[Neurons] 2020 Neurons #45 FRAMING AND REFRAMING VIOLENCE

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall   

2020 Neurons #45

September 3, 2020

Reflections on Politics #3

 

 

FRAMING AND REFRAMING

VIOLENCE

 

Reframing is powerful and that's because meaning is what you create and
invent about the events, activities, words, people, etc. around you.
Outside of your nervous system and mind, nothing has meaning.  Meaning is
not in things, it is what you attribute to things.  That's why in
Neuro-Semantics we constantly say, "You are the meaning-maker."  With your
nervous systems and your brain (neurology), you invent symbolic symbols,
classify things, and thereby construct meaning systems like language.  You
look outside to what's going on and you construct an understanding about it-
you give it meaning.  And the meaning you give is the neurology you then
live (a Neuro-Semantic principle).

 

Now if meaning does not exist "out there," if meaning is the ideas,
understandings, words, etc. that you use to give significance to things-
then you have a lot of leeway in making meaning of things.  That's why
nearly everything has multiple possibilities of meaning.  What does "failing
to achieve a goal in a certain time frame" mean?  Some people call it a
failure, others call themselves a failure, some see it as meaning "not
enough time," someone else evaluates it as "not enough resources," another
"lack of discipline," another "a learning what to do next time," and so on
and on it goes.  There is a large leeway from negative and limiting meanings
to neutral meanings and on to positive meanings.  The bottom line is that
your meaning constructs is a choice and a skill, and therefore we can view
it as a style.   How are you as a meaning-maker?

 

Meaning attribution may have a large leeway, but it is not infinite.  You
cannot give any meaning for any thing.  There are constraints- there are
contexts, historical precedents, a matter of fitness, logical reasoning,
critical thinking, etc.  

 

When people in democrat governed cities and states (e.g., Chicago, Portland,
Seattle, Baltimore, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Kenosha, Pittsburg, etc.)
allow protests to become riots without coming down hard on criminal actions
and dismiss it as "a summer of love," "peaceful protests," etc., and when
the President says all you have to do is ask for the National Guard to
control the rioters, then there's no logical, rational way to blame the
president for the violence.  When Congress failed to pass Senator Tim
Scott's bill for Police Reform, President Trump took it upon himself to sign
an executive order for Police Reform- most of what the protesters say they
wanted.  The executive order provides more governance over any policeman who
misuses his or her authority, eliminates chock holds, etc.

 

While those are some of the actions he took to deal with the violence,
Biden, the mayor of Portland, and others try to blame Trump for the
violence.   But that's stretching the framing of meaning far beyond the
constraints of logic.  I give them the chutzpah for trying to push the logic
of reason beyond logic and common sense, but it goes beyond what is possible
for framing and reframing.  Facts do count as do social and cultural
contexts.

 

To "incite" violence is to either directly encourage people to set fires,
throw rocks, refuse to obey the curfew orders, yell insults, shout
obscenities, or in the passive mode, to not discourage it by a strong law
and order stance.  What is fascinating is that three weeks ago at the
Democrat National Convention, not a single word was ever mentioned about the
riots- now three weeks later they are accusing the President as being the
inciting cause of the riots!  

 

Actually there are lots of videos of Democrats calling for people to "get in
the face" of Republicans (Maxine Waters) and to take Trump out behind the
gym and "I'd beat the hell out of him" (Joe Biden).  It was Kamala Harris
who applauded L.A. officials for slashing millions from the Police
department.  It was also the Biden campaign who funded the bail for the
rioters in Minnesota.  So who is really inciting violence?

 

Given that the violence is occurring almost exclusively in the Democrat run
cities (mayors and governors being Democrats), it strains reason to try to
frame the violence being incited by the other party.  That doesn't even make
sense.  The violence occurs where those in charge tell the police to back
off, who forbid the police to do their job, and who do not support the
police when something goes wrong.  They are quicker to support the rioters
than the Peace Officers.  If they do arrest rioters, they do not keep them
in jail or prosecute them.  That essentially gives free rein for them to
keep doing what they are doing.  Any parent knows that you do not
"discipline" a child by stating consequences and then dismissing the
consequences.  It is being soft on law and order that incites violence by
providing no constraint against it.

 

[This series on Political Thinking represents my thinking, and mine alone.
It does not necessarily represent Neuro-Semantics which is a psychological
model.   L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Neuro-Semantics

P.O. Box 8

Clifton CO. 81520 USA

www.neurosemantics.com   

 

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