Sunday, May 06, 2007
WAR IS DEBILITATING
Some remarks on human reactions and not only in war
War is debilitating and some, other not so severe experiences do so too, in a smaller scale.
The sentence that war is debilitating can be read here and also there are descriptions of reactions to the experiences of violence, fear and stress. There are different types and different levels of violence, fear and stress and therefore there are also different reactions to it accordingly.
By severe emotional experiences the reactions can be vomiting, fainting or psychosis. If the experience is less severe there is anyway emotional reaction to it, only it is not so severe, sometimes some people even cannot recognize the specific reaction as a reaction to stressful experiences and they just only believe that the person is not quite normal.
The problem is the disjunction of semiotic signals; they usually can denote more than only one single and discrete phenomenon, and we people have huge problems in deciding what they actually show and stand for. Typical example can be the higher bodily temperature measured in a patient by a doctor. It can mean influenza or kidney inflammation. It depends on further “signals”.
So, many human reactions are absolutely normal reactions to experienced stress, violence or fear. Only other people cannot understand that as they have not experienced the same stress, the same violence of fear, or they just do not want to accept the reaction as normal protection.
The misinterpretation of signals “broadcasted by people as a reaction upon some other event is absolutely normal if the interpreting persons have no experience with such reactions or such experiences or when it is on purpose denied as normal, e.g. by criminal policemen who know reactions of people under stress or fear or after some violent act. These policemen can maintain that the reaction is not normal even if it is. The purpose of such proclamations is only to make the person insecure of own reactions and manipulate public against such person.
This is typically the case in primitive nations where policemen believe they were given power to misuse it without any punishments, typically in underdeveloped nations, or underdeveloped persons in developed nations, and at many differentiated levels.
War is debilitating and some, other not so severe experiences do so too, in a smaller scale.
The sentence that war is debilitating can be read here and also there are descriptions of reactions to the experiences of violence, fear and stress. There are different types and different levels of violence, fear and stress and therefore there are also different reactions to it accordingly.
By severe emotional experiences the reactions can be vomiting, fainting or psychosis. If the experience is less severe there is anyway emotional reaction to it, only it is not so severe, sometimes some people even cannot recognize the specific reaction as a reaction to stressful experiences and they just only believe that the person is not quite normal.
The problem is the disjunction of semiotic signals; they usually can denote more than only one single and discrete phenomenon, and we people have huge problems in deciding what they actually show and stand for. Typical example can be the higher bodily temperature measured in a patient by a doctor. It can mean influenza or kidney inflammation. It depends on further “signals”.
So, many human reactions are absolutely normal reactions to experienced stress, violence or fear. Only other people cannot understand that as they have not experienced the same stress, the same violence of fear, or they just do not want to accept the reaction as normal protection.
The misinterpretation of signals “broadcasted by people as a reaction upon some other event is absolutely normal if the interpreting persons have no experience with such reactions or such experiences or when it is on purpose denied as normal, e.g. by criminal policemen who know reactions of people under stress or fear or after some violent act. These policemen can maintain that the reaction is not normal even if it is. The purpose of such proclamations is only to make the person insecure of own reactions and manipulate public against such person.
This is typically the case in primitive nations where policemen believe they were given power to misuse it without any punishments, typically in underdeveloped nations, or underdeveloped persons in developed nations, and at many differentiated levels.
# posted by Dalibor @ 1:30 PM 
