the warring states syndrome culture.

Turn away from the ruling class, turn to each other, and then take the kinds of action that a healthy population can take, and see where we lead into.

They did not lose their lives.

Nuttyahoo has a war, AI AI Booom!

It is not a matter of looking around to see where those lives were misplaced, forgotten, left behind, dropped behind the sofa, dropped by accident as we got out of the car, left behind in the supermarket.

Their lives were stolen and not by stealth.

Their lives were taken, openly, in full view, not in a secret act or by mistake - their bodies were ruined, destroyed, violently, cruelly, intentionally. Block by block. AI AI oh.

Limbs were ripped from bodies. Hands that will never caress a grandchild's forehead, legs that will never dance again, fingers that will never again play music or prepare food and share it lovingly.

Throats that will never laugh again, or sing lullabies, or pray, eyes that will not tear up in bliss or sadness.

Their internal organs were crushed by pressure waves from hi-tech explosive munitions designed to do exactly that, delivered from the most advanced jets that industry can build, by shells sent by tanks and howitzers, carefully aimed to cause the most destruction possible.

AI AI Oh!

Their hearts will not flutter in new love, their lungs will not fill nor will their throats and hearts sing at weddings, their eyes will not see the years of growth and maturation of their children, or their parents, they will not take selfies at sunset to share to their friends and family.

Their guts were spilled, splattered and spread across the walls that no longer stand to protect these families that they might sleep soundly and in love. Body bags of parts of bodies, the remains, what is left is unrecognisable as a person, as a human being.

They were blinded, they were broken in pieces, they were battered and brutalised and their surviving relatives had to bury them under an AI rain of hellfire, rockets and white phosphorus.

AI AI oh.

The survivors sleepless with trauma can see the stars, they can see the moon and they can see the flares through the spaces where ceilings once kept them safe from the rain and the sun.

They have no toilets, no fresh running water, they have no food. They have no medicines, they have no counselling. They comfort each other by being still in it together, sharing what is left, which is closer to nothing with each and every bombing raid. They have no cookers, they have no fridges and they live under plastic sheeting, they live crowded into the remaining homes, a family in each room, shivering in fear, in despair, in unbearable condition waiting for the bomb earmarked for that dwelling. They know the meaning of Genocide. The lived experience, short as it is, unbearable as it is is still far too long.

AI AI oh.

The Israeli State War diet is to the death of all the innocents, their sordid claim that peace is the aim of this growing pile of bones of Palestinian families is vulgar psychopathy institutionalised.

The USUK ruling class cheer them on. The USUK media dumb down their reporting. The USUK ruling class urge restraint in public, citing self defence, while they allow the Israeli State to continue. ‘Tone it down a bit’ they say, in public.

They send more weapons to Ukraine, they send more weapons to Israel, they send more weapons everywhere war is active, as their shares in warfare industries increase in value.

These are our Ruling Class. We vote for them and we pay them. And this is what we get. We are the lucky ones. They will not bomb us, will they?

We see this on our screens. We see this on our phones.

I have long known that every war does this. This is what war is. No war has ever been fought without harming the innocents, men, women, children and elders and their villages and towns, their cities. Horror movies are scary, war is disgusting, revolting, degrading.

There are no heroes, the myth of honour is a veil.

It takes real human courage, it takes immense effort, it tales great heart and kindness to make Peace the task. It will take all of us to make peace a reality.

Today the USUK population correctly protest, pointing to the innocence of these Palestinian families. We hate marching, the weathers is not great, and we fervently wish we had nothing to protest, that we could instead demonstrate love and make empathy our polity’s core - our marches are not hatred, even though the ruling class hate them. Striking nurses do not hate, they care.

We did not hold our War criminals to account in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and six and seven and eight and beyond, even as we had the evidence.

They all walk free, enriched, pensioned, protected and they have more than they need, whilst poverty is intentionally maintained in order to ensure the wealth extraction faction remains dominant.

We - you and I and our neighbours, we who live on every street - we cannot undo the harm done, and we must ask ourselves now - 'What can we do to prevent more harm?'

How do we live on with integrity, without relying on hope, faith or comfort to get us through and where will we find the shared determination to end the warfare that we are all paying for, so that peace has a chance?

The cost of murder crisis has many layers.

They did not lose their lives, they will not get them back, we know where they went, we still have ours.

Secret Santa : and a christmess Christmas carol

Secret Santa.

Sometimes I wish Santa was secret,

that no-one knew his or her name...

more secret than the CIA

Egalitarian Indigenous Culture - good people, shared parenting.

so secret that no one knew of him, or her.

Or it.

It is a thing. A concept. Santa was always dead. Santa is a zombie.

I wish....

that millions and millions of microplastic tyred miles and tons and gigatons of plastic toys and wrapping would simply vanish.

They won't.

The plastic just gets smaller and smaller and smaller until we are drinking it without seeing it, we are peeing it.

A bit like Christmess shopping - we do not see the poison, for it is covered in glitter.

We pay for that!?

The roads are still clogged with plastic shedding carbon dioxide exhausting metal boxes moving flesh and merchandise, for more shopping..

Patterns.

Faith in the myth appears to be sapping, replaced by open lies.

Mental emotional wrapping, a clingy film of cultural appropriations toxic mimicry.

Do it!

Unwrap yourself.

Do it now!

Feel the relief!

Imagine plastic

created to miraculously bio-degrade, by clear thinking..

designed to be

re-up

-taken,

(sorry Liam Neeson and Luc Besson!)

"we will find you and we will re-use you!"

thus, cycling nurture into a myriad web of living, caring for

the world that we make safe for all its children, for all our children, for all of their lives.

Will we unshrinkwrap our Earth?

I wish.

Wish is one thing, what we do another -

Some things are assuredly worth the bother.

Christmas?

I can't be bothered.

I think I am immune.

Though not immune to the pollution, not immune to the poisoning of the habitat, and, happily, I am also not immune to the love of chocolate. And mince pies. And family and community. Sharing time, feasting together, chillaxing in love.

Christmas without the pollution might be a worthy solution, the best gift we can give Is always love, because love guides action in ways that maintains a life of dignity.

From the cradle to the cradle.

this song, my Christmas wish, humbly.

Genocide Is Shameless

image source and other images from Gaza 2023

Through early morning bombs I see

The nightmare of the civilians who flee

the crimes that are so clear to me

I realize and I can see...

that genocide is shameless

It brings on deathly changes

and we can’t take or leave it if we please.

We try to find a way to make

all our little joys relate

without that ever-present hate

And now we all know that it's already far too late, and...

The game of war is hardly play

Bomb dusted children now bleed out every day.

The humanitarian pause is useless now,

so this is all there is to say:

that genocide is shameless

It brings on deathly changes

and we can’t take or leave it if we please.

We try to find a way to make

all our little joys relate

without that ever-present hate

And now we all know that it's already far too late,

The way the Rulers win is to cheat

flay down the children - victory complete.

The moral army wades indiscrete

In rivers of blood, the task complete..

Oh genocide is shameless

It brings on deathly changes

and we can’t take or leave it if we please.

We try to find a way to make

all our little joys relate

without that ever-present hate

And now we all know that it's already far too late,

The sword of crime will pierce their skins

It already hurts when it begins

And as it works its way on in

The pain grows stronger...while we watch Death grin.

image source #Nuttyahoo.

and genocide is shameless

It brings on deathly changes

and we can’t take or leave it if we please.

We try to find a way to make

all our little joys relate

without that ever-present hate

And now we all know that it's already far too late,

A brave man once requested me

to answer questions that are key

is it to be or not to be bombed

I replied ‘what can I do?’ for I am numbed.

'Cause genocide is shameless

it brings on deathly changes

and we can’t take it or leave it as we plea.

Ceasefire and stop the killing

From the river to the sea.

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adapted from 'Suicide is Painless' the MASH TV Series theme song by Johnny Mandel (music) and Michael Altman (lyrics)

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Government Announcement : "Move south to Sutton where it's safer!"

Cab you imagine 2 million people, families, streets, wards and boroughs being bombed out of their homes in London?

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My Christmess Carol

#FreePalestine

#Ceasefire

#PeaceisMoreThanTheAbsenceOfWar

image source

Kindest regards

Corneilius

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