BENOIT MANDELBROT

"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line."

BENOIT MANDELBROT
1924 — 2010

Mandelbrot, "the artist mathematician", the father of fractal geometry passed away last week, on the 14th of October at 85 ! A great man -a scientist- who, among others, gave the "Theory of Complexity/Chaos Theory" its mathematical foundation!
http://www.edge.org/documents/Edge-Serpentine-MapsGallery/index.html

http://www.math.yale.edu/mandelbrot/

"The Anatomy of Violence"

HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRISIS. IS THERE NO ANSWER TO HUMAN VIOLENCE?(1*
A Cultural Critique in Conversation with Rene Girard and Raymund Schwager
By Peter Robert Stork, M.eng (Germany), M.A. (theol).

In the context of the above paper, the following book seems worth reading and interesting:
Googlebooks-Library: "The Anatomy of Violence" by Dr. Belachew Gebrewold (2009)

Dr. Belachew Gebrewold is an interesting young scholar of high profile, specializing on:

"MAIN RESEARCH AREAS:
Conflicts and Violence in Africa;
European African relations
Africa in international security system" 0*)

0*) http://www.hsu-hh.de/download-1.4.1.php?brick_id=w89E5jrkaZB3Zyqt

1*) http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp127.25102006/02whole.pdf

Liberation is Breaking the "Mimesis Patterns" (Part II)

Liberation is Breaking the "Mimesis Patterns" (Part II)

"Make it simple but not less simple" (Einstein).

There is no controversy about the fact that Birtukan Mideksa, is the wonderful icon of the Ethiopian opposition. However, given all the sufferings she and all political prisoners have endured on our behalf, the Violence done to Her by Melesse and Co., has nothing to do with Her in Person and is not meant as such. IT is rather "designed" with a far-fetched historical significance for the Ethiopian Nation at large and it is in particular meant to break the moral courage of the whole Ethiopian new generation. In other words, the new generation has, I think to be fully aware of the fact that the author of this "play" is not only the Autocratic Regime of Melesse and Co. but there is a lot more to IT. This regime is just the vulgar representative of the whole "obscure box", working against the Ethiopian Enlightenment. In this context, I believe that Rene Girard's Mimesis Theory is of paramount significance. Please take a breath and your time to look at the following relevant paper on "Human Rights Crisis" and the source of "Human Violence":-
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HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRISIS. IS THERE NO ANSWER TO HUMAN VIOLENCE?(1*
A Cultural Critique in Conversation with Rene Girard and Raymund Schwager
Peter Robert Stork, M.eng (Germany), M.A. (theol).
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For the information of the reader, TRUE- I was quite for a while convinced by Rene Girard's Mimesis Theory on the "origin and metamorphosis of human violence" - A theory, which at best can explain our "tragedy" (cf. s. post; Break the "Mimesis Patterns"). Nevertheless, outraged by the violence done to "Birtukan" personifying the new Ethiopian generation struggling for democracy and progress, it was not prior to yesterday, while I was looking for a relevant discussion on Mimesis Theory, that I came across the above work of research.

The Paper "argues that the human rights crisis is neither an accident nor a shortfall in techniques of implementation, but reflects the subconscious and collective structure of civilization (in my perception "civilization" is meant here -"the west", "our friends" and the "adoptive parents" of Melesse's Regime; my comment). Following a description of the crisis, this investigation examines the nature of human violence, especially the contagious manner in which it works at the root of the crisis, offering understanding where conventional anthropological reflections fall short. The study argues with Girard, that vengeance and retribution resonate deeply with the human psyche and easily evoke an archaic image of the divine. While this arouses moral protest in the post-modern mind, we meet here one of the fundamental issues mimetic theory elucidates, namely that it is on account of such an unconscious image of the "sacred" that vengeful violence has remained for so long a determining element in human history." (cf. Human Rights In Crisis: Is there no answer to Human Violence?; Abstract p. iii; http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp127.25102006/02whole.pdf)
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As mentioned above, the paper is new for my library and I don't share any kind of its ideological religious promotions and any connotations of its radical religious touch, it may include. I am therfore aware of the necessity of a critical reading it may require. But, nevertheless it is the radical "anthropological critique of the western culture, in the context of the "human rights crisis" pertaining to the global as well as the Ethiopian post-modernist political activities; - based on the Mimesis Theory of Rene Girard, which in my perception, makes the latter, relevant to the enlightenment process of the Ethiopian community.

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Following and aware of this discourse ( Rene Girard) I therefore think, any political discussion along the content or "authenticity" of the so-called "Pardon" is absurd and anachronistic.

Instead, I believe that:

Liberation is breaking the "mimesis patterns" (cf. Mimesis Theory, Rene Girard) by simply embracing the "scapegoat"and the "sacrifice" with an unconditional love and faith.

At this stage the biggest set-back and blunder the Ethiopian Non-Violent Opposition would encounter is doubting the spiritual Will and the integrity of the "Sacrifice"; i.e. to fall into the political trap of the counterparts, as archaic/primitive (specially for the so-called "friends and mediators") as it may sound in our modern world, which the latter, the "West" /"the friends" of "Birtukan"/ and the Ethiopian Autocracy have designed, to resolve their presumable "conflict" and to go ahead with "business as usual".
The "mimesis patterns" as applied to the current affairs here in the Ethiopian Democratic Movement are: A -The Ethiopian Autocracy; B -the West/"the friends and mediators"; C -Birtukan /the "Sacrifice"/ incorporating the Democratic Movement.

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1*) http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp127.25102006/02whole.pdf

AWRAMBA TIMES No.136 Interview with BIRTUKAN

AWRAMBA TIMES No.136 Interview with BIRTUKAN:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/38985183/awramba-times-issue-136-1


THANKS! AWRAMBA TIMES!

Break the "Mimesis Patterns"!

"Make it simple but not less simple" (Einstein).

Liberation is breaking the "mimesis patterns" (cf. Mimesis Theory, Rene Girard) by simply embracing the "scapegoat"and the "sacrifice" with an unconditional love and faith. At this stage the biggest set-back and blunder the Ethiopian Non-Violent Opposition would encounter is doubting the spiritual Will and the integrity of the "Sacrifice"; i.e. to fall into the political trap of the counterparts, as archaic/primitive (specially for the so-called "friends and mediators") as it may sound in our modern world, which the latter, the "West" /"the friends" of "Birtukan"/ and the Ethiopian Autocracy have designed, to resolve their presumable "conflict" and to go ahead with "business as usual".
The "mimesis patterns" as applied to the current affairs here in the Ethiopian Democratic Movement are: A -The Ethiopian Autocracy; B -the West/"the friends and mediators"; C -Birtukan /the "Sacrifice"/ encorporating the Democratic Movement.

A few relevant discussions on Rene Girard's "Mimesis Theory":

http://The-Genesis-of-violence

http://www.jeramyt.org/papers/girard.html

http://www.philosophyandscripture.org/Issue6-1/Romero.pdf

Demolarization is a disgusting politcal tool -an expression of inhumanity employed in a social evolution, indicating the inhumanity of the employer! A disaser! (7/10/2010).

This is Real ...and NOT played! ( Part II)

This is FACT...and NOT played!


1*)

No Comment! Learn to tell in silence

AND BEWARE

Let FEELING be the language of "The INNER Universe"!
Freedom to ALL political prisoners without any conditions what so ever!

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Please throw a glance at the following discourse on the theme (cf. reposted from 7/10/10):

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http://samvak.tripod.com/torturepsychology.html

"There is one place in which one's privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed – one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. The torturer invades, defiles and desecrates this shrine. He does so publicly, deliberately, repeatedly and, often, sadistically and sexually, with undisguised pleasure. Hence the all-pervasive, long-lasting, and, frequently, irreversible effects and outcomes of torture.

In a way, the torture victim's own body is rendered his worse enemy. It is corporeal agony that compels the sufferer to mutate, his identity to fragment, his ideals and principles to crumble. The body becomes an accomplice of the tormentor, an uninterruptible channel of communication, a treasonous, poisoned territory.

It fosters a humiliating dependency of the abused on the perpetrator. Bodily needs denied – sleep, toilet, food, water – are wrongly perceived by the victim as the direct causes of his degradation and dehumanization. As he sees it, he is rendered bestial not by the sadistic bullies around him but by his own flesh.

The concept of "body" can easily be extended to "family", or "home". Torture is often applied to kin and kith, compatriots, or colleagues. This intends to disrupt the continuity of "surroundings, habits, appearance, relations with others", as the CIA put it in one of its manuals. A sense of cohesive self-identity depends crucially on the familiar and the continuous. By attacking both one's biological body and one's "social body", the victim's psyche is strained to the point of dissociation.

"The CIA, in its "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual – 1983" (reprinted in the April 1997 issue of Harper's Magazine), summed up the theory of coercion thus:

"The purpose of all coercive techniques is to induce psychological regression in the subject by bringing a superior outside force to bear on his will to resist. Regression is basically a loss of autonomy, a reversion to an earlier behavioral level. As the subject regresses, his learned personality traits fall away in reverse chronological order. He begins to lose the capacity to carry out the highest creative activities, to deal with complex situations, or to cope with stressful interpersonal relationships or repeated frustrations."

Inevitably, in the aftermath of torture, its victims feel helpless and powerless. This loss of control over one's life and body is manifested physically in impotence, attention deficits, and insomnia. This is often exacerbated by the disbelief many torture victims encounter, especially if they are unable to produce scars, or other "objective" proof of their ordeal. Language cannot communicate such an intensely private experience as pain."

To read more:

http://samvak.tripod.com/torturepsychology.html


1*) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MPAWI7lVsw&feature=player_embedded#!

This IS Real ...Not Played! (Part I)

This IS Real ...Not Played!

And this is more real and the Authentic; from the Archive:

ሁሉም ያልፍና ይህም እውን ይሆናል፤ እስኪያልፍ ግን ማልፋቱ አይቀርም።

የፖለtካ እስረኞች ሁሉ ያላንዳች ገደብ ነፃ ይሁኑ!

FREEDOM TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS without any conditions!

*AND always BEWARE !

Humiliating and Demolarization is a disgusting politcal tool -an expression of inhumanity employed in a social evolution, indicating the primitivity and inhumanity of the employer! A disaster for the social community, in all aspects, collective as well as individual!

The primitive political tool called "Humiliation" can only be counteracted with Love!

Love! and solidarity with the victim/s!

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Please throw a glance at the following discourse on the theme (cf. reposted from 7/10/10):

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http://samvak.tripod.com/torturepsychology.html

"There is one place in which one's privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed – one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. The torturer invades, defiles and desecrates this shrine. He does so publicly, deliberately, repeatedly and, often, sadistically and sexually, with undisguised pleasure. Hence the all-pervasive, long-lasting, and, frequently, irreversible effects and outcomes of torture.

In a way, the torture victim's own body is rendered his worse enemy. It is corporeal agony that compels the sufferer to mutate, his identity to fragment, his ideals and principles to crumble. The body becomes an accomplice of the tormentor, an uninterruptible channel of communication, a treasonous, poisoned territory.

It fosters a humiliating dependency of the abused on the perpetrator. Bodily needs denied – sleep, toilet, food, water – are wrongly perceived by the victim as the direct causes of his degradation and dehumanization. As he sees it, he is rendered bestial not by the sadistic bullies around him but by his own flesh.

The concept of "body" can easily be extended to "family", or "home". Torture is often applied to kin and kith, compatriots, or colleagues. This intends to disrupt the continuity of "surroundings, habits, appearance, relations with others", as the CIA put it in one of its manuals. A sense of cohesive self-identity depends crucially on the familiar and the continuous. By attacking both one's biological body and one's "social body", the victim's psyche is strained to the point of dissociation.

"The CIA, in its "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual – 1983" (reprinted in the April 1997 issue of Harper's Magazine), summed up the theory of coercion thus:

"The purpose of all coercive techniques is to induce psychological regression in the subject by bringing a superior outside force to bear on his will to resist. Regression is basically a loss of autonomy, a reversion to an earlier behavioral level. As the subject regresses, his learned personality traits fall away in reverse chronological order. He begins to lose the capacity to carry out the highest creative activities, to deal with complex situations, or to cope with stressful interpersonal relationships or repeated frustrations."

Inevitably, in the aftermath of torture, its victims feel helpless and powerless. This loss of control over one's life and body is manifested physically in impotence, attention deficits, and insomnia. This is often exacerbated by the disbelief many torture victims encounter, especially if they are unable to produce scars, or other "objective" proof of their ordeal. Language cannot communicate such an intensely private experience as pain."

To read more:

http://samvak.tripod.com/torturepsychology.html

Just for reference:
(1*http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/29709

Humiliating a Generation!

Humiliatng a generation. A crime against a generation!

Humiliating and Demolarization is a disgusting politcal tool -an expression of inhumanity employed in a social evolution, indicating the primitivity and inhumanity of the employer! A disaster for the social community, in all aspects, collective as well as individual!

The objective of the following play(1* is humiliation of the whole new generation and has nothing to do with the "Rule of Law". With the exception of the Victim or the victims - ie. the new generation, all the participants, including the "mediators" should be ashamed of their roles. One can take a positive outcome (here, the prison release) of a process as a reality and try to live with IT; if that is the case, even with its tragic aftermath. However, in order to go ahead, in the enlightenment-process, "the end, can never justify the means", which brought about the new reality.

The very fact of publicising such "processes" is the very testimony of the torture, underlying the outcome. It is, as a matter of fact: the perpetuation of the torture even in the aftermath ( cf. History is full of testimonies of the kind under Stalin and Hitler).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo8mIf2Xn1Q

(1*

The Whole Ethiopian State is sick and this is a mockery of a "Rule of Law".

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Please throw a glance at the following discourse on the theme:

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http://samvak.tripod.com/torturepsychology.html

"There is one place in which one's privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed – one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. The torturer invades, defiles and desecrates this shrine. He does so publicly, deliberately, repeatedly and, often, sadistically and sexually, with undisguised pleasure. Hence the all-pervasive, long-lasting, and, frequently, irreversible effects and outcomes of torture.

In a way, the torture victim's own body is rendered his worse enemy. It is corporeal agony that compels the sufferer to mutate, his identity to fragment, his ideals and principles to crumble. The body becomes an accomplice of the tormentor, an uninterruptible channel of communication, a treasonous, poisoned territory.

It fosters a humiliating dependency of the abused on the perpetrator. Bodily needs denied – sleep, toilet, food, water – are wrongly perceived by the victim as the direct causes of his degradation and dehumanization. As he sees it, he is rendered bestial not by the sadistic bullies around him but by his own flesh.

The concept of "body" can easily be extended to "family", or "home". Torture is often applied to kin and kith, compatriots, or colleagues. This intends to disrupt the continuity of "surroundings, habits, appearance, relations with others", as the CIA put it in one of its manuals. A sense of cohesive self-identity depends crucially on the familiar and the continuous. By attacking both one's biological body and one's "social body", the victim's psyche is strained to the point of dissociation.

"The CIA, in its "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual – 1983" (reprinted in the April 1997 issue of Harper's Magazine), summed up the theory of coercion thus:

"The purpose of all coercive techniques is to induce psychological regression in the subject by bringing a superior outside force to bear on his will to resist. Regression is basically a loss of autonomy, a reversion to an earlier behavioral level. As the subject regresses, his learned personality traits fall away in reverse chronological order. He begins to lose the capacity to carry out the highest creative activities, to deal with complex situations, or to cope with stressful interpersonal relationships or repeated frustrations."

Inevitably, in the aftermath of torture, its victims feel helpless and powerless. This loss of control over one's life and body is manifested physically in impotence, attention deficits, and insomnia. This is often exacerbated by the disbelief many torture victims encounter, especially if they are unable to produce scars, or other "objective" proof of their ordeal. Language cannot communicate such an intensely private experience as pain."

To read more:

http://samvak.tripod.com/torturepsychology.html

Just for reference:
(1*http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/29709

FREEDOM TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!

Demolarization is a disgusting politcal tool -an expression of inhumanity employed in a social evolution, indicating the inhumanity of the employer, which may ensue a disaser in a vicious circle! (7/10/2010).
FREEDOM TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN ETHIOPIA!

Correlation of the Micro-Particle with the Socio-Natural Reality

“Make it simple but not less simple” (Einstein)

Correlation of the Micro-Particle with the Socio-Natural Reality (Part II)

The four interactional forces at the micro-particle, which correlate with the four planes of the socio-natural reality at the macro-level of social dynamics, may indicate complex intrinsic relations with one another (as if the micro-particle is the last instance of bifurcations in nature and its structures). Given this fact, with social harmony as the all encompassing attractor of meaning for a social-complex at large, the macro-coordinates of social-dynamics, can be interpreted along the three modes of syntheses, mostly employed by philosophers (Deleuze, Whitehead, & Kant, all under their own parlance but suggesting close similarities) and an additional one, which follows out of the logic of the “harmony model”:

Connective Synthesis

Disjunctive Synthesis

Conjunctive Synthesis

and

Reflective Synthesis (cf. Harmony model)

Sources Dimensions state & laws community & Ethics Family & love human & hope mankind & conscience nature & religion universe & faith absolute/God & deliverance Axes humanity(h) mass(m) Intelligence quality of music(q) speed of light(c) Energy (E) Planes social material cultural spiritual Cross-sections across Planes material - social spiritual - cultural

Syntheses connective/k between state & laws community & Ethics Family & love human & hope mankind & conscience nature & religion universe & faith absolute/God & deliverance disjunctive/h,..around humanity(h) mass(m) Intelligence(I) quality of music(q) speed of light(c/l)Energy (E) conjunctive/p within social material cultural spiritual planes reflective/r between Planes of different spheres material (absolute sphere) & social (human sphere) spiritual (absolute sphere) & cultural (human sphere)

Productions of Structures - emergence of state structures: community institutions, Organisations etc. with diverse modes of productions (social), aesthetics (cultural), perceptions (material) and enlightenment (spiritual) Recording processes around relevant strange attractors of meanings(SAMs) Consumption- -Production cycles “the eternal return” Values material & spiritual values are defined and innovations take place, processes regenerate

All four types of Syntheses are interacting processes which take place simultaneously as complex as they can be.

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Agency legends and short elaborations

A social collective is populated by different multiplicities of actors,

with different preferences of interests and attractors of meanings.

The actors are here designated collectively as agency

- The Human agency

This agency is divided into three big sections with the “participation”(Plato)

of the two singularities, the Human and the Absolute :

A. Elite

B. Mass

C. Youth

D. Human

E. God

A. The Elite is that multiplicity of singularities in a given social complex, who are priviledged materially, socially, or spiritually , due to different circumstances -history, culture, tradition/hereditary, education or social power emanating out of different backgrounds like military, religion or family.

B. The Mass is taken as the assemblage of all the underprivileged strata incorporating more than two third of the whole but enjoying less than a third of all the benefits a social complex in a populated region (state, nation, or more etc.) can afford, whereby the 1st third goes to the elite, the 2nd third in the best case to the youth in the worst case to the elite.

C. The Youth is taken to be a multiplicity of citizens under 40 covering and permeating the other assemblages (the elite and mass) but with ist own specific preferences of attractors of meanings and social benefits (including ex. Education, investment etc. for the future)

D. Human is the abstractions of the autonomous, sovereign and

independent Individual; the future or rather “the crystal image”.

E. God is the abstraction of symmetry control parameters from “initial conditions of existence” still at work in the reality. “Something” like the Absolute, the immanence, that beyond dimension or the “BwO”, the embodiment of the “consecrated past” in the Virtual embedded in Life.

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"A BwO is made in such a way that it can be occupied, populated only by

intensities. Only intensities pass and circulate. Still, the BwO is not a scene, a place, or even a support upon which something comes to pass... It is not space, nor is it in space; it is matter that occupies space to a given degree -to the degree corresponding to the intensities produced. It is nonstratified,

unformed, intense matter, the matrix of intensity, intensity=0 ... Production of the real as an intensive magnitude starting at zero." *

My BwO:

expressed by

Intelligence, I = hq²

&

Energy, E = mc²

“emerging” to the function of Harmony….

Dynamic Harmony always embedded in time...and space.

S ource <<== >>> Funktion (I, E)<<====>>Funktion (E, I) <<==>>> D estiny

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*Cited in …http://t0.or.at/delanda/geology.htm

{ Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. op. cit. p.153}

Part III comes next....

The Complete paper can be downloaded at :

http://berhane-hilina.blogspot.com/

The SYNTHESIS