Looking into Unbuntu. What value could this deliver?

It is unfortunate this isn't spoken about more, but I believe this is fundamental to eliminating much of the harm going on in the world. Sadly, much of the harmful behavior being individuals harming themselves or those they care about around them. With the amount of trauma suffered by the average person increasing almost daily, this problem is only going to get worse. Trauma serves to blind people to the incongruences between the trouble being caused, how it is being caused, and who is causing it. The mainstream societal consciousness and modern medicine is largely ignoring this and in addition, using the turmoil created to further the agenda's of the ruling class. However, they may indeed be suffering from the same thing. We've created a system that everyone is a victim of.

Ubuntu (Zulu pronunciation: [ùɓúntʼù])[1] is a Nguni Bantu term meaning "humanity". It is sometimes translated as "I am because we are" (also "I am because you are"),[2] or "humanity towards others" (in Zulu, umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu). In Xhosa, the latter term is used, but is often meant in a more philosophical sense to mean "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity"

In practice it's understanding what few in the Western world understand. Milton Erickson may be one of the few. He was able to read and identify what I would define as "aberrant behavior" (aberrant: deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; exceptional; abnormal) among other subconscious communication going on in the non-verbal realm of his clients and subjects. In so doing he was able to use that knowledge to offer them suggestions to change their ways, with little effort.

It's clear in a mature cultures that understand the overall communicative arena of both verbal and non-verbal as well as, the influence of the conscious and subconscious "minds" (for lack of a better term) in influencing behavior, changing behavior toward positive outcomes is possible and even definitive.

In contrast, in the anti-culture, or the upside-down world as some people see it, people are dumbed down in every aspect. In reading the work of Alfred Korzybski, Milton Erickson, Robert Dilts, Albert Schweitzer, one gets a clue to the reasonings of those with power and how they are steering the social engineering of society. In particular, something called the confusion technique becomes prominent. People don't like to be confused, so when put into that state, they will grasp for the first action they can take and take it. Not only that, but to them it will be their decision and their pride that the non-choice will be hidden behind. This has been exploited over the past 100 or so years and it may be one of the most powerful reasons things have deteriorated so much. 

The following diagrams should show the distinction. In the first, it's modern society and it's influences adding to and encouraging aberrant behavior. Rewards and Punishments also adding to the misdirection of individuals from healthy to unhealthy. From independent to dependent. Red arrows are discouraged. Green arrows are encouraged.

Looking at this second diagram, you can see the outcomes of different behaviors such as Unbuntu that handle "aberrant behavior" differently. Leading to much greater outcomes. Independence. Self-confidence. Freedom.

Understanding these dynamics in a group can make a great deal of difference in the world in regard to being able to remedy or simply understand that there are causes behind these actions that may be beyond the conscious or rational mind. It isn't mental illness, it isn't a devious nature, it isn't genius, it's a deeper cause that the individual can benefit from knowing more about. The path to realizing their healthy potential.

Everyone can benefit from this knowledge and practice. As Alfie Kohn pointed out in his book "Punished by Rewards," both punishments and rewards are manipulative and ill advised. For the most part they do not get the desired results. In cases that do get the desired results, there are residual ill effects that demonstrate the costs are higher than the benefits. There are numerous cultures that have understood this and come up with traditions and rituals that solve these problems. Why not use this incredible wisdom? The upsides could be incredible!

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