“Kalsched describes a splitbetween the vulnerable and shamefully hidden remainder the "whole Self," often portrayed as a child or animal, and "a powerful, benevolent or malevolent great being" who protects the innocent being.
What seems counterintuitive in his description is that this "protector" should show itself alsoasa malevolent forcein the psyche, one that often persecutesthe personal spirit and shows itself to the dream ego as a daemonic and terrifying force.
He notes that most "contemporary writers tend to see this attacking figure as an internalized version of the actualperception of the trauma.”
However, for Kalsched, this is only half correct since "the internal figure is oftenEVEN MORE SADISTIC and brutalthan the actual `outer world perpetrator."'
For Kalsched, this indicates that we are dealing with something that is contributed from The Psyche, a psychological factor and "an archetypal traumatogenic agency within The Psyche itself."" It is strange to think of such a brutal force as a "protector."
Kalsched explains that the intention of this daemonic force is to prevent at all coststhe reexperiencing of the horror, the genesis of the traumatogenic organization.
The daemons of the inner world, like the temple lions at the entrance of sacred spaces, serve to keep away The Unprepared.
They will "disperse fragments (dissociation) or encapsulate it and sooth it with fantasy (schizoid withdrawal) or numb it with intoxicating substances (addictions) or persecute itto keep it fromHoping for Life in This World (depression).""
Hopewouldopen The Soul, leaving itvulnerableto what is imagined as an even more painful experience than that which the "protective daemon" enforces on the wounded "personal spirit."
It is often the case, however, that The Cure is worse than The "Illness," even if this cannot be seen from within the experience ofthe overwhelming threatthat continues in the wake of trauma. The fact that The Ego does not notice the problematic character of The Cure sets the stage for the fact that "the primitive defense does not learn anything about realistic danger.... Each new life opportunity is mistakenly seen as a dangerous threat of re-traumatization and is therefore attacked. In this way, the archaic defenses become Anti-Life Forceswhich Freud understandably thought of as part of The Death Instinct."
This is not surprising since the "self-care system" will "go to any length to protect The Self" in spite of the continual masochistic suffering involved, "even to the point of killing the host personality in which this personal spirit is housed
As a result, what was intended to be a defence against further trauma now becomes itself destructive in a variety of ways: "The personsurvives but cannot live creatively.""
Such consequences also manifest themselves in the ravages of depression and melancholic affect "engineered by our self-care system..""
It's not The Girl, Peter, it's TheBuilding! Something Terrible is about the enter Our World and This Building is obviously The Door.
This is a Story of a Period Between Two World Wars — an interim in which Insanity cut loose.
Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.”
Sister Lucia (to her priest nephew):
“It is necessary not to let yourself be drawn away by the doctrines of disorientated contradictors… The campaign is diabolical. We need to confront it, without getting into conflicts.”
Last Sunday we broached some of the root causes of the problems we are facing in our day… problems that we must come to grips with as members of The Church, as citizens of our beloved country.
In our discussion we mentioned Dialectics and Alchemy.
Although I have spoken on dialectics a couple of times, it seems fitting and timely to once again address this catalyst for socio-political transformation preferred by the Communist like alchemists of our day… the disorienting contradictors!
Dialectics? What does that mean? The Dictionary says a Dialectic is the existence of two opposing forces or things.
Dialectics is concerned with or acting through Opposing Forces.
So, a Dialectician is one who is skilled at getting two things to oppose each other in order to act through them.
He gets them to engage in a Struggle of some kind for his own ends.
This kind of dialectic is a sort of pummelling of some individuals or groups in order to dispose them to receive a new form … some “new normal” of modern times!
Rather than a “renunciation” of eugenics in the 1930s, forced-sterilization laws persisted for 40 more years at some of the best medical institutions.
Stephen Budiansky’s review of Daniel Okrent’s “The Guarded Gate” (Books, May 4) about eugenics in America fails to mention the pervasive forced-sterilization laws which persisted in the U.S. into the 1970s in places like North Carolina. Eugenics in America is important because the best medical journals and medical minds endorsed it. Rather than a “renunciation” of eugenics in the 1930s, forced-sterilization laws persisted for 40 more years at some of the best medical institutions.
And it was used as “evidence” for not just forced sterilization, but also euthanasia programs in Germany. Dr. Peter Breggin has documented that German psychiatrists practiced euthanasia both before and after the Third Reich.
Patience is The Reward paid due to he would learn the skill to endure The Quiet.
The importance of eugenics for today’s health policy is important but ignored by both the medical community and mainstream media. The best medical journals advocate managed care to protect scarce resources and make America globally competitive. Harsh rationing of medical care to the poor, people of color and the very sick elderly are a reality of modern managed care.
The mainstream media and academic medicine do nothing.
We are on the verge of another “evidenced based” purge of “undesirables” in America. A reading of Stanley Milgram’s classic work, “Obedience to Authority,” shows how scientific authority can cause ordinary people to commit murderous acts against innocents. Mr. Budiansky should have taken notice and warned readers that the legacy of eugenics is at work in America today.
Brant S. Mittler, M.D., J.D.
The Architect's name was Ivo Shandor - I found it in Tobin's Spirit Guide. He was also a Doctor. Performed a lot of unnecessary surgery. And then, in 1920 he founded a Secret Society.
PETER
Let me guess - Gozer worshippers.
EGON :
After The First World War, Shandor decided that Society was TOO SICK to survive.
And he wasn't alone. He had close to a thousand followers when he died.
They conducted rituals up on The Roof, bizarrerituals, intended to bring about The END of The WORLD,
and now it looks like it may actually HAPPEN!
"Somebody had to clear up the mess."
Capt. G. Mainwaring,
British Expeditionary Force,
France, 1919
D.W. Griffith intertwined four stories in Intolerance, The Fall of Babylon being the longest and best known.
Music composed and copyrighted by Edward Rolf Boensnes.
Birth of a Nation - Wagner The ride of the Valkyries
"I have always been willing to put myself at great personal risk for the sake of Entertainment and I’ve always been willing to put you at great personal risk for the same reason.
As far as I’m concerned, all of this airport security, all the searches, the screenings, the cameras, the questions - It’s just one more way of reducing your Liberty, and reminding you that They can fuck with you anytime they want… As long as you put up with it… As long as you put up with it -- Which means of course anytime they want, cause that’s what Americans do now, they’re always willing to trade away a little of their Freedom in exchange for the feeling, The Illusion of Security.
What we have now is a completely neurotic population obsessed with security and safety and crime and drugs and cleanliness and hygiene and germs… There’s another thing… germs. Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this?
The Media, constantly running stories about all the latest infections – salmonella, e-coli, hanta virus, bird flu – and Americans, they panic easily so now everybody’s running around, scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs. It’s ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths. In prisons, before they give you a lethal injection, They swab your arm with alcohol! It’s True! Yeah! Well, they don’t want you to get an infection! And you could see their point; wouldn’t want some guy to go to Hell and be sick! It would take a lot of the sportsmanship out of the whole execution. Fear of Germs… why these fucking pussies! You can’t even get a decent hamburger anymore! They cook the shit out of everything now cause everybody’s afraid of food poisoning! Hey, where’s your sense of adventure? Take a fucking chance will you? You know how many people die in this country from food poisoning every year? 9000… That’s all; it’s a minor risk! Take a fucking chance… bunch of goddamn pussies! Besides, what do you think you have an immune system for? It’s for killing germs! But it needs practice… It needs germs to practice on. So listen! If you kill all the germs around you, and live a completely sterile life.... Then when germs do come along, you’re not gonna be prepared. And never mind ordinary germs -- What are you gonna do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid shit? I’ll tell you what you’re gonna do… You’re gonna get sick, You’re gonnadie, and You’re gonna deserveit cause you’re fucking weak and you got a fucking weak immune system!
On 31 January, a large number of strikers (contemporary estimates range from 20,000 to 25,00012) congregated in George Square. They were awaiting an answer to a their petition which the CWC had delivered to the Lord Provost of Glasgow some days earlier.13
Accounts differ on what initiated the violence on the day, but police testimony at the following trials records that the police baton charged the striking workers at 12:20.14
As the fighting started in George Square, a Clyde Workers’ Committee deputation was in the Glasgow City Chambers meeting with the Lord Provost of Glasgow. On hearing the news, CWC leaders David Kirkwood and Emanuel Shinwell left the City Chambers and started towards George Square.
Kirkwood was knocked to the ground by a police baton.15 Then he, William Gallacher and Shinwell were arrested. They were charged with “instigating and inciting large crowds of persons to form part of a riotous mob”.1617 Kirkwood was found not guilty at trial after a photograph was submitted to the court, showing him lying on the ground after being knocked out by police, before reaching George Square and the fighting.
After the baton charge, the outnumbered police retreated from George Square. The fighting between the strikers and police, some mounted, spread into the surrounding streets and continued into the night.18
Military deployment
Medium Mark C tanks and soldiers at the Glasgow Cattle Market in the Gallowgate
The events of the day prompted the request for military assistance by the Sheriff of Lanarkshire, the King’s representative in the area. The deployment had already begun before the day’s meeting of the War Cabinet,19 which convened at 3pm.20
During that meeting Munro, Secretary for Scotland, described the demonstration as “a Bolshevist uprising”. It was decided to deploy troops from Scotland and Northern England: troops from the local Maryhill barracks were not deployed because it was feared that men there might have sided with their neighbours.3 General Sir Charles Harington Harington, the Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff informed the meeting that 6 tanks supported by 100 lorries were “going north that evening”.20 It was stated that up to 12,000 troops could be deployed.
It is sometimes suggested that the War Cabinet ordered this deployment, but this is incorrect: the government lacked the authority to deploy troops against British civilians without declaring martial law, which was not declared. The War Cabinet discussed the issue but the military deployment was in response to the request from the Sheriff of Lanarkshire.19
The first troops arrived that night,21 with their numbers increasing over the next few days. The six Medium Mark C tanks, of the Royal Tank Regiment arrived from Bovington on Monday 3 February.22 Machine gun nests were placed in George Square. The Observer newspaper reported that “The city chambers is like an armed camp.‘The quadrangle is full of troops and equipment, including machine guns.”3
The military arrived after the rioting was over and they played no active role in dispersing the protesters.19 The troops guarded locations of import to the civil authorities throughout the period of the strike, which lasted until 12 February. The troops and tanks then remained in Glasgow, and its surrounding areas, until 18 February.
