R#70. On believing that an African RENAISSANCE is a pipe dream unrealisable in all ways.

BQ#21. What density of MUTATION is required for ROCKING REDEMPTION, as a function of fondly following the ROBUST RENAISSANCE?--->

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“The world should not pass judgment upon the Negro, and especially the Negro youth, too quickly or too harshly. The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is. When a white boy undertakes a task, it is taken for granted that he will succeed. On the other hand, people are usually surprised if the Negro boy does not fail.”
- U.S. educator and political activist Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)

“I must own, to the shame of my own countrymen, that I was first kid-napped and betrayed by some of my own complexion, who were the first cause of my exile and slavery; but if there were no buyers there would be no sellers.”
- Ghanaian freed slave and abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano (1757? - 1803?)

“What is Africa to me?
Blackness, deep, deep fathomless darkness.
Africa, idle giant basking in the sun, sleeping, snoring
Twitching in dreams;
Diseased with a chronic illness;
Chocking with black ignorance.
Chained to the rock of poverty,
And yet laughing, always laughing and dancing
The chains on his legs jangling…
Stuck in the stagnant mud of superstitions,
Frightened by the spirits of the bush, the stream, scared of corpse.
Child lover of toys,
Look at his toy weapons, his utensils, his hut.
Toy garden, toy chickens, toy cattle, toy children.
Timid, unadventurous, scared of the unbeaten track,
Unweaned, clinging to mother’s milkless breasts,
Clinging to brother, to uncle, to clan, to tribe,
To blackness,
To Africa.
Africa, this rich granary of taboos, customs, traditions…”
- Ugandan poet, dancer, novelist and social anthropologist Okot p’ Bitek, in Song of Ocol (1969)

“Some view our sable race with scornful eye;
Their color is a diabolic dye.
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refined, and join th’ angelic train.”
- West African-born U.S. poet Phillis Wheatley (1753? - 1784)

“I entered the old castles of the heart.
Pulled out wishes and longings that lay dead,
or wriggled half-dead, or danced
wild on the stage,
and threw them all out
for dogs, foxes, crows and vultures
to peck at and live on.”
- Indian poet Chandrashekhara Patil (1939 - )
--->


THIS PATHETIC PICTURE PAINTED by one of the best thinkers in our motherland, about half a century ago has tremendously changed to the positive. But it is only in this generation that the stars of emanicipation and liberation, will shine in the hearts of majority of Africans. Like the mariners after a long voyage in a tempestuous sea, at this juncture we should say that we now hail the sight of the destination or new land. We are blessed to understand the true nature of our psychological situation. Unlike the ancient mathematician Archimedes (287 - 212 BC), who in his impatient idealism asked for one fixed and immovable point (a point which is non-existent) so as “to move the whole earth from its place and turn it upside down”, we have stood on the earth itself and gone with her at her pace. We have persisted in an undaunted search for hope amidst various signs of despair and in the direction of finding an unshakably certain African Answer, to turn our society “upside down and inside out”. In this fathomless ocean, we have decided not to twirl around aimlessly but to strive towards dropping our anchor in the new banks of new lands. As it is not hankering for the sea that urges us on or propels us forward, in this long voyage towards SELF-ACTUALIZATION, we wish and have to land in the new land, for it is to this end that the voyage had been undertaken. Resolutely we will have to throw our anchor, and this anchor is AFRICAN RENAISSANCE; which is an all-powerful, an all-uniting ideal in which the whole stream of full heartfelt desires and passions shall be poured out. A new AFRICAN CIVILIZATION is the safe harbour for the restless wanderer. It is the light lighting the night of endless longing. It is the concept whose redeemed Africans shall proclaim from out the fullness of Continental heart. It is the ideal which we set forth as crown upon the summit of ‘existential’ tone. Listen to Nigerian novelist, playwright, poet, and lecturer, Wole Soyinka (1934 - ): “There is only one home to the LIFE of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on the boulder of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?” BLESSED IS YOU .............. WHO PRONOUNCES THE GREATNESS OF THESE TIMES!--->

Without further, or so much ado, BEYONDISM hereby consolidates,
The definition of ROBUST RENAISSANCE thus:

Revel in merrily melting in the expansive and redeeming ocean of LIFE.
Orderly dealing with the negative and dark powers of the PSYCHE.
Banishing the disgusting mixture of stupidity, lethargy and impulsivity.
Unchecked feelings culminate in the vices of voluptuousness and cruelty.
Savagery of any nature must be exorcised at any cost and with all energy.
To harness destructive powers, and to transmute them into creative art.

Resisting mightily to be subdued by the dark and surging forces of LUST.
Entrenching yourself with a relevant and workable standard of behaviour.
Nurturing moral valuation with a compelling vision for African destiny.
Affluently riding on the implicit and the explicit rhythms of your era.
Indulging in the process of individuation by developing self-awareness.
Slowly cultivating the power that controls the dynamic process of LIFE.
Sublimating negative impulses in order to create a controlled character.
Arousing the capacity to deal with the powerful surge of vital energy.
Never missing to see where prevailing wind blows and points towards.
Capturing the boat of current CIVILIZATION as it leaves the harbour.
Entreating your PSYCHE fully with the subtle ‘spirit of the TIMES’.


“Life is a movie, pick your own role, climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.”- German-born American rapper Jermaine Lamarr Cole, alias J. Cole (b. 1985). Here is BEYONDISM PREMIUM Premises for SELF-ACTUALIZATION (Soulfully Signing a Therapeautic Treaty with THYSELF) in regard to: REAPING the MUTATION for ROCKING RENAISSANCE to realise the Pan-African dream.--->

“Life is a movie, pick your own role, climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.”- German-born American rapper Jermaine Lamarr Cole, alias J. Cole (b. 1985). Here is BEYONDISM PREMIUM Premises for SELF-ACTUALIZATION (Soulfully Signing a Therapeautic Treaty with THYSELF) in regard to: REAPING the MUTATION for ROCKING RENAISSANCE to realise the Pan-African dream.--->

However noble our efforts shall be, if the socio-political situation remains suffocating, then we shall remain stunted. An AFRICAN RENAISSANCE is the only sure recipe, which will raise the general level of social and political consciousness. It will remove all social and political scrupples which impedes us, in our journey towards the ultimate goal of SELF-REALISATION and SELF-ACTUALIZATION. It is an instructive and a chastening experience, to seek out a ‘Mode of Valuation’ (in the name of BEYONDISM), that will lie beneath our day to day ideals, as well as inform our beliefs upon which to judge ours and other peoples’ actions and characters. This will light up all the aspirations which we strive to realise; and have a clear concept of the best way to conduct our daily affairs, private or public.

Reverentially REAP your deep desire to ROCK RENAISSANCE.

  1. SYMPATHETIC kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s OWN, the suffering of others.
  2. USEFUL altruism and empathy goes together. They are the loftiest marks of a PSYCHIC PRECISION.
  3. MINDING of the poorest person you have ever seen, is asking if your next act will be of any use to him.
  4. MOST confuse altruism with cowardice. Relinquish not your courage in promoting our RENAISSANCE.
  5. ASPIRE to face a possible annihilation, so that RENAISSANCE may cast its eternal brilliance over Africa.
  6. RECEIVE BEYONDISM as a matter of LIFE and DEATH; you will amass the guts to be its ambassador.
  7. YE shall die better, only by facing fearful odds, for the ashes of your ancestors, and the temples of GOD.

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PREPARE yourself to diligently REAP the creative ‘capacity’ for ROCKING RENAISSANCE.

  1. Precisely, the mere contemplation of past and present Africa’s state of affairs retards our digestion.
  2. Really, when Slave Trade descended upon Africa it was disastrous to our people’s sense of security.
  3. Essentially, in that state of continued fear and confusion Africa’s progressive industry began to wane.
  4. Practically speaking, when Colonialism fell upon our people, their self-esteem was seriously injured.
  5. As we began to worship the “foreigner’s untried and untested ideals,” we forgot any positivity in us.
  6. Redeeming ourselves is based on the subtle seriousness and dire depth that gives ground for hope.
  7. Enabled as we are, we have more of the virtues that make other continents to think about us in awe.

REALISE that REAPING your innate ‘quest’ for ROCKING RENAISSANCE is in your ‘power.’

  1. Reasonably, our perseverance, patience and our industry is far much BEYOND the normal threshold.
  2. Entirely immersing ourselves in LIFE, the stolidity of our minds equals the solidity of our character.
  3. Affirmatively starting to consider psychological and artistic questions with subtlety and thoroughness.
  4. Long accumulated energy now threatens to find release - so we are on our way to social salvation.
  5. It is in the African continent where we have the finest, most vigorous existing people in the world.
  6. Stubborn and resigned fatalism is giving way to FORCE of WILL; towards full flowering of potential.
  7. Essentially, the human plant having geminated here (in East Africa), it will also grow strongest here.

EMPOWER yourself to REAP your deep-rooted ‘freedom’ for ROCKING RENAISSANCE.

  1. Experiencing a break from past convictions (moral or spiritual), is what is haunting the present age.
  2. Most people are undergoing deep emotional struggle, as RELIGIOUS faith seems to be evaporating.
  3. Potent mental transition and readjustment means spiritual suffering as well as broken ‘relationships’.
  4. One thing: The present humans are engulfed in a series of harrowing scenes and sad reconciliation.
  5. We are now witnessing almost the end of traditional ideals, until new patterns of LIFE can be woven.
  6. Endlessly, the world is going through changes that are not so impersonal as history presents them.
  7. Radically, they unsettle the minds and morals of people by uprooting cherished customs and beliefs.

MEDIATE your ‘choice’ to REAP the inescapable ‘prerogative’ of ROCKING RENAISSANCE.

  1. Much of political and economic decay of Africa brought a weakening of African mind and character.
  2. Encircling social dogmas, puerile ideologies and empty morality, made the African PSYCHE sterile.
  3. Decisively, BEYONDISM trains the intellect of adolescent Africa to reason with calculated subtlety.
  4. Indeed, it constructs the terminology of modern discourse, and lays the basis of PSYCHIC maturity.
  5. Aspiring to outgrow and overthrow the very systems and method which gave it birth and sustenance.
  6. The supreme guiding goal of BEYONDISM is to COOL the FIRES of your budding PSYCHIC volcano.
  7. Endeavour to continue loathing all inflexible individuals, hostile to invention and jealous of change.

INDULGE yourself in REAPING your unexplored ‘ability’ towards ROCKING RENAISSANCE.

  1. Immerse in all conditions and people, so as to test your learning against the teeming, careless world.
  2. No time, will your emotional sky drastically change, and precipitate a storm in your peaceful LIFE.
  3. Doing things one is passionate about, one does not have to have a master plan on how things work.
  4. Uncontestable TRUTH comes from an interplay between relaxed and leisured discourse on IDEAS.
  5. Lasting WISDOM is borne out of a deeper AWARENESS of the prevailing socio-political conditions.
  6. Generally, all past and present intellectual theories, and ideological systems are shining mirages.
  7. Encroached in them, is not the long-sought TRUTH, but the reflection of desires of their proponents.

UTILISE your infinite ‘potential’ for REAPING the ‘compulsion’ of ROCKING RENAISSANCE.

  1. Understanding your inner most feeling and the subtle dynamism of the world is Robust Renaissance.
  2. Tender feelings and most cherished beliefs are analysed by BEYONDISM with surgeon’s ruthlessness.
  3. Indeed, your FORMULA for GREATNESS is not only to bear up under any hardship, but to LOVE it.
  4. Learn in all circumstances, to happily welcome challenges and discomforts, as sharpeners of your wit.
  5. Illumination of Nietzsche: “He who strideth across the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragedies.”
  6. Solemn speech to you, however bad it is: To be silent is worse; all unuttered Truths turns poisonous.
  7. Essentially, and in all shades, to be blind is worst, because all adulterated Truths becomes deathly.

MONITOR those ‘forces’ that militate against your ‘will’ to REAP ROCKING RENAISSANCE.

  1. Most lethal and worst condemnation, is to pronounce a statement without examining its basic nature.
  2. On all accounts we are very sorry to see how that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is abused.
  3. No other books other than the scriptures (Bible, Koran and Gita) are disputed, and poorly rhymed.
  4. In every ale-house and tavern, they are sung and jangled contrary to their true doctrinal meaning.
  5. TRUST the BELIEFS of your culture, learn the scriptural precepts and much more TRUST in GOD.
  6. On the ground of leisure and security triggered by basic wealth, so research and speculation thrives.
  7. Realistically and boldly SUBPOEN every CREED to appear before the judgement of BEYONDISM.












“Dreams indeed are ambition.
For the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
- Shakespeare in Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2

LADY MACBETH: I have given suck, and know
How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
MACBETH: If we should fail—
LADY MACBETH: We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail.
- Shakespeare in Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7

“Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
- Shakespeare in The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2

Our THERAPEAUTIC TOKEN, obligatorily opens the sacred seal,
Of our THERAPEAUTIC TOPIC on following fondly the ROBUST RENAISSANCE:
Noticeably you are now ripe to REAP your lively labour to ROCK RENAISSANCE.
Blessed is you who has transcended CULTIVATING your affluent attempts,
IRRIGATING your dauntless determination,
PROPAGATING your solid struggle,
And NURTURING your ennobling exertion.

“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.”
- Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 2

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
- Shakespeare in Othello, Act 2, Scene 3
“‘Tis a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
/By which he did ascend.”
- Shakespeare in Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 1


The manifestation of BEYONDIST extensive exposure is clearly evident: When the pipeline of our general ‘Societal Sorrowful Scenario’ is followed keenly, it ultimately leads back to individual’s ‘Psychic Purge’; the sum total of our warped thought forms, inclinations, predispositions and perceptions.

Irrespective of our religious realization, social standing, economic elevation, academic authenticity and professional penetrability we cannot fail to note how ‘Psychic Purge’ ‘ferociously facilitates’ the ‘current conspicuously conspiratory’ state of our African society. To transform the sordid song of our ‘Societal Sorrow’ into a sweet song of our ‘Psychic Precision’, is what we should diligently learn and tenanciously apply in our LIVES.

Never settle for anything less than your best.
Be the most enthusiastic and positive person you know.
LIFE is too short not to do some things you LOVE; what energizes you and keeps you passionate?
We are the only ones responsible for what goes on in our LIVE.
We can make excuses and blame others, but we are responsible to and for ourselves.
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
“Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you do not have…” - Ecclesiastes 6: 9.


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BEYONDISM BACKUP #21
Relevant (or somehow) Therapeautic Theories as bounteously based on ROBUST RESEARCH
We ONLY use this BQ#21 as a REFERENCE POINT to shed more light on HUMAN NATURE

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #1:--->
We seldom attribute common sense except to those folks who agree with us, or are on our side in any discourse.

“If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee, and be thy love.”
- British explorer, courtier, and writer Walter Raleigh (1554 - 1618)
Here are SEVEN ways on how to ULTIMATELY UPGRADE your awareness on this matter!
Outcome Dependency: We are optimistic about others when we need them to cooperate.
Distinguished Developers: Berscheid, Graziano, Monson, and Dermer (1976).

  1. USUALLY, when we have something we are trying to achieve, then we will tend to bias our judgments.
  2. PRECISELY, this is about the people around us to make the achievement of that goal more believable.
  3. GENERALLY, this works positively or negatively: we like our potential friends and dislike our enemies.
  4. ROBUSTLY, this is a form of OPTIMISM, preparing us give the situation the best chance to SUCCEED.
  5. ASSUMING we are on the same team, I will believe that you are likable, competent and cooperative.
  6. DEDICATED as you are to spread the gospel of an African Renaissance, poach in your midst the best.
  7. ENDEAVOUR to find an IDEA to share with the other person; they will automatically like you more.
    Timely Therapy: -TASKS must be done by you (not for you); fail to decide and others will decide for you.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #2:--->
Castles in the air (equivalences of a paradise) — they are so easy to take refuge in — and so easy to build, too.

“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this...But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
This is Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” delivered on November 19, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He presented it at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, honoring those who died in the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg earlier that year. Here Lincoln seeks to cover fantasy theme by bringing the idea of true equality to all citizens.
Here are SEVEN ways on how to ULTIMATELY UPGRADE your awareness on this matter!
Symbolic Convergence Theory (SCT) dwells on seeking communities of agreement.
Distinguished Developer: America speech-communication expert Ernest G. Bormann (1925 – 2008)

  1. USUAL SCT: Holding of fantasies in common, transforms collections of individuals into cohesive groups.
  2. PRUDENT appearance of a group’s cohesiveness, manifest in shared emotions, motives, and meanings.
  3. GIVEN, we builds a group consciousness which grows stronger by sharing a cluster of fantasy themes.
  4. REAL fostering of cohesion, symbolising or using narrative stories are types of communication involved.
  5. ACTUALLY, we try to make sense out of a common experience through symbols, fantasies and values.
  6. DYNAMIC tendencies within systems of interaction, cause communicative practices and forms to evolve.
  7. EVENTS are understood in terms of traits of those involved; who have influence over how events unfold.
    Timely Therapy: - Fantastic and creative interpretation of events fulfills a psychological or rhetorical need.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #3:--->
We wholeheartedly call upon the New Africa into existence, so as to radically redress the balance of the Old.

Is it true that when you are with your lecturer you show positive face?
And when with the watchman (who seems pretty harsh) you show negative face?
Here are SEVEN ways on how to ULTIMATELY UPGRADE your awareness on this matter!
Politeness Theory affirms that we act politely or rudely depending on whether we care.
Distinguished Developers: American anthropological linguist Penelope Brown (b. 1944)
and British social scientist Stephen C. Levinson (b. 1947)

  1. UNDERLYING Politeness Theory, is politeness, hereby construed as efforts on redressing affronts.
  2. PARTAINED is people’s self-esteems of effectively claiming positive social values in social interactions.
  3. GIVEN, such self-esteem is referred as the sociological concept of face (as in “save face” or “lose face”).
  4. REAL FACE is the positive consistent self-image or desire to be appreciated and approved of by others.
  5. ACTUAL negative face is the want of every competent adult that one’s actions be unimpeded by others.
  6. DESIRE for connection with others is positive face; negative face needs, includes desire for autonomy.
  7. EFFETE Face Threatening Act (FTA) damages the face of others by acting in opposition to their desires.
    Timely Therapy: - During any social interaction, FULL cooperation is needed to maintain each other’s face.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #4:--->
There is no such thing as conversation - it is an illusion - there are only intersecting monologues, that is all.

You have recurring interactions and connections with various people, is it not?
Have you ever pondered how these social relationships make your life meaningful?
Here are SEVEN ways on how to ULTIMATELY UPGRADE your awareness on this matter!
Social Relation is derived on social interactions, which emanates from social contacts.
Distinguished Developer: German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (1864 – 1920)

  1. UNDERSTAND: Social Relation is any interpersonal relationship between individuals or groups.
  2. POTENT groups can be a language, a social institution, an economic class, a nation, or a gender.
  3. GAINFUL social interactions form the basis of social relations, which are defined by SYMBOLS.
  4. REALLY without SYMBOLS, our social life would be no more sophisticated than that of animals.
  5. ABSENCE of symbols would make us have no aunts or uncles, employers or teachers or siblings.
  6. DUE SYMBOLIC integrations analyse how social life depends on defining ourselves and others.
  7. EXAMINED is how we make sense out of life, determine relationships or face-to-face interaction.
    Timely Therapy: - People will forget what you said or did, but remember how you made them feel.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #5:--->
We are unable to influence events in the way we want because we do not have the vital power or will to do so.

“To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.”
- British historian Theodore Zeldin (1933 - )
Can you recall how being watched by one person made you feel awkward?
But when you were being watched by two, did it make you twice as awkward? NO!
Here are SEVEN ways on how to ULTIMATELY UPGRADE your awareness on this matter!
Social Impact Theory outlines how individuals can be sources or targets of social influence.
Distinguished Developer: American social psychologist Bibb Latané (b. 1937)

  1. UNDERLYING Social Impact is any INFLUENCE on individual feelings, thoughts or behaviour.
  2. PURPOSIVELY, this is created from the real, implied or imagined presence or ACTIONS of others.
  3. GENERAL application varies from diffusion of responsibility, to social loafing, to persuading skills.
  4. READILY, four basic RULES considers how individuals can be sources or targets of social influence.
  5. ACTUAL social impact is the result of social forces including the strength of the source of impact.
  6. DECISIVELY, the immediacy of the event, and the number of sources exerting the impact are vital.
  7. EVENTUALLY, the more targets of impact that exist, the less the impact each individual target has.
    Timely Therapy: - View yourself as a Cause Artist: using your creative skills for the good of the world.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #6:--->
Ask no one’s view but your’s: any stigma will do to beat a dogma: every intellectual attitude is latently political.

Assume that you were on a long bus journey.
And a person next to you starts to discuss growing bhang.
Would you join in the conversation, speaking your true opinion?
What if this matter was controversial with many people against it, what then?
Here are SEVEN ways on how to ULTIMATELY UPGRADE your awareness on this matter!
Spiral of Silence Theory illumines on how we keep quiet if we are in the minority.
Distinguished Developer: German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916 – 2010)

  1. UNDERSTAND: Spiral of Silence Theory is a key political science and mass communication theory.
  2. PERCEPTION of the distribution of public opinion influences one’s willingness to express one’s own.
  3. GENERALLY, people influence each other’s willingness to express opinions through social interaction.
  4. ROBUST confidence with one’s opinion is when one notices that they are shared throughout a group.
  5. ACTUALLY, if a person notices unpopularity with the group one will be more inclined to remain silent.
  6. DIVISIVENESS, a public interest issue, and fear of isolation are components of the spiral of silence.
  7. ENTRENCHED belief that a minority (or different) opinion isolates oneself from others is also vital.
    Timely Therapy: - The willingness of people to express their own opinions is healthy in social growth.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #7:--->
“Money cannot buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.” - British writer S. Milligan (1918 - 2002)

“O let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always know our proper stations.”
- British novelist Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
“All service ranks the same with God—
With God, whose puppets, best and worst,
Are we: there is no last or first.
- British poet Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
“The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre,
Observe degree, priority, and place,
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Office, and custom, in all line of order.
- William Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 3
Assume that you pride yourself as being an expert on cycling. You are discussing cycling in a group and one person turns out to be the daughter, of a famous trainer and shows an even deeper understanding of cycling than you. You now have to diligently figure out how to really react to her.
Here are SEVEN ways on how to ULTIMATELY UPGRADE your awareness on this matter!
Self-Evaluation Maintenance Theory (SEM) explains how to react to threat of others.
Distinguished Developer: American social psychologist Abraham Tesser (b. 1941).

  1. UNDERSTAND: SEM concerns itself with discrepancies between two people in a relationship.
  2. PEOPLE will maintain as well as enhance their self-esteem via a social comparison to the other.
  3. GAINFULLY, self-evaluation refers to the self-perceived social ranking one has towards oneself.
  4. REALLY, it is determining personal growth, which can be raised or lowered by others behaviour.
  5. ACTUALLY, you have several choices when a friend says something that you find uncomfortable.
  6. DULY, you can distance yourself from them, or reduce the relevance of their behaviour to you.
  7. ESSENTIALLY, you can try and improve yourself, and consequently reduce the level of threat.
    Timely Therapy: - Know yourself; notice how you react to others who threaten your self-concept.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #8:--->
What is past your help is past your care, but never regard others with an indifference bordering on aversion.

“Then none was for a party;
Then all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor,
And the poor man loved the great:
Then lands were fairly portioned;
Then spoils were fairly sold:
The Romans were like brothers
In the brave days of old.”
- British politician, historian, and writer Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
Have you ever heard of a young woman called Kitty Genovese? This lady was mercilessly murdered in Queens, New York, in 1964, while her neighbours looked on and no one intervened until it was too late.
Here are SEVEN ways on how to ULTIMATELY UPGRADE your awareness on this matter!
Bystander Effect/Apathy affirms that, the more bystanders, the less likely it is one will help.
Distinguished Developer: American social psychologists John M. Darley and Bibb Latané in 1968.

  1. USUAL Bystander Effect states: One is less likely to offer help to a victim when others are present.
  2. PURELY, before helping another, a bystander progresses through a five-step decision-making process.
  3. GIVEN, one must notice that something is amiss, and define the emergency as requiring assistance.
  4. REALLY one decides whether one is responsible to act, chooses how to help, and implements this.
  5. ACTUALLY failing to notice, define, decide, choose, and implement leads a bystander not to offer help.
  6. DULY, one may fail to grant help when others who are viewed as more capable of helping are present.
  7. EVENTUALLY, bystanders are presumed to weigh the implications, costs as well as rewards of helping.
    Timely Therapy: - Positive moods duly encourage bystanders to notice emergencies and provide assistance.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #9:--->
Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on respect for humans as reasonable beings.

“O, when degree is shak’d,
Which is the ladder of all high designs,
The enterprise is sick!
Take but degree away, untune that string,
And hark what discord follows! Each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy.”
- Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 3
“Democracy is a difficult kind of government. It requires the highest qualities of self-discipline, restraint,
a willingness to make commitments and sacrifices for the general interest, and it also requires knowledge.”
- U.S. president John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Have you noticed how politicians and journalists regularly create new words? Which they seek to insert into the language? These may well be intended to trigger emotional states and specific reactions.
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Social Representation Theory (SRT) focuses on the impact of new words used to influence.
Distinguished Developer: Romanian-born French social psychologist Sergi Moscovici (1925 – 2014)

  1. UNDERLYING Social Representations are a system of values, ideas, metaphors, beliefs, and practices.
  2. PURPOSSIVELY, they SERVE to establish social order, orient participants and enable communication.
  3. GLOBALLY, two processes abides for making the unfamiliar into familiar: anchoring and objectification.
  4. REALISTIC Anchoring is ascribing of meaning to new phenomena – objects, relations or experiences.
  5. ACTUAL integration is into existing worldviews, so it can be interpreted and compared to the KNOWN.
  6. DECISIVELY, in this way, the THREAT that the strange and unfamiliar object POSES is being ERASED.
  7. ESSENTIAL Objectification is whereby something abstract is turned into something almost concrete.
    Timely Therapy: - To get an idea accepted, create a model and discuss it to embed the common concept.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #10:--->
Better the faults of living in a spirit of pure charity, than the omissions of being frozen in the ice of indifference.

Ever asked yourself why we empathise with distinct individuals,
Who are suffering far more than a large number of anonymous people?
This works because we truly connect with one person as opposed to a faceless mass.
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Identifiable Victim Effect entails empathising with one, more than many.
Distinguished Developer: American economist Thomas Crombie Schelling (1921 – 2016).

  1. USUAL Identifiable Victim Effect is the endency to offer greater aid to a specific, identifiable person.
  2. PURELY, this is when one is observed under hardship, as compared to a large, vaguely defined group.
  3. GENERALLY, the effect is also observed when subjects administer PUNISHMENT rather than REWARD.
  4. RESEARCH shows that people are more likely to METE out PUNISHMENT, even at their own EXPENSE.
  5. ACTUALLY, this HAPPENS when they are PUNISHING specific, identifiable individuals (“perpetrators”).
  6. DULY, CONCRETE images are often more powerful sources of PERSUASION than are abstract statistics.
  7. ESSENTIAL epitomisation is by the phrase: “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
    Timely Therapy: - When you are referring to a large number of people, just select one to represent the mass.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #11:--->
An African Renaissance Dream? In place of the ideal of the Power-State we are led to that of the Welfare-State.

“The work of man is only just beginning and it remains to conquer all the violence entrenched in the recesses of his passion. No race holds the monopoly of beauty, of intelligence, of strength and there is place for all at the rendezvous of victory.” - Martiniquan poet, teacher, and political leader Aimé Césaire (1913 - 2008)
Does evidence abounds of people helping others?
Do they do this purely without asking for anything in return?
Is this basically not the whole principle of charity in its essentiality?
Is their rationale for helping others often not out of Intrinsic Motivation?
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Prosocial Behaviour implies helping people with no thought of reward.
Distinguished Developer: American social psychologist C. Daniel Batson (b. 1943)

  1. UNDERSTAND: Prosocial Behaviour, is behaviour that benefit[s] other people or society as a whole.
  2. PROSOCIAL Behaviour or intent to help others is sharing, donating, co-operating, and volunteering.
  3. GENERALLY obeying the rules and conforming to accepted behaviours are also Prosocial Behaviours.
  4. REALISTICALLY, these actions may be motivated by concern about the WELFARE and rights of others.
  5. ANOTHER motive is EGOISTIC concerns, such as one’s social status, reputation or hope for reciprocity.
  6. DUE PRO SOCIALITY is central to the well-being of groups across a range of scales, including schools.
  7. EMPATHY is a strong MOTIVE in eliciting Prosocial Behaviour, and has deep evolutionary ROOTS.
    Timely Therapy: - Help others out of fullness of your heart; this is pure altruism; but beware of vampires.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #12:--->
You will receive immense love and appreciation for a heart that is kind — not for the knowledge in thy mind.

Ever heard of a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden?
Where bank employees were held hostage for six days in 1973.
Authorities were surprised when the hostages showed attachment to their captors.
Even defending the captors’ actions and would not agree to testify in court against them.
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Stockholm Syndrome is a coping mechanism to a captive or abusive situation.
Distinguished Developer: Bejerot, N. (1974). The six day war in Stockholm, New Scientist, 61, no. 886, 486-487.

  1. UNUSUALLY, when hostages are taken, some may develop positive feelings towards their captors.
  2. POSITIVE emotional bonds may be formed which include love and adoption of the captors’ beliefs.
  3. GAINFUL reasons for hostages to act this in way may start with them acting in a sympathetic way.
  4. REASONABLY, upon sustaining human contact, this is in order to seek mercy from their captors.
  5. ALSO, they may change their beliefs, to sustain internal consistency between actions and beliefs.
  6. DUE support is if the captors reciprocate civil behaviour, or at least do not abuse or threaten them.
  7. EXPLAINED is an abusive relationships where the abused person will still stand up for the abuser.
    Timely Therapy: - Try to act in a sympathetic way towards your captors to get a reciprocal kindness.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #13:--->
You live fully and perform optimally, only if you take yourself serious, even if the rest of the world does not.

Perhaps you had been involved in a certain contest match. Did you notice that you felt you could perform better when watched? As compared to when you were not being watched? Yerkes-Dodson law states that “the mere presence of other people will enhance the performance in speed and accuracy of well-practiced tasks, but will degrade in the performance of less familiar tasks.”
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Social Facilitation is how others presence helps the competent and hinders the unskilled.
Distinguished Developer: American psychologist Norman Triplett (1861 – 1934)

  1. UNHINDERED Social Facilitation is improving task performance when in the presence of others.
  2. PEOPLE do better on tasks when they are with other people rather than when they are doing it alone.
  3. GAINFULLY, this occur during performing a task in the presence of others, performing a similar task.
  4. REALISTICALLY, this occurs while not necessarily engaging in DIRECT interactions with each other.
  5. ARDENT Social Facilitation has been known to occur when performing a task in front of an audience.
  6. DECISIVELY, this occurs during periods of OBSERVATION, sometimes referred to as audience effects.
  7. ESSENTIALLY, simple tasks result in Social Facilitation within group; more complicated tasks do not.
    Timely Therapy: - Presence of others betters performance on simple tasks and worsens on complex ones.

AMOROUS ASSIMILATION #14:--->
An African Renaissance is an urge to work harder and more efficiently; to duly cut out loafing on any TASK.

“This innocent word ‘Trimmer’ signifies no more than this, that if men are together in a boat, and one part of the company would weigh it down on one side, another would make it lean as much to the contrary.”
- English politician and pamphleteer Sir George Savile (1633 - 1695)
Have you ever attended an entertainment ceremony?
Did you hear the entertainer asking an audience to scream?
As you add more people to a group, the total group effort declines.
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Social Loafing explains how we hide in a crowd, using others to conceal laziness.
Distinguished Developer: French professor of agricultural engineering Maximilien Ringelmann (1861 – 1931)

  1. UNDERLYING Social Loafing is exerting less effort to attain a goal when in a group than when alone.
  2. POSITED is why groups tend to be less productive than the combined performance of specific members.
  3. GENERAL cause stem from individual members’ feeling their personal effort will not matter to the group.
  4. REAL distinction should be from the accidental coordination problems that groups sometimes experience.
  5. ACTUAL motivational origin of Social Loafing is the lack of an understanding of individual contribution.
  6. DUE factors are unchallenging tasks, low personal satisfaction from the task, and lack of a united group.
  7. ENDEARING support to the uncommitted and creating options for independence lowers Social Loafing.
    Timely Therapy: - Supporting weaker members improves their standing while benefiting the entire team.


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