Primordial, Arborial "Evildoer:" Sassafras. Concisionism and Labeling. Code

How Do Good Things

And People Seeking a Common Good

Become "Evildoers"

The Role of Labeling - Concisionism

Code: License to Others to Kill, Politically; 

and some may hear, Physically - Annie Get Your Gun

I.  Labeling as "Evildoer".  How it evolved- Concisionism

II.  Concisionism - "Evildoer" at work

I. Labeling as Evildoer

The Role of Concisionism

 

The etymology and usage of Evildoer.  Plants and folks.  Current politics lead us to think that any who seek a common good, a floor to survival, basic living needs for all here, are evildoers against a system that requires profits and profits only.  How did that come to be.  People who want to share, as evildoers?  Is that so?  Use a label to leap over seas with a military, because someone calls them "evildoers" and yet they had no connection to evildoing here? A religious concept.  The old unbeliever persecution surfacing as another crusade mentality, is that so?

1.  The Plants.

The innocent sassafras tree.  Long useful.  Ancient roots. We apply a test that does not measure how it is really used, inject huge amounts of its oil under the skin of rodents that are naturally averse to it, find tumors or something, and ban the whole thing.  Gonzo our best root beer. Gonzo our hospitality beverage, making people feel warm and fuzzy - Native Americans offered it to guests. Nice time by the fire.

Simplistic to condemn it all, a conviction of sorts,  facile label, repeat it, and watch the folks believe. Is that so?

Beware of concision. Abbreviating.  Simplifying. Making a big basket to see how much you can throw in. How early does the idea of "concision" - making things concise, and the problems that arise from that - appear in our thought system? What is it. See ://dictionary.reference.com/browse/concision/

Similarly, label foods around for thousands and millions of years, such as sassafras, as carcinogenic, based on flawed testing, and you get commercially killing "concisionism." It reduces the food and healing and hospitality benefits (also birth control and VD treatment and mild hallucinogen) to one single measure, itself flawed. It gets in the way of ordinary, even healthful applications.

Concision can be deadly, standing in the way of benign uses. Beware the concision. Is that so?

2.  People. People apply labels.  Evildoer.  Code. 

Not so innocent.  People can choose concision as a weapon, the cutting off of detail, the mutilation, the abbreviating, the sound bite - the cultural restriction on explanation.  Like the sassafras, find an element that is harmful if used to excess - injected under the skin (do you do that with root beer or tea?) - and ban it.

There are websites on Biblical evildoer quotations: ://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/evildoer/. Watch our political leaders use the concept of "evildoer".  It is not original. Unhelpful, destructive, but not original. More on Evildoers at ://net.bible.org/search.php?search=evildoer.

The use of "evildoer" as code is deadly concisionism.

3.  Labeling as concisionism.   Concision as a shorthand, means of communication, rallying cry.  

The need for sound bites to work in between commercials is part of the problem in analysis.  Merit - no time for it.  We lose because we settle for sound bites. For example, talk shows must have guests who can limit their utterances:  can speak between the time needed for two commercials. There is simply no time for full thought, exploration, probing, nothing requiring further explanation beyond that commercial point.

Or if there is, carefully prepare everyone watching to have to stay there or come back after the commercial, and still lose them.

3.1.  Code words as short cuts.  Make what you say deniable.

Take a president who throws around the idea of "evildoer" (take him, please?) as to those he sees as enemies, or whom he does not understand, without explanation as to specific behavior.  The code elicits a moral undercurrent that is actionable code for some, giving them a license to act against others who do not agree. And there is no opportunity for challenge.  Is the code as originally intended by Bernard of Clairvaux,  see ://faculty.smu.edu/bwheeler/chivalry/bernard.html/  that when you apply the label, there is license to kill evildoers?  At that time, those in Palestine?  Use it here.

Concision. Boiling things down. Making concise. Too concise.

3.2 Death by platitude.

Does it leave only room for platitude, for the guest who speaks the usual. See and near this video on the topic, about Noam Chomsky who did not fit the time frame requirements - at ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cceC3DeFcY/

'Beware the concision." Is that like beware the Jabberwock, my son.

3.3  Look deeply at roots.  

Even if you are not religious, the religious are all around you, and you need to know their roots as well as your own.

Here is an unexpected Biblical reference for a secular site for beware the concision - Philippians 3:2 in its interlinear transliteration form, at ://dictionary.reference.com/browse/concision/.

Beware the dogs, beware the "maimcision," beware the evil doers. Go back to roots. Always.

"Be-ye-looking the dogs be-ye-looking the evil acters (sic) be ye looking the downcutting"

Scripture4all at ://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/NTpdf/phi3.pdf[another transliteration, "maimcision" on the line below]

The literal word is "maimcision" - translated as concision in the traditional side menu biblical translation. "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of concision."  See side translation at the Scripture4all site. We prefer "maimcision" - it carries with it the effect of the making terse, the distortion, the maiming, the crippling involved. Our words mean something. Think about them.

II.  CONCISIONISM, "EVILDOER",  AT WORK


How Does a Country Get Pulled Down Into Abbreviations, Labeling, Instead of Thought

Is this an Evildoer. What's The B'ar.


A. This is a bear in our backyard. It is different, but is it an evildoer?

1. Should we beware? Why.

1.1  Is it intentionally acting against us.

Why beware? It has four legs, and is not literate. It does what, to it, comes naturally. The moral label of "evildoer" attached to the bear here does us no good. That means putting ourselves as the measure of its right and wrong. No. No"evil" here.

1.2  Is it unduly impacting on our lives; can we co-exist

So long as the bear-sphere does not unduly impact on mine, let it live out its life. Is that feasible? How else can we all live on the planet? It has its path.  Instead of a ban, try some time, place and manner restrictions.  Hoist it out to the mountain again. Tag and follow.

2.  Can we make room.  Perhaps. Wait and see.  No act against others not required for our own reasonable survival. I can to out in the yard a little later.

B.  How did we get to apply "evildoer" in a vacuum, to others not impacting on us.

1. What about personal moral codes, that others would not even know about.

Why put any overlay on others, where they do not directly impact on us. Mother Theresa is still with us, with her idea of just doing good, yourself, and not focusing on others and their choices. See Mother Theresa on doing good, at ://iranscope.ghandchi.com/Fun/dogood.htm/  If there are religious texts all sides, is her message to watch your own life. Just do good yourself. Period.

Phillipians 3:2. Watch out. The concisionators are out. Beware the concision. The maimcision. Let noone abbreviate the concept. Look for the whole.

2.  The role of concision, making things too concise so that a conclusion is drawn because of a label, not because of analytical merit, and our world:

• Concisionism and habeas corpus, at ://www.lectlaw.com/def/h001.htm/. Label someone an evildoer, and somehow we can take away the humanity of that person. Is it harder to get habeas corpus to work when we have labeled someone not just a felon, but a terrorist?
  

• Tortures. We can torture because it is effective. The concise justification. But is it so, and does the means justify the ends?
  

We are obsessed with horror and torture and pain as entertainment. Is that what gave rise to this horror show. See the site titled Land Over Baptist (is this group serious? go to http://www.landoverbaptist.org/) and find a weblist of punishments - take your pick - at ://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0601/answers.html/. This site says it is a parody - see ://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1483502/. Thank the deities, but there are some, we are reasonably confident, who would go there and get solace. Note that landoverbaptists declare their site unsuitable for those under 18. Suffer the children? What kid under 18 will not click away anyway? Some parodies do harm just by focusing on wormy topics. Is that so?

3.  A religious group says it is morally right. A part of our national mental-scape.

• Check the research sources. Is is appropriate to reject authority's use of labels, when they intend for you to act against others rather than monitor your own life? When you do not trust someone's concisionism in a summary, go to a source. 

 Even if you are not religious, you lose if you do not see the mindset.  Try this for an annotated Bible, with an odd name that does not help its site - but read anyway ://skepticsannotatedbible.com/ps/52.html/ Good for comparing meanings. I Peter 4:15. Keep your own conduct honorable. Also I Peter 2:12.

• Vengeance -  A license to politically or physically kill others?  Iraq here we come.  With no grounds except profit to those who take over, or provide the materiel and private military-substitutes?

Whose is it, and saith whom? A concise statement about whose it is, and saith whom. Then why the preoccupation of the rest of us with doing vengeance? Find vengeance at Bible Texts, ://www.bibletexts.com/qa/qa057.htm/ Shall we say instead that if God is in the vengeance business, that may be fine, but not fine for us. Romans 12:19-21.

• What should we expect to change?

Nothing in the short run, probably. But do good anyway. Is that the only conclusion.  Perhaps. That also is concisionism that works.

Nobody changes. Rev 22:11 - Try this for reality, all ye religious and non-religious.  Whatever you do, you won't change anyone's mind.  If we did not have such a strong religious mindset in our country among so many conservatives and evangelicals and others, we would not be quoting the Bible so often.  But it is their Bible as well.  And we have become the evildoers in their minds, is that so?  Each uses this to advantage:

"The evildoer must continue to do evil, and the one who is morally filthy must continue to be filthy. The one who is righteous must continue to act righteously, and the one who is holy must continue to be holy.”