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The Political Science / Sociological Phenomena of Gladiator Circles


Circulus Gladiator


Gladiator Circles. There is something in human nature, we see it when kids fight. Other kids around the fight form a circle and encourage the fighting. For lack of a better term - Let's call it a "GLADIATOR CIRCLE.” 


Nobody forming the gladiator circle seems to be calling for a stop to the fighting. There seems to be some sort of hedonistic edification to a person in the gladiator circle calling for the fight to continue and escalate. You see this in wars that break out. 


The people who comment on the war are feeding this edification. They call for the destruction of one side or the other. It's in our nature if kids do this sort of thing? How to point this out and combat that which we see. How to protect someone from becoming a member of a gladiator circle that may be against their free will. 


The people in the gladiator circle are making the fighting worse? Maybe. 

But they may also be constraining the fighting to the circle. There must be a reason why we do this as a social construct. 


If the gladiator circle is broken up, will this provide the likelihood of the fighting to cease? If the gladiator circle is potentially egging on the fighting to continue indefinitely, can the member of the circle make the fighting worse? In a game of stigmas and codes, the members of the gladiator circle are the ones propaganda targets, to advocate for the continuation of fighting. 


How to get people to avoid gladiator circles, at least become aware that gladiator circles exist and have the potential to cause harm. Would a person, being shown the option to join or not join a gladiator circle, choose to avoid a gladiator circle?


Untanglers could become trained to this phenomena. They could be a source to stop fighting and point out the issues of Gladiator Circles. A social force, using only the Distributive Side of Justice, to prevent, stop, or send people on different paths when they get tangled.


From the perspective of fear. Fear as a mechanism that controls our actions. Would we be afraid of joining a gladiator circle, if.... or is fear the mechanism that is used to get us to join gladiator circles. If we don't join? If we do join? If we just watch the circle from a distance? Fear of joining because gladiator circles encourage the fighting to continue and it might spread and cause harm to members of the gladiators circle? Or the social pressure to join the gladiator circle, to root for one side or another, to become a pledge? With a gladiator circle, people are forced to fight. There is a force to form the circle. What is the force out of the circle?


What role could Untanglers play to figure out issues with the social phenomena of Gladiator Circles?  


Given that Gladiator Circle formations are inevitable to Democracy, and likely to be stoked in countless ways utilizing Direct Democracy?  Is the concept of Plebisciety able to create checks and balances as Democracy diversifies?


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