1. THE LAW OF THE INVERSE ATTRIBUTION REFLEX (LIAR)
SELF INDULGENCE:
I am, as I am sworn to do, dedicated to the preservation and protection of the Constitution which, unlike many, I have
actually read and actually been involved in the processes of the governance provided by said Constitution. I am
personally aware of its foibles, and have traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, and Latin America and am fully
appreciative of the positive benefits the US electorate gets for their votes. In addition to all the experience, I have a
degree in Political Science from UCLA I got a long time ago.
In addition to the BA in PS, I have served in Psychological Operations during the same time I was sueing the Army,
successfully. In short, I know the theory and the ropes,
REF: CHARLIE BROWN, DILBERT AND POOH
Given extensive exposure to politics, for politics is local, and local politics is about real estate and the entertainment
industries, and in depth exposure to the methods that go on behind closed doors.
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2. Of that checker boarded background, I have endeavored to put together some simple tools to analyze what is going
on within any given culture, that of the algorithms that ensure the biological survival (food and kids, dinner and a date,
feeding and breeding, et al) of the given population, through the Psychological Imperatives (Roles), Sociological
(Rules) and Technological (Tools). In short these wind up as a summary of Cultural Imperatives useful to the infantry
as well as the fat old retiree I am.
During my examinations of said Imperatives, which examination has gone on for over fifty years, I have also found
common ground with such stellar minds as Scott Adams (Dilbert), Al Capp (Lil' Abner), Lewis Carroll (Alice in
Wonderland), Willain Haga (Haga's Law, Why Nothing Works and No One Can Fix It and the More You Try to Fix It
the Worse It Gets), C. Northecote Parkinson ( Parkinson's Law including "Work Expands to Fill the Time Available"
and the Law of Triviality), and the field of Transactional Analysis including Eric Berne and Stephen Karpman in his
Drama Triangle (google it) and his work "Fairy Tales and Script Drama Analysis".
Toss in a little script writing tutelage IAW Joseph Campbell ("The Hero of a Thousand Faces") and at my advanced
age, see patterns of human behavior not unlike those of other species in following the same purpose of Food and
Family (The biological imperatives).
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3. PSYCHOLOGY AND INVERSE ATTRIBUTION
Quite by coincidence, I found that Karpman's Drama Triangle fit quite well with the Law of Triviality aka Law of Inverse
Relevance in which the more time spent on a subject is inversely related to its importance. With over thirty years in
the Army plus a dozen in City Hall, and on the Hill, it is clear that the Law of Triviality is concrete verity.
In addition, not only is the amount of time dedicated to a subject is inversely related to importance, so is the amount of
heat applied to the subject inversely related to truth. I have called in The Law of the Inverse Attribution Reflex (LIAR)
aka "Brag-Blame Flip-Flop". The Brag-Blame algorithm is activated when alcohol or other form of heat, in which the
braggart brags about his weakest virtue, and blames others with his own strongest vice.
Ergo, the arguments that the US is run by puppeteers who have sold out the American Dream is an argument favoring
puppeteerism. The more the American system of governance is castigated, the more effective is said governance.
It is a simple tool. Just check what is being bragged about, and what is being blamed, and you have the agenda of
said blamer/braggart. Having said so, I cannot explain exactly why it works, just that it is very accurate and reliable.
Having been there, done that, or had it done, or it was done to me and having studied how things were done, and
written thereon are somehow self deception manipulated by a dark and malignant force.There is no conspiracy that
controls the US, but there is a conspiracy that wants to try. It is so predictable, that one can use Single Point
Regression Analysis.
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4. BETRAYAL
The concept of betrayal presumes a presumption of a trust, contract or other confidence. Absent any such
confidence/trust, there can be no betrayal. This is what is commonly called as LIFE (non acrymonic).
The psychology of the sense of betrayal, regardless of extant confidence/trust/contract is a fascination with the
power of Karpman's Drama Triangle or Gordon's version of it, of the rotation of the Roles of Victim, Rescuer and
Prosecutor (Knight, Nurse, Infant) against a real or fictive Villain operating on the Dark Side of the Triangle
offensively (Murderous, Manipulative, Mad).
The alleged contract in this case the tied to a presumption of the nature of the Rules (Sociology) that apply to the
group. The validitys of the Rules lie to the Roles to which they are put. The Rule of what is called Fate (Sources
of Authority) includes the effective rules of Right v Wrong, but also can refer to wearing the wrong tie (Body),
driving the wrong car Technology) , or living in the wrong zip code (Ground).
My personal experiences of, at and with conspiracies is that a conspiracy doesn't work if a critical mass knows of
it. Those who speak of conspiracy, or warn of it, are generally There are those who burn down houses to be able
to rescue those inside trying to gain
Psychological Stamps which validate, at least internally, the desired Role (Rescuer). Some who steal from others
validate their theft by claiming Victim Status so as to become Prosecutor of those whose properties are an
offense..
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5. CONSPIRACY
The problem with conspiracies is that there are few who can trust each other enough to get away with it. The good
old boy crowd is only good so long as none of the good old boys go bad by violating their good old boy contract.
The boys at the corner or on the stoop, have a problem of betraying their buddies in exchange from a break from
the law. These are the prototypical examples of why conspiracies don't last.
Those that do last, fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the time until someone double crosses the
other. The long enduring conspiracy that fools some of the people all the time, is one usually run by one person
backed up by an elite group of toady sycophants. Two or more conspirators define politics of whom is on top, first
and longest.
Gordon
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