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FOR HANDS ON PEOPLE TO MEET, GREET AND GET ON, WITHOUT STEPPING IN IT.Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09422091480386814137noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669403490686146700.post-59708704657855788972015-06-20T23:00:00.002-07:002015-06-20T23:00:25.660-07:00Child Abuse, Root of All Evil.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The development of human children precedes through stages which at about six the child has a sense of what its place is regarding their environment, particularly their family. The vulnerability to radicalization of individuals also depends upon the track of development going up through the rest of life especially puberty.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsATLVpbIVW4IDqu9fjecRdragU6iBld53pIlgZT5X_lL0dRwy6zplubTwkbk1Xh_AW0eedw2ts-eSudiKwnqRHsvN-G-G89WbqOUNDAt1ccRenEGPFTolq4ird5J-LCBlFkw-NuEFg1A/s1600/%2521CA_00-png.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsATLVpbIVW4IDqu9fjecRdragU6iBld53pIlgZT5X_lL0dRwy6zplubTwkbk1Xh_AW0eedw2ts-eSudiKwnqRHsvN-G-G89WbqOUNDAt1ccRenEGPFTolq4ird5J-LCBlFkw-NuEFg1A/s640/%2521CA_00-png.png" width="640" /></a><br />Socialization of the individual outside the family and into the larger community starts in earnest at puberty in what is today's high school and junior high school. If the individual has suffered extensive physical or emotional abuse before six, the rest of development is honed through the "high school" stage.<br /><br />It is at this time that specific themes and symbols are associated with ANS inputs that freeze the belief structures of the young adult. Only about a third of those over 21 will make serious changes in the structure of perceptions (ideologies).<br /><br />Certain beliefs known as True Beliefs provide the individual with the kind of inputs that were frustrated in the growing up process. The high school period tends to sharpen the distinction once the cut and thrust of sports and dating goes viral.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlImo6SDN5ZdQdwwSZz5IfyLGKBFptE3toAUMNBDh7Z3N0y51Z4-IDQpe5VginYou5HAVxo8-gGYRZj7yrn9ZcLafR51qAUt2g6vXQs9I791JgmjNWH3c_XfjldeFGIC2GybYNmfApQSQ/s1600/%2521CA_02_png.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlImo6SDN5ZdQdwwSZz5IfyLGKBFptE3toAUMNBDh7Z3N0y51Z4-IDQpe5VginYou5HAVxo8-gGYRZj7yrn9ZcLafR51qAUt2g6vXQs9I791JgmjNWH3c_XfjldeFGIC2GybYNmfApQSQ/s640/%2521CA_02_png.png" width="640" /></a><br />Those left out in the High School phase, often spend the rest of their lives trying to plug the gap. Ethnocentric outbursts by those in the High School Phase is the substance of what is burning now on the streets. Those most active as terrorists or other really bad people often come from severely damaged families and suffered extreme parental abuse. What psychology called crazy is often a normal reaction to a crazy world.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5KxONZenw83eGAtbA9-c3CPYX2LfuYG0Epsl6l-mgE4FMtsPzMFKljWYRz4gcGarQg9RdKTLbEG8pLfcMaCDMhABD4BGFctU-GmLqClPic6t6FYfjVLoZN9C6Lq35kf_jcScw_xL5Qw/s1600/%2521CA_01_PNG.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5KxONZenw83eGAtbA9-c3CPYX2LfuYG0Epsl6l-mgE4FMtsPzMFKljWYRz4gcGarQg9RdKTLbEG8pLfcMaCDMhABD4BGFctU-GmLqClPic6t6FYfjVLoZN9C6Lq35kf_jcScw_xL5Qw/s640/%2521CA_01_PNG.png" width="640" /></a><br />Hitler, Saddam and Stalin were abused by male parental figures. The leading terrorist of late often came from shattered families and neighborhoods, with the local brand of terrorism being a "natural" outlet for sense damaged in crazy childhoods.<br /><br />IMHO, the root of all evil is not money, it is child abuse.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<strong>It is often said that our foes are foes because their way of
thinking is inimical to ours. This was the default expression given to
Catholics, Communists, Democrats,. Capitalists, foreigners, the sick, lame and
poverty stricken. This was the conclusion that supported carpet bombing of
civilian cities with the expressed hope that the bombed upon would rise up and
overthrow those fighting above. It was called "bombing the homes of war
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<strong>The concept that any foe or aspiring one is foreign to our way of
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<strong>1. <span style="background-color: yellow;">Thinking has anything to
do with action</span> and when it does think it is only to seek ways and means
of acting on emotions and other more fundamental biological, psychological, and
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<strong>2. <span style="background-color: yellow;">The idea that "we" have
an identifiable "way"</span> of thinking is also subject to the aforementioned
biological-psychological-sociological algorithms mostly done in the
subconscious. Additionally, Americans have a wide variety of strategies so
related to the point that someone from Brooklyn is unintelligible in Houston,
Denver, Seattle or San Francisco. And those locales are often mutually
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<strong>3. The concept that some entity that has a different survival
strategy (bio....) which by the difference only can only be <span style="background-color: yellow;">battered into submission,</span> is self
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<strong>4. That any alleged foe of ours has a 1 <span style="background-color: yellow;">single minded purpose other than getting laid
and paid</span> is also self deceptive. And of the ways and means sustaining
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<strong>5. The very core of demonization of the unfamiliar and/or
uncomfortable is of creating <span style="background-color: yellow;">a sense of
fear along with a sense of loathing (contempt).</span> This leads to a powerful
oxymoron that the contemptuous is capable of endangering the pure hearted.
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<strong style="text-align: left;">The US military is, intentionally blind and contemptuous of the
fields of applied psychology and sociology except as a repeat of Sherman's March
Through Georgia and of Reconstruction. In fact those Academic enterprises are
considered Communist if not out right Satanic within our Military Establishment,
all parties concerned.</strong></div>
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<strong>Payback for Communist/Satanic subversion is at the roots of Tea
Plotting and Ball Busting, with the hope that the Army will foster a coup. That
the US military is inherently unable to stage coups, as such is not included in
doctrine, regulations or the instructions to promotion boards. This would have
to be a politically oriented contracting consortium under contract with
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I love the TV Series, “the Vikings” and a fan of all manner of blades, spears, arrows, shields, helmets and horses in battle and duels of a more personal face to face era of closed order close combat. Whether by Hollywood’s need for close in action or by virtue of a lack of experience to recreate close order of battle, Hollywood Combat wouldn’t last long back then, for a lack of knowledge of “ergonomic combat” i.e. a fit between weapon and body versus the other guy’s fit. In other words, one could get killed wielding weaponry like in the flicks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is a proper shield wall from the Bayeux Tapestry of the Invasion of England in 1066. Shields were held in a “Norman Grip” to the left shoulder leaving both eyes to focus on the enemy. Overlapping shields were a wall over which battle was joined. Spears held in a stabbing grip to stab over the shields. The shield wall was developed by the Vikings and remained the European default until Pike and Shot made the shield obsolete by 1400. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Close combat, as in the combatants were at arm’s length or a few short steps away preceded the first rock and will continue until after the last. Close order combat came to an abrupt end in the First World War when it was no longer practical to be too close to your buddy or be swept away in the next full burst of machine gun fire, or exploding shell. Those that didn’t get far enough apart, not less than five yards, were seriously killed or wounded. Back in the days of close order combat, more than an elbow’s distance left gaps too big to cover. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Hollywood/Re-enactor paradigm on wielding shields (with spear, axe and/or sword) is contrary to the Bayeux Tapestry shown above. Those mounted and dismounted on both sides, hold the shield with what looks like an arm wrestle grip to the shoulder. Those on the ground in the shield walls overlapped their shields and stab down over the wall of shields. This requires a left foot forward, with the right arm stabbing at an angle like chopping wood. And most importantly during the final delivery of the blow, is to have the eyes on the “inside” (between the hands), and not with both hands on one side or the other. With two handed weapons, the eyes must look directly over the grip and at the target as in “keep your eye on the ball”. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Close Order battle requires strong cohesion as adhesion between those in front, flank and rear. If that adhesion weakens, the enemy will attack to broaden the breach and pile on. Once this happens, any one person who panics often triggers a startle response in which the feet move first and the rest of the formation scatters the formation like popcorn in a high wind. This is true in panics in public as in burning restaurants, theaters, and in outside crowds on a startle response.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Startle Response (Panic) can be replicated in training, as one of my Commanders did when I was a squad leader. The company was deployed on the military crest of a low hill, when it was attacked by the First Sergeant yelling like fury. One soldier leaped to his feet, tossed his rifle and fled, and the one next to him followed suit. The company scattered like popcorn in a high wind. The gimmick: the one who yelled was in on it, the guy next was told to follow suit, and a hundred others fled. After recovery, the CO taught us what panic feels like, what to do and what not to do. I have repeated this drill over the next twenty five years for the same reasons, and the same effect.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg was like a Tipping Point where deadly fires from Union rifle and gunfire progressively reduced Confederate offensive power to the Tipping Point led to a withdrawal under fire. The Startle Response can be attributed to Stonewall Jackson’s flank attack (in a mile across wall of infantry) at the Battle of Chancellorsville (May 2, 1863) on the far right flank of Hooker’s Army after marching across the “nose” of the Union penetration south of the Rappahannock River. One is a build-up, the other is a surprise, although a Tip leads to Panic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Biology of Panic follows two paths in the brain to the switchboard of the Amygdala, Smell and Audio-Visual, which produces chemical changes to make things happen or not. Training can reroute the stimulus to learned responses without the intervening inconvenience of thinking about it. Using a multi-sensory battle simulation works best when Smell (olfactory) is added to Audio-Visual. Smell is the oldest of senses and is routed through the Thalamus to activate the Limbic System while Audio-Visual is routed through the Hypothalamus which goes to the Cortex both by way of the Amygdala. Smell (Stink) produces action without reflection. So, in order for training to Stick, It Must Stink, however slight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fear Stinks and unsticks the cohesion of a startled or tipped unit. We know that animals can sense fear, and in Vietnam, US soap on US GI’s could be smelled by the VC, likewise so could “Nguc Mam” (a fermented fish sauce) by the GI. The effect of female pheromones on the human male is not identifiable as a smell, but reacts predictably, so is the reverse effect of the sweaty male on females. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Sonic Boom. I had been back from Vietnam about two years, the rest of my starting class had been back less than that. Ft Huachuca is next to the Mexican border where the FB-111 fighter-bomber was allowed to go supersonic. The double bang of the supersonic shock wave sounds just like incoming rounds. Bang-bang and half the class was on the floor before the second bang. The other case was no reaction at all when an ammo train blew up by I-10 near Benson, AZ.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Look and Listen before action even automatically, or immediately after. Once fear is on the wind, defense is provided by monitoring and comparing the sense of fear versus what can be seen and heard, objectively. Such was the case of Crusader Shield Walls defending against charging cavalry which audio-visually is terrifying, but once trained the mind can set aside the sense of fear and focus on tactics, techniques and procedures. That is also what the psychological effects of shock effect of tanks is<o:p></o:p></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">The Viking Berserker is said to have gone into a state of madness, when such would have prevented him from effective fighting. The state of relaxation of the mind, and quieting mental chatter, allowed the Berserker to fully maximize his physical strength, minimize tension, and let the trained body to do the fighting while remaining in a quiet state of mind. The true martial artist calms down in order to fight, instead of the hopped up state so dramatic in storytelling. Bruce Lee did no one any favors by his scowling noisy self while Steven Segal, an Aikido Grandmaster, stays calm while demonstrating.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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The West did not learn of the meridians, the yin-yang dichotomy, and the five elements until after the Korean War and by virtue of immigrating Orientals and returning US troops lead by Grandmaster George Dillman, 9<sup>th</sup> Degree Black Belt Ryukyo Kempo (Okinawa).<o:p></o:p></div>
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In broad terms, the illustrations with the colored lines and dots are replication of the locations of the Meridians color coded by their respective “element” as used in <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">the Cycle of Destruction (FIRE burns METAL cuts WOOD penetrates the EARTJ dams WATER puts out FIRE).</span></strong> The location of the Points on the Meridians is normally where a <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">nerve comes to an end, crosses or forks.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">This is the chart I used from Grandmaster George Dillman, the first 9<sup>th</sup> Degree Black Belt to be made privy to that which had been kept secret by the Okinawan masters of connection of the Martial Arts to Chinese Medicine. It has many names such as Pressure Point Fighting, Tuite, and Torite. While the Medieval soldier did not know of the system in any form, the images and training manuals from later medieval times clearly show they knew how to use some of them.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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The ever so popular melee on screen increases the “Murphy Factor” and the results become unpredictable. The sight of one person moving away from the battlefield can trigger the panic by virtue of tipping or startle which are the handmaidens of Murphy’s Law. A major percentage of the time spent by opposing forces was in shouting matches and combats between champions. Such was the case at the battle of Yarmouk between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate in 15-20 August 636 southeast of the Sea of Galilei. The battle is considered on the short list of decisive battles as it ended Roman (Christian) dominance of the Levant until the Crusades. There were several days of taunting and champion combat until the cohesion of the Roman formation left too many gaps and not enough maneuver room.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Military planning and leadership on the battlefield, then and now, is to defeat Murphy’s Laws with forces in reserve, contingency planning, redundant communications and the whole of military science and art. The timing of the commitment of a reserve is critical, too early gives the initiative to the enemy, too late the initiative stays with the enemy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Defense against Murphy usually is encoded into the local customs of combat which often were highly specialized as archers (Welsh Longbow), crossbow (Genoa), light cavalry (Poland and the Balkans), pike (Swiss), two handed axe (Varangian-Swedes) and the Shield Wall (from the Vikings to the Crusaders). In today’s parlance we use the terms doctrine, SOP, principles, procedures, and the current US Army TTP (tactics. Techniques, and procedures). In order to fight effectively including sophisticated maneuvers such as a passage of lines clearly indicates a common “understanding” that functioned like modern doctrine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In Medieval times, change came slower as local customs, values, beliefs, behaviors and norms were embedded in the body of the local society. What produced superb warriors in one century produced targets in another. The knowledge was passed down in oral and in child raising and was impervious to change until literacy interfered. Then the pace of change can occur in hours where centuries were required in the past. The legendary unit cohesion of US National Guard units is tied to community and traditions of long standing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A common understanding (similar to doctrine, and TTP) existed in medieval combined arms and joint forces, logistics and deployment for combat is evident in medieval combat, particularly in the better trained units. Yet these are not written down anywhere, nor do many remember what was done, as the latest thing blows the old away. That these existed is evidenced by the sophistication of the march under Richard the Lion Hearted from Acre to Jaffa including the victory at Arsuf on September 7, 1191 AD. </div>
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<b>In animals as well as man, there is a default choice of courses of action and reaction. But it is a bit more complicated than Fight-Flight-Freeze. Initially a REVULSION REFLEX inhibits what might be an all-out murderous mutual massacre. This serves two purposes: maneuver for advantage and the appearance of overwhelming force (INTIMIDATION). Once one side turns away, the Revulsion Reflex is erased and replaced by the RUN-DOWN REFLEX in which the loser is run down killed, captured, eaten or sold on the slave market. The end status is submission, even though such results in certain death.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> Most animals in nature carry body markings to camouflage the female against discovery during nesting, resting, or child raising. On the other hand, body markings that make the males competitor appear more ferocious. Some is carried over in human threat displays, Tall hats and capes make the contestant appear larger than life, body markings exaggerate combative appearance. The male lion has a big mane while the female does not, the mane is the main sex display while other body differences between male and female are not as apparent. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The combat response of the “Freeze” is based on the fact that a moving target attracts the eye, standing still under the right circumstances clouds the predator’s mind (as in Hide). This is a standard response at night when the enemy lights up the night with searchlights and/or flares. Hiding in the umbra of taller objects also works<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The most common human fighting technique is battery by hand and foot, mostly by hand. There are only two targets worthy of battery, and that is to affect the Brain and the Lungs. The skull protecting the brain is a hard target so it must be struck with something soft in order to induce concussion. Conversely, the lungs must be hit with something hard in the guts so as to push the diaphragm upward constricting the lungs. Plain battery elsewhere is defeated by muscle, bone, and fat.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Similar to a tank, aircraft, and car engine, the animate require oxygen and fuel to transfer energy to, lubricate, and operate the various components of the body. In vertebrates this requires lungs to take in air and transfer the oxygen to the blood, which blood picks up nutrients and agents from the various glands and organs. Together, this constitutes the vitals.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The process of breathing without which life gets short, involves the transfer of oxygen from the lungs into the heart which pumps the oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. While the rib cage provides considerable protection of damage by blunt instrument, compression of the guts often knocks the breath out of the breather. Behind and below the guts (intestines), certain vital organs that filter and deliver the chemicals into or out of the blood and digestive systems. These are located in an ellipse with the long axis across the belly from kidney to kidney. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Deep Diaphragm (Belly) Breathing brings in more air in to get more energy out, and relaxes the body (and mind). Chest breathing is rapid and shallow, and tightens up the body (and mind). Deep “belly” breathing is the counter to stress. One must calm down to fight.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Chinese Traditional Medicine was unknown to the West and likely the Middle East, but so were the ones we know about today. Recent work in the martial arts community is making progress In associating the elements of Chinese Traditional Medicine (TCM) with what we know of the body today. The pressure points of TCM normally are found where a nerve comes to an end, crosses another or divides. Additional work is being done in affiliating TCM with the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) according to the Dragon Society (Grand Master Rick Moneymaker, under whom I have studied).<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>We usually associate the nervous system with motor and sensory nerves, but well below the conscious level the ANS works in response to the threat as perceived by t</b><b>he Biology of perception which follows two paths into the brain to the switchboard of the Amygdala, Smell and<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Audio‐Visual, which produces chemical changes to make things happen or not. Smell is the oldest of senses and is routed through the Thalamus to activate the Limbic System while Audio‐Visual is routed through the Hypothalamus which goes to the Cortex. Smell (Stink) produces action without reflection.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>9The Parasympathetic system appears to be operating in diametric opposition to each other. The Sympathetic system cranks up under perceived threat, and the Parasympathetic backs off. The Sympathetic reaction, however, is counter-productive to efficient fighting, in particular the heart rate. Pupil dilation is accompanied by a narrow field of view which does not see or sense attacks coming from the sides. The Oriental system of belly breathing, deep and slow, also slows down the heart rate, increases the field of view, and relaxes the body. A tense body not only hurts more when hit, the range and speed of the limbs are retarded. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>This leads to an apparent, but necessary paradigm shift: One must calm down in order to fight efficiently and effectively. The foaming at the mouth, wild eyed, emotional fighter won’t fight long in the face of deadly calm. Shouting is targeted and timed to freeze the target at the right time and way. This calming down effect has many names in the East, but is also found in Western athletics and performance arts. It is sometimes called the Relaxation Response. When relaxed, the athlete or artist’s mind becomes detached from the fury of the moment, but operates in a more strategic fashion. A chattering mind invites battery to the body. </b></div>
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<b>In Close Order Combat at Close Quarters (spear or pike range), one reads of forces who advance with shouts in unison, like “God Wills It” or singing a battle song are also ridding the body of tension, creating a bond within the ranks, and elevates the mind from dwelling too much on what could go wrong. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Substantial and credible research has established that the default behavior of humans when faced with the choice of killing don’t kill, don’t shoot, miss deliberately, never forget, and vomit once done. It is clear that the initial behavior during the initial face to face confrontation is to threaten, posture and maneuver for advantage. Recent studies of the casualty rates of battles back to antiquity also show abysmally small numbers of casualties or both sides<u>, provided the other side didn’t run</u>. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Since killing is an integral part of life on the planet, there is a question as to why do humans react against killing even when being killed is a clear and present danger. This reaction is also common to the animal kingdom, few animals launch into an attack without some intimidating (or sneaky) maneuvers. If the object of their intimidation does not back off, the confrontation can end as both sides back off This is nature’s way of limiting aggression to issues of dominance (Social Status) or dinner. The lions, gazelles, buffalo, and other wild creatures who are subject of being eaten or beaten only do so when needed. Otherwise, they share the same space. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>During WW 2, only 15 to 20% of infantrymen fired their weapons. The change from paper targets at known ranges to popup silhouette targets at random distances raised the odds in Vietnam to 90-95%. Realistic training, that is the replication of all the sensory inputs normally associated with a given task. That is why we invented the infiltration course after Korea, to get accustomed to overhead machinegun fire, tracers and all, in a controlled situation. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The routing of sensory inputs by way of the Amygdala, Thalamus and Hypothalamus that is not overloaded with emotions, allows a calmer more trained mind to sort these stimuli and select an appropriate response. The Trained Mind is where the coded reflexes activating muscle memory and learned responses that can fight on automatic, leaving the relaxed mind to make strategic observations and directions. This occurs in athletes, dancers, fighter pilots and Friday Rush Hour to function without burning up energy in conscious decision making as that mind is too slow.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN">From a broader point of view, control of the Revulsion Reflex which is primarily driven by the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS), is to counter with activating the Parasympathetic System in addition to reducing the fear factor of external stimuli, like incoming rounds. Taking learned responses to cope with the actual physical threats includes digging in, shooting back, wearing protective gear at all times. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN">The Knights Templar slept in their combat gear, something that I learned my first week in combat. And they did so without regard to any specific threat assessment. Unit morale due to the unit replacement system in US forces today has elevated the sense of camaraderie between buddies to a level far above any achieved before or so wide. Likewise the bonding of the Knights Templar and the other holy orders coupled with a shared set of values, rituals, and combat training worked to override any errant stimuli so they could fight effectively and efficiently. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>The Temple and the Hospital only recruited those who were already MOS qualified (knights, men at arms, sergeants) and bonded together by faith, ritual and hard collective training. For a unit to function as a unit in combat, they must have trained tougher under simulated combat conditions, and some that aren’t battle. This includes hunger, exhaustion, confusion, extreme heat and/or cold, rain, snow, and/or dust, all of which are available at Ft Hood Texas often at the same time.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>There is little known about the training schedule, program of instruction, of Mission Essential Task List used to train the Order. The fact that the holy orders and other well trained outfits could assemble on day, or show up in the middle of battle and be able to be deployed effectively means that there had to be a shared and clearly understood way to fight for each of the components and for the leadership. The Western knights of the 12<sup>th</sup> Century were far superior to Islamic forces, and particularly at higher levels of command. Saladin started the reversal of the trend which ended in the 13<sup>th</sup> Century. One fatal difference influenced operations was the incessant bickering of the various political components of either side. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>The noise, dust and confusion of Close Order Battle makes giving verbal orders problematic. The high notes of the trumpet operate at a frequency that the human ear registers full attention, and bugles are still used (out of respect) today. Likewise banners, flags, pennons, and Guidons are the default visual means of controlling forces afoot, afloat, or a riding. The soul that carried the banner of a band of brothers did so without a weapon in hand, and for whom dropping the flag was a major disgrace. It still is, even though following the flag in current battles would draw fire. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>It is no accident or insidious capitalist warmongering plot that children play “hide and seek”, or running games like “keep away” which goes professional in soccer, football (both), basketball, or hockey. This behavior like most childhood games is practice for what comes later in life, and is driven by coding in DNA. Socialization only provides the details.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b> This is the part when the loser is massacred on the run even if not edible. Basketball, Soccer, Rugby, and Hockey (field and ice) are running games with the puck or ball representing the game’s game. This is the part when the family chows down on the defeated, the wounded are bayoneted, and the dead are stripped. In Medieval warfare, the casualties of the side that ran were horrific while in those battle with no panic, or run, American Football is more lethal. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09422091480386814137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669403490686146700.post-28719724782872202182012-03-19T14:47:00.003-07:002012-03-23T10:11:55.543-07:00DNA, Ducks, and DesCartes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The concept of rationality or it's opposite number "irrationality" is tied to the concious manipulation of defined concepts, symbols,meanings within a logical framework of lingqustics. This view is very popular to the followers of the last survivors in the Comintern, such a Noam Chomsky. </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1MukTX8_kobRn-fAH2YipV6TTrQXZrEyFC98_24Y8pgRg12gi-hR3pwziTyB1rLAYtBMH6ZPa4X471xW4j1bQ4pQFIIxPVm11oaUWgNHqm205c_jLf8swZJDf2S4tUYjPwa6ar7cxs3M/s1600/Rationalilty_01.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" height="348px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1MukTX8_kobRn-fAH2YipV6TTrQXZrEyFC98_24Y8pgRg12gi-hR3pwziTyB1rLAYtBMH6ZPa4X471xW4j1bQ4pQFIIxPVm11oaUWgNHqm205c_jLf8swZJDf2S4tUYjPwa6ar7cxs3M/s640/Rationalilty_01.bmp" width="640px" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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<b>This concept of rationality is by definition, the theory holds,is exclusive to the human race and that the barking, bleating, roaring, et al of animals is definitively inferior. The fits a number of fundamentalist branches of several religions that elevate humanity and rationality to the status of a God. The most erudite become more holy than thou. <br />
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<b>Animals are a whole lot smarter than we make them out to be. Any serious hunter, fisherman, farmer,or retiree feeding pigeons at the park, know this. As a retired old soldier now fascinated with the various nature channels on TV, have noted the behavior pattens of the eternal competiton to survive another dinner, and another date to keep the gene pool alive. <br />
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Is the lead duck in a flying wedge flying hundreds of miles from Canada to Mexico certified by Duck Central? By what means of communication does a pride of lions use to communicate a phased tactical operation kill the next meal (antelope, wildebeest, elephant or hippo? </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4Hj4aSuxU8L6zP8nu7j5jWCZFrHohWo3TRhVBPfKm7DCxHMxjJ84pJqx3MgY_6NjKG5S7f849tlA__cofQ9TZPsUy15quvfkEYP5nPAQceSesWJN1sOLLZEknxukcvtsfSGHRojzSfU/s1600/Rationalilty_03.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" height="212px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4Hj4aSuxU8L6zP8nu7j5jWCZFrHohWo3TRhVBPfKm7DCxHMxjJ84pJqx3MgY_6NjKG5S7f849tlA__cofQ9TZPsUy15quvfkEYP5nPAQceSesWJN1sOLLZEknxukcvtsfSGHRojzSfU/s640/Rationalilty_03.bmp" width="640px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNaJgU9CGhQ">Lion Pride in the Hunt</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNaJgU9CGhQ"> </a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Phase one - reconnaissance to determine the most vulnerable target.<br />
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Phase three - Attack, one lion goes for the hind legs, another goes at the spine, and another chokes the animal by strangulation or suffocation. </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Phase four - Regroup, chow down, and move on. </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 5pt;"><br />
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<b>People often marvel at how human certain animals are, when the simple demonstrate fact is that we share a lot of DNA common to or evolved from DNA coding to solve the eternal problems of a dinner and a date. Focuing on the "rational" manipulation of signs, symbols, etc is often looking up the wrong end of the strand. <br />
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<b><span style="color: black;"></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In brutal terms, this means feeding and breeding (<u>dinner and a date</u>) against all odds. There is competition between the sexes for access to the other, and between outsiders for food, particularly if being lunch is the alternative to having lunch.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: black;">The F4F Card is for professionals in the face of others who may be hostile, noncommittal, or supportive who don’t have a doctorate in cultural anthropology and who need to know if any of the others is going to switch sides, cut and run, or fight to the death. F4F is designed to be simple with the only tools needed to use it or teach it, are a pair of hands, and some experience with family reunions or bar fights. F4F falls into two groups of four rules</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black;">: Social Status: Face, Fate, Fame, Fortune. Physical: Time, Distance, Ground, Body</span></u></b></span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'IM Fell French Canon', serif;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fame is what the recognition a person wants, Fate is a set of rules that determines the standards for the rest of F4F, Fame is the recognition a person gets, and Fortune is what a person gets for it. <u>Time and Distance means movement </u>and the resulting patterns of both use and movement imposed by terrain, and by the cultures use of it plus the effects on the elements of the culture’s rules of status. The relation of body language, functions, reproduction impact on the other aspects of the Physical World and is a prime factor in social status.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Events may happen in the course of the day that challenges the rules or access to dinners/dates. Drama consists of a </span></span></b><a href="http://api.getsmartlinks.com/goto?app_id=opencandy&tp=inuvo&link_id=-5711799&cid=893&pid=1&guid=B32E8339-B1AB-2B3A-0E21-2BA832080C61&time=133097824&term=clash%20of%20heroes&url=http:%2F%2Fcrossedculture.blogspot.com%2F&v_ie=28&v%5blink_target2%5d=_blank" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration: none;">clash of heroes</span></b></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: black;"> and villains, each of whom like to play three basic roles: <u>Victim, Rescuer, or Prosecutor</u>. The heroic version is of these three interwoven roles includes such trilogies are Hero, Helping, and Helpless aka Knight, Nurse, and Infant. The Villainous version has its version such as <u>Murder, Manipulative, and Mad</u>. </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'IM Fell French Canon', serif;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: black;">A perfect villain is all three as shown in Nazi propaganda. The ultimate objective of villainy is the destruction of the group by taking the children, the next generation out. Women and children first, are the first priority of both villain and hero.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'IM Fell French Canon', serif;"></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Nazi view of the Heroic in this selection shows the protection and nurture of the child (German Race) is through the Infantry to deal death to Capitalist (High Finance) – Communist Lies. Nazi propaganda weaves a web in which the Jews control both Capitalism and Communism as both inferior and superior foes. The enemy must be portrayed as inferior to make is vulnerable and superior in order to make it appear as a threat that will victimize. </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: black;">These are not static roles; the fun comes from changing roles faster than the opponent. Each role switch gives the player(s) a buzz, a flash, an emotional payoff which is called </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black;">stamp collecting</span></u></b><b><span style="color: black;">. Stamps are labeled by their emotional content: </span></b><b><span style="color: red;">Red </span></b><b><span style="color: black;">for anger, </span></b><b><span style="color: #984806;">brown </span></b><b><span style="color: black;">for depression, </span></b><b><span style="color: #a6a6a6;">white</span></b><b><span style="color: black;"> for purity, </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">black</span></b><b><span style="color: black;"> for death, amongst others</span></b><b><u><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">. The </span></u></b><b><u><span style="color: black;">stamps can be turned in (in the head case) a free jackpot, like a free murder or free suicide like 9-11.</span></u></b><b><span style="color: black;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'IM Fell French Canon', serif;"></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Propaganda leverages the double drama triangle of victim vs hero in accordance with the rules and roles of the culture. Drama in this case does not rely on reason, but emotion. Defense against drama is based on understanding the buzz factors used and the legitimate needs and to deal on a rational base to deal with it. This does not mean trying to convince a madman, but to take appropriate action not madness in return.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="color: black;">Game players can be spotted by their talent in <u>bragging about their weakest virtue, and blaming others using their own worst vices. </u></span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'IM Fell French Canon', serif;"></span></b></span></div>
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</div>Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09422091480386814137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669403490686146700.post-48019806766807272812012-03-03T17:41:00.002-08:002012-03-03T17:44:38.482-08:00Combat Culture Guide<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><u>Culture is a survival strategy</u> used by groups (plant or animal) to survive the drama of life against all enemies foreign and domestic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In brutal terms, this means feeding and breeding (<u>dinner and a date</u>) against all odds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is competition between the sexes for access to the other, and between outsiders for food, particularly if being lunch is the alternative to having lunch.</span></div> <br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The F4F Card is for professionals in the face of others who may be hostile, noncommittal, or supportive who don’t have a doctorate in cultural anthropology and who need to know if any of the others is going to switch sides, cut and run, or fight to the death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>F4F is designed to be simple with the only tools needed to use it or teach it, are a pair of hands, and some experience with family reunions or bar fights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>F4F falls into two groups of four rules<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Social Status: Face, Fate, Fame, Fortune.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Physical: Time, Distance, Ground, Body</u></b></span> <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fame</b> is what the recognition a person wants, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fate</b> is a set of rules that determines the standards for the rest of F4F, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fame</b> is the recognition a person gets, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fortune</b> is what a person gets for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Time and Distance</u></b><u> means movement </u>and the resulting patterns of both use and movement imposed by terrain, and by the cultures use of it plus the effects on the elements of the culture’s rules of status.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The relation of body language, functions, reproduction impact on the other aspects of the Physical World and is a prime factor in social status.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Events may happen in the course of the day that challenges the rules or access to dinners/dates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drama consists of a clash of heroes and villains, each of whom like to play three basic roles: <u>Victim, Rescuer, or Prosecutor</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heroic version is of these three interwoven roles includes such trilogies are Hero, Helping, and Helpless aka Knight, Nurse, and Infant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Villainous version has its version such as <u>Murder, Manipulative, and Mad</u> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFawEJAh-rf12MKWJpenZCbpgMvBSbxyo-akEDClfFFGAZFh-_tuvz-SGtyDKj3i_KDjGDDmfd3mNuHcsDv6Waj2OVi6xVxhiGMnLYpKu08NUMOVcJ7PcoYjScIloe2plzTFl2Vzdn8iQ/s1600/Double+DTM.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFawEJAh-rf12MKWJpenZCbpgMvBSbxyo-akEDClfFFGAZFh-_tuvz-SGtyDKj3i_KDjGDDmfd3mNuHcsDv6Waj2OVi6xVxhiGMnLYpKu08NUMOVcJ7PcoYjScIloe2plzTFl2Vzdn8iQ/s640/Double+DTM.bmp" uda="true" width="640px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These are not static roles; the fun comes from changing roles faster than the opponent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each role switch gives the player(s) a buzz, a flash, an emotional payoff which is called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>stamp collecting</u></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stamps are labeled by their emotional content: <span style="color: red;">Red </span>for anger, <span style="color: #984806; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">brown </span>for depression, <span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">white</span> for purity, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">black</span></b> for death, amongst others<u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stamps can be turned in (in the head case) a free jackpot, like a free murder or free suicide like 9-11.</u> </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Game players can be spotted by their talent in <u>bragging about their weakest virtue, and blaming others using their own worst vices. </u></span></div></div>Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09422091480386814137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669403490686146700.post-83760034670720002272012-01-16T07:44:00.000-08:002012-01-16T07:44:33.210-08:00Cultural Decoding and the Japanese<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Cultural misunderstandings between the Japanese and us led to a war in which <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Japan</country-region></place> was flattened and eventually nuked. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They clearly misunderstood us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, within ten years, <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Japan</country-region></place> was on it’s way to the short list of major economic powers of the world, sans sword. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Working with the Japanese is a challenge one in which the aversion of the Japanese to confrontation is often mistaken for acquiescence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><country-region w:st="on">Japan</country-region> is much more of an enigma wrapped in a riddle wrapped in another enigma than is <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Russia</country-region></place>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Warrior’s Guide to the Other Guys Culture aka “F4F+4” is a warrior’s tool consisting of nine variables in two groups: one related to human relations, and the other of temporal relations:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">F4F (Face, Fate,Fame,Fortune).</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="JA" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: JA;">表面、運命、名声および幸運</span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Basic cultural competence for Warrior and Statesman is focused on the values, behavior, beliefs and norms (VBBN) related to decision making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It goes hand in hand with the factors of METT-TC of which three relate to people: enemy, forces available and civilians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not supplant anthropology, but rather depends on it such as terrain and weather analysis bound in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">COCOA</place></city> (Critical Terrain, Observation, Cover and Concealment, Obstacles and Avenues of Approach) does not replace density altitude or vehicle cone indices.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">It means the ability to determine what ticks them off, and what turns them on (Face issues).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To what or whom they consider the consequences or underlying authority (Fate issues) and what gives them recognition and power within their community (Fame), and to what or to who controls the purse strings (Fortune).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">In addition, how does geography affect them and what is their impact of geography? And what is their sense of time, and sense of distance, and how do they use their body in addition to body language. That is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Time, Distance, Ground and Body</i></b>.( <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">時間、間隔、地面</span>, </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">体</span>)</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Geography and History</i>.</b> The key to understanding the Japanese is the impact of a land which is more vertical than horizontal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only is Japan an island nation, the islands are full of mountains comprising three quarters of the land, leaving very little in the way of arable land in between.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59vAuNQ9G-5pxEiR82sGlvZo8mE-4CPXsXW5bcNVUoqem_OMwX-gJQrh8BixnBh8TRec0otq2LX_aFPVQp_txhBILiSgF4yD8zO1KBLu7ztrJi1AlgEPUSvujvMk70sTsVxxLE1dwnaI/s1600/Japan_01.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276px" kba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59vAuNQ9G-5pxEiR82sGlvZo8mE-4CPXsXW5bcNVUoqem_OMwX-gJQrh8BixnBh8TRec0otq2LX_aFPVQp_txhBILiSgF4yD8zO1KBLu7ztrJi1AlgEPUSvujvMk70sTsVxxLE1dwnaI/s640/Japan_01.bmp" width="640px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>The Mountain Folk, the Bushi</u></i></b><u>.</u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fight for and the control of the bits and pieces of flat land is a central facet of Japanese culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Japan</country-region></place> was, in theory, an empire with an emperor at the top, the real power was held by competing factions of warlords, called Daimyo (big name) whose elite Samurai soldiers did the fighting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Takeda Shingen, Battles of Kawanakajima 1561</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">While Samurai were considered nobles, a common person could work his way up through the ranks to the very top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That coupled with strategic marriage and adoption could create or maintain high social and political standing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last of this kind was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who started out as a sandal carrier for a samurai lord who prohibited private ownership of arms in 1588.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwaADXYbU3GzPJG2KoPjILkSZhcVoyCev9_T90iHVWattIt9akH8-dBAfYiU4XQC006i27RAbZ2vBT3Rqt2BCppfobQ2O5TXOmAYWEs0fq5pwLcgHZ4zyQbwRRbykqaIHwwdR9vDj8kE/s1600/Japan_03.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251px" kba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwaADXYbU3GzPJG2KoPjILkSZhcVoyCev9_T90iHVWattIt9akH8-dBAfYiU4XQC006i27RAbZ2vBT3Rqt2BCppfobQ2O5TXOmAYWEs0fq5pwLcgHZ4zyQbwRRbykqaIHwwdR9vDj8kE/s320/Japan_03.bmp" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">The introduction of guns into <country-region w:st="on">Japan</country-region> in 1542 had the same military and political effects experienced in <place w:st="on">Europe</place> at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The castle and mounted charge faded in importance resulting in tipping the balance of power to the national authority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like in <country-region w:st="on">Russia</country-region> and <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">France</place></country-region> of the time, the nobles were required to spend all or part of their time in the national capitol under the eyes of the national authority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edo had the same significance as did <city w:st="on">St Petersburg</city> and <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Versailles</city></place>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">“Tokugawa Ieyasu</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> (</span><span class="tnihongokanji"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: JA;">徳川</span></span><span class="tnihongokanji"><span lang="JA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span></span><span class="tnihongokanji"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: JA;">家康</span></span></span><span class="tnihongohelpnoprint"><sup><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets"><span class="tnihongoicon"><b><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">?</span></b></span></a></span></sup></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: blue;">, January 31, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1543" title="1543">1543</a><span style="color: blue;"> – June 1, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1616" title="1616">1616</a><span style="color: blue;">) was the founder and first </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogun" title="Shogun">shogun</a><span style="color: blue;"> of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate" title="Tokugawa shogunate">Tokugawa shogunate</a><span style="color: blue;"> of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a><span style="color: blue;"> which ruled from the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sekigahara" title="Battle of Sekigahara">Battle of Sekigahara</a><span style="color: blue;"> in 1600 until the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_Restoration" title="Meiji Restoration">Meiji Restoration</a><span style="color: blue;"> in 1868. Ieyasu seized power in 1600, received appointment as shogun in 1603, abdicated from office in 1605, but remained in power until his death in 1616.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wikipedia</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Tokugawa ended vertical mobility and froze the ranks in place with detailed instructions with penalties for violations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He issued an edict expelling Christians and the sealing of <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Japan</country-region></place> from outside influence tightened the controls the Samurai had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">But since the peasantry had been disarmed and foreign adventures prohibited, the Samurai did have much to do except eat and train for duels, or beat up on the peasantry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was customary for a village to suffer the consequences of the actions of an individual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Collective responsibility, therefore, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is at the core of the Japanese social culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This included punishment for missteps by the Samurai in the presence of superiors in which a Samurai would be ordered to commit suicide, also called Hara Kiri (belly cut) or Seppuku. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">和</span>) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Harmony through Regulations, Conformity, Ways, and Kata</i></b>: Mountain people are renowned for being contentious and Japanese history is full of contention, rivalry and duplicity between those who controlled the valleys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The antidote for contention is regulation, and Japanese culture is famous for regulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a “way” to do things just right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Battle</place></city> drill is regulation, and Japanese martial arts have specific ways to move, strike, and evade which in English are called “forms” or the Japanese word “kata”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ultimate result and the highest virtue in <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Japan</country-region></place> is harmony between mind, body, and one’s opponent.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Prime Directive – Harmony</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> (</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">和</span>)</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">The Sino-Japanese Character for harmony is<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">和</span></b> and is pronounced “wa” when used with other characters, and when alone is pronounced “Yamato” which is also the older name for Japan, and of the second of two super battleships in WW 2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harmony doesn’t mean peace, except as the quiet mind necessary to fight efficiently.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">The tea ceremony is a coffee break that takes hours of precise movements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A tea master illustrates precision and timing in the same way a Black Belt in Karate does in the specified kata for his or her style.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBCrqsm-pGkxJIeDQaslQM61YrbS4dZ77yRhkVnuY9Ou6xamBTxqp2Acn-YvU41bvnchdobRC3yBlFQpvx03ANUDQy7Or04LXpZ5OWiIAYcKOQLp3QX-VLAj4Rww0lP6jT4yFUVXR9_t8/s1600/TeaCeremony.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266px" kba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBCrqsm-pGkxJIeDQaslQM61YrbS4dZ77yRhkVnuY9Ou6xamBTxqp2Acn-YvU41bvnchdobRC3yBlFQpvx03ANUDQy7Or04LXpZ5OWiIAYcKOQLp3QX-VLAj4Rww0lP6jT4yFUVXR9_t8/s400/TeaCeremony.bmp" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">As a matter of necessary regulation of the peasantry upon whose rice planting was the principal source of wealth for the aristocracy, collective responsibility for the misdeeds or deeds of the village and family was the order of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If one family member offended a samurai of standing, the whole family or village could be punished as in put to death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This collective responsibility had an effect still very much in evidence today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">No one does anything until everyone has agreed to it. In business this is called “nemawashi” in which proposals are passed through all affected departments until unanimity is reached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This takes a long time, and multiple iterations are necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was frustrating to the US State, Navy and War Departments in 1941.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This round of question asking and repeated deliberations were taken by us as stalling.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once reached, the Japanese move like lightning and in concert. There are no foot draggers in the group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Pentagon likely picked this up from <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Japan</place></country-region> during the Occupation as “Staff Coordination” is defined as running the decision papers around until everyone has put his or her “chop” on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A chop in <country-region w:st="on">Japan</country-region> and <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">China</country-region></place> is a personal seal used to stamp official and binding documents in civil life. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Unlike other countries, the concept of collective decision making and collective responsibility of family and village was effectively transferred to the public and economic sectors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During industrialization, the youth of an entire rural area would be brought to the industrial centers and put in company housing and cared for by the company staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This effectively transferred much of what is normally considered family values to the companies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">In terms of the Warrior’s Guide to the Other Guy’s Culture, Face and Fate issues are tied to the collective, to the primary group based on the company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If an employee goofs up, he has let his company down and is required to apologize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harakiri (Seppuku) suicide has become symbolic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the pride of the Nation, the apology is considered the ultimate sacrifice, is intended to end further humiliation or harassment of the group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL3dQudiLuHaK7FprpYT2BDsOrcfbW2AEyp-s4nNAsIfijInILURR2IU-QYQZr51TAyuF50yUudBDM4XcPWF5k4tnu9GsHv8YhgbhavY6R1jHQIJ7Yd9z7FcRXyROM946Nq0zJBkp0evA/s1600/Japan_04.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" kba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL3dQudiLuHaK7FprpYT2BDsOrcfbW2AEyp-s4nNAsIfijInILURR2IU-QYQZr51TAyuF50yUudBDM4XcPWF5k4tnu9GsHv8YhgbhavY6R1jHQIJ7Yd9z7FcRXyROM946Nq0zJBkp0evA/s400/Japan_04.bmp" width="286px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fame</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given collective values and the restrictions that “the way” of doing things, heroes are admired, but it is a tragic affair as the Japanese say “That nail that stands out, must be hammered flat”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The happy ending isn’t always at the end of Japanese movies, sometimes it’s an unhappy or tragic ending”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The movie “Ran” by Akira Kurusawa ends with everyone dead or nuts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fame is considered double edged. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fortune</b>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Making a fortune is an acceptable course of action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Flaunting it, however, has it limits. Given the lack of flat land to build on, the land one builds on is expensive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has restricted modern residential construction to the very small, so small that is not for show and tell. That’s what restaurants are for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Japanese have to be told that inviting them to an American’s home is not because they can’t afford a restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Given collective responsibility for the actions of one on all, the Japanese divide their actions into two worlds, one they show to the outer world which is regulated by the proper “form” or “way” of doing things and that which will not detract from the prmary group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other is what is allowed within the primary group, and is unstructured and free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first is called “tatamae” and the inside view is “honne”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the first years of Japanese commercial expansion after WW2, Japanese men behaved like GI’s on leave, horny and foul mouthed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This got some bad press, and the behavior was modified.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">More than any other custom, the Japanese language was designed not to offend the Samurai with an itchy sword hand and the right to use it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The language was developed to avoid offending the offensive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The art of avoiding conflict within is the central value of the Japanese, and to a large extent other Far Eastern nations. As noted before, the character for Harmony pronounced “Wa” and permeates all manner of social interaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personal Fame is admired from afar, but is something the Japanese find uncomfortable in themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The have learned the hard way that Fame is followed by a Fate involving daggers in amongst the kudos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">The Japanese martial arts of Aikido and Judo are based on using the opponents energy against them, and the martial art of Iaido <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">(</span><span class="tnihongokanji"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="JA" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: JA;">居合道</span></b></span></span><span class="tnihongohelpnoprint"><sup><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Installing_Japanese_character_sets" title="Help:Installing Japanese character sets"><span class="tnihongoicon"><b><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">?</span></b></span></a></span></sup></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">) </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is based on defeating an attack at the dinner table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A form of quick draw with razor sharp swords.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRFdheedbEuZAropuSVL678kIQGA2y6t3YsJHHL15XdxpXj6sGxIm0gjxwFFKqkSr5R2qlNP41a_jGuEbq9cq8UFZvPQffLqBBjBWclaGNurSAke-djMhmrMb0D4S2Hai51jFmSPP-yY/s1600/Japan_08.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="408px" kba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRFdheedbEuZAropuSVL678kIQGA2y6t3YsJHHL15XdxpXj6sGxIm0gjxwFFKqkSr5R2qlNP41a_jGuEbq9cq8UFZvPQffLqBBjBWclaGNurSAke-djMhmrMb0D4S2Hai51jFmSPP-yY/s640/Japan_08.bmp" width="640px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">The Japanese language uses indirect ways of saying things, instead of the Western way of short sharp declarative statements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brevity is abusive, and when the Japanese use brevity, they are on the edge of battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What can be said in one page is better said in three or four.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Likewise the vocabulary of the most common verbs changes according to the social status of who is being spoken to. There are six different vocabularies, three most popular, for the most common verbs such as to be, to go, to come, and to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The three most popular levels of politeness include abrupt, polite, and honorific.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All design to avoid disturbing harmony and to avoid offending.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Likewise, the language favors a complex way to say simple things leaving the verb at the end of the sentence to allow for wiggle room <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And is more passive than active. American business to taught to make it brief, no more than a page and a half.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Japanese to sent such a short letter is insulting.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Japanese belief systems are not hide bound to follow the dictates of any one religion or philosophy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In part, this is an Oriental concept of yin and yang each of which cannot exist without a bit of the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Japanese families follow Shinto customs when young, Christian weddings and Christmas, and Buddhist funerals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Cartesian logic is fine for chemistry or mathematics, but not for life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arguing is disharmony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a business meeting, they will no more about your enterprise than you do. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Distance</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">間隔</span></b>: Interpersonal distance depends on whether one is on a train or bus or is in open terrain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In open terrain, interpersonal distances are like Americans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a train, one is a standing sardine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Japanese queue up at bus and train stops like in <country-region w:st="on">England</country-region>, sometimes in the <country-region w:st="on">US</country-region>, and never in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Holland</city></place>. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Time</i></b>. .( <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">時間</span>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>As it might be expected, Japanese reverence for time as a resource and a standard that prescribes correct behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being late is a serious offense, while timeliness is a virtue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>0900 is the most common starting time for work in <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Tokyo</place></city>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ten minutes before nine is a mad rush, ten minutes after is virtually empty.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ground </i></b>(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">地面</span>)</b>The effect of limited land not only underlies the Japanese character, it has in modern times altered the use of floor space, from spacious to cramped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not unusual for an entire family to live in one room, in which the bed is folded away, and the all purpose table takes the space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Japanese are astounded at the huge houses we have, that we consider average.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Body</i></b>: (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family: SimSun; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">体</span>) J</b>apanese body language and the use of the body in social circumstances are prescribed in precise manner such as in how deep one bows to another depending on status.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Removing the shoes is required in a Japanese home and many traditional restaurants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hiding the emotions is a universal defense mechanism.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">The concept of Harmony extends to the Japanese sense of beauty in the arts, and in ordinary crafts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Japanese spend a lot of effort and creativity in the wrapping of a gift, and the wrapping says as much or more than the gift itself. Their sense of living space, before population explosions made space a premium that impressed Frank Lloyd Wright, and the GI’s who were stationed with the Occupation Forces in Japan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They brought back a sense of more open interior space and more opened to the outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This style, for some odd reason, became known as a “ranch” style. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ginkakuji (Golden Pavilion) in Kyoto</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Japanese views on sex are not matters of shame and guilt as they are in the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country-region>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prostitution in <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Japan</place></country-region> is in accordance with specific forms, also very much like the moves in a martial art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Posted prominently in public places are advertisements which delineate the hourly rate and the particular set and sequence of sex acts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most Americans see this as perversity personified.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">The Japanese consider American insistence on individual achievement at the expense of family or corporate welfare as barbaric, as to most other cultures that place family values over individual success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see family values and individual responsibility as co-existing, while most of the world sees them as a range of choices. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Most Americans see the Japanese as up tight and polite, which invites a corresponding assessment of us a loud and abrasive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their excuse is that we are powerful and dangerous barbarians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barbarians that can’t speak Japanese or use pork chops (hashi).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">The prime determinant in a culture is often Fate, that which we are answerable to and that which represents consequence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">United States</place></country-region>, it is individual responsibility and freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Fate pulls the rug out from under, it is an individual’s problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Japan</place></country-region> it is collective responsibility and consequence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Fate pulls the rug out from under, it is a collective responsibility to inspect, repair, or replace as necessary. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Both the Japanese and Americans compartmentalize friendships, but the Japanese have one they can fall back on, while in American that can fall on them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing for sure, the Japanese never let the rain on their parade slow them down:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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The Jedi Mind trick/BS Decoder, I call F4F, under the provisions of the <a about_url="http://www.getbetterlinks.com/tooltip?link_id=6824887" class="ml-smartlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle" link_id="6824887" real_url="http://api.getsmartlinks.com/r?app_id=opencandy&guid=B32E8339-B1AB-2B3A-0E21-2BA832080C61&time=132604617&link_id=6824887&cid=437&pid=1&sense=6C_Ze90_vpmzNssVf3guOw&hash=35c22254101c42497284251f2d6e09f7&url=http:%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FKISS_principle&ref_hash=42cde8e1" score="3.16" show_url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle" target="_blank" term="KISS principle" tooltip="en.wikipedia.org"><span style="color: #cc3300;">KISS principle</span></a>, by keeping it Simple. All life forms have a strategy for survival of which there are three components: Prime Directive, F4F, and Drama which can be approached from multiple ways, The Prime Directions is "F”, as in F'ing, the F-word as in survival of the species by having dinner or a date, and avoiding being dinner. Once feeds, breeds, or dies off. The process of protecting and nurturing the multiplication tables in the face of drama is culture, or also called a strategy for survival of the species, or any aggregate thereof.<br />
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Drama enters when the choice is being dinner or getting one ... that is an existential threat, Having a date is when the boys fight over the girls, and the girls compete to be fought over. This is true for dandelions as much as mountain lions. One is life or death, the other is getting laid or not. Success in both means survival of the aggregate be it family, tribe, nation, herd, pod, or flight. It is as true for dandelions as for mountain lions. <br />
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The protection and nurturing an aggregate in it’s most popular form is playing the role of victim, prosecutor, and rescuer any of which calls for a danger or a villain. <br />
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In Whale, Lion, Dolphin or Elk society, the mechanism for protecting the young is vested in the formation of the women and children who move as a unit, while the guys do guy thing until mating season. Sometimes the mating between a male and at least one female is short often with the guys skipping the birthing. The human family is the only one where an extended visit by the male in the family occurs, although the tradition of guys doing guys things remains in its vestigial form. <br />
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In the face of an existential threat (being dinner, or having one) triggers the full aggressive potential of the culture. Women in defense of their children are not anyless fierce than a rutting male. Villains exhibit a corruption of the natural force of protecting and nurturing the helpless (victim). The emotions associated with real existential threats or the loss of access to the other sex, are in themselves physically addictive and people play psychological :"games" or "play" to get high or get ready for a real fight.<br />
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The switching roles between victim, rescuer and prosecutor in games played with other people, inanimate objects or entirely mental create a "payoff" which can be collected as if stamps of the kind one used to get at the grocery store.</div>
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These stamps can be "cashed in" for a bigger payoff such as a free murdeer, a free suicide, or a binge. This is them mechanism behind extreme behavior of individuals an groups.</div>
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The attributes of villainy are the flip side of the heroic triangle, different in adverb and adjective. There may be no fundamental objective difference between hero and villain, except that being a potential lunch colors the hungry as villainous.<br />
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Mating rights in a species, tribe, nation, or village are related to the social statues of the players as affected or imposed on the physical world. This is F4F:<br />
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In the case of the Birther/Truther braggadocio one gains face and fame, and maybe fortune by being able to predict one’s fate. The Truther paints the government as a Villain who lies (manipulative), and is prepared to batter (bastard) and the Truther knows because the Villain is mad (brat). The Birther also paints the government as mean, mad, and manipulative and acts as rescuer cum prosecutor. </div>
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Drama is played out in a physical world, the rules or impact of which shape the tactics, techniques, and procedures of the dramatist.<br />
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The imminence of the threat, it’s location in time and distance with respect to the ground, and potential threat to the corporal existence is part and parcel of drama. Books have been written on the “territorial imperative” in animals is similar to property tax adjustments to ones taxes which have to be paid on a timely basis. And of course, there must be the T-Shirt and Coffee mug with the strident message on drama or status is boldly proclaimed.</div>
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Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09422091480386814137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669403490686146700.post-63721544103776036752012-01-08T10:08:00.000-08:002012-01-08T10:08:54.566-08:00On War, Sex, and Drainage Ditches<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div>War existed before there was anything resembling a state. War was fought for that which enhances the wherewithal to have a dinner and a date, with or without the prior presumption of pregnancy. All forms of life compete for dinner and/or a date. The object is also not to be the dinner, but to have it. Birds do, bees do it, cattle do it, elks do it, my crabgrass does it, and so does any subset of humanity in any aggregated of collective status.</div><div> </div><div><a href="http://gordonswar.blogspot.com/2011/05/f4f-dinner-or-date.html" title="http://gordonswar.blogspot.com/2011/05/f4f-dinner-or-date.html">http://gordonswar.blogspot.com/2011/05/f4f-dinner-or-date.html</a></div><div> </div><div>Nomadic people nomad seasonally for food, feed, and/or fornication with a gene pool variable of the opposite sex. Rape of the Sabines wasn't a rape, it was a deal. The old adage of picking out a virgin for sacrifice for the Gods (or Dragon) raises the question of why a virgin? What would a dragon want with a virgin? But the protection of virginity against unauthorized deflorisation is part of the defense mechanism for predictability of the gene pool of the male. That very basic biological reality is carried over in the Great War against Them by We'all. <div>War existed before there was anything resembling a state. War was fought for that which enhances the wherewithal to have a dinner and a date, with or without the prior presumption of pregnancy. All forms of life compete for dinner and/or a date. The object is also not to be the dinner, but to have it. Birds do, bees do it, cattle do it, elks do it, my crabgrass does it, and so does any subset of humanity in any aggregated of collective status.</div><div> </div><div><a href="http://gordonswar.blogspot.com/2011/05/f4f-dinner-or-date.html" title="http://gordonswar.blogspot.com/2011/05/f4f-dinner-or-date.html">http://gordonswar.blogspot.com/2011/05/f4f-dinner-or-date.html</a></div><div> </div><div>Nomadic people nomad seasonally for food, feed, and/or fornication with a gene pool variable of the opposite sex. Rape of the Sabines wasn't a rape, it was a deal. The old adage of picking out a virgin for sacrifice for the Gods (or Dragon) raises the question of why a virgin? What would a dragon want with a virgin? But the protection of virginity against unauthorized deflorisation is part of the defense mechanism for predictability of the gene pool of the male. That very basic biological reality is carried over in the Great War against Them by We'all. </div><div align="center"></div><div>So long as tribes and extended families had some leeway, there was no need for anything other than a council of elders (aka Good Old Boys) to decide on domestic policy, plus the decision to wage war (raiding the village next door for horses and virgins). Since combat by committee in conducive to analysis paralysis and decision inversion, the most common practice is to appoint a war chief, Chief Big Stud or Crafty Old Fox to lead the raid. After the raid, the Chief is mostly honorific until honorifics don't produce the requisite homage and humility of Great Chief requires. </div><div align="center"><img height="375px" id="il_fi" src="http://brentlandels.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Achilles.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="300px" /></div><div>This is born, civil war, which besides being an oxymoron, has mostly to do as to whose blood line is more better than the other bastards. William of Normandy, etc. The Bantu often split on a contentious inheritance with the loser moving away. Thus the Bantu roamed north and south the length of Africa from Ethiopia to Mozambique. </div><div> </div><div>The problem of divided inheritance in conjunction with competence provides a wealth of drama, sturm und drang. The Turks had a solution: winning son of Sultan murders all his brothers with a silken cords. Ottomans lasted a long time.</div><div> </div><div>The terms used to describe violence at present are too cluttered up with bullshititis with connotation more significant that denotation i.e. the "buzz"is more important than the word. Terrorism, insurgency. insurrection, rebellion, riot, and disorder are buzz clusters denoting a dash or touch or potful of illegitimacy hence derogatory regardless of what sort of military action is involved. The counter flavor suffers likewise.</div><div> </div><div>Calling the Taliban an insurgency against an Afghan regime established on American rotor blades may go down well in Georgetown, but in Ghazna (Afghanistan, it might work if America was a Muslim state, maybe.</div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavids" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavids">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghaznavids</a> See also: Queen Boadicca of the Icena</div><div align="center"><img height="319px" id="il_fi" src="http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/206605/206605,1210952390,6/stock-photo-boadicea-statue-chariot-with-horses-12671113.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="450px" /></div><div>As for the tactics of rebel vs non-rebel is a matter of firepower and air superiority which dictates the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) used on any given patch of the world including the locals whose feelings pro or con, will ultimately undo the done, even if it takes a few centuries (The Irish, Jews, Poles, Czechs, and Red Neck,for example),</div><div> </div><div>The development of portable terror (current family of small arms) which can deny the use of ground for a hundred meters in any clear direction by one person so armed, changed the dynamics of battle by increasing the practical lethality of small and dispersed gaggles of grunts that would have been cavalry bait for the last four thousand years. Any weapons system that doesn't inspire terror should be scrapped, or wind up being crapped on by a better armed foe.</div><div> </div><div>Winning or losing a war, is harder to define since enslaving the losers for fun and profit is no longer a viable economic factor justifying war on grounds of profit, The conquests of the Good Auld Days when the We'all take the farmland, forests, and mines of Them for Our Use, made sense. The Roman soldier was a paid warrior unlike the barbarians that stormed the Empire for virgins, gold, and other useful trinkets. </div><div> </div><div>Barbarian warfare, including the barbarous Mongols, was a nation on hooves and a few wheels including families in a massive unstoppable horde (Golden, White, etc) until the grass ran out. OR, some local honey wiggled and winked her way into some barbarian's good favor (the Date part) that which followed naturally induced many a barbarian to settle down: Magyars, Tatars, Huns, Manchu, et al leaving pockets of mixed DNA in measurable bands across the Eurasian continent. </div><div align="center"><img height="285px" id="il_fi" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtDorIP9gMmyGnNNf1oZUVcJ8HZLsr3o4uJUVAuUwWZFWjCTNd4sValUnqsfKHV4I9cZi2ktHMvLqHVvyDDVaUoSSTbi0pdgel_yEmlPVGUfFg59F77N1VnsV7mbeszcMt1gHhSX0nLgo/s1600/genghis_khan.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="450px" /></div><div>Special operations, is a buzz word for raid followed by pillage and/or plunder. Plunder being computer hard drives,etc. Same fundamentals as stealing horses from the Fugawi Indian Tribe. Stability and COIN is getting the horses back, plus a scalp/</div><div> </div><div>The rise of Kings with Power that arose at the dawn of ancient civilization defined as having permanent buildings. Permanent buildings emerged as incident to a stationary locus of commerce, goods for goods requiring storage. Added to this is the move on ancient tribes from the foothills to closer to rivers that could be channeled into irrigation and flood control. This required war chief type management, wherein the scribe secretly controlled the flow of information to and from the Great Decider. See Eric Hoffer's True Believer and the likes.</div><div> </div><div>Permanent buildings require a manager capable of getting the right ditches dug, right bricks baked and aligned, etc. This person is today known as the General Contractor who is therefore the Oldest Profession. Since general contractors often cheat on quality of construction and materials such that the word 'sincere' in Latin means "without wax" concerning the practice of covering cracks in marble with wax.</div><div align="center"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Prologue_Hammurabi_Code_Louvre_AO10237.jpg" title="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Prologue_Hammurabi_Code_Louvre_AO10237.jpg"><img alt="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Prologue_Hammurabi_Code_Louvre_AO10237.jpg" height="308px" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Prologue_Hammurabi_Code_Louvre_AO10237.jpg/451px-Prologue_Hammurabi_Code_Louvre_AO10237.jpg" style="height: 308px; width: 229px;" title="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Prologue_Hammurabi_Code_Louvre_AO10237.jpg" width="229px" /></a></div><div>The oldest law in Western History is the Code of Hammurabi was largely a building code specifying death to the engineer whose building collapsed. In Egypt, Moses who also was a in house contractor primarily served as the Pharaoh's building inspector. Thus the Building Inspector is the second oldest profession. </div><div> </div><div>Thus the basic dynamics of all local politics is born, that of control over how will build what, where, and how, Governator in particular. In order to deal with the Building Inspector is where the other oldest profession comes into play, playing for hearts, minds, and cash. Thus local politics is mostly a clash between those in the construction and entertainment businesses. Osama's family were the largest general contractors in Saudi Arablia.</div><div> </div><div>OBTW: All politics is local</div></div></div>Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09422091480386814137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7669403490686146700.post-3481628523326334132011-12-30T18:00:00.000-08:002011-12-30T18:40:01.522-08:00Plots and True Believers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"> <div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2AUKOwGME5Y/Tv5wLAjXVAI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/7Xb4iQL9rYI/s1600/102334a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2AUKOwGME5Y/Tv5wLAjXVAI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/7Xb4iQL9rYI/s320/102334a.jpg" width="240px" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Plots, conspiracies, oil drilling, research labs, infantry companies and movie crews all are capable of achieving an objective through collective action, but vary considerably on the amount of central direction to do it. 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Plots imply considerable formal planning covering a large number of details on the part of at least one of the participants, with decisions reached collectively or through manipulation. Most successful plots depend upon a supreme manipulator who can keep the inner secrets to him/herself like a spider in the middle of a web. Because of the vast number of details, long term plots are usually limited to the reign of the supreme plotter and the nature of the plot is the retention of his/her control. Such was the case of Adolph Hitler and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc3300; font-family: 'inherit','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joe Stalin</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.<br />
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Conspiracies, in the Common Law, do not necessarily require detailed central direction, only common action to an identifiable end. Those involved in a lynch mob, or those involved after the fact can be convicted of conspiracy even if no central plan or agreement has been made so long as the objective is illegal. Theoretically, rush hour traffic is a conspiracy, particularly here in Houston with thousands of illegal speeders invading the central city each day and nationally resulting in annual casualties in excess of the Vietnam War.<br />
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There is no word for good conspiracies, but there are numerous examples of collective action for positive ends without central direction. These are often called customs. Christmas shopping and decoration are customs with predictable results. Teenage social prancing within any given community or high school can achieve high degrees of complexity. In the days of “American Graffiti”, “dragging the main” was a ritualized method of mating behavior no less relevant than birds, bees, and bucks. There is a “way” of doing things. Many corporations have an instinctive “way” of doing things that defy central direction developed without central direction.<br />
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Infantry companies and the military in general have highly ritualized methods of making decisions and the military sends its members to formal residential training lasting as much as ten percent of a career soldier’s time to learn it. Houston traffic patterns vary little month to month, but the situation that an infantry unit faces can change radically in seconds which requires rapid and effective delivery of the decision making process even when the key decider has been killed. This is the military “way”, a decision making process independent of objective or motive.<br />
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The entertainment industry and the oil exploration business have something in common, a highly developed and intricate business process. The oil exploration industry is a vast conglomerate of independent, sometimes mom and pop, specialized companies like mud companies, mouse hole companies, hot wax companies, hot shot companies and fishing companies each dedicated to one particular slice of the drilling process. A mouse hole company drills the three holes the drilling stems are place when the bit is replaced.<br />
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Like drilling, the movie industry is a vast aggregate of small companies and talented individuals who have a specific role in a highly defined work process. Movie production is so defined that there is a specified number of checks that must be written “above and below the line”. Just look at the credits of a movie. That’s advertising and the credit counts in the trade. It’s a long list.<br />
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Research labs and intelligence agencies are full of giant egos, manipulative back stabbers, and incredible talent. Fortunately there are some standards of what constitutes professionalism, but mavericks abound. Leading such a mob is like herding cats. Put a plate of food in the room and get out of the way. Or find a chief cat the other cats admire and get out of the way.</span><br />
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While long term plots as the legendary Protocols of Zion, or International Communist Conspiracy, or Corporate-Media Capitalist conspiracy or Islamic terror are not the products of central direction but of custom, collective “ways” of direction which may include a formalized decision making process. There is, most importantly, no snake whose head removal will affect anything anymore than arresting the lead speeder at rush hour, other than a temporary slow down of gawkers. The Zionist "conspiracy" in effect is the custom of hard work and study which in many less energetic communities is seen as a personal threat. The Final Solution had little effect on a culture used to pograms, purges, and persecution.<br />
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The current Islamic Jihadi is a compendium of “ways” of doing business including the tribal connectivity of relatives, and the flotsam and jetsam of the various Communist efforts to overthrow capitalism. The Communist system of cells, methods of warfare, infiltration, propaganda, subversion, and deception developed in the Russian, Chinese, and Vietnamese experiences were passed on formally in the Lumumba Institute in Moscow, in Ghaddafi’s desert training camps, teach-ins at Berkeley, and in the mountain vastness of Afghanistan and mingled with various revolutionary dogma to add a flavor of righteousness to bloody business.<br />
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Ironically, while the terrorists trained in this network espouse ideological purity, the camps were quite ecumenical regarding ideology. Irish Catholic members of </span><a href="http://api.getsmartlinks.com/goto?app_id=opencandy&tp=inuvo&link_id=-10320914&cid=922&pid=1&guid=B32E8339-B1AB-2B3A-0E21-2BA832080C61&time=132529079&term=IRA&url=http:%2F%2Fgordonswar.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F12%2Fmovie-sets-oil-wells-infantry-and.html&v_ie=28&v%5blink_target2%5d=_blank" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc3300; font-family: 'inherit','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">IRA</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> trained peacefully with Maoist Shining Path, and Islamic members of the Brotherhood. Even Al Qaeda is composed of often opposing views of Islam. And this is the important point, psychology not ideology counts.<br />
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This is the central theme of Eric Hoffer’s book “The True Believer” a title which has become a noun. Hoffer was a University of California Professor of Philosophy who never went to school and whose day job was as a Longshoreman on the San Francisco docks. He clearly pointed out that True Believers change sides, as he noted regarding former SS soldiers recruited in the East German Volkspolizei. It is doubly ironic is that Joseph Goebbels greatest achievement in the early Nazi days was to recruit the Communist Red Front into the SA “Brown Shirts”.<br />
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The psychology of the True Believer is not ideology or purpose, but rage. A rage most likely derived from a dysfunctional and abusive early family life. Hitler was beaten to an inch of his life by his half Jewish father. Hitler’s revenge was to turn his father’s gravesite into an artillery impact area and by extension the Final Solution. Stalin and Saddam likewise fared poorly from the immediate family male members and were coddled by an over protective mother. Their rage, like the rage expressed by Mohammed Atta drives the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc3300; font-family: 'inherit','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">War of Terror</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> which runs on rails of Red rails of Ways of doing business.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OiqKY3cgnBA/Tv5nR2BO1VI/AAAAAAAAA7g/jWeterHzr0U/s1600/1920s+propaganda+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OiqKY3cgnBA/Tv5nR2BO1VI/AAAAAAAAA7g/jWeterHzr0U/s320/1920s+propaganda+poster.jpg" width="315px" /></a></div>No better excuse for war has been the existence of an overarching plot by a fiendish, manipulative, and vicious conspiracy, plot, class, race or collective interest, often personalized by a single villain such as Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, Togo, or the Devil himself. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The Neo-Marxist Left rails against a Corporate-Media Fascist plot to steal the excess labor value from the unworking class to establish a Fascist corporate global state. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1463161/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc3300; font-family: 'inherit','serif'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Lou Dobbs</span></a> railed against a corporate-media GOP-Dem plot to steal the hard earned wages of the Middle Class and establish a globalized corporate elitist class of the super wealthy. Hitler, likewise, railed against a Socialist-Capitalist Jewish global plot to steal the hard earned wages of honest Aryans. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
Each of these plots is described by their critics as bound by central direction, often represented by an identifiable creed or game plan known to all as their Conspiracy Theory. Such include the Elders and Protocols of Zion, Das Kapital, the Communist Manifesto, the Bilderbergs, etc. It helps if these various conspiracies are seen as omniscient, omnipresent, devious, and unrelenting.<br />
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The problem with conspiracy theories is that no one is that smart. Anyone who has organized a company picnic, a festival, or family reunion knows that even what takes a couple of hours needs weeks of preparation in which everyone is at everyone else’s throat. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Decision_Making_Process" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc3300; font-family: 'inherit','serif'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">military decision making process</span></a>, done properly, is an organized method of covering the bases, done under pressure, and against a lot of uncertainty, largely caused by an uncertain knowledge of what the enemy is up to who is also under the same pressures. As an intelligence officer for over twenty years, I expected to predict what the enemy was going to do, while my counterparts on the other side were trying to figure out what my boss was going to do after I figured out what he was going to. I’m not that smart.<br />
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The problem with conspiracy theories is that the conspirators are too busy conspiring against each other in order to determine who is in charge of what. And the focus of interest is not what, but who. The histories of bona fide conspiracies such as Hitler’s Chancellery or Stalin’s Kremlin are monuments of in-fighting fostered deliberately by El Supremo to maintain control. Hitler’s principle of survival of the fittest meant that he gave the same job to different subordinates or gave different orders to people with identical responsibilities, the survivor was the most fit. In fact, even democratic or corporate leaders stay in power by divide and control by acting as the instigator of strife than the decider of them. FDR was famous for this. Abraham Lincoln couldn’t reveal his long term plans without risking them and instituted what he wanted as time and circumstance allowed. <br />
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The net effect is in real conspiracies chaos is the normative state, often with comic-tragic effects such as the late ludicrous Coalition Provision Authority in the Emerald City of the Green Zone. Or the workers paradises in North Korea and Cuba.<br />
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It is equally tragic to go to war against a true conspiracy with the notion that said conspiracy is in fact a conspiracy and not a bunch of clowns clawing at each other for control of increasingly rare resources. By treating a conspiracy as cohesive, we create cohesion. Strategic bombing assumed that a rational leader operating in the best interests of his conspiracy would cut a deal when the means of waging war were threatened with extinction. The central issue of the dictator is to remain dictator even of a pile of rubble. <br />
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