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DEFUNCTIONS proposed
- Steph Turner
- May 4, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: May 8, 2024
List of defunctions
As a new social science, anankelogy introduces you to a new approach to understand and to address problems facing you.
It's about your ability to function. Problems lower your ability to function. Solutions raise your ability to function. Anankelogy identifies a growing list of items that decrease and increase your ability to function.
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adversarialism (n.)
Opposing others largely for the sake of opposition. [Gordon Fellman]
anti-wellness; anti-wellbeing (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The defunction of limiting or going against pursuing or reaching full wellness, by impeding prompt resolution of needs even in the midst of accompany pain. Almost always results in some form of pathology and lingering pain. See wellness offender.
avoidance culture (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The set of written and unwritten norms that privileges or compels evasion of needs to the point of perpetuating a status quo of keeping such needs underserved and unresolved. This functions in proximity with oppo culture as components of the power delusion.
avoidant adversarialism (n.) - DEFUNCTION
Opposition to others to evade discomfort of engaging others, or to face the details involved in a conflict. Exists as a type of normative alienation. Answered by refunction of engaging mutuality.
avoidant legalism (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The the widespread defunction that assumes as long as the law or law enforcement regimes do not infringe upon one’s own needs then the status quo legal system gets categorized as good.
citationization (n.) - REFUNCTION
The association of any stated norms with the needs they are expected to serve. A less formal (i.e., accessible anankelogical) term for this is law-fit.
civic legalism (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The less formal name for the defunction of nomoscentricity, which prioritizes obedience to laws or to social norms over serving the needs for which they exist. Answered by the refunction of law-fit (among other refunctions).
coerced poor options dependences (n.) [Or CoPOD] - DEFUNCTION
Acclimating to less-than-optimal resources (i.e., alternate or substitute resource) to address needs to the point of rarely if ever considering the accessibility of optimal resources (primary resources). This plays a significant role in symfunction capture as a common gateway into dysfunction, to pain and persisting problems.
conflict porn (n.) - DEFUNCTION
A defunction of contending with others less with the aim to solve problems or resolve needs and more with the intent to indulge in the pleasure of winning over others and being viewed as right or to push others away in reasoned sounding ways. Features in oppo culture. See indulgent side-taking.
critical version (n.) - REFUNCTION
Original theory or philosophy of something widely accepted, developed with academic discipline that is generally more descriptive than normative, and remains open to academic peer review and constructive correction. Opposite of popgen version.
cyclic correlation (n.)
Empirical association between identifiable variables that indicates one set of changes affecting other sets of changes, which in turn affects the originally identified set of associated variables. When A changes along with B, we observe B changing with C, which we can observe changing with other pairs of associated variables, coming back around to observe a change in A. This points to what anankelogy appreciates as a reflexive correlation, in contrast to the simpler linear associations widely identified in the social sciences outside of nature-based paradigm.
For example, consider this 4-part cycle of discomfort avoidance.
The more you hate pain, the more you try to avoid pain.
The more you avoid pain, the less your pain-reported needs can resolve.
The more your needs remain unresolved, the more pain you suffer.
The more pain you passively suffer, the more you hate this pain.
Now consider this 4-part cycle of discomfort embrace.
The more you respect your pain to report your unresolved needs, the easier to endure such natural discomforts.
The more you endure the natural discomfort of your unresolved needs, the more attentive you can be to more fully resolve your needs.
The more you fully resolve your needs, the more you remove cause for your pain.
The more you remove pain by resolving needs, the more you can respect and embrace pain to report your unresolved needs.
The nature-based paradigm of academic anankelogy anticipates these cyclic associations.
defunction (n.)
Anything that diminishes one's ability to function fully, compromising their wellness. Opposite to a refunction.
deprioritization blind spot (n.) - DEFUNCTION
A defunction that diminishes awareness of needs by drawing one's focus on a different set of pressing needs, especially where a contrary priority of needs suggests one's own needs may remain painfully unresolved. Once your needs seem most urgent, motivated reasoning can compel you to afford little to no attention to the urgent needs of others. You remain cognitively blind to whatever your set of needs deprioritizes. You focus on what you need to focus. And relate poorly to those matters you don't feel as urgent to your needs. As Upton Sinclair put it, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” This social invisibility of needs feeds into avoidance culture.
discomfort avoidance (n.) - DEFUNCTION
A defunction that evades resolving needs to remove cause for pain by prioritizing evasion of the body's natural yet unpleasant warnings of a threat to be removed. The more you habitually avoid your own pain, the more pain you tend to get to keep trying to avoid. This significantly lowers your ability to function. Opposite to discomfort embrace.
Such discomfort avoidance occurs cyclically in four phases.
Hate pain. The more you hate pain, the more you avoid painful reality.
Avoid pain. The more you avoid painful reality, the less you resolve painful needs.
Unmet needs. The less you resolve painful needs, the more pain you must endure.
Suffer pain. The more pain you must endure, the more you likely hate the pain.
Reacting to your pain tends to leave you in more pain. Pain is perhaps nature’s least appreciated gift. See easement orientation.
discomfort embrace (n.) - REFUNCTION
A refunction to intentionally face the pain of unresolved need in anticipation to better appreciate the need to be addressed, with the intent to more fully resolve the need that would then remove cause for such pain. Opposite to discomfort avoidance.
This discomfort embrace occurs cyclically in four phases.
Respect pain. The more you appreciate pain to report threats, the more you can endure the sharp pain of reported threats.
Endure pain. The more you can endure the sharp pain of reported threats, the more you can effectively remove such threats.
Remove threats. The more you remove these threats, the more of your pain gets removed.
Remove pain. The more of your pain removed, the more you can appreciate pain to report threats.
See easement orientation and strategic pain relief.
drift (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The gradual and often imperceptible change from fully resolving natural needs to only easing such needs. Consequently, optimal functioning shifts to suboptimal functioning, from peakfunction to symfunction. This tends to occur when the means to fully resolve needs persistently declines. See symfunction capture.
The shift from symfunction into dysfunction is identified more specifically as deviation. The shift from dysfunction into misfunction is identified as departure. But the simpler language of accessible anankelogy may use “drift” to cover all these shifts into lowered levels of functioning.
dynamic relating (n.) - REFUNCTION
Actively relating to the needs and experiences of others instead of relying on assumptions, expectations or impersonal rules. Counters normative alienation.
earned legitimacy (n.) [wellness campaign terminology] - REFUNCTION
The refunction of establishing trusted responsiveness to vulnerable needs of those relatively less socially powerful, based empirically on measurable impacts on the needs of those under a powerholder's influence. E.g., positive or negative changes in health outcomes like chronic anxiety, major depression, and addictions. Posited as a higher form of legitimacy than widely accepted "ascribed legitimacy", which is prone to manipulation and privileged unresponsiveness. Applies a response reputation or "response rating" to those in positions of of power.
engage (v.) - REFUNCTION
To openly explore each other's affected needs to resolve a conflict, as opposed to debating or disputing or arguing; to show intent for mutual regard making room for social love over norms privileging avoidance and opposition that tend to perpetuate pain and problems. Contrasts with the defunction of mutual defensiveness.
engaging mutuality (n.) - REFUNCTION
Responding personally to what others may need in ways that encourage reciprocal respect for one’s own needs. Counters avoidant adversarialism. See responsivism.
engaging query (n.)
A formatted invitation to consider thinking beyond an accepted assumption about something to reflect on a more specific and relevant perspective that could empirically result in resolving more needs. Invites a transition from being feel-reactive to being more need-responsive.
Format:
Opens with a question to compare two or more perspectives. E.g., "Which do you think is more likely?" or "Which would you prefer?"
Then offers a widely accepted assumption, typically a more feel-reactive belief.
"Or" to set up the illuminating comparison.
Finally, a more specific and relevant perspective is offered to challenge the earlier assumption(s), as a more need-responsive belief.
See examples in the openers to most blog entries here.
evil (n.) - DEFUNCTION
Benefiting from diminishing the functioning of others or of oneself, often correlating with a lack of sufficient awareness of the painful results. In other words, causing pathology + benefiting from it.
friction (n.)
Anything going against the full resolution of any need. Also referred to as resolution resistance. E.g., limited to drinking impure water; finding no one to offer encouragement while facing a personal struggle; dismissiveness of felons complaining of contributing external factors to their poor choices; politicians offering policy options that ignore the needs of many in their constituency; and war that invokes violence to serve the preferences of the winning side against the losing side.
indulgent side-taking (n. & v.) - DEFUNCTION
The defunction of choosing to support a side in some conflict against the opposing side as a way to pacify discomfort, instead of taking the disciplined approach of empathy and mutual regard to address each other’s affected needs. This shameless rush to a take side typically
overemphasizes each other's differences while disregarding common ground,
relies on impersonal arguments to avoid engaging relevant specifics,
resists addressing or resolving needs when easing discomfort of those needs,
opposes the other side’s inflexible needs that they cannot change, called moral conflation (i.e., conflates unchosen needs with chosen responses to them),
misapplies critique of moral relativism and moral neutrality,
provokes the opposed side’s defensiveness to produce more of what is opposed, and
self-righteously and arrogantly serves own conflict porn to win at the expense of others.
Although aiming to ease pain, it usually results in more pain since it overlooks the affected needs prompting that pain (i.e., discomfort avoidance). See premature opposition and oppo culture.
This contrasts with a more disciplined approach to take a side on a contested issue, which could include a negotiated agreement on a resolution path to mutually solve the issue. The key distinction is between an intent to relieve discomfort and to resolve needs. See easement orientation and conflict orientation.
See adversarialism and avoidant adversarialism.
judicialism (n.) - DEFUNCTION
Reliance upon the impersonal, avoidant adversarial process to address justice needs with emphasis on assuring a fair adjudication process, but with little to no accountability to actual outcomes upon the justice needs of the vulnerable. Exists as a structural problem level of defunction. See civic legalism.
law-fit (n. & v.) - REFUNCTION
The less formal name for the refunction of citationization.
legalism (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The shorter name for the defunction of civic legalism (i.e., nomoscentricity). Corrected by the refunction of law-fit (AKA citationization).
moral conflation (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The defunction of failing to distinguish between unchosen needs and chosen responses.
E.g., The rhetorical demand "I need a bottle of water" conflates the unchosen need for water with the chosen response to get that water in a bottle, which could be accessed in other ways. While expecting another to choose to get that water in some way fair to others, expecting another to not require water naturally provokes conflicts unnecessarily. Likewise, conflating another's unchosen need for security with their defensive chosen responses to feel more secure easily invites an avoidable conflict. See adversarialism, conflict porn and indulgent side-taking.
Countered by the refunction of moral distinction that affirms unchosen needs before questioning chosen responses to such needs.
moral distinction (n.) - REFUNCTION
The refunction of distinguishing between unchosen needs and chosen responses by first affirming inflexible unchosen needs before addressing flexible chosen responses to them. Answers the defunction of moral conflation.
mutual defensiveness (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The defunction of prioritizing discomfort avoidance and normative alienation over vulnerably engaging the affected needs during a conflict with others.
mutual regard (n.) - REFUNCTION
The need-responsive refunction of attending to the needs on all sides of a conflict. In contrast to feel-reactive defunctions like indulgent side-taking, mutual defensiveness and conflict porn.
need-response cycle (n.) - REFUNCTION
Four quadrant cycle from alert to a specific need, to assess its need experience, to audit responsiveness to it, to avow to resolve it, and back around again until all needs fully resolve. See image below.
need-response conflation (n.) - DEFUNCTION
Failing to distinguish between unchosen needs and chosen responses to them. Easily provokes defenses when unable to change what another demands. See adversarialism, avoidance culture, avoidant adversarialism, conflict porn, indulgent side-taking, mutual defensiveness and oppo culture.
need-responsive (adj.) - opposite of feel-reactive
Putting more of an emphasis on identifying and addressing the needs evoked by a situation than trying to ease the discomfort of such needs. Applies a disciplined approach: more descriptive than normative. Delays gratification of responding immediately to thoroughly describe what is honestly affecting all the relevant needs. Exists as the opposite of feel-reactive.
nomoscentricity (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The defunction of prioritizing human law or social norms over addressing or resolving the needs for which they exist to serve. Correlates with the defunction of normative alienation. Manifest in authoritarian attitudes presenting attempts to officially control behavior to avoid uncomfortably engaging (i.e., discomfort avoidance) the specific unresolved needs behind that behavior. Exists in the context of the power delusion.
Informally referred to as civic legalism or simply legalism. Corrected in need-response primarily by the refunction of citationization, or less formally referred to as law-fit.
normative alienation (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The defunction of socially privileged expectations to not to personally engage with one another, and rely instead on impersonal rules to guide behavior toward each other. Such estrangement correlates with the hyper-individualism of psychosocial imbalance.
objective evil (n.)
Anankelogy recognizes pathologizing plus benefiting from it as equivalent to evil.
harming others + benefiting from it = evil
Anyone who can be empirically measured as gaining something of value from empirically hindering the objective needs of others (and potentially of oneself) can be counted as “objective” evil. This points to three observable elements that can be captured using the tools of social science.
1. The objective needs of others.
2. Any hindrance of resolving such needs.
3. Benefiting from such hindrance.
The more one gains from their imposition on others, however ostensibly benign or obviously pernicious, the more they tend to deny its harm. Or they resort to motivated reasoning to rationalize that any negative impact was necessary for some claimed greater good.
This tends to occur only in power relations, where a more socially influential person or entity imposes their self-serving will onto the vulnerably less influential. As the less powerful can adequately function as a consequence, the blind-sighted powerful may see this as proof of their superiority. Evil then becomes something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It is generally easier to be self-righteous when no one is in place to hold one accountable. The most evil figures in history tend not to recognize themselves as evil. Nor would those currently acting as such, until now with these three measurable variables tested with the social science of anankelogy.
See evil.
objective sin (n.)
Measurably falling short of fully resolving need, which limits optimal functioning in an objective way, independent of emotion, belief or perception. Imperfection objectively limiting full wellness, whether from one's own limited actions or from other's imposing limitations, or both.
objective wickedness (n.)
Measurably obstructing resolution of need, which objectively limits full functioning, independent of emotion, belief or perception. Often with good intent, such as offering relief from the pain of unresolved needs that risks perpetuating pain by ignoring the objective needs.
The more you become attached to pain relief to the point of neglecting the underserved needs (which dutifully prompts pain to call attention to your diminished wellness), the more your resulting diminished capacity to function becomes normalized. You then risk protecting this more familiar pain to avoid the lesser known pain of processing the uncomfortable alarm of your unresolved need. The more you avoid this call to remove a threat to your capacity to function, the more this persisting threat prompts more pain for you to try to ignore.
This occurs as objectively wicked in that your objective capacity to function measurably declines, independent of any emotion, belief or perception.
oppo culture (n.) - DEFUNCTION
Short for "opposition culture", this refers to the set of written and unwritten norms that privileges or compels taking an antagonistic stance against others with whom one disagrees. It tends to displace the more noble potential for mutual regard. It functions in proximity with avoidance culture as key components to the power delusion.
See adversarialism.
passive-aggressive pain relief (n.) - DEFUNCTION
A defunction of reacting to the discomfort of unresolved needs by immediately trying to ease its discomfort in both unassertive and hostile ways. Similar to the defunction of reactive pain relief and in contrast to the strategic pain relief and discomfort embrace.
pathological pragmatism (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The defunction of emphasizing what seems more practical or easier to achieve in the moment, permissively lowering standards in ways that risk perpetuating painful problems. Distinct from the grace of affirming progressive steps towards reaching a standard for resolving needs. Correlates with symfunctionality.
pathology (n.) - DEFUNCTION
Condition of diminished wellness that prevents continued functioning at a level necessary to effectively respond to needs, both to your own needs and to the needs of others. Typically results in sustained pain as the body continually warns of the perceived diminishment of functioning.
Too often, one feels compelled to relieve the pain instead of removing cause for this pain, which tends to create a vicious cycle that can reinforce the pathology. Such compulsion to prioritize relief may correlate with a sense of powerless to do much if anything to resolve the affected needs, such as those needs constrained by power problems and more acutely with structural problems. The more powerholders or others benefit in any way from such pathology, the less inclined they are to support resolving the affected needs, which anankelogy defines as evil.
popgen (n. & adj.) - DEFUNCTION
Short for "popular generalization" or "popular generalizing" that privileges (with social norms) overlooking many specifics necessary to resolve the relevant needs. Akin to the notion of a "lay" version of something. See relief-gen. Also a type of defunction, such as a popgen version.
popgen version (n.) - DEFUNCTION
A popularly generalized watered down form of an accepted theory or philosophy, presenting with generalizations that are typically more politically normative than academically descriptive, and often discounted by opponents as too ideological. Opposite of critical version.
EXAMPLES:
popgen liberalism
popgen existentialism & popgen rational choice theory
popgen postmodernism
popgen microaggression
popgen race theory
popgen identity politics & popgen intersectionality
popgen transgenderism
popgen libertarianism
popgen gun rights
popgen free market dynamics
Each of these grew out of a critical version with some merit, but then watered down to relieve some felt need with little to attention to the affected needs of others. Opponents to these watered down normative versions who seldom or never acknowledge the merit of its original critical version readily indulge in oppo culture and avoidance culture as part of the power delusion. See relief-gen.
power delusion (n.) - DEFUNCTION
Rigid belief in holding socially privileged influence over others and calling it power, or rigid belief in others holding socially privileged influence over you, contrary to all evidence that such coercive-leaning influence typically detracts from resolving needs, which mostly perpetuates pain and problems. Can also refer to conflating the lesser "power" of privileged social influence with the greater power of nature that shapes the needs that in turn prompt widespread desire for this lesser power.
premature opposition (n.) prematurely oppose (v.) - DEFUNCTION
The defunction of asserting one’s difference of flexible beliefs or flexible actions in contrast with another’s flexible beliefs or flexible actions without first relating to the inflexible needs behind such beliefs and actions. In other words, reacting to a difference in opinion in such a way that predictably provokes defensiveness. While trapped in mutual defensiveness, the affected needs remain painfully unresolved. That opinion typically serves as an outwardly less vulnerable and safer expression for an inwardly vulnerable need that cannot be easily changed. This could include instances of being needlessly confrontational, which may feed one's conflict porn.
This defunction exists as part of the power delusion, and manifested in avoidance culture and oppo culture at odds with resolving needs and at odds with sustainable wellness. See indulgent side-taking.
psychosocial balancing (n. & v.) - REFUNCTION
The refunction of cultivating an equilibrium between your pressing social-needs and pressing self-needs. Nature automatically pulls you to balance both through a process of psychosocial oscillation—compelling you to focus on seasons of self-needs and seasons on social-needs.
Your spring: when your less resolved social needs emerge and demand your attention.
Your summer: when your social needs dominate more than your self-needs.
Your autumn: when your less resolved self-needs emerge and demand your attention.
Your winter: when your self-needs dominate more than your social needs.
The more your self-needs resolve and social needs resolve on par with each other, the more your natural needs can resolve, the more pain you can remove, and the more potential you can reach. The more you can match what you can do for yourself with what you can rely on others to provide what you cannot reliably do for yourself, the more psychosocial flow you experience.
The less your self-needs resolve and social needs resolve on par with each other, the less your natural needs can resolve, the less pain you can remove, and the less potential you can reach. You experience this as the defunction of psychosocial imbalance.
psychosocial flow (n.) - REFUNCTION
The refunction of unleashing your natural energy to resolve needs, to remove pain and to raise functioning, by syncing your internal potential with external supports. See psychosocial balancing.
psychosocial imbalance (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The defunction of self-needs and social needs not resolving on par with each other. You either ease your self-needs more than your social needs, or you ease your social needs more than your self-needs. As this limits your ability to function fully, your body warns you with some form of emotional pain. If reacting to this pain instead of addressing your psychosocial needs evenly, you tend to reinforce such imbalance. And continue to suffer in pain.
The degree of balance to imbalance correlates to the functionality array.
Psychosocial oscillation: natural transitioning between addressing self-needs and addressing to social-needs, for sustaining psychosocial balancing. Correlates with peakfunctionality.
Psychosocial vacillation: intense shifts between self-needs and social-needs, leading toward psychosocial imbalance. Can explain some political extremism; see psychosocial orientation. Correlates with symfunctionality.
Psychosocial crystallization: settling into the familiar painful pattern of more severe psychosocial imbalance. Correlates with dysfunctionality.
Psychosocial disintegration: neither self-needs nor social-needs adequately resolve, resulting in swings into violent psychosocial extremes. Correlates with misfunctionality.
psychosocial orientation (n.)
The routine or regularly situated experience of psychosocial imbalance, manifested in one of two directions (i.e., two dominate orientations):
WIDE-focused: less resolved social needs than self-needs; tends to generalize how to ease unmet social needs while guarding one's relatively more resolved self-needs.
DEEP-focused: less resolved self-needs than social needs; tends to generalize how to ease unmet self-needs while guarding one's relatively more resolved social needs.
When your self-needs continually resolve more than your social needs, you become predisposed toward liberal or progressive values. Politically left ideas provide outward expression for your inward psychosocial priority to ease (with public support) your less resolved social needs while guarding your more resolved self-needs from public pressures.
For example, if your self-need for unique self-expression as a sexual or religious or ethnic minority is more resolved than your social need for inclusion as one of these historically marginalized minorities, you tend to find more support from left leaning supporters who rely on public policies to protect both their negative right (what the government must not do) to freely be their unique selves, and their positive right (what the government must do) for greater social inclusion against patterns of historical discrimination.
When your social needs continually resolve more than your self-needs, you become predisposed toward conservative values. Politically right ideas provide outward expression for your inward psychosocial priority to ease (with public support) your less resolved self-needs while guarding your more resolved social needs from public pressures.
For example, if your social need for family cohesion in a local community is more resolved than your self-need for personal freedom to explore your life’s potential, you tend to find more support from right leaning supporters who rely on public policies to protect both their negative right (what the government must not do) to never infringe on their gun rights to protect their own families, and their positive right (what the government must do) provide security with a professional police force so they can be in public to explore their personal potential without fear.
You gravitate towards others who experience the same or similar unchosen priority of similar psychosocial needs as you, in contrast to others experiencing a different priority of needs. This provides the seeds for partisanship affiliation. The rational choice myth of debating which side presents the better idea for shaping public policy overlooks this dynamic of unchosen needs.
The more you can resolve one set of needs closer on par with the other set, the more open to gravitate toward the other political side. The less you can resolve one set of needs relative to the other set, the further you tend to shift to a political extreme. This illuminates why there can be tension within each political side.
Need-response offers to replace the mutual defensiveness of conventional politics with mutual regard and social love. Instead of emphasizing each other's different yet unchosen priorities, which prioritizes easing the pain of psychosocial imbalance, need-response provides a disciplined path toward mutually resolving each other's affected psychosocial needs. The process aims to remove the pain of psychosocial imbalance by cultivating more psychosocial balancing.
psychosocial blind spot (n.) - DEFUNCTION
reactive pain relief (n.) - DEFUNCTION
A defunction of reacting to the discomfort of unresolved needs by immediately trying to ease its discomfort with little to no thought of how ignoring the unresolved needs evoking such pain tends to persist and potentially intensify the pain ineffectually avoided. Defunction similar to passive-aggressive pain relief. Contrasts with the refunctions of strategic pain relief and discomfort embrace.
refunction (n.)
Anything that raises one's ability to function more fully, improving their wellness. Opposite to a defunction.
relational knowing (n. & v.) - RK (abbr.) - REFUNCTION
To directly understand something by identifying how one thing appears to go along with another, allowing you to create your own testable hypotheses. You identify for yourself the associations between two or more things affecting your needs. You observe four types of associations:
more-more: more of this, then more of that (“positive relation” as both move in same direction)
more-less: more of this, then less of that (“negative relation” as both move in opposite directions)
less-more: less of this, then more of that (“negative relation” as both move in opposite directions)
less-less: less of this, then less of that (“positive relation” as both move in same direction)
relief-gen (n.) relief-generalizing (v.) - DEFUNCTION
The defunction of oversimplifying a reaction to some need to gain broad support for relieving its pain, typically resulting in more pain since the overgeneralization overlooks the specifics necessary to fully resolve the needs. This typically results in more pain from these unresolved needs, which in turn feeds this vicious cycle of continually generalizing for relief. See popgen.
resolution path (n.) [wellness campaign terminology] - REFUNCTION
Identified steps to resolve a need or needs. Once identified and announced to others for their feedback, the identified steps get appropriately adjusted to include respect for the affected needs of others. Once concluding such inputs, the process commits all involved to enable resolution of the identified natural needs on all sides, and to also confront any selfish impediment resisting resolution. Applies to the "avowal" phase of the need-response cycle in a wellness campaign.
resolution-friction (n.) - DEFUNCTION
Any resistance to fully resolving needs. Does not have to be intentional, but frequently results from an intent to avoid the pain of reported threats to functioning. This includes well-established social norms like the adversarial approach of legal systems in the judicial process and in politics. The historical way these legal structures favors a relieve-over-resolve approach tends to resist a resolve-over-relieve effort to fully resolve needs. The resulting pain typically reinforces the norms to prioritize relief over fully resolving needs that could remove cause for such pain. There is no such thing as pain apart from the body reporting a perceived theat to functioning.
response conflation (n.) - DEFUNCTION
Another name for the defunction of moral conflation.
response distinction (n.) - REFUNCTION
Another name for the refunction of moral distinction.
response reputation (n.) [wellness campaign terminology] - REFUNCTION
One's informally or officially recognized trustworthiness to respect the needs of others.
responsivism (n.)
The belief and practice that responding to the unchosen needs of others, before addressing any chosen responses to such needs, can produce more favorable results than adversarial alternatives. Counters the moral conflation inherent in avoidant adversarialism with moral distinction, as a way to more effectively address and solve social problems.
Need-response is the profession while responsivism is the activity.
Examples:
Personally Responsive to apply moral distinction
Responsive Supervision
Responsive Depolarization for depolarizing politics
Responsive Innocence for the wrongly convicted innocent
responsivist (n.)
One dedicated to applying responsivism to address social problems, as an alternative to adversarial activism that easily slips into the problem of moral conflation, which tends to perpetuate pain and problems.
social love (n.) - REFUNCTION
The act of prioritizing a desirable response to another's need as being as important or more important than one's own need(s), at least in the moment, to set the inspiring standard for others to prioritize a desirable response to one's own needs. Need-response posits this as a vital adjunct to a conflict orientation of staying open and learning amidst conflict, to dissolve the constricting tension of staying closed and defensive amidst conflict.
strategic pain relief (n.) - REFUNCTION
A refunction of momentarily easing the intense discomfort of unresolved need with the intent to get back to facing the pain in order to resolve the need, with the long-term anticipation to remove the cause of that pain. Exists in contrast to the widespread norms of passive-aggressive pain relief and reactive pain relief. See easement orientation. See discomfort avoidance and discomfort embrace.
supportive bias (n.) - REFUNCTION
The refunction of prioritizing resolution of unchosen needs, to remove cause for cognitive distortions and improve the level of functioning. This can lower the risk of confirmation bias and other problematic biases. Anankelogy defines bias as prioritizing to ease need.
The more resolved the needs of the observer of phenomena, the less of a pull to cherry-pick what their unresolved needs would urge them to prioritize. The more your bias prioritizes the full resolution of needs, the more you will prioritize seeking the full breadth and depth of reality.
symfunction capture (n.) - DEFUNCTION
A 3-step process of slipping from optimal functioning (peakfunction) towards diminished functioning (dysfunction). 1) symfunction creep; 2) symfunction strain; 3) symfunction trap. Fills gap between fully well and fully sick.
symfunction creep (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The first in a 3-step process of symfunction capture. The 2nd is symfunction strain. The 3rd is symfunction trap.
symfunction strain (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The second in a 3-step process of symfunction capture. The 1st is symfunction creep. The 3rd is symfunction trap.
symfunction trap (n.) - DEFUNCTION
The last in a 3-step process of symfunction capture. The 1st is symfunction creep. The 2nd is symfunction strain.
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Last updated: 2024-05-06
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