pre-causal logic

mood: at ease.
state i'm in: quite exhausted, though the walk home from toowong didn't bother me.
tune: charles wright "express yourself" - i'm all soul'd out
achievement for the day: passed resp examination assessment.

pre-causal logic is one of the primary features of the psyche of the young child, less than 7 years of age. as well as this, early chlildhood is dominated by several other key psychological features. i would like to surmise these features form the basis for other such psychological states, those as irrational as childhood.

1. ego-centrism - the individual sees the world, and everything in it as being created for their disposal; all things were put in front of him to her to be used as he or she sees fit.
2. an authoritarian morality - the individual can be adequately controlled with authority, such as discipline or coercion.
3. the belief that the occurrence of negative events are a sort of punishment, dealt to the individual due to him or her failing to uphold correct standards of behaviour.
4. pre-causal logic, specifically, permits the belief in such unreasonable phenomena as santa claus, the easter bunny, and the tooth fairy. to any individual with a mentality beyond that of the average 7 year old, such beliefs are evidently irrational.

to what other psychological states might one assign such a mentality?

when an individual in the state of "early childhood" throws a tantrum, tears are frequently the worst of it. when a collection of individuals in a similar state lose their temper, and when they have access to tools capable of inflicting mass agony on one another and bystanders, what might the results be?