The rise of warfare, misogyny, racism, xenophobia, authoritarian nationalism as a (badly) planned evasion of accountability?

“Biden is the only one who could defeat Trump” is the big lie of the Democratic Party, ignoring the reality that what actually has happened was a case of “Biden is the only one who could defeat Bernie Sanders.”

"Starmer was the only one who could defeat Corbyn..."

I think these citations get to the core of the issue:

I'l explain why I think this.

1. Climate Disruption is a huge immediate threat, which will demand co-operative action across regions, countries and populations, to meet those threats and avoid avoidable harms.

2. The Fossil Fuel Wealth grouping is culpable for all those harms - they knew 70 years ago that pouring CO2 into the atmosphere was going to disrupt the climate, and their predictions then are being met now. Still, they proceeded to extract, produce and drive consumption, to build their wealth and power. They even devoted much resources to denial campaigns and political corruption to protect their stance from democratic regulation. With near total impunity.

3. That culpability is now well established. With culpability comes liability if they are held accountable.

4. They do not want to be held accountable. They do not want to cede their wealth and power.

5. They are allied to Mining, Agriculture, Fisheries and Deforestation as commodity extraction industrial wealth. Collectively all of these groups present as Wealth-as-Power, a dominant political force more powerful than divided voters.

6. To evade being held accountable by democratic legislatures, they have to disrupt democratic legislatures, everywhere, with every possible tool to hand.

7. Holding them accountable can only be driven by a well educated, active in solidarity mass movement of the populations - aiming for global mutual aid to meet the problems right in front of us. As a matter of Survival, which if we succeed will lead to a state of Thrivival for the long term.

Jeffery Sachs lays out a vision for the future, a long term vision and I think he is speaking more wisdom than any American, British or European leader...

Video starts with a question post to Jeffery as to what he sees as the long term potential, as of this moment.

Amazing.

8. I say badly planned because it is chaotic, it is exposing the underlying realities of Wealth-as-Power in the Industrialised West, and this is driving an awakening and I believe that awakening guarantees that there will be a reckoning.

source : EU Monitor

9. Europe claims to be standing up for the Ukrainian civilians, yet has gleefully armed and funded and openly supported the conscription of 1.3 million innocents, the slaughter of 500,000, the maiming of many more Ukrainians, and a similar human cost on the Russian side. Zelensky and Putin are no different to Hair and Von Manstein in WWI.

If Europe was genuinely a protector of civilian life, it would have prevented Afghan '02, Iraq '03 or in the event of failing to do so, held Blair, Bush and the others responsible for the avoidable harms caused accountable.

If Europe was genuinely a protector of civilian life, it would have prevented Israeli Zionism from going ahead with settlement, removal and conquest and demanded the right of return to all Palestinians and demanded that Israel develops as a democratic State for all those living within the 1967 Borders, and this is the minimum required - or in the event of failing to do so, hold Netanyahu et al responsible for the avoidable ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing and war crimes today, now. Robustly.

The level of gaslighting is astonishing. The profits of Military Industrial Shareholders are immense. All these costs could have been avoided by intelligent negotiations on a win-win basis, rather than the zero-sum Game Theory dynamic of competing warring states.

Europe is doing one of that. I detest the behaviour of these atrocity prone adults, one and all.

@metricforhealthygovt We need and deserve #peace now. Feminism is the recognition of the #structural #oppression inherent in hierarchies of #Wealth-as-#Power and their #violence, from the perspective of #women enduring a #misogynistic #patriarchy. Women in power advocating for more #militarismo ♬ original sound - NurtureCulture

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Earth Without Humans - the purpose of Life.

Spring by the River Lee, Cork

A basic principle or axiom of living organisms as species is the fact of biologically optimal healthy behaviour as the evolutionary norm for the entire species, behaviour which adds to the fecundity of life, incrementally, day by day, week by week, year by year, millennia by millennia. This is not a random outcome.

The River Lee in Cork, Ireland

If I take the human species out of the picture of life on Earth, and consider what is done, what happens across biological life, and ask the question : what is the purpose of life, the answer I get is to nurture more fecundity into the shared environment, adapting to the dynamic changes inherent to the variables of wealth, climate, altitude, topography, soil, geological change, occasional asteroids, water quality and type and many others.

Bacteria do this. Worms do this. Bears do this. Flies do this. Spiders do this. Ants do this. Wolves do this. Elephants do this. Trees do this. Fungi do this. Every living organism does this. Chimpanzees do this. Ducks to this. Ostriches do this. Sea Slugs do this. Coral Reef does this. Forests to this. Grasslands do this. Deserts do this.

What then, is the purpose of another species, the human species, in all of this?

To nurture the shared environment through naturally evolved optimally healthy behaviour.

As mammals, we are formed in the womb, where all our needs are met. We are born vulnerable, and for 18 months minimum all our needs must be met by our family and community. Indeed it is also the case that as we grow, become youth, become adults and then elders, all our needs are met by the behaviour of ourselves and our community, living as we do within the total environment.

We feed on plants and their fruits, we feed on other mammals, on fish, on insects.

The care of children indicates a necessity for empathy and kindness, mastery and robust physical health, psychological balance and intelligent creativity.

The care of adults and elders indicates a necessity for empathy and kindness, mastery and robust physical health, psychological balance and intelligent creativity.

In my view the purpose then is to live well, to nurture one another and our shared environment.

Every behaviour that undermines or impedes this is clearly unhealthy.

The fact that when behaviour that undermines all this is prevalent we suffer deeply, we are distressed, we live in a state of chronic stress that presents as disease or illness. We are not adapted well to being bullied, exploited or enslaved. We may well cope with being forced to endure those conditions, but we are not well adapted to them. This tells me these conditions are counter-evolutionary.

Being a nurturant species demands cognitive kindness as a social norm, a cultural norm, a societal norm.

Our purpose here is to be kind, to be loving, to be robust and this requires psychological and physiological health, for which we are quite well evolved.

The immense variation of our shared world, in terms of geographical variation leads to a rich and diverse expression of our ways of living, adapting to each variation as we walked across this Earth.

None of this ignores the facts of suffering due to loss, accident, environmental disaster and occasional disease and ill health. Our innate sensitivity is imbued with vulnerability.

I do not propose an ideal utopia so much as suggest there is a biologically optimally healthy norm, from which Hierarchy of Wealth as Power culture has always deviated, because inherent to the institutionalisation of a hierarchy of wealth as power is the exploitation of a larger healthy vulnerable population by a smaller violent, hardened psychologically unhealthy population.

Given that this is our purpose, the problem of how we confront the unhealthy behaviour of hierarchies of Wealth and Power can be addressed as a matter of recovery of biologically optimal health behaviours as individuals, families, communities, cultures and as a species.

How do we recover our evolutionary biologically optimal human behavioural dynamic? That is not our purpose, that is our task, our challenge that is the path to returning to our purpose.

We really ought to be using the term 'Climate Disruption' because it is more honest.

'Peace is more than the absence of war' - Arudhuti Roy.

Peace is when justice and accountability is in place in ways that prevent further avoidable harm. Accountability is not punishment. It is healing and recovery of human relationships in ways that prevent further harms being caused.

“Peace, Inc., is sometimes as worrying and War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it. The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for "transparency." They want the Rule of Law--as long as they make the laws. They want transparency in order to standardise a situation, so that global capital can flow without any impediment. Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely--unimpeded--around the world today is money, capital.”

― Arundhati Roy, Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations

Regarding the matter of 'Climate Change' I think it is a deliberate euphemism- it is way too easy to conflate 'climate change' with 'natural change' as a linguistic cognitive warfare move.

Wealth as Power - The Cognitive Warfare Techbro Group

Wealth as Power Cult(ures) have dominated humanity for a mere 10,000 years

Every morning a new day starts, and with each day, new potentials and possibilities are made.

I write because I believe in us humans as a healthy humane species. I know that biology does not generate 'naturally' unhealthy species. I know that biology generates species whose behaviour nurtures the shared environment, at every level, building incremental fecundity into the habitat.

Climate Denialism is Cognitive Warfare.

Racism and Misogyny are also Cognitive Warfare operations.

The Chiefs of Staff and High Command of the Cognitive Warfare of Climate Disruption Denialism are the Fossil Fuel Billionaire Shareholders.

The Fossil Fuel Billionaires and others are funding well organised insdustrialised operations at scale to target ordinary people with Cognitive Warfare content.

So when ordinary people deny Climate Disruption, it is because they have become weaponised, through exposure to cognitive warfare.

https://dwylcorneilius.blogspot.com/2022/01/why-oligarchy-are-at-war-against.html

The Fossil Fuel and Mining Oligarchy knew about Climate Disruption 70 years ago. Their own Scientists confirmed it. The Shareholders decided to deny the Science because they wanted to keep drilling, producing, maintain and increase consumption, in order to amass ever more Wealth as Power. Their Power is maintained in large part by their deployment of Vast Wealth as a political weapon.

That makes them culpable for the avoidable harms they chose not to avoid.

That culpability also makes them liable for the costs of the harms caused, and other ancillary costs associated with all of this.

The role of healthy governance is to avoid all avoidable harms.

They KNOW this.

They understand that if any Democratic Legislature upholds, enforces or passes Laws to hold them accountable that they will lose their Wealth and more importantly, they will lose the Political Power as a Ruling Class Lobby.

This they have chosen to not cede. They perceive being held accountable as an existential threat, as a life or death issue. This is immature, of course. we are dealing with immature yet very, very powerful people.

They are therefore waging an all out war against Democratic Accountability and Legislative Regulation of their Industry and their Wealth as Power.

It is not greed for money.

Most of us ordinary people do not understand this because we are still fixated on the idea of Greed for Money as the driving force of Wealth Hierarchies, rather than the matter of Wealth as Power, Wealth as a Ruling Lobby that dictates to entire populations on how society is to be run. In their interests, not matter what the costs to ordinary people and our shared environment.

This war is a war against all of us, irrespective of our cultural, religious and political leanings. They want war, we want healing and recovery. We do not want or need to harm them as persons. We do not need to go to war. War is disgusting. War is Hell on Earth.

Solidarity is the only power we can exert. This the Fossil Fuel Billionaire Shareholders know and that is why they spend so much energy on dividing us.

Solidarity is non-ideological, it is grounded in humane care and the logic of empathy.

Solidarity is grounded in loving healthy empathetic relationships.

When we build a rational solidarity, a humane solidarity as persons who seek to meet one another's needs for optimal healthy human existence, their ability to divide us and remain dominant over and above us, at our expense, is over.

This is something that we can do, and indeed it is both our duty and moral obligation to all our children to make sure this is what we do, together.

Power Disparity - a general overview, David Smail, Sarah Blatter Hrdy

An adult human is naturally enough more powerful than a human infant, a toddler or a child.

egalitarian cultures typically trust their children, they do not bully them

A healthy adult never exploits that power disparity to force the child to meet the perceived needs of the adult. A healthy adult uses that power disparity to care for the child, careful to meet the child's need, cognisant of the fact that the child's capacity for taking responsibility and taking action is a changing dynamic, one that is to be trusted and nurtured so that the child matures into a healthy adult.
A healthy adult would never leverage power over another in order to meet his or her perceived needs.
A healthy adult would never bully a child.
What kind of culture would generate adults who would bully a child?

Indian Residential Schools in Canada and America, a regime from the 1840s to the 1990s

Cultures that generate Power Hierarchies where superiority/inferiority values are normalised tend to be inequitable and violent.
Such cultures are innately exploitative. Such cultures generate a lot of trauma that is never resolved or healed. Healthy parenting is made much more difficult within such cultures.
We have ample evidence that the way a hierarchy of power culture relates to a treats the children is symptomatic and traumatising, and that this intergenerational retraumatising is a leading factor in maintaining the hierarchy of power as a cult(are). The values of Power over others are internalised bye direct experience.
It is clear that these cultures are not expressions of optimal biological health for the human species.
Alloparenting.
A major behavioural separation between Primates and Hominims is that within Hominims the practice Alloparenting is widespread.
Alloparenting is where the whole community shares in the care of the children, and other vulnerable members. Alloparenting means 'Other Parents'. Cultures where a child will have many Mothers, Fathers, Aunties and Uncles and older siblings and their friends who all share in the care of the child. Care is a lifelong practice.
'Mothers and Others' is a book positing the hypothesis that alloparenting is the dividing behavioural point between Primates and Hominins, or Monkeys, Apes and Humans. Well worth a read.
That behavioural difference is associated with or close correlates with the development of the much larger forebrain of the Hominims.
The natural healthy development of Emotional State Self Regulation is a staple of healthy relationships (and is not the same a suppression of emotions) requires activation of the fore brain - thoughtful, reflective, considered action oriented - to calm the emotional brain - because the emotional part of the brain, the amygdala and hippocampus part is reactive, sudden action oriented. This capacity is best learned in infancy, through an experiential dynamic of being cared for, all needs being met in a timely fashion.
The healthy person's emotional state is self regulated, which is key to healthy working relationships across a community of people who care for one another.
We are human, after all, and we have moods, we can feel discomfort, pain, confusion, irritation because we are sensitive and we live within a dynamically changing environment. Accidents can happen, we can wake up out of sorts, we feel.... and being able to deal with those feelings, being able to respond rather than blindly react, is a sign of maturity. We call it emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence seeks to neutralise power disparities. Emotional blindness seeks to exploit power disparities.

David Smail writes about Power Disparity as a factor in human psychological distress.
His website is off-line, however way back machine has archived it, and I found it very useful indeed, in bringing workable insight to the problems we are facing today with regards Power, Hierarchy, Psychological Distress and Human Unhappiness.
I have a number of his books in my small library.

David Smail - Biographical Note

Born 23.4.38 at Putney, London, David Smail studied philosophy and psychology at University College London, and was awarded a PhD in psychology there in 1965.

He entered the National Health Service as a clinical psychologist in 1961, and in 1964 joined Tom Caine's psychology department at Claybury Hospital in Essex, which was at that time pioneering the 'therapeutic community' approach to the treatment of mental disorder. There followed a fruitful period of collaboration with Dr Caine, resulting in a number of research publications supporting therapeutic community methods.

David Smail moved to Nottingham in 1968, where he remained as head of clinical psychology services until 1993. He retired fully from the NHS in 1998. He held the honorary post of Special Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Nottingham from 1979 until 2000.

David died on 3 August 2014. The Guardian published an obituary available athttp://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/17/david-smail

David Small interview on Youtube.

Listen as Davis Smail explains some of his doubts about psychotherapy - short MP3, will pay on your devices player.

There is a War being Waged by Wealth as Power against all of us, irrespective of our amateur political leanings.

https://dwylcorneilius.blogspot.com/2022/01/why-oligarchy-are-at-war-against.html

The Fossil Fuel and Mining Oligarchy knew about Climate Disruption 50 years ago. Their own Scientists confirmed it. The Shareholders decided to deny the Science. They wanted to keep drilling, producing, maintain and increase consumption in order to amass ever more Wealth as Power.

That makes them culpable for the avoidable harms they chose not to avoid.

That culpability also makes them liable for the costs of the harms caused, and other ancillary costs associated with all of this.

They KNOW this.

They understand that if ANY Democratic Legislature upholds, enforces or passes Laws to hold them accountable that they will lose their Wealth and more importantly, they will lose the Political Power as a Ruling Class Lobby.

This they have chosen to not cede.

They are therefore waging an all out war against Democratic Accountability.

Most ordinary people do not understand this because we are still fixated on the idea of Greed for Money rather than the matter of Wealth as Power, Wealth as a Ruling Lobby that dictates how society is to be run.

This war is a war against all of us, irrespective of our political leanings.

Solidarity is the only power we can exert. This they know and that is why they spend so much energy on dividing us......

When we build a rational solidarity, their Rule is over.

Kindest regards

Corneilius

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Media communications that exploit cognitive biases - psychological abuse

Winding people up as a business model.

Media communications that exploit cognitive biases, insecurities, prejudices, fears, cultural conditioning, and misunderstandings—studying these conditions and delivering tailored content to exacerbate them—are intentionally designed to drive behavioural change.

image source: New York Times under Fair Use

This includes, of course, social media platforms, which are explicitly designed as advertising delivery systems, as a business model.

This business model includes building in processes that extract more online time from users, that encourage addictive behaviours, that exacerbate emotional reactivity, incite consumer behaviour to maximise advertising spend to sales efficiency and unfortunately this provides malign actors access to vulnerable individuals, at scale.

Such tactics are used to incite hatred, to promote bigotry, to spread misinformation and disinformation, in order to manipulate voting behaviors through emotional and irrational drivers, and increase sales. These practices are economically and politically exploitative.

This activity constitutes psychological abuse.

If legislation were introduced to identify, define, and criminalize such actions as intentional psychological abuse, media providers would be unable to permit this behavior on their platforms as a revenue stream.

In regards Domestic Abuse legislation the precedent of identifying psychologically abusive speech as a criminal offence has already been set.

We need the same logic to apply to all advertising delivery operations on social media.

Their AI algorithms would then be legislated to be designed accordingly.

None of what is proposed here offends the intent and purpose of Free Speech - which is to protect the voices of those who are being harmed by Government Policy or the actions of other powerful institutions, when they bring their complaint and witness testimony to the public domain, from oppression, intimidation and censorship.

This would not inhibit free speech. Instead, it would protect vulnerable individuals from predatory actors.. it bears repeating, emphasising, underlining.

What is Free Speech?

Free speech, from the citizen's perspective, entails the responsibility to speak truthfully and publicly. It also requires that the State and other powerful institutions refrain from using their power to harass honest critics, witnesses, whistleblowers, and truth-tellers.

The State and all other institutions must listen to citizens when they present testimony and evidence of avoidable harms being caused and acknowledge those testimonies, admit the evidence, and then take corrective action, as the core duty of healthy governance is to avoid avoidable harms.

The power imbalance between the State, corporations, and the individual is immense.

Legislation is necessary to prevent bad actors from exploiting this disparity.

This is a matter of public, political, cultural and social health and safety