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by stupidity and/or by human wickedness. Both have one side that
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uselessness, nearing danger, and
possibly even causing
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moreover
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a far-reaching
- although: personal - discussion. Thus it should be
enlightening
to read both files (and chapters of each book) to better consider their
matching denunciation, evidenced from different
sides: in many
way,
strengthened with many quotations, they both deplore
human proneness to be DUPED
and intimidated
instead
of being wise and perceptive; they both denounce the commonplace
proclivity
to prefer as a rule to be deceived and narrowed
instead of to
choose
knowledge, thriving, development. The
titles by themselves in sum up introduce a survey of the contrary of a
thriving development/evolution:
showing triumphant embroils, misleadings,
ignorance,
fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of
causation
They emphasize the proneness of mankind to be
duped and to "develop" and "breed" incoherent superstitions: however so
crucial topics are displayed also in the Consciousness
and memory file/chapter (as well in the
Italian one Consapevolezza
e memoria) where they are also further
explained by
different
assortment
of quotations. But another file should be considered strictly
connected with them: as documentation
should be straight pointed outthe
file/chapter Delgado
& Skinner
being their true, broadening
and explicative
extension.
SUPERSTITION
2 entries found for superstition.
Main Entry: su·per·sti·tion.Pronunciation:
"sü-p&r-'sti-sh&n Function:
noun
Etymology: Middle
English supersticion, from Middle French, from Latin superstition-,
superstitio,
from superstit-, superstes standing over (as witness or survivor), from
super-
+ stare to stand
--
1
a : a belief
or
practice
resulting from
ignorance, fear of the unknown,
trust in magic or chance, or a false
conception
of causation b : an irrational
abject attitude of mind toward
the supernatural, nature, or
God resulting from superstition 2 : a
notion
maintained despite evidence to the contrary
1 dupe
Pronunciation: 'düp
also 'dyüp Function: noun Etymology: French, from
Middle
French
duppe, probably alteration of huppe hoopoe: one
that is easily deceived or cheated: FOOL
2 dupeFunction:
transitive
verb Inflected Form(s): duped; dup·ing: to make a dupe of -
dup·er noun synonyms DUPE, GULL, TRICK, HOAX mean to deceive
by underhanded means. DUPE suggests unwariness
in the person
deluded. GULL stresses credulousness or readiness to be imposed on (as
through greed) on the part of the victim. TRICK implies an intent to
delude
by means of a ruse or fraud but does not always imply a vicious intent.
HOAX implies the contriving of an elaborate or adroit imposture in
order
to deceive.
3 dupeFunction: noun
or verb: DUPLICATE
Duplicate?
multiple
personality disorder or dissociative identity disorder[Each
personality
may alternately inhabit the person's conscious awareness to the
exclusion
of the others,but one is usually dominant. The
various
personalities
typically differ from one another in outlook, temperament, and body
language
and give themselves different first names. The condition is generally
viewed
as resulting from dissociative
mental processes — that is, the splitting off from
conscious
awareness
and control of thoughts, feelings, memories, and other mental
components
in response to situations that are painful, disturbing, or somehow
unacceptable
to the person experiencing them. Treatment is aimed at integrating the
disparate personalities back into a single and unified personality...]
Against
Maternal Instinct
Why
are
mind-controlled
agents, spies, couriers, assassins, better than conscious, salaried
agents/spies?
....it
is suggested that the price of universal happiness will be the sacrifice
of the most hallowed shibboleths of our
culture: MOTHERHOOD,
HOME,
FAMILY,
FREEDOM,
even LOVE.
The exchange yields an insipid happiness that's unworthy of the name.
Its
evocation arouses our unease and distaste. Delgado
Index
Brave
New World (1932) is one of the most bewitching andinsidious
works of literature ever written. An exaggeration? Tragically, no. Brave
New World has come to serve as the false symbol
for any
regime
of universal
happiness.
For sure, Huxley was writing a satirical piece of fiction,
notscientific
prophecy. Hence to treat his masterpiece as ill-conceived
futurology
rather than a work of great literature might seem to miss the point.
Yet
the knee-jerk response of It's Brave New World! to
any
blueprint
for chemically-driven happiness has delayed research into paradise-engineering
for all sentient life. So how does Huxley turn a future where we're all
notionally happy into the archetypal dystopia? If it's
technically
feasible,
what's wrong with using biotechnology to get rid of mental pain
altogether?Brave
New World is an unsettling, loveless and even
sinister place.
This is because Huxley endows his "ideal" society with features
calculated
to alienate his audience. Typically, reading BNW elicits the very same
disturbing feelings in the reader which the society it depicts has
notionally
vanquished - not a sense of joyful anticipation....Worse, it is
suggested
that the price of universal happiness will be the sacrifice
of
the
most hallowed shibboleths of our culture: "motherhood",
"home",
"family",
"freedom",
even "love".
The exchange yields
an insipid
happiness that's unworthy of the name.Its evocation arouses
our
unease
and distaste....
It is however
revealing and
should
be read
the whole page
from which
came
the above excerpt
(Besides it is
instead
in sum up encouraging to catch a glimpse on a flankin side of Huxley's
tought outlined by his wife - Laura Archera - and by her work in favour of a
- from the very
beginning - loved and really cared childhood.)
Above, maternal
behavior is tenderly
expressed by both mother monkeys, Rose and Olga, who hug, groom, and
nurse
their babies, Roo and Ole.
Below, radio
stimulation of Rose
for ten seconds in the mesencephalon evoked a rage response
expressed
by self-biting and abandoning her baby, Roo. For
the next ten
minutes
Rose has lost all her maternal interest (above),
ignoring the
appealing
calls of Roo who seeks refuge with the other mother. Rose is sucking
her
foot and still ignoring her baby.
Science
and Superstition
I
swear by Apollo the physician, and Æsculapius, and Hygeia,
and Panaceia, and all the godsand goddesses, that
according to
my ability and judgment, I will keep this oath and its stipulations --
to reckon him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents,
to share my substance with him, and to relieve his necessities if
required;
to look upon his offspring in the same footing as
my
own
brothers, and to teach them this art if they shall wish to learn
it,
without fee or stipulation, and that by precept, lecture, and every
other
mode of instruction, I will impart aknowledge of the art to my own
sons,
and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by astipulation and
oath
according to the law of medicine, but to none other. I will
follow
that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I
consider for
the benefit of my patients, and abstain
from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
I will give
no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest
any such
counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to
produce
abortion. With purity and holiness I will pass my life and practice my
art. I will not cut persons laboring under the stone, but will leave
this
to be done by men who are practitioners of this work. Into
whatever
houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the
sick,
and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and
corruption;
and, further, from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and
slaves.
Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in
connection
with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be
spoken
of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be
kept
secret. While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be
granted
to me to enjoy life and the practice of this art, respected by all men,
in all time. But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the
reverse
be my lot.
(460??377?
BC). The
first
name in the history of medicine is Hippocrates,
a physician from the island of Cos in ancient Greece. Known as the Father
of Medicine
Hippocrates has
long been associated with the Hippocratic
Oath,
a body of manuscripts,
which sets forth the obligations,
ideals, and ethics
of physicians.
This ethical code is adopted as a
guide to conduct by the medical profession throughout the ages and
still used
in the graduation ceremonies of
many medical schools. (From The
Internet Classics Archive)
RELIGION:
Main Entry: re·li·gion Pronunciation:
ri-'li-j&n Function:
noun
Etymology: Middle English
religioun, from Latin religion-,
religio
supernatural constraint, sanction, religious practice, perhaps from
religare
to restrain, tie back -- more at RELY
1 a : the state of
a religious
<a
nun in her 20th year of religion> b (1) :
the service
and
worship of God
or the
supernatural b (2) :
commitment
or
devotion
to religious faith
or observance 2 : a personal set
or institutionalized
system of
religious attitudes,
beliefs, and practices 3 archaic :
scrupulous
conformity
: CONSCIENTIOUSNESS 4 : a cause,
principle, or
system
of beliefs held to with ardor and faith
TRADITION:
Main Entry: tra·di·tion Pronunciation:
tr&-'di-sh&n Function:
noun Etymology: Middle English
tradicioun, from Middle French &
Latin; Middle French tradition, from Latin tradition-, traditio action
of handing over, tradition -- more at TREASON
1
: an inherited,
established, or customary
pattern of thought, action, or behavior (as a religious
practice
or
a social custom) 2 : the handing down of
information,
beliefs, and customs by word of mouth or by example from one generation
to another without written instruction 3 : cultural continuity
in
social attitudes,
customs, and institutions 4 : characteristic manner,
method,
or style - tra·di·tion·al /-'dish-n&l,
-'di-sh&-n&l/
adjective -
tra·di·tion·al·ly
adverb
1
a : a usually
traditional story
of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of
the
world
view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural
phenomenon 1 b : PARABLE, ALLEGORY 2 a : a popular belief
or
tradition
that has grown up around something or someone; especially : one
embodying
the ideals and institutions of a society or segment of
society
<seduced
by the American myth of individualism -- Orde Coombs> 2 b : an unfounded or false
notion 3 : a person or thing having
only an
imaginary
or unverifiable existence 4 : the whole body of myths
FAITH:
Main Entry: 1 faith Pronunciation: 'fAth Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s): plural faiths /'fAths, sometimes 'fA[th]z/
Etymology:
Middle English feith, from Old French feid, foi, from Latin fides; akin
to Latin fidere to trust -- more at BIDE
1
a : allegiance
to duty or
a person : LOYALTY 1 b (1) : fidelity to
one's
promises 1 b (2) : sincerity of
intentions 2 a (1) : belief and trust
in and loyalty
to God 2 a (2) : belief in the traditional
doctrines
of a religion 2 b (1) : firm belief in
something for
which there is no proof 2 (2) : complete trust 3 : something that is believed
especially
with strong conviction; especially : a system of religious
beliefs
synonym see BELIEF - in faith : without doubt or
question : VERILY
FANATIC:
Main Entry: fa·nat·ic Pronunciation:
f&-'na-tik
Variant(s): or fa·nat·i·cal /-ti-k&l/ Function:
adjective Etymology: Latin fanaticus inspired by a deity,
frenzied,
from fanum temple -- more at FEAST:
marked
by
excessive enthusiasm and
often
intense uncritical devotion <they're fanatic about
politics>
- fanatic
noun - fa·nat·i·cal·ly
/f&-'na-ti-k(&-)lE/
adverb - fa·nat·i·cal·ness
/-k&l-n&s/
noun.
TABOO:
Main Entry: 1 ta·boo Variant(s): also
ta·bu
/t&-'bü, ta-/ Function: adjectiveEtymology:
Tongan
tabu
1
: forbidden to
profane use
or contact because of what are held to be dangerous supernatural powers 2 a : banned on grounds
of morality
or taste <the subject is
taboo> 2 b : banned as constituting a risk
Main
Entry: 2 taboo
Variant(s): also tabu Function:
noun Inflected Form(s): plural taboos also tabus
1
: a prohibition
against touching,
saying, or doing something for fear of immediate harm from a
supernatural
force 2 : a prohibition imposed by
social custom
or as a protective measure 3 : belief in taboos
TOTEM: Main
Entry: to·tem Pronunciation: 'tO-t&m Function:
noun
Etymology: Ojibwa oto.te.man his totem
1
a : an object (as
an
animal or plant)
serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often
as a
reminder
of its ancestry; also : a usually carved or painted representation of
such
an object
1 b : a family or clan
identified
by
a common totemic object 2 : something that serves as an emblem
or revered symbol
And
then: so why
nobody stopped just in time dangerously bizarre
occurrences?
Scientific
definition of “trialâ€The Clinical Trials
and Informatics
Support
team provides statistical and data processing support for all
multicentre
and some single-centre research projects undertaken by the Programme,
as
well as technical advice on the design, management, analysis and
interpretation
of research projects.
TRIAL:
Main Entry: 1tri·al Pronunciation: 'trI(-&)l Function:
noun
Etymology: Anglo-French, from trier to trial
1 a : the
action or
process of trying
or putting to the proof: TEST 1 b : a preliminary contest (as
in a
sport) 2 : the formal examination
before a
competent
tribunal of the matter in issue in a civil or criminal cause in order
to
determine such issue 3 : a test of faith, patience,
or
stamina
through subjection to suffering or temptation; broadly : a source of
vexation
or annoyance 4 a : a try out or
experiment to
test quality,
value, or usefulness 4 b : one of a number of repetitions
of
an experiment 5 : ATTEMPT
Tested
by
self-centered “trialsâ€,
claimed
as
revolutionary certainties, most of the so considered scientific
theories are sometimes only introductory, too often
self-confirming,
“hypothesisâ€. But, so supported by deceitful trials, mindless
"fashions"
arouse, passing off as unquestionable - even if after becoming
transient
- new evidence
baseddiscoveries.
Thus
professionals themselves, intimidated or
worshipping
their “Masters†even in good faith, forget their skill and mind and -
in
turn: convinced "brain-washed" - propose these "discoveries" to their
clients.
Scared and frail “good parents†circularly choose and support the most
narrow and rigid doctors who can correspond to their searching a
"reassuring"
aid. In spite of every real consequence, together doctors and clients,
are gratified to put into practice dogmatic "finding" praised as
assured
"theory". It was told in a professional mailing list that...
doesn’t exist any
obligation to
give up normal instincts: the parents are free, I
repeat FREE,
to
end every time the experimentation, moreover since in U.S.
exists
a
strong and strict IRB
(Institutional
Review Board) - established in 1991 as an
independent
review
board that provides protection for human subjects through the initial
and
ongoing review of research studies, ensure that research subjects are
appropriately
informed about the risks and benefits of participating in a research
study.
FASHION:
synonyms FASHION, STYLE, MODE,
VOGUE, FAD,RAGE,CRAZE
mean the usage accepted by those who want to be up-to-date.
FASHION
is
the most
general
term and applies to any way of dressing, behaving, writing, or
performing
that is favored at any one time or place <the current
fashion>. STYLE often implies a
distinctive fashion
adopted by people of taste <a media baron used to traveling in
style>. MODE suggests the fashion
of
the moment
among those anxious to appear elegant and sophisticated <slim
bodies
are the mode at this resort>. VOGUE stresses the wide
acceptance
of a fashion <short skirts are back in vogue>. FAD suggests caprice in
taking up or
in dropping a fashion <last year's fad is over>. RAGE and CRAZE stress intense
enthusiasm
in adopting a fad <Cajun food was the rage nearly
everywhere for
a time> <crossword puzzles once seemed just a passing
craze but
have
lasted>.
TOTEM
AND
TABOO revisited. We could have watched at a new SUPERSTITION'S birth
When,
unlike a yogi,
we do not choose our trances, and we are unaware of the types and
nature
of the pathological trances in our lives, then there are things we are
unaware of. What we are unaware of causes more human suffering than the
sometimes painful knowledge of the truth. One goal of a robust and
magical
life is to be as aware as possible of our options. When our unconscious
pathological trances cripple our options the result is often disaster
and
tragedy in our personal lives, our society and in the environment.
(From:Trance
as a Tool)
What we are unaware
of, causes more human suffering than the
sometimes painful knowledge
of the truth…:
This consideration pertains either to
negative re-living past
memories or to almost unbearable present
difficulties. But in the meantime what
knowledge, what
truth?
People have to keep in view that - unreasonably - more human sufferings
often arouse from the incapability to envisage the really
impossible foresight of
what will happen in the time to come: as is of
course the
knowledge
of an unforeseen good or a painful mischance, or even only from the constant
will to throw away unaccepted EMOTIONS.
And
thus, after having lost the truth, having dissociated
themselves from the reality, mindlessly hinting at a global
improvement,
dimly warning against imaginary threatens and damages...: all this
regards NOT
only homogeneous, self-restrincting groups, but also cultured people
goes
on without any obstacle in a similar banalizing and undemonstrative
way.
A recent book - The
Neuroscience of Psychotherapy Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain
(by Louis
Cozolino) - presents its theories as very promising
but with a
double-edged meaning, also to be "used" in a double-edged way: as this
can explain the possibility to heal even persons who suffered terrible
past mishaps, so this can suggest also that the "superstitions'
proneness"
of humankind's nature can rather easily get too many people brain-washed
almost before having realized to hold their own minds. It seems
logical to believe
that human
beings
can follow traditions, or trust
on Religions (plural), or are “reason
supportersâ€,
or even -
at least in the wealthy world - are
pleased
to play on changing customs and to promote new “fashionsâ€,
forgetting
suddenly the previous ones. Religions could become dogmatic, devotees
can
behave as fanatics…, but also in the Western affluent and rational
world sometimes for some
unexpected facts
a fashion
becomes
instead
a MYTH, a SUPERSTITION:
it is to say something unconscious, utterly dissociated from
the
real mind, and absolutely more gluing than Religious believing. In the
case of health or of children rearing
the FUTURE
can give great grants and suddenly take them away, can give awful
sorrows
and effective precautions, but - what is often a worse danger - gets
not
only a lot of expecting and/or fearful emotions, but to avoid them a
lot
of … stupid
countermeasures.
Spontaneously (or more often
fraudulently promoted) static and temporary "novelties" become
fashionable. This fashion however is no longer ephemeral, but develops
into FAITH and is flaunted and accepted without criticism as "the
best". It is defended by conservative borders in every situation and
results in absurd obedience - if not longing -
to absurd
and not fitting drug’s prescriptions and dosages....
(Here it should be said as an example a crucial assignment very broadly
forewarn in space and time, a "duty" concerning a basic side of rearing
babies: “Feed
babies only
EVERY
four hours...â€
is one of typical decrees - so often producing in fact harmful
consequences; but the real “grammar
set up†of
such an absurdity
was found in a fanciful
misunderstanding
of the real
text
proposed - to can be reached in a little, from 1920s years magazine, by
O.N.M.I.(Italian National Organization
for
Motherhood and Childhood):
where was written Working
women must feed their babies AT
LEAST, [not LESS
THAN!], every
FOUR hours: without no delay. "Not
delayed" mixed-up with "not less than"...: how is it possible that
every
similar banalizing and undemonstrative idea so validates or
confirms
itself in
self-ingrained circles
more often vicious?
Besides: could regard only homogeneous,
self-restrincting
groups these hinting at a global - bogus - improvement? could this to
be
guided by - forged - alarms regard only simple if not moronic
lay-persons?
On the contrary not: everyone can see how everywhere these, even long
terms
and broad expanded, real superstitions develop into a faith;
how
do they become transformed into a glue which nobody and nothing can
remove:
not reason, not feelings, not results, even not - at least finally
proclaimed
- strong warnings of
death danger
(as
for example the new-born position face
down). And - what is more strange - nobody censures
and/or
rejects
them: neither concerned (even if damaged) persons themselves, nor
children's
parents nor even professionals.
“Fear“
believes
to keeps safe
on building barricades: and then narrows spaces, knowledge,
relationship
and understanding, and widens on return new fearfulness and
dependency.
On
return
again and again it widens new fearfulness and more and more intrusive
dependency: who
is easily deceived or
cheated: FOOL
Neurosis
absorbs anguish
as a sponge.
It is convenient, it gets as a mighty
mummy.
Neurosis is a
personal,
intimate disorder which affect private freedom and impairs
individual
concentration and attention; but - as told in this Italian writing it
gets as a sponge helping to absorb anguish... Neurosis itself is personal but affects a
great
deal of people, and then, when collective, this lessened
existence
could become everywhere a fertile ground fitting to foster superstitions. (Taboos are
duping prohibitions, but also compelling
orders with
even more RAGE
and CRAZE).
So, often with inconsistent reason, whichever
impromptu sharing a "neurotic concern" can become widespread; but also
whoever "tricky arrogant" can enter in this so open
pathway
towards
an indirect mind-control.
Imposed
as
a new Totem,
every bogus fear thus
at first menaces proclaiming - hypothetic - forthcoming
damages,
and then offers pseudo-guarantees
if the "mind-controlled" people follows so established
hoaxes
or even
so accepted
swindles.
Thus, doctors’ words are
acquired
by fearful parents as guarantees
against all life’s risks (look instead the main
Ippocrates
statement: Momentary occurs
life,
deceptive is knowledge, demanding is discernment;
but
doctors’
words in turn arise from their teachers’ words passed so often off evidence
based realities, mistaking doubtful and
self-confirming trials,
testing
at random more or less casual bizarre ideas. All the time vicious
circles renew themselves, and gullible people doesn't notice that too
often so-believed “theories†are changeable: and so personal behavior
have not to deal with actual truth but only with up-dating “fashionsâ€.
As a
matter
of fact the parents’ weakness and stubborn lack of self-confidence, can
be directed in every - also difficult, illogical,
even dangerous
- direction: it sets to prescribe fixed behaviors
on the times,
tied even if told "advanced", compelling even if told
“permissiveâ€.
Maternal
instinct?
Static, temporary “noveltiesâ€, ephemeral changing fashions
are
proclaimed
and complied without any criticism for the time
being as “the
bestâ€
- till new arrival -. So it is misleading to set stereotyped appraisals
as: old styled families are ideal and perfect, with their
typically
good fathers and mothers, as during the good old times; but
it is
as much as incorrect to state that the "new" is a sure
progressive
improvement. Modern families and modern way at rearing children?
Assured
with and more and more reliable systems for children's sake? Up-to-date
knowledge and more broadly shared information?
MATERNAL
INSTINCT? WORLDWIDE SPREAD CURRENT EXAMPLES OF DANGEROUS
CONTRARY.
How could such brain-washing
methods
have taken so deep-seated roots? How can a pervasive, indirect mind-control
be so efficient? Why is it quite impossible to
convince even
keen
persons to avoid it? Nonsensical? And then: why moreover is it
so hard to stop everywhere such practices in spite
of any
warning
against? Comparable violations can happen only in Africa and in other
countries
of the Third World?
Violence
in the womb and at birth has always been a concern
tomembers
of APPPAH. Ironically, in modern hospital
birth, violence
and
pain have become routine for babies. For most of the 20th
century,
neither obstetricians nor psychologists have regarded pain as a reality
for newborns. Therefore, doctors have not hesitated to expose the baby
to a harsh environment at birth, or to introduce painful routines, or
painful
instruments...Babies protest being jabbed with
needles for blood
samples
and vitamin K shots, don't like to be turned upside down, rushed
through
space, and handled by different people. Their skin is extremely
sensitive
and they complain when rubbed and cleaned. We have been making them angry,
afraid, defensive, sad, and confused--for the greater part of
the
century.
Sexual
Mutilations: A Human Tragedy by George
C. Denniston
and Marilyn F. Milos (Eds.) New York: Plenum
Publishing, 237
pages,
1997. ISBN=0306455897. The origins of circumcision are
approached
by
studying the distribution of sexual mutilations on the map of
continents
and their severity among indigenous cultures. The analysis
suggests
that Africa is the epicenter for altering the
genitalia of both
males and females.Frederick Hodges, now a medical history fellow at
Oxford,
supplies a fascinating history of how involuntary sexual
mutilation
was institutionalized in the United States. What began as a
cure
for
masturbation, and all the illnesses thought to be caused by onanism,
has
been lauded and subsequently dismissed as the cure for epilepsy,
immoral
behavior, cancer, and sexually transmitted diseases. Hodges argues,
quite
convincingly, that the validity of the current medical
justifications
do not differ much from the original justifications. He
notes,
"Whatever
incurable disease happens to be the focus of national attention in any
given time period will be the disease that circumcision advocates will
use as an excuse for circumcision. Circumcision
is part of mainstream American culture, and,
despite having its
medical credibility essentially decimated, it continues unabated....
A major portion of the book
addresses
the issue of female genital mutilation as currently
practiced
in parts of Africa. Berhane Ras-Work, the current president
of the
Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health
of
Women and Children, provides a history of the organizational attempts
to
end the practice of FGM in Africa. Efforts started with general
statements
from international organizations and are now being implemented by
people
in the community. Outside interference is shunned and only acts to
galvanize
opposition. While the prevalence of FGM in Europe is unknown, Italian
investigators - Amnesty International (°) presented their
estimates
of the number of genitally mutilated women in their country.
Likewise,
a representative of Germany's organization (I)NTACT spoke to how her
country
is responding to this practice. [(°) Sono almeno 135 milioni,
secondo l'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità , le
ragazze
e le bambine che hanno subito mutilazioni
sessuali e ogni anno se ne aggiungono altri due milioni.
Le MGF
sono praticate soprattutto in Africa e in alcuni paesi del Medio
Oriente
(Egitto, Yemen Emirati Arabi). Vi sono anche casi di mutilazioni in
alcune
parti dell'Asia, nelle Americhe e in Europa - compresa l'Italia -
all'interno
delle comunità di immigrati.]
A eunuch is a castrated
man; the term usually refers to those castrated in order to perform a
specific social function, as was common in many societies of the past.
The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are
from the Sumerian cities of Lagash in the 21st century BC.[citation
needed]During the late part of the
Roman Empire, eunuchs were created and sent with
armys to be
used for sex by those of the highest rank. ... A sopranist
(or
sopranista) is a male classical singer with a voice-type and register
equivalent to that of a femalesoprano The sopranist, i.e. an adult male singer in
the range
of a soprano, was very
popular during the Baroque and Classical era, when castrati[emasculated] sang in the opera
in whole Europe. The "primo uomo" was the hero on the stage and his
excellent
technique was frequently much more important than the synopsis of the
opera.
The most famous castrato was Carlo
Broschi, called
"Farinelli".
In the 19th
century the art of the castrati fell more and more into oblivion, and
the last
castrato, Alessandro
Moreschi, died
in 1922.
Their
predecessors were the famous Spanish Falsettists in
the cathedrals
in the 16th
century.
But in our Contemporary
era,
just few years ago: not to construct a "special singer" as "human
nightingale", but - in a more horrifying way since its banal, private
context - this mutilation happened "merely" to experiment a
pseudo-successful authentication of behaviorism.
The
True Story of JOHN-> JOAN The Rolling
Stone,
December
11,
1997. Pages 54-97)presents
this casefor many
yearsconsidered one of the main triumph for
doctrine and
methods of behaviorism.
..un'idea
di bellezza
canora
durata oltre
tre Secoli dalla seconda metà del Cinquecento , inizio della
Controriforma, agli inizi
del Novecento
quando Alessandro Moreschi - the "last castrato " come lo battezzarono
i pioneristici discografici inglesi venuti a registrarne la voce - era
ancora attivo nella Cappella Sistina. Non fu veramente
l'ultimo,
abbiamo
testimonianze di anziani evirati vivi fino ai Sessanta,
ma dal
1903 un motu proprio Vaticano decise che non si potevano più
accogliere bambini castrati per addestrarli alla professione di
cantante.
Ma se nei secoli scorsi si castravano
bambini
per mantenerne la "voce bianca" e così ottenere dei soprani
"speciali" la mutilazione
sottocitata - ...un - creduto! - e ampiamente sbandierato successo del COMPORTAMENTISMO
è
ancora più raccapricciante
nella sua quasi "banalità " di
situazione "privata", ma esemplifica bene teoria,
impostazione e principi del Comportamentismo stesso.
E qui
presento questa storia "privata": la storia di un caso singolo, ma non
per
questo meno significativa di una certa cultura pseudo-scientifica, di
un
certo modo ufficialmente programmatico di NON-RISPETTARE la Natura e
gli
esseri umani.
Comment from Amazon.com Once you begin reading As Nature Made Him, a
mesmerizing story
of amedicaltragedyandits
traumatic
results, you absolutely won't want to put it down. Following
a
botched
circumcision, a family is convinced to raise their infant
son,
Bruce,
as a girl. They rename the child Brenda and spend the next14 yearstrying
to transform him into a her.Brenda's childhood
reads as one
filled with anxiety and loneliness, and her fear and confusion are
present
on nearly every page concerning her early childhood. Much of her pain
is
caused by Dr. Money, who is presented as a villainous medical man
attempting
to coerce an unwilling child to submit to numerous unpleasant
treatments.
Reading over interviews and reports of decisions made by this doctor,
it's
difficult to contain anger at the widespread results of his
insistence that natural-born gender can be altered with little more
than
willpower and hormone treatments. The attempts
of his
parents,
twin brother, and extended family to assist Brenda to be happily
female
are touching--the sense is overwhelmingly of a family wanting to do
"right"
while being terribly mislead as to what "right" is for her. As Brenda
makes
the decision to live life as a male (at age 14), she takes the name
David
and begins the process of reversing the effects of estrogen treatments.
David's ultimate successful life--a solid marriage, honest and close
family
relationships, and his bravery in making his childhood public -- bring
an uplifting end to his story. Equally fascinating is the latest
segment of the longtime nature/nurture
controversy, and the
interviews of various psychological researchers and practitioners form
a larger framework around David's struggle to live as the
gender he
was meant to be. -- Jill Lightner -- This text refers to an
out of
print
or unavailable edition of this title.
Maternal instinct??? Experiments on/against children?
How medicine could have succeed to induce artificial
pregnancy??? But then: what will have become the babies? Also
hereunder, on
apparently NORMAL environment showing a gropu of children evacuated
from flood places (???: was it really necessary???). This photo reveals
the horrific experiment: to
get
PREGNANT
little eight years old girls, but in the above linked site
there
are other photos sharing pregnant children on family's and school
mates' groups: even if - for privacy rules - with covered eyes, the at
present grown-up "protagonists" are strongly
willing to testimony.
no need to explain what happened
to these EIGHT YEARS old little girls!!! Their bellies showning a six
monthes pregnancy? At least a very mandatory NEED to get known how
horrific can
become scientists's
shameless power!Maternal, parental instinct?
Or:
children "hired" as human
guinea-pigs
for atrocious, disfiguring and/or mutilating experiments?
Child at one
and half
year old with
"normal" proportionate legs; little boy at five with legs
almost long
as father's ones; brother and sister respectively at their ten and seven showing theprogression
of the
"experiment"!!!To
be noticed the shamelessness to photograph these "horrors" as normal
family life situations. Note deform
legs
and
bumps near both boy's knees (There is a lot of
other original documents apt to be shared if requested by a
competent source.)
Note:
deform legs and bumps near both of boy's knees. A lot of original documents can be
shared if requested by a competent source.
A poignant
case of
Therapeutic Abortion for - only presumed
- fetal malformation: resulting instead in birth of a living immature
baby; and then resulting in an appalling show of over-treatment.
The final outcome was a weekly lasting agony.
A REDOUBLED
TRICKERY: Eugenics
and Therapeutic
Obstinacy - over-treatment .
Just at March 8 - Women' s Day - an official new comes from a
mainstream Italian Hospital Azienda
ospedaliera
Careggi
·
Mother wanted procedure
after fears of abnormality ·
Law requires
resuscitation if foetus shows signs of life
John
Hooper in Rome Thursday March 8,
2007The
Guardian
A
baby was struggling for life in an intensive care unit in Florence
yesterday after being resuscitated following an attempted abortion at
22 weeks' gestation because of indications of abnormalities which
turned out to be false.
The
baby's mother, who has not been
identified, was admitted to hospital for a late abortion at the end of
last week after being told her child might have abnormalities. The
child showed signs of life after the procedure and, under
Italian law,
doctors were obliged to try to save it.
AMNIOCENTESIS (or...EUGENICS?): Amniocentesis
is a diagnostic procedure
performed
by inserting a hollow needle through the abdominal wall into the uterus
and withdrawing a small amount of fluid from the sac surrounding the
fetus.
Amniocentesis can be used to diagnose a large number of genetic and
chromosomal
abnormalities in the fetus. In addition, it is helpful in the diagnosis
of the severity of Rh incompatibility, lung maturity, and neural tube
defects
(such as spina bifida). There is a slight chance of infection
or injury
to the fetus. There is even a smaller chance of miscarriage.
(Abortion
- spontaneous) This test is typically performed
when a problem
is suspected, so the benefits outweigh the risk.
To have amniocentesis is a surely invasive -
and even
expensive - harming practice for both: mother
(having abdomen
adhesions
for ever) and child (risking to have feet, legs,
genitals...
damaged,
or rather: all the more, to die in miscarriage!). But moreover
what
is the result of this "safety-making" (???) screening? An EUGENIC "not
abortion" but induced
premature birthto eliminate -
perhaps still living - "not
eugenic" baby!
(Still living? to eliminate or perhaps otherwise to spread a bold show
of medical
arrogance? Sport-like records to attain and challenge?
MIAMI,
Florida (AP) -- A premature baby that doctors say spent less time in
the womb than any other surviving infant is to be released from a
Florida hospital Tuesday.
Amillia Sonja Taylor was just 9
1/2 inches long and weighed less than 10 ounces when she was born
October 24. She was
delivered 21
weeks and six days after conception. Full-term births come
after
37 to 40 weeks.)
It
is important to remember that abnormal
test result cannot exclude every possible problem
with the
baby. Not
all birth defects can be detected by these tests ...
Amniocentesis
usually is done in the SECOND
TRIMESTER. Some medical centers
offer
early amniocentesis, done between 11 and 14 weeks after the last
menstrual
period. However, early amniocentesis is considered
experimental
and recent studies suggest that it is riskier than
second trimester
amniocentesis..
What to say for an Italian occurrence regarding the forbidden
legal possibility to stop unbearable extreme medical cares
-
artificial
respiratory implement - to a sixty years old person ailing for MUSCULAR
DYSTROPHY:
just one of the - few - congenital illnesses "avoided" - or better: to
be "killed"- applying the ill-timed miscarriage required
by the
amniocentesis'
report?
Italian
Poet Dies With Help From
a Doctor By Ian
Fisher
Published: December 22,
2006
With the legal fight to be allowed to end his own life
undecided,
Piergiorgio Welby died Wednesday after a doctor sedated him and removed
the respirator that was keeping him alive.(Death and
Dying,Medicine and Health,Doctors,Politics and Government,Italy,Rome
(Italy),Roman Catholic Church,Welby) ROME, Dec. 21 Piergiorgio Welby,
who had
eloquently begged Italy’s
leaders to let him end his life legally, died late Wednesday after a
doctor sedated him and removed the respirator that had kept him alive
for nine years.
But Mr. Welby,
60, an advocate of euthanasia
who had muscular
dystrophy
for 40 years,
died without the legal clarity
he had hoped to achieve. His decision to be removed from the respirator
seemed to be a final challenge, which was quickly taken up in this
Roman Catholic country with a deep institutional opposition to
euthanasia. Hours after his death was announced, Thursday, conservative
lawmakers demanded the arrest of the doctor.
(Afterwards acquitted and then recently again brought to trial).
BABIES'
SLEEPING POSITION: BABIES SLEEPING
FACE DOWN.
Another example,
very milder,
very simpler, apparently harmless, surely not expensive is the hint for
a - strange - required unchanging sleeping babies' position: the
worldwide
and long-lasting fashion (outspread for more than twenty
years)
to
put babies face-down.
The most
during
the '70s - '80s years almost EVERY
baby
had
to be put - or better: ordered to be put - to sleep face down, it is to
say in an unnatural, uneasy
position. Apparently
harmless,
this compelling doctors' intimation has to be nevertheless considered
critically
and notas
a banality; it is hence
a so absurd "required" custom to give the impression to come even only
from a bad joke. But since it is NOT a
joke,
then: what was it? a trial? Was
it a trial to
reach the aim to rear blinded
babies? Was
rather a TRIAL to recognize
how much is
credulous
and PRONE to suggestions to
whole people
worldwide?
PRONE POSITION to
be
imposed? The endeavor to keep in view
this fact is manifold:
a
description, an anthropological
and
even
ergonomic description, concerning one, this strange one, of the various
ways how to manage babies’ sleep: the why
and how
and exactly when and by whom
this strange idea could
arise
and become so worldwide spread. To lie prone? However this enough
already warning situation displays another more
“absurdâ€
fact,
a new more weird query arousing from: how is it possible that a quite
new, not
traditional at all, an even strange custom as “face-down
babiesâ€,
could become an ineffaceable myth,
something as a ruthless superstition?
But
here it should be added
another
consideration
and example, regarding how all facts can be chained beyond the times,
encircling
generations and - true or artificial - knowledge. An Anthropologist -
i.e.
a scientist not a whoever commonplace uninformed person - said that he
would have been compliant to doctor’s prescription.
Instead
a doctor
considered - at least - APPALLING such assertion, and answered that a
liable
doctor
should NEVER take
the
responsibility
(and so: culpability)
to instigate some one to do something
doubtful
for his own feelings: deming that a serious
competence has to
prescribe
only what can propose logic choices, or rather: the choices
better fitting
to this precise situation and liking.
...
A similar problem is more
incisive when the subject regards new-borns and future "new" persons,
maternal
and parental instincts and their possibilities to accomplish: the more
fitting task is instead to encourage to observe - or rather: to
hint to observe - the personal preferences and
well-being of
just
that baby.
The final chapter in Domestic
chores. Ergonomy and psychology of a TRUE work
is
entitled Children
of YESTERDAY = today's adults. Today's adults ->
adults of
TOMORROW,
and thus hints at the true essential reader to whom this book is
addressed. The
present adults were new-borns and babies, and so their to upbringing
could
have been more or less hindered. In turn this happened according to how
were behaving and guiding their bringer up, and how they - parents, or
whichever raiser - were more or less free and self-sufficient,
more
or less relying on natural instincts and child’s
needs.
Weak
and ready to be influenced parents are prone to be DUPED
by "magic", "myths" or true of fake “professionalsâ€: they in turn, more
or less self-centered and wise or passive
believers,
are
prone to follow their “chiefs†and their “blatant theoriesâ€.
So if “babies†are really to be
considered
as “new-persons†a not secondary rather indeed more
momentous
purpose of
this argument notifies that how-to-manage them implies how would
become these further new-grown-ups;
mostly it should
pointed
out thatthere are two main ways
to rear babies,
or
better not “babies†but NEW PERSONS, it is to
say to
model the new generation.
open
to future
To receive
I
EXIST-FEELING
Once open
to future, to wait-and-see behavior - markedly
for the first
ages of life -
the
whole organism is thriving towards to
receive, the inner world
(and the whole development) is continuously molded by seeings, tasting,
smellings, a plenty of sensations, an invasion of every kind of
feelings...
which can already, perhaps before
birth,
be recognized and reorganized as perceptions. This
reorganized to
receive is a source, the main source,
of well being and
-
more
- to I
exist-feeling, the main
source
of growing intellectually by greedy curiosity, source in turn of
developmental
skills, and capability of resilience.
Thus to receive
is therefore a way, the master way for every one in every situation to
become keen,
serious,
able hence to care for, and conversely the way to be at best warning
and cautious (which
is the exact contrary to be paranoid suspicious). Following the baby's
teaching, also adults - parents and in any case care-givers
- should again and again learn to master ever better their aptitude to receive:
enhanced by the increased attentionto
be
careful for THIS
particular baby, for his/her particular needs and wishes at
any
moment.
And then this effort to become more understanding deserves to have an
improved way open, broad, assuring freedom and ,
above all fitting to change; to follow children's passages trains to
open forthcoming experiences not only towards the changing baby and
his/her
changeable world, rather worthy to be fitting to every developmental
childhood's stage or complex,
even to recover the own missed or damaged ones.
Prone - Body
Position and Disposition
of Will
It is not a
contradiction
if from time to time the face-down position is for all ages once in a
while
a chosen position, but mostly as a “sad†position: sadness itself tends
towards gloom, people tend to restrict for better to cry, to hind
mourning till hopeless depression (the anaclitic
depression
proposed by R.Spitz; see
picture
above)and
at least
belly
against the bed gives relief to abdominal pain, or... allows for secret
masturbation.
But indeed “prone†has two meanings: a body
position
- face-down - and a disposition of will - to
be subdued.
But it can perhaps be an explanation on how and why this other face of
rearing children trends are so widely expanded. As the typical,
traditional use of rearing babies, perhaps this forced body posture
comes from an almost
calculated aim, deliberately
aiming at closing and taming: what can experience a
constantly
constricted face-down baby? How to look around? what relish gets to
smell
always only one’s own odor if not stench? How can enjoy the “to
receiveâ€
a contracted baby, with his face - mouth, nose, eyes, skin - flattened
on his pillow? Then the endorsement of a so not traditional, strange,
uneasy,
unnatural position seems to be chosen indeed as a way to
deprive
the new people of the whole knowledge of the world: children prevented
to smell, to look, to play with hands and legs will be conformed to be
more dependent. How can skills flourish in their fair times under so
reduced
limits?
In sum up: was this really a
trial? was
this a trial with the
aim
to rear “blinded†babies? Babies who from their
first
beginning
of life have not to look after, to look out, to look up, to beware, to
watch, and so to mind and to take care? To rear babies - and then
future
adults - who instead must, until birth time, only look up to the person
who care them: it is to say who tames and so subdues? But this way,
which
strives to close the new persons, uncovers as well how is manageable
their whole environment - i.e. parents and their trusted
professionals,
media makers and their listeners, governance and the governed
peoples...
- to stay into strict, unreasonable borders. Was this rather a TRIAL
to recognize how much is credulous and PRONE
to
suggestions
the whole people worldwide, no matter if either
professionals
or normal babies’ relatives? Why parents obeyed so diligently to this
so
strange assignment? Why nobody asked why "never in past Millennia"
newborns
and babies were put in this so uneasy - and logically dangerous -
position?
Was this a hazardous (or perhaps evil)
trial
to know how EASY is to switch off
wisdom and
professional skills, as well to castrate off the
natural
parental
instincts? And after all and even: was this a trial, a EBM
- evidence based medicine - a medical trial to detect
how many babies could or couldn't die
for sudden suffocation? And then: WHY
many
obstetricians and pediatricians, if not ALL of them,
even in '90s years, prescribed harshly to put the infants to sleep face
down?
WHAT TO SAY? WHAT TO THINK? WHAT TO SUPPOSE?
Nonsensical
or belonging to the "possible absurd" which goes
beyond and
ridicules
our "reasonable theories", or instead something "logical" with an inner
disguised program?
Il faut garder sa liberte'
d'esprit et croire
que DANS LA NATURE L'ABSURDE
SUIVANT NOS THEORIES
N'EST
PAS TOUJOURS IMPOSSIBLE (Claude
Bernard)
Searching steadfastly when and by whom
raised
as evidence
based
trial the face down position, there was none, none
at all wise answer. But a
clamorous statistic
data come to light: how many and how much worldwide adults are
credulous
and not responsible, are weak and fearful; how
frail is
the
wisdom of professionals and how are lacking
parental instincts.
Furthermore is appropriate to remember here that unwelcome
attention
and pseudo-altruistic
interference take place as real superstition and seemingly innocuous
"taming" to interfere with self-expression, if not liberty; as with
feeding and any other basic element of interraction
between the generations, it can
also occur in fields which should be less subjective, turning "normal"
parents into indirect slave-drivers. Anna
Magnani's playing of the
"stage-mother" in Visconti's
film Bellissima
magnificently caricatures
the desire to ensure celebrity and success for one's children
but also to a lesser extent explores the devastating
pressure of the
adult world which disturbs
the
solemn regularity of childhood:
superstitious myths of pseudo-health are imposed by the body
of
current
thinking which make any normal differences in motor development a
source of anxiety - arriving at the point of a horrible paradox such as
the acceptance
of a greater risk
of DEATH(!) in order to
"avoid" a
hypothetical and albeit slight slowing in the first phases of motor
development. How far from the extreme contrary of it: Emmi Pikler's work
whose main book
German title Lasst mir
Zeit
= Allow
me MY time
being the "proclaim" of hr fundamental experience. Hence: was it the
real task of a reserved,
disguised
trial?
search
criteria:
sleeping position
At an - horrible -
sample of fake
scientific mentality, comportamentists
stated that protective behaviors may be
acquired throughthe mechanism
of operant
conditioning (learning) since such
"scientists" do
prefer higher-quality
prformances instead to ... at least living and
healthy children and opportune development. In opposition to Lasst mir Zeit
=Allow
me MY time
- they do prefer and teach a gross motor
development
(Denver Development Scale), even preferring to have more babies
died but many (?) till birth
"advanced"
in such a grosser motor
development? What strange "scientists"
are these
who assert without any shame that protective behaviors have to be learnt through the mechanism of
operant
conditioning (learning) ???
Sleeping on
the back
retards motor-skill development The
incidence of SID has
fallen
considerably since recommendations
to put babies to sleep on their backs were introduced . It seems
however that this position may cause a slight slowing in the first
phase of motor skill development . This effect , which is however
slight , maybe minimised by placing the newborn prone when
awake .
The
recommendations for back sleeping should however be absolutely
respected . Doctors should be aware of the way in which the position
influences motor skill development in its first phases to avoid useless
examinations into delay of motor skills. Objective.
Several studies have
found that back- or side-sleeping infants who are inexperienced in
prone sleeping higher risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) when
they turn to prone or are placed prone for sleep compared with infants
who normally sleep prone. Moreover, such inexperienced
infants [what a paradox in terms!]
are more
likely to be found in the face-down position at death after being
placed prone compared with SIDS infants who are experienced in prone
sleeping. We hypothesized that lack of experience in prone sleeping is
associated with increased difficulty in changing head position to avoid
an asphyxiating sleep environment. Methods.
We studied
38 healthy infants while they slept prone. Half of these were
experienced and half were inexperienced in prone sleeping. To create a
mildly asphyxiating microenvironment, we placed infants to sleep prone
with their faces covered by soft bedding. We recorded inspired CO2
(CO2I), electrocardiogram, and respiration, and
we
videotaped head movements. Also, we assessed
gross motor
development (Denver Development Scale). Results.
When sleeping
prone, with their faces covered by bedding, all infants experienced mild
asphyxia as a result of rebreathing. All aroused and
attempted
escape from this environment. Infants used 3 stereotyped head-repositioning
strategies. The least effective was nuzzling into the bedding with
occasional brief head lifts. More effective were head lifts combined
with a head turn. Some infants, however, could turn only to 1 side,
right or left. Infants who were inexperienced in prone sleeping
hadless effective protective behaviors than
experienced
infants. Infant age did not correlate with efficacy of protective
behaviors. Infants who were experienced in prone sleep had advanced gross
motor development compared with inexperienced infants. Conclusion. Infants who are
inexperienced in prone sleeping
have decreased ability
to escape from asphyxiating sleep environment
when placed prone. These observations potentially explain the increased
risk associated with prone sleep in infants who are inexperienced. The
increased occurrence of the face-down position
in such infants is also potentially explained. These findings suggest
that airway protective behaviors
may be
acquired through the mechanism
of
operant conditioning (learning).
By the way an
alike
hightening of death
rate happens on another trial:
the TeenScreen
TeenScreen was
established in Tulsa,
Oklahoma in 1997.
According to a
2003 Tulsa World newspaper
article, Mike
Brose,
executive director of the Mental Health Association in Tulsa,
stated: - To the best
of my knowledge, this is the highest number of youth
suicides we've ever had during the school year -- a number we find very
frightening.
Psychiatrists
are
even coming forth saying TeenScreen is unworkable. Nathaniel
Lehrmansays:
-
The claim by the
director of the TeenScreen Program that her
program would significantly reduce suicides is unsupported by the data.
Indeed, such screenings would probably cause more harm than good. It is
impossible, on cursory examination, or on the basis of the Program's
brief written screening test, to detect suicidality or 'mental
illness', however we define it.
IF
SO VERY SUCCESSFUL TRIALS! But if who observes this
condescending
even
grateful acceptance
of similar oddities should get filled with indignation, besides these
data
get a more wide general insight
with more
preoccupying sorrow if not
horror:
just a so unconditional worldwide surrender towards weird, intrusive
orders
keeps a warning and points out a great threat, since it could allude to
how
for a dictatorship is easy and without any effort to make everyone
convinced
willing to do everything, everyday, everywhere!
At present people must notice that - meanwhile
- the
"ex-face-down babies" are really developed as a bulk of not
very
pleasant
youngsters. Damaged babies versus damaged teens? This fact
could be
assumed with caution as
result of an hypothetic sleeping
position trial.
Statistics
should be always read with not contaminated data, also if surely studies should
be
carried out, since such a compliance on regard of so
strange
“sleeping position" leads to flagrant
parents’ weakness. proneness to praise temporary “noveltiesâ€,