The animal emits raw emotion. The human is self-master of emotion and focuses it for a purpose.
The censorship you speak of does not “dehumanize” people, it just pisses them off :-) and creates a subtle buildup of rebellion and chaos. The problem is the human mastery of emotion imposed on another, not the previous enlightened self-mastery I mentioned.
This relationship IMO was best described below:
The Law of Eristic Escalation, as presented by Malaclypse the Younger in Principia Discordia, 5th edition introduction by Kerry Thornley, Discordian Society Co-Founder.
This Law pertains to any arbitrary or coercive imposition of order. It
is: Imposition of Order = Escalation of Chaos.
Fenderson’s Amendment adds that the tighter the order in question is
maintained, the longer the consequent chaos takes to escalate, BUT the more
it does when it does!
Armed with the Law of Eristic Escalation and Fenderson’s
Amendment any imbecile - not just a sociologist - can understand politics.
So I will translate into the lingua franca of the Western world: An
imposition of order creates a chaos deficit, which compounds until it is paid
off (by enduring all the outstanding chaos).
Of course, Eris thinks all chaos is outstanding. But we mortals find
too much of a good thing a little overwhelming. Thus we cringe when we
encounter an anerism - a pronouncement, that is, which is innocent of the
Law of Eristic Escalation.
If you hear that outlawing prostitution will eradicate rape, you are
listening to an anerism - a manifestation of Aneristic Delusion. (If you read
“The Sacred Chao” on pages 00049 and 00050 - instead of skipping over it
in the recommended way - you will comprehend the anamysticmetaphorics
of aneristics.)
An anerism nearly always enters the world through the mouth of a
politician - but it can come by way of any authority figure such as a minister
or a teacher or a parent or a boss or Ronald McDonald.
“We need more laws with stiffer penalties to rid our community of
drugs,” says an innocent pawn of Eris. To be sure, these laws make
smuggling and selling and buying drugs more risky. That, in turn, drives up
their prices - thus making them more profitable. So more money and work
goes into expanding the market for the contraband - in keeping with the Law
of Eristic Escalation.
Or, as the Taoist sage Chuang Tzu simply said, “The more laws there
are, the more crime there is.”
(Identification and elucidation of anerisms is a favorite pastime of politically conscious Discordians - who note that the whole text of my
“Epistle to the Paranoids” on page 00069 is a psychological anerism.
Goddess punished me for it, about five years later, by turning me into a
paranoid myself. A conspiracy helped Her. As of this writing, I am still
paranoid - according to my friends.) (Or are they my enemies?)
Proliferation of crime in the wake of multiplication of laws is more
than a matter of expanded definition. Governments are impositions of order
designed to discourage theft and killing. But they wind up taking more in
taxes than all the freelance crooks around could steal. Their wars involve
more killing than all the meanest toughs and hoodlums can hope to rival. |