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>>>>>      1.    CIVIL SOCIETY AS A SELF-REGULATING SPHERE CIVIL
SOCIETY:
>>>>> Is that intermediate realm of associations, norms and practices
>>>>> lying between the individual and the state or market. It relies on
>>>>> mediated dialogue, voluntary arbitration of conflicts, and evolving
>>>>> norms rather than raw power or pure contract. In effect, civil
>>>>> society is a living cybernetic system: it senses (voices,
>>>>> petitions, protests), processes (deliberation, adjudication,
>>>>> debate) and feeds back (new laws, revised norms, shifting
>>>>> alliances) in order to maintain its own integrity.
>>>>>
>>>>>      2.    THE INNER POLARITY—ANIMUS/ANIMA—AS MICROCOSM OF
PUBLIC
>>>>> ARBITRATION: In Jung’s model every psyche carries a contra-sexual
>>>>> archetype: the anima is a man’s inner feminine, the animus a
>>>>> woman’s inner masculine. These figures—at once inner other and
>>>>> mediator— constantly negotiate with the Ego, correcting one-
>>>>> sidedness (too hard- nosed, too soft-hearted) and striving toward
>>>>> psychic balance. Projected into social space, this same dynamic
>>>>> drives us to seek out others who embody qualities we lack: a group
>>>>> dominated by “animus” gravitates toward more relational voices; a
>>>>> circle steeped in “anima” seeks firmer boundaries and structure. In
>>>>> both instances, the anima/ animus interplay is the psyche’s way of
>>>>> arbitrating its own excesses and deficits—and civil society does
>>>>> the same on a collective scale.
>>>>>
>>>>>      3.    Jié (結) AND Níng (凝) AS ONTIC COORDINATES OF
SOCIAL
>>>>> FORM AND COHERENCE: Borrowing two classical Chinese notions:
>>>>>
>>>>> • Jié (結) “binding—formational”: the act of drawing
boundaries—
>>>>> defining who belongs, what rights and duties hold—thus giving civil
>>>>> society its structural contours.
>>>>>
>>>>> • Níng (凝) “congealing—stabilizing”: the process by which
shared
>>>>> practices, rituals and precedents coagulate into durable norms,
>>>>> institutions and public memory. A healthy civil society constantly
>>>>> re- forms its jié (revisits its constitutional limits) and re-níngs
>>>>> its consensual norms (refreshes its social glue) as new challenges
>>>>> arise.
>>>>>
>>>>>      4.    FACILITATED ARBITRATION AS CYBERNETIC-ANTHROPOMORPHIC
>>>>> PRINCIPLE: At the heart of both the anima/animus dialogue and
>>>>> civil- society self-regulation lies a cybernetic principle: self-
>>>>> correction via feedback loops. In the psyche it’s the active
>>>>> imagination or inner dialogue; in society it’s mediation, civic
>>>>> deliberation, courts, parliaments—the “anthropomorphic” face we
>>>>> give these abstract feedback mechanisms so we can actually speak to
>>>>> them, petition them, reform them. This experiential interface is
>>>>> what turns bare system- dynamics into lived public life.
>>>>>
>>>>>      5.    Yí (疑) — DOUBT OR DEFICIENCY—WHEN CYBERNETIC
>>>>> ARBITRATION FALTERS: The character yí (疑) denotes doubt,
>>>>> hesitation, a failure of commitment. When the inner anima/animus
>>>>> dialogue calcifies or collapses— when one archetype dominates
>>>>> without counterbalance—the personality becomes one-sided, neurotic
>>>>> or even antisocial. Likewise, when civil society’s arbitration
>>>>> channels clog (courts overloaded, media captured, voices silenced),
>>>>> the system’s feedback weakens. Norms no longer congeal in shared
>>>>> trust but instead fragment into cynicism or apathy. Chronic yí
>>>>> manifests socially as delinquency (flouting the broken rules) or
>>>>> reprobation (moral exile from the public weal).
>>>>>
>>>>>      6.    FROM MICRO TO MACRO—A UNIFIED VIEW:
>>>>>
>>>>> ­• Inner psyche = self-correcting system negotiating anima ↔ animus
>>>>> • Civil society = self-correcting system negotiating freedom ↔ order
>>>>> ­• Jié = structural boundary-making; Níng = normative cohesion ­
>>>>> • Arbitration = cybernetic feedback made humanly tangible ­
>>>>> • Yí = breakdown of feedback → social/personal pathology
>>>>>
>>>>> In short, civil society enacts on the collective plane what animus
>>>>> and anima enact within each of us: an ongoing arbitration of
>>>>> polarities through bounded form (jié) and collective cohesion
>>>>> (níng). When those cybernetic loops clog—when doubt (yí) ossifies
>>>>> rather than spurring inquiry—the result is disorders small
>>>>> (delinquency) or large (systemic breakdown, moral reprobation).
>>>>> Maintaining a vibrant civil society, then, means tending both our
>>>>> inner animus/anima balance and our external mechanisms of feedback,
>>>>> boundary and communal cement."
>>>>>
>>>>> DOLF: "Firstly I cannot venture into the professional faculty
>>>>> knowledge of others by making any physiological speculation from an
>>>>> extrapolation of a metaphysical proposition such as "an ontic #22 -
>>>>> jié (結): *FORMATIONAL* (circumscribed as bounding) #135 - níng
>>>>> (凝): *CONGEALING* / [#56, #79] concept of facilitated arbitration
>>>>> as #174 - CYBERNETIC SYSTEMIC / ANTHROPOMORPHIC PRINCIPLE which
>>>>> when disordered possesses an attenuated #152 / #174 - yí (疑):
>>>>> *DEFICIENCY* / [#29, #61, #62, #22]" and neither can you proffer
>>>>> medical advice upon only hypothetical postulates as quantification
>>>>> of meta logic process on "COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS ARE BIASED,
>>>>> AUTOMATIC THOUGHTS THAT SKEW OUR PERCEPTION OF EVENTS, SITUATIONS,
>>>>> AND OURSELVES."
>>>>>
>>>>> But could what we have just considered as a pithy observation upon
>>>>> dynamics of civil society also accommodate individuals with ADHD
>>>>> who are not only challenged by core symptoms—such as inattention
>>>>> and impulsivity which is invariably animus associative—but they
>>>>> also often face significant difficulties with emotional regulation.
>>>>> These challenges can make them particularly vulnerable to cognitive
>>>>> distortions (which are numerous but we only mention here as a
>>>>> focussed context):
>>>>>
>>>>> EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND SELF-REGULATION DEFICITS: ADHD involves
>>>>> deficits in executive functioning—the cognitive processes that help
>>>>> manage thoughts, actions, and emotions. When these processes
>>>>> falter, individuals may struggle to evaluate their thoughts
>>>>> critically, allowing distortions to flourish unchecked.
>>>>>
>>>>> HEIGHTENED EMOTIONAL REACTIVITY: ADHD is frequently accompanied by
>>>>> intense emotional responses. This emotional reactivity can
>>>>> intensify distortions like emotional reasoning, where the feeling
>>>>> of distress is mistaken for an objective truth."
>>>>>
>>>>> COPILOT @ 0751 HRS ON 1 JULY 2025: "Here’s how our “psycho-social
>>>>> cybernetic” framework folds in ADHD-specific dynamics:
>>>>>
>>>>>      1.    ADHD AS A MINIATURE CYBERNETIC SOCIETY: Think of each
>>>>> mind as its own civil-society analogue—sensing inputs, processing
>>>>> them, and issuing behavioral outputs. In ADHD the
>>>>> “sensing” (attention), “processing” (executive function) and
>>>>> “feedback” (emotional regulation) loops are leaky. Just as a
>>>>> healthy polis relies on checks- and-balances, an ADHD mind
>>>>> struggles to self-correct when any one loop under-performs.
>>>>>

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