Articles:
Number 1. (8/24/99) Discussion of hatred and a poem called Hatred

Number 2. (8/25/99) A discussion on the words opinion, belief, and knowledge.

Number 3. (8/26/99) Hate Addiction; Letter to NY Times (One of countless examples of how the P/R paradigm has no clue about certain feelings and behaviors that fit right into the Hypoism paradigm)

Number 1. Discussion of hatred and a poem called Hatred

Hatred stems from revenge and xenophobia, two powerful and deadly instincts. My experience with the general populous is that their hateful instincts have been keenly stimulated against drugs, addicts, and addictions because of ignorance, fear, stigma, and prejudice producing propaganda. One bad apple spoils the barrel, so to speak, in their minds. This hatred and disgust for addicts poisons all rational thinking about addictions and addictors. All irrational hatred can be seen as stemming from these issues and the ones mentioned below. They're all the same. Irrational hatred for people different from you results in all the undeserved persecution, discrimination, and genocide ever exiting. Look at yourself and your irrational fears and hatreds when you read this poem. See if you have some irrational beliefs that need to be either explored (for evidence of rationality) or dumped. Irrational beliefs are at the basis for 99% of all damage done by addicts, addictions, and people trying to control them. Let's begin to critically review these beliefs.

Robert Pinsky is the poet laureate of the USA and ocassionally hits the mark. This poem does for sure.

ROBERT PINSKY: "The cycles of mistrust, savagery, revenge and violation in the Balkans remind us what a powerful, important force hatred is in the world. Hatred drives much of what happens, public as well as private. The Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska comments on hatred in her poem of that title. Here it is, as translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh:"

See how efficient it still is,
how it keeps itself in shape-
our century's hatred.
How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles.
How rapidly it pounces, tracks us down.

It's not like other feelings.
At once both older and younger.
It gives birth itself to the reasons
that give it life.
When it sleeps, it's never eternal rest.
And sleeplessness won't sap its strength; it feeds it.

One religion or another -
whatever gets it ready, in position.
One fatherland or another -
whatever helps it get a running start.
Justice also works well at the outset
until hate gets its own momentum going.
Hatred. Hatred.
Its face twisted in a grimace of erotic ecstasy.

Oh these other feelings, listless weaklings.
Since when does brotherhood draw crowds?
Has compassion ever finished first?
Does doubt ever really rouse the rabble?
Only hatred has just what it takes.

Gifted, diligent, hard-working.
Need we mention all the songs it has composed?
All the pages it has added to our history books?
All the human carpets it has spread
over countless city squares and football fields?

Let's face it:
it knows how to make beauty.
The splendid fire-glow in midnight skies.
Magnificent bursting bombs in rosy dawns.
You can't deny the inspiring pathos of ruins
and a certain bawdy humor to be found
in the sturdy column jutting from their midst.

Hatred is a master of contrast-
between explosions and dead quiet,
red blood and white snow.
Above all, it never tires
of its leitmotif - the impeccable executioner
towering over its soiled victim.

It's always ready for new challenges.
If it has to wait awhile, it will.
They say it's blind. Blind?
It has a sniper's keen sight
and gazes unflinchingly at the future
as only it can.back

Number 2. A discussion about the words opinion, belief, and knowledge.

Dear Mr. Downs:
As your "insite" (at abc.com) discusses, people mistakingly equate knowledge and beliefs. You should do a program on the difference. Opinions are preferences concerning alternative choices. They may be based on rational (proven according to the scientific method-knowledge) or irrational, based on beliefs (unable to be proven by any means by their very nature, such as creationism). Therefore, opinions are just that, and should be given no weight or credence when making policies. As you point out, the mistake is when someone misrepresents belief for knowledge. This mistake is the cause of all our problems as humans. Knowledge comes only from the use of the scientific method and the precise use of this method, a critical point. Knowledge is a cortical (part of the brain) issue, and thus is devoid of emotion per se. Belief, on the other hand, is a limbic (the instinctive and emotional part of the brain) issue, and is accordingly, full of emotion. Belief always stems from unprovable ideas, ideas where the scientific method does not apply. Thus, there is no way to even have a debate between a cortical idea and a limbic idea, and we should stop trying. There can be no debate between creationism and evolution. It is a non-debate. I call the misrepresentation of a limbic idea for a cortical idea corticolimbic dissociation, a term that clarifies this conceptual problem of verbal differentiation between the cortical word knowledge, and the limbic words like opinion, belief, feeling, and conviction. Corticolimbic dissociation is the cause of all discrimination, genocides, witch hunts, prejudice, and other forms of instinctive interpersonal violence. What we must do, however, besides clarifying the difference between belief and knowledge, is to use the word KNOWLEDGE more critically. This point is where you guys, the media, must be chided and called on the carpet. The way you publically report knowledge and "studies" is the reason why most people don't know the difference between an idea that stands up to the scrutiny of the scientific method and one that can't and doesn't. You guys report these ideas equally. This produces an ignorant and uncritical public who has no respect for valid studies because they can't tell the difference between a valid and invalid study. Read, Why People Believe in Weird Things, by Schermer. This problem is discussed well there.

My particular interest is in the area of addictions. No where is the problem of corticolimbic dissociation more prevalent. Please review my web site, www.hypoism.com, where I present my hypothesis on the disease that underlies all addictions. In my book, Hypoic's Handbook, I discuss corticolimbic dissociation at great length and demonstrate how invalid science (based on belief) has produced an addiction paradigm that is killing countless addicts of all kinds and their families. The public and the media buy into that paradigm because they can't tell the difference between valid science and nonsense, much like the evolution-creationism non-debate. The media promotes this pseudoscience without ever having taken a critical and rational look at it. The media BELIEVES the experts just like many people literally believe many religious ideas. The word expert has been misused for years just like the word opinion. You guys are largely responsible for this mislabeling. So, why should the general public be any better at this task then you are? They aren't. But, at least you have a chance to change these mistakes you are making. You are aware of them, are you? Or, do you believe in weird things too?

I challange you to take on corticolimbic dissociation as it relates to addiction with me so that we can, together, bring a stop to the mass destruction of addicts of all varieties who have no idea what makes them do what they do. back

Number 3. (8/26/99) Hate Addiction letter to the NY Times

Dear letters,
In the op-ed piece, They Hate. They Kill. Are They Insane? By ALVIN F. POUSSAINT, the question, Why, is asked but not really answered. It can't be presently answered because there is no real psychiatric paradigm that either understands certain haters who kill or for that matter, many other areas of addictive human feelings or behavior.

Hate exists in everyone because it stems from instincts common to all humans, revenge, xenophobia, envy, and others. The twist that psychiatrists don't understand is that some people (hypoics) actually get addicted to these instincts (with or without the coexistence of more common addictions) and act them out in various destructive ways. The addiction paradigm believed by psychiatrists currently has no place for the phenomenon I just put forth. My addiction paradigm, about which I have written you for over 7 years, The Hypoism Paradigm of Addictions, described in my book, Hypoic's Handbook, and web site, www.hypoism.com, is fully aware of hate as an addiction for some rare and unfortunate hypoics as well as many other feeling and behavior addictions that are completely misunderstood by psychiatrists, psychologists, and consequently, the general public as well. The etiologic concept disclosed in Hypoism, the disease behind all addictions and other human limitations, is that the system in the brain that has evolved to use human instincts is the same one that produces addictions in certain people who have a genetically deficient instinct reward mechanism working within the hypoic decision-making apparatus. Thus, all addictions come from the inexorable use of instincts (so-called behavioral addictions) or chemicals (so-called drugs) that are substitutes for or stimulators of the actual neurotransmitters (critically deficient in hypoics) used for rewarding the use of these instincts. The paradigm is realistic, simple, comprehensive, and explains the so-called "compulsive" (what I call, "against ones will") or inexorable nature of addictions, its multifarious forms, and only in those people critically genetically deficient in the activity of this system (hypoics).

Check out my web site and book, and join me in a most practical paradigm that not only explains a variety of disparate "behaviors," but also provides a realistic solution without which there is no meaningful way to deal with any of them. Period.back