MD4 Assgn
Welling T
T.
"TR" Robert "Shawn" Welling
August 2, 2019
Dr. JESSICA
HOLMES
Examination of a Study
Conspiracy Mentality in Post-Conflict Societies: Relations with
the Ethos by Boban Petrović; Janko Međedović; Olivera
Radović; Sanja Radetić Lovrić. By the third paragraphs into this
article, the information presented made it entirely obvious this study is based
on the “publish or perish” application of academics. Most of this review is
based on enumerable mistakes and how to fix said in future papers. It was not
designed to do anything other than add to the resume of the author. This study
is a good example of academic egotism and arrogance. This study had a great
premise and really solid ideas to begin with. Trying
to solve why genocide occurs is one of the greatest and most profound subjects
to study. However, this study stopped being good immediately after those first
descriptive concepts formed. Instead of using real history, and real
functioning cultural data, this study instead focused on some of the most
irrelevant behavior pattern motivations possible. In this review the following
topics will be discussed and the mistakes this article makes will be well
defined.
The Study
This study was to find out why the people of the former Yugoslavia
have been in active and genocidal conflict for decades. Of the more than 50
cultures in the area of the Vinca River, which is one of the oldest areas of
civilization on the planet (8000 years old), the area has name changed
enumerable times. Almost nothing of the ancient past of the area was addressed.
The methods and design of the study was some of the best motivations in all of
academics and scholastic. But this study ignored 99% of the relevant data to
focus on mostly irrelevant data from 1990 to present. The ethics of this study
started out perfect, but soon turned into nothing more than an exercise in
arrogance and egotism on the part of the researchers (Robinson,,
Bair, Liu, Scott, & Penzel, 2017). The cultures
are infinitely more complex than the study presents. The study almost ignores
the cultures it is studying entirely. This study to improve for future needs to
be redesigned from just after how to prevent genocide forward. This study
presents almost nothing regarding any adherence to the scientific method, the
conclusions have zero basis in realty.
Describe
the study
The study is based on the concept of trying to solve the
multilayered conflict which exists in the former Yugoslavia (Abram, M. (2018). Since
the war in the 1990s it has had enumerable name changes and shifts in
governments. Not to mention more than a few genocidal actions and activities.
The participants claim they are performing the actions for x, y, z, etc. reasons.
But as the article clearly shows, there is nothing but out of context facts,
evidence, and an almost impossible to understand the ethos of collectivism
working to further the conflict.
Of course, the conflict is well beyond any simple study to try and
unravel. This specific study is all but entirely lost when it comes to both the
applications of the mathematics and the quantitative equations used were
missing the point of the regional conflict almost completely.
A novice in history can notice where the “mistakes” in the
scientific method assumptions are made (Duruk, Akgün, Tokur, 2019). The reader
simply needs to examine the sentence structures to determine where the authors
are reaching to find answers to how to solve the equation without any real
foundation to workable solutions.
A hard and significant examination of the history of the area,
reveals just how huge and inappropriate the gaps in the quantitative equations
are. The article emphasizes from the 1990s to present issues, when in all hard
fact reality, the conflicts in the area go all the way back to the Vinca
culture 6000 bce or 8000 years ago (Boric, Hanks, Sljivar,
Kocic, Bulatovic, Griffiths,
… Jaganovic, 2018).
More armies have marched through the area on their way to Europe than can be
easily counted, this article does not address any of those issues. In a way it
bypasses all that evidence in favor of the all to
real modern scholastic concepts of insanely complex issues cannot be boiled
down to one simple answer enough. For some academics and scholars, everything
needs to be reduced down to the simplest concept
possible, so that that simple concept can be tackled and solved. Real life does
not work that way.
Problem
Addressed
The study itself was focused and centered upon trying to find ways
in which it might be possible to find the ethos of the current conflict and its
aftermath from previous conflicts (some of which stretch back in time by in
some cases to the Vinca Culture itself circa 6000 bce.). The study finds the
most difficultly in trying to identify why the cultures would rather fight and
fight and fight rather than come to an understanding and try to collectively
work for peace. The sheer level of misunderstanding and research bias on dozens
of levels leads to a great start but most of the efforts are a pure hard-core
waste of time.
A slight academic argument can be made that this among dozens if not
hundreds of other studies in a similar line of thinking not only did not
deescalate the conflicts, but it could have just as easily refocused the participants
deeper into their rage and need to erase the fact their enemies existed at all.
Part 2: Methods and Design
The researchers worked very hard to find out who the participants
in the current conflicts are. To isolate and focus the study into who and what
the active participants in the present are, and work from their spoken and
physical behavior patterns. Trying to create statistical behavior patterns, to
reflect what the violence spur is, why it exists, and how to stop it. The
problem is, of the several hundred surveys sent out, more than 60% of the
respondents were late 30s college educated females. The study on several
aspects has almost no basis in reality. Trying to
force incredibly complex answers from a totally inappropriate sample size of
about 600, inappropriate sample participants (307 Serbian 271 Kosovars), mostly
late 30s college attending females, and was performed for college credit.
Overall
Design of the Study
The overall design of the study was to find out what the specific
issues were from 1990 to present, why the radically dominant cultures in the
area have no interest in anything other than finding their enemies and killing
them. Killing every last one of them. It appears that
every few weeks to months there is another sequence of violence, where the
super radical members of the dominant culture have no ability to function
unless they are trying to genocide their enemy. This study was an attempt to find
out ways to curtail said violence, by finding out what the ethos is.
Type
of Methodology used
This study used the quantitative method. Mostly females average
age 39 with college backgrounds (Kamberi, Hoxha, Shala,
Shahini, & Vehapi, 2019).
The study could not have missed the point of the ethos of the conflicts more. In
a culture where females have almost no value for the super dominant and
aggressive misogynist this is close to the perfectly wrong group to ask (Milchman, 2017). Their opinions are of course valuable, but
the input of a group of people who have been relegated to less than second
class citizens for 1000s of years is a great way to find out other details. But
not the ethos of why the cultures they belong to and or surround them hate them
so much. Those answers can only be found in the very ancient past. 1000s of
years before the Trojan War, these conflicts began (Dayton, 2018). There is
where the answers this study was supposed to focus on can be found.
Ethical
Considerations
This study attempted to identify why a couple of the cultures were
all but entirely focused and ethos goal directed towards genociding
their enemy cultures (Ronayne, 2004). Some were even
interested in genociding subgroups within their own culture. However, focusing
on about 600 mostly older college attending females from mostly two cultures is
an entirely inappropriate framework. Bloodthirsty is a solid way to describe a
lot of the actions and activities that occurred in this area for the last
several 1000 years. The ethics of this study were centered on trying to find out
why the alpha cultures were, in essence, on a soul
level entirely devoted to seeking out their enemies and erasing them from
existnace. This is a huge ethical dilemma the study was focused on but failed
in all ways to come even close to finding out why.
Part 3: Culture within
Research
In reality there are
about 50 to 100 different cultures in the area, some individuals belong to more
than one culture at a time. This makes things very confusing. The situation
through chaos breeds more confusion that by default leads to more violence and
tests of loyalty. It is odd that as part of the pack, leaders demand “tests” of
loyalty from younger members. Those tests of loyalty almost by default require
acts of violence and or murders, not unlike the Mafia and or the gangs in America
(Pezzi, 2019). But instead of being “tests of
loyalty” they are called other things. Initiations, earning your bones, being
blooded, etc. they all boil down to the same thing. Finding other humans and
killing them. It is actually very interesting just how much genocide begins similar to the actions of a serial killer. It appears one of
the things this study found a link between, purely by accident is that
mathematically shown through the statistics done is individuals who want, need,
and desire to kill in whatever type of form they have an additional excitement
to their crimes when they can watch/observe someone else perform said action.
They can enjoy, but not actually get their own hands dirty.
Incorporate
the Nature of Culture
They not only did not, but those specific questions were either
ignored flat out, or worse the concept of academics/scholastic arrogance and
ego takes over and logical, reasonable, etc. answers are placed which
absolutely ignore the core of how the scientific method works (Robinson, et.al 2017).
A strong leader can convince a group that x is true, despite all evidence to
the contrary. Example geocentric universe theory, another example of mass scientific
psychosis the belief that the Pyramids are graves for the great Kings of Egypt,
etc. (Kuraszkiewicz ,2016). These have absolutely no
scientific evidence to back them up, but you can still find scientists who
believe said concepts. Exactly the same applies to
this study, assumptions from a strong belief standpoint are used instead of real
hard physical data.
How to
Better Incorporate Cultures
The largest problem with this and most studies like this, no
matter how good the equations are both the quantitative and qualitative
equations fail to consider the actual functions and structures of how each
culture operates (Mor, & Dardeck,
2018). They simply fail to have a large enough structural framework to convert
the working parts into a solid enough equation format.
Improve
on their Research
Throw out every single aspect of the studies base idea and start
from a completely different historiography and group think model concepts. Start
from zero. Start from the ideas and concepts that these conflicts began 2000
years before the first semi-translatable language was invented on a different
continent more than 2000 miles away. Sumerian and Hieroglyphics were invented
circa 3500 bce (a huge amount of circa is involved and the earliest proto
versions of those languages are only to an extremely small degree like 5% are
translatable (Crisostomo, 2015). Example there is a huge amount of evidence
that points to the idea that the translation of “The Scorpion King” is not
actually a “Scorpion” but reference to an ancient historical figure from Egypt
(Lawrenson, 2002). However, that information is not all that acceptable to modern
genocidal level anti-Semitic academics and scholastics (Häkkinen,
2018). This is one of the core issues for this article, why do the group A
cultures want so desperately to genocide group B cultures. The Jewish, Muslim,
other, and indifference groups of cultures in the area are pure subconsciously
fighting out theocracy ideas that predate translatable written languages),
these conflicts began well before 3500 bce, and will continue far into the
future. After 6000 years of nonstop conflicts with only a small group of people
having any idea what the origins of the hatreds are, it is at this point almost
an evolutionary concept to seek out “the enemy” and erase them from existence (Abrams,
2001). Logic, reason, and language have nothing to do with it after pushing
close to 10,000 years of the same ethos goal direction.
Add to that whole package of genocide are the facts that the area
of south eastern European north western Ǽgean are regionally suffering from
a rather insane level of cultural inferiority complex. The area is not Greece,
and it is not “really” Europe, so the violently patriarchal cultures who are
not egotism and arrogance than the next several world leader cultures combined
are living in an area considered by both Greece and Europe to be a back water
nothing (Pettigrew, 2019). That does not help the situation at all.
Similarly, just because the battle of Actium took place 100s of
miles south, does not mean the cultural issues of that battle circa 31 bce were
the same then as now (Crawford, 2014). What could the battle of Actium with the
participants of Cleopatra and Antony battling against Octavian and his Roman
friends have anything at all to do with why this article and study have no real
basis in reality. Same reasons, Cleopatra and Antony were not only not lovers,
he would not have been allowed within 3 feet of her the entre time they knew
each other. She was Pharaoh and Empress of Rome, no matter how hard the Roman propaganda
machine churned out fictions, the facts are still the facts (Sharma, 2019). Her
twins were absolutely not in any way, shape, or form
from Antony. That fiction believed full on for the last 2000 plus years has
less factual evidence to back it up than trying to study the Bosnia etic
cultures from 1990 forward. The two conflicts are mostly propaganda machine inspired,
where the people churning out the propaganda have no idea they are lying. The
people who knew they were lying are the Roman Senators who shortly after
convinced themselves that not only are the stories
they told in the propaganda rags true, but why would it have been any other
way. Same in Bosnia same in Actium (Crawford, 2014). Caesar ordered Antony to
protect and service his queen. That is what Antony did, until that battle when
it was Antony’s job to ram his ships into the collected Roman fleet, allowing Cleopatra
to escape the battle, sailed due west to Italy (Bowen. 2016). Pick up supplies
and the like and head out of the Mediterranean for Northumberland (Western, 2019).
Although these aspects of Cleopatra and Octavian’s lives are facts, you will
not find many documents printed in the last 2040 years to suggest anything of
this sort has any basis in reality. Same goes for the
Bosnia conflict, the facts are so deeply hidden, the facts hidden have cascaded
into a mythology which most of the world believes.
Psychological terms, what happens when facts become hidden and
cognitive dissonance fictions become facts (Tsang, 2019). This causes very solid
mental health issues, and a furtherance of very real-world violent behavior
patterns which have no real reason for the violence. Find the lies told to
those cultures, millennia back. Those lies turned to truth will after several
mental health grieving processes and other fighting against the facts mental
protection processes are done, that will lead to real solid health. Then when
those lies are identified and the truths are out, that is when the real reasons
for the violence ethos can begin solving the genocidal problems (Ronayne, 2004).
Suggestions
for Improvements
Reframe refocus the entire discussion. Start from the most
aggressive cultures, who are no matter how cliché are Muslims. The Muslims in
the area who are descendants from both the Mongol blue horde and the more
aggressive aspects of the Ottoman empire (Namatov, &
Namatov, 2019). Those cultures started out with a
mighty chip on their shoulder, that mighty chip came into being courtesy of the
war between Esau and Jacob (Weiss, 2017). Jacob was chosen to be the head of
the Semitic cultures and his 12th son the head of the Jews. Esau his
brother could not deal with this and went on a genocidal seek and destroy of any
and all things connected to anything which does not place Esau as the leader of
the human species. Subjects and structures which have been on the extreme side
of long ago forgotten. But those long-forgotten functions and structures are
the foundation for the cognitive dissonance which after said information was
long ago forgotten is the core of the ethos of rage and need to kill any and
all who question the authority of the descendants of the Esau/Hyksos (Geobey, 2017).
Until that issue is addressed the human species will continue to suffer from
said suppressed truths violent behavior pattern outbursts, which for the most
part no one involved has even the smallest amount of idea said is the real
reason for most of the conflicts for the last 2000 plus years. That is where to
start any large-scale study.
With only a handful of cultures in existence circa 8000 bce, the Göbekli
Tepe culture after 1000s of years suddenly taking their main temple structures
and burying them (Henley, n.d.). Burying them so well they would not be found until
the latter part of second millennia after the instillation of the Julian
Calendar (Belenkiy, & Echague, n.d.). That culture suddenly buries its
temples and moves entirely out of the arear. At virtually the exact same time
the original Vinca culture with similar language and of course megalithic
building skills and technology appears in this same exact area (Vitezović,
& Antonović, 2018). Which happened to correspond with when the glacier
which had been sitting on this area melted/retreated. The inhabitants of the
Vinca Valley moved in the second the area was free of lethal types of ice. What
is the base of this study, to stop genocide, which they failed entirely. For direct evidence of why, look to the lessons of
history when the first civilization was in the area. Apparently
the authors themselves were not aware of their own cultural bias and other inappropriate
ethical issues.
Conclusion
As the above evidnece has clearly shown, this study and its
associated conclusions have no basis in reality. Those
associated need to start their next study with a hard-physical grounding in the
facts that the area has been occupied and a caravan’s crossing for different
cultures for 8000 years. The number of wars fought in this area are too
numerous to count. This study considers almost not a single aspect of all those
facts. All those facts are why the genocide in the area is so prevalent. The ethos
the culture are operating from is almost 10,000 years
old. Almost nothing in this study addressed those facts. This study reviewed a
multitude of different areas and aspects, not a single variable identified had
any ability to provide a solid statistical picture as to why the behavior
patterns are what they are. From the subjects of the study, to the approach,
methods and design, proper identification of the cultures involved, etc. not a
single part aspect of the above was addressed even close to correctly. The City
of Tartaria although in neighboring Romania has been a large thriving city
since shortly after Göbekli Tepe was intentionally abandoned. Not a single
aspect of any of these factors are present, despite the fact these are the core
of why the genocide started. Recommendations for future studies, learn
historiography first before addressing how to solve a species wide problem.
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