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FTAC – Comment on Brutality and Power

21 Friday Nov 2014

Posted by commart in Political Psychology

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Complete indoctrination and organization beneath the auspices of dictatorship. This is universal. Similar evil is just a fact of life worldwide but also arranged in discrete geopolitical space even though what I call the “Islamic Small Wars” doubtless produce the lion’s share of conflict misery globally. Other movements: drug cartels, which have a narcoterrorism edge to them; resource-based conflicts in Africa (where “warlords” may fight with elements of Islamic Jihad); and dictatorships like Robert Mugabe’s or Paul Biya’s where a “heavy hand” accompanies in-state plundering. All have their ugly moments.

When it hits close to home, it’s different, but no less horror has been visited on Muslims worldwide, the Christian community (visit Congo), Baha’i (iran), Yezidis (Iraq), and so on. It’s never only about the Jews; it is, however, always about a form of want for power and control of others.


The question before the answer ran along the lines, “How can anyone do that to someone?”

Well . . . .

It’s done worldwide, and (as you are reading BackChannels), not for cause but for expression of damaged personality, perhaps, and the want of limitless compensation, perhaps.

The term “malignant narcissism” belies a story taking place within the imagination and rationalizing reason of the autocrat or thug.  That part, which lives in the privacy afforded individual mind, remains always hidden while the cultural and political effects become ever more obvious, disturbing, and horrific.

Things get bad.

All on the cyber war tour have been treated to a limitless pit of dismal still images and “rolling stock” (even though the “stock” today is digitally recorded — a child’s forearm and hand grasping a woman’s elbow, and that’s all that rests in the street, the bodies having been obliterated by the bomb that took them; children, truly, bloodied and hung by their necks from rafters in a Burmese shack, allegedly, a part of the tragedy of the Rohingya Muslims; executions by rifle of women kneeling in burqa before a stadium crowd; two young brothers, maybe twelve years old, set before a wall and being read a declaration by a so-called “adult” before being shot by firing squad; Pakistani Frontier Corps troops lined up on a hillside, shot by firing squad and finished by pistol, moaning, crying, and all . . . .

The peaceniks who want the brutality and carnage of conflict to stop tend to focus — or to be manipulated and focused — on facets of the political issues involved, but most may be most often deflected from attending to the character of the stagemaster driving — or attempting to drive — the entire theater.

Reading Recommended (for a Start)

Pacepa, Ion Mihai and Rychlak, Ronald J. Disinformation. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2013.

Post, Jerrold M.  Leaders and their followers in a dangerous world: the psychology of political behavior.  Forward by Alexander L. George.  Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004.

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FTAC – On Syria — Mirrored Sides

09 Thursday Jan 2014

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Islamic Small Wars, Middle East, Politics, Psychology, Syria

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It’s not sinking in but I keep asserting this: the same personalities — different talk; same walk — occupy both sides of the combat. There is no winning, and they are proving that by mutually losing, not only treasure but also respect and self-respect. I noted earlier this morning that more than 11,000 children have died in the Syrian Civil War, most beneath the bombing on the state’s side and some at the hands of snipers aligned with the state. That doesn’t shift the black/white, good guy/bad guy thinking at all considering what the global jihad does to children. That both sides do similarly unrestrained things — they exceed limits — tells about the “malignant narcissism” of the characters driving the war. Neither care about people. The care about control, power, subjugation, and self-aggrandizement and they use fear and force to get their share of “narcissistic supply”. There’s nothing actually in the predominant warring parties — not God; not humanity — over which to bargain and make peace. In the end, they will be seen as killers and nothing else.

The key: “different talk — same walk.”

The dictator and the revolutionary have the same self-aggrandizing drive, and God above and humanity at their feet are of no real account: they have already bent words to clothe themselves and provide to themselves the exclusive privilege of determining the fates of others.

God works through both — the blood bespattered dictator and opposed zealot alike — does He not?

So they themselves might say.

The humanity of humanity may beg to differ.

Sideways Related Reference

OCHA | Coordination Saves Lives – Second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria | OCHA

As UN prepares for mammoth Syria aid conference, Assad regime keeps relief from the suffering | Fox News – 1/7/2014.

Snowmen and suffering: A bleak winter for young Syrian refugees – CNN.com – 12/21/2013.

Aid sought for Syrian refugees facing harsh winter | GulfNews.com – 1/8/2014.

Sharjah’s Sheikha Jawaher’s plea to UAE residents help Syrians as winter conditions turn ‘catastrophic’ | The National – 1/8/2014.

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Snowden – Living At An Airport

26 Wednesday Jun 2013

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Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed Tuesday that the NSA whistleblower is in the“transit” zone of a Moscow airport. This is a security-controlled area where passengers gather to wait on their flights. Passengers cannot leave the area and enter Russia without proper documentation.

Underwood, Madison.  “Edward Snowden is trapped in a 2-star Russian airport with no bar; here are the reviews.” All Alabama, June 25, 2013.

Existential Reference

Snopes.  “Stranded at the Airport”: “Between 1988 and 2006, a man lived at a Paris airport.”  Here is his story on Wikipedia: “Mehren Karimi Nasseri“.

“As ABC Newsman Michael Finney explains it, Weissinger checked one bag too many and incurred a $60 fee that she couldn’t pay on the spot. She hadn’t expected the fees because her itinerary failed to mention them. For security/terrorist-related reasons her airline, U.S. Airways, wouldn’t let her abandon one of her bags at the airport, and they also wouldn’t let her pay the fees once she got to Idaho. So she missed her flight, which resulted in another fee. Then U.S. Airways told her she had to buy a brand-new ticket, which cost $1,000. And this is how she became trapped in the airport.”

Gawker.  “Broke 99 Percenter Trapped in Airport for Eight Terminal-Like Days.”  Around November 1, 2011.  Source: Finney, Michael.  “Woman gets stuck at SFO for 8 days over baggage fees.”  ABC Local, November 1, 2011.

I’ll give the next to last word here to the New York Daily News:

“It’s obvious to all that the FSB, the KGB’s successor agency, could easily transfer Snowden into U.S. custody if it wanted to, but it simply doesn’t want to because there is greater reward in seeing the world’s only superpower thunder and grumble like a mark who’s just lost his fortune in an elaborate con.”

My guess is Snowden’s story will morph from a tale about spying and totalitarianism into one about mental illness with an emphasis on narcissism or another axis involving grandiose and messianic delusions.

Evidently, China has turned out not much interested in Snowden after all, and while stuck in Moscow, he’s become something of a political hockey puck between Obama and Putin.

“Snowden is a free person,” Putin proclaimed during a news conference in Turku, Finland, where he feigned annoyance at getting dragged into the closely watched incident.

“I’d prefer not to deal with this issue at all,” he said. “It’s like shearing a piglet — too much squealing, too little wool.

Miller, S.A., “That swine!  Putin wants O to squeal like a pig over spy, calls NSA leaker ‘a free person’.”  New York Post, June 26, 2013.

Those Who Know very well know what they have been doing in the field of Global Signal Intelligence.

From the “Iran Curtain” (Iranian internal control of constituent communications) to Chinese patent theft to American domestic collection and foreign hacking, there are no secrets that remain undetected forever.  Instead, perhaps, there are only agreements, disagreements, and arrangements involving the uses of massively compiled data.

Trailer to the movie, Terminal:

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FTAC – On Fated Language

22 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, FTAC - From The Awesome Conversation, Philology, Psychology

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Just another two cents:

“If language is an accident, it is a very bad one overall though in individual (actually guild) terms it may be a miraculous possession.”

Hi, A.,  — given Everett’s experience, language (in invention) may address perceived concerns of “local” interest within the operating milieu of the culture. At the tribal level, that’s relatively easily defined by geophysical reality and the proclivities of the people resident within them. For a modern engineer in a cubicle working with a head full of professional concepts and jargon, I would think the boundaries social, defined partially by who and what inform the humanity in the office.

The “bad accident” may be the bad poet who masks a level of personal harm — degradation, humiliation, shame — by producing some brand of verbal armor, a facet of narcissistic display.

Those in this category, not necessarily “bad poets”, have some intuitive choices to make about “repairing the world” (in the Jewish influence, the term in use is “Tikkun Olam”) while repairing themselves or — here come the bad boys (and girls) — aggrandizing themselves, becoming untouchable, beyond the harm of human thoughts.

Those, indeed, may play some tricks with language.

Those are just my thoughts, but I feel we see them reflected in the news and, more dangerously, encouraging of a harmed mentality internally programmed for revenge against all.

Reference

Daniel L. Everett — There are several sites, including the author’s own, that may be searched up on the web today, and I expect more will appear as the linguist’s star  rises.  The link given here features today a video of about twelve minutes on “Recursion and Human Thought”.

Tikkun Olam — The link is to Jill Jacob’s 2007 “The History of ‘Tikkun Olam'”.

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"That which is distasteful to thee do not do to another. That is the whole of Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and study."

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when?"

"Whosoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whosoever that saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world."

Oriana Fallaci
"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon...I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born."

Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
Qohelet Raba, 7:16

אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן

Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman

All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.

More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."

Online Source: http://www.rishon-rishon.com/archives/044412.php

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