article Sociatry

[CGayle]

I want to respond to your point, ED.
I do wonder if protest is a part of the process of change.  But it cannot be
all the process of change.  I see it as ER (emergency) intervention.  But
much social activism that I have been apart doesn't seem to go beyond that.
Which is why I think the work you are doing, Ed, help in finding Moreno's
keys of understanding of sociatry, is so crucial.

Learning to role reverse and encounter is not a part of how the world works,
or how most social activists operate.  EG, there is a leading activist rabbi
who is always trying to confront a Jewish CEO of a lumber company about
destroying trees with  Biblical teachings.  This is on top of years and
years of physical protests by many at the venue.  Protesting and trying to
shame the CEO into changing has not worked.  The activists aren't able to
role reverse with the CEO of lumber industry, b/c they have demonized him so
much AND most important, they cannot understand the CEO or corporation world
view, b/c they see profit and business and how it's done as evil (and stop
there).  What the CEO and company are doing is what has been the norm in
business, and he would see no reason to do it differently.  This is the how
the system works.  Trying to get the system to change by shaming, protesting
and demonizing this CEO (or even confronting them with science of global
warming)  is just not effective.  Getting a businessman to sit down and talk
business, making it unprofitable, etc., might, b/c that would be part of his
world view.  It's different worldviews, without enough information about
each other's worlds to role reverse.

I have learned much of this first hand, from trying to understand the world
view of my father and his friends, who were in business and swallowed these
view's whole....different planet....that most of us helper, touchy-feely,
change the world types just don't begin to understand.  It's a trip, I'll
tell ya!  But they are just people on the other side doing what they think
they are supposed to be doing, stuck in their world view.

The question is, what can psychodramatists offer to help with the bigger
transformational process....the creating of the parallel universe...and I
think it is a great deal.
Cynthia


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> While I respect your perspect Cynthia, and I know from our
> conversations that we have a quite similar vision of a world
> of peace and sanity, I have difficulty with this statement:
>
> "Pinter's reaction is typical of social activism that
> only knows protest and polarization to try to stop what is happening.  And
> is a reaction typical of social activists who demonize one side over the
> other, making one side seem the innocent victim, which also is not
historically
> or currently accurate. That is confronting the dynamics of the problem
with the same dynamics; Bush
> is demonizing, so demonize back."
>
> Here is my concern:  To suggest that the problem is the back and forth
demonization of sides to another
> does not recognize the soical implications of occupation, cultural
destruction, invasion, and out and out
> rape.  The impact of just the rediation experiments the United States is
deploying in Iraq is equal, in
> the long of it - the to gas chambers of the Nazi regime, in my view of
things.  This is along side of
> what we have done here to the First Nations of this land and what we are
doing - with the rest of the world -
> to the land, air, sea, fish, birds, plants, earth.
>
> I take this point of view:  unless we address the situation, it remains
unaddressed.  How we address it is
> critical.  We have the science in our hands.  Moreno left us with the
science, albeit unfinished in the realization.
> The whole idea of sociatry is so interesting to me.  What if he left us
formulas to address the whole of mankind?
>
> That's my passion.
>
> Ed
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