Sunday, 22 October 2023

Ew Otherness






By: Jonathan Seidel



Otherness as a symptom of chaotic disorder


Humans have a history of hunting one another. Unable to deal with the grave difference emerging from varying opinions. While the human nature argument is usually defined in this sense as ethnocentric certainty, it also possible there is more a tangible merit than an abstract generalisation. Control is manipulated for order more than superiority complexes.


Routine brings comfort. Consistency habituates the self to the accumulated norm. The routine offers orderly fashion and the correct method of expression. Falling in line under the code of social acceptance. The master ethic acknowledges the hierarchical system. In order to maintain tranquility, uniformity is required. No room for otherness. That which does not appeal to the accepted norm misfires as a threat to the sacred peace. Hierarchy establishes a top-down refined matrix. Bottlenecking the public into a monolithic outlook that is necessary to thrive. This top-down organismic construction is not necessarily an oppressive intent but an ideological preservation. Those may go hand in hand but the order is sought for all the people even at the bottom half. Fearful tactics are promoted to ensure this and passive routine culminates in the sheep aimlessly wandering after the shepherd. 


While the hierarchy generates inequality it is to maintain social stature and control. The selfish ideological push creates an in-group and an out-group. An out-group is a priorly invested group with unaligned beliefs. Much at peace with their status, their difference is marked as dangerous. A threat to the order. Their difference may spark questioning and rebellion. They must be ousted to preserve the current order. Hierarchical establishments through ideological or practical means seek to ensure control that becomes routine. In time, the unilateral inequality is seen as normal. The questioners, the ponderers are rebels. Seeking to do away with the peace of the system. Order must be maintained without others present demystifying the classical system.


Control is manifested from top till bottom. The ability to retain a systematic operation must be honed by participation. Groups must accept their place in the pecking order. They must position themselves in the organic layout under representation. Yet the system can only operate smoothly if all are in line. There are no exceptions to their organismic framework. Openly masquerading against the grain is an offence to the hierarchical peace. The master ethic is exposed to insurgents. These insurgents are violently urging the disavowal of the system. The state must take charge to eradicate this poison before it affects anyone else. The poison is an ideological difference manifesting in a divergent reaction. This is a weak effort to poke the bear. Yet, with enough exposure will topple the mighty beast. These individuals hold to these beliefs ever so tightly. They cannot be swayed and their exile is imminent. Their cancerous influence is voided by the state’s security policy. 


Objects are identified as manageable ticketed. Objects can be controlled in their right. While they may emerge from varied areas of the world. This otherness is minute to the sentient spatiality. Inventions even diseases can be conquered and mixed to personal ability. The lack of mindfulness of the object magnifies the capability to consume as much object otherness in the world. Playing with these forces as they cannot wilfully object to experimentation or sale. They are the possession of the the owner. Their lack of intelligence and discord forcibly undercut their difference. It is obvious to us but remains a controlled substance. An early reluctance to the newfound substance is quickly conquered when its maximum capability is realised and amassed. 


Concerning sentient beings whether animals or children, there is resistance but domestication is a motor of control. The otherness of habitation is bringing animals or raising children in a privatised environment. A hierarchical society whereby the continued living of these organisms is dependent on their allegiance. Dogs who act out are put down and children who shout back at their parents are put in timeout. In the home, there is a hierarchy where the parent demands action from the child or the pet and they must oblige. The intimacy created from extensive  experiences unravels with a mistake. The house rules are obligatory. A child who breaks curfew will be punished and forgiven in the long run. As an extension of the parents there is an empathy passing on but not the same for students and teachers. The hierarchy does not contain the natural biological intimacy. Empathy is neither built nor a given. More time is spent apart so a few wrong moves and patience is gone with a suspension looming for the distraught student. 


Wrestling with considerable care is consequently avoiding competent callousness. Those differing will become bugs in the overall array of disgruntling youths aiming to undermine the hierarchical mastery. The impending danger arising from the conflicting visions impairs the looking glass. Sheer clarity is muddled with grease and stains. No longer the shiny cup. Cleansing the grease is the sole way to reuse the glass in its finest aura. The cleaner grabs the glass with his hands and with a soapy sponge pecks away at the grease erasing it from existence. The grease is unable to evade the cleansing and disappears. There is little resistance. Absolute control and force applied with zero reluctance. Though people cannot be silenced so easily. Those making a ruckus must be exiled to maintain the social peace. Their voices must be drowned out. Yet shutting them up is easier said than done. Removing them from the spatial equation removes the threat from exposing the issue and the hierarchy retains its hold.


Even passivity calls into question. The voice is not necessarily a verbal assault but an external supplication. Crossdressing is a fashion choice but a public statement nonetheless. Demonstrating the crude appearance exposes the public to a rude awakening. Words are not the sole violent attack on the public forum. A presentation halts its unique enterprise. Actions are varied whether by clothing, marching or striking. Retorts come in all shapes and sizes. Yet it is less the direct assault and more the insidious indirect action that stirs the most mischievous conflict. Acting differently to the norm is an unintentional unharmed expression. Yet it marks the master ethic with abuse. Contrary to the hierarchical institutionalism is an affront to the orderly framework. It is a matter of great hostility by the perceiver. Outlandish actions can be mimicked and lead to disarray. Children can be influenced into such futile behaviour. An ingenious though insidious proposal. 


Unable to control such persons, their actions deemed unwarranted and corruptible are removed from the equation. Seen as a threat they are induced to another region. Extermination by means of exile or death. They cannot be controlled nor monitored sufficiently. Permitting their private correspondence may leak into the public circle. Catching a whiff of this stretch may cause the poison to spread and create newly embodied zombies. The extermination squad is called to remove this skank. The state takes responsibility to ensure the protection its citizens. Pests cannot be reasoned with. Their beliefs are central to their identity. This identity is foreign to the foretold framework. Placing the citizenry in a frenzy of apocalyptic level destruction. A rallying cry against the satanic invasion of lustful insurgency. An uncontrollable substance passing through the air with intangible cessation. 


Disconcerting uncontrollable aspects are fearfully eerie. Incapable of meshing with the monistic framework constructed extinguishment becomes a necessary evil. The foreigner cannot be compelled beyond reasonable doubt. Various tactics have attempted to subdue otherness. Enslavement, exile and extermination are the most effective. Yet each had their flaws. Enslavement marks the other as inferior to control their difference as futile. Yet long term can backfire either through a revolt, sympathy or mere influence. Exile rids the issue but their absence does not mean their influence is gone. Tales of their heroics or returning as traders empowers their status. Extermination seemingly is the chief of eliminating entirely. There is no return from death nor real sympathy after death. Yet the hastening of said extreme measure raises self doubt and internal revolt. Rebels emerge from within the system. While slavery and exile are moral ills, genocide his different. Ridding an other must be highly specific strategised and cunningly executed. 


An otherness plague may compel national self interest but the other rallies itself so long as it internally exposes its will. The other martyred continuity is criminally inspirational. While the state wishes to quash disorder, overreaction can lead to pushback. The state acting for the people’s interest may not be interpreted along the same lines. The inability to control otherness sparks mayhem, its ferocious reaction undermines its goal. Unsung heroes emerge from the shadows. Providing safe haven for the other. The excess is too much to bear and they act against the order as well. Cracking the battered walls. The hierarchical order itself is no longer impenetrable. Unable to control its own citizenry otherness prevails even in death. Defiance and guilt overwhelm the system’s credibility.         


Noble as it may to maintain a specific aura, it does not hold up in the longing fortitude. Control is a measuring ideal. Desiring singularity is a hope not a reality. Otherness will march forth and repulsion will erupt. An incidental yet intentional correspondence. A method of deep entrenchment. Otherness is inevitable, response is not uniform. Phobia will exhibit chaotic overtones. Disallowing any further variance.  

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