The Defiant Will Of Innocent Beauty
General Dieter Llanfair, whilst being a rather flamboyant, pre-physical and slightly arrogant first officer under the control of the Asurlette seems outgoing and confident, he is actually a naturally reserved character out of uniform who is subjected to the absurd mocking by others. Despite possessing much strength with his special Asurletian sword and acute manipulation of atomic energy, he still requires the help of a Earthly, homeless girl, and a yet-to-be-born drummer boy who has an immeasurable power contained within his Kernewek drum. Needing assistance from other sources can sometimes be viewed by others as a weakness as can possessing a sympathetic nature or having a love of beautiful manifestations.
Mocking, per se, could be interpreted as a natural human characteristic that is ultimately embedded into every human's DNA judging by how easy it is for so many people to fell at ease whilst participating in such a demeaning activity. Yet, how is it that some people can succeed in resisting this non-violent assault on another? Perhaps the few who do not require to see a fellow human suffer in silence do not have the required gene to initiate such a base interaction. Perhaps it is the environment into which the perpetrator is born that programmes them into their subsequent actions. (Note that part of the word 'perpetrator' that sounds like 'traitor'. Could this be traitor to humankind?)
It soon becomes obvious that some children copy their parents' idiosyncrasies by mimicking them. If they see a relative acting in a specific way chances are they will mimic them. It becomes a situation akin a feedback mechanism in human physiology, whereby one action can become either 'positively' or 'negatively' enhanced by another action. In mimicking, it is 'positively' enhanced to propagate the action further by amplification. The 'positive' feedback mechanism though is meant to mean 'amplify' rather than indicate a 'good' response. One example of a 'positive' feedback mechanism in human biology is during childbirth itself whereby stretch receptors signal to the hypothalamus and ultimately the posterior pituitary gland to produce oxytocin. This, via the 'positive' feedback loop causes increased uterine contractions by continual amplification until the the baby is born (and the placenta is expelled) and the stretch receptors are no longer activated.
The type of feedback loop then that causes amplification not only causes physical pain until there is something intervening in the continued cycle, but can also be likened to the mocking of another human being, whether it is a child in school, a student in college or an adult in the community or work. Only when someone intervenes into the loop (after the perpetrator has amplified their learned behaviour over time) does the cycle of mocking get broken. Of course, in this case oxytocin does not cause the pain, with (the pain) being emotional, but is rather produced in smaller quantities when someone decides to comfort us as in hugging a close friend or relative for a set amount of time. The welsh word of 'cwtch' is a perfect example of the type of hug that comforts a person when they need an emotional lift. The word is specific to Welsh, and is perhaps ideally indicating the time required for the hug to be given to increase the ideal amount of oxytocin that is required at that moment.
Pertaining to General Dieter Llanfair, this is the last part of the freestyle poem I wrote whereby he thinks it to the world. The parts within speech marks are what he says out loud. The other parts will be given next time.
Red Lizard.
DON'T MOCK!
My fate that ebbs and wanes is sealed,
caught in an eddy of soulful light,
kissing those I love
in various shades of cyan streams.
Great memories of chromatic life,
you could never blight.
"There exists an era of thoughtfulness with fire."
Don't laugh at me
and ridicule,
or set your fate
to be a fool.
Don't you realise
your path is cruel.
Until you see yourself,
Don't mock!
"Cry not, for the tainted water that laps the pristine shore hides
the vivid soul of truth."
(Copyright-2022)
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