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chris lofting

RKS wrote: “Hate is the opposite of Love, right? So if you feel love for
someone and that Love is not returned, they hate you. Or do you hate them?”

If you followed the IDM focus on weeding out the properties and methods of
emotions you would have come across the SAMENESS of anger/joy, namely the
roots in a focus on context replacement either through eradication (locally
competitive behaviour) or replication (locally cooperative behaviour) where
both being grounded in context replacement cover a non-local emphasis on
competitive behaviour. (the ‘secret agenda’ of replication being in
replacing others with copies of oneself and so drowning out the opposition)

The dynamics of anger/joy extend into the association of sexuality and
aggression and the ease in which one can turn into the other (or more so the
mixing of one and the other into hybrid forms)

Since we use the ONE set of classes of meanings so that set becomes
applicable (a) in mapping out the spectrum of emotions and (b) mapping out
the particular relationships of elements of that spectrum, here in the
anger/joy dichotomy that, when applied recursively gives us the dimension of
meaning possible for that dichotomy.

Note that the basic dichotomy of fight/flight, when recursed, shows the
opposite of anger as fear and the opposite of joy as grief. Thus the
opposite of having love is a loss of love. These opposites join up to give
us the generic concept of PASSION and if you have been in love or lost love
I am sure you have experienced the suffering involved!

The opposites can thus be mapped as:

anger/fear (fight/flight)
joy/grief
acceptance/rejection
surprise/anticipation(of wrong doing)

The complements form into:

anger/joy
acceptance/surprise
anticipation/rejection
grief/fear

The variations on a theme form into:

anger/anticipation
joy/rejection
acceptance/grief
surprise/fear

The anger/joy dichotomy sorts the classes of meanings into a particular
order that best-fits the qualities expressing anger/joy – IOW the classes
serve as source of analogy in describing the relationships and full forms of
that dichotomy expressed at a level of detail that allow for a ‘language of
anger/joy’ to be formed.

At the generic levels we can quickly map out 16 classes of meanings (eight
for joy, eight for anger) that form a dimension of qualities and include the
mixing of anger/joy and joy/anger (the different ordering of the elements
reflect different contexts in analysis). Extension then allows us to move
into 64/4096/16+million classes of meanings specific to the anger/joy
dichotomy!

In this focus anger/joy present AS IF opposites but the ordering of the
classes of meanings is not the same as in the natural ordering of emotions –
customisation takes place to bring out the local differences.

What is of interest is the development path that covers movement from a
highly cooperative position to an increasingly competitive position where
such indicates the concentration of relational ties into the individual as
cooperation is withdrawn and joy gives way to anger (in that passage we pass
narcissism that covers joy-of-self etc)

Chris.