Why a Revolutionary asks Questions

Often the right questions are far more important than the best answers. Of course I have an idea of what are the answers to my own questions. In fact all of us has answers for all questions. Most far worse then is good for their own interests. Often these answers are entirely subconscious.

We are designed that way. It is essential to all living things that it reacts to stimuli, whatever the type and source. Even a bad response is worst then no response at all. We learn something even from our worst responses.

Becoming a revolutionary requires that we analyze ourselves. What questions that we ask? How penetrating are these questions? The depth of of our understanding is a function of our questions. Any restrictions on this process are limitations on our respective capacity to be a revolutionary.

A highly underrated aspect of our development as a revolutionary lies in our respective understanding of the cellular structure of our consciousness. Consciousness that spans the spectrum from the most psychopathic to the most revolutionary.

I include a synopsis below:

The basic architecture of the brain is divided among four distinct structures.

1) Cerebrum

"the principal and most anterior part of the brain in vertebrates, located in the front area of the skull and consisting of two hemispheres, left and right, separated by a fissure. It is responsible for the integration of complex sensory and neural functions and the initiation and coordination of voluntary activity in the body."

2) Cerebellum

"the part of the brain at the back of the skull in vertebrates. Its function is to coordinate and regulate muscular activity."

3) Limbic system

"a complex system of nerves and networks in the brain, involving several areas near the edge of the Cerebrum concerned with instinct and mood. It controls the basic emotions (fear, pleasure, anger) and drives (hunger, sex, dominance, care of offspring)."

4) Brain stem

"the central trunk of the mammalian brain, consisting of the medulla oblongata, pons, and midbrain, and continuing downward to form the spinal cord."

Sorry about appearing off topic. But there is a point, that I trying to make.

All ideas even political ideas are processed the same way. They pass through all of the aforementioned subsystems of the brain.

Reaction to the idea or stimuli is dependent on two things , the required response time and the strength of the previous environmental conditioning or social programming.

Instant responses are handled by the "Brain stem" or what is called the reptilian part of the brain. Here it is all fight of flight responses. No sophisticated thoughts or emotions involved.

It is evolution adaptation to the requirements of time based interactions.

The "Limbic system" or mammalian part of the brain kicks in when more time is allowed. Further processing kicks in pre existing prejudices and or inherent genetic coding for social bonding assists in reaching required responses to stimuli or ideas.

If sufficient response time is allowed by circumstances the Cerebrum and Cerebellum kick in. Here is where rational thought takes over and our natural human genius is expressed.

All of these systems have the same underlying neural cellular and neurotransmitter structure.

The differences have both a quantitative and qualitative aspect however.

I give a rough quantitative sketch.

The Cerebrum occupies about 50% of the brain while only about 10% of the neurons.

Cerebellum occupies about 20% of the brain while only about 70% of the neurons.

Limbic system occupies about 5% of the brain while only about 5% of the neurons.

Brain stem occupies about 5% of the brain while only about 5% of the neurons.

Cerebrum and Cerebellum are distinguish between each other also on response time.

The Cerebrum has a subsystem of glia cells which do some computations on their own while greatly assisting the transmission of data thought the Cerebrum.

The Cerebellum is less well understood, appearing to be focused on things like muscle memory such of that exhibited by athletes or artists. I suspect that it models our overall environment, providing us an area in which we can run simulations of various alternatives.

The Cerebrum is the part of our brain that we most closely relate to. Here is were our personality or ego is computed into existence. It is here were we consciously learn. The Cerebellum seems to be where we unconsciously learn.

Ok enough science how does this apply to politics?

Understanding or computation in mass is the part of the social brain. As individuals we are each of us a kind of super cell of an overall living organism. This organism is what we Marxists call a class.

It is the highest form of organism that we have yet achieved. There are many other kinds of organism. Those of race, nationality, sex, etc....

They span the spectrum of being purely natural like sex to that of the product of our imaginations and suffering, i.e. religion.

This development of social organism is the dialectical movement of the particulier incoherent intelligence to that of the fully realized and conscious universal individual.

An individual that can only be produce in a class less Communist post revolutionary society.

Every one of us computes into existence that which we consider our own selves i.e. our ego and that which constitutes the social organism which predominates and controls us.

It is this contradiction of interests which drives us most often suicidally forward.

So when I ask questions it is to drive you to ask question and not just to further refine the answers that I already have!