Anomie

Anomie is a state of mind brought about by weak societies, with little or no Moral guidance. It derives from the Greek word ἀνομία [ said anomia ], meaning lawlessness.

This can mean a society that is falling apart. One reason suggested by the Wiki is having two different belief systems. The current de facto rivalry between Christianity and Islam is an example. The idea is one used by Richard Cloward, a Marxist saboteur as part of the Cloward Piven strategy, his approach to destroying Western Civilization.

Light is cast on the idea by Hegel, a once famous philosopher but a surly looking rogue; he wrote about Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis, about setting two groups with opposing views to fight it out then leaving the cunning to pick up the pieces. It is what Zionist crazies are doing at the moment. They use Donald Trump to harass Iran. They have bee trying to make war on Iran using American forces. They are not stupid enough to use their own. The same Jews import millions of Third World aliens into Western Civilization while getting rid of them in Israel.

Having propagandists using one set of ideas to attack is an extra problem. It is the whole point of the Frankfurt School; it what Zionist crazies are doing as part of their Long March Through The Institutions. Using allegations about Paedophiles in The Catholic Church and the Church of England is an ugly reality; one with a degree of justification. Concealing Islamic evil is part of their strategy. The same users of the Mainstream Media are more than happy to block the far more prevalent perversions of orthodox Jews, that is Paedophile Jews. These were extensively documented by the Failed Messiah at Mikva Abuse.

 Be aware that Anomie, a lack of standards is related to Nihilism, or nothing-ism; the idea that nothing matters; that there is no point in being here. It is a powerful proposition, one that shares something with Utopianism. Professor Congdon tells us that utopianism & nihilism come from a passion for negation. It implies that Moral standards are pointless and that YOLO - You Only Live Once, leading on to broken families, Libertarianism, fornicating willy nilly.

Take the point that Richard Cloward and his wife, Frances Piven were teachers at Columbia University, the mob that nurtured the Weather Underground, a bunch of murderous Marxist criminals.

 

Anomie ex Wiki       
Anomie (/ˈænəˌmi/) is "the condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals".[1] Anomie may evolve from conflict of belief systems[2] and causes breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community (both economic and primary socialization).[3] In a person this can progress into a dysfunction in ability to integrate within normative situations of their social world - e.g., an unruly personal scenario that results in fragmentation of social identity and rejection of values.[4][citation needed]

The term, commonly understood to mean normlessness, is believed to have been popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide (1897). However, Durkheim first introduced the concept of anomie in his 1893 work The Division of Labour in Society. Durkheim never used the term normlessness;[5] rather, he described anomie as "derangement", and "an insatiable will".[6][need quotation to verify] Durkheim used the term "the malady of the infinite" because desire without limit can never be fulfilled; it only becomes more intense.[7]

For Durkheim, anomie arises more generally from a mismatch between personal or group standards and wider social standards, or from the lack of a social ethic, which produces moral deregulation and an absence of legitimate aspirations. This is a nurtured condition:

Most sociologists associate the term with Durkheim, who used the concept to speak of the ways in which an individual's actions are matched, or integrated, with a system of social norms and practices … anomie is a mismatch, not simply the absence of norms. Thus, a society with too much rigidity and little individual discretion could also produce a kind of anomie ...[8]

Etymology
The word, "a reborrowing with French spelling of anomy",[12] comes from Greek ἀνομία "lawlessness",[13][14] namely the privative alpha prefix (a- "without"), and nomos "law". The Greeks distinguished between nomos (νόμος, "law"), and arché (ἀρχή, "starting rule, axiom, principle"). For example, a monarch is a single ruler but he may still be subject to, and not exempt from, the prevailing laws, i.e. nomos. In the original city state democracy, the majority rule was an aspect of arché because it was a rule-based, customary system, which might or might not make laws, i.e. nomos. Thus, the original meaning of anomie defined anything or anyone against or outside the law, or a condition where the current laws were not applied resulting in a state of illegitimacy or lawlessness.

The contemporary English understanding of the word anomie can accept greater flexibility in the word "norm", and some have used the idea of normlessness to reflect a similar situation to the idea of anarchy. But, as used by Émile Durkheim and later theorists, anomie is a reaction against or a retreat from the regulatory social controls of society, and is a completely separate concept from anarchy, which consists of the absence of the roles of rulers and submitted.

 

Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis ex Wiki    
The triad thesis, antithesis, synthesis (German: These, Antithese, Synthese; originally:[1] Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis) is a progression of three ideas or propositions in which the first idea is followed by a second idea that negates the first, and the conflict between the first and second ideas is resolved by a third idea.[2] It is often used to explain the dialectical method of German philosopher, George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, but Hegel never used the terms himself, as instead his triad was concrete, abstract, absolute. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis originated with Johann Fichte.[1]

 

Richard Cloward ex Wiki       
Richard Andrew Cloward
(December 25, 1926 – August 20, 2001) was an American sociologist and an activist. He influenced the Strain theory of criminal behavior and the concept of anomie, and was a primary motivator for the passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 known as "Motor Voter". He taught at Columbia University for 47 years.

Cloward was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Esther Marie (Fleming), an artist and women's rights activist, and Donald Cloward, a radical Baptist minister.[3][4] Cloward served as an ensign in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1949, and then a master's degree from the Columbia University School of Social Work in 1950. He then served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1954, and later worked as a social worker in an army prison in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. Cloward became an assistant professor at Columbia's School of Social Work in 1954, and had visiting posts at the Hebrew University, the University of Amsterdam, the University of California, Santa Barbara and Arizona State University. He received a doctorate in sociology from Columbia University in 1958.

Together with fellow sociologist Lloyd Ohlin, Cloward wrote Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs, which rejected the prevailing premise that delinquency resulted from individual irresponsibility and argued it was caused by poverty and the lack of alternative opportunities caused by poverty, and that the conditions underlying delinquency could be resolved through social programs.[5]

In 1966, Cloward co-founded the National Welfare Rights Organization, which advocated federalizing Aid to Families with Dependent Children by building local welfare rolls. In 1982, he and his wife Frances Fox Piven founded "Human SERVE" (Service Employees Registration and Voter Education), which established motor-voter programs in selected states as precedents for the Motor Voter Act enacted in 1993.

Also in 1966, he and Piven published a paper in the May issue of The Nation magazine — "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty",[6] which advocated wiping out poverty by increasing demands on the federal government, leading to implementation of a guaranteed minimum income. His detractors called this the "Cloward-Piven Strategy".

 

Frances Fox Piven ex Wiki     
Frances Fox Piven (born October 10, 1932)[1] is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982.[2]

Piven is known equally for her contributions to social theory and for her social activism. A veteran of the war on poverty and subsequent welfare-rights protests both in New York City and on the national stage, she has been instrumental in formulating the theoretical underpinnings of those movements. Over the course of her career, she has served on the boards of the ACLU and the Democratic Socialists of America, and has also held offices in several professional associations, including the American Political Science Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems.[3] Previously, she had been a member of the political science faculty at Boston University.

 

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