"WAR ON TERROR"

”WAR ON TERROR”


S*-ing (use of Sign-use) analysis of what the phrase communicates.

“DOUBLE DOUBLE REVERSE NEGATIVE” S* construct.

1. “War”: A. In Group tokenspace (content of quadrant two (QII)

(2. “Terror” – OR: go directly below, bypassing these remarks on what “War” communicates as text and token in Public and Private Tokenspace. Alternative route)

The most highly organized, inclusive, ultimate group activity: “protecting the nation”. (Predicating on The Nation as a totality given through the sign-use. Thus becoming attached to that as a higher content of private – individual inner – tokenspace.)

….Evoking a grammar that predicates on: “us” fighting an “enemy”. “War” is “waged” against an enemy. It is “on” something. What it is on in any given instance cannot be nothing – at least, grammatically. “War on nothing” is a kind of self-contradiction, however funny comedian Jerry Seinfeld might make it sound.

Predication on “us” fighting an “enemy” becomes, by grammatical variation,
“This is what we are doing, and will need money for. Re you for terrorism or against it?”. Bumper sticker appears: “Terrorists hate George Bush. Are you a terrorist?”

B. In Private tokenspace (content of quadrant three (QIII) – “War” is, in the first instance, the STRUGGLE FOR BIRTH, undergone (‘acted out’) in the struggle of the fetus to pass through the birth canal, climaxed by a Battle with the Placenta to be Free, Victorious, painfully but heroically HERE! – establishment of consciousness of presence in the post-natal world. It is known now, by the theory of cell-coating (mylenization), that memory chains established by early neuron links are continuous from the womb through the birth process itself, though highly affected by the massive trauma (esp. hypoxia, loss of oxygen in the lungs in the last stages, until the first free breaths are taken, which leave a particular awareness). Trauma acts as a ‘block’, preventing instinctual flow of libido from approaching the site of abuse. (token: the angels with flaming swords preventing Adam and Eve’s return to Eden.)


Repression, regression, and acting out twisted fantasies

The psychodynamic effect of blockage of libido-cathexis due to pain of abuse is to divert the energy that meets the barrier into alternate, ‘lateral’, channels, to find expressive outlet. In primary process terms, under the pleasure principle, this is experienced as a good thing. Freud thought for many years that a single impulse -- to match perception with desire – governed the entire mental life, including why we want to relate to reality through thought – to refine and prolong the pleasure; to maximize the sheer fun of a fully enjoyed life. Something ‘instinctive’, or quasi-instinctive, kicks in during the development to maturity, that will self-regulate uncontrolled orgasmic reflex-cathexis, even while recognizing the awesome amount of pleasure the body can produce when called upon to do so. So the pleasure principle comes to be modified, just by normal development in the common case, through rational relation to unfolding causal reality. But this ‘loop’ of organic orgasmic response, passing from some peripheral objective stimulus arousing the sexual areas on the body, usually by touching, is linked to deep internal blood-circulating energy-infusion organ arousals, so that response to reality through this loop is intrinsically laden with quantities of libido – pleasure seeking love – by the very biological nature of our being through the body. Whatever comes later, through trauma and other vicissitudes of childhood history, overlays this basic template as the form of unfolding totality. (Aim: Completion of the totalities* as growing things, along with and through the ever-maturing cellular processes. Title Token: The Philosophy of Completing Totalities.)
What does come later, was present at the beginning, we know and are beginning to understand, was trauma. This turned back object-cathexis of libido. The secondary fall-back system is heightened narcissism – the body itself as source of pleasure sensations becomes the object loved. The turn-back of libido from surface arousal-discharge can initiate the process of repression, in which contents of feelings and impulses that would otherwise have made it into conscious awareness are diverted into alternate, twisted-feeling/impulses routes to find expression. Such, for example, is the desire to be beaten by the Father which Freud found common among males. Under the vicissitude of a sadistic old man as “Father”, desire to be beaten by the father is the twisted version of the desire for his love. Thus the abused male child will feel HE is showing how Father loves by passing it along. The twisting of objects to get gratification of pleasure from reversals is helped along by giving the objects desired names, but also just by reversing orders and aims of sources of gratification on the body itself: taking the anal, vrs. vaginal canal for sexual intercourse. The formation of later gestalt- discharge cathexis (‘behavior patterns’, instanced; a person ‘doing their number’) follows the fantasies that were formed in the earliest stages of psychological development, when the child is learning to control instinctual organic reflexes of dumping and peeing at the right time, in the right way, etc.. Understanding that: with repression goes regression – the instinctual energy turned back, blocked from cathexis to objects seeks earlier, ‘older’, as common group-historical content (instinctual solutions of the personal waste disposal problem, arrived at with different degrees of sadism in the history of childhood, deMause has shown) channels of expression, aka earlier routes of nerve-stimulation links. As it is put in common parlance, the person becomes “little mac” –(Will, John, Sid, whatever first names were when we were all Portnoys). The “inner child” pops out. At this point, when the repression in public tokenspace , meets regression, throughout each person’s private tokenspace, the group, as a totality under sign-use, begins eating on itself, consuming itself, striving to satisfy all lusts and hatreds on itself, there occurs a kind of convulsion of being, as if from below and within, as if uncounted throngs of little womb-chins were simultaneously crying “WE GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE ” .

SUMMATION; WAR IS THE GROUPS’S REGRESSIVE SOLUTION TO THEIR REBIRTH PROBLEM, IN WHICH THE BLOOD OF CHILDREN IS USED TO PLACATE THE POISONOUS PLACENTA DESCENDING LIKE AN UROBORIC SEA MONSTER TO CRUSH THEIR PATHETIC LITTLE SOULS FOR ALL ETERNITY. .. sigh ..(Poisonous placenta = “Al Queda”, “Islamo-terrorists”, “Muslim fundamentalists”, “liberals”, “leftists” “Southern racist bigot types” as instanced by: White Nationals, Stormfront, VNN, David Duke, all the old KKK/Nazi stereotypes. And why are these always linked? Lynching black slaves and gassing Jews with poison in the showers? Because these have now become conventional tokens of the Enemy, itself; “Evil” incarnate; metaphysically linked since the creation of time, the historical suffering of the blacks in America’s “South”, and the suffering of
massive numbers of Jews in Germany in what has come to be knows as ‘the holocaust’. Such is the testimony of the very voices of the unborn, themselves, brought unto man by Archbishop John O’Connor. In God’s eyes, abortion clinics exterminating the unborn, and gas chambers exterminating Jews were the same, he announced. What they are doing inside those Planned Parenthood is what Nazi’s did, following Hitler’s orders. The Pope himself – John Paul II, at the time – didn’t go that far, but O’Connor quickly moved up the ranks in powerful New York City Catholic politics, and put the squeeze on Mario Cuomo, himself. They used a kind of anti-abortion/pro-Nazi playoff of what Ashcroft called rescuing “the unborn” from murderous mommy’s womb, and rescuing Jews from Auschwitz.


2. TERROR: token of threat of Return of the Poisonos Placenta.

Much more later.