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Which Comes First- Society or Man?

December 28, 2010 in Civilization, Discontent, Human Nature, Philosophy, Social Nature by Genruk | No comments

Much of what I have been saying intimates that much of what ails mankind is the result of the limitations put upon him by his civilization by way of cultural inculcation. The question we have to ask ourselves is which should come first, man or his society? This is a difficult, maybe even impossible, question to answer. In fact, even initiating such a contemplation is a difficult endeavor, for where are we to begin? Humans are egocentric by nature, and this is expressed in our want of freedom and independence. On the other hand, we are wickedly social and are driven to seek the company, or should I say the attention, of others. But if we are to accept that there is an unacceptable constraint on human nature by cultural inculcation then we must come to a conclusion as to which agency we should make divine, individuality or nationality. In part, this decision must be made after a painfully pragmatic take on the issue- is man even able to glory over the individual while forcing society to take a back seat. Would such an endeavor lead to social chaos? If man is to truly face up to the social ills that are the champions of discontent then this discussion must be somehow come to fruition and thereby finds its way into the social limelight of intelligentsia today.
Genruk

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Social Media and Our Culture

December 21, 2010 in Civilization, Essays, Philosophy, Social Nature by Genruk | No comments

When I first appreciated the onslaught of social media, the first thing that came to mind was that it was nothing less than a catalyst for the further degradation of a decadent culture. Of course, that is my typical knee slap response to anything in its incipience, before it has had time to grow past its ugly duckling period. Blogs, I thought, were online soapboxes for the general public to clamor upon about this thing and that. To a large degree I was initially correct. But what I did not calculate was the fact that such egocentricity would soon peter out, only to be followed by people with something worth listening to. My initial responses to Myspace and Facebook were pretty much the same, if not even more scornfully so. Though Myspace is really not my deal, Facebook has come to be a huge part of social sharing that I could not have imagined possible. Again, time let the field of social weeds cull themselves, and now we are left mainly with a scent full field of Facebook flowers. Now with Twitter I was initially aghast. To me it was the stupidest thing on the interweb. Again, how more wrong I could have been is impossible to conceptualize.

So what’s the verdict?  Was there even a verdict to be decided upon?  I would have to say that social media is no longer in my cross hairs of cultural evil, no longer the fomenting agent of our civilization’s ruin.  Instead, the onslaught of social media, for those up to date, has become a way to remain connected with people, to add remarkable ideas for their community to ponder, and to level the playing field for the commoner.  This last attribute might be the greatest of all, for it is threatening to change the whole of our advertising industry, from the interruption-based industry of commercial campaigns to becoming a league of transparent companies that attracts its customers by its good deeds, by its offering of free and useful information, and by good old fashion hard work.  Online social media has become the champion , the freighter even , of industrial transparency. Not only does corporate malfeasance easily come bubbling to the surface of the online community, ingenuous characters are quickly sniffed out and scoffed. Simply put, one’s online reputation is made good with continued, determined, and honest effort but turned sour with frightening ease. This is one of the first positive cultural movements that our civilization has seen in a while, a movement which just might be the turning point for reverting our culture’s immanent decadence into a movement where the West is back on track as an almost living phenomenon.
Genruk

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Mythbusters-Is Voting a Joke?

December 2, 2010 in Human Nature, Vested Interests by Genruk | No comments

America is the champion of democracy, and the immediate results seem to indicate that this wonderful institution might be the next best thing to white bread.  But is white bread a good thing?  Do voters actually go to the booth with their country’s best interests in mind, or might the glamorous voter actually have a more insidious motivation?  In other words, might a voter’s punch of the e-card be shadowed by their vested interests, steering them away from choices that might better the community to the single-minded benefit of those registered few?  The truth is that most will likely vote for candidates whose prevarications intimate that they are on our side, the good side, as opposed to that other nefarious faction whose intents are an invidious exertion to wholesale as many souls as possible to Lucifer?  Does the democratic machine that has led to the seething factional rivalry as seen today really the divine light of humanity, or might it instead foment the darker side of humanity that Western Civilization has for so long kept in the closet?

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Before Society Can Change…

November 30, 2010 in Human Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Rule of 150, Vested Interests by Genruk | No comments

The persistent problem with the human condition is that after man has instituted some revolutionary change for the collective better, these same men typically backslide towards self-centered, avaricious and occasionally nefarious tendencies.  This merely drives the cycle of discontent.  In order to combat this inclination man must first learn how to be self-aware and vigilant of his own programmed instincts and behaviors such that he may recognize these nasty little tendencies for what they are, tendencies that are to the benefit of the individual and maybe his immediate community but that can be destructive or even anti-social for the greater whole.  Man simply needs to levy a campaign of self-realized truth.

For example, as per the Rule of 150 and its cousin hypothesis the Rule of Familiarity, man is xenophobic by nature.  When a man is confronted by a strange man of which he might exploit, were he to consider his situation as a creature that is pre-programmed to be wary to aggressive towards the stranger, then he might be able to combat any shifty designs that he might have contemplated through an honest evaluation of the animal nature, his animal nature, in regards to the whole affair.  In doing so, the truth of his nature is acknowledged, embraced, and hence is not vilified into the shadowy realms of Stygian iniquity.  Man can be compelled to do the right thing not because the bible tells him so, but because it furthers a social existence that eschews discontent and catapults mankind into the machinations of honest glory.  This acceptance of veritable human nature is the only compound that will accelerate humanity and society into an exemplary existence, one of which each of us can wake each day, look into the mirror, and be honestly proud of what we see.  Now that is a life worth looking towards.

Genruk

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How Bad Natured Can Help

November 23, 2010 in Bad Natured, Book Update, Discontent, Dogma, Essays, Human Nature, Philosophy, Vested Interests by Genruk | No comments

The sentiment of Bad Natured is geared towards discovering the off ramp from the platitudinous philosophic contentions that serve to perpetuate and honor themselves as opposed to, and at the expense of, the humans that created them.  It is time to set aside, leave behind, and move beyond these tired philosophies of yesteryear and embrace pragmatic, living and breathing contentions whose purpose is to serve mankind instead of promoting the highfalutin notion of intelligentsia safely ensconced in its ivory towers of thundering self-importance.  It is time to reverse the subjugation that philosophies past have held over man, theories whose self-serving  import spin unnecessary answers to issues that exist in some sidereal realm of which the everyman is not only made aloof, but unknowingly is driven to counterfeit cosmic actors and actresses whose only role is to play out a global tragedy, as if no other means of existence could possibly make sense.  Instead of the canonic role-playing applied to man and his purpose in life, Bad Natured merely approaches the truths of the human creature in order to facilitate an existence based upon the veritable nature of man instead of the highly romantic and supposedly divine role of men and the ludicrous fashion of existence that has only led human beings to beat themselves silly upon a insuperable wall of discontent.  As such, the goals of Bad Natured are:

1.  Help humanity see the veritable creature that man is as opposed to the mythical creature that culture has concocted for mankind to believe itself to be

2.  To reduce and eliminate the shame that culture has infused man with when the inner animal of humanity comes seeping in the surface

3.  To help man be at one with the animal that he is.  This is not to say that men should attempt to satisfy their every carnal whim, but to understand that these emotions are part of the collective that is human nature and not the whims of some nefarious entity

4.  To use these truths of human nature in the creation of judicious and insightful communities and feasible legislative policies that take into account the veritable nature of man

If man is to have a goal, a purpose in life, it should be to get off the high horse of hubris that threatens the tenuous infrastructure of society and instead turn that blind eye back upon ourselves, see ourselves as we really are, and then institute a society based on what we are and not that we wish to be.

Genruk

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Human Nature versus Culture

November 16, 2010 in Discontent, Dogma, Essays, Human Nature, Psychology by Genruk | No comments

The common argument today is that our civilization is but an expression of our fundamental human nature and that any attempts to parry such a phenomenon is a fruitless blow to basic humanity.  What rubbish!  What this short-sighted view fails to take into account is the inculcating forces of culture, forces which cause men to behave in ways far removed from their natural inclinations.  Culture is no doubt the result of the expression of humanity, but its foundations are born of an unnatural explosion of the human population which has resulted in bloated community populations of which man is not suited.  As such, culture is no longer interested in merely mirroring the natural facets of humanity and has instead engendered the responsibility of containing man’s inherent of behavioral expressions in a fashion that accords to the abstract wishes of civilization in its efforts to propagate that same civilization at the cost of individual contentedness.  In other words, as man has been forced to accord himself to the wants of society, his basic instincts are no longer the driving force of human expression, resulting in a culture which is not so much an expression of pure humanity but is instead an expression of an aberrant humanity that is stressed beyond comprehension.  It is this distorted expression that deserves our attention here in our plight, our disheveled search for a means to find a social structure upon which consummate contentedness is to be the order of the day.

Genruk

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I Am Not an Animal!

November 9, 2010 in Dogma, Essays, Human Nature, Philosophy by Genruk | No comments

“I Am Not an Animal.  I Am a Human Being.  I Am a Man.”  And therein lies the problem.  This quote, wrongfully taken out of context from the inimitable David Lynch’s Elephant Man, still well serves our purposes, for we at Bad Natured feel that this intimation to be true of most human beings, disfigured or not.  We can blame it on our amplified sense of self-awareness if we want, but this notion is true nonetheless.  Coupling extreme intelligence with our obtrusive self-awareness, and adding in a dash of human nature gone awry to connote the presence of evil, all with the occasional vociferous prophet that easily gleans our attention by ingeniously saying what we merely wish to hear, we have the perfect ingredients for apotheosis, or self-elevated divinity.

While this is all good and dandy, the problems that result are born through our election of the self  to the holding of office of God’s children, for we conveniently relegate our behaviors to that of sidereal spirits, frowning upon any notion that hints of basic biology.  We are merely souls trapped within bio-bags, at least that is the fantasy.  In believing as such, we somehow dismiss that our genetic codes are curiously similar to chimpanzees, that our instinctual behaviors are merely an extension of these creatures.  Try as we might to think ourselves different, special even, we point to our iPhones and Blackberries as proof to our divinity, as if.  Our cultural inculcation only fuels our dreams of sublimity, and when our innate behaviors leak out, as they will invariably will, we point to Satan as the agent of deviation, replacing the notion of hard-wired human nature with evil.

What is worse, using the word biological to describe a human being becomes an affront to the spiritual, as if these two notions could not sit in the same room without starting a fight, as if they were so antagonistic to each other as to be akin to matter and antimatter, with any and all intimacy bringing to fruition chaos and destruction with cold emptiness the bambino of their intimacy.

For the record, human beings are animals; they are driven by primal inclinations; they are brainwashed by their culture to believe the predominant mythology; and biological verity does not preclude the possibility of some spiritual existence.

Genruk

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Cultural Inculcation Anonymous

November 2, 2010 in Bad Natured, Discontent, Dogma, Human Nature, Philosophy by Genruk | 2 comments

Bad Natured is, yep, the first cultural step, the grand announcement, that man has a problem.  Be it addiction to drink, drug, sex, or convenient rationalization and self-centered behavior at the expense of humanity, one must first realize that one has in his gritty little palms the pink slip of shame before congruent action can be taken.  But unlike the drunk that needs to fall to bottom of the barrel to find that his lot  might be bettered by abandoning the bottle before action is taken to correct his wayward ways, civilization has no such luxury of time.  By the time the West discovers that its errant ways are leading to its own utter extirpation it will be too late to take action.  It may in fact already be too late, but defeatism is not to be tolerated as policy, and hence the message must continue to be perpetuated.

The West has a problem, a problem that is leading to its downfall, and unless man owns up to this fact , having moved past the age of universal empire, his lot will soon succumb to the age of full-blown social decay.  This will not be as pretty as it sounds, and it sounds awful.  The reality is that man needs to face the mirror of his nature and own up to what he what he sees, not that which he wishes to see.  Bad Natured is simple a transitional aid which serves to help man to truthfully appreciate the equivocations that he has come to believe as opposed to the truths that he has yet to face.  Bad Natured : Why Humans Cannot Behave, does this with minimal judgment and with open arms to help face those dogmas that have obnubilated reality with specious philosophies which have only served up a plate of strife and discontent in the guise of social nutrients.  It is time to take the poison out of social dogma by joining what might be thought of as my social program, aptly called Cultural Inculcation Anonymous.

Genruk

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Genocide and Honesty

October 19, 2010 in Discontent, Essays, Human Nature, Perversion, Philosophy by Genruk | No comments

One of the catch phrases today that is used to capture all that is evil is “the wave of genocide,” which is literally defined as a social movement with the attempt and execution of the extermination of a specific class of people based on racial, ethnic,  spiritual, national, or some other definable class of people.  The idea of the magnitude of such an endeavor chills the blood and knits the forehead.  Contemplations of such atrocities catalyzes emotions which in turn becloud any level-headed deliberation of a genocidal campaign.  Such endeavors become unimaginable and hence become relegated to the house of iniquity with Satan as mayor.  And serious thought in this human capacity becomes tainted with emotionally generated self-righteousness, paving the road of future deterrents with self-deluded concrete as  its foundations.

With the famous “too many rats in a cage” study firmly planted in our minds, we must not drop the ball of coherent reason and succumb to the irrationality of emotion.  Man must strive to look at this problem with a scientist’s indifferent resolve.  Without condoning genocide, Bad Natured will not champion the jockey ponying the of masses of stupidity when eyeballing the causes of such atrocities.  When too many people are caged together, and especially when they can be cleaved into two classes or denominations, the only logical result for the humanly animals, beholden to both the Rule of 150 and the Rule of Familiarity, would be for one to turn against the other, often violently so.  Being self-aware only confuses the motivations for these resultant campaigns of mass murder, where the strongest aggressor whips he and his cohort’s minds into a frenzy of contrived culpability for their woes, which ineluctably land their cross hairs of incrimination onto the weakest of the two sects.  When some social catalyst arrives, such as Hitler or the assassination of a country’s president, the social chemistry of convenient accountability creates the condemnation of the aggressors by way of gas chamber or machete, followed by the tsunami of atrocity until the blood that runneth spills over into the consciousness of the conscientious, the crooked fingers of blame bleating and waving wildly in search of the human manifestation of evil.  Crooked fingers originate out of crooked contemplations, and this is the point of this whole philosophical endeavor, for it is implored that for the moment, maybe those crooked fingers might be holstered and that man might finally come to terms with the animal that resides within, that the phenomena of self-awareness has yet the puissance to reign in that holdover of biological evolution, and that until this primal creature is honored, monitored, understood, and ultimately under control of that abstruse notion of the self, atrocity by way of rationalization and justification will remain the order of the day…

Genruk

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Leading by Intelligence and Empathy

October 12, 2010 in Dogma, Human Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Nature by Genruk | 1 comment

Today’s leaders seem a complicated lot, duplicitous intriguers whose every intent is obfuscated by some platitude.  A simple breakdown of human character can help clear the way in our understanding of both leaders and followers, shepherds and sheep.  In doing so, our classification system will merely entail the incorporation of two traits of man, intelligence and empathy, and from this we can better understand the hierarchical system of humanity.

Let us start at the top and then work our way down:

1.  Political and business leaders are those with high intelligence and little empathy.

2.  The middle classes are those with high intelligence and high empathy.

3.  The lower classes are those with low intelligence and high empathy.

4.  The criminal classes are those with low intelligence and low empathy.

Of course, people are not so easily pigeonholed into such simple classes, but an argument can be made that such a classification approximates our hierarchical structure.  At the top of the food chain are men that are highly intelligent and that are not constrained by their conscience, allowing them to makes grave decisions without emotions clouding their judgment.  These qualities allow them to intrigue their way to the top of the social heap, and once there these conniving qualities,  unrestrained by empathic manacles, allows them to act in a fashion that allows them to remain in their elevated position.

The average middle class Joe is intelligent but is harnessed by his sense of right and wrong, his conscience, by his endowment of a heightened senses of empathy.  He also cares too much about how he might be seen in the eyes of others to allow for the shenanigans of his dreams to come to fruition.  This is the class of discontent by way of unrealized desire.

In the lower class folks what we have are rather unintelligent masses whose concern for others keeps them in check.  Almost romantic in scope, the peasant class has little by material standards but has the greatest capacity for a community-based lifestyle. As long as they are not being taken advantage of by society’s upper crust they may in fact be the most contented of classes as they do not manufacture desires to be filled but instead only have their most basic desires coupled with their community to keep them satisfied.

At the bottom of the heap we have the peoples whose paucity of intelligence and empathy lead them to a life of crime and punishment.  This class forever endeavors in get rich quick schemes that seem too easy because their limited intelligence does not allow to see the obvious dangers that their shenanigans are fraught with.  Their low empathic characters likewise keep them unconcerned with the considerations or perceptions of others.

There you have it, the politically incorrect system of sociopathic class gradation for the hierarchical totem pole of man.  Unsavory though it may seem, proving it wrong will demand the might of specious equivocations based upon convenient foundations of reality, precepts solidly entrenched as reality  in the minds of humanity that is currently appreciated here on Planet Earth.

Genruk

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