KEN RUEGG
VICTIMIZED BY MILLIONS
THE "STAR WARS" FALLACY: Darth Vader repents!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                TWO DIFFERENT SPECIES OF MIND means that neither species can be changed into its opposite. Species are FIXED. Developed mental species are structured so differently from each other, in terms of the way in which they function, that they cannot change into each other. This has been my experience for more than 42 years, with both "criminal", and "non-criminal" mind, in the New York Metropolitan Area, following the occurrence of demographic changes.                                                                                                                                                                                                     BOTH CRIMINALS AND NON-CRIMINALS use the aggressive instincts Man has inherited from the Great Apes, but with a crucial difference: "criminal" mind functions by victimizing others with that energy, whereas "non-criminal" mind has learned to use the aggressive energy which Sigmund Freud called the "id", in constructive ways. The absence or presence of conscience, which must be learned by interacting with one's external and internal mental environments when young, largely accounts for this difference. And behaviors become entrenched through reinforcement.                                                                                                                                          THE MISTAKEN IDEA that fully-formed "criminal" mind can be converted into "non-criminal" mind, has been prevalent in society, as is indicated by religious concepts such as "repentance", "penitence", and "penance".                 The presence of the idea in criminal justice, is seen in the naming of penal institutions as "reformatories", and "penitentiaries", and of management organizations as "departments of corrections".                                                                                                                                                                                               "Spare the rod, and spoil the child!" is a well-known British maxim.                                                                                                                                                           "Give me the child until he is six, and then the Devil can have him!"* was a serious observation made by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Both of the above statements indicate formation of mind early in life, which is consistent with data in psychology that most learning occurs primarily during childhood, and to a lesser extent during adolescence:      This is why the psychologist Jean Piaget based his work upon the study of mental development in children, and observed the acquisition of mental capacities in stages.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       THE FORCE, IN THE "STAR WARS" TRILOGY, represents the aggressive energy which Freud called the "id", the DARK SIDE being the CRIMINAL use of that energy.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     DARTH VADER WOULD NO MORE HAVE COME OVER TO LUKE, THAN LUKE WOULD HAVE GONE OVER TO VADER, MAKING THE SCENE IN "THE RETURN OF THE JEDI", IN WHICH VADER KILLS THE EMPEROR TO SAVE LUKE, GREAT BOX OFFICE, BUT POOR ALLEGORY. NO ONE COULD PERSUADE THE POPE TO OPERATE A CRIME SYNDICATE, OR A MAFIA DON TO STUDY FOR HOLY ORDERS. ONCE ESTABLISHED, MENTAL SPECIES ARE FIXED.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The following two statements, both the fictional and the real, are IDENTICAL in meaning:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        "He will join us, or DIE!"                                                                                                                                                                                                                     -Darth Vader to the Emperor, concerning the fate of Luke Skywalker, in "The Return of The Jedi".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               "If he won't come over to us, he has to be KILLED!"                                                                                                                                                                                             -a Puerto Rican to other Puerto Ricans on Central Avenue, Jersey City, NJ, referring to myself.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         The "Star Wars" Trilogy depicts an "Evil Empire", and Puerto Ricans are speaking on a New York City-based radio station about their "non-judgemental (i.e. CRIMINAL!) society".                                                                                                                                                                                                   See "EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH AND LEGITIMIZE A SOCIETY OF CRIMINAL MIND", and "ON BEING A SNITCH", under "home"; and "OBSERVATION OF SPECIES", under "about".                                                                                                                                                                                                      The criminals victimizing me say repeatedly, "We're not going to STOP!", and the victimization continues. Which confirms all of the above, and also my impending death, as described in "MY MURDER AS IMMINENT", under "home".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         The implications of these findings for religion, law, criminal justice, psychology, sociology, government, public policy, and other such areas, cannot be determined at present.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 *this observation is consistent with the fact that evolution of mind depends upon learning, and that humans are in a more primitive stage of mind, both individually and collectively, during their early history, being closer mentally to the Great Apes.                    Animal urges predominate early development. Conscience has not yet been learned, and the component of mind which Freud termed the "id" (the "it", or "beast") is not under control.          Those who never learn conscience, remain animals later in life, and are a problem for Civilization.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             See "VIOLATING THE FREUDIAN MODEL", and "ABSENT MIND - A PIECE IS MISSING", under "about".