The Little Purple Notebook On How To Escape From This Universe
Copyleft � 1998 by Maximilian J. Sandor, Ph.D.
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Whelms Happen!
The common connotation of 'whelming' is 'overwhelming'. Yet, the most
practiced and the most effective form of 'whelming' is 'underwhelming'.
'Whelm' means 'to cover completely', like in 'the dust covered the
caravan', according to Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
The purpose of such an action is to take out the self-determination of
someone by presenting either too much or too little data or effort.
Since this 'Little Purple Notebook' contains description of structures, it
should, in theory, neither overwhelm nor underwhelm.
As things are, the presentation of structures takes place via the offering
of data that describes these structures. This is a paradox that cannot be
resolved and which inevitably opens the door to either an unintended
indoctrination of the reader or a refusal of the same to attempt to
recognize the presented structure because of the rejection of the data that
was intended to describe the structure.
What to do? It seems that there is no other way than to put on the thinking
cap on permanently. Tough choice, I know. Sorry!
It certainly helps to evaluate new data in this regard in the context of
one's own existing framework. In other words: does the new data fit into
one's reality level and increases one's understanding? For example, was it
a total overwhelm? Or, was it a slight underwhelm?
The very same message can have any of the 'whelming' effects, depending on
both on the reader and the message itself.
Interestingly, overwhelms are in a sense much less 'dangerous' than
underwhelms. They are obvious, obviously, since they can be recognized
easily, people complain about it, and they're
generally in the open.
In contrast, 'underwhelms' are in the tool chest of the hate mongers, the
leaders of unions, churches, and political parties: all those who think
they're the greatest and that the rest of us would be scum or worse. In
short, that kind of people that is respected by brave and innocent
citizens.
Again, the 'overwhelmers', the Dschingis Khans, Napoleons, Hitlers,
Saddams, and Friday 13th's Freddies are the ones everyone readily
identifies as the evil forces of their times .
Come to think of it, however, the 'real suppressives', as Hubbard put it,
'always work behind the scenes'. They can only be recognized indirectly:
everyone in their vicinity gets weak and sick except the suppressives
themselves - because this is the only way they think they can have the
upper hand: by keeping everyonce else in the state of doom and despair.
Did I mention the mass media yet? Hmmm. Must have slipped through the
cracks somehow...
In any case some basic characteristics of whelming shouldn't go unnoticed:
- overwhelming happens in very short timeframes and
underwhelming works over longer period of times;
- overwhelming always has a clearly visible actor, the
'bad boy', whereas in underwhelming the actor is hiding
out and poses as the 'good guy';
- overwhelms are directed towards individuals - underwhelms
are broadcasted (cp. media)
- overwhelming pretends to 'defend' and underwhelming
pretends to 'help'.
- overwhelming smashes the opponent while underwhelming
slowly rubs out the other party.
- an overwhelmed person is being stopped - an underwhelmed
person stops short of its goals, thinking it would be there,
etc.pp.
It is an interesting question if it is possible to communicate _without_
any form of under- or overwhelming. After all, communication is about
finding an agreement about different positions. Since, by definition, the
positions are _always_ different for any given party in this Universe,
avoiding any form of under- or overwhelm appears to be impossible.
Cleary, whelms happen!
It is part of the game of awakening to look through the various games and
strategies of putting people to sleep, whether those were intentional or
not.
To handle overwhelms, the incidents of overwhelm must be cleaned up. This
means, _negative processing_ needs to be applied.
Underwhelms require boosting the power of a person towards a better
understanding and attitude. This is characteristical of _positive
processing_.
Since underwhelms and overwhelms are bungled up in a case, they have to be
peeled of piece by piece (cp. 'The Onion Model').
Which shows, that this is yet another example of how important _both_
aspects of processing are and how they should be individually balanced for
the fastest speed and no crashes on the superhighway to liberation.
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Copyleft � 1998 by Maximilian J. Sandor, Ph.D.
