I would be most interested in what you would, I suppose call psychic trauma, especially in relation to group mind or collective consciousness. That is to say the reactionary reflexive (biological) impulses of particular segments (women and children being the most vulnerable allegedly) that are further multiplied and harnessed by institutional structures. For constructive as well as destructive purposes. Constructive, to suit the interests of those with the means to tap into these primal forces, and destructive, when pointed towards rivals. Done simply by playing up to threats and rewards, not just in reality, but perhaps even more importantly, in the conceptual or theoretical or even emotive realm. In closing I would just like to finish of with a few rhetoricals... How do you herd cats? By either moving their food bowl or letting the dogs on them, or possibly both. What do you do with them after herding them into formation? Why not create a front line of hissing and sharp claws to raid and terrorize other farms to expand your own territory Protected by the fact that they were once terrorized themselves and are still suffering from the trauma maybe, By those dogs remember, who were well trained enough to only rip away at their clothes and then pay them money after the fact for the indignity. If they were gentlemen's dogs I suppose. Who may even have been generous enough to offer them cuts for every successful raid they carried out henceforth. A share in the farm! Essentially turning cats into chickens through the process, so that they are now ready to do anything you say, at just the promise of regaining their cat-hood back Being a cat is at least a step up from being a chicken right? Consoling themselves even further with the fact that they were at least able to spare their litter, some of them anyway, by agreeing to play along at first. And now? And now it's just a bit too late to stop probably. And what about that promise of striking it rich and having a share in the farm one day? What every cat, dog, chicken or struggling farmer dreams about I suppose. Paying other people to do the donkey work right?
I would be most interested in what you would, I suppose call psychic trauma, especially in relation to group mind or collective consciousness. That is to say the reactionary reflexive (biological) impulses of particular segments (women and children being the most vulnerable allegedly) that are further multiplied and harnessed by institutional structures. For constructive as well as destructive purposes. Constructive, to suit the interests of those with the means to tap into these primal forces, and destructive, when pointed towards rivals. Done simply by playing up to threats and rewards, not just in reality, but perhaps even more importantly, in the conceptual or theoretical or even emotive realm.
In closing I would just like to finish of with a few rhetoricals...
How do you herd cats?
By either moving their food bowl or letting the dogs on them, or possibly both.
What do you do with them after herding them into formation?
Why not create a front line of hissing and sharp claws to raid and terrorize other farms to expand your own territory
Protected by the fact that they were once terrorized themselves and are still suffering from the trauma maybe,
By those dogs remember, who were well trained enough to only rip away at their clothes and then pay them money after the fact for the indignity.
If they were gentlemen's dogs I suppose. Who may even have been generous enough to offer them cuts for every successful raid they carried out henceforth. A share in the farm!
Essentially turning cats into chickens through the process, so that they are now ready to do anything you say, at just the promise of regaining their cat-hood back
Being a cat is at least a step up from being a chicken right? Consoling themselves even further with the fact that they were at least able to spare their litter, some of them anyway, by agreeing to play along at first.
And now? And now it's just a bit too late to stop probably. And what about that promise of striking it rich and having a share in the farm one day?
What every cat, dog, chicken or struggling farmer dreams about I suppose. Paying other people to do the donkey work right?
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