Encyclopedia Analytica - 21st Century Human Condition
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The Mantis Institute, initiators of teachings and analects drawn from diagnostic, prescriptive and prognostic analysis, is recognized for research that combines scientific and metaphysical knowledge that provide meaningful interpretations on the complexities of civilization, the nature of collective consciousness, and the implications of automated life by Artificial Intelligence.

Teaching in university and high school settings, serves as a motivational basis for initiating open-source knowledge; lessons, developed in the classroom, being accessible to broader audiences. Analects are psychoanalytical narratives emphasizing ethically based education, governance, and humane, rational social practices to treat social problems.

Analects that attempt to be balanced by the inclusion of alternative perspectives, will find little if no space in the middle of "no man's land." Analyzing society based on experiences and an education in the social sciences is no guarantee of objectivity. To feign objectivity, research must pass the test of peer review by institutions controlling the narrative. Yet, the analogy and the analysis rationales of Social Science were developed by the the mavericks of the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Modern Ages negotiating with or reacting to the powers of the era.

To escape mediocrity, some minds aspire to be initiators of the "new" benefitting society, but that is rarely the case within monolithic institutions. It is a perplexing task to "thread the needle" of objectivity that examines forces that control its uses. Institutions do generate objective information but put it to subjective ends. Yet, the purpose of "thinking" is to predict the future to escape the past by having information on uncomfortable suppressed subjects. To speak of what is questioned and cautiously whispered by the skeptical and ethically motivated are good deeds indeed. So, like the past, wisdom knows, that now and in the future - "no good deed goes unpunished."

Few are born teachers, for the natural teacher knows when to ignore, bend, or break the rules; understands that students outnumber the teacher, but the teacher outweighs them. Most are concerned with what teachers do to students, but few are interested in what students do to teachers good or bad; impulsive idealism versus seasoned cynicism.

It is difficult to teach the factual truth that power monopolies are insulated from an existence controlled and institutionally imposed on many others. Yet the bitter sweet fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, in the keeping of the gods is mastered through the School of Life, places where teachers must provide balanced answers to uncomfortable questions raised by pupils; an encounter between idealism and organized cynicism.

Akin to pupae of a beehive require feeding, teachers of antiquity were surrounded by young disciples in a close relationship examining Providential Purpose. These masters were Great Ethicists of antiquity living within oppressive societies. Their analects have stood the test of time because they emphasize ethics and touch upon the psychology of the paranormal. Like disciples of antiquity, idealists, aspirants believing in a better world, their conscience is molded by experiences with failed role-models and few spiritual mentors, they seek the prophetic pragmatists of assurances.

Teachers as technicians, distanced from pupils, are proctors of approved materials. Civic classes and school rituals support the state; and counselors, trained in behavioral psychology of the "carrot and stick" increase the distance between teacher and student. It is difficult to counsel students dealing with life when teachers are reluctant to answer social and personal questions: "Why is life unfair?" Or, "Who am I?" Questions not easily answered at the university either where the capricious winds of "correctness" dictate the answers. Social Science studies free of value or beliefs are non-existent - only a question of the motive for "doctoring the information."

The Grand Narrative of the West is Judeo-Christian in ethics; reasoning drawn from the Renaissance, the "Analogy," the “Analysis” from the Enlightenment Age, and the Modern Age legitimating reason into institutionalized life. Yet in the Postmodern Age, these narratives, the creeds of ethics and reasoning are the face that conceals "the powers behind the throne" that practice the vices of unrestrained desire.

Life and its rituals are like a play; a theatre of stories of good and evil; of playwrights and their half-truths written for producers of realties. arratives are works of persuasion. Most narratives are cynical, fearful and hateful, a few inspirational, and fewer still, rational or ethical in placing the stability of "the village" over ambitions of power. The "tone" of the language reflects authority - legal or social power authoring "scripts" that either stabilize or destabilize society. Theatre, where plays are staged; actors played by the alluring voices of digitized tonalities, AI actors seducing the audience with disinformation to affect thoughts, emotions and [reactive] behaviors.

Modernity sought the virtues of knowledge, not the vices of ignorance; prosperity was to be to the benefit of all. Freud wrote of human nature concocting rationales legitimating irrational desires. Yet despite religious or scientific bodies of knowledge, still society is plagued by psychosis. Trust society and those that seek to control it to be what it is - psychotic - the "rule of the jungle," self-interest over idealism.

The sources of disinformation are authorized authors of authority. Their narratives, authored on behalf of power, are intended to "trigger" emotions of the targeted that confirms or negates one's values to the point of delusional belief, disbelief or apathy. The educated, socialized to believe "they know better," and the semiliterate that bear the burdens, are "triggered" by storytellers "fanning" an ideology engineers confrontations. Critical inquiry of openly questioning corrupted power as a source of instabilities that binds the sociopathic while alienating the ethical, elicits out of balance emotional and physical reactions.

Mantis [< NL < Gk: mantik(os) for prophet] Social Science Analytics, "centered" at the crossroads of beliefs, contributes alternative perspectives by delving into the complexities of society and the currents of chaos in an exploration of uncomfortable topics revealing the human condition. Analytics presented in a Dictionary of Social Knowledge based on extensive research advocating progress through ethical governance and institutional practices that mitigate suffering and preserve dignity. Narrative Basis of organized bodies of Knowledge

Analytical and metaphysical narratives, are commentaries and storytelling "through the eyes" of the prophetic pragmatist reflecting upon paradoxical enigmas encountered within institutions, cultures and people "from all walks of life." An initiator of teachings and analects drawn from social diagnostics and prognostics, and metaphysics. Classified as social psychology studies by Cambridge and Oxford Libraries.

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