neonix said:
People who first time listen word psychopaths from your mount, will be think that you libel someone.
You can't skipped (jump) this. You can't overcome this. Psychologists, sociologist, therapists, doctors, scientist can use this word.
Journalist can't. Conspiracy theories believers shouldn't use this word, because people think it's used as invective. You can use it when you write scientific article, but not in journalistic (publicist) article.
You can use replacements: greed politics, detached from reality, deprived of empathy, genetically corrupted.
neonix, I have no argument to offer, but I thought you might benefit from seeing a bigger picture here, so you might see what seems to be missing in your understanding.
Everything about SoTT, from web design to the selection of articles, the training of writers and their writing has been thought out ahead of time. A long time ago, there was even an explanation of how some of these writings could provide 'shocks' to readers. At that time, a parallel was drawn to Gurdjieff's work and the idea was to benefit forum and non-forum members alike.
Then, links to the forum were provided and invitations were made for people to come discuss what they read. Whether or not a person's concerns were satisfied right away, at least they got to experience talking with intelligent people here who could control themselves well enough to show they were capable of caring about others without having an ulterior motive or hidden agenda. That, itself, is a nice experience.
During their time here, they could be invited to post on any other concern they may have. They could be pointed to other information to provide full context and answer questions. Should they become interested, they may even become familiar with the Diet and Health boards which contain tons of information and member experiences ranging from clearer thinking to relief from chronic aches and pains.
In short, once you see in writing, some common human values, you may see that they are all preserved and represented in the totality of cassiopaea.org and SoTT.net.
Here's a brief outline:
We are small-group beings. The word tribe tends to describe this human value. (Re: forum membership)
We are total participators - we want to be a part of everything of importance to our tribe. (re:forum member activities)
We are very physical, requiring good diets, regular exercise and other movement-based activities. (re:check out our Diet & Health sections)
We are right-brain or whole-brain learners primarily, rather than rote-learners. (re: read The Wave and related boards and forum threads)
We require much learning through stimulation of the thinking processes and imagery. (re: the sheer differentiation of subject matter on this forum)
We are artistic and humor lovers and require this to balance out the 3Rs learning. (re: the Tickle Me and Creative boards)
We are social. We need stimulation, just like the muscles do, of satisfying social inclinations such as love, belonging, loyalty, courage, etc, along with knowledge of self and other defensive capabilities in a violent and dangerous world. (re: the general activity of discussions and interactions here)
We need to feel equality with others; to feel respected, cared for and free from being branded, labelled and pigeon-holed. (re: the quality of discussions and interactions here, as moderated, and the Hospitality concept in play)
We need role-models to follow and emulate - well-cultured and loving teachers, rather than 'specialists.' From our earliest age, we begin to learn from role-models and what we pick up forms a very large part of our early learning. (re: Forum founders, Administrators, SuperModerators and other ranking and senior, knowledgeable members)
So, that brings us back to SoTT. You could probably say that all good people who can write in political contexts are productively engaged in ideological warfare (AKA mass diplomacy in other social contexts) and some of the terms you object to are merely those linguistic weapons that have been taken back from the official propagandists and human psychology manipulators and are being used correctly, with the correct referents. IOW, what you are reading, is an example of Laura's quote you supply at the end of your OP. These writers are also being role-models for normal people.
The only way I can understand you or any of your family, friends or social contacts being offended or upset by this 'wacko language' is through the mechanism of "semantic reaction," and we have a reference to help with that
quandary as well. The problem is simply one of too-narrow focus, I think.
Please take the time to think about all this and read the link. If you can reach a satisfactory understanding, then you may be able to avoid the "IFD" path that will take you from your Idealization of others' verbal expressions, through Frustration and finally Demoralization. If what you learn helps you, you may choose to use this knowledge to help others.
In the meantime, here's an exercise you can experiment with when you feel emotionally triggered by people's words:
Stop or minimize the words and narrations in your mind as much as possible.
Let your awareness float down to the perceptual-sensation level of your body.
Notice what you see in your environment.
Feel your saliva and notice any tastes in your mouth.
What do you hear and what direction is the sound coming from?
Notice your posture, feel where the areas of tension are and notice where they are not.
Feel your clothes touching your skin - their contact, looseness and tightness.
Feel the floor pushing up on your feet and notice the direction your body is oriented.
Notice sensations inside your body, flows of energy and what your body feels in every part and how these flows change every second. Let calming happen without narration.
Notice where you are - that you are here, feeling this and that, noticing this and that, right now, in this place, at this time, in this city, in this county, on this land, on this planet, in this galaxy at this exact time.
All of this can happen in just seconds. It's the cortical-thalamic pause (before reacting). It gives you time to let your nervous system integrate everything, so that when next you speak or move, you do so as a more integrated person, more in control of himself. You can read about the foundations of all this in The Wave, General Semantics, and by understanding various applications of Gurdjieff's Stop exercise.
If the above exercise helps you, you may also choose to share it with others for the same purpose. Helping people in various ways is important. In one-on-one and one-in-group social contexts, it may also be important to speak tentatively, as if to show you know you can't possibly be speaking the whole story in one go and that others may have their own interpretations or they may be abstracting other details from the same situation to construct their understanding.
In any case, an important thing is to operate on the level of human values - to be an example of empathy, compassion - to "show your love", so to speak, the way a particular unnamed marine in Vietnam meant as he talked with the cultural detective, Robert Humphrey.
Humphrey was hired to solve black-white racial tension issues in a Marine Corp detachment in Vietnam many years ago. He wrote about it in Values for a New Millennium. Due to the extreme sensitivity of talking about racial issues, in this kind of environment, to men with guns, he tended to call his talks 'cross-cultural relations'.
In this one example, Humphrey was called on to work with a group of soldiers in a particularly volatile place where there was ongoing fighting of Viet Cong forces - often alongside Vietnamese. Humphrey arrived to a group of about 100 marines, blacks sitting on one side of the dirt-floor Quonset and whites on the other. He gave his tailored talk on cross-cultural relations and, as usual, it was a success - even to the point of getting a standing ovation. But something still bothered him about their sitting arrangements as the way blacks and whites had divided themselves up was highly unusual for this context.
When Humphrey left the Quonset, he asked for the 'leader' of the black soldiers to come see him. A young, but very tall, very big black man walked up to him where he was standing at a shade tree. Humphrey's first impression of the leader was that he was physically ugly, scars splitting an eyebrow, a side of his nose and side of his lips. He appeared to give off a menacing quality.
Humphrey asked the man, "What did you think (about the talk)?"
Soldier: "It was marvelous" he said in a warm, soft, deep voice.
Humphrey: "What more can be done?" The soldier thought for a moment and then spoke slowly.
Soldier: "Well, mister, you would have to stay and keep telling those stories about equality to the beasts until they really understand."
Humphrey: "Good God, man, by 'beasts,' you mean the whites?"
Soldier: "Yes; not all, but most. It goes back to the slavery, the atomic bombs, and now this situation here: too many blacks dying while our people back home are facing those police dogs and clubs; and even the whites here just getting us killed because of their bestiality to the Vietnamese."
Humphrey: "What do you mean: to the Vietnamese?"
Soldier: "Well you see, they don't know how to give candy to the children. They're afraid to hand it through the barbed wire for fear they'll get their lily-white hands scratched. So they throw it to the children like they wuz dogs. They just don't seem to understand that to win here, we have to show love."
The soldier released Humphrey's shoulder, cupped his hand and held it out to Humphrey.
Soldier: "You see, you have to hold the candy through the wire like this, and then as you let them pick out the pieces, you have to keep watching their faces. They will look at you. That's when you have to show them that you love them."
The soldier touched his mangled lips. "You have to have love in your lips." He touched his big, ugly split nostril. "You have to have love in your nose." His hand slipped up to the scar to the split eyebrow and the soldier continued: "...And love in your eyes. The beasts don't understand. You could tell them."
Damn! Humphrey thought, as he ducked out from under the tree so no one could his eyes glazing over with tears. "Okay," Humphrey assured the man, "I'll do what I can." To Humphrey, the man no longer looked ugly and menacing...just big and strong.
Do you see? From a big-picture view, everything that is being done
is showing the love! It
is representing human values! It
is about connecting! ...And this
is our opportunity to connect and talk about it all.
