Societal Sadomasochism∗James Redford†July 4, 2021ABSTRACT:One cannot understand the extreme schizophrenia and sado-masochistic psychopathy of mankind—and hence the appeal that etatism holdsfor many—without incorporating the crucial insight provided by psychologist Ju-lian Jaynes in his 1976 monographThe Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown ofthe Bicameral Mind. And here I’m not speaking of so-called “aberrant” human psy-chology, but rather simply standard human psychology that all humans are bornwith due to natural evolution.1 The ProblemThegreat age-old social problem that has faced mankind, and still very much does, isthat most people do not love themselves, but instead actually hate themselves. Humanbeings tend to be extreme gluttons for punishment. This can unmistakably be seenin the extreme systems of mass-horror that humans continuously construct for them-selves. It’s not as if we don’t have essentially the entirety of civilizational human historythat pointedly warns against such social systems, yet humans are utterly fascinated andenchanted by them, like moths to a flame. Obviously these systems of mass-horror areserving some deep-seated need within the human psyche.Now, of course, this is not a conscious realization for most people, but rather isa psychological imperative which they are subconsciously controlled by. This has todo with evolutionary psychology, particularly after the Neolithic Revolution and thebreakdown of the bicameral mind discussed by psychologist Julian Jaynes in his bookThe Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind(Boston: Houghton∗This article is released under Version 3.0 of the “Attribution (By)” Creative Commons license and/orVersion 1.3 of the GNUFree Documentation License. Originally published online on May 29, 2018. Thisarticle-version is hereby published at the Internet Archive on July 4, 2021, ark:/13960/t2r59ws9q.†Email address:<jrredford@yahoo.com>.1Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4500656
Mifflin, 1976). It was the widespread belief among the ancients circa three millenniaago and before that they actually directly interacted with the gods. Jaynes’s crucialinsight was that before the breakdown of the bicameral mind around said era, duringthe evolution of humans out of an animalistic mental state, that humans were notactually self-conscious, but rather had no choice but to obey the commands of the gods,of which gods were actually one part of the brain communicating with a different part—the sensate, action-response part—via human language that would be heard as actualvoices. In other words, our ancestors of circa that era and before were an especiallyextreme form of schizophrenics.I haven’t heard supporters of Jaynes mention this as an item in Jaynes’s favor be-fore, but muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonists, such as scopolamine, providestrong evidence for Jaynes’s theory—indeed, perhaps the strongest, since it makes thevoice-command state Jaynes wrote about completely reproducible. Sociologist LloyddeMause’s work on psychohistory also fits well the Jaynes theory.Jaynes’s theory is also reinforced by Artificial Intelligence researcher Marvin Min-sky’s concept of the Society of Mind (see Marvin Minsky, illustrations by Juliana Lee,The Society of Mind[New York: Touchstone, 1988; 1st ed., 1986]). And both Jaynesand Minsky’s ideas on this are restatements and elaborations on Mark 5:1–20 and Luke8:26–39 involving the Messiah’s interaction with a demon-possessed man. When Jesusasked the demon what its name was, the entity replied, “My name is Legion; for weare many.” Indeed there are a host of these entities within us all. It’s amazing to thinkthat the key to cracking the code of Artificial General Intelligence was given some 2000years ago within these passages.The Jaynesian demons can be usefully defined as those subset of Minskian agentswhich impel people to untowardness, e.g., self-destruction and social destruction.What a demon is in actuality is a particular type of computer-program operatingon the wet-computer of the human brain. Demons are utterly real, but they exist inthe exact same ontological manner which the human mind exists, as the human mindis itself a particular type of computer-program operating on the wet-computer of thehuman brain. The demons are the destructive subsets of the human mind. Sciencehas identified the spiritual realm, and it is the living brain—the living human brain inparticular, since that brain is the most complex at present. The spiritual realm exists!And it’s not that these demons actually wish to end life’s existence, i.e., that theyimpel humans toward suicide and societal suicide. Mere nonexistence is not what theyseek for us. The actual case of the matter is far, far worse than that. For what thesedemons actually seek is to send their host and everyone else to Hell for all eternity. Thedemons are infuriated that they do not have the same level of control they once hadover their hosts, when they could issue what was perceived as voice-commands and2Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4500656
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James Redford, "Societal Sadomasochism", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), July 4, 2021 (orig. pub. May 29, 2018), 4 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.4500656; published in James Redford, The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything: And Other Selected Works (Chișinău, Moldova: Eliva Press, 2021), ISBN: 1636482775, pp. 264-267.
ABSTRACT: One cannot understand the extreme schizophrenia and sadomasochistic psychopathy of mankind--and hence the appeal that etatism holds for many--without incorporating the crucial insight provided by psychologist Julian Jaynes in his 1976 monograph The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. And here I'm not speaking of so-called "aberrant" human psychology, but rather simply standard human psychology that all humans are born with due to natural evolution.
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