Language truly affects our lives. utilized by talented individuals can be an highly effective tool. The Greeks knew it, the Romans worked it out. The cabalists based their full mystics on the language. Today, we observe propaganda specialists who, like priests in ancient Egypt, control masses with this knowledge.
Provocation is 1 of the most commonly utilized control methods. all day we hear individual being provoked to something or individual else being a provocation. We think we know precisely what we're dealing with. We feel the provocation as if "subcutaneous". If we tried to specify this phenomenon, how many of us could do it precisely? What is provocation, and how does it affect our lives and lives? Is there a single definition? What is the essence of provocation? I will effort to answer these questions in this article.
Polish Translator it defines it as this: "a sneaky action to get individual to do a certain thing, usually harmful to him and those associated with him"1.
Another definition is given by Mirosław Karwat: “We call a provocation an act that either artificially induces or regulates (it inhibits, accelerates, increases, marginalizes) certain phenomena convenient for a given entity, or is specified an intervention in events, their interpretation, their continuation which prejudges something”2.
The 3rd definition, which originates from the branch of the II General Staff of the Polish Army, is: ‘a deliberate action aimed at causing specified acts or triggering specified reactions on the part of the individual concerned, or a full series of persons who would not usually have occurred’3.
Significant in any provocation is that the actual nonsubjective of action remains hidden from the victim of provocation at all times. Provocation occurs erstwhile adequate emotional charge is collected, which produces a certain effect. The effect can be different.
In this text I would like to address the subject of provocation by analysing respective cases and showing the critical cybernetics of feedback.
Examples
Example 1. On April 15, 2010, shocked by the fresh government disaster, the Tupolev activists of ZHP, ZHR and the Association of Catholic Scouts decided to celebrate the memory of the victims and placed a cross on Krakowskie Przedmieście. People gathered under him at prayers, a joint vigil, lighting candles, singing spiritual and patriotic songs. Right after winning the second round The 2010 presidential election, asked by the GW writer about the location of the cross, Bronisław Komorowski replied: “The Presidential Palace is simply a sanctuary of the state. The cross, which was understandable, was put in the temper of mourning, but mourning passed, and these matters must be arranged. The cross is simply a spiritual symbol, so it will be transferred to another, more appropriate place in cooperation with church authorities.”4. There has been a political push for the cross to stay where it stands or a better solution would not be suggested by president Elekt to relocate the symbol. This angered a group of people who went to past under the name “defensors of the cross”. 2 people came out of this group: “Andrzej from the cross” and “Joanna from the cross”, who were immortalized in many photographs, thanks to the media “hunting witches”. And so we saw these people throwing themselves desperately at the cross and attaching themselves to it, shouting many slogans specified as: “We will not give the cross!”, “Here is Poland!”, “Jarek! Jarek!”, and on the another hand countermanifests of supporters of the transfer. In a word: the nativity scene and it is 1 that Poland lived for six months. Who were those people? According to the press, these people turned out to be provokers. Andrzej from the cross is truly Andrzej Hadacz, whose image was created in 2010. PO utilized it in a place entitled “They are going to elections, and you?”. A year after Smolensk events and the defence of the cross, he acted as a keen fan of Janusz Palikot and LGBT activist-promoter. It was akin with Mrs. Joanna from the cross, actually Joanna Budzinska. It turned out that she's most likely besides connected to PO5. Like in the Lion Rywin affair, we had to deal with a "order-to-order act", and in this case the provocation was ordered.
Example 2. There are times erstwhile provocation is aimed at a well-defined social group or group with any consistency. specified provocations are a real nightmare of demonstrations and marches of all kinds, as was seen during the 2011 independency March erstwhile many incidents occurred. Even before the start of the fresh planet demonstration itself, there were clashes with a group of about a 100 people of German nationality, who in an effort to control the situation by the police began to fight with officers. Another incidental occurred on Marszałkowska Street, erstwhile participants of the march were blocked by “anti-fascist” activists who decided to treat them with bottles. It wasn't the end of the incidents. At about 5:00 p.m., people emerged from the march group that attacked journalists. TVN's broadcast car was set on fire. Shortly after the 17th hour, the assembly was dissolved. The participants left the Square at the Rozdroż, where flowers were laid under the monument of Roman Dmowski and the name was to give speeches. A group of hooligans were left at the scene and clashed with the police. In total, the police stopped 210 people6. March is simply a manifestation that forms part of the celebration of the day of regaining independency and takes place cyclically all year. Questions can be asked: why did the Warsaw authorities in 2011 agree to the countermano of the “anti-fascist” demonstration practically in the same place? What was the intent of this decision? Everything seems likely to be a political provocation aimed at national environments. According to the Roman maxim, “divide et impera“ To divide the people by showing nationalistic environments as vandals and kibols was to discredit the emerging national movement.
Example 3. This is completely different from the case of provocation itself erstwhile various utmost movements are active in the action of the already existing protests. specified events we had the chance to watch in this year's 2020 erstwhile the assassination of black Georg Floyd triggered a wave of protests in the United States. It became a spark triggering a burden of emotion that the BLM activists utilized (Blak Lives Matter – Black lives matter). Racial tension in SZAP7 It has intensified since 2012 erstwhile Tayvon Martin's assassination has contributed to the establishment of the BLM movement, whose authoritative intent is to draw attention to the unfair treatment of black people by public authorities in the States. The movement gradually went professional, utilizing anti-racist rhetoric, Panafrican in many protests at the beginning of its activities (first protests in 2014 in Ferguson and St Louis) until calling for the repair of black people in connection with slavery (2016). Through these protests, he gained global publicity. As it shortly turned out, another groups of activists, including arrogant Boys, were besides curious in participating in this action.8 Antifa9. The first organization was founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes. arrogant Boys is simply a purely male, radical, far right organization. As we can learn from the American press, there have been respective incidents involving this group, including in 2017, erstwhile the “sudden boys” at the University of fresh York urged the crowd to fight “black fags”. On the another hand, the barricades stand Antifa, which, as the name itself suggests, is an highly left-wing and highly extremist organization. Its roots date back to 1932, erstwhile anti-fascist militias began forming in Germany. Both organizations usage protests to accomplish their own goals, adding "oil to the fire". We should think about that. Antiphs' actions indicate control from abroad. There are respective abroad centres that are afraid about the social call in the US due to the fact that it draws attention from external issues, focusing it on home matters of the country.
Example 4. Back in our backyard, I would like to present an example of the usage of provocation in advertising. In 2013, Heyah decided to usage Lenin in 1 of its spots. There was a movie in which a miniature Lenin, jumping out of the eye of an actress, appealed to the revolution and proclaimed “sixty minutes to all networks for 1 gold”10. The provocation has reached its intended goal. This caused a immense wave of outrage. Comments were made specified as: “How can you not know who Lenin was”, “this advertisement refers to totalitarianism” etc. This definitely attracted the public's attention to the company's campaign, which cleverly withdrew from further advertising and officially apologized for the content.
How does provocation work?
The provocation is usually controlled and is simply a carefully thought-out social control technique. It is utilized by politicians, divers, corporations and average people. The victim of provocation does not know that he is the subject of the attack, and the mark itself is most frequently hidden. In this process, emotional possible must be accumulated and the dynamics of the provocation itself depends on it.
To better realize the rule of provocation, I would like to present the feedback mechanics described by cybernetics to the reader. Cybernetics, or the discipline of steering, has an highly precise conceptual apparatus allowing you to penetrate the essence of things. 1 of the phenomena described by this discipline is the feedback mechanism.11. We request to realize that each of us is constantly operating around, to which we, in turn, besides act. specified interactions are called feedback. How's that for provocation? In order to origin the effect, you gotta act with stimulus. The stimulus can be material (e.g. in the form of tasks) physical pain), information (e.g. praise) or mixed (e.g. discrimination combined with a material award). In order to be effective, it needs to be decently selected, while the reaction depends on reactivity, or susceptibility to stimuli. This leads us to the conclusion that it is impossible to origin a reaction erstwhile the reactivity of the strategy is equal to zero or the stimulus is not provided. It should be remembered that each of us has a different level of perception, and there are different incentives that depend on, among another things, the motivation that we follow.
How do you defend yourself against provocation?
Once we're in the crowd during protests, we request to be sane. Provocators are callers. If we are leading the protests, it is crucial to be delicate to the order services, which should be part of any well-organised demonstration, so that people are caught overactive from the crowd and pacified.
Let us remember the feedback and reduce our reactivity. In order to accomplish this, let us proceed to guarantee that the issues that bring us emotions, survey and draw conclusions. Only reliable cognition gives insight into reality, so you should avoid parainformation and pseudoinformation. It is worth keeping in head that political conflict is implemented in different ways, and provocation is 1 of the methods of achieving this goal. Let us besides bear in head our motivations. The revision of our own beliefs and values should be crucial to us.
Each of us is liable not only for himself but besides for others, for those who are weaker and possibly incapable to cope alone. That is why knowing the essence of provocation is so important. This cognition may depend on whether we are controlled or whether we are "gentlemen of the situation." Let us not let others usage us for their purposes.
Arkadius Olejniczak
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