Gullible Children

By: Jonathan Seidel

Hermeneutics and perpetuated regimes: how groups maintain their audience pull even after bad decisions       

Regimes have lasted generations even as the norms change. Civilisations go through changes altering their moral conception. Even our modern society struggles with immoral norms and future generations will criticise us for our practices. While it would make sense for ethics to discharge a revolutionary model this is not the case. Societies persist with rebellious attitudes and periodic shifts to maintain the peace. Its evolutionary progress seeks to maintain the baby without the bathwater. The society is maintained as long as the bathwater is cleaned. Society must progress. Technology advances younger generation sympathies. Morality is always evolving. While the same intuitive chorus is recited the implemented verses switch.  

Elites profoundly remain on top even when their legislative debacle facilitates immoral desperation. Making excuses and maintaining their innocence. While monarchies may topple with moral quandaries, representative democracies share blame until no one is targeted. Failed polyarchical societies demonstrate a nuanced associative innocence. If the representative is part of a larger group then it cannot be sued correctly. In this vein, even modern groups after disastrous decisions remain scot-free. Hierarchical societies place few above others. Even when others reach the top with little legacy, the elite class acts identically. The arrogance of the selected toppers relinquishes any retribution for the lower classes. As long as these norms fail to hurt them, there is no need to change them. When the poor become rich in their new lavish life it is their status that prevents the younger passion from bursting forth. 

Governmental capability to rejuvenate even after horrid policy as long as the policymakers are forgotten or become massive advocates. The former tend to come and go. They pass their egregious policy and are long gone when the repercussions hit. All the apologists come to defend their honour. The latter embody flip floppers. They say one thing and switch the social grain when pressure emerges from the voting moralists. They align for their own salvation. A past crime is ignored in the face of present difficulties. While shifting agendas require a brief apology and an emotional appeal to voters. Yet whether do to voter fatigue or limited options the same hypocrites remain in the public eye innocent of any wrongdoing. Politicians with the lawmaking power remain with airtight “alibis”. Playing on people’s fears and approval caving to the people through theatrical catering is influential especially during campaigns runs. 

Common sense tells the voter who is the lesser of two evils. Most voters are not voting because they especially like a candidate. It is usually because one candidate is better than another. Other times prestige and charisma captured the voter heart and sympathetic pledges heartfelt by the nation. Hope is a powerful tool and weaponised to stray the hearts of the good people. Trying to fight the good fight against the devilish character endangering society. The devilish character is not an immediate threat but a potential one, sufficient phobic warfare to undermine citizenry confidence in their own capacity. The more saviour-like the more promise in the pleading minds of the voters. The citizenry is aware of patriotic commitment and revolutionary dangers. Choosing to protest instead of revolting. 

They bide their time. While the present torture was undesirable a hopeful tomorrow lay on the edge of the horizon. There is a normalcy inherited and accepting of the situation. Moral horrors are just part of the fabric of reality.  A psychological assault on the innocent puppets. Norms couch reality as ideal with zero tolerance to disobey for a fantasy. Born into a system is to respect that system for acceptance. Each person has a place and that is fated with no oscillation nor overriding the norm. In maturity youthful idealists with little robotic routine and hostility for rebellious fervour challenge their stake in the world. Youthfulness brings a nuanced view to the adulthood cycle. Yet youthfulness fades into colossal routine. Lost in the circle with less passion and fortitude. The fire extinguishes waiting for the next generation to pick up where they left off. Their youthful idealism does not necessarily evaporate becoming their parents. Instead revert to adulthood with small by significant change in the long run. 

Some norms are so central and uncompromisingly difficult to discharge. While others are formidably weak to overhaul attention. The lawmakers relent and maintain their monopoly. The rebellious attitude does not seek to overthrow the nasty lawmakers only for them to change the law. Yet it is on their terms. They still hold the power. The player may change but not the game. An immediate win does not instigate the victory. A battle won but the war still raging. Playing into their frame. They set the rules or accord with the generational rules. Aspects may alter in time but do not alter swiftly as expected. A lifelong fight against the system. The imperfect framework needs those with the power to slowly release it. One shot will not end the turmoil. Evolutionary ease of the burden from the powerful clutches. It is not won in a day but in a lifetime’s effort. For the next generation. 

A system so complex fought so bravely for with inadequate measures needs fixing. Toppling the system undermines all the effort up until now. While much more effort is necessary, the past need not be mishandled. The correct framework is set to capitalise on the openings. The holes in the framework prevent optimal accomplishing but gets near the desired area. Loving the abstract ideal of the system as it ought to be. It comes down to impassioned youthful spirit to keep pushing forward. Predecessors will suffer for their descendants liberty. The legacy is worthwhile. Overcoming the edge is rifling through the immoral norms for the perfected society. A society in progress doing away with old issues with new ones emerging. The underlying values are combative and worth fighting for. The overuse of power and problematic decisions are bad apples of a healthy fruit tree. 

Detrimental norms do little to advance society insofar as their reactionary assault is forthcoming. There is not always a regressive agenda to neglect proper association. Assurance isn’t a conductive measure. A blind promise baked in power hungry infatuation. A system honed in on producing acceptable comfort. Sufficient comfort for the masses that momentarily lapses are overshadowed by the good or bad comfort. The normalcy prides itself on content observers with minute recoil. Time passes and the public must contend with the abhorrent norm. Society persists in its comforting aura. Its habitual presence even in raw negative taste is familiar with fear of revolutionary upending. The lies and failures are reduced for the continued life free of dramatic pause.     

Mistaken promotions or horrid outliers are apparently excusable. A solidified mantra beholden to a dogmatic truth with little erroneous inflection. There is always more room to improve. Perpetuated norms create conceptions that can have regressive consequences. Routines lead to little care or textual magnification ceases the constructed normalcy. Yet it is the branding and uprisings that spawn periodically. Pushing for a massive twist. The evolutionary cause begins lower and works its way up. A bottom-up paradigm for the mass surge to discombobulate the elite lawmakers to frantically alter the rule for a new norm to enter the frame. The alterable rule accomplished completes the process. As long as the elite submit to mass protest, there other affairs are irrelevant. The people's pride persists before another issue arises.

Rebellions will foster in the public psyche to push back against institutional issues. The ideal system speaks to the potentiality. Pragmatic concerns are voiced with protest. Enragement with enough torque will reach the ears of the political elite. Their response will endeavour to mark their legacy. They do care about their perceptions and their re-election campaigns. In a polarised society they may have more sway with more phobic orthodox submission but this luck will run out. A more unified society with enough care will revolt strongly. Concealed elements spread like wildfire. Denial is a temporary phase and the more evidence to prove combined with public discomfort will overthrow the governmental aspiration. Anti-establishment outliers will reign imperially with progressive results.  

Symbolic (A)symmetry

By: Jonathan Seidel

Taoism, postmodernism and linguistics

I read an excellent briefing of taoism on Super Owl’s stubstack. What caught my eye beyond much of the intriguing elements was the lacking linguistic element. Derrida’s deconstruction of language and the semiological expansion found a common ally with taoist indeterminacy of language. Struck by the ever daunting classification of terminology to depict reality, it soothes into our consciousness bracketing into stages. Yet there is an overextension permeating the rational mind. The confident positivist categorises traditionally with little wiggle room to oscillate words. The cultural divide today is between whether language truly matters and how we define reality.

Lacan’s real is a perfect method of decoding this reality. The real is the prelinguistic. The experiential untainted by categorisation. A holistic picture of the absolute appearance. The symbolic is the scripted. Written off as a part of something. It is no longer an observation but a hypothesised theory. The real is a wondrous enigma to the mind. A child’s first encounter with the unknown. The confusion between different animals. A spirited epiphany at the complexity of nature. Noticing details without stereotypical lingo spouting off the lips. Tranquil in a wordless message. A mindful experience arousing the sublime in the intentional metal. 

The symbolic stage retreats to a jargon infested mentality. Categorising birds into their fare divestment. Signification testifies to the utter madness of sense making. How to define the world. Rationality cannot cope without the symbolic phase. Though the rational faculty calls this truth. The socialised terminology is considered positivistic in its genetic consultation. It is merely a tool to reconcile the variance. Pictures are phonetically deficient to articulate the perceptually expanding universe. Naming for our sanity to distinguish and comprehend categorically. Nuances are the signal for division and ordering divergently. 

Differentiating between the real and symbolic is highly difficult in a consistent chatter conversation. Dialogue is a mainstay of human socialisation. Encountering one another in everyday necessities. The real purely exists in the hilltop awe-filled grandeur of nature’s beauty. With zero words to describe the imminent encounter. The experience overhauls the senses engulfed in the visual personification. A jam-packed directed internalisation with no commentary warranted. A phased moment of ecstatic serenity. These periodic moments are foreign from the routine investment. Conversation is an inevitable aspect of engaged society. A successful linguistic parallel.

While language is important it need not strive for positivism. The binary construction of language is mediated by empirical routine. The normative becomes enshrined as the sole authority and sole possibility. The ever evolving humanity cannot be entrenched in dogmatic personas. Yet our language is so part of daily habit that these binary measures remain. Categorisation is simplistic and eagerly maintains the usual. Redefining matters is far from easy. A surge of frustration shoots into the defiant energy. Language reflects the cultural standard but that habituated norm originates in a perpetuated status without review. It is an untested pseudoscientific hypothesis 

Language is culturally related but it does not manifest in absolutes. It carries the engager into the matrix. Captivated by the organic layout of circular modalities. The norm recycles itself in an encrypted coding surrounding the cultural framework. The pillars on either side holding up the ideological frame maintain the symbolic format. The peaceful fluidity of communication. A universal acceptance of patriotic subordination. The rules are upheld in the dialogical encounter. Routine usurps any passionate rebellion. A paternalistic fortitude refuses to question the plurality of varied shades. The either-or assumption is a simpleton characterisation. It undermines the libertarian outlet. Humanity is an evolutionary species open to expand its stifled attributes. 

Binary formulations are fondling adult observations. Externally fraught with misconceived nuances. Engulfed in the game normalising the sides with little mobility. Drawing a line of the possible. Humanity as a test subject is ontologically sound in binary categories. Unique in so-called superior perfection, no need to look deeper into potential shading. Habituated to fit norms with fallacious consistency. A presentation that carries a significant posh stride. A collapsing moment with little historical recasting to stand on. A tip of fortified construction. A blood-redded do not enter sign looms large on the unfinished skyscraper. Walling off any considerate inquiry into the sustainability or relevance of such formatting. The danger, keep out, pop ups shouted out to beware and stay away. 

Identification is claimed at the first scene. Do not divert from the current description. Maintain course with the masses brainwashed normatively. Born into a dystopian artistry. Masked with meta narrative nonsense. Providing sufficient mobility to cease questioning. Joyous citizens caught up in the day to day hectic facilitation of life leave little room to think about the more abstract questions. Consumed with the tumultuous daily struggles ignores the meddling of nonsensical extrapolation. It is the way it is. There is nothing more, no conspiracy no controlling cabal or space laser. Yet the normalisation and routine exploits the irregular divestment track. Concrete investment deals with citizenry inquires but those of everyday necessities. It does not bypass to the abstract because people are too invested in their materialistic needs.

Abstractions are met with ignorance. With less recognisable affect or impactful change, it is of little recourse to engage in futility. The nature of those settled facts is  defended harshly by proponents. Advocates are indoctrinated knights loyal to their traditional kingship. There is little wiggle room to protest the overdo standard. Knights stand guard blocking any leeway to manifest a nuanced perspective wholly deviating from the normative movement. Forced to submit to the routine. The red pilling to escape the matrix will be little tolerated by the system. Conversos hide their estrangement. Privately practicing their norms to stay out of trouble. Not wishing for the authorities to pounce upon and derail perpetuity. Sufficient public exposure and routine will slowly deconstruct the divestment discreetly.

Public uproar denounces the change. Conversos are forced outside because of their shifting alignment. Their rebellious norms are revolting to the public. Habituating public conduct overhauls the internal deviation. While the public is not protesting or raising signs, their persistence in a specific norm cutting off any oscillation is a form of passive protest. Ignoring pleas of change for the sake of continuity. The normative is a straight line from one side to another without any alteration. Much of the public are simpletons acting without a recourse. It is the routine that it interrupted from the conversos behaviour. Peering into the window of a converso’s home and seeing their blasphemous secrecy scares the citizen. Running straight to the authorities to rid this danger of difference. 

Hiding forever will only perpetuate the norm and the hate. Conversos forced to conform concealing their heritage from public scorn. Privatisation weans prowess and intent. Before long, the action in secret is a mimicked patronage not a ritualistic affair. Yet, public demonstrations appealing to the human pathos to invigorate numbers. Emotional appeal to the sympathetic side of humanity. As long as the norm is consistent the public will fail to aid those in need. The public identifying with the normative, submitting to the governmental statute solidifies their fate. There must be a sufficient group alien to the norm. Without credible mass aid the protesting group will falter completely. The state’s decision does not match the public’s resistance. The public must opine by the grievances of the downtrodden. The protestor must be accompanied by public enragement. To overthrow a discriminatory system the privileged must lend a hand. Salvation is at the hands of cohesive defence.

Blasting down the doors to the normative delusion. Deconstructing the meta-narrative fortifying the collapse. The knights must be overpowered with public push. With efficient empathic impulse the downtrodden can be rectified. If the state is alone in its defiance it can be overpowered. The people as a group must overcome the fear of state execution for communal tranquility. It does not require a coup but a systematic change to the current regime. Revolution entails overthrowing and replacing the current regime. Rebellion is less hostile in forcing the authorities to alter the norm for their positions. To shift the norm with propaganda for the betterment of society. Spreading slogans and catchy conversation bits to arouse approval. Going against the grain is easier with more numbers. 

A sincere challenge to the normative is a cultural battle over the future sovereignty. The cultural battle becomes ever clearer when the protesters take the streets. Feeling significantly recharged they push their agenda with ferociousness. Trying to spread their ideology as far as possible. The culture battle is not a local battle but a universal goal. Aiming high is not solely for the purpose of landing at a higher peak but in attempt to shift the entire global scheme to a new framework. The track must be diverted to a new avenue. A whole new world order is expected. A tectonic alteration in the routine halting a bygone representation. The state is but the first step in reconceptualising society. This movement is not part of human advancement. A rebellion for humanity’s sake. To see a brighter tomorrow unbridled by governmental oppression.

The protesters disapprove of the normative. They garner sufficient backing to displace the norm. Open to change in the relativistic mentality. The symbolic is an illusionary presentation. Protesters happily denounce the positivistic captivity in favour of the shifting paradigm. The spatial circuit is a game that is rewritten. Chess maintains the same pieces but the movements change. Reality persists but with new rules. New orders compel novel representation. Moving for a lapse in prosperity. Counteracting the symbolic with a new symbolism. While the protesters may claim they are articulating the real, they are themselves buying into the same philosophy. Their view as relativistic as the old. Yet pragmatically may be a more fruitful specialisation than the old. 

Retreating to the real expands the encounter and the multitude of possibilities. This gives extensive signification yet once the signification is endowed it advances to the symbolic stage anew. Communication and norms are a product of human expression. The engaged individual is haunted by the matrix he creates by communicating with the world. His involvement and rule following is a symbolic realm obedience. Escaping this world is through silence or protest. Abandoning society to live a hermit away from society is genuine silence. It is the act of non-communicative identity. Constructing his own norms. Yet his desertion is a protest that though does not manifest in revolution, individually manifests as a solo outcast. 

The level of the real is a brief stint of marvelled engagement with the sublime. It is a passing moment unable to internalise for future encapsulation. It is akin to carrying a holed bucket of sand. The sand will seep out slowly. The wonder of the ocean or the desert captures the temporal amazement quickly disappearing. Reoccurring awe is via meditative spiritual connection. Recognising the holistic picture. Only the external onlooker has a more reasonable approach. The hermit listens to both sides unbiased with zero agenda. His paralinguistic method recognises the competing symbolic representations. Flags raised on either side ready for battle. He watches from afar with little concern. He is a deserter. Unimpressed by the battle’s theme and goal. As long as he remains alone in his own world can he be objective otherwise he is tainted. 

Baseless division are just competing narratives vying for supremacy. Each side generating their weapons to overpower their enemy. The assailants progress forward in an authoritarian march to engender their ideals on the world. The story is a classic tale of the hero’s journey wishing to either topple the enemy of resist the enemy. Both have the same portrait but with the reciprocal painting. They both think they are Robin Hood fighting the elites and saving the downtrodden. Both are caught in the matrix of signifying paradigms. With their own chess rules unable to match up with one another, unable to have proper discussion. The hermit transcends this silly skirmish allocating the symbolic to a comedic wretched state. He laughs loudly at the blinded struggle haunting the phobic futures. Seeking the real above the symbolic he reaches a sphere of recognising the socialisation. He understands the game. He may not be able to escape but he understands it.

It is this socialisation that is important. Understanding the rules of the larger game. Not just where people stand but why they stand there. What their motives and their goals are. Taking a step back and analysing honestly will demonstrate two fair perspectives. Yet imbibed with fearful dramatisation, extreme measures are taken into account. Instead of seeking compromise they reject one another. Since in their minds the adversary is out to get them. They are unwilling to see their own puppeteering. Unable to see the patterns and elitist manipulation. The holistic picture reconciles the greedy privy individuals pinned against the caring activists. It is the absurdity that those caught in the middle cannot escape. Trying to mediate between the two is a lost cause. Their language game is their perception of reality and cannot as a group break from their ideological hold. Individuals must do this for themselves before it is too late.