Part Two
Self Degradation
(accepting lower status)
SURPRISE AT THE SELF’S DISGUSTING ACTS
For hatred, disgust, sadness, and surprise to be internalized by the Resentful Subject, they have to reach a point where they fully accept their perceived lower status and no longer see injustice in this typification.
DISCLAIMER: This is by far the most troublesome part of the auto violative process and, therefore, we must ask our subjects to not give up after this point - or else the struggle endured will be for naught and can lead to the deepening of existing resentment or perpetual self loathing. This is not the goal of auto violation. If you do not intend to complete your auto violation do not go forth with this step - it will not yield positive results and will solely be self destructive.
This step requires the Resentful Subject to complete an act that fits perfectly into their ascribed lower status. This act must be so extreme that there is no way in which the subject can reject (resent) their status.
They must accept it and thus internalize the hatred they had for those of higher status - because the HSI had been correct in placing the subject beneath them and is thus not deserving of hatred.
This is self degradation. Degradation in itself can be defined as: the act or process of declining to a lower condition, quality, or level.
Ultimately, it is the act of taking on lower status (this can be lowered moral, intellectual, or sexual status, amongst many others). Degradation, aside from this simple definition also takes on a tone of humiliation and lack of respect.
How can you achieve this degradation towards your Self?
Remember all those attributes which the Higher Status Individual had labelled as your reason for being less than, that you felt were inaccurate?
Make them accurate.
Do just that what is expected and more.
DISCLAIMER: This is by far the most troublesome part of the auto violative process and, therefore, we must ask our subjects to not give up after this point - or else the struggle endured will be for naught and can lead to the deepening of existing resentment or perpetual self loathing. This is not the goal of auto violation. If you do not intend to complete your auto violation do not go forth with this step - it will not yield positive results and will solely be self destructive.
This step requires the Resentful Subject to complete an act that fits perfectly into their ascribed lower status. This act must be so extreme that there is no way in which the subject can reject (resent) their status.
They must accept it and thus internalize the hatred they had for those of higher status - because the HSI had been correct in placing the subject beneath them and is thus not deserving of hatred.
This is self degradation. Degradation in itself can be defined as: the act or process of declining to a lower condition, quality, or level.
Ultimately, it is the act of taking on lower status (this can be lowered moral, intellectual, or sexual status, amongst many others). Degradation, aside from this simple definition also takes on a tone of humiliation and lack of respect.
How can you achieve this degradation towards your Self?
Remember all those attributes which the Higher Status Individual had labelled as your reason for being less than, that you felt were inaccurate?
Make them accurate.
Do just that what is expected and more.
So much so that you violate all that would be needed for you to be considered a HSI by their judgement, and violate all that you feel makes you deserving of such a title.
You must do so decadently.
In doing this you will show your Self no respect, due to a neglect of those qualities you deemed to make you deserving of higher status. You will most likely be the subject of humiliation from those who have enjoyed a higher status classification.
Therefore, expect to be called by the appropriate slurs associated with your lower status and to accept them in silence. They are now compliments to your auto violative process.
The ensuing hate will be internalized without issue, and you will at once be surprised and disgusted by the ease with which you were able to act in such a way. We require that our subjects reflect deeply on what act they have chosen, and then day by day realize that the persistent suspicion that they might have deserved their typification to begin with, was in fact true.
The loss of righteous assurance in your Self’s unjust typification will then lead to a blanket of sadness.
The most painful part of this step will be the realization that no one, but you and you alone, is responsible for you new accepted state as a Lower Status Individual. Full personal responsibility is necessary in order for your auto violation to be successful.
This we understand is not the traditional way in which therapeutic processes to self love and harmony are described, but we have found that utter degradation brought on by one’s own action is the first step to complete control over the Self and how it is perceived.
We must again remind our subjects that this is not the end of the journey and that they must follow closely the next two parts, or else assimilation to higher and lower status will persist and auto violation will not take place.
You must do so decadently.
In doing this you will show your Self no respect, due to a neglect of those qualities you deemed to make you deserving of higher status. You will most likely be the subject of humiliation from those who have enjoyed a higher status classification.
Therefore, expect to be called by the appropriate slurs associated with your lower status and to accept them in silence. They are now compliments to your auto violative process.
The ensuing hate will be internalized without issue, and you will at once be surprised and disgusted by the ease with which you were able to act in such a way. We require that our subjects reflect deeply on what act they have chosen, and then day by day realize that the persistent suspicion that they might have deserved their typification to begin with, was in fact true.
The loss of righteous assurance in your Self’s unjust typification will then lead to a blanket of sadness.
The most painful part of this step will be the realization that no one, but you and you alone, is responsible for you new accepted state as a Lower Status Individual. Full personal responsibility is necessary in order for your auto violation to be successful.
This we understand is not the traditional way in which therapeutic processes to self love and harmony are described, but we have found that utter degradation brought on by one’s own action is the first step to complete control over the Self and how it is perceived.
We must again remind our subjects that this is not the end of the journey and that they must follow closely the next two parts, or else assimilation to higher and lower status will persist and auto violation will not take place.
Part Three
Reconciliation
(constructing the Self as a fortress)
PRIDE IN YOUR LOWER STATUS
At the end of your self degradation, you lost the separation between the external (the HSI’s) and internal (your) interpretations of the Self. In accepting your lower status, you have synchronized the external and the internal typifications of your Self as “low”.
Although we have stated that this particular unification of the Self (that of lower status) is not the ultimate goal of auto violation - this harmony, in a different tone, is what we seek to achieve.
Reconciling low status and pride can only occur once you have reconstructed what lower status itself means. “Low”, in the terms laid out in part one and part two, implies being less than, or having less value than those of higher status.
However, “low” must be defined without the value proposition of being less than. If you are “lower” than something, you have been put under that thing’s influence and defined by it.
You must be independent from any external force (i.e. a Higher Status Individual).
While it may at times feel that you are being consumed by your lower status, you will begin to notice that you are, in fact, only surrounded by an onslaught of sources trying to define you. You will realize that the consuming perspective creates a focus on the external rather than the internal.
What do we mean by a focus on the external rather than the internal?
When you were still in the first phase of auto violation, you were titled as the Resentful Subject. And to be resentful is to be vulnerable. Resentment had been what had caused the split within your Self: that what you thought and knew of your Self and that what the HSI saw. The lack of boundary between these two perceptions, as one fed into the other, was what led to your resentment.
This lack of boundary between the split selves also led to an acceptance of “low” as defined by the Higher Status Individual. By the fact of being resentful, you were vulnerable to the consuming nature of the HSI’s view and interpretation of your Self.
Allowing for another’s incomplete idea of your Self to overpower your own was what lead to your resentment. The force of their incomplete idea of your Self is what permitted their abuse and exploitation. To the Higher Status Individual abuse and exploitation was play.
This is a focus on the external.
Self degradation takes away the defining power from the Higher Status Individual and gives it to you, albeit to confirm their judgement. Your definition as “low” is yours and yours alone. We redirected emotions that had been output to the HSI inside of you, through personal responsibility over your definition.
This is a focus on the internal.
Now, take this singular responsibility a step further. If you have been able to define your Self as “low” through your “low” actions, shouldn’t you be able to define what “low” itself means?
Although we have stated that this particular unification of the Self (that of lower status) is not the ultimate goal of auto violation - this harmony, in a different tone, is what we seek to achieve.
Reconciling low status and pride can only occur once you have reconstructed what lower status itself means. “Low”, in the terms laid out in part one and part two, implies being less than, or having less value than those of higher status.
However, “low” must be defined without the value proposition of being less than. If you are “lower” than something, you have been put under that thing’s influence and defined by it.
You must be independent from any external force (i.e. a Higher Status Individual).
While it may at times feel that you are being consumed by your lower status, you will begin to notice that you are, in fact, only surrounded by an onslaught of sources trying to define you. You will realize that the consuming perspective creates a focus on the external rather than the internal.
What do we mean by a focus on the external rather than the internal?
When you were still in the first phase of auto violation, you were titled as the Resentful Subject. And to be resentful is to be vulnerable. Resentment had been what had caused the split within your Self: that what you thought and knew of your Self and that what the HSI saw. The lack of boundary between these two perceptions, as one fed into the other, was what led to your resentment.
This lack of boundary between the split selves also led to an acceptance of “low” as defined by the Higher Status Individual. By the fact of being resentful, you were vulnerable to the consuming nature of the HSI’s view and interpretation of your Self.
Allowing for another’s incomplete idea of your Self to overpower your own was what lead to your resentment. The force of their incomplete idea of your Self is what permitted their abuse and exploitation. To the Higher Status Individual abuse and exploitation was play.
This is a focus on the external.
Self degradation takes away the defining power from the Higher Status Individual and gives it to you, albeit to confirm their judgement. Your definition as “low” is yours and yours alone. We redirected emotions that had been output to the HSI inside of you, through personal responsibility over your definition.
This is a focus on the internal.
Now, take this singular responsibility a step further. If you have been able to define your Self as “low” through your “low” actions, shouldn’t you be able to define what “low” itself means?
Perhaps rather than being less than the Higher Status Individual, you are simply under assault by their perception. And perhaps, in being under assault by them, rather than being consumed by HSI’s definition of your Self, you are insulated from it.
Remember, now that you have taken power away from the external Higher Status Individual in defining you as “low”, you have proved to be able to separate from them.
Insulated and a fortress of the Self.
Cutting off the pathways from external sources has made you into a fortress. While at this point the fortress is filled with those negative emotions (hatred, disgust, sadness, and surprise) directed inwardly - in the reconciliation of low status, and with much pride, you will overcome this.
In auto violation, we define pride as a fulfilled sensation towards one’s personal value, accomplishments, or actions.
There is much that has been accomplished at this point of the auto violative process. You have been determined enough to degrade your Self thoroughly, to undergo the humiliation and pain that follows degradation, and you have taken defining power of your Self away from the HSI. You continue on in search of self control.
There is evidence here of perseverance, of determination, and resilience in post-degradation. Finding these traits will take time, and will require that you realize your insulation from external forces.
With the constant reel of your degradation playing in your head; the knowledge that it was your own doing will develop pride in you. Over and over you will come to the conclusion: it was only me, and me alone that made it so.
From the loss of your indignation at being defined as “low”, you will find something new. You will have gained a defense from external sources of definition. You will begin to realize your insulation is a strength, and that by even holding that strength you have something to be proud of.
The sense of pride you have gained from your strength as an insulated fortress will allow for the negative emotions within your Self to fade. That strength in being able to control your Self, and the discipline to do so, will overwhelm the devastation of losing solace in being unjustly treated.
It will not matter that you have been treated unjustly, or that you have been degraded, because you have found contentment in the construction of your Self as a fortress.
You have found pride in your low status.
DISCLAIMER: Too much pride is deeply intertwined with self hate; as the “low” Self (your low status definition) and the “high” Self (your feeling of injustice as being defined as such) continually push against the other. This would lead us back to the split Self that existed in the resentment phase. Overcompensatory pride is not true to this process and it nullifies our goals. If you are experiencing hubris or arrogance more than you are sly confidence, repeat Part One and Two immediately.
Remember, now that you have taken power away from the external Higher Status Individual in defining you as “low”, you have proved to be able to separate from them.
Insulated and a fortress of the Self.
Cutting off the pathways from external sources has made you into a fortress. While at this point the fortress is filled with those negative emotions (hatred, disgust, sadness, and surprise) directed inwardly - in the reconciliation of low status, and with much pride, you will overcome this.
In auto violation, we define pride as a fulfilled sensation towards one’s personal value, accomplishments, or actions.
There is much that has been accomplished at this point of the auto violative process. You have been determined enough to degrade your Self thoroughly, to undergo the humiliation and pain that follows degradation, and you have taken defining power of your Self away from the HSI. You continue on in search of self control.
There is evidence here of perseverance, of determination, and resilience in post-degradation. Finding these traits will take time, and will require that you realize your insulation from external forces.
With the constant reel of your degradation playing in your head; the knowledge that it was your own doing will develop pride in you. Over and over you will come to the conclusion: it was only me, and me alone that made it so.
From the loss of your indignation at being defined as “low”, you will find something new. You will have gained a defense from external sources of definition. You will begin to realize your insulation is a strength, and that by even holding that strength you have something to be proud of.
The sense of pride you have gained from your strength as an insulated fortress will allow for the negative emotions within your Self to fade. That strength in being able to control your Self, and the discipline to do so, will overwhelm the devastation of losing solace in being unjustly treated.
It will not matter that you have been treated unjustly, or that you have been degraded, because you have found contentment in the construction of your Self as a fortress.
You have found pride in your low status.
DISCLAIMER: Too much pride is deeply intertwined with self hate; as the “low” Self (your low status definition) and the “high” Self (your feeling of injustice as being defined as such) continually push against the other. This would lead us back to the split Self that existed in the resentment phase. Overcompensatory pride is not true to this process and it nullifies our goals. If you are experiencing hubris or arrogance more than you are sly confidence, repeat Part One and Two immediately.