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[Redrock12]

Howdy all,

The Am-EU group finishes Chapter 10 of Dr. Andrew's Łobaczewski's Logocracy: A Concept of the State System (translation by Harrison). The synopsis follows:

Logocracy - Chapter 10: Ownership of Property

Social and legal systems regarding ownership of property dates back millennia ago, with Old Testament law giving land ownership for fixed periods, with revisions every 25 years. There was also the feudal system in medieval Europe that was created to delineate "private" property tenure. On the other hand, Native Americans did not take ownership of the land, but rather chose to live in harmony with it.

In modern times where private capitalism morphs into state capitalism, it is "natural" for the greedy latter to get leverage, and take over facilities and resources. It is up to logocracy to resolve ownership issues found in these communistic countries by creating social and legal systems that are in line with natural law. To deal with egoism and ownership pride, morally mature attitudes adopt the idea that goods are to be used to serve others.



Łobaczewski proposes a five classes of goods with examples for each:

Class I. National goods

• Exceptional goods of national and historical importance, defense-related.
• Primarily state-owned, but some could be owned by certain trustworthy institutions (i.e. museums).

Class II. Social goods

• Goods managed by public economic organizations and social welfare institutions with a level of agency that adds a degree of separation between them and the government.
• Goods include: large industrial, communications, energy, and other enterprises
• A directorate of community property consisting of a charter and council would manage important Class II properties. They'd have government and senate representation.
• Reduces opportunity for "speculative extortion" by private and state groups.

Class III. Leased goods

• Goods of permanent social character that can be rented out to individuals such as land, forests, and industrial/commercial facilities currently owned by cooperatives or the state.
• Can't be inherited, but tenancy rights can be.
• Can revert to Class IV if

Class IV. Private goods

• Goods similar to property under democratic law (i.e. Western perceptions of private property) that can be inherited, but not completely destroyed without consent from the relevant authority.
• Possession, use, inheritance, and transaction of these goods can be taxed by state and local government.
• Typically lasts longer than the average human lifespan, and sees value and provides service to current and future generations.
• Owners are materially liable to creditors with relation to its value.
• Can be Class 3 after their owners pass away.

Class V. Personal goods

• Goods include those whose practical life span doesn't exceed the average human life span and are required to ensure a minimum of subsistence and health. Considered an inviolable "natural property"
• Examples include small savings, and small houses and apartments.
• Cannot be taxed, seized, or forfeited except in extreme circumstances. If this is the case, full monetary compensation and other support is required.
• Aim to protect individuals and families from predatory legal proceedings and to reduce social harm.

These separate classifications would simplify the already huge amount of legal regulations we see today regarding ownership of property, which seem almost maze-like for folks and provide greater clarity.

Solutions to preventing predatory government and corporate behavior, and empowering folks to see goods as a means to serve others will come from an understanding of human nature and its resulting natural laws. Łobaczewski emphasizes the importance of not introducing these changes in a revolutionary way, as there's a tendency to throw out everything—including what works—for the sake of something new and different. There's value to be had when examining working solutions in history, and it will take necessary time, effort, and people of good character and abilities (ideally as teams of them) to see these kinds of changes through.

For Next Meeting - November 18th, 2023

We will continue with on with the next chapter: Logocracy - Chapter 11: Logocratic Law for next time.

See y'alls!

Great synopsis @Pecha. IMHO, well-written, easy to understand.
Keep up the good work.

 

[Arwenn]

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[Keit]

Just a note that I won't be able to participate today. Wish you an interesting and productive meeting

 

[Arwenn]

No worries Keit, thanks for letting me know. See you next time

 

[Pecha]

Hi all,

The Am-EU group starts Chapter 11 of Dr. Andrew's Łobaczewski's Logocracy: A Concept of the State System (translation by Harrison) and finishes Harrison's introduction right before the chapter starts. This is a synopsis of a synopsis, so I'll take extra care in condensing the introduction and offering the salient portions. The synopsis follows:

Logocracy - Chapter 11: Logocratic Law

Having lived through WWII, Łobaczewski has seen how European law could be used for antihuman acts that obfuscate the true nature of the horrid crimes that have been perpetrated. Western democracies felt the lasting sting post-war, where populations have suffered under these continued policies. Łobaczewski offers a solution to this suffering—to incorporate ponerology as a discipline in mankind's continuing process to understand human psychological understandings as it relates to the pool of knowledge in that sphere as a whole and how it can modify current law. This would accelerate this learning process past its infancy, and better align the law with human nature—both biological and spiritual (natural law).

The law cannot act ponerogenically. The law will lose the severity of its letter, and the possibility of a deliberate exploitation of its loopholes and defects to extract unlawful benefits will cease.

Łobaczewski is in favor of criminal law moving towards more humanizing and rehabilitative law. There is a balance, however, since this tends to create a lack of fear of the law and can be exploited by criminals. As such, criminal law "should protect man and public order at least as effectively", and take into account ponerology. An understanding of the individual and various psychological realities will open the way to more humanizing approaches.

…the more we know about the psychological life of man and his internal and external causality, the more our awareness of our ignorance grows in the area of the possibility of objectively knowing the share of [another’s] guilt.

Rather than making moralistic judgments ("evaluation of a certain behavior as good or bad, or as right or wrong") with regards to criminal behavior, Łobaczewski suggests focusing on "facts of the crime, and the chain of moral complicity". In addition, the introduction of necessary psychological evaluations would sort of act as a kind of punishment and disincentivizing measure for those that perpetuate ponerogenesis.

The logocratic approach to corrective measures would also take into account the knowledge of psychological realities, by evaluating an offender's "mental characteristics, type of pathology, personal history, and talent level". Instead of a sentence based on time, it would be evaluated by certain tasks and their completion:

If the convict accepts such a sentence and works sincerely for its implementation, he will be able to significantly reduce the time of his rehabilitation. Typical tasks will include doing some socially useful work, completing the appropriate schooling and learning a trade, preparing a written elaboration discussing his act, its causes, social harm, and the role of others, etc. In many cases, the convicted person will be obliged to undergo psychotherapy, and a method will be applied to psychopathic individuals to make them aware of their aberrations and make them abandon their struggle with the society of normal people.

With regards to psychopaths and their inability to do normal work:

As long as societies do not decide to provide them with the necessary understanding and conditions for a legitimate existence, the danger of realizing this dream, with the help of some new suitably distorted ideology, will continue to hang over the world.

The modern prison system is unproductive in that it essentially is a breeding ground for increased crime, suffering, and suicide. It also lacks the preventative causal measures that aim to teach criminals a new way of being. In the new system, the idea of "any normal person can be rehabilitated" should be at its forefront.

Łobaczewski mentions that capital punishment can be a way towards degenerative measures where it has been used by particularly amoral people as "a way of eliminating pathological asocial individuals" according to them. The author states that it may only be used as a rare necessity and "not done under the guise of punishment" (perhaps stemming from the aforementioned moralistic judgments?):

But to keep alive individuals who continue to threaten others with death or disability would be to deprive the latter of legal protection. The killing of such individuals will therefore become a necessity to which the state has the right. This would then be decided by a special state institution and not by a court.

Lastly, the author sees a need to create special measures that would protect the mental health of those threatened by the terrorizing influence of pathological individuals. The growing body of ponerology is increasing as psychologists are now researching and creating literature relating to the Dark Tetrad personality traits.

For Next Meeting - November 26th, 2023

We will continue with on at the beginning of the first header after the introduction in Logocracy - Chapter 11: Logocratic Law for next time.

See y'alls!

 

[Arwenn]

Hi everyone,

Below are the links for the recent Aus-Asia-Am group workshop for our recent meeting.

Here's the video of the last meeting
The audio
And the folder
And the slideshow

We will catch up for a roundtable discussion for our next meeting on Saturday 9 December at 7 pm Sydney daylight savings time (GMT +11). See you all then!


Below are the links to what we explored in our discussion:

~ The Morning Watch by Henry Vaughan ~
O joys! infinite sweetness! with what flow’rs
And shoots of glory my soul breaks and buds!
All the long hours
Of night, and rest,
Through the still shrouds
Of sleep, and clouds,
This dew fell on my breast;
Oh, how it bloods
And spirits all my earth! Hark! In what rings
And hymning circulations the quick world
Awakes and sings;
The rising winds
And falling springs,
Birds, beasts, all things
Adore him in their kinds.
Thus all is hurl’d
In sacred hymns and order, the great chime
And symphony of nature. Prayer is
The world in tune,
A spirit voice,
And vocal joys
Whose echo is heav’n’s bliss.
O let me climb
When I lie down! The pious soul by night
Is like a clouded star whose beams, though said
To shed their light
Under some cloud,
Yet are above,
And shine and move
Beyond that misty shroud.
So in my bed,
That curtain’d grave, though sleep, like ashes, hide
My lamp and life, both shall in thee abide.

 

[Ryan]

Below are the links to what we explored in our discussion:

Here's the link to the Korean study I mentioned regarding the Ascending Reticular Activating System (ARAS), a formation of structures in the mesencephalon/diencephalon area of the midbrain:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304394015301300?dgcid=api_sd_search-api-endpoint

Abstract​

Precise evaluation of the ascending reticular activating system (ARAS) is important for diagnosis, prediction of prognosis, and management of patients with disorders of impaired consciousness. In the current study, we attempted to reconstruct the direct neural pathway between the brainstem reticular formation (RF) and the cerebral cortex in normal subjects, using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Forty-one healthy subjects were recruited for this study. DTIs were performed using a sensitivity-encoding head coil at 1.5Tesla with FMRIB Software Library. For connectivity of the brainstem RF, we used two regions of interest (ROIs) for the brainstem RF (seed ROI) and the thalamus and hypothalamus (exclusion ROI). Connectivity was defined as the incidence of connection between the brainstem RF and target brain regions at the threshold of 5 and 50 streamlines. Regarding the thresholds of 5 and 50, the brainstem RF showed high connectivity to the lateral prefrontal cortex (lPFC, 67.1% and 20.7%) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC, 50.0% and 18.3%), respectively. In contrast, the brainstem RF showed low connectivity to the primary motor cortex (31.7% and 3.7%), premotor cortex (24.4% and 3.7%), primary somatosensory cortex (23.2% and 2.4%), orbitofrontal cortex (17.1% and 7.3%), and posterior parietal cortex (12.2% and 0%), respectively. The brainstem RF was mainly connected to the prefrontal cortex, particularly lPFC and vmPFC. We believe that the methodology and results of this study would be useful to clinicians involved in the care of patients with impaired consciousness and researchers in studies of the ARAS.

This study highlights one of what appear to be three major neural pathways from the ARAS to the cortex regions:

1) the pathway between the brainstem RF and the intralaminar thalamic nuclei and onward to the cerebral cortex,
2) the neural pathway between the brainstem RF and the hypothalamus, and onward to the cerebral cortex, and
3) the direct neural pathway between the brainstem RF and the cerebral cortex.

According to Wikipedia, the ARAS:

also known as the extrathalamic control modulatory system or simply the reticular activating system (RAS), is a set of connected nuclei in the brains of vertebrates that is responsible for regulating wakefulness and sleep-wake transitions. The ARAS is a part of the reticular formation and is mostly composed of various nuclei in the thalamus and a number of dopaminergic, noradrenergic, serotonergic, histaminergic, cholinergic, and glutamatergic brain nuclei. [..]

The ARAS consists of evolutionarily ancient areas of the brain, which are crucial to the animal's survival and protected during adverse periods [..]

Consciousness

The ascending reticular activating system is an important enabling factor for the state of consciousness.[13] The ascending system is seen to contribute to wakefulness as characterised by cortical and behavioural arousal.[6]

Regulating sleep-wake transitions [..]

The physiological change from a state of deep sleep to wakefulness is reversible and mediated by the ARAS.[27] The ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO) of the hypothalamus inhibits the neural circuits responsible for the awake state, and VLPO activation contributes to the sleep onset.[28] During sleep, neurons in the ARAS will have a much lower firing rate; conversely, they will have a higher activity level during the waking state.[29] In order that the brain may sleep, there must be a reduction in ascending afferent activity reaching the cortex by suppression of the ARAS.[27]

Attention

The ARAS also helps mediate transitions from relaxed wakefulness to periods of high attention.[20] There is increased regional blood flow (presumably indicating an increased measure of neuronal activity) in the midbrain reticular formation (MRF) and thalamic intralaminar nuclei during tasks requiring increased alertness and attention.

Clinical significance of the ARAS

Mass lesions in brainstem ARAS nuclei can cause severe alterations in level of consciousness (e.g., coma).[30] Bilateral damage to the reticular formation of the midbrain may lead to coma or death.[31] [..]

It struck me that, in the same way that direct connections to the prefrontal cortex can enable control over the limbic system/lower emotions, similar direct connections to the PFC may enable precise control over attention and more primitive, autonomic functions that could play a role in unconscious, dreaming, liminal, psi and conscious states, and transitions between them.

 

[Turgon]

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[Turgon]

Hello everyone, here are the links for the Oct 15th workshop Video & Audio with the synopsis provided by Pecha below.

Howdy all,

The Am-EU group finishes Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 of Dr. Andrew's Łobaczewski's Logocracy: A Concept of the State System (translation by Harrison). The synopsis follows:

Logocracy - Chapter 8: The Principle of Public Sovereignty

While democracy in the past has in part passed the test of time and experience, its doctrines, in addition to not adequately aligning with the laws of nature, are idealistically naive in that they don't account for the previously mentioned psychological realities. Giving the universal right to vote without the appropriate knowledge makes it too easy for democracy to turn into a semi-secret rule of organized minorities.

In all societies, there exists a minority of individuals with mental deficiencies/deviations and moral failings that limit them from fully performing their duties as stated in democratic principles. Ponerogenic activity can stem from this and it's important to limit its flow if not alright stop it.

"We must recognize as a natural law the sovereignty of a rational society which is capable of exercising sound judgment and prudence". This principle will need to be refined naturally in a logocratic society using objective knowledge on the nature of societies. It may come to fruition with the help of increased knowledge flow in a society, and via a politically neutral organization (logocratic/civic association).

A logocratic society, in its aim of better utilizing the talents of all, will recognize the failings of democracy's party system, where there is a tendency to place into power those who are unfit to take on tremendous responsibility. The new system would have this neutral logocratic organization that would attract a wide range of folks with moderate views, as they tend to have a more critical mind, and would vote based on the personal qualities of candidates instead of falling back on a party or "tribe" mentality.

Logocracy - Chapter 9: The Principle of Competence

The principle of competence in modern societies can be seen in many jobs that require specialized training, knowledge, and/or psychological predisposition in order to perform them. Surgeons make a great examples as they not only do they need to be a doctor, but also require additional training to perform their responsibilities to society. Without proper measures in place to limit those who would not excel in such positions, society would suffer its consequences stemming from the resulting incompetence.

There is a lack of competence criteria in the political sphere, where this naivety severely misaligns it from the laws of nature. Logocracy would ameliorate this by seeing the principle of competence as a natural law, stemming from the laws of nature, and permeating this idea to all social functions. Naturally, it would be the logocratic/civic association that would oversee this principle come to fruition in political activity.

Civil Rights​

To vote, one would need to take the appropriate exam and civic pledge. In engaging with this learning process, it may cultivate inspiration towards advancing their skills in these fields. The study material is as follows (up to 100 pages for each), that would be published by the aforementioned logocratic/civic association:

1. Economic geography of the country
2. Political history of the last ninety years
3. Elements of economics and management
4. Psychological and social issues
5. Constitutional law

This practice would remove approximately 12% of the population from political activity. The upsides are, ironically, a higher voter turnout, increased quality of voting due to higher political awareness, and limiting those susceptible to demagogy. This process would also be available to foreigners as well, provided they complete the necessary work for the right of citizenship.

The civic pledge consists of:

1. An obligation in line with logocracy—to be guided by one's own discernment of affairs
2. An appeal to conscience and justice
3. May include a short religious invocation of moral significance that drives one to positively influence responsible behavior.

It would not consist of:

1. Commitments such as defense of borders or political orientations
2. Parts that would not go well with the morally sensitive and national minorities

By completing this, it would give citizens the right to vote for all representative bodies, and perhaps the president if it's decided by the popular vote. They would also gain a civil right (not the same as a citizen right) to lower elective positions in one's community such as village leaders and aldermen, and be able to take part in local councils.

Parliamentary Members’ Rights​

Would-be members of parliament should undergo academic preparation, which is scoped by parliamentary honoraria. With the help of the council of the wise, this will be refined by appropriate resolutions of parliament. Logocracy would not bar anyone who has potential talent in this sphere, and allow those to prepare for any number of years according to their current life situation.

Parliamentary study would include the five aforementioned disciplines (see Civil Rights above). Additional aspects to study are:

1. Social sciences with emphasis on psychology, psychopathology, and ponerology
2. Parliamentary activity and issues facing legislative work
3. Principles in line with logocracy—religious cognition

Where democracy fails, these methods would create the necessary rigor and better align with the principle of competence which is sorely needed in the political sphere. This would improve adaptation of critical minds and talented people, increase resistance to demagogic activity, and create a more mature and efficient parliament.

General Offices​

The chief executive offices, in its great responsibilities, will be tasked by those generally who are younger and who are fully normal and mentally fit. While some older folks have the necessary merit and talent, it is important also to consider psychologically how their age affects their performance. Is there a decline in mental activity? Do they tend to live in the past? Have they let egotism creep into their psyche over the years?

A logocratic system would be more resistant to psychopaths taking leadership positions. To bolster this resistance, it would be up to the council of the wise to remind society of how these positions of power attract those predisposed to ponerology. If they do achieve their dreams of power, history shows that large-scale devastations would follow.

The council of the wise will have a direct hand in assessing the health and mental state of candidates for these high-responsibility offices and would have the ability to veto a would-be candidate and one who is already in office if they prove to be unfit for the role. If there's pushback, an open-dialogue will be needed and the council would disclose its reasons for such a decision for the good of the public as a whole.

In closing, the principle of competence is one of the pillars of logocracy, and would be written in the first part of the constitution. It would be permeated throughout all aspects of society, while at the same time not be used as a source of privilege for the wealthy or become a self-gratifying tool for organized groups.

For Next Meeting - October 22nd, 2023

We will start Logocracy - Chapter 10: Ownership of Property for the next time. See y'alls!

 

[Turgon]

Hello everyone, here is the Video and Audio for the October 22nd workshop with the synopsis below.

Howdy all,

The Am-EU group starts with The Circulation of Elite's Happier Federalist Stories substack article and then moves to Chapter 10 of Dr. Andrew's Łobaczewski's Logocracy: A Concept of the State System (translation by Harrison). In that chapter, we finish the general overview of the chapter by Harrison and left off at the beginning of the first major header: "Ownership of Property". The synopsis follows:

The Circulation of Elites - Happier Federalist Stories (Switzerland and Canada)

Federalism is a type of government with powers split between regional governments and an overarching, general government. Over the years, the West's federalism degenerated to top-down federal states, and eventually led to a funneling of power into national, unitary states.

There was a time when the Swiss system was in danger of permanently becoming a unitary state, and doing away with its bottom-up and communal approach. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, Switzerland did eventually adopt a unitary government in 1798. Forces were looking to keep it that way, but it only lasted a few years. Swiss federalism largely avoided this potentially unfortunate fate largely due to its historic political structure—the Swiss cantons:



During the periods of chaos in 1848 (European Revolutions of 1848), the Swiss settled on the idea of "modern federalism" that is composed of three levels, each given portions of state powers:

1. Federation (federal)
2. Cantons (regional)
3. Communes (local)

The Swiss parliaments largely resemble the U.S. senate in that it consists of:

• National Council - 200 seats divided among the cantons according to its population.
• Council of States - 2 members from every full canton, for equal representation and giving smaller cantons a better chance in the political sphere.

In balancing these state powers, the federal state has been kept in check largely due to the historic presence of the Swiss cantons. Its main mission is to manage foreign relations, maintain the national army, and act as an arbiter or intermediary for the cantons. Its other powers include upkeeping the federal postal service, currency and coinage.

The main branching points transforming U.S. federalism into a top-down approach that outwardly portrays itself as one that is bottom-up is the introduction of the 10th amendment, where in its ambiguity, is able to funnel and centralize power at the federal level:



While the Swiss system borrows much from the U.S. 1787-89 constitutional federation, this amendment would likely not fly in their system due to its aforementioned history and its natural checks to prevent power grabs by the federal state. One check in particular is the federal state's overall magnitudes lower federal spending in relation to the U.S. The author notes that in federalism, those "who control spending, controls the federation".

Canadian federalism on the other hand, takes inspiration from Britain's federal system rather than the US'. Learning from the US civil war, it sought to adopt a more centralized federal approach to governance, citing that the decentralized U.S. system is what caused much of their strife. The founding fathers however didn't find it feasible to instate a pure, unitary government due to the sheer size of its country.

In essence, this led to an initial pooling of power in a centralized government, with one such example is their last word on any provincial legislation. Over the course of 150 years, there were repeated failed efforts to create a regionally representative senate as such as the ones in place in the US and Switzerland.

Despite this, Canadian federalism over the years have trended towards a more federal populist system, with the formation of a provincial rights movement soon after its 1867 founding as its first major marker towards equal treatment of provinces in the confederation. Another turning point was the transfer of natural resource management to the provinces, giving them negotiation leverage over the federal state. Even the federal state's ability to overturn provincial legislation was effectively made null, only being invoked during WWII—a time of crisis. In Quebec, many decisions were also made to protect its communal spirit with regards to its institutions, traditions, culture, and language.

In relation to both the Swiss and Canadian systems, the US' federalism has taken an unfortunate route in its top-down approach, creating a facade system where it preaches democracy and populism, but its innards are one that more closely resembles an oligarchy. With the recent COVID corruption for all to see, it is in the hopes that through its chaos people will actively look for solutions—perhaps reviving traditions and values of its lost, but deep federalist roots of the USA for which it was originally founded.

For Next Meeting - November 11th, 2023

We will continue with Logocracy - Chapter 10: Ownership of Property at the "Ownership of Property" subsection for next time.

I will unfortunately be missing this meeting, but will aim to be at the next one. Have a good one and see y'alls!

 

[Pecha]

Hi all,

The Am-EU group continues Chapter 11 of Dr. Andrew's Łobaczewski's Logocracy: A Concept of the State System (translation by Harrison).

• Start: Chapter 11 header (after introduction)
• End: At the sentence: "Therefore, this provision of the constitution should be considered both unenforceable in practice and also—criminogenic. As such, it should be declared null and void"

Here's the Audio and Video for this meeting that Turgon has shared. The synopsis follows:

Logocracy - Chapter 11: Logocratic Law

Influenced by Roman law, European laws have remained relatively stagnant since the 19th century. Perhaps previous generations saw them as somewhat complete, and it wasn't until WWII where perceptions of these laws have changed because they were being used to cover horrid war crimes. Corruption in this area, experience in totalitarian regimes, and advances in the biohumanities created a trend to move towards humanizing the law as a whole.

The post-war times have shown how the legal formalism deeply rooted in Western democracies makes them inadequate in the face of new evils because it ignores their nature, genesis, and the contribution of pathological factors.

Over the years, there has been a gradual integration of psychological science with the law in many countries, highlighting a need to search for better solutions. Without knowledge of ponerology, current sciences are left bereft of good solutions that reach the root of many issues. While it would be a long process regardless, development in this area would help speed it up.

The logocracy, with its incorporated wisdom of the eternal laws and modern scientific cognition, can also play a crucial role in the above process of legal reconstruction by finding solutions that align more closely to natural law. The author points out not to throw the baby out with the bath water so to speak by understanding that many traditional legal solutions need to be preserved in this process.

Łobaczewski states that constitutional, criminal, civil, and family laws would need changes in a logocratic system. He also reiterates that logocratic law can't resemble the US' anachronistic common law (in that modern common law is based on Roman law). The law though, can resemble English modernized law.

The law cannot act ponerogenically. The law will lose the severity of its letter, and the possibility of a deliberate exploitation of its loopholes and defects to extract unlawful benefits will cease.

With the increasing amounts of crime combined with current rehabilitative laws being exploited by criminals due to the lack of severity in the consequences of committing crime, solutions based on scientific knowledge that are humanistic are needed. Ponerology is at the forefront, as it aims to study various mental deviations and how it contributes to the ponerogenic process on every social scale. Dispersing of this knowledge provides innate protection as it would develop "a more critical social consciousness" that acts as an inhibiting factor in ponerogenesis.

Modern science has barely made any progress in truly knowing and evaluating another person's guilt. Oftentimes there is an instinctual reflex and emotionalism when one makes judgments on another's guilt, which adds subjectivity where objectivity is needed. The author suggests that judges should tend to their mental hygiene as to avoid "professional warping of their personality" similar to psychologists in their craft. The latter is able to do so by not judging the faults of others, allowing him or her to focus on causality. In a way, this non-judgment aligns with what is said in Christian Gospel and religious books in the East.

We have the ability and the duty to judge our own behavior by using the voice of our conscience, but we do not have this ability with respect to another person. Traditional criminal law is in fact in conflict with these requirements and is therefore ineffective and often breeds new evils.

The duty of the logocratic court would lay out facts of the crime, and the trail of moral complicity of those who contributed to its origin, which would serve as an inhibitor to evil and be a sort of punishment in itself. They will draw from objective knowledge rather than beliefs based on a common psychological worldview, creating the pathway to incorporate achievements in psychological science. Criminals would be examined via clinical psychology and by psychiatry (if needed). The court would also be aided by specialists who would present details of the criminal such as mental and hereditary characteristics, quality of talents, brain health, and other deviations. The court, in their search for objectivity, would refrain from judging the acts of a person who doesn't understand.

The court's corrective action would include limiting the liberty of the offender and creating a sentence based not on time, but on level of effort—duties that are feasible for the person given his or her abilities. Activities may include socially useful work, schooling, learning a trade, undergoing psychotherapy, and writing documents detailing his or her criminal act, its causes, how it harms others, and the role of others. Sincerely working in this area would provide an opportunity for the person to reduce rehabilitation time. For psychopaths, they would be made aware of their aberrations and be made to let go of their struggle with the society of normal folks.

Among such people, especially the psychopathic, there arises the dream of a social system in which they would exercise power and impose on the “different” normal people their own understanding of life, which would ensure their welfare and sense of security. As long as societies do not decide to provide them with the necessary understanding and conditions for a legitimate existence, the danger of realizing this dream, with the help of some new suitably distorted ideology, will continue to hang over the world.

The modern prison system is unproductive in that it essentially is a breeding ground for increased crime, suffering, and suicide. It also lacks the preventative causal measures that aim to teach criminals a new way of being. In the new system, the idea of "any normal person can be rehabilitated" should be at its forefront.

Article 70 paragraph 1 of the Poland Constitution states: "Everyone has the right to education. Education up to the age of 18 shall be compulsory". While it sounds good on paper (pun-intended ), it degrades and demoralizes individuals who are too poorly gifted to understand the curriculum, while breeding hatred within that is directed to those who are more gifted. It's criminal in that it causes great suffering and even death for many high school graduates. This is an example of a provision that seems humanistic, but when examining its downstream effects, there are dreadful consequences. As such, it should be removed.

For Next Meeting - December 3rd, 2023

We will continue with finish what's left in Logocracy - Chapter 11: Logocratic Law and perhaps start the next chapter for the next meeting.

See y'alls!

 

[Luis Miguel]

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[Tuatha de Danaan]

Hello everyone,

Hello to everyone, I'm catching up a quickly as I can so I can join you all. So much info to take in so I can't rush too much.

 

[Ryan]

Hey @Arwenn, folks, I won't be able to make the reading workshop tonight. Have a good one, and I look forward to the recording.

 

[Arwenn]

Hey @Arwenn, folks, I won't be able to make the reading workshop tonight. Have a good one, and I look forward to the recording.

No worries Ryan, catch you next time!



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