It is a warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. However, mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. Until now has been argued that a central role should be given to discrepancies between virtual and actual social identity. Tensions management and information management have been stressed—how the stigmatized individual can present to others a precarious self, subject to abuse and discrediting. However, to leave it at tis creates a biased perspective, imputing solid reality to what is much shakier than that. The stigmatized and the normal are part of each other; if one can prove vulnerable, it must be expected that the other can, too. For in imputing identities to individuals, discreditable or not, the wider social setting and its inhabitants have in a way compromised themselves; they have set themselves up to be proven the fool. All of this has already been implied in the statement that passing is sometime done for what is seen as fun. The person who very occasionally passes often recounts the incident to one’s fellows as evidence of the foolishness of the normals and the fact that all their arguments about one’s differentness from them are merely rationalizations. These errors of identification are chuckled over, gloated over by the passer and one’s friends. #RandolphHarris 1 of 23
Similarly one finds that those who at the moment are routinely concealing their persona, or occupational identity may take pleasure in tempting the devil, in bringing a conversation with unsuspecting normals around to where the normals are unknowingly led to make fools of themselves by expressing notions which the presence of the passer quite discredits. In such cases what has proven false is not the person with a differentness, but rather any and all those who happen into the situation and there attempt to sustain conventional patterns of treatment. However, there are of course even more direct instances of the situation, not the person, becoming threatened. The physically disabled, for example, in having to receive overturns of sympathy and inquiry from strangers, may sometimes protect their privacy by exercising something other than tact. Thus, a physically disabled boy, prone to many inquires by strangers concerning her broken back, developed a game she called “Broke Back Mountain” in which the play was to answer an inquiry with a dramatically presented preposterous explanation. A different boy with the same plight reports a similar strategy: Questions about how I broke my back used to annoy me, so I developed a stock answer that kept these people from asking further: “I borrowed some money from a loan company and they came to collect.” #RandolphHarris 2 of 23
Brief responses that terminate the unwanted encounter are also reported: “My poor boy, I see you hurt your back.” That is the opportunity for the touché, “How careless of me!” In addition, there is much less gentle art of “putting the other on,” whereby militant members of disadvantaged groups, during sociable occasions, build up a story, about themselves and their feelings, to normals who clumsily profess sympathy, the story reaching a point where it becomes patent that the story was designed to reveal itself to be a fabrication. A cold stare, of course, may forestall an encounter before it has been initiated, as illustrated from the memoirs of an aggressive person below average height: There were the thick-skinned ones, who stared like hill people come down to see a travelling show. There were the paper-peekers, the furtive kind who withdraw blushing if you caught them at it. There were the pitying ones, whose tongue clickings could almost be heard after they had passed you. However, even worse, there were the chatters, whose every remark might as well have been “How do you do, poor boy?” They said it with their eyes and their manners and their tone of voice. I had a standard defense—a cold stare. Thus anesthetized against my fellow man, I could content with the basic problem—getting in and out of the subway alive. #RandolphHarris 3 of 23
From here it is only one step to crippled children who manage occasionally to beat up someone who taunts them, or persons, politely but clearly excluded from certain settings, politely and clearly entering the settings in numbers and with determination. The social reality sustained by the tractable member of particular stigmatized category and the normal with civility will itself have a history. When, as in the case of divorce or Irish ethnicity, an attribute loses much of its force as a stigma, a period will have been witnessed when the previous definition of the situation is more and more attacked, first, perhaps, on the comedy stage, and later during mixed contact in public places, until it ceases to exert control over both what can be easefully attended, and what must be kept a secret or painfully disattended. In conclusion, may I repeat that stigma involves no so much a set of concrete individuals who can be separated into two piles, the stigmatized and the normal, as a pervasive two-role social process in which every individual participates in both roles, at least in some connections and in some phases of life. The normal and the stigmatized are not persons but rather perspectives. These are generated in social situations during mixed contracts by virtue of the unrealized norms that are likely to play upon the encounter. #RandolphHarris 4 of 23
The lifelong attributes of a particular individual may case one to be type-cast; one may have to play the stigmatized role in almost all of one’s social situations, making it natural to refer to one, as I have done, as a stigmatized person whose life-situation places one in opposition to normals. However, one’s particular stigmatizing attributes do not determine the nature of the two roles, normal and stigmatized, merely the frequency of one’s playing a particular one of them. And since interaction roles are involved not concrete individuals, it should come as no surprise that in many cases one who is stigmatized in one regard nicely exhibits all the normal prejudices held toward those who are stigmatized in another regard. Now certainly it seems that face-to-face interaction, at least in American society, is constructed in such a way as to be particularly prone to the kind of trouble considered in this easy. It also seems that discrepancies between virtual and actual identity will always occur and always give rise to the need for tension management (in regard to the discreditable). And where stigmas are very visible or intrusive, or are transmissible along family lines, then the resulting instabilities in interaction can have a very pervasive effect upon those accorded the stigmatized role. #RandolphHarris 5 of 23
However, the perceived undesirability of a particular personal propriety, and is capacity to trigger off these stigma-normal processes, has a history of its own, a history that is regularly changed by purposeful social action. And although it can be argued that the stigma processes seem to have a general social function—that of enlisting support for society among those who are not supported by it—and to that degree presumably are resistant to change, it must be seen that additional functions seem to be involved which vary markedly according to the type of stigma. These stigmatization of those with a bad moral record clearly can function as a means of formal social control; the stigmatization of those in certain racial, religious, and ethic groups has apparently functioned as a means of removing these marginalized groups from various avenues of competition; and the devaluation of those with bodily disfigurements can perhaps be interpreted as contributing to a needed narrowing of courtship decisions. Life is essentially a drama, because it is a desperate struggle—with things and even with our character—to succeed in being in fact that which we are in design. A stupid person is one who cannot live without lists and rules. Indeed, so difficult was it for this person to think for oneself that one almost hesitated to go to sleep at night for fear of the difficulty one would have in finding one’s clothes upon waking. #RandolphHarris 6 of 23
One day it occurred to this individual to make yet another list and so—with pencil and paper in hand—one duly noted where one lay every article of clothing that one had on. The next morning, the individual was very well pleased to consult one’s list and find hat, pants, shirt, and so on exactly where one had placed them the night before. “That is all very well,” thought the man when he was fully dressed, “but now where am I myself? Where in the World am I?” “He looked and looked, but it was a vain search; he could not find himself. ‘And that is how it is with us,’ said the rabbi.” I relate this little story as a prelude to the present case study because it occurs to me that we psychologists are also often stupid, preoccupied with lists and charts, theories and techniques, and do not know ourselves any better than the fool in the rebbe’s tale. Ours is a guild of obsessive-compulsives busily jumping our way through countless academic hoops, overcoming innumerable obstacles on our way toward professional respectability such that we scarcely fare any better than out many others who are untrained when thrown back on ourselves and left to our own devices. The process is referred to as one of partialization, the all-too-human attempt to encounter the World in manageable doses. The result is a necessarily reduced and leveled-down image of existence and human being. #RandolphHarris 7 of 23
It is thought, by some psychologist, that life is supposed to be challenging, and perhaps some people may be denied eternity because the crime of nimis simplicandum, the crime of oversimplification. However, many people seem to believe making molehills out of mountains is the thing to do. There is still a kind of aggression that has caused a great deal of confusion: that of predatory land animals. Zoologically they are clearly defined; they comprise the families of cats, hyenas, wolves, and bears. (Bears are difficult to categorize in this respect. Some bears are omnivorous; they kill and eat the meat of smaller or wounded animals, but do not stalk them as, for instance, lions do. On the other hand, the polar bear, living under extreme climatic conditions, stalks seals in order to kill and eat them and thus can be considered a true predator.) Experimental evidence is rapidly accumulating to indicate that the neurological basis for predatory aggression is distinct from that of defensive aggression. The motivation of the hunter is basically different from that of the fighter. The buffalo which the lion fells provokes his aggression as little as the appetizing turkey which I have just seen hanging in the larder provokes mine. #RandolphHarris 8 of 23
The differences in these inner drives can clearly be seen in the expressive movements of the animals: a dog about to catch a hunted rabbit has the same kind of excitedly happy expression as he had when he greets his master or awaits some longed-for treat. From many excellent photographs it can be seen that the lion, in the dramatic movement before he springs, is in no way angry. Growling, laying the ears back, and other well-known expression movements of fighting behaviour are seen in predatory animals only when they are very afraid of a wildly resisting prey, and even then the expressions are only suggested. Concerning the neurophysiological bases of various kinds of aggression, we can distinguish predatory from other types of aggression and come to the conclusions that experimental evidence is rapidly accumulating to indicate that the neurological basis for this (predatory) aggression is distinct from other of other kinds. Not only does predatory behaviour have its own neurophysiological substrate, distinct from that for defensive aggression, but the behaviour itself is different. It does not show rage and is not interchangeable with fight behaviour, but it is purpose-determined, accurately aimed, and the tension ends with the accomplishment of the goal—the attainment of food. #RandolphHarris 9 of 23
The predatory instinct is not one of defense, common to all animals, but of food-finding, common to certain animal species that are morphologically equipped for this task. Of course, predator behaviour is aggressive (An important fact is that many predatory animals—wolves, for instance—are unaggressive toward their own species. Not only in the sense that they do not kill each other—which may be sufficiently explained as being due to the necessity to restrict the use of their ferocious weapons for the sake of the survival of the species—but also in the sense that they are quite friendly and amiable in their social contact with each other.), but it must be added that this aggression is different from the rage-connected aggression provoked by a threat. It is close to what is sometimes called “instrumental” aggression, i.e., aggression in the service of attaining a desired goal. Nonpredatory animals lack this kind of aggression. The difference between defensive and predatory aggression is important for the problem of human aggression because humans are phylogenetically a nonpredatory animal, and hence one’s aggression, as far as its neurophysiological roots are concerned, is not of the predatory types. It should be remembered that human dentition is poorly adapted for the flesh-eating habits of humans, who still remain the tooth form of one’s fruit- and vegetable-eating ancestors. #RandolphHarris 10 of 23
It is interesting to note, too, that human’s digestive system has all the physiological hallmarks of a vegetarian, not a carnivore. The diet even of primitive hunters and food gatherers was at most 75 percent vegetarian and only 25 percent less carnivorous. All of the Old-World primates have essentially a vegetarian diet. So do all of the extant humans with the most primitive human economic organizations, the remaining hunter-gatherers of the World, expect for the arctic Eskimo. Although future archeologists studying contemporary bushmen might conclude that the cracking stones found with bushmen arrowheads were used for pounding bones to get marrow, they were actually used by women to crack open the nuts that happen to provide 80 percent of the bushman economy. Nevertheless, perhaps nothing has contributed more to the picture of the intensity of the innate aggressiveness of animals, and indirectly of humans, than the image of the predator animal. We do not have far to go to find the reasons for this bias. Humans have surrounded themselves for many thousand of years with domesticated animals—such as the dog and the cat—which are predatory. In fact, this one of the reasons humans tamed them; they use the dog to hunt other animals and to attack threatening humans; they use the cat to chase rodents. #RandolphHarris 11 of 23
On the other hand, humans were impressed by the aggressiveness of the wolf, the main enemy of one’s herds of sheep, or of the fox, which devoured one’s chickens. (It may not be accidental that Hobbes, who portrayed man as a “wolf” to his fellow humans, lived in a sheep-raising country. It would be interesting to examine the origin and popularity of fairy tales dealing with the dangerous wolf, like Little Red Riding Hood, in this light.) Thus the animals humans have chosen to have nearest in one’s field of vision have been predatory, and one could hardly have distinguished between predatory and defensive aggressiveness since in their effect both types of aggression result in killing; nor was one able to observe these animals in their own habitat and to appreciate their social and friendly attitude among themselves. The conclusion which we have arrived at on the basis of the examination of the neurophysiological evidence is essentially the same as the one which two of the most outstanding investigators of aggression, J.P. Scott and Leonard Berkowitz, have suggested, even through their respective theoretical frames of reference differ from mine. Dr. Scott writes: “A person who is fortunate enough to exist in an environment which is without stimulation to fight will not suffer physiological or nervous damage because one never fights. #RandolphHarris 12 of 23
“This is a quite different situation from the physiology of eating, where the internal processes of metabolism lead to define physiological changes which eventually produce hunger and stimulation to eat, without any change in the external environment.” (J. P. Scott, 1958.) Dr. Berkowitz speaks of a “wiring diagram,” a “readiness” to react aggressively to certain stimuli, rather than of “aggressive energy” which may be transmitted genetically. (L. Berkowitz, 1967.) The data of the neurosciences which I have discussed have helped to establish the concept of one kind of aggression—life-preserving, biologically adaptive, defensive aggression. They have been useful for the purpose of showing that humans are endowed with a potential aggression which is mobilized by threats to one’s vital interests. None of these neurophysiological data, however, del with that form of aggression which is characteristic of humans and which one does not share with other mammals: one’s propensity to kill and torture without any “reason,” but as a goal in itself, a goal not pursued for the sake of defending life, but desirable and pleasureful in itself. The neurosciences have not taken up the study of these passions (with the exception of those caused by brain damage), but it can be safely stated that Dr. Lorenz’s instinctive-hydraulic interpretation does not fit in well with the model of brain functioning as most neuroscientists see it and is not supported by neurophysiological evidence. #RandolphHarris 13 of 23
Transition imports a certain succession of parts; and hence it is that the infinite cannot be traversed by the finite, nor by the infinite. However, equality suffices for comprehension, because that is aid to be comprehended which has nothing outside the comprehender. Hence it is not against the idea of the infinite to be comprehended by the infinite. And so, what is infinite in itself can be called finite to the knowledge of God as comprehended; but not as if it were traversable. The knowledge of God is the measure of things, not quantitatively, for the infinite is not subject to this kind of measure; but it is the measure of the essence and truth of things, for instance, an infinitude of humans, or an infinite in continuous quantity, as an infinitude of air, as some of the ancients held; yet it is manifest that thee would have a determinate and finite being, because their being would be limited to some determinate nature. Hence they would be measurable as regards the knowledge of God. “Now when Mosiah had done this he sent out throughout all the land, among all the people, desiring to know their will concerning who should be their king. And it came to pass that the voice of the people came, saying: We are desirous that Aaron thy son should be our king and ruler. #RandolphHarris 14 of 23
“Now Aaron had gone up to the land of Nephi, therefore the king could not confer the kingdom upon him; neither would Aaron take upon him the kingdom; neither were any of the sons of Mosiah willing to take upon them the kingdom. Therefore king Mosiah sent again among the people; yea, even a written word sent he among the people. And these were the words that were written, saying: Behold, O ye my people, or my brethren, for I esteem you as such, I desire that ye should consider the cause which ye are called to consider—for ye are desirous to have a king. Now I declare unto you that one to whom the kingdom doth rightly belong has declined, and will not take upon him the kingdom. And now if there should be another appointed in his stead, behold I fear there would rise contentions among you. And who knoweth but what my son, to whom the kingdom doth belong, should turn to be angry and draw away a part of this people after him, which would cause wars and contentions among you, which would be the cause of shedding much blood and perverting the way of the Lord, yea, and destroy of the souls of many people. Now I say unto you let us be wise and consider these things, for we have no right to destroy my son neither should we have any right to destroy another if one should be appointed in his stead. #RandolphHarris 15 of 23
“And if my son should turn again to his pride and vain thing he would recall the things which he had said, and claim his right to the kingdom, which would cause him and also this people to commit much sin. Ans now let us be wise and look forward to these things, and do that which will make for the peace of this people. Therefore I will be your king the remainder of my says; nevertheless, let us appoint judges, to judge this people according to our law’ and we will newly arrange the affairs of this people, for we will appoint wise humans to be judges, that will judge this people according to the commandments of God. Now it is better that a human should be judged of God than of humans, for the judgments of God are always just, but the judgments of humans are not always just. Therefore, if it were possible that you could have just humans to be your kings, who would establish the laws of God, and judge this people according to his commandments, yea, if ye could have humans for your kings who would do even as my father Benjamin did for this people—I say unto you, if this could always be the case then it would be expedient that ye should always have kings to rule over you. And even I myself have labored with all the power and faculties which I have possessed, to teach you the commandments of God, and to establish peace throughout the land, that there should be no wars nor contentions, no stealing, nor plunder, nor murdering, nor any manner of iniquity. #RandolphHarris 16 of 23
“And whosoever has committed iniquity, one have I punished according to the crime which one has committed, according to the law which has been given to us by our fathers. Now I say unto you, that because all humans are not just it is no expedient that ye should have a king or kings to rule over you. For behold, how much iniquity doth one wicked king cause to be committed, yea, and what great destruction! Yea, remember king Noah, his wickedness and his abominations, and also the wickedness and abominations of his people. Behold what great destruction did come upon them; and also because of their iniquities they were brought into bondage. And were it not for the interposition of their all-wise Creator, and this because of their sincere repentance, they must unavoidably remain in bondage until now. However, behold, he did no deliver them because they did humble themselves before him; and because they cried mightily unto him he did deliver them out of bondage; and thus doth the Lord work with his power in all cases among the children of humans, extending towards them that put their trust in him. And behold, now I say unto you, ye cannot dethrone an iniquitous king save it be through much contention, and the shedding of much blood. #RandolphHarris 17 of 23
“For behold, he has his friends in iniquity, and he keepeth his guards about him; and he teareth up the laws of those who have reigned in righteousness before him; and he trampleth under his feet the commandments of God; and he enacteth the laws, and sendeth them forth among his people, yea, laws after the manner of his own wickedness; and whosoever doth not obey his laws he causeth to be destroyed; and whosoever doth rebel against them to war, and if he can he will destroy them; and thus an unrighteous king doth pervert the ways of all righteousness. And now behold I say unto you, it is not expedient that such abominations should come upon you. Therefore, choose you by the voice of this people, judges, that ye may be judged according to the laws which have been given you by our fathers, which are correct, and which were given them by the hand of the Lord. Now it is not common that the voice of the people desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is common for the lesser part of the people to desire that which is not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make its your law—to do your business by the voice of the people. And if the time comes that the voice of the people dot choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited land. #RandolphHarris 18 of 23
“And now if ye have judges, and they do not judge you according to the law which has been given, ye can cause that they may be judged of a higher judge. If your higher judges do not judge righteous judgments, ye shall cause that a small number of your lower judges should be gathered together, and they shall judge your higher judges, according to the voice of the people. And I command you to do these things and that ye have no king; that if these people commits sins and iniquities they shall be answered upon their own heads. For behold I say unto you, the sins of many people have been caused by the iniquities of their kings; therefore their iniquities are answered upon the heads of their kings. And now I desire that this land be a and of liberty, and every human may enjoy one’s rights and privileges alike, so long as the Lord sees fit that we may live and inherit the land, yea even as long as any of our posterity remains upon the face of the and. And many more things did king Mosiah write unto them, unfolding unto them all the trials and troubles of a righteous king, yea, all the travails of soul for the people, and also all the murmurings of the people to their king; and he explained it all unto them. #RandolphHarris 19 of 23
“And he told them that these things ought not to be; but that the burden should come upon all the people, that every human might bear one’s part. And he also unfolded unto them all the disadvantages they labored under, by having an unrighteous kind to rule over them; yea, all his iniquities and abominations, and all the wars, and contentions, and bloodshed, and the stealing, and the plundering, and the committing of whoredoms, and all manner of iniquities which cannot be enumerated—telling them that these things ought not to be, that they were expressly repugnant to the commandments of God. And now it came to pass, after king Mosiah had sent these things forth among the people they were convinced of the truth of his words. Therefore they relinquished their desires for a king, and became exceedingly anxious that every human should have an equal chance throughout all the land; yea, and every human expressed a willingness to answer for one’s own sins. Therefore, it came to pass that they assembled themselves together in bodies throughout the land, to cast in their voices concerning who should be heir judges, to judge them accordingly to the law which had been given them; and they were exceedingly rejoiced because of the liberty which had been granted unto them. #RandolphHarris 20 of 23
“And they did wax strong in love towards Mosiah; yea, they did esteem him more than any other man; for they did not look upon him as a tyrant who was seeking for gain, yes, for that lucre which doth corrupt the soul; for he had not exacted riches of the, neither had he delighted in the shedding of blood; but he had established peace in the land, and he had granted unto his people that they should be delivered from all manner of bondage; therefore they did esteem him, yes, exceedingly beyond measure. And it came to pass that they did appoint judges to rule over them, or to judge them according to the law; and this they did throughout all the land. And it came to pass that Alma was appointed to be the first chief judge, he being also the high priest, his father having conferred the office upon him, and having given him the charge concerning all the affairs of the church. And now it came to pass that Alma did walk in the ways of the Lord, and he did keep his commandments, and he did judge righteous judgments; and there was continual peace through the land. And thus commenced the reign of the judges throughout all the land of Zarahemla, among all the people who were called the Nephites; and Alma was the first and chief judge. And now I came to pass that his father died, being eighty and two years old, having lived to fulfil the commandments of God. #RandolphHarris 21 of 23
“And it came to pass that Mosiah died also, in the thirty and third year of his reign, being sixty and three years old; making in the whole, five hundred and nine years from the time Lehi left Jerusalem. And thus ended the reign of the kings over the people of Nephi; and thus ended the days of Alma, who was the founder of their church. O God, we bless Thee, our Creator, preserver, benefactor, teacher, for opening to us the volume of nature where we may read and consider Thy works. Thou hast this day spread before us the fuller pages of revelation, and in them we see what thou wouldest have us do, what thou requirest of us, what thou hast done for us, what thou hast promised to us, what thou hast given in Jesus. We pray Thee for a conscious experience of His salvation, in our deliverance from sin, in our bearing His image, in our enjoying His presence, in our being upheld by His free Spirit. Please let us not live uncertain of what we are, of where we are going. Bear witness with our spirit that we are Thy children; and enable each one to say, “I know my redeemer.” Please Bless us with a growing sense of this salvation. #RandolphHarris 22 of 23
If already enlightened in Christ, may we see greater things; if quickened, may we have more abundant life; if renewed, let us go on from strength to strength. Please give us close abiding in Jesus that we may bring forth more fruit, have a deeper sense of our obligations to him, that we may surrender all, have a fuller joy, that we may serve him more completely. And may our faith work by love towards Him who died, toward our fellow-believers, towards our fellow-humans. Please grant to us, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we may so behave ourselves by Thy grace as to be worthy of Thee, and may afford to Thy faithful people the example of a right conversation; and that the everlasting salvation of Thy people may become the reward of the priest; through our Lord. O God, the Creator and the Ruler of the World, favourably give heed to the prayers which I humbly offer; and as Thou hast granted me, Thy servant, not on the ground of any desert of mine, but out of the bounty of Thine infinite goodness, to serve the heavenly Mysteries, so make me a worthy minister of Thy sacred altar; through Jesus Christ our Lord. The higher self is the ultimate spiritual goal. Let us be more concerned with the quest of right principles rather than impressive persons, for this will put our attitudes to all events on the right plane. Because this simple truism was forgotten most of the religious and mystical movements have gone astray. #RandolphHarris 23 of 23
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