Week 8 dq 2 response

Happiness definitions vary sometimes huge amounts. It is interesting how the root of some cultures organizational structure is to seek out the “bad elements” around them and to remove said elements. The removal process to them is happiness.

I was thinking about the theological concept of the deity, having an argument with his executive officer, the executive officer taking a permanent stand against the what is in effect the captain, the captain and xo fight and fight and fight. The argument goes from works, to loud works, to louder inappropriate words, to slightly physics, to more and more physical, up to and including insubordination.

At that point the xo is defined as a “bad thing” and is removed from the vessel. The xo becomes captain of their own vessel which is in some ways direct opposition with the main vessel. This dynamic reminds of me both of the story in the torah about god versus his shining star, as well as the basic plot of the movie “Crimson Tide”. Where he plays the XO on a nuclear submarine, against Captain Gene Hackman. Hackman takes on the role of deity, while Washington takes on the role of in this case the “the morning star”. Happiness for the captain in the movie was following orders and the chain of command. Happiness for the XO was both what made the Captain happy orders (military discipline) and the chain of command, but also to think and contemplating the facts and evidence that starting a nuclear war or even sending out a single 50 megaton nuclear war head was not only bad, but it is absolutely the wrong thing to do.

For some real people they have a hard-wired need to follow this story line in there real lives. The story of the deity finding a problem, finding the true heart of the “dark one” in their midst and moving moves to remove said from their happiness place and or their sense of joy “utopia”. They blame the “dark one” around them for spoiling utopia and the only solution according to their theology is to find the “inappropriate” thing and remove it. This is what the The Seven Years War was all about, the Prussians who were responsible for the overwhelming majority of the fighting, with a little bit of assistance from the English fought hard and strong against the British. The English and Prussians were entirely convinced that they were good and that the British were bad. The British were removing the English and Prussian cultures ability to build their “utopian” perfect world in the new world. They decided that they were not going to stand for the British to ruin their utopia and went about to remove the British and French from being present in the new world. However the English and of course the Prussians definition of utopia is the absolute definition of hell on earth for their slaves and anyone else the English and Prussian’s decided were inferior. Deciding who is inferior “or a bad thing” and or “a dark one”, is the English and Prussian happy place, they find great joy in determining who is dark so they can spent all of their time removing said “darkness” from their utopian ideals.

Who cares about 1754, same events played out 1662 changing New Amsterdam back to New York although the 1630 name for New Amsterdam was not New York it was more likely either New Castle, Jerusalem, or Castle Ogle. 1630, 1754, 1776, 2019 the exact same behavior patterns from the English and Prussian cultural descendants are alive and well being played out again and again in the present. Finding “dark ones” and hammering away till they go away, is the happy place of the English and Prussian cultures. it is the definition of hell for the cultures and people involved who have been labeled as dark, bad, in disagreement with those “in charge” eg the XO of the movie.