System Maintenance

• The System
  • Physical Unit
  • Connection
  • Toxic Socialization
  • Disconnection
  • Healing
  • Authentic Spirituality
  • The Work
  • The System
• Regime of Accumulation
  • Mode of Production
  • Mode of Exploitation
  • Mode of Compliance
    • Toxic Socialization
    • Creation Template
• Regime of Distribution
• Consequences
  • Fractured Attachments
  • PSST
  • Addiction
  • Disjuncture
    • Sin
    • Adultry
  • Disconnection
• System Agents
• Economy
  • Money
  • Monetized Economy
  • Official Economy
  • Underground Economy
  • Informal Economy
• Social Class

Maintenance Mechanisms are all mechanisms that contribute to the preservation of The System. Maintenance Mechanisms are integrated into the Toxic Socialization process.

Related Terms

The System > Economic Class, Exploitation, Ideology, Karl Marx, Labour Value, Maya, Money, Neurodecolonization, Proletariat, The Pyramid

Psychological Mechanisms

ARM

Distraction, Compartmentalization, Rationalization, Dissociation, Repression, Denial etc.

Addictions

Addiction to money. (See [1])

Fears

Social Fears Existential Fears

Institutional Mechanisms

Minimizing psychological friction.

Obscure, justify, marginalize and control. (See Spirit of Triumph:MK)

Asymmetrical power distributions.

Ideological Mechanisms

Archetypal Interpenetration - If a certain archetype fits into the archetypal context like a puzzle piece fits into a puzzle, it conveys the feeling of correctness. Thus, scholars, philosophers etc. oftentimes contribute directly to the maintenance of the system from a purely ideological point of view, even though their intentions might have aimed for a contrary outcome. (John Rawls, Justice as Fairness; Dawkins, The God Delusion; ...)

Sociopsychological Mechanisms

Step 1: Diminish the genuine self-esteem of a person. (Implement the Fool in School archetype.)

Step 2: Offer pseudo-solutions for regaining the lost self-esteem. (Prescribe socially acceptable Identities.)

Step 3: Implement the socioeconomic circumstances fitting to the pseudo-solutions. (Diminishes genuine self-esteem for new generations.)

Step 4: Enforce the socioeconomic circumstances. (Implies reciprocal policing.)

After successfully diminishing the genuine self-esteem of a person by means of Toxic Socialization, the person tries to regain it. Regaining the lost self-esteem occurs by means of identification with socially acceptable Identities. If the socialization process told a person (child) it is a worthless little stupid bug, and out of whatever reason it buys that, then it will want to start to "correct" that view of itself. It will try to "become someone". With other words, the person will attempt to fashion its life and personality in a way that suits some socially acceptable identity, one in which it doesn't need to think of itself as a worthless stupid little bug. Local social agendas prescribe such ready made socially acceptable identities. Men ought to be x, y, z; women ought to be a,b,c; etc.

Note that achieving any given socially acceptable identity does not solve the fundamental need for genuine self-esteem of the person. The reason for this being that the self-esteem it has acquired is only valid within the specific socioeconomic context. If the context changes, the gained "self-esteem" is being lost. One might term the kind of self-esteem that is dependent on social circumstances dependent self-esteem. This has a tremendously strong enforcing effect on the socioeconomic system, for that person will do everything in its power to maintain the socioeconomic system on which its identity depends upon.

Thus, privilege, accruing of money, cars, mansions, beauty etc. is pursued fervently. Depending on the magnitude of the lack of genuine self-esteem, the functioning of ARMs, and personal experiences, the person will go to great lengths to achieve the prescribed goal, oftentimes in total disregard to the ecologic, social and personal damage it inflicts.

Privilege. Wealth. Beauty. (See "Manufacturing the Social Agenda of Beautiful Living"). Coolness.

This mechanism may be regarded as a maintenance mechanism, for it disallows the population to confront with their own actions. In a state of serious deprivation, the PU is programmed to acquire what it lacks. Esteem is one of the Seven Essential Needs, thus, if it is lacking, the PU goes into Deprivation Mode(See Deficit Mode), thereby focusing mainly on needs gratification. This inevitably leads to the proliferation of Disconnection, for it is highly improbable that needs can be met without hurting others. Due to the damage that is done to others, Awareness Reduction Mechanisms need to be employed in order to minimize the awareness of the hurt that is being inflicted unto others. With ARMs in place, reciprocal assault and damage becomes widespread, resulting in what we term "Normal Consciousness". Note that "normal" consciousness is not desirable whatsoever. Normal Consciousness is the result - and generator - of ongoing assault, chronically unmet Needs and Fractured Attachments.

Sociopolitical Mechanisms

Political power asymmetries.

Footnotes

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