Thinking about justifications. Justifications are what we formulate in 
order to maintain a reasonable cohesion between the real world and the 
model we have of the real world, so that is an internal process. We 
justify to maintain our expectations and the necessity to undertake a 
socioeconomically expensive restructuring of the model. The external 
side of the is changing the world to make it meet my expectations. A 
favorite saying I have is, "When we can't find love, we make do with 
power." So, we try to collaborate with others to change the world, or 
the shared story about the world to minimise the difference, when the 
does not work, and perhaps as a primary strategy, we use power to coerce 
and influence others to acting in a way that makes the external world or 
my experience of it more acceptable and decreasing surprisal. Interested 
in any comments about this.  That's enough for now!


Cheers

Victor

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