It's The Structure Stupid- The I from We is not Me!

The active suppression of knowledge is teleological for us humans, not pointless, it seeks to create emotional consistency in systems that are inherently incomplete, like the one we rely upon for self conception, including all language bound stories of self conception derived from belonging. It does not matter if you have read Homer the bind was there before they began. Can Homer be called they, perhaps we need to ask J.K.

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Mi-iMind Position - No individual is guilty in isolation; the corruption of emergence is systemic.

The task is not to forgive but to observe and to allow emergence by acting as is in the present

The Social Lineage used as Threshold Management

1. Schoolboy Initiation (Eton / Rugby / Clongowes)

Mottos are recipes for I in Boy.
Eton: Floreat Etona — “May Eton flourish.”
Rugby: Orando Laborando — “By praying, by working.”
Clongowes: Aeterna Non Caduca — “The eternal, not the passing.”

Practices
Insider code in speech (Rugby boys say “School”; Clongowes boys say “Kildare”).
Effect
Boys internalise: We are superior. Criticism from outsiders = envy or sour grapes.
Binding
The I from We is formed. Belonging itself proves worth.

2. Old Boy Network (University / Early Career)

• School ties extend into Oxbridge, the professions, and government.
• Patronage and recognition reproduce thresholds — an “old boy” is assumed trustworthy.

Binding
The self is continuous with the institutional We. Falling out of the downward looking Holon equals self-erasure.

3. Gentlemen’s Clubs & Golf Clubs (Adult Thresholds)

• Membership by nomination and seconding; anointment by insiders.
• Clubs embody threshold management in adult form, reproducing exclusivity across generations.

Binding
By anointing others, the adult replicates the act of his own anointment.

4. Cultural Illustrations

• If…. (1968): schoolboy revolt depicted as liberation, yet still bound to the same dominance structure — authority is inverted, not dissolved.
• Animal Farm (1945): animals overthrow human oppressors, but the holon of superiority regenerates itself: “Some animals are more equal than others.”

5. Case Study: Kim Philby (Threshold Loyalty over Evidence)

• Kim Philby (Westminster, Cambridge; MI6) remained trusted despite mounting evidence of treachery.
• His pedigree overrode suspicion: to doubt Philby was to doubt the We.
• Only undeniable collapse revealed the betrayal, showing the Holon’s blindness to corruption inside itself.

6. Structural Lesson (Mi-iMind Framing)

• The lineage is not moral but structural:
• Mottos → insider speech → old boy networks → clubs → cultural myths.
• Each stage sustains the superiority of the “We” across the lifetime.
• Criticism and revolt are re-coded as either envy (sour grapes) or inverted forms of the same structure (If…., Animal Farm).
• The Holon becomes a self-sealing system: collapse comes not from critique but from systemic failure (Philby).

7. Epistemic Consequence: Corruption of Emergent Knowledge

• Systemic exclusion of women: gentlemen’s clubs, public schools, and golf clubs are explicitly male thresholds.
• False premise: that men (formed in these institutions) uniquely embody trustworthiness and endurance.
• Effect: exclusion narrows the feedback loop, producing shallows masquerading as depth.

Mi-iMind Framing

• This is not only human oppression — it is epistemic foreclosure.
• By denying access, the system suppresses what may become knowable from the information available.
• Emergent knowledge requires diverse iStates and ground-up willingness-to-know.
• Exclusion corrupts knowledge itself, binding the Holon to repetition rather than transformation.

8. Philosophical Horizon (Nietzsche → Rorty)

Nietzsche (late 19th century): “God is dead.” The transcendental ground that legitimised hierarchy and permanence dissolves.
20th century aftermath: The old Holons continue as if eternal, but without metaphysical foundation.
Rorty (late 20th century): If vocabularies are contingent, then meaning itself is dead in the old sense. The inherited structures of language and belonging no longer guarantee truth.

Result: The system is doubly exposed — not only unjust, but epistemically empty. The thresholds reproduce themselves without ground.

Contemporary consequence: The Stormy Search for the Self often becomes a sincere lifetime of Hunting The Snark — chasing “identity” where only self-sealing structures remain.

9. Observe the Corruption of Emergent Knowledge

Emergent knowledge fails not because people are wicked, but because structures bind feedback into self-sealing loops.

Structural Observations

From Why → To How: top-down justification blocks process; practice in the present reopens emergence.

From Act As If → To Act As Is: Act As If = delusionary compliance to maintain emotional balance and belonging (the inner sealant). Act As Is = clarity without pretence.

From Subject-Object Telos → To Manageable Process Purposes: unreachable ideals replaced by workable processes.

From “If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It” → To “If You Can’t Feel It, You Can’t Emerge It”: abstract metrics replaced by embodied feedback.

No Person to Blame

These corruptions are structural, not personal.

The Jesuit saying illustrates it: “Give me the child until he is seven, and I will give you the man.”

Once the structure imprints, the threshold managers can claim ownership of the mind for life.

Instruction

Observe where you are.
Notice how top-down authority replaces ground-up feedback.
See how “Act As If” is demanded to preserve belonging.
Recognise how emergent knowledge is sealed off by structures that appear virtuous.