(WIP)
As the big holidays are fast approaching, this Halloween I've had a nightmare where tovarish Marx was Santa with a huge white bear. Having a list with us all, knowing good from wrong and constantly SEEING who's behaved badly.
Although usually quiet or asking questions meant to scary (read: impose respect) little children, this time having first consumed huge amounts of alcohol, he even insisted on a speech:
Communism distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Communism is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of communism as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.
(obscure paste from wiki)
I was content with the truism and haven't felt any distress that in his own (distress and tirade) he switched religion with communism.
Both are born from chaos though hypocritically claiming the ultimate order and lawfulness giving you pylons of air to sustain their theory. Both the fanatic religious and the extremist socialist when faced with times of crisis, are praying that there is a God or social entity larger than man, that is bound with a "contract" to help them as they have previously paid their dues. Mephisto anyone? :)
This payment of the dues represents the ritualistic archetype hereby bound UAXT:A under the name of The Procedural Archetype.
And following the post that included Rand and her objectivism, a post about the irrational and over confident, Procedural Man.
Let's make another shortcut: UAXT
- We'll say U is the union sign, representing vaguely what every ideology is after, but never achieve, for U was there before they opened their mouth, and will be there unchanged, after their rants would be desert dust.
- the A stands for intersection, from the rational set theory, but also extends to the rationalist Occam's razor and the commie belief that everyone should be as one by cutting rather than enlightenment (mneme: A = abstract)
- X for difference, usually between two entities; being in itself an entity that begs to differ.
- and T for transcendence, mind you, not the meditation transcendental kind, simply the object that you acknowledge is more than what you comprehend for the time being. (somewhat in the middle of Kant's transcendental and transcendent, therefore that which lies in the objective world, it is comprehensible but not yet fully comprehended, treating both sides in the same time)
See, I told you we need a shortcut, therefore: UAXT with its operators (UAXT:U; UAXT:A; UAXT:X and UAXT:T)
The so much sought and nowadays more popular than ever - concept of consciousness, is bound to the notion of memory, one of our most recognizable function of the brain. The memory however comes in various types, and we have in our little head, at least four big categories. From these, the procedural memory is in fact largely unconscious, therefore the generic names given and associated with its skills should be considered highly volatile when applied to individuals.
But the archetype of the procedural human (as all the other four when taken independently) is in fact the one that is stubborn to maintain one function above all others, disregarding differences in contexts and aspects. The propensity of its generic names are "catchy". <- funny pic here
This "catch them all" attractor factor is what makes it dangerous, in terms of herds of ignorants and the obvious impossibility to repay its clients when it comes to it, because it ignores the individual's customized needs.
The archetype of the procedural human is bound to traditional achievements. In fact is bound to anything that has a generic promise of power.
The Dungeons and Dragons lore pose an interesting axis for determining one's temporary moral alignment.
Combined with the procedural archetype (that is still to be defined) we can derive the
- Corporatist Vampire (lawful, evil),
satisfied apparently with anything that the company offers, especially with the reason that most corporations were born from (distributing responsibility, sometimes that is "diluting"), never complaining, using the generics whenever he can cast away the reality, in order to slowly but surely climb the ladder. When on top, the power leeched is his blood, and will do anything to "survive".
Fortunately for the humans, by that time the Vampire is easily recognizable by its lack of humanity and overt disdain for it.
- the Replicant (chaotic, evil)
is never enough organized to get on top of a corporation, but she is a savagely consumer, and has to have the best of everything. Not being very self educated, she's easily seduced by "labels". The Replicant represents the statistics, and she is proud of it. From her point of view, those who don't follow the rat race, are foul ignorants.
- the Codder (*, good)
has the skills of programming but he's so much into it that is satisfied with the constant tap of dopamine that is given by small chunks of code. A code junky you might say, the reward is unequivocally and the legitimacy is "God style", when the code is right, the codder is right, halleluiah! In everything he said or done in the meanwhile! Oh, puhlease! :)
What is interesting, as I was saying, is that we are not in fact segregated by nature, and the fact that one is many, depending on one's context and goals. We sometimes switch to a mode where we are "narrowed" into one slice, but we do have the power to recover. Any concept may be elicited first in any of the realms, but it has a translation, a projection, in all the others. While in procedural mode, we may do the mistake of considering everyone else as objects.
If you somehow missed it, see the Temple Grandin
, as an example of one who fought hard for her rights even when the nature apparently "narrowed" her options. Yes it is my favorite depiction of autism from a reality bound perspective. On the same place perhaps with the notorious Rain Man, btw the documentary regarding the real Kim Peek is here and it's sensational ;)_____________________
Of course I wouldn't forget to mention Dan Ariely's contribution in popularizing the cognitive biases that makes people to act irrational and not knowing it. And to recommend you reading his The Upside of Irrationality
if you haven't already read Predictably Irrational
.For an introduction, you may check this video: ...on our buggy moral code
Also you may find Jonah Lehrer's book How we decide
a nice weekend reading, and his blog is very interesting too... well, it was in the days before wired.com . Well now, I'm just very perfectionist :)And if you are into the hardcore of the problem, especially the neuroscience of emotions and why emotions ARE intelligence, do lookout for mister Antonio Damasio
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