Fear-based Conditioning

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WW-I, then WW-II AND then Korea, AND then Viet Nam with a few theaters of conflict over in the oil fields in Europe and each one a level the next didn’t want increasing our fear or war with its violence, grave harm and many deaths.

Movies, television, video’s, video games, and now live world wide on-line video play where each one escalated the content of violence.

Societies desire to stop the violence through manipulation, compliance and influence brain-washing principles to permanently eliminate violence and failing miserably.

If we ask, “what is violence?” We often hear definitions derived from the influence of the entertainment industry.

Go ahead, ask yourself to explain what you feel defines violence. I would bet in this time the first thought of many might be in reference to the movie, “Joker!” Why, because it has grabbed society’s attention in the media on its violence both physical AND psychologically.

In societies effort to quell hatred and violence the have created a fear-based social construct instead. Fear in appropriate moderate manifestations is healthy but inordinate fear is more dangerous and deadly to said social construct. It is apparent in our everyday news and social interactions. 

We fear fear itself and in societies effort to deal with it we created laws against violence and conditioned the fearful to require others to deal with it through laws and its enforcement resulting in the victimization industry.

It is apparent that the mistaken understanding of the role of violence in our species world, survival, is driving the necessity to remove it from our presence. It might help to understand, fundamentally, what violence is and how it is used: 

Violence: Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something; the unlawful exercise of physical force or intimidation by the exhibition of such force; strength of emotion or an unpleasant or destructive natural force. 

As one notices this general definition does not tell us all the story behind nature’s use of violence toward a species survival including the human species. First and foremost we have forgotten, or at least suppressed, that violence in a variety of forms in necessary, i.e., Necessary vs. Unnecessary violence.

Necessary vs. Unnecessary violence is also classified as sanctioned vs. unsanctioned violence and all are under the general heading of, “Social vs. Asocial violence.”

Social violence: this is the type of violence that is found in a very social context, i.e., Uncle Bert at a family party is getting a bit tipsy and a bit rowdy so Nephew John must use a physical restraining method to control and calm Uncle down. 

Asocial violence: this is the type of violence that is random and a result of targeting by criminal elements to anyone who would be acceptable as a target for either a “resource” objective or “process” objective. Resource example is robbery while a process is molestation and so on. 

Neither of these, social/asocial, are necessary yet some are necessary such as the need to handle Uncle Bert, for instance. Handling Uncle Bert is a sanctioned, at least socially and possibly legally, form of violence but can turn unsanctioned and illegal if the force used to control Uncle Bert ends up entering the realm of socially unacceptable, i.e., you smack your Uncle up side his head, he falls and his head hits the pavement causing his death. Was the force used necessary, etc., and if not, it becomes a criminal action prosecutable in the legal system. 

Necessary/sanctioned violence: a good example here is boxing, MMA bouts, football, etc., because they all involve a form of violence in the playing of the game. Another is war when sanctioned by one’s society and classified as justified by society, in general, and even by the world to achieve a common goal. 

Unnecessary/unsanctioned violence: any criminal activity whether taking things too far with Uncle Bert or involving resource/process predatory actions resulting in harm or death. 

There are times, both socially and globally, where the only way to achieve a certain goal and objective is the use of violence. We are a violent species and once we accept and understand that the definition of violence cuts both ways we will mistakenly assume all violence is likened to that depicted in movies like the “Joker.” 

The balancing act for those of us teaching self-protection is finding that balance point between, necessary-unnecessary and justified-unjustified and sanctioned by society and not sanctioned by society and remaining on the side of justified, necessary and sanctioned (society and its legal system, etc.). 

Remember, there is more to violence than the mere physical because the psychological damage caused without raising even a finger against others can be just as damaging and devastating resulting in a psychological harm that can lead to self-inflected harm and death. 

We use violence all the time to achieve our goals and objectives both in a private way and in a social way. It comes down to the degree and level both in the violence and in the force applied both physical and psychological. 

Our society today has labeled violence in such a way as to foster a drive and desire to rid ourselves completely and comprehensively from all violence regardless of its necessity, viability and benefit to self and others to the point that necessary, sanctioned and appropriate acts of violence are used against us to achieve success in the enforcement and force used, violence as well, to dictate to us how society and the legal system wants us to act, does this ring any bells as to history and the downfall of social constructs? 

Fear-based social conditioning does not work; fear-based social conditioning simply takes away the very tools necessary for human survival and it never, ever achieves that state of utopia. 

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