And here is the best a neurolinguistics scholar can do at this moment in human history to explain what are patently the pre-apocalyptic attitudinal and behavioural, Other-side and Right-side, RCHS & predominantly LCHS, ideational & USC executive scripts laid down for us by the jibbering madmen and folklorists of the European Dark Age pre 1509 CE..

(ii) Reason and Emotion of Inequality, an excerpt from RV Sampson Heinemann 1965

If reason is not an insulated, morally neutral attribute of [“]the mind[“], the question must be raised as to why there is no general agreement about the nature of moral referents. Is it not clear that there are unbridgeable gulfs between people, arising out of fundamental differences of valuable and intractable to rational resolution? The instance generally uppermost in people’s minds today is the contrast between Communist and Capitalist cultures.. it is not at all clear that the moral referents are significantly different – ther Other is guilty of tyranny, suppression of freedom, exploitation of the weak. The self is engaged in maximising the area of freedom, prosperity and justice to all for present and future generations.

Nevertheless, it has to be admitted that the principle of equality is not by any means [“]universally[“] accepted as morally binding. Nor are those who dissent self-evidently less intelligent or less sincere than those who differ with them. To the moral relativist this presents no problem. But the non-relativist, at the risk of appearing arrogant, is logically bound to account for the fact. To do what is right may not always be within my strength; but should it not be possible always to will what is right? But this too is very difficult. Wgere moral duty is sharply opposed to desire, and is accordingly painful, the mind has a fatal facilty for self-deception. It can easily manufacture ‘reasons’ which ‘convince,’ thereby protecting the psyche from truth that is painful, thus enabling it to believe what it wishes to believe. Freud expressed it as follows:

Our intelligence, they teach us, can function reliably only when it is removed from the influences of strong emotional impulses; otherwise it behaves merely as an instrument of the will and delivers the ideation which the will requires. Thus, in their view, logical arguments are impotent against affective interests, and that is why reasons, which in Falstaff’s phrase are ‘as plenty as blackberries,’ produce so few victories in the conflict with interests.¹

“Boccalini’s account of the significance of power for the politician is today paralleled by the role of the doctrine of raison d’état in the minds of contemporary students students of international diplomacy at strategy. The belief in the inevitability of Raison d’état with its reliance on violence and the threat of violence as the controlling force in human affairs is uncritically accepted. State power relations expressed in a dynamic equilibrium of terror have come to assume an independent life of their own.

“The logic of the.. war against all, and it’s source in human greed and fear, has never been more succinctly expressed than in Treitschke’s enunciation of the two essential tenets of Machiavellism.

“They merit quotation in full, since they will be seen to go to the root of the matter.

“ 1. Your neighbour, even though [es sei denn] he may look upon you as his natural ally against another power which is feared by you both² is always ready at the first opportunity, as soon as it can be done with safety, to better himself at your expense. He is forced to do it, if he is wise; and could not hold back, even if he were your brother.

“ 2. It is altogether insufficient for you to defend your own territory; on the contrary, you must keep your gaze fixed dispassionately on everything which could influence your situation, and you must in no way tolerate that anything inside these boundaries of your influence should be altered to your detriment, and never hesitate a moment, if you can order something there to your advantage. For you can rest assured that the other will do the same, whenever he can; and if you delay in doing it now on your side, then you will get behind him. Whoever fails to increase his power, must decrease it, if others increase theirs.³

John Blundell

Sociology Economy Neurolinguistics Philosophy of Science

South Australia 31/8/2023

¹ Thoughts for the Times on War and Death, 1915 Coll. Papers, Vol. IV p. 303.. “Its [the ego’s] position midway between the id and reality tempts it only too often to become sycophantic, opportunist and false, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour

² It is utterly essential in using this essay of mine as a learning tool that readers grasp that the Piagetian pre-teenage Concrete Operations and quasi autism spectrum cum Immediate-gratification-of-needs of addictive self-perpetuating Consumer Culture – falsely and perniciously called Youth Culture in mid 20C USA pop or ‘tabloid’ psychology mindset and developmental stage in every young persons’s life is perfectly exemplified in My friend’s enemy is my enemy – the ideological or cultural ‘bottom line’ of all crude zero-sum game dysregulated free-marketist or neoliberal business practice and enviro-social depradations

³ Meinecke, Machiavellianisn, English trans. 1957, p371 in RV Sampson Equality & Power HEINEMANN BOOKS ON SOCIOLOGY General Editor: Donald Gunn Macrae 1965