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Anankelogy offers the public three levels: academic anankelogy, applied anankelogy, and accessible anankelogy. Each with its specific focus. This post focuses on applied anankelogy. The Anankelogy Foundation seeks to make all three an everyday reality.
Applied anankelogy is much like clinical psychology. It puts anankelogical ideas to work in everyday situations. As an applied science that recognizes the objective fact of our natural needs, it complements or competes with other institutional responses to our many needs.
In contrast to the mostly rational-legal approach of institutions like politics and the court system, applied anankelogy takes a more empirical approach. It holds power accountable to resolving our inflexible needs, removing our consequential pain, and raising our functional levels.
Applied anankelogy implements this by forming of a new professional field called need-response. With anankelogical tools, such as a disciplined mutualizing process, need-response more effectively addresses our many needs. And can solve those problems neglected by other options overlooking the specifics of the needs themselves.
Here lists just some of the benefits of this more loving approach of need-response, or NR for short.
NR prioritizes the resolving of needs over the relieving of pain.
NR expands your potential to reach more of your functional capacity.
NR offers a loving alternative to the “oppo culture” ripping us apart.
NR holds authority accountable to its purpose to serve our needs.
NR provides a disciplined mutualizing process to resolve all affected needs.
1. NR prioritizes the resolving of needs over settling for less.
The more you rely on authorities to ease the pain of your unmet needs, the more you will stay trapped in managed pain. Political and judicial authorities can only offer relief to the winning side in an election and court battle, respectively. The losing side gets to keep their troubling pain, perhaps more.
NR raises the bar. It provides tools to more fully resolve your needs. The more fully your needs resolve, the less dependent upon authority or laws you must be. There is no greater authority under heaven than resolved needs.
2. NR enables you to work through pain to finally remove it.
There is no such thing as pain apart from unresolved needs. It is literally impossible to experience any pain when all of your needs remain fully resolved. Pain and desire can only occur when your body perceives a threat or depletion. Once all threats feel removed and anything lacking gets fully replenished, all discomforts naturally dissolve.
NR provides tools to stretch your potential to endure life’s natural moments of discomfort. Modern conveniences have sapped our ability to tolerate natural levels of pain. NR can restore you to your capacity to accept natural loads of pain, to get to the underlying needs provoking such pain, and then to fully resolve such needs to remove the cause of such pain.
3. NR expands your potential to reach more of your functional capacity.
Anankelogy recognizes a range of functional capacity. Too many of us miss reaching our peakfunctional potential. We slip too easily into the comfort zone of symfunctionality, as we habitually depend upon one another to scratch and crawl through life.
Instead of stretching out to reach life’s full potential to respect each other’s inflexible needs, we expect others to respect our needs without offering as much to respect their needs. NR encourages us to shift from pouring our precious life energy into opposing one another to investing in the needs of others. The more of us practice this potential to be more loving, with these anankelogical tools, the less trouble we face in daily life. We find ourselves empowered to see each challenge as an opportunity to be our best.
4. NR offers a loving alternative to the “oppo culture” ripping us apart
If you jumped on the bandwagon of outrage culture, NR can help you disembark into a pleasant world of meaningful peace. The more responsive to the inflexible priority of needs on each side in the culture war, the more you can dissolve the tensions with the power of love.
Instead of kneejerk opposition to seek relief, NR raises the standard of seeking to solves problems by addressing the needs on all sides of a conflict. You respect their needs as you would have them respect yours. If you cannot change your needs to fit their expectations, why should they change theirs to fit your preferences?
NR negates popular misinterpretation around moral relativism or “moral neutrality” and around “bothsidesism”. Reliable critique applies to what we do about our needs and can never apply to the natural existence of the needs themselves. All morality—what we regard as good or bad about what we do about our needs—is relative to the needs themselves.
What some claim as a false balance actually occurs as a false dilemma—since our natural needs can never oppose the natural needs of others. You can contest another’s stance on private gun ownership, but you argue in vain against their underlying need for personal security. You can contest another’s stance on gun control, but you argue in vain against their underlying fear of gun-involved violence. NR warns you to never oppose the underlying needs themselves.
Opposing what others need does not extinguish moral conflict, but enflames it. Conflating your opposition to what others insist you do about their expressed needs along with the inflexible needs themselves guarantees you will slip deeper into moral conflicts.
NR unpacks such mistaken oppositions that are widely encouraged by media institutions and law-based institutions of politics and the judiciary. By affirming each other’s unchosen, inflexible needs, we make it possible to vulnerably admit how our need-informed actions can negatively impact others. Only by being more honest with each other, to face more of reality, can we find lasting peace.
NR applies this to address the problem of political polarization and adversarial justice. Harmony Politics is one project aiming to apply this need-responsive approach to address polarized politics. Another need-responsive project seeks to address the problem of wrongful convictions underserved by law-based institutions.
5. NR holds authority accountable to its purpose to serve our needs.
Every institution and every authority risk mission creep. They stray from their founding purpose when shifting to prioritize the sustainability of their own existence. Institutional powerholders, of various authority types, then use the law to serve them more than to serve you and me.
NR gracefully humbles powerholders, while uplifting the powerless, with several applied principles.
5.1) While no one sits above the law, no law sits above the needs it exists to serve. NR checks the legitimacy of any cited authority or referenced law by identifying the need such authority or law aims to serve. Then reviews how that law’s creation, application, interpretation and enforcement impacts your needs. Mindless obedience to their flexible authority gets replaced with assertive responsiveness to our inflexible needs.
5.2) No human entity has any authority over your naturally occurring needs. NR holds the powerful accountable to their impact on your objective needs. NR can scientifically correlate the rise of chronic anxiety and major depression with authority’s imposing overreach. NR debunks the exaggerated but widely accept claim that maladies occur squarely within the individual, apart from authority’s indiscriminate pressures. NR supports all authorities whose impact empirically results in your resolved needs.
5.3) You don't exist for human authority; human authority exists for you. As Jesus put it, “Humanity doesn’t exist for the Sabbath rest, but the Sabbath rest exists for humanity.” Our naturally occurring needs—like periodic rest—occurs first. Legitimate authority arises afterward to serve such needs. When slipping from primarily serving public needs to primarily serving itself, it loses legitimacy. NR quantifies the legitimacy of authority figures by how well it aids in resolving your needs. NR offers constructive feedback to authority, with valuable date to inform its legitimate purpose.
Devoid of the hostilities familiar in oppo culture, NR inspires authority figures to demonstrably serve the needs of those they impact. Left to their oppo norms, many authority figures avoid supporting resolution of needs, coercing us to settle for mere relief. They either support resolving our needs or risk losing any competitive advantage to other influential authority who can demonstrably serve those needs better.
6. NR provides a disciplined mutualizing process to resolve all affected needs.
As currently envisioned, NR introduces you to a process for incentivizing all sides to a conflict to equally respect each other’s affected needs. The less we react in opposition to others, and instead welcome each side to express all of their affected needs, the more opportunity to fully resolve all of our needs.
This mutualizing process involves a four-part cyclic process:
1) announce,
2) assess,
3) audit, and
4) avow.
This process can enable the powerless to boldly speak truth to power while incentivizing the powerful to listen to those they impact.
6.1) Announce. On the powerless side’s behalf, NR introduces itself to the powerful side. “This is to announce that you are identified as impacting the needs of our client.”
6.2) Assess. The powerless side utilizes NR tools to assess how responsive is the powerful to their exposed needs. The powerful are encouraged to compete with other potential leaders, to demonstrate who is more responsive to our inflexible needs.
6.3) Audit. After giving the powerful appropriate time to respond and make any corrections, the powerless client audits the powerful. The powerful are assigned a legitimacy score we widely publicize.
6.4) Avow. Finally, we pledge to resolve all affected needs—with or without the support or cooperation of illegitimate powerholders. Love compels us to do no less.
After avowing to resolve the identified needs, the process may bring to light more needs to address. So the process repeats, until all relevant needs get specifically resolved, each one's pain gets satisfactorily removed, and each other's functioning levels significantly improve.
7. NR restores our potential to be more loving to each other.
The more we replace oppo norms with mutual respect for each other’s inflexible needs and inflexible priority of needs, the more fully we can experience love—or innate value—for each other. NR inspires you to let go of any self-serving expectations you may have of others. NR encourages you to explore what you can do for others as you would have them explore what they could do for you. Click on this image to learn more about this visionary platform.
NR could enable you to demonstrate such love with a visionary platform called Saybackr. It gives you the means to speak truth to power with the power of love. If constantly striving against those in powerful positions produces little fruit, then try respecting their natural needs as would have them respect your needs.
This platform provides the proactive mutualizing process for replacing mutual hostilities with mutual understanding and support for each other’s affected needs. Instead of arguing that they fit some norm to ease your pain, you lay it all out there for all to see. You raise moral standards to the high bar of love, as you vulnerably admit your needs and shortcomings. You negate any cause to oppose you with the power of your love.
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