Supra - Irrationalism

Supra irrationality or irrationalism is an emergent subject pertaining to the philosophical orientation or psychological equilibrium of individual and collective actors at the international, national, and local levels. There is a direct but inverse relationship to super rationality which is a game theory prisoner's dilemma approach. Here two supra rationality players by logic and reason will choose to cooperate exactly to the betterment of each.

Supra irrationality will give demonstratable explanations to acts that appear to be fragmented and disjointed. Here there is usually a dissymmetry of information and power and control. One actor wishes to further one's benefit usually by deception, force, and or coercion. This is also true for the punishment or degradation of another player. The concept of under the color of law is invoked. Usually there is some predetermined plan or goal that is wished to be implemented. Herein the use of the word supra is clarified. There is usually an external system that is irrational that is dictating this mode of consciousness to a subordinate dependent party. If it is an individual or group the fatalistic higher party is invented or has ceased operating and the fatalistic-dependent relationship continued to justify psychic content and activities.

The concept of Higher Structural Levels of Cognition and the Culture of Impunity has to be considered.

At all levels of a system or hierarchy the following are true.

• In prisoner's dilemma supra irrationality is never optimal.
• In this approach two or more players always choose defect. As in simple prisoner's dilemma the prosecutor will always use betrayal against two other players. Here is where the supra irrationality has it's decisive distinction the principle of the descending operation is wrong, immoral, or illegal.
• In a phenomenological perspective of an individual player it may be marginal in the short run. The belief is that continued defection will yield the greatest benefit.

The direct implication here is of morality, leadership, the color of authority, and the setting especially of where one system is attempting to transform another to it's interest. The theories of deontology and consequentialism are in conflict. Supra irrationalism has a marginal advantage to occur in benefit cost ratio where an individual or minority can be sacrificed for the majority or whole. This is an opening that irrationalist actors would seek to exploit.

Conversely antinomianism or lawless in the name of God is also a probability. This will have direct impact on theories of war, genocide, and international relations. In a simple truth table if in a hierarchical set of ten elements in column p as true and b false; it is possible for a controller to engage two subordinate players in prisoner's dilemma to choose all ten b or false choices. This would invert the system. It is possible that if there were ten players one as the controller would be wishing to implicate a status quo in a hierarchy.

There is a direct implication here in eternal law with revisionist philosophy or state or police control over philosophy.

The tradition of Tibetan Buddhism is for the Dalai Lama and astrologers to ascertain the next leader from those qualified candidates wishing to reincarnate. The youth picked by the present Dalai Lama has disappeared. The Chinese government through it's astrological selection has begun picking the next Dalai Lama.

The Hare Krishna Movement in the particularity of ISKCON has experienced heavy entrapment from the police with nine of the eleven diksa gurus originally authorized haven fell.

Kirtananda Maharaj pleaded guilty to RICO related charges and served about seven years in prison while rejecting allegations in a devotee murder. Kirtananda Maharaj had lead a synchronic breakaway movement where sannyasi wore Franciscan robes and were called abbots in New Vrndavana, West Virginia. Ramesvara Maharaj was the guru in Los Angeles, California and was removed for having illicit relations with a minor. A guru war was the setting for this intervention.

This has an implication here in RICO prosecutions and claims of illegal entrapment. There is also the legal question of "handing of cases" to other officials whom do not know if something illegal has occurred. A child molester who has violated a youth will create an array of illogic as to why the youth must be murdered. The youth in many instances is the only direct witness. In lieu of this an hierarchy of extortive threats to their life, family, friends, or pets often follows.

The classic stoning or the story of The Lottery clearly illustrates the concept of supra irrationality as it attempts to transform, systematize, and institutionalize a process and structure.

The simple story of The Lottery or a Stoning provides as excellent model as to how supra irrationality attempts to organize agents and thinking in a system and controls such. Here formal fallacies of reason as the converse and reverse converse accident unfold. Number 4 picks up a stone and threatens Number 3 in that he must pick up a stone and threaten Number 2. Number 3 agrees and Number 2 is approached. Number 4 and 3 now approach Number 2 and threaten such that he must approach Number 1. Number 3's argument is that he must or Number 4 will stone him. Number 1 is approached and threatened. He attempts to stone Number 4 and is killed by Number 4, 3, and 2.

Here in a basic format we observe a circular folly of under the color of law or authority. There are also Racketeered Influenced Behaviors as intimidation of a witness, extortion, blackmail, hostaging, and murder.

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The Glavit

The Russian empire has a long history of censorship extending from the 1850s under the Tsar. It was easy to co-op this practice by the Bolsheviks after the 1917 Revolution. The effects of this activity persisted into the 1980s. In this sense the Russian peoples have endured the longest censorship this century reflecting policy of the USSR.

In the spring of 1918 a decree separated the church and state. The central censorship office was to become known as the Glavit in 1922. This office had absolute power to suppress political dissidence in the arts and media.

Lenin and Trotsky however did permit some writers and artists creative freedom under stipulations that they would not engage in civil dissident acts.

A small avante garde movement emerged between 1915 and 1932. The permissiveness of freedom would soon end under Stalin. Under this government a more systematic methodology to preventing authorship, printing publishing, and importing literature occurred.

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Deindividuation Theory and Violence

Deindividuation theory attempts to define abnormal behavior from the social dimension of the crowd. It is compelling while such is still emergent in its conception. How the individual comes to act in extraordinary manners in non-normative instances has yet to be reconciled. The irrationalist compulsive behavior which does consider the consequences of its act only desensitizes an already alienated human culture. In its continuation it also begs the question of how civilized homo sapiens exists.

Deindividuation Abstract

Deindividuation theory is a social psychological account of the individual in the crowd. Deindividuation is a psychological state of decreased self-evaluation, causing anti-normative and disinhibited behavior. The impact of deindividuation theory in science and society (especially 20th century politics) make it one of social science's more influential contributions. Deindividuation theory is rooted in some of the earliest social psychological theorizing, more than a century ago. It seeks to explain the apparent transformation of rational individuals into an unruly group or crowd. It posits that the group provides an environment in which the individual --submerged and anonymous -- suffers from a loss of self-awareness (Zimbardo, 1969). Deindividuation hinders reflection about the consequences of actions, rendering social norms impotent while increasing suggestibility to random outside influences. The theory has been invoked to account for a range of phenomena such as collective behavior, behavior in online groups and in CMC, and the results of the classic Stanford Prison Experience. Despite its status and impact, empirical support for deindividuation theory is minimal. Recently, this lack of support has been attributed to the faulty assumption that crowds cause a loss of self. Instead, it has been proposed that deindividuation marks a transition from individual identity to social dimensions of the self. This transition to a social identity may increase responsiveness to social norms particular to the crowd, instead of decreasing responsiveness to generic social norms, as suggested by deindividuation theory.

What is Deindividuation

According to deindividuation theory, the psychological state of deindividuation is aroused when individuals join crowds or large groups. The state is characterized by diminished awareness of self and individuality. This in turn reduces an individual's self-restraint and normative regulation of behavior. In social psychology, deindividuation is a major theory of group behavior: it provides an explanation of collective behavior of violent crowds, mindless hooligans, and the lynch mob. In addition, deindividuation has been associated with other social phenomena such as genocide, stereotyping, and disinhibition in other settings such as computer-mediated communication. Below, the theoretical evolution of deindividuation is sketched, followed by a brief impression of the empirical support for this theory. Finally, recent research is discussed, which argues for a reconceptualization of deindividuation: It appears deindividuation is not a loss of individual identity, but may be better construed as a transition to a social identity.

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Culture of Impunity

The culture of impunity has been assailed far and wide by those individuals and institutions capacitated to uphold both individual and collective rights. The alienation of this duty under the civil state reveals an important lack of unity and or linkage with the culture of natural humans that comprise the nation within the state. It is a certainty that we as humans are individuals before we are a collective of which has the family for it’s first domain. This is to state that the individual must also be responsible for one’s input into the culture (Rousseau).

Here I will discuss culture as the creation of a culture of impunity as an emergent worldview, a dysfunction of those manifest cultural processes that have arisen from our mal-adaptation and return to be systematically, often at the hands of agents of social control, operational to make us more antisocial in the sense of psychopathy.

Anthropologists claim that through evolution human beings are attempting to classify experiences and then to encode such for communication symbolically. Here the biological nature which has some deterministic basis becomes an external linkage that will develop entropy as all mechanistic linkages will. Here the symbolic linkage of learned beliefs, processes, and artifacts that pertain to a culture are both considered symbolic and material.

Within this framework of an emergent worldview there shall be posited the negative valuation of values, norms, and artifacts have in supporting the culture of impunity.

In continuation of this framework would be the economic basis that both helps the production and consumption of these processes not strictly as a manner of creating wealth and storing such in a value but as a mode in which to manipulate those artifacts, technologies, and processes to foster a culture of impunity.

Totalitarianism seeks to isolate the individual or the group ex-communicado thereby destroying the natural equilibrium that is needed for support from the environment. (In the beginning of 2005 the Darfur/Sudan crisis highlights this tactic). The alienation of the individual or group if by organized forces external to one supports fatalism as expounds by Durkheim. Here I am stating an adaptation of his suicide theory. The fate and the condition here of the living is more contingent under conditions of realism of a controlling external power over such. In this light these persons are suffering from dependency. Their own autonomous range of choices and activities may be insufficient to remedy their predicament. Here the need of assistance radiates beyond the territory of the instant case.

The fatalistic agents of control have created a lesser of two evils culture of tacit condonement of the existence of serious violations of human rights. The continuum of this pattern appears now to penetrate and taint all those events of which learned persons have come to define culture in the positive.

As natural systems that are open bound towards the environment, humans need inputs to be sustainable. Activities in the Darfur area of Sudan demonstrate that war by other means can be perpetuated with impunity from the international communities. Polemics and missives are not in themselves a remedy. It appears that perpetrators of these acts assume carte blanche that interference with activities will be minimal or symbolic.

As human systems demonstrate a tendency to organize so then a tendency to totalitarian institutions develop. This is problematic as it is a precursor to the next level of organization. This is systematization of torture. Heinrich Himmler of Nazi Germany is an excellent example.

Himmler was the architect of the German police state and the formation of the death camps. In this degree he began experiments with gassing undesirables to alleviate the stress to German soldiers from having to shoot untermenschen or undesirables. Here history has documented the systematic isolation and genocide against Jews, Roma (gypsies) criminals, gays and lesbians, and those with various biological problems as subject to "the struggle for the extermination of any sub-humans, all over the world who are in league against Germany, which is the nucleus of the Nordic race; against Germany, nucleus of the German nation, against Germany the custodian of human culture: they mean the existence or non-existence of the white man; and we guide his destiny." (Himmler 1936). By 1933 Himmler had organized the first concentration camp in Dachua.

The argument here is how is it possible for an individual as Himmler to organize material and human resources of the state to arrange for the systematic genocide of a specific group of persons without be checked? Here is the context of being dependent to a fatalistic organization. By the time the Allies had entered the death camps in France after D-Day upwards of 6 million people had died.

A dependent circular pattern of abuse emerges. The culture itself has a basis for supporting these organizations. Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler did not act unilaterally. An essentialist perspective at times eliminates the perspective that these operatives had to have organization. The dark point here is that the culture had to have in its basis a foundation for the agents of social control to manipulate. One cannot one hundred percent rule out biological sources but such are beyond any demonstrable proof. In their activities the organization of a paramilitary and military system with obstruction from the courts was essential to perpetuate these horrific acts.

The culture of impunity in itself does not exclusively pertain to genocide or acts of mass destruction. The systematic alienation of rights can begin with only an individual and marginally expand. This may seem incredible but culture itself is not created overnight. Many events as Darfur and the Holocaust have historical antecedents, which are thousands of years old.

Here we cannot models of totalitarianism as Convergent Totalitarianism and Oligarchical Totalitarianism. Here there is a simple loss of right to the government. In this context those in power gain in status and wish to obtain social power from gaining power and or property. This does not exclude systems that claim to be religious, socialist, or communists.

In the new trajectory the business community is integrated as business expands such has the potential for its resources to be used against the community here the forces of social control simply co-opt the trade and economy to use as a weapon. This tactic is not new it is associated more openly with the Mafia as in Russia. Here although the majority of the population may not be in immediate danger of losing life. A systematic attempt is made to intimidate and extort activities from the population. The use of paramilitary forces in drug trafficking also reflects this pattern.

The United States is not immune from this totalitarianistic trend as domestic social disorders matize with the War on Terror. Here the miscalculation and escalation aid all persons engaged in criminal acts as the government attempts to maintain social order and defend its borders.

In close the concept of an emergent worldview of the culture of impunity is correct in that most models of culture are abstract and artificially culturally neutral. They do not take into account that the natural human does have a potential for abuse. The current levels of historical cultural outputs must integrate into the models the contingencies of reality. The models of totalitarianism do at least focus on the creation of totalitarianism.

Works Cited

Heinrich Himmler. Retrieve from the World Wide Web April 20,2005 : http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/himmler.html
Lieber, Robert J. No common power (1988) USA: Forseman and Company: USA
Rousseau, Jean Jacques. (1968). The social contract. London: Penguin Books.
Culture. Wikipedia Encyclopedia. Retrieved from the World Wide Web April 20,2005 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture


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Dehumanization and the Oppressed

Dehumanization is a term that is used to denote a psychological process where one’s opponent is viewed as less than human and not deserving of moral and legal consideration. This activity results in strained relationships between the two parties with hatred and alienation towards conflict.

Psychology describes the formation of this enemy image. This is the use of the stereotype. The need for group identity is often an unmet need in the formation of these images. There is an exclusive disjunctive contrast in the formation of enemy images. Concrete actions of opponents are thought to reflect fundamentally evil traits or motives. Communication between the two parties becomes problematic or non-existent lacking in commonality. Circuitous thinking and irrational loops of thought are used to handicap thinking that supports obtaining victory at all costs to punish or destroy the enemy (Pruitt & Rubin 1994).

One of the consequences of the axiology of dehumanization is that the oppressed must learn not to become the oppressors. In the connection the tactics used by oppressors to create the lesser of two evils to justify a replication of their psychopathy will not be directly addressed here. Paulo Freire has philosophically pursued the axiological and historical context of dehumanization (Freire 1993):

Because it is a distortion of being more fully human, sooner or later being less human leads the oppressed to struggle against those who made them so. In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.

Freire discusses a great humanistic task of the oppressed to liberate themselves and their oppressors. The oppressors “cannot find the power the strength to liberate the oppressed or themselves”. The false charity of the oppressors is only used to continue the oppression. The unjust social order that arises manifests itself as the dispensers of false generosity “become desperate at the slightest threat to its source”. Freire also give an assessment that “They will not gain this liberation by chance but through the praxis of their quest for it, through their recognition of the necessity to fight for it.” (Freire 1993).

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Stalin and Censorship as a Model

Joseph Stalin is an important figure in using the state as instrument to censor and control mass perceptions. The conditions in the Unites States demonstrate an imitation and mimicry of certain historical tactics that have worked in the short term to hide and distort actual historical events that did occur to institutionalize mechanisms of abuse. This is done by developing traits that are inherent in the human species and other cultural behaviors and indentities that are learned through a continuum of experience.

Wikepedi, which is an open source internet encyclopedia begins the discussion on censorship as such:

Censorship is the use of governmental power to control speech and other forms of human expression. It is most commonly applied to acts which occur in public circumstances, and generally involves a suppression of them by criminalizing their expression. What is censored may range from specific words to entire concepts, and the ostensible motive of censorship is to stabilize or improve the society over which the government has control.

Sanitization (removal) and whitewashing (from whitewash) are almost interchangeable terms that refer to particular a form of censorship via omission, which seeks to "clean up" the portrayal of particular issues and facts which are already known, but which may conflict with the official point of view. Political correctness may also become a form of censorship.

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The beginings of Stalinism in the 1920s demonstrates the inefficiency of state employees that helps lead to conditions of censorship.

In the United States censorship begins with a culture that is dependent on tacit deals with corrupt officials which at times include non-cash rewards as jobs that are harder to trace. The aperture for a movement to correct this deficiency beigns by exposing persons and culture groups that have taken "deals" for drug dealing, prostitution, and gambling. These groups can easily be purged by the System with no noticeable loss in degree to either side. What is unique is the camoulflage and the folly is the willingness to dehumanize and participate in a minor purge. What is evident is that who was in power stays in power although with minor sustainable damage. The scapegaots are the scapegaots with a few prizes who are individual deafeated but institutionalization and systematizing the mechanism is strengthened.

The police here LAPD are a minor group that represents Gay facism. They are tyranny of a minority under a tyranny of a majority, the Democrats and Republicans and other static members of society. This position is centered on species failure and not any other political ideology. The Delaware State Police are set up to be the heores but are in actuality implicated. Intermediary are the Baltimore Studio which uses a Synclavier sampling piano to mutilate evidence. The Baltimore Police are remain in the background.

The best class as a group are those persons under 14 years of age. College age persons are openly recruited and are every bit as bad as any civil rights disorder of the 1960s of which students state they helped support. This a case of reversed polarites and being dependent puppet actors of this mechansim which is defection under prisonner's dilemma.

Sheila Fitzpatrick writes in Everyday Stalinism Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s:

Their lives were tossed around by Communist policies; their tempers were tried on a daily basis by incompetent and arbitrary officials, clerks, and salespeople, all working for the state. This was the omnipresent context of Soviet everyday life; there was no way to live without it. Thus, our story begins with an overview of the Stalinist regime and its institutions and practices, particularly the Communist Party's style of rule and mentalité.

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Censorship and the Media

In the last few years there has been much fascination in the mainstream United States media with blogs. The mainstream media as TimeWarner, Associated Press, United Press International, and as well as cable providers as CNN have to realize that they are in a pay for coverage market environment. There are many issues of high importance that these measures of communication as well as radio will not cover for political and market considerations.

The academic territorality provides some alternative and compatible aperture for coverage of newsworthy and historic events but it too is static, ritualistic, and wishes to promote its own interests as the truth for all.

The filters of Big Money and Politics account for a percenatge and dimension for the cultural alienation that the World Wide Web and Internet provide for many persons with little or no input.

One of the most important structure in this mix are the agents of Social Control the miltary and police in dictating overtly or tacitly what is said.

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