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Glossary E 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. easement orientation (n. ) - EO (abbr. ) One's relatively fixed or routine way to experience discomfort, which all stem from unresolved needs; either prioritizing relief-over-resolve or prioritizing resolve-over-relief . The Anankelogy Foundatdion addresses the challenge of improving one's EO with the NR101 Personal Need-Responder program. Other relevant terms: discomfort avoidance , discomfort embrace ; feel-reactive , need-responsive , passive-aggressive pain relief , reactive pain relief . 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, overlooking less harmful or unharmful alternatives, and often correlating with a lack of sufficient awareness of the painful results. In other words, causing pathology + benefiting from it. Elements of anankelogically defined evil (the “D” element not essential but common): A ctions resulting in damage to others (or to oneself). B enefiting from the results of such harmful actions. C hoosing harmful options over benign alternatives. D esensitized to causing harm in others. See improperly resolving need s . evoked need (n. ) A requirement previously dormant now necessary to function. exposed need (n. ) Any core need or resource need or access need or psychosocial need easily impacted by any privileged social norm or structural problem . Compare with vulnerable need that is easily impacted by anyone in a privileged position of social influential "power" or by a power problem . Accessible anankelogy may use these terms interchangeably. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z < back to glossary menu

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Glossary L law-fit (n. & v. ) - REFUNCTION The less formal name for the refunction of citationization . leadback (n. ) Insufficient responsiveness to another’s vulnerable need due to other’s insufficient responses to own vulnerable needs (i.e., wellness is psychosocial). See coerced poor options dependence (AKA CoPOD ). leadback denial (n. ) Insisting consequential decisions from limited options result mainly or only from personal irresponsibility, and not from externalities. leadback exaggeration (n. ) Insisting consequential decisions from limited options result mainly or only from externalities, devoid of personal agency or responsibility. legalism (n. ) - DEFUNCTION The shorter name for the defunction of civic legalism (i.e., nomoscentricity ). Corrected by the refunction of law-fit (AKA citationization ). A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z < back to glossary menu

Needs resolve and evolve. < Back B10 Basic Principle List of all principles Needs resolve and evolve. Image: Pixabay – Valiphotos (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more you satisfy a recurring need, like drinking water to quench a thirst, the more your repeated action predictably leaves you satisfied. The more you pacify your recurring needs with some alternative, like indulging in junk food for each meal, the less your hunger subsides. The more you habitually rely on alternatives, the more your life contracts to accommodate such limits. Description Which do you think is more likely? The way you experience a need in childhood is pretty much the same as you experience it now. OR The way you experience a need can change drastically as the means to resolve it changes. Anankelogy Every natural need compels you to do something to ensure you can continue to function. Your needs either resolve or you cannot function as well. The lower your capacity to function, the more pain as your body warns of the threat. You either fully resolve a need or partially resolve a need or merely ease the pain of a need or suffer the mounting pain of a need. The more you can fully resolve your needs, the closer you can reach peakfunction . The more you partially ease your needs, the more you linger in symfunction . The more you cope with pain of unresolved needs, the deeper you’re stifled in dysfunction . The more you suffer too many unresolved needs, the further you slip into misfunction . Some of your needs can fully resolve. The more you can access nutritious food and clean water, the healthier you can be. Some of your needs only partially resolve. The more you must settle for shallow friends, the more you feel tolerably isolated. Some of your needs can only be placated by pain coping mechanisms. The more repeated trauma weighs you down, the less you can function. Sometimes you cannot do anything about a painful need. The longer you must suffer a critical need, the closer you fall into danger of long-term damage or death. The more you adjust how you address such needs, the more your experience of such needs can change. They typically evolve to adjust to your real-life situations. And to accommodate your real-life limitations. Consider how technology changes the way you experience your needs. Your recent ancestors had to wash all of their clothes by hand, and make time to prepare and cook food over a hot stove. They performed many difficult chores for each other. They also tended to enjoy greater family cohesion than you likely do now. Consider how a life full of comfort is a life not fully lived . Need-response Anankelogy cites the pattern of rising and falling ideologies that shape how we resolve many of our needs. Dynamic phase . We discover a fresh way to address old problems. We resolve our needs in a dynamic new way. New ideas are welcomed. Dogmatic phase . We settle on this new normal. We routinize this recently revised approach. We start to resist new ideas a threat to our new establishment. Disillusion phase . We grow increasingly discontent with its shortcomings. We see it doesn’t fit some of our needs. We start seeking alternatives. Distinction phase . We give up on most if not all of it. We either go back to previous ways or look for something new. Some of us even denounce the “new way”. New ideas often get watered down to appeal to as many as possible. Contentious specifics get dropped to favor generalizations we all or most can agree upon. But overgeneralized answers overlook many specific situations, leaving many needs underserved. Discontent of the old plants seeds of something new, something else to later provoke our disgust. Our needs evolve when there are sufficient resources accessible. To ensure such access, ideas often pop up as a “critical version” that remains aware of its limitations. For example, capitalism promises to incentivize production, but cannot promise its produced resources to everyone. Socialism promises to give access where needed, but cannot promise a robust supply. The earlier carefully thought-out version tends to morph into later popularly generalized version, or ‘popgen’ for short. We find it easier to react to the pain instead of responding to our needs to remove cause for pain. We generalize for relief, trapping ourselves in pain. Our experience of needs then evolves. Sometimes we develop improved ways to resolve them. Too often, we regress into reacting to the pain of our unresolved needs. We change in less healthy ways as our capacity to function declines. Then prioritize relief, sinking into dysfunction. Reactive Problem We “solved” many of our old problems with too much generalizing. We threw out the proverbial baby with the bathwater. In the process, we frequently created new problems. No, we don’t resolve our needs in the same way anymore. Sadly, we partially resolve far more of our needs than fully resolve them. Perhaps that is how it’s always been. We often trade one problem for another, stretching our capacities to comprehend and solve them. Modernity merely changes what kind of problems we suffer. The rise of science dispelled the prevalence of superstition. Then the decline of religion came with the loss of our monocultural community. The rise of technology allows us to be more productive than ever. And to remain more disconnected than ever. Anankelogy has a word for our routine of staying disconnected from each other: normative alienation . We now rely on impersonal rules and public policies to attend to our needs in ways they never can. Laws themselves can never address our specific needs . You have to go against the grain of law to fully resolve your needs . Responsive Solution Responsivism replaces normative alienation with dynamic engaging to resolve more needs. And replaces avoidant adversarialism with engaging mutuality . to resolve more needs. The more needs we resolve, the more problems we solve . Political activism may inspire desirable policy changes, but usually falls tragically short of addressing the needs on all sides. Policy changes that serves the needs of some at the cost of respecting the needs of others naturally sets up the next political conflict. Responsivism replaces this objectification of each other with a more mutually engaging climate. You recognize the needs of others are as important as your own needs . You encourage more love and less outrage or hate. You recognize what you reactively resist you ultimately reinforce , as opposition to their unchosen need provokes their defenses . Just as their blind opposition provokes your defensiveness. Responsivism replaces this futile exercise with mutual respect for each other’s unchosen needs. Responsivism encourages us to resolve needs fully and promptly without hindering others from fully and promptly resolving their needs. We turn from provoking conflicts to encouraging better understanding of each other’s needs. Along the way, we learn to love a lot more. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: Certainly some needs, like breathing oxygen, never changes. I doubt if there ever was a time when someone could fully resolve all of their needs. I can imagine a scenario of regressive changes redirected by improved opportunities. It seems we can manage alright with less needs resolving as long as we can avoid the pain. Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. 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1 < Back to list A) defunction type 1 # safety Safety is the need to not be subjected to threats to your ability to function. 1 .1 0 Need experience Need experience details. This section provides more in-depth details for this particular defunction. It can help clarify what this defunction is truly about. It typically includes more than one paragraph. it adds understanding to the summary descriptor above. And it may include references to other defunctions. The text tends to toward academic anankelogy instead of accessible anankelogy, as these sections were written prior to the emphasis on accessible anankelogy for this site. 1 .2 0 Defunctionalizing Info This subsection applies 'relational knowing' statements to illuminate how this defunction relationally lowers your ability to fully function. It is typically framed with more/more or more/less or less/more or less/less associations that can be empirically tested. 1 .3 0 Refunctionalizing Info This subsection applies 'relational knowing' statements to illuminate how this defunction could be turned around to raise your ability to function. It also uses more/more or more/less or less/more or less/less associations that can be empirically tested. 1 .4 0 Example(s) This subsection offers some examples of this defunction you may observe affecting your life. Usually more than one example is provided. If reading this, there are no examples yet to this defunction. 1 .5 0 Associated defunctions This subsection points to similar or applicable defunctions. If reading this, there are no defunctions specifically associated with this defunction. 1 .6 0 Relevant refunctions This subsection points to relevant or complementary refunctions. If reading this, there are no relevant defunctions to correlate with this defunction. 1 .7 0 Applicable principles This subsection points to those anankelogical principles that aptly apply to this defunction. If reading this, there are no anankelogical principles related specifically to this defunction. 1 .8 0 Referenced blog posts This subsection points to those blog entries that relate to, or cite, this particular defunction. If reading this, there are no blog entries yet related specifically to this defunction. Type: Date created: Date revised: #) category for this defunction 8/26/23 not yet revised safety Previous Next Discuss at our Engagement forum

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Glossary V vulnerable need (n. ) Any core need or resource need or access need or psychosocial need easily impacted by anyone in a privileged position of social influential "power" or by a power problem. Compare with exposed need that is easily impacted by a privileged social norm or by a structural problem . Accessible anankelogy may use these terms interchangeably. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z < back to glossary menu

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5 < Back to list A. Character refunction 5 A gentleness Placeholder text until I find the time to draft a full description. 5 .1 A Need experience 5 .2 A Defunctionalizing Info This subsection applies 'relational knowing' statements to illuminate how this defunction relationally lowers your ability to fully function. It is typically framed with more/more or more/less or less/more or less/less associations that can be empirically tested. 5 .3 A Refunctionalizing Info This subsection applies 'relational knowing' statements to illuminate how this defunction could be turned around to raise your ability to function. It also uses more/more or more/less or less/more or less/less associations that can be empirically tested. 5 .4 A Example(s) This subsection offers some examples of this defunction you may observe affecting your life. Usually more than one example is provided. If reading this, there are no examples yet to this defunction. 5 .5 A Associated defunctions This subsection points to similar or applicable defunctions. If reading this, there are no defunctions specifically associated with this defunction. 5 .6 A Relevant refunctions This subsection points to relevant or complementary refunctions. If reading this, there are no relevant defunctions to correlate with this defunction. 5 .7 A Applicable principles This subsection points to those anankelogical principles that aptly apply to this defunction. If reading this, there are no anankelogical principles related specifically to this defunction. 5 .8 A Referenced blog posts This subsection points to those blog entries that relate to, or cite, this particular defunction. If reading this, there are no blog entries yet related specifically to this defunction. Date created: 8/26/23 Type: Date revised: A. Character refunction The softer you approach others in need of care, the more your needs resolve. Be ready to give a softer touch where appropriate. Stay sensitive to those who appear alarmed by any harshness. They may be going through intense pain, or suffering some kind of trauma. Discern when a scalpel is better than a sledgehammer. Know where it's best to be humble yet firm. Tread softly through a field of wounded soldiers. Avoid reopening old wounds. Let your gentleness help them to more fully heal and grow strong. Previous Next Discuss at our Engagement forum