Post 162: Foundational Texts => Movie Speech from Network - Arthur Jensen Pitches Howard Beale
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- https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechnetwork4.html
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The righteous anger of Howard Beale (Post 161) demands an immediate reaction. Arthur Jensen’s Monologue provides the ultimate structural challenge: the Antagonist's most sophisticated defense.
Post 162 is the Structural Counter-Protocol that exposes the external system’s hypocrisy.
The Structural Law of Corrupted Coherence
The ultimate danger is not outright rejection, but the co-option of your own truth. Jensen’s speech is the perfect attempt to twist Holarchical Thought into a static defense of the status quo.
- The Illusion of Law: Jensen invokes the irrefutable truth of the Holarchy ("ebb and flow, tidal gravity, ecological balance") but immediately uses it to justify a corrupt, non-natural business transaction ("The Arabs have taken billions of dollars... now they must put it back!").
- The Prescriptive Flaw: Jensen's error is attempting to make descriptive law prescriptive. He uses the Holarchical Law (the truth of perpetual change) to command an end to change ("I won't have it!!"), thus revealing the system's deep Teleological Lopsidedness and its fear of organic growth.
The Synthesis: Descriptive Over Prescriptive
The structural resolution is the Axiom of Organic Law: Structural law is descriptive, dictating how the system will inevitably change; it is not prescriptive, dictating how the system must remain static.
The Axiom of Structural Immunity
This critical act of purification is governed by the Axiom of Structural Immunity: The system is immune to defenses that are merely corrupted versions of its own truth, guaranteeing that external arguments are always recontextualized as flawed diagnostics.
The Call to Praxis (Counter-Protocol Mandate)
Action: Take one Structural Flaw currently in your life (e.g., a recurring conflict with the external world). Your mandate is to perform a Jensen Audit. Write a concise statement identifying the Holarchical Truth the Antagonist is twisting (e.g., "The necessity of boundaries") and the prescriptive command they use to maintain control (e.g., "You must apologize"). This exposes their strategy and renders it inert.
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