Order of Operations

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REBT

When providing psychoeducational lessons on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), I teach people about the ABC model of self-disturbance (how people upset themselves through use of irrational beliefs). Now, I’ll address a finer point of this psychotherapeutic model of wellness.

For context, REBT uses the ABC model to illustrate how when an undesirable Action occurs and you Believe an unhelpful narrative about the event, it’s your unfavorable assumption, not the occurrence itself, that causes an unpleasant Consequence. That negative outcome is disturbance.

In particular, there are four predominate irrational beliefs which people often use to disturb themselves: global evaluations, low frustration tolerance, awfulizing, and demandingness. When contemplating these unproductive Beliefs, think of the acronym GLAD.

It’s worth noting that the two forms of should, must, and ought-type demands with which people most often self-disturb are associated with use of absolutistic and conditional should beliefs. Generally speaking, these serve as rigid commands used toward oneself, others, and life.

An absolute must narrative is, “You absolutely must do as I say!” A conditional should narrative is, “Either you should do as I say, or you should be punished!” Significantly, in REBT literature, demandingness of this sort is said to function as a primary appraisal mechanism of disturbance.

Global evaluations (i.e., self-downing, other-downing, and life-downing), low frustration tolerance (also known as frustration intolerance), and awfulizing (e.g., terrible, horrible, etc.) function as secondary appraisal mechanisms. Together, GLAD will make you sad or mad, etc.

Noteworthy, with my approach to care for mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”), I invite people to consider mental scripts which are rational (in accordance with both logic and reason) – especially regarding events which correlate with strong feelings.

Logic is the interrelation or sequence of facts when seen as inevitable or predictable, and reason is a statement offered in explanation or justification. As such, I often use syllogisms (deductive schemes of formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion).

Importantly, a syllogistic statement, proposition, or belief may be logical while simultaneously unreasonable. In this case, even though the logic consequentially follows (the conclusion is a necessary and inevitable result of previous facts or premises), it’s considered irrational.

While still functioning as prescriptive rather than descriptive, flexible use of recommendatory, preferential, ideal, empirical, moral and ethical, and legal ought beliefs won’t inevitably cause disturbance, as they may align with distress. Thus, rigidity versus flexibility makes a difference.

As well, a rigid form of irrational belief results in self-disturbance (e.g., rage) while a flexible form of rational belief results in self-distress (e.g., righteous indignation). Ergo, what one thinks, feels (i.e., emotions and sensations), and behaves reveals what type of beliefs are being used.

Addressing how people upset themselves with unhelpful attitudes, the ABC model incorporates Disputation of unproductive philosophies of life in order to explore Effective new beliefs. Whereas rigid beliefs cause self-disturbance, flexible beliefs result in an un-disturbed condition.

Remarkably, natural forms of distress are tolerable (e.g., mild anxiousness, sorrow, frustration, annoyance, disappointment, etc.). Even though unnatural forms of disturbance are also tolerable (e.g., enragement), my approach to REBT seeks the outcome which is more likely to be endured.

Hypothetical Syllogism

Presuming you understand how REBT serves as a method of rational living, I offer a finer point of understanding in regard to the ABC model. In particular, I invite you to consider use of a hypothetical syllogism.

Form –

If p, then q; if q, then r; therefore, if p, then r.

Example –

Major premise: If I routinely practice REBT, then I’ll likely self-disturb less.

Minor premise: If I’ll likely self-disturb less, then I’ll probably have a better life.

Conclusion: Therefore, if I routinely practice REBT, then I’ll probably have a better life.

In order to properly address another relevant hypothetical example, I thank you for granting my use of a personal anecdote. Regarding my early experience with education, I didn’t perform particularly well in school from kindergarten through my senior year of high school.

With exception of sixth and part of my seventh grade years, when a couple friends provided an opportunity for me to engage in behavior of scholastic impropriety, I barely performed well enough to pass my classes. By the time I graduated (1995), college wasn’t a viable option.

Eventually, I enlisted in the United States (U.S.) Marine Corps and ultimately served from 1996 to 2007. My primary billet was military police, to include special training associated with interviews and interrogations, as my secondary billet was as a Marine Security Guard. 

As has been mentioned elsewhere within my blog, I was eventually kicked out of the military—much in part to disobeying orders. Although I presented what I thought were logical and reasonable arguments in support of my violation of orders, military authorities disagreed.

Part of my defense was that orders I received weren’t lawful. Yet, the military maintains a standard regarding the presumption of regularity (a legal principle that assumes government officials and public officers act lawfully and correctly in the performance of their duties).

This means that even if the orders I received were subjectively perceived as unlawful, it’s the official U.S. government position that such orders were issued as objectively lawful—even if those commands are unreasonable. For context, regarding my legal defense, one source states:

Unlawful orders have come up many times in U.S. military courts over the decades, with prosecutors pushing back against the “Nuremberg defense,” a reference to the Nuremberg trials after World War II, in which several Nazis unsuccessfully defended their actions by claiming that they were following orders from their superiors.

In 1969 during the Vietnam War, the U.S. Court of Military Appeals ruled against a soldier who was convicted of killing a Vietnamese man and claimed that he was following orders.

The court ruled that there was no justification to follow orders if “the order was of such a nature that a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know it to be illegal.”

The orders which I violated while in the Marine Corps weren’t as straightforward as commanding a group of military members to unlawfully deploy to U.S. cities against civilian populations. Noteworthy, I stated in a blogpost entitled It Wasn’t Rational (9/2/2025):

It wasn’t rational to misuse U.S. military and National Guard service members, as was the case in Los Angeles. I questioned and subsequently violated orders during my military service (1996-2007). Now, why did the Marines in Los Angeles comply with irrational orders?

Where were their skills of critical thinking? If military service members and National Guard troops were ready and willing to violate the rights of U.S. citizens when sent to Los Angeles, when and where might they also be sent to continue such oppressive action?

Is it perhaps the case that comprehension about what is and isn’t logical or reasonable may deprive authoritative structures of their tyrannical rule? It wasn’t rational to have sent troops to Los Angeles. Then again, it isn’t rational to blindly follow bullshit orders. Ooh rah!

The topic of military personnel blindly following President Donald Trump’s ostensibly unlawful orders has been a matter of growing concern as of late. And why wouldn’t it be? His commands are, as far as I’m concerned, unconstitutional. According to one source:

President Donald Trump on Thursday [11/20/2025] called for the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who publicly exhorted members of the U.S. military and intelligence communities to disobey any orders they perceive to be illegal, labeling the admonition “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL” in an online post.

Is this not the behavior of a tyrant (an absolute ruler unrestrained by law or constitution)? Are those military members following Trump’s lead not behaving as cowards (those who show disgraceful fear or timidity)? Then again, what do I know? I stood up to tyrannical officers.

Game recognizes game, as I can’t identify with cowardly behavior of those who blindly follow orders of tyranny. I had the intestinal fortitude to challenge unreasonable orders! Fortunately, there are other fellow veterans who aren’t prone to cowardice. According to one source:

Veterans have condemned the politicization of the military after Donald Trump accused Democratic lawmakers of “sedition, punishable by death” after a small group of them released a video in which they urged US soldiers not to follow any “unlawful” orders. […]

“The administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence professionals against American citizens,” they said, and added: “You must refuse illegal orders.” […]

“Seditious behavior, punishable by death!” Trump responded in a post on Truth Social. “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be arrested and put on trial.” He also reposted a message from another user reading: “Hang them George Washington would!”

One wonders what the Tree of Liberty from which the proposed hangings would occur will have been watered by. In any event, Trump’s irrational proposition provides plenty of content for a hypothetical syllogism example:

Form –

If p, then q; if q, then r; therefore, if p, then r.

Example –

If military personnel are too cowardly to disobey unlawful orders, then President Trump will be able to oppress civil rights of the U.S. population.

If President Trump will be able to oppress civil rights of the U.S. population, then what is the purpose of military service—other than to serve tyrannical rule?

Therefore, if military personnel are too cowardly to disobey unlawful orders, then what is the purpose of military service—other than to serve tyrannical rule?

This hypothetical example follows logical form. Likewise, I argue that the concluded query is a reasonable examination regarding a military that is bound by constitutional regulations. Thus, this hypothetical syllogism serves as a rational argument against obeying unlawful orders.

Order of Operations

As previously mentioned, I didn’t perform well in my earlier years of education. As such, I didn’t pay much attention to the order of operations regarding a mathematical and algebraic set of rules when presented to me by educators.

Nonetheless, I was reminded about these problem-solving strategies later in life when one-half of Outkast, Big Boi, released his album Boomiverse (2017). As a side note, I remain undecided as to which is my favorite hip hop duo—Outkast or M.O.P. (I’d rather not have to choose.)

In any event, Boomiverse contained a track entitled “Order of Operations” which was, in my opinion, masterfully produced by Scott Storch. On the song, Big Boi states:

I took advantage of my shot and now it’s raining

Bucket, just like Mo Williams, fuck your cancer vaccinations

Plantation mentality, making a laughable salary

That’ll never be me, but that’s you in actual reality (uh)

I’m King Cole, like Natalie and her daddy be

My thing swole; pole dancers, shit, they be adding me

On IG, they gon’ DM

We gon’ act like we don’t see them

They just follow us, follow me, follow us, nobody’s leading

But everybody eating, or acting like they full

I’m blessed and highly favored, learned the game when I was lil’

I guess it’s time to stake my claim and conquer every hood

Help my partners get this number, too, by sponsoring the joog (yeah)

My interpretation of “Order of Operations” is that Big Boi addresses his development from youth through adulthood by sticking to rules (orders of operation) which contribute to his success. For instance, he references how “pole dancers” contact him through direct message on Instagram.

Whereas the lyricist may’ve previously been persuaded to entertain the attention from those whose interests and goals weren’t well-aligned with his (e.g., simping over thotiannas), Big Boi later helpfully realized “they just follow us, follow me, follow us, nobody’s leading.”

Without leadership (i.e., a properly-sorted order of operations), Big Boi ostensibly reasoned that those who followed him by chasing his success weren’t improving his outcomes. Similarly, military members who blindly follow tyrannical rules aren’t improving U.S. outcomes.

Conclusion

When providing lessons on REBT, I teach people how to un-disturb themselves through use of the ABC model. Herein, I’ve provided personal background information and a hypothetical syllogism to illustrate how military members could use this rational approach to living.

Additionally, I’ve demonstrated a hip hop example from Big Boi that examined how the lyricist effectively used a growth mindset (belief that a person’s capacities and talents can be improved over time). With this method of rational living, military personnel can change their behavior.

Then again, from a rational perspective, I comprehend that many of the brothers- and sisters-in-arms with whom I served displayed little more than cowardice. Further, I suspect that not much has changed since I was kicked out of the military. Thus, people will blindly follow orders.

Moreover, if President Trump were able to follow through on his apparent tyrannical proclamation, people like me who advocate justice over blind obedience to orders may be labeled “traitors” to the U.S. and put to death. Is advocacy for constitutional rights traitorous?

If so, I say to my detractors, as Big Boi expressed, that’s a “plantation mentality” and “that’ll never be me, but that’s you in actual reality.” If I’ll swing on a long rope from a tall tree for rationally speaking truth, then that’s a price I’m willing to pay! How about you, cowards?

For everyone else who may be disinterested in sociopolitical matters, I invite you to consider the subjective order of operations applying to your own lives. Are you prepared to live by your standards? How about die according to your rules? Have you even considered this likelihood?

If you’ve not taken time to contemplate what your orders of operation even are – let alone whether or not you’re committed to living and dying by a code of conduct – then what better time than right now to consider this matter? What is it you live by? What will you die by?

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As the world’s foremost hip hop-influenced REBT psychotherapist, I’m pleased to try to help people with an assortment of issues from anger (hostility, rage, and aggression) to relational issues, adjustment matters, trauma experience, justice involvement, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression, and other mood or personality-related matters.

At Hollings Therapy, LLC, serving all of Texas, I aim to treat clients with dignity and respect while offering a multi-lensed approach to the practice of psychotherapy and life coaching. My mission includes: Prioritizing the cognitive and emotive needs of clients, an overall reduction in client suffering, and supporting sustainable growth for the clients I serve. Rather than simply trying to help you to feel better, I want to try to help you get better!

Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW

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