hiding in plain sight

all deviants must do this.  indeed, every individual is their own person so that everyone deviates.  the norm is platonic.

the various requirements of the evolved agreements of allowable ways to behave are meant to substitute for the application of force by personal whim.  some rigor is required by participants in such violence-reducing schemes in order to restrain and forestall the violence.  The hard edge of the inwardly peace-enforcing culture has to adequately deal with the potential for violence at its territorial & conceptual edges.  The required rigor is difficult to calibrate, easy to abuse, easy to do wrong. 

it is necessary to have this acknowledgement of an edge to a culture by its participants.  it is necessary that there be agreement at some level by the participants of a culture on how things are done.  the alternative is personalized violence on whatever scale the warlords happen to be operating on.  who are the warlords?  they are the people who like to make war.  either the peaceful people hire them or they go into business for themselves.  there are plenty of them around: people who like to fight, enough of them to force their way of life on the rest of us pretty much constantly during human history.  culture is an ongoing varied attempt to bottle the violent people and keep them within something otherwise they would take over the world and fight forever because that is what they like to do.

the peaceful people have to talk the fighters into not fighting.  the fighters would rather fight.  sometimes the peaceful people have to make up stuff to tell the fighters, other times they have to threaten to do something they declare to be "bad" that is or isn't violent itself, or they have to give the fighters something to do: give them some trouble to keep them out of trouble, maybe even make something up.  it doesn't always work.  fighters regularly take over governing systems, go to war, make messes and debts.  all sorts of problems emerge when one is working in an emergency.

we could kill all the fighters but that probably wouldn't work.  it seems to be a thing that comes out in the male gender.  would have to kill all the males.

predeliction to violence:
   step on the bug.  bug dies.  half step on the bug.  bug half dies.  front half tries to get away from squashed back half.  maybe it does, front half goes crawling off oozing goo from behind.  collapses, wiggles legs, twitches, dies.
   chop worms into pieces, wriggling pieces of worm pain as they try to get away from the monster who smears the pieces into the ground then picks up unsmeared wiggly pieces and shows them to a girl.  If the girl is a bird or maybe even a monkey she's going to eat the pieces, if she's a human maybe she's going to go "yuk" and maybe the 10 year old torture boy will take them and rub them into the hair of a convenient peripheral male or maybe he's so deep into pain creation that he tries it on the girl and trouble can emerge because maybe that's kind of over the line for that culture maybe (or maybe the peripheral male or the girl had training in the ways of war, it is not impossible that 10 year olds can have that training.
   public torture and execution wildly popular spectacles throughout human history.  public eating (of dead things) one of greatest human funs.  public sex (as opposite of violence, more on that later), very rare.  public pooping and peeing (as opposite of eating) essentially does not happen in human culture, when it does it is described as social failure.
   violence: some people that is what they live for.

megalomania: many of us have experienced that.  in 1979 i used an accellerant during the iran hostage crisis, right at the beginning.  i was as the facebook group "new to islam" was toying with the possibility of a muslim identity to wear.  the crisis brand new, that night a bunch of notables at sunni al-azhar univ in cairo issued a statement calling on the shi'a (dogs) in iran to release the embassy staff, one of the charges was that the embassy was a nest of spies, the azharis announced of course its a nest of spies, that's what embassies are.  and i thought in my accellerant modified state (annoying to people in the apartment who had to go to school/work tomorrow but i didn't care, accellerated was what i was) you know, maybe something can be done.  i was in nyc, i imagined going to the un to pray, people would ask me, i'd tell them i was there to pray for hostage release, come join me, it would spread, the whole world would stop & pray, the game players in iran would be melted gandhi-style & the world would be saved.
   next day i have enough oomph in "me" to sell that crazy vision on my girlfriend, we subwayed up to the un & did a couple of hours of prayer out on the sidewalk.  some people stopped to talk, some took pictures, none joined us.  we gave up & went on with our lives.  do you suppose if we had stayed there for 40 days & 40 nights it would have worked?  40 years?