Heart Surgery 107
the femininity angle
Thats a lot to ponder so how do we begin, my good reader? how?!
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The lack of a sense of self as prevalent trait in NARCISSISM
Paradoxes inside paradoxes; short-sightedness is NOT effective in groups and still in theory short-sighted ppl need other ppl, the result however is lunacy covered up as collective wisdom.
This may be one very key feature of the HOI POLLOI (approx. THE MANY).
What occurs over and over as Bateson said is we need the pendulum swing between strict and loose analysis, as an amateur artist I have recognised how blurry vision helps you ‘catch the scene’ if you are drawing something. The natural philosopher too is inbetween a rock and a hard place for he must self-reflect and observe in a non-ending not to say open-ended way (fractals again !!!!!!). The debate in narcissism studies is if narcs are pro-social. The truth may be that we can be helped by science (aka psychology) for it claims that narcissism proper is less able to plan and plot. My idea however is to say that narcissism (the dark triad or tetrad) is the foundation for the infamous pseudonarcissism (a term coined by me) that I imagine may rise if social conflict and calamity is upheld in a society over time (thus escalating collective trauma so to speak in a population). Real clinical narcissism isn’t the features, but a more severe condition, still we can’t care about such niceties here. We can’t get too stuck on strictness although visibly psychology is right in this (namely that dark tetrad isn’t narcissism proper). But let us imagine that the ordinary route looks like this; abuse and narcissism develops inside the family, no contention there really, even if as I have claimed, my view is that in villages close-knit enough the communal logic of cooperation was a strong force in the opposite direction. However that may be let’s look at the next step(s).
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The definition of dark triad personalities is perhaps not enough, the fallacy that we can limit our gazes to the narcissist I find disputable. We need strict definition but need equally to zoom out and PERSPECTIVISE a little. The mechanism is not confined in the narc’s brain but a pattern of hijacking other brains, since brains COMMUNICATE is the sine qua non. This is strict analysis in so far as we CANNOT forget the premises we have set up bit by careful bit, bricks and stones and whatever we have presupposed as our FOUNDATION (cf. Isaac Asimov and/ OR Vilfredo Pareto).
But if you say A you must recognise B. As we recognised in our last episode the quality that is seen in narcissism is weird, if all other mental diagnoses are personal, then we see a weird situation in narcs since they are extra-personal mental ailments, put differently there is a strong fractal capacity (said differently a spread factor), said differently again these persons exist outside of the bounds of person and the effect is minimally at the family and maximally at the group level(s). If this proposed quality is real it scales so to speak, no other mental illnesses will (just anotherone of my many suppositions). This carries another name too; evil spirits.
If such be the notion of narcissism that it is semi-collective in nature, that is NOT expliceable on the psychologies of persons alone but requiring a ‘group’ analysis to be sustained. It explains suddenly why we see a strong feature in bureaucracies in cases where these ppl are inside the channels of descision making. They rule almost exclusively in cabals, or in unmonitored cliques, said differently they rule via a negative feed, one we might call STRATEGIC INCOMPETENCY. The bare bones is they manipulate others since they have a fragile sense of self, this may be why they lack almost complete understanding of consequences they focus on appearance mostly or even exclusively and sadly we are fooled by this. One such hidden pathways of secisio-making are worked in or baked in the cake of any bureaucracy it ceases to function.
In family we have the slower mechanics of generation, and we may postulate that the amounts of dysfunctional families increase, still that process is really slow and has opposite forces as well such as social cohesion and order in society. So what favours the pseudonarcissist dysfunction, what is the vector-factor? But we often neglect to see that the 1100s was a kind of prequel to the WILD WILD WEST, in that several sons in a knightly estate had to leave the family and become wandering menaces or unemployed youth if you will (and sometimes guns for hire). Much like I often emphasise that philosophy came out of a social uncohesion and conflict, so the knightly paradigm of courtly manners is similar (as Reza Jorjani has shown its root lies in the Avars in the 500s to 700s, we even have Santa Claus because of this cultural elexir). For why else did it revive and bloom in the Provence in exactly this period, notably tales of the HOLY GRAIL and Eschenbach are re-tellings from this original source (i.e ballad-singing and courtly life assoc. with Provence and the so-called Cathars, and Catalonia). Oh boy talk about COMPLEXITY!!! The 1200s is the epogee of Medieval society and its pride was scholastic logic, which was often tasked with finding the deeper truths about LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYBIT WHATNOT, such as the theologian Radolphus Brito’s take on grammar and etc. Our own version of this fragile situation (although not a point we will develop here) is the possible theology of the economics we pride ourselves in and its theoretical underpinning. And still our global footprint puts us in a special conundrum where BiGGER forces are at play than economic theory as such, making the point of comparison to medieval theology interesting but for the wrong reasons. One such is the collapse in population growth (i.e demographics).
It has been my hunch that women are the key to the rise of dysfunction in the late Middle Ages and/ OR REnaissance. Saying that is like saying that pyromaniacs are NOT to blame, but matches are… So if the biological formation of a steadily increasing dysfunction is not expliceable via this route how is it explained? We must imagine a steady increase in population at this point but ALSO the main mechanism to my eyes, namely URBANISATION. The treck of or trail of urbanisation (in the medieval period increases in population didn’t take place in cities, such increases were seen in the country and not in cities) is a very promising avenue for this increasing dysfunction. An interesting comparison (cf.Oscar Handlin, THE UPROOTED) between the 1910s and this process in the medieval boom times is not too far off. And the clue is perhaps in the guild system, a precursory to the job market and to unions. The key feature in this is that narcissism can thrive in packs, but they need artificial cohesion and anonymity to be able to grow and develop, since narcissist gatherings have an instable character one which as I said might lack or even have difficulties in forming in the village setting (ideal typical notion of Gemenischaft as opposed ideal typical notions of Gesellschaft as in Toennies, Weber or Durkheim even). That in the end as McLuhan says villages became ‘global’ is the key phrase to look for, the key feature in the REnaissance as a whole. A key feature that can be seen in its fairytales for they contain agony and CONTRADICTION(s). We are not only one-upping psychology, and medieval history but social history as well, whether this analysis is much different from other analysts of the witch crazes the reader must be his own judge.
To come closer to answering these questions we will need to have a ten thousand foot view of the Middle Ages, Randulf Brito fits more in the middle than Aquino but they are birds of a feather. WHAT IS THE RE-OCCURENCE (long-time readers know what it is, but not WHAT it is)?
What re-occurs between 1300s and the 1600s?, to find the reason let’s look closer inside the MORPHOLOGY or the fractal pattern(s). In morphology we follow hunches, but proof is found if such hunches play out or add up or stack up as they say, in favour of the conclusion (retroduction). To one side facts matter, such as the difficult details of psychology, to the other historic developments can be collected or gleaned from our cultural history. These two disparate areas seldomly add up.
So at this point we can imagine groups of narcissistic type organisation, notably we see clinically that true narcissists do not organise, they are too impulsive and dysfunctional. They can organise but we must have the criminal band in mind to imagine the operation of it here. Here another factor seems to be at play (unless we stop here and recognise that narcissism and pseudonarcissism broadly just can’t organise beyond some twenty ppl or so) and that is how so-called sociopaths and a sub-category of psychpaths are able to rule over these enclaves. No wonder our ethnography is full of vampire stories and the likes of demonic possession albeit mostly for dramatic effect. The REnaissance may very well be the point at which some of these horror stories almost came true, to use McLuhan ‘some of the best butchers live in villages’. The religious disparities may on the one hand have a biological explanation (everything always has) but may have escalated or grown out of or from pressures of the kind I describe here, namely a rise of PSEUDONARCISSISM to some critical boiling-point. Much of the reason for writing this is to stop such bad paths for the future in society, but equally to explain or dismiss the concept of pseudonarcissism if the research supports it, i.e WE FOLLOW THE DATA WHEREVER IT LEADS. Yet as ppl can now see any such answers must come back to the history of ideas and cultural history facts, a realm of specialists in medieval history and lore.
Humour and satire are fond of metaphor
At best its exaggeration, your best daddy, the reliable crook and his many hens. Eye/mouth extensions with hands-feet are funny, in AT LEAST two senses. But what is metaphor made of? Humour in reverse?
What if humour PRECEDES language AND\ not OR logic ?
A metaphor is perhaps the combining of different MEDIA, that is the more such foot/eyed — ear\mouths the better. The sentence, the moral speech, the thoughts, the fables, notes, essays, tractates, meine Dichte, Steinmetz, and Maxwell. All of these have one thing in common< they are all several, i.e MORE THAN ONE.
What I have referred to previously as a netwok and at bottom a METALOGUE between two ppl as in the sine qua non of cybernetics. That is a minimum of two nodes.
Does carpentry have a language? Hardly any, part the screws.
TO BE CONTD.
Happiness HQ
extras
Gentle women
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