May 9, 2016

May 9, 2016

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Engineer

Dear Reader,

Unless we are going to embrace the SVB/NVB distinction, we are unable to decrease NVB and increase SVB. Although we have all unknowingly been trying to increase SVB and decrease NVB, we have, for the most part, been unsuccessful, because we adhere to an unscientific explanation of behavior.  The whole point of the SVB/NVB distinction is the realization that we don’t cause our own behavior. Our notion that we have a self, which causes us to behave the way we do, is as wrong as the idea that the world is flat. As long as we continue to believe that we cause our own behavior, we will not be able to acknowledge what is SVB and NVB. Our inability to discriminate between these two causes NVB, more problems. Our understanding of SVB depends on our understanding of NVB. Without understanding of NVB, we make SVB into something it is not. SVB is not a religion, philosophy, theory, political view or doctrine. It is a natural phenomenon that happens, that can happen, that doesn’t happen or that can’t happen. To understand NVB requires that we must acknowledge that we are fighting or fleeing when we are attacked; that we feel stressed when we struggle; that we feel threatened when we are intimidated; and that we dissociate when we are hurting others or ourselves. Of course, all of this must occur while we communicate, while we talk with each other, but we don’t want to have this confrontation with each other. Even the most powerful person only wants to have SVB and not NVB. As it is impossible to demand SVB, what is then produced is NVB masquerading as SVB. People in authority and high social status do not have any more SVB or NVB as people who don’t have any authority or low status. The false idea that the haves have more SVB and are therefore the ‘happy few’ has only created envy and hatred. Those in authority are as ignorant about the SVB/NVB distinction as those who have no authority. Even the most educated and the wealthiest among us don’t know anything more about the SVB/NVB distinction than those who are poor and uneducated.