Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Synergy
Sunday, May 01, 2005
The Robespierre factor:Benedict tried to overcome the idea of cultural equality ( not everything is right ) and the doctrine of cultural relativity, what ever works for you is OK by me. Societies she said have a flavor, character and are not all equally functional. Some societies are “anxious”, surly, nasty, aggressive, and hateful, this come from insecurity and causes low morale. ( such as the Chuckchee, the Ojibwa, The Dobu, and the Kwakiutl) Other societies were “nice” people, affectionate, kind, secure and with high morale. ( Zuni, Arapesh, The L(d)eKota, Eskimo ).
The critical element in the concept of synergy is aggression vs. cooperation. Synergy is where individual benefit and groups welfare are in sink. Farming, fishing, hunting can product mutual benefits of cooperation. Selfish self-interest (winner/losers) vs. unselfish, altruism (win/win).
Siphoning vs. funneling of wealth, use vs. ownership, Comforting vs. Frightening Religion, high energy or low energy institutions, are characteristics of synergy, where are we ? We have had a out break of win/lose - me and mine - the hell with the hind most,
winner take all, activity. This discourages the losers, causes aggression, and is socially dysfunctional. A few institutions maintain high energy but the society is winding down. Synergy is spirit and systems for successful cooperation, institutional means of using aggression (learning for conflict), and rewards for all from social success (tide lifts all boats).
Seeking to preserve a religion based on the notion of a higher power that would replace Christianity, Robespierre organized the Festival of the Supreme Being held in June 1794, casting himself in the title role.
In retrospect, this attempt to arrive at a compromise between deism and atheism seems to have precipitated Robespierre’s fall and the end of the Terror. Robespierre’s proposed synthesis of Enlightenment views on religion and republican values troubled some, who thought that “The Incorruptible” had now lost all self-restraint and was paving the way for a dictatorship. Others feared that he was abandoning the dechristianization campaign and that their activities would now expose them to the Terror. These fears mounted when two days later Robespierre pushed through the Law of 22 Prairial (10 June 1794), which put the apparatus of the Terror directly under the control of the Committee of Public Safety and thus increased the possibility of explicit political prosecutions and executions. Robespierre justified the new law as a necessary instrument to instill virtue in the citizenry, but these remarks merely persuaded people that he sought to eliminate his opponents and establish a personal dictatorship. By the end of July, Robespierre’s enemies had begun circulating false rumors in Paris suggesting that he intended to make himself king. Even his base of support at the Jacobin Club was eroding because he continued to rely on Terror to achieve his political goals. Those who feared another purge helped his detractors pass a resolution in the Convention condemning him and his followers, which led to their arrest and execution. The leaders of the coup against Robespierre acted to save themselves from the Terror, not to end the Terror as such or to dissolve the Committee of Public Safety. It would take several months before this fear of further purges would bring the authorities to repeal the law of 22 Prairial, emasculate the CPS, eliminate the revolutionary tribunals, and abandon the maximums. By the late fall, however, this transition would be complete and a new era of the Revolution would have begun.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/chap7c.html
Peter E. Pflaum - Golden Globe - The Synergy Network
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ pflaump@ucnsb.net
RE: A.H. Maslow: The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
“Synergy in the Society and Individual” An Esalen, Penguin Books
1976 ISBN 0 14 00.4265 2 Chapter 14, Page 191
Ruth Benedict (Patterns of Culture; Race, Science and Politics)
an essay on holism, invented and developed the idea of synergy at
lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1941. Maslow had the only copy
which was to be published with the assistance of Margaret Mead in
1970.
Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D., Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE
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# posted by Peter Pflaum : 5/01/2005 06:06:00 AM
