An alien insight,
or
why somebody is interested in the distanced and the unusual?
( preliminary analysis )
Talking about the non-standard in every day rat race,
everyone can relate to their own image from non trivial youth
clothes up till the latest version of non linear dependencies.
But, what if we talk about the unusual on an average level? We
have kept in our memories the mathematic definition of
"function's important characters "about the characters which are
rather obvious for a specialist, who discovered them, but not
less complicated and boring for a student, who is preoccupied by
absolutely different tasks. What do regular people consider as a
systematic deviation from the regular life and its perception and
not just simple "a show off"? And what could be the generators of
the human para-reason subject, pushing it to something what
regular people often call "non-standard", "abnormal", possibly,
mysterious and the beyond?
With all basic approach to this text, the author devoted
many years of work to the research of this issue and as the
practice showed, through different conclusions came to unveiling
such a view on things which could be defined as external,
ex-polar in relation to the stereotyped entities (they are not
homogeneous, and we will talk about it later). To be more
precise, in the regular context, this position of perception and
conclusions could be easily referred as to that of an "alien".
The statement is very meaningful, but first we should
realize the essence of such an obvious phenomenon, which is so
rarely taken into consideration when there is plenty of more
urgent tasks and aims.
So ranging from ideas to practice, what can be a
dominating motive of a human being absorbed into fields, which
could be defined as non- standard?
The following directions loom out (in nature there can't
be absolutely clear essences, because concrete cases would
represent the following combinations)-
1. The theory of negativity: a conflict with social
establishments without a possibility of its individual
settlement. In the framework of a family, it reveals as a
teenager's negativity; in a wider concept we get hippies, punks,
"green" party and other manifestations in a greater or lesser
degree adapted to the other sides of social structures. The
aspiration to non-standard forms or ideas is not systemized
therefore there appears a necessity of uniting with the similar.
The controversy appears in a form "not like them" but "the same
as ours". Along this creativity gives ground for rather steady
environments, such as bohemia and when there is an attempt to
gain the benefit from the situation it moves rapidly into
criminality.
2. Paradox phenomenon: the socially recognized and
established manifestation of individual deflections. While in the
point 1 the subject doesn't have unique forms of contra position,
here any non- standard thing instantly gains creative form as
long as it happens in time and sometimes it is cultivated. Any
inventing, innovation in all types of art is the best form of
adaptation of personal problems and pathologies for society, as
an example we could assume that Agatha Christy would have ended
up in the mental institution without a possibility for her self
expression in her detective stories and we don't know what mania
would have developed from the infernal talent of Steven King,
although sometimes we do get side effects like in case with Van
Gauge.
3. The extreme: socially tolerant expression of emotional
discomfort, individually solvable without creative work. I.e.
individual non- standard is not sufficient and hormone factors
demand urgent realization- you can go for a long sail, roam your
vacation away in the North, go for alpinism, stunts, get a
mercenary job, the society outlines the environments on its
margins for these kinds of forms, although if we turn our
attention inside, the extreme will come out as a romantic
adventure up till polygamy, polyandry or the arrangement of a
home casino.
4. Problematic needs: the existing state doesn't give
satisfaction; there is an interest to find some practical ideal
panacea. Where and how it will be found is another issue. It
could reveal in a form of an American farmership at the
background of soviet collective farms or shouting out communist
slogans by the elders recalling "how it was back then with
L.Brezhnev". The idea forms could be expressed in any kind of
dissidences as well as untraditional forms of healing "from
everything" and the creation of universal theories. In the most
concrete forms we get the manufacturing of the counterfeit but
unavailable product on the market, the demand for the presidents'
resignation, on who we used to rely all our hopes as well as the
foundation of sects (something similar to the UFO)
5.The sacred: the search of harmony through breaking and
rebuilding stereotypes which can lead to the "catching" of the
feeling of the supernatural, the beyond, the conscious of outside
oneself. To put it simply, it starts with getting over the
boredom by means of mystifications and the recreation of
extraordinary forms say cultural little-known customs (where the
mystification flourishes as a distinct target of academic
science). Since in this particular case the subject doesn't
conflict with the social environment but enriches his ideas about
it, then according to the invested energy the person gets
involved in the individual development. The result leads to
mastering yoga techniques, exotic dances and ceremonies and
realizing the other than well known forms of perception on the
verge of psychic pathologies ( this is an issue of the conscious'
strength). The latter detail is typical for this direction, since
even intentional Chinese tea drinking ceremony in the Russian
rural environment would look like insanity.
The next stage of analyses could be the activity
orientation of the outlined directions. It doesn't matter to what
extent the separate subject is fond of non-standard activity or
self-expressions, the process of the summary of similar acts will
inevitably result to the phenomena of some certain order. Having
defined such an orientation we can already understand not only
the motif of a singular peculiarity or character but a character
of happening processes in the human environment.
1. Negativity. Due to some outlined individual
aspirations and inclinations there is an obvious aspiration to
communication and value support. It is important that such an
"energy outlet" occurs in the absence of reasonable suggestions
by the social environment. In fact, we observe the unstable
appearance of some zones of instability, which on the contrary
are the most dangerous ecological niches of the existing social
system. No matter how suspicious and even criminal such a special
environment would seem like, it is already separated making the
interaction with it possible one way or the other. For a hard
core negativist the essential orientation of all his movements
and acts is targeted at the forming of a new circle.
We could add something "more convenient", however the
levels of convenience could be different (a criminal is more
convenient to the criminal environment or a prison rather than to
a favorable regular existence from where he dropped out)-and the
consideration of this topic would take us off the main issue. In
any case it is implied that a new co-circle and some sort of
comfort in it are indispensable for a person to keep his almost
static state of the non-standard while changes occur in the outer
world.
2. Paradox
To be continued...