THE DIALECTIC OF NEGATIVITY Negativity exists in the form of different ‘worlds’ --- each of these problematic types of worlds is itself a problem or condition which can be experienced independent of the other problems. The independence of each of the problems extenuates the condition of problematics, and dis-improves the ability to respond to previous threats. Since the current problem is still a problem, future threats are also hard to regulate, because the current threat creates momentum to find any solution at all, even if it is a problematic one. What is unique about this dialectic set is that the terms are dialectically determinative, meaning that the linear order of the list follows determinatively in forward and reverse order, sometimes via different forms of causality. 1. Negativity is cloistered into cursed areas. 2. Curses are offered as the boon of civilization. 3. An elite class enjoys the few available pleasures, and becomes the image of success. Meanwhile, lower classes struggle, starve, become ill, toil, die, etc. The lower classes become the image of the curse which formerly was only a specific activity which might have been taken up by the wealthier citizens. 4. Democratic government forms, because there is no way to interpret the classes such that the wealthy are guilty while everyone is seeking their own pleasure (e.g. to become wealthy). 5. Empowered by democracy, intellectuals question the government, leading to dangerous ideas, passions, etc. 6. Dangerous ideas make the government feel much more serious about its military ambitions. War becomes formalized and technologies proliferate. 7. Formalized warfare leads to the enslavement of entire populations, rather than simply pariahs. 8. Slavery leads to an increase in prostitution. 9. Venereal disease spreads throughout the world. 10. Responding to the unseen threat, and encouraged by dangerous ideas, the world acts quickly to end slavery. 11. Ending slavery leads to a confrontation with the idea of hatred. 12. Hatred stares people in the face. The world suddenly seems inherently violent, when it never was before. 13. Prejudice is stupid! Someone says. 14. But that is a prejudice about stupid-looking people. 15. Nearly everyone is stupid-looking at some time, or in some way or other. 16. Otherwise, each person holds him or herself to a high standard that makes them look vulnerable. 17. Reacting to the idea that everyone is stupid-looking or pretentious, people react against their own previously-held beliefs. The result is Nihilism Nathan Coppedge, SCSU 3/13/2015, p.