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| "The symbol
manipulators and their research advisers have
developed their depth views of
us by sitting at the feet of psychiatrists and
social scientists
(particularly psychologists and sociologists) who have been hiring themselves
out as "practical" consultants or setting up their own research firms." - Vance
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"With the artistic symbol we sense deeper levels of
meaning, some of which may be translated into other discursive symbols."- Paul
Eduardo Muller-Ortega
"Symbols make the intangible present in
the tangible."
Karl
Rahner
"Effective rational propaganda
becomes possible only when there is a clear understanding, on the part of all
concerned, of the nature of symbols and of their relations to the things and
events symbolized.
Irrational propaganda depends for its effectiveness
on a general failure to understand the nature of symbols.
Dictators rely on
repetition,
suppression and
rationalization -
the repetition of catchwords
which they wish to be accepted as true,
the suppression of facts
which they wish to be ignored,
the arousal and rationalization
of passions which may be used in the interests of the
Party or the
State.
As the
art and science of manipulation come to be better understood, the
dictators of the future will
doubtless learn to combine these techniques with
the non-stop
distractions which, in the West, are now
threatening to drown in a
sea of irrelevance the rational
propaganda essential to the maintenance of individual liberty and the survival
of democratic institutions.
Stored in the minds and
bodies of countless individuals,
this potential
energy is released by, and transmitted along,
a line of symbols
carefully laid out so as to bypass rationality and
obscure the real
issue.
Sometimes
the symbols take effect by being disproportionately impressive,
haunting and
fascinating in their own
right.
Every commercial propagandist
beautifies billboards with
striking posters, the
advertising pages of magazines with lively drawings and photographs.
There are no
masterpieces; masterpieces
appeal to a limited audience and the commercial propagandist is out
to captivate the majority.
Art is
to be like the products with which it
has been associated and for which it symbolically stands." " -
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Revisited
"Do not forget that the original meaning of all
letters and
numbers was a magical one! Hence the perils of the
soul."
Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages
528-529
"Large-scale efforts are being
made, often with impressive
success, to channel unthinking
habits, purchasing
decisions, and
thought
processes through the use of
insights gleaned
from psychiatry and
the social sciences.
Typically
these efforts take place beneath our level of awareness.
The result
is that many of us are being influenced and
manipulated,
far more than we realize, in
the patterns of our everyday
lives.
In the imagery of print,
film, and
airwave
the typical American citizen is commonly
depicted as an uncommonly
shrewd and intelligent person.
Dramatized as
a thoughtful voter,
rugged individualist, and, above all, as a
careful, hardheaded consumer of the
products of American enterprise.
The professional
persuaders want us to fit ourselves into this
image.
The sales force holding up these
glowing images
does it tongue in cheek.
The professional
persuaders see us as bundles of
daydreams, misty hidden yearnings,
guilt complexes,
irrational emotional
blockages.
We are image
lovers given to impulsive,
compulsive acts." - Vance Packard
Nature of Symbols in the Language of
Thought
Thought is the manipulation of
symbols according to a set of rules.
Primitive material
symbols are mental
representations not present in the conscious
bicameral mind as
readily recognizable conceptual
images.
They exist on a
cognitive level outside of material representation on
a low level of
consciousness in the realm
of foundational conceptual constructs.
Primitive material symbols
are engaged by the bicameral mind and
fit together like pieces in
a jigsaw puzzle in low level
neurocomputational states to create elaborate
higher level
neurocomputational states through a series of logical {if, then} and {true,
false} operations.
The
highest level of neurocomputational states is
impossible to achieve if
foundational assumptions are
inaccurate.
Jesus said: "Everyone who comes to Me and hears My
words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like: he is like a man
building a house, who dug deep and
laid a foundation on the
rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and
could not shake it, because it had been well built." Luke 6:46-48
"Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of
thought, we may say that, as in
a mechanical
apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater
will be the effect produced.
A reader or listener has at each moment
but a limited amount of mental power available.
To recognize and
interpret the
symbols presented to him, requires part of this power; to arrange and combine
the images suggested requires a further part; and only that part which remains
can be used for realizing the thought conveyed.
Hence, the more time
and attention it takes to receive and understand each sentence, the less time
and attention can be given to the contained idea; and the less vividly will
that idea be conceived." - Herbert Spencer
"People regard the dictionary as this sacred book
in which they have 100% faith.
They don't even think of a human agency
behind it."
Michael Agnes, editor-in-chief of Webster's New World College
Dictionary
Word is defined as:news;
rumors
order; command;
direction
verbal signal; password or watchword
assurance or
promise; sworn
intention
a symbolic expression of an
object or concept
verbal unit of a language a native speakers can
identify
representation in writing of a sound or a combination of
sounds
A fundamental unit of
storage in a computer.
The size of a word in computer architecture is
one of its chief distinguishing characteristics.
The size of a word is
usually the same as the width of the computer data bus so it is possible to
read or write a word in a single operation.
An instruction is usually
one or more words long and a word can be used to hold a whole number of
characters.
These days, this nearly always means a whole number of
bytes (eight bits), most often 32 or 64 bits.
In the past when six bit
character sets were used, a word might be a multiple of six bits, e.g. 24 bits
(four characters) in the ICL 1900 series.
"Words realize nothing, verify nothing to you,
unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to
describe.
A powerful agent is the right word.
It
lights the reader's
way and makes it plain.
A close approximation to it will answer.
Much traveling is done in a well-enough fashion by its help.
We welcome, applaud and rejoice
when the right one blazes out on us.
Whenever we come upon one of
those intensely right words in a book the resulting electrically
prompt is spiritual.
It tingles exquisitely through the walls of the
mouth and tastes as tart and crisp as
autumn-butter that creams the sumac-berry." -Mark Twain
interpret
transformation
to change the
form, condition, nature, of
to convert from one symbol system into
another
to explain in terms that can be more easily
understood
Translation requires
interpretation of the meaning of
text, and subsequent production of equivalent text that communicates the
same message as the original language.
Translation must take into
account constraints that include context, the
rules of grammar, writing conventions,
idioms and slang.
Many
times idioms and slang, especially that used by
social subcultures such as
hippies, goths, punks, preppies, hoods and gang-bangers will be misinterpreted
by taking metaphor in a
literal context.
Technical terms may be misinterpreted as well if
the translator is not versed in the technical jargon of the
profession.
A common misconception is that there exists a simple
word-for-word correspondence between any two languages, and that translation is
a straightforward mechanical process.
A word-for-word translation does not take
into account context, grammar, conventions, idioms and slang therefore
translators, in the course of their work, have shaped the very languages into
which they have been translated.
Translators, acting as bridges for
conveying knowledge
and ideas between
cultures and
civilizations, have not always
accurately interpreted the text.
Fidelity pertains to the extent to
which a translation accurately renders the meaning of the source text, without adding
to or subtracting from it, without intensifying or weakening any part of
the meaning, and
otherwise without distorting it.
Transparency pertains to the extent to
which a translation appears to a native speaker of the target language to have
originally been written in that language, and conforms to the language's
grammatical, syntactic and idiomatic conventions.
Current Western
academic translation practices claim to incorporate the concepts of "fidelity"
and "transparency" foremost but translators do step beyond the bounds of
translation proper into the realm of adaptation, with or without conscious
effort.
"Words, particularly
nouns, force an
infinity of unique objects and processes into
a finite number of categories.
Words deny the
uniqueness of each moment and each
experience,
reducing it to a "this" or a "that".
Words grant us the
power to
manipulate and
control (with
logic) the things they refer
to, but at the price of immediacy.
Something is lost, the essence of a
thing.
By generalizing
particulars into categories, words render
invisible the
differences among them.
By labeling both A and B a tree, and
conditioning ourselves to that label,
we become blind to the differences between A
and B.
The label affects
our perception of
reality and the way we
interact with it." -
Charles
Eisenstein
The act
of labeling is an act of containment.
We label everything for
identification of characteristics.
The referent, or "real object," being
represented by a linguistic symbol
concept held in the mind
of the individual envisioning the referent.
Referents that have
physical mirrors in reality are different animals than
abstract referents which
have often been taken to
be meaningless.
What if parallel
imaginative conceptual structures also exist in other minds?
In truth these
referents exist in every mind.
Look closely and the parallels
become apparent as they are a reflection of the exterior world seen through
the lens of uniquely disparate
eyes.
Complex
codes of internally replayed behavior are acted out in a manner similar to
that in which scripts are
run in a browser window.
Parallel imaginative
conceptual structures are identified by
Carl Jung as
"ground" ideas or
archetypical concepts shared
universally by humans.
As people
move through the stages of life, and although they all have
unique experiences,
common conceptual structures surface with
regularity.
Common
conceptual structures include
epiphanies brought forth
through living experiences that propagate
altered states of
consciousness uniquely distinct and
divergent from all previous states encountered.
Rainbow Spiral Dynamics©
"We have the opportunity to build
a Rainbow Bridge into a Golden Age.
We must do it together with all colors of the Rainbow, with all the
peoples.
We who are alive on Earth today are
the Rainbow Warriors who
face the challenge of building this bridge." - Brooke Medicine Eagle, Daughter
of the Rainbow, Crow and Lakota
Rainbow Spiral
Dynamics© argues that
human nature is
flexible.
Humans naturally
adapt to their social
environment by constructing new, more complex, conceptual models of the
world that allow them to handle the increasing complexity of new events and
situations in the modern world.
Each new conceptual model transcends and
includes all previous models.
These conceptual models are organized
around vMemes: systems of core values embracing a collective learned
intelligence, applicable
to both individuals, sub groups and
entire social cultures.
In Rainbow Spiral Dynamics©, the term vMeme refers to a core value
system, acting as an organizing principle, which expresses itself through memes
(self-propagating ideas,
habits, and
cultural practices).
The prepended and superscripted letter v indicates these are not
fundamental memes but value systems which include them.
Each individual/sub
clique/social culture embodies a mixture of the value patterns, with varying degrees of
intensity in each set of values.
Rainbow Spiral Dynamics© realizes
that there are infinite stages of progress and regression over
linear time dependent upon the life
circumstances of the individual/sub clique/social culture, which are constantly
in flux.
Attaining
higher stages of
development is not synonymous with attaining a defined values system but
rather a flexible moral values
system of least harm in sync with the evolving aspects of reality.
All stages of
intellectual development co-exist in reality, therefore
a social cultural vMeme
may, at any stage of development,
lead to undesirable
outcomes with respect to the health of
the human and social environment.
All new vMeme systems are built on
adaptations of previous levels and seek to
solve problems forged by living
in those earlier ways.
First tier vMeme levels are focused on
different themes for existence, and include
all of the worldviews,
cultures, and
mental attitudes up to
today.
Rainbow Spiral Dynamics© works toward vMeme
perspective
convergence which is the vMeme term for all
multidimensional
perspective aspects.
Rainbow Spiral Dynamics© explicitly
defines a category of people ascending from from all races, all walks of life,
all religious faiths, all tribal elements, all
academic persuasions, all ideological backgrounds labeled "Spiral Wizards" who
have attained equilibrium around
the "higher level" vMeme.
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