The Innocence of Evil
The Innocence of Evil
The Failure of Government,
Pop Psychology, Religion, and Existentialism,
in the Final Analysis,
Means There Is a Need
for Vast Structural Reform
Full An old, filthy, disheveled, scraggly-haired, boisterous, belligerent, haggard and emaciated, homeless man is shooed away from pestering emerging customers, as though he were an annoying fly, by the grocery store’s behavior monitor. He made such an impact on me through the virulence with which he spewed invectives willy-nilly that I frequently recalled him in the following days. Paradoxically to me, the manner of his existence seemed to represent a kind of counter-emblem enunciating the true significance of the rich, and powerful in our society, a faction that is his extreme opposite. I remembered his spindly legs were like Vermicelli and so that is what I called him. In my mind, I was altercasting him in the role of the necessary antihero complement to the hero, named Perciatelli, in an Italian Opera. Perciatelli, as you know, is a long, thick, hollow type of spaghetti. This solitary homeless man’s raspingly shrill, crude, cacophonous tirade from the mucky, noisome street seemed like it would make a fitting refrain to a lyrical leitmotif sung by the hero in an ironically tragic opera emanating from an upscale opera house. In fact, he could well be seen as an offensive parasite, as mere castoff garbage, created by the ruthless, devil-may-care, self-indulgent, exploitation by those of High Estate ensconced in opulence and endowed with elitist education.
Are the homeless man and the elitist ‘hero’ evil, or one evil and the other good? Did they get that way by being born that way like ‘bad seeds’? Are they Leibnizian monads pristinely unfolding from within, without external causal factors shaping them to be evil; cases of psychological spontaneous generation; and simply sui generis evil in and of themselves? Were these two types somehow possessed of an evil will, were intransigent, and efforts to reform or cure them were futile?
Are they examples of an economically necessary symbiotic parasitism?
The issue could be looked at from another perspective. If you consider the little vignette above, does it seem emblematic of our culture? If so, could you also begin to think that there might be something wrong with the way human civilization has evolved? Is this the only way civilization could be structured? Is this condition of society social reality such that it is unalterable? Is humankind inflexibly predestined to produce examples of polar opposites like those above with historical and biological inevitability? If we can gain a perspective on how civilization evolved and how it is functioning now, could we, then, possibly imagine and implement a better alternative? Should we feel obligated to do so?
If we look back to the origins of our nation and examine the ideas and the men who formulated its constitution, we may see that what lay concealed beneath what seemed to have been conceived in glory was also an incunabula seeded with insidious evil destined to proliferate its tentacles and sprawl around the globe. The pilgrims who fathered them came with dreams of a new kingdom for themselves and a democracy for the lowly passengers sailing with them. Finally, their great-grandchildren, schooled by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, they would fulfill those regal dreams. Awe inspiring to generations since the Liberty Bell first rang in Philadelphia; the founding fathers would construct a document worthy of a place of honor, no, I should say worship, in the archives of great political literature. Nevertheless, encrypted within in it and detectable only to those graduated from the Ivy League, were paradoxes penned ab initio by the hands of none other than the great John Locke.
John Locke and the paradox of egalitarianism and slavery set a precedent for the F Fs. The Founding Fathers and slavery[1]
The Founding Fathers put in the constitution that all men were created equal. They said the people could vote for the candidate of their choice. Of course, people did not mean slaves, Native American, or women. After all, slaves were not fully human. The Native Americans should all be dead before the first vote.[2] And women, well, why bother with them, how likely was it that they would get to the polls when they were always barefoot and pregnant. Anyway, if the women did get to the polls, they would vote for the man who was an honest gentleman who was the best looking. You will recall most of the ‘Founding Fathers’ were businessmen and lawyers and all were politicians. Furthermore, have you seen their pictures? The Founding Fathers did not have to think twice about that one. Maybe they thought women were actually the same as slaves. Alternatively, maybe because they were not given an education they would be too stupid to vote yet smart enough to know what they were really like. On the other hand, maybe they knew none of those women was going to vote for any male bastard anyway.
They did not worry about the rest of the people because it is clear that they thought ‘the people’ were too stupid and uninformed to know for what they were voting. They surely made the implicit assumption that for which the people voted depended on which candidates were the best hoodwinker and liar. Each Founding Father was so arrogant that they were sure they would win; after all, they had already demonstrated they were among the best hoodwinkers and liars in the land.
Smithsonian
Let’s keep it that way – anti-intellectual republicans
The media and dumbing down the populace
The question I am asking is not what the nature of the human being is. Let me reiterate. I am asking what has been the nature of our existence as a language using, self-aware, social species.
Once born with anonymity into the vastly variegated, endless, inscrutable, piebald universe, infants are cheered on by anxiously hopeful parents as they take their first steps on their long journey of banality that ends with their last step slipping off to return and merge with their fertile, green, earthen home, even as their despairing and fearful relatives mourn. The universe does not despair.
A filmmaker could aptly portray the mass of humanity’s habitual plodding as monotony, occasionally punctuated with annoying intrusions by capricious reality. Parallel to their behavior, and intelligence notwithstanding, they are unaware of the nature of their minds and the forces that propel it. All the while, the oblivious human mind is inundated with sexual cravings, is driven by biological hunger to forage for or prepare food regularly through each day, and, just as biologically, to confirm secure inclusion in one’s group, all activated, whether successfully or not, daily and repetitiously. Their comments uttered without thought or their thoughts, if such are milling about, enigmatically spring into speech there-from. Either one as the case may be, being mere epiphenomenon.
Most species have an affiliation gene. They form colonies, schools, packs, flocks, herds, troops, tribes, and organizations as in the case of humans. Mothers keep their infants close. For a member to stray and be separated from the group almost certainly means it will be killed or die from helplessness. Almost all species have genetically based fear/flight and anger/aggression response behaviors. Groups have identifying marks. Even those of their own species with unfamiliar or different marks are likely to be perceived as enemies and attacked or avoided. Some species even have false identifiers that function as defense mechanisms. Soldiers are known to travel under false flags to avoid attack. And, of course, there is the famous example of the Trojan Horse of the ancient Greeks. In-group and out-group status is of crucial importance for the welfare, and even survival, for almost all species and certainly for humans.
Yet, while in most ways humans are similar in nature to insects and monkeys, for its particular species of mind, this human’s mind, its wiring, is unique in having a feature that is at odds with its evolutionary predecessors and most noteworthy even at odds with itself. While almost all species have a group belongingness gene, the human’s gene includes, in addition, a longing for familiar signs, symbols, and vocabulary that signify the socially identifying territorial markers exclusive to its singular, distinct group. These markers are essential to providing recognition, for both insiders and outsiders, that one belongs to that one group and that its membership includes a guarantee of perpetual security as long as one is a member in good standing.
Some groups require anonymity or a disguise to avoid attack from rivals. This requirement has a long history when, even in primitive civilizations, some subgroups within a larger cohesive society formed secret societies to avoid persecution for their eccentricity or to plan covert operations and gain an advantage over competitors or enemies. This is true for all humans and their groups from families to teenage gangs to Chambers of Commerce and fraternal organizations. With unusually eccentric subgroups and for such exclusive groups as with the military and corporations, espionage or spying is common. For each type of spying, there are usually counterintelligence operations. This covert behavior requires a facility for going incognito, for both the ability to recognize the in-group’s secret signs and a facility for cloaking oneself to engage in subterfuge with no chance of being detected. For some humans this must become a delicate, subtle art requiring extensive training. For others, such a refined level of the art comes natural, much to the misfortune of the rest of us. Of course, infiltration is legendary and the stuff of many movies as coaches, corporations, the CIA, and FBI, other government and military covert operations, police undercover agents, and many other organizations seek to learn the future business plans, pending patents, fashion designs, software, chemical formulas, game strategies of rivals and to lure top level personnel away rivals. Whistleblowers are like accidental spies and have been known to bring down huge corporations. Deception, creating false reports and myths, staging pseudo events as a diversionary tactic, camouflage, high tech electronics such as wiretapping and computer software for surveillance, especially of emails, like Carnivore[3], now are all standard parts of the cultures Western and Asian nations. Such always has been, whether primitive or sophisticated, and currently is the perpetual, unavoidable, ignominious fate of our complex, language using, deception, and illusion prone species. Man is the best and most complex deceiver of all species, it is just that no one notices it. Of course, the complement to that is that paranoia is a universal aspect of the human species; it is just that no one notices it. We do not notice air either, until it is absent or polluted.
There is a residual kind of primordial fear stemming from an experience of abandonment in childhood. That experience colors all subsequent similar experiences and those feelings may surface along with memories of or current encounters with abandonment’s surrogate, namely disapproval or rejection. Mere threats of rejection may trigger those horrid feelings in some. For some modern women, there lurks a fear, on the furthest outskirts of her mind, of becoming something akin to a bag lady. For many modern men, there lurks a fear of losing their job or title. For so many, moving from youth into their independent days of adulthood, approval is only temporary assurance of a respite from the wolves of disapproval snapping at their heels. Death is for many the ultimate abandonment. So, it is not just the evolutionary lineage linking humans and animals in a genetic proclivity for affiliation that underpins the human drive for adherence to local norms. It is the vaguely sensed coercive power of those ‘local’ norms common to their family, organized groups, gangs, teams, corporations, and community that combine with these deeper fears stemming from childhood that cause men and women to deceive, unfairly use, or abuse their fellow humans, and to compromise their integrity in order to conform and to avoid all manner of emotional discomforts. The possibilities of becoming a reject or an outcast are fears that connect with the very early and forgotten experiences of or fears of abandonment combined with the fear of death that came soon after childhood in each person’s life history.
When faced with being stripped of, or just the threat of being stripped of, the security of a membership, all other drives are suspended or greatly reduced in priority until good standing is restored. When a human is a member in good standing, the other dominant drives of sex and survival are shaped to conform to the norms of one’s group in order to maintain that good standing. Because of this, humans are perpetually struggling with inner ‘conflicts of interest’ between primitive drives and diverse societal norms. For many these are sources of intense inner stress and anxiety. Even for a few, these conflicts are unbearable.
In the final analysis, sex, hunger, avoidance of discomfort, and survival when there are threats to life, all of these per se, have neither conscience nor slightest concerns with social conformity. The primitive nature of these drives causes them to arise and to be acted upon before socially indoctrinated conscience or immediate social constraints can intervene. These drives can be elicited in the most socially inappropriate immediate social circumstances. Likewise, they can arise when the immediate social constraints are virtually absent. In other words, conditions in which such ‘rational’ considerations should be invoked are also those in which, ever so frequently, the primitive has already preempted the rational and the inner constraints of conscience. Once violations of group norms have occurred, the mass of humanity must strive to avoid discovery or do one’s best to deceive and rationalize in order to avoid becoming an outcast. This dramatic dilemma is so terrifyingly typical of us humans. Unable to escape its essential nature as an enigmatic conglomeration of mental and physical contradictions that are accompanied by their fear of loss of security, humans flit from one mindless distraction to another. And, thusly, whether distracted flitting like a butterflies among the colorful neon flowers of the city or, rarely in our modern world, among the wild ones of the outdoors, or just while blithely swimming like young children in shallow waters within the constraints of public pools, do humans try to spend their brief tenure on earth.
Nevertheless, at the bottom of the deepest, murky waters of their souls, or within the solitude of four walls in the dark of night, there forever lurks the distant mystifying dread of abandonment, of death, of agonizing last days of dying, or of the possibility of being killed abruptly and brutally by some crazed invader. Back in the sun’s comforting glow, enmeshed in the daily flow, the traces of our tortured nocturnal fears may fade. But then, there comes, even in the security of daylight, more close to the surface of consciousness, the less final yet perpetually immediate kin of these, which is the fear of disapproval, rejection, or, even the most extreme, becoming an outcast. Oh, what majestic displays we contrive to make us feel we will perpetually stay alive, secure, accepted, and free. From these eternal returns, arise the great and agonizing moral dilemmas of life. Were it not so, dramatists from many millennia heretofore all the way to modern playwrights would be bereft of material.
How what we are today has its roots in our earliest evolution, around six or seven million years ago.
The gift of prolonged concentration
The gift of forethought
The gift of imagination
The gift of parallel processing
The gift of measurement
The gift of long-term memory
The gift of self-correction
The gift of compartmentalization
The gift of deception (Cross-reference: )
The gift of Vigilance to detect danger and avoid past dangers Humans and dinosaurs and dangerous prey.
The drives to adventure and explore
The predisposition to imitate.
We are the preeminent space-time being. (Cross-reference: For all but a few of them, Homo sapiens, as the space-time being, falls far short of what is necessary for the preservation of the species.)
Like all of us, these too long to be distracted from becoming aware, when theirs is set against a mural of life’s brevity, of the ultimate finality, triviality, and ultimate worthlessness, of their own lives. In their cloistered study, well educated as many are, they may contemplate, in a kind of surreal, intellectual, and coolly objective manner, a brutally unwelcome acknowledgement of their kinship, indistinguishable from the masses, with the inorganic minerals floating lifeless through infinite galaxies. Yet, how different are they, really, from the totally oblivious preteen girls and boys, who, as one among thousands of carbon copy, scatterbrained peers, scream their lungs out to show their love for the inaccessible rock star bellowing, through multi-storied speakers and effervescent fireworks, crude, titillating lyrics to their lust frenzied hordes of young fans beneath them. None of these, from the wealthy, the sage, or frenzied fan, not even the legendary Saint Simeon Stylites[4] of the fifth century A.D., sitting solitary atop a Pillar fifteen yards high for thirty-seven years, are immune to the shaping forces of structures and systems of their eras. Saint Simeon, specifically, was shaped by structures and systems of the heterogeneous cultures of his period and even more so shaped by his local social surroundings and the Coptic Orthodox Christian religion with which he was affiliated, and, of course, most of all by his devout mother, so thoroughly shaped as she had been before him. And, thusly has it been for civilized humanity down through the eons.
How oblivious to the fragile conditions of existence are the coddled and the powerful alike as they daily flit about their particularly brands of distractions within their petite corners or their global realms! How small, after all, regardless of the range of their geo-perimeters, are the arenas of the minds of each alike!
The expression of our combative native has socially evolved into many layers and configurations.
The separatism of religions and denominations breeds alienation and feeds paranoia and invidious competition for political power.
Religions maintain a death-grip on members because of individuals’ desire for the salvation required for eternal life.
Lower, Faith, belief in preacher and other authorities, Patriotism = god, country, family, obedience, do as your told, loyalty, courage, corporal punishment, sacrifice, fight
Upper, correctness of form over ethics, prerogatives, success-money-power, ends justify means, outwit, superiority, class
To admit to being an atheist is to assign oneself to the class of outcasts. The philosophically minded may be caught up in Pascal’s ‘Wager’, but in this case, weighing the consequences for their intellectual standing of choosing to believe or not to believe in god. Likewise, the politically minded may be caught up in weighing career advantages or disadvantages of conceding to doubts and openly and authentically choosing atheism versus rationalizing and adopting, as a utilitarian choice, a profession of belief in god. For the charlatan in politicians, this is not like the dilemma of ‘Buridan’s Ass.’[5] Intellectual integrity must be set aside for the sake of successful campaign rhetoric while addressing the believing populace. In a world of highly intelligent, rational beings, atheism should be the choice since the injection a superstitious, supernatural worldview into contemplation concerning the distance ends or goals for civilization and the near term means to reach them would surely muddy the waters of objectivity. Such tender-minded or weak-minded religious thinking would doom the destiny of humanity. The only sane alternative is to hoodwink the masses into thinking one believes in and includes god in their thought processes while shielding them from the actual machinations involved in the tough-minded plotting of the future. The danger with this alternative is that the clandestine and powerful elites doing the plotting are bound to yield to the temptation to design the future in their favor at enormous cost to the poor, unsuspecting populace. Latent for millennia, this god-dilemma that leaders have faced is finally beginning to be understood and exposed as a disastrous liability for humankind. Democracies have none but the worst of choices. This is not a problem for Communist China.
The existentialist may look with disdain on humanity’s necessity for believing in creeds containing illusions of immortality and their need for contemporary dictums for qualifying and disqualifying. They may mentally smirk at their fellow humans’ loosely disguised hysterical clamoring for a sense of belonging to one of these salvation-offering groups. They may write with condescension about their equally gosh and craven requirements for gaudy tangible icons and denotations like graffiti, or ‘sacred’ trinkets, or their quest for in-group brand name clothing and accoutrements such as identifying turbans, armbands, ribbons, badges, posters, and all manner of outlandish possessions that certify their status as members in good standing. They see an irony in the manner in which those of high rank and status require thrones, rituals, heralds, gestures, demonstrations of deference of all sorts to announce with braggadocio to the rest of their fellows that they are, in fact, the leaders and distinct from those others who are their followers. Followers of this or that sect, organization, corporation, team, or gang similarly require ostentatious displays signifying membership and loyalty.
To the philosopher these displays merely designate that ‘those’ people all are just like easily rounded up and herded domesticated cattle with one steer blindly in the lead and in the rear wild Billy cowboys with fifth grade educations on quarter horses get ‘em up and move ‘em out and cut the stragglers back into the herd. The lot of them being completely unaware of their common, dismal destiny. Of course, these ‘cattle’ have not been reading the existentialists nor any other philosopher. No one, not their family, their preacher, not those snug in elegant suburban homes, not the media, the corporations, the gangs, nor the government is keeping, can keep, or will keep them informed about who, what, and how their fate ultimately is being shaped. Certainly not the philosophers or sophisticated culture critics among the intelligentsia! Nor can any of these properly care for them. In the end, they all, basically, are defenseless, exposed to the elements of a predatory, deceptive culture; much like those cattle alone in a vast pasture ravaged by and at the mercy of inclement heat, storms, and freezing rain. Such is the lot of the run of the mill populace including those in gated communities.
Unlike harmless cattle, however, groups of humans can be herded, like troops of marauding baboons, to obey their alpha male leaders’ orders to humiliate, intimidate, thieve from, mane for sport, and even kill, without the slightest flinch of conscience. Humans can easily, oh so easily, be led to commit unspeakably heinous deeds even upon those of their own species. This is especially true if their victims happen to have the misfortune of belonging to a different tribe, society organization, exclusive club, team, corporation, denomination, nation, or gang. Human cultures and their subgroups indoctrinate their youth into group behavioral norms and beliefs. The youth, nearly universally, incorporate and follow, forthwith, reflexively, without reflection or questioning. Whether members of a ‘criminal’ mob or the military, young men and women faithfully will carry out orders from their leaders even if it is to destroy or murder. They will do so without knowledge of the true intent of the mission, and they will not question or have a qualm as they mechanically grind into oblivion other unwittingly, undeserving innocents just like themselves. There are a few rare exceptions, however, such as conscientious objectors, or some who are acutely insightful about the idiocy of their culture, who take refuge from the powerful, legitimized henchmen for the ‘system’, the ‘establishment,’ in foreign lands. The rest know they will be dishonorably discharged, imprisoned, or even shot.
Jesus does not answer but just looks compassionately at Pilate for He is well known to have said that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. In the works of Shakespeare, there is an oft-quoted saying, “Be true to thyself, and thou canst not be false to any man.” Just prior to that, Machiavelli wrote, “Every man believes, however he may be perceived by others, that he is good.” Eighteen-hundred years later, Soren Kierkegaard, the famous Danish Christian Existentialist, writes, “truth is subjectivity.” In accord with Kierkegaard, the famous early twentieth century German existential-phenomenologist, Martin Heidegger, writes that truth is equated with authenticity. Does it not seem evident that humans find self-deception, denial against accusations, deception of others, and manipulation and exploitation of others astonishingly unproblematic? Do you wonder why that is? Do you see any relation between Simeon Stylites removing himself to the top of a high pillar for thirty-seven years, until his very death, and these disingenuous and unauthentic characteristics of humans? Did Simeon know the power of worldly structures and systems to shape us? Contemplate that question for a moment in the context of the preceding paragraphs.
Jesus, on the cross and as he was being spat upon, cursed, stoned, and finally speared in the heart, uttered these final words, “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” But, to whom was He referring? Was it only to the Jews throwing stones or to the Centurion thrusting a spear in his heart? Was it to His disciples who had abandoned Him? Was it to the Jews who had judged Him and accused Him of being blasphemous to such a degree that it required the death penalty? Was it to the Romans who regarded Him as a dangerous revolutionary? Have these last words of Jesus ever been interpreted to mean society in general? In Leonard Bernstein’s “Westside Story,” a delinquent tauntingly spews at the police officer “I’ve got a social disease.” The intent of these lyrics is to heap ridicule upon the misguided ‘bleeding hearts’ that try to foist blame off the individual and onto a corrupt and inhumane society. Many political and social liberals see society as the ultimate source that is generating delinquency and most other forms of criminal behavior. Paradoxically, liberals, like the Minister of Justice judging a petty thief, regard the hugely more harmful behavior of corporations as the personal responsibility and the evil, mercenary intentions of the CEOs. Are not the thief, the prostitute, and the CEO who deliberately dumps toxic chemicals in water supplies equally shaped by the structures and systems of their culture? Does not the phrase, “Let he who has not sinned throw the first stone.” apply equally to all? What shaped each to act in such a way to be judged and condemned by someone, somewhere? What shaped each to judge another as evil? Why do you judge? And, from whence did your basis come for blaming and judging as evil, not just the acts but the personhood of, some other?
Perhaps there is something akin to John Rawls concept that all humans born have the inalienable right to equal justice, whether it is social, economic, or legal justice, somehow present as a criterion for evaluating how fellow humans are to be or should be treated. While humans obviously do not live by that concept, just as no humans live by the Kantian “Categorical Moral Imperative,” they are, on some level, evaluating how fellow humans and themselves are being treated. One thing the application of the logic of Kant’s moral philosophy does is provide the grounds for judging almost all human individuals as unethical, or evil. If this is an aspect of our “Collective Unconscious,” then, as Heidegger speculated, “there is a legitimate sense of guilt,” perhaps it can be amended here. To that end, I extend it now to include a legitimate collective sense of guilt for how humans treat each other, completely distinct from neurotic guilt.
Collective, here, is not meant to assume a genetic component of Homo sapiens. Rather, this sense of collective is more like a zeitgeist. It is a ubiquitous aspect of all those within a culture. In this case, the collective unconscious, or zeitgeist, includes, within the unconscious of all persons within their culture, and particularly Western culture, the sense that to survive they must abuse and neglect their fellow humans. This sense must be hidden from themselves and from others. This is the origin of the public personality. Thus, all persons within a culture must develop a public personality. A public personality is an inauthentic personality. All persons infected with this inauthenticity have the unavoidable sense of guilt buried deep in their ‘private self.’ Therefore, this can be called a collective unconscious sense of guilt.
Such a collective sense of guilt is facilitated (regardless of how accurate or superficial are their presentations of events that tug at the heartstrings and elicit fleeting feelings of collective guilt in their huge audiences) by the vast extension of television throughout most of the modern world. From that position, we can, or could, begin to move toward collective justice, perhaps even somewhat intelligently so. The problem is, as long as we humans focus on the singular individual as the cause, the source, of evil actions, then, for as long as humans continue to exist, collective justice will never be achieved. Of course, by focusing on amorphous targets like America, the government, or the corporate world, with nothing specific to address, collective guilt and collective indignation will be in vain. The sinister cloak of the public personality and collective inauthenticity will remain.
Should the collective focus, via the media, switch to engendering a cultural reform, to a collective emphasis on discarding public personalities and facilitating authenticity, that endeavor would entail restructuring the entire sweep of our structures and systems. The reason for this is that the structures and systems of our culture are configured to perpetuate exploitation of our fellow humans. Individuals will work to prevent restructuring because that entails exposure of personal guilt. The defective structures and systems emphasize personal guilt. Therein lies the malignant paradox. To shift away from personal responsibility and guilt to collective or corporate responsibility removes the prevalent rationalization used by opportunists in all human endeavors, namely that that is the way the world is, everybody either does it to some extent or they do not survive. Some will even say to confidants that they are just being upfront about their crookedness. Some will say that it is just a matter of ‘only the strong survive.’ Nevertheless, if a person is caught, the issue becomes one of personal responsibility again. The corrupt ‘system’ is never charged or indicted. Even the clergy is well known to cultivate naiveté toward exploitative business practices where their biggest contributors are concerned. Would anyone, does anyone, convict, or condemn the clergy because in our culture the structure of business almost universally leads to exploitation their employees and promulgates false advertizing with ill effects on consumers?
Freudian Diagnosis of Behavior Varying from a Culture’s Conventions Genetics and brains of serial killers compared to geniuses [7]
Brain chemistry and mental illness[8]
Psychiatric diagnosis pretext of profit and social control invalid for verdict of not guilty in courts and psychological testing and treatment as useless and many studies such the one from Bulgaria reveal demographic characteristics most predictive of criminal behavior by a huge margin. At this point, I will make a distinction between blue-collar and white-collar offenders. Most incarcerated offenders are blue-collar and most studies are on blue-collar offenders. When politicians make campaign speeches about getting tough on crime, they are referring to blue-collar crimes. The demographics for white-collar criminals are strikingly different, as are their offenses. When I queried Google with the entry “Environment factors predisposing to criminal behavior,” I retrieved URLs that cited seventeen genetic and biological (brain and brain chemistry) studies and only three that cited the negative environmental conditions that were like to result in criminal behavior. I am making the supposition that this imbalance reflects a very strong bias in our culture as a whole which is then reflected in academic, scientific research. Debates about what to do about crime, by default, are referring to blue-collar crime and criminals. The number in prisons and jails in 2007 are quite revealing statistics. Few white-collar criminals are incarcerated (199,000) and if they are, they are sent to what is referred to as ‘country club’ federal prisons. One of the main reasons for this is that most white-collar crimes fall under federal statues and therefore dispositions are to federal ‘country club’ prisons. Many more offenders are incarcerated in state prisons (1,395,916) and Local jails held (766,010) and these are almost totally blue-collar. The ratio of federal to state inmates is one to seven. By category of offense, federal were and state were Regardless of which offenders are in prison where, incarceration is a notorious failure as a means of deterrence, rehabilitating, or reforming offenders.
Furthermore, counseling incarcerated offenders is completely a waste of time. Un-incarcerated offenders do not receive psychotherapy or psychiatric treatment because they cannot be reimbursed for it. Probationers ordered to go to counseling do not improve their behavior. Community based justice councils can have a remarkably successful effect in reducing crime and reforming offenders. A program like Stars and Stripes has remarkable success rate in reforming inmates and reducing recidivism. [9]
The Profession of Psychologist Suffers from the Free Enterprise Disorder. Carl Rogers’ Opposition to Certification of Psychotherapists [10]
Sin and Psychotherapy [11]
Politicians’ role in perpetuating anti-social offenders by fallaciously preaching, campaigning, on platforms of getting tough on crime [12]
Religion, Human Nature, and the Conflict between Culture and Our Evolutionary Legacy
Switching the National Focus from the Quest for Individual Salvation to a Quest for Salvation of the Planet
The Biblical Injunction to Dominate Nature and the Armageddon People.
The Politics of Religion and Its Increasing Complexity in the Global Community with Diverse Religions Interfacing Each Other
Ten headings follow that all begin with the words “Singling Out.” The section as a whole deals with both structures and systems. My thesis includes the idea that nations and their cultures consist of numerous structures. It further includes the idea that each structure encompasses systems, and that within and across structures, there are many systems that interconnect. You may think of them as encompassing and sub systems. I shall try to make clear to the reader that, while these sub systems exist within vast, complex, encompassing systems, they can be singled out. Larger systems and individual systems within them can be both singled out to examine their nature and functions and the way they influence one another within their interconnections.
To understand why when some small parts of a culture may change rapidly, the whole culture may take decades and centuries to change. Technology may change rapidly and bring a few other parts of the culture along with them, the major structures such as the departments within the federal government or the educational institutions remain intransigent. Another example of this is that products and businesses change rapidly but the free enterprise system is extremely intransigent.
Imagine that you are the president and you must give personal attention to each Department, Agency, Commission, Council, etc. every day. The issues each face is enormously complex. That task is impossible. The president must delegate responsibility for this vast number of branches to trusted others. While each branch has serious complex issues that affect the health of the population and even the ultimate survival of the planet, taken together or even singly, they are a muddled labyrinth impossible grasp and cognitively manage. What the public hears about in the daily news are the loudest and easiest to examine squeaks in thousands of wheels of national life that some story hungry reporter comes upon by happenstance.
The Power Elite[16]
A used car salesman turns back the speedometer on the cars on his lot. He tries to make it seem like all of his cars were previously owned by a little ole lady from Pasadena. He puts special lubricants in key places in the engine and in wherever he finds squeaks and rattles in the body. In this hypothetical case, he actually sells one of these cars to a little ole lady from Pasadena. She drives the car for a week and it falls apart. A trusted mechanic tells her exactly how she got ripped off. She returns with a written description of the salesman’s fowl deed and acts for a refund of her money. He laughs as tells her that she obviously must not remember him telling her that he is selling the car to her “as is.” He is actually protected by the law from prosecution or reimbursement. At noon, he goes to his weekly Rotarian lunch and boasts with impunity of his shrewdness.
Consider another individual, an unemployed, distraught father, no longer able to bear seeing his children and wife starving is caught stealing. The minister of justice must abide by the law and, proclaiming that the father is responsible for his own actions, which in this were a violation of the law, and he therefore sentences the father to prison. Forthwith his children eventually die of malnutrition. Nevertheless, the law, blind justice, which after all is just like God, like blind nature, is no respecter of persons.
Aside from the group, or organization, phenomena, the individual, on the other hand, suffers a distinctly different categorization. For example, consider emotionally immature, unschooled for parenthood, harried, parents. Such parents may become outraged because their infant does not obey orders to cease their annoying crying. In this circumstance, they can react impulsively even to the extent of infanticide. An artist stands before and easel, a poet with pen in hand, an old lady lovingly crocheting a quilt, they all may say along with the Minister of Justice, as a distant chorus and as though reading from the same teleprompter, “what awful parents they were to have murdered their own infant. What monsters they must be!”
In a time of encompassing awareness of the rest of the world and a sense of impending global doom the ’Now’ generations and Enlightened Self-interest seem bizarrely out of character. We have been encouraged to be the generation of ‘enlightened self interest’[24] with a demand for personal freedom and yet we feel dominated, robbed of a voice or power, stressed, exploited, and under the spying eye of big brother[25]. We have arrived at an era of awareness of the devastating consequences resulting from the profligacy of the past and yet have demurred from assuming responsibility but rather we deflect and project on to an anonymous ‘they.’ We have come to simultaneously idolize and envy, depend upon and distrust, honor and denigrate the powerful, the wealthy, and celebrities. We are in an era fraught with conflict, corruption, and ubiquitous blame. We seem of revel in the media’s catcalls and loutish portrayals of the guilt of public figures but as the scapegoat du jour disappears from the media landscape, we simply await the next public hanging in effigy. We are in an era of immediate access to information about the ominously threatening and desperate conditions of populations around the world. We sign protest petitions which say ‘Ain’t it awful!’ and yet we feel and know that we are impotent to do anything about it. Sending a small donation does not seem to quell the beast of collective guilt. We are a generation on a desperate quest for both inner peace and world peace.
People rush to immerse themselves in the drive for success; for immediate gratification; for consoling ‘status’ consumption; for engaging in high risk recreation; and for dazzling entertainment that can distract us from self-awareness of complicity in our collective corruption and the accompanying gut-wrenching guilt snapping at our inner heels. For many this inner torture only surfaces from the depths of our unconscious in ghoulish, sweat-drenching nightmares.
These young adults have put their faith in being narcissistic and independent of external limits and controls. The pain their parents and grandparents felt during their struggles to succeed in this civilized jungle caused them to be over-indulgent and consequently tended to facilitate the narcissistic, greedy, devil may care attitude of our new generation. However, recent events in our nation, with its global economic ties, eventuated in a sudden global downturn in the ‘good life’, causing them to realize that none of this ‘Me’ life style is working. In the wake of the sudden austerity, signs of a watered down form of sixties’ protest movements are showing up, particularly through internet instigated email protests and meetups on special environmental, energy, economic, and political issues. They have a new form of distraction in these protest movements that also helps overcome these bewildering new feelings of impotence. Nevertheless, neither young nor old who are outside the national and international stratospheric corporate and political elite circles are beginning to realize that they cannot hold back this march of the new century of globalized, borderless, consortium of plutocrats. Hence, we are seeing the loud but impotent protests by well-educated young adults wherever the meetings like the WTO and G8 and G20, or the enigmatic Bilderbergers, take place. In the final analysis, the “The Outsider,” particularly[26] and to some extent even the populace, are at a loss to know what to do about this “New World Order.” [27]
“Man from La Mancha” Impossible Dream[31]
In My Stock Broker School, an Ex-FBI Agent Said, “At last, I have found my paradise!”
Common Criminal Personality:
In general, the
criminal saw the world in "chess-board" terms, as people were there pawns to
manipulate at will for their own personal gain(Harris,1984:227). The anti-social
behavior developed when the offenders were young, some as young as age
four(Nott,1977:*). The criminal, early in life, consciously removed himself from
the rules of society. The conventional activities and interests of his peers
were abhorred by the fledgling criminal(Samenow,1978:17). Fighting, lying, and
stealing were very frequent activities by the young criminal. Notably, the
criminal is pro-active in his approach of rejection to others(Samenow,1978:17).
Consequently, he is the first to establish polarity between himself and others
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White Collar Psychopaths are far more
frequent than Psychopaths in the Common Criminal Population
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The inequitable sentences common criminal between property crimes and injury to persons
Community Councils should work much better for common criminals while white-collar crime requires massive overhaul of the economic and political aspects of the US and perhaps all of Western culture.
Police play the ‘cops and rebels’ with youth and ‘cops and indigents’ with the homeless. Police time and effort could be so much better served if they were integrated with Community Justice Councils as a Division within Neighborhood Community Councils. The police collaborate with a specialty newspaper called “Busted.”
Community Justice Councils can be a home for a Dispute Resolution Center where Mediation is used for misdemeanors, some felonies, and issues like divorce.
Governments have operated under an implicit belief in the ‘Cult of the Individual.’ Civilizations have had no other recourse to correct offending behavior than punishment such as physical cruelty, incarceration, banishment, and execution. This, of course, has not worked. Religious leaders have preached forgiveness but that has not worked either. Humans can be forgiving, if lovingly brought up, but as you must know, forgiving is not a recipe for reforming the offending persons. Furthermore, and also as you may not know as do I who spent over half of my professional career working with offenders, punishment is not just ineffective but is counterproductive. In Oliver Stone’s panned movie “Natural Born Killers (1994),”[33] he clearly charts the influence of a horrendous environment on the childhood of his central character. Suffering unspeakable abuse at the hands of his parents, particularly his diabolically ruthless father, the young man eventually teams up with a young woman with a similar background and together, they become coldblooded, serial joy-killers. In 1987, Stone came out with the famous movie “Wall Street” that chronicles the ruthlessness of a Wall Street investment banker who specializes in mergers and acquisitions. After acquiring a company, he mercilessly dismantles the company, selling off its parts and ending the careers of loyal workers, leaving them destitute. The Gordon Gekko utters the famous and off repeated words “Greed is good!” at turning point in the movie “Wall Street.” In the forthcoming movie, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”, Stone has Gekko returning, after twenty years in prison. “Greed is good!”, illustrating the psychology that imprisonment as punishment does not change character. Of course, I select this as an example because it so well illustrates my Natural Systems philosophy that character and behavior is shaped by the structures and systems of one’s culture.
Demographics and the configuration of and trajectory of population growth are of critical interest to many facets of our society. The vested interests of those in countries with vastly divergent population growth trends are in marked contrast to one another. The population growth concerns of Western nations conflict with those of Eastern nations. The vested interests of political parties with respect to population trends are vastly different. The interests of age groups with respect to population trends are vastly different. Seniors want to keep their Social Security and the diminishing numbers of youth is a threat to Social Security. Large numbers on Social Security presages disaster for the national budget. Philosophically, the wealthy elites hold conflicting positions on both demographic trends and the idea that demography is destiny. The idea of “Demography is destiny.”[34], a neologism introduced by August Comte in the mid nineteenth century, negates the elite’s cornerstone belief that genetics is destiny. On the other hand, the increase in immigrants and the burgeoning growth in lower class and ethnic groups with their inclination toward the Democratic Party cause them to their fear demography will turn destiny against them. Yet, regardless of ethnicity, increases in the poorly educated, lower class workers means competition among the laborers for jobs and that keeps unemployment high, wages low, impoverished ghettos high, and lawlessness and criminality, especially among the educationally disadvantaged youth, high. Admitting this is equivalent to admitting that demography is destiny.
A graphic, cinematic, example of demography being destiny can be found in the new movie, “Machete” (2010)[35]. In this movie, “Machete,” Dan Trejo played the lead character who is also named “Machete.” Here is a quote from Dan Trejo’s during an interview about his life: “Juvenile hall, youth authority . . . I was in a lot of trouble. I grew up like the characters I've been playing. But would I do things differently? I honestly believe that circumstances create destiny, almost. There weren't too many ways I could have done things. The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So, I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.” In other words, for many millions of youth condemned to living in such ghettos, demography doles out a cruel destiny. Ironically, the elites espouse a mockery of the academics social philosophy so inelegantly and mockingly tossed back into officer Krupke’s face by one of delinquents being arrested, as sung in “West Side Story”: (Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke, You gotta understand, It's just our bringin' up-ke That gets us out of hand. . . . it’s a social disease!) [36]
Not only are demographics determinative of individuals’ behavior but are determinative of the destiny of the planet and the fate of humanity.[37]
Bill Gates[38], Warren Buffet, Ted Turner, and other billionaires whose fortunes are secure for the brief time remaining in their lives, are now becoming more concerned that the role of population growth is far more dangerous to the future of earth and humanity than is Climate Change per se. In line with this, they are saying that we must get world population down to 2 billion before 2100. Malthus wrote a variation of the same dire predictions in 1798. US Corporation CEOs have poohed Malthus prediction! Also, in 1950, my Sociology 101 professor poohed both Malthus and me for supporting the Malthusian theory[39]. Nevertheless, it is increasingly clear that our belief in endless population growth, endless economic growth, and endless growth in a US style of prosperity for all the globe is a corporate dream and humanity’s nightmare!
The structures and systems of civilizations are all interconnected and all are directly influenced by demography. Together, these have evolved into an almost foreordained socio-economic configuration to produce our current crises. The fate of the planet; of humanity as a whole; the trends of humanity’s growing epidemics of diseases; the global trends of civil wars, of murderous, exploitative, and even self-destructive behaviors; the rise of criminal offenses that are unique to each class; all are interconnected with demographics. The overcoming this dire fate of the earth and its peoples first requires understanding the role of demographics and of demography as destiny. Second, overcoming our pell mell rush over the cliffs of doom will require that our leaders around the globe find the discipline to make the draconian decisions and take those actions necessary to steer, in unison, the ships of state toward heretofore-unimagined forms of government, economics, and all, veritably all, of our anachronistic institutions.
Differing from the military, but only in degree of violence, are the members of our highly organized educational institutions. Whether they are faculty or students, members will follow the regulations, requirements, and the behavioral protocol prescribed by their institution. Just as all other groups, they will do this reflexively and without reflection, questioning, or qualms. Whether the military, the corporation, the educational institution, or gang, they conform because that is their social reality, just like earth, air, and water are their material reality. Any harm, typically mental or emotional harm, done to students or faculty of educational institutions, in the course of their regular proceedings, is simply considered normal; such things are to be expected as natural to their social reality. It is just in the nature of things, just unavoidable collateral damage done within an otherwise essential and beneficent organization, and consequently not regarded as harm. These dedicated, honorable souls could not identify the nature of the harm or the fault causing the harm and, if they were to take note, perhaps even research it, they certainly could not label it evil.
Those in higher education are some of the most intelligent people in the nation. The nature of their focus on a single discipline prevents them from comprehending the harmful nature of the broader, interlocked, structures and systems of the nation.
Each field of study has its unique form of ‘Tunnel Vision.’ The mathematics of Astronomy, the Actuarial science of Insurance, Investment, predictions of population growth curves, descriptive statistics of consumer buying habits, the probabilistics of weapons’ ballistics and their trajectories, and predictions in epidemiology, statistics of incidence of pharmaceutical side effects and their levels of significance or confidence, descriptive statistics of waves in sound spectrographs and calculations of identity and similarity, quantification of climate trends over geological eons
Management of mind, Cognitive Perspectives, Imagining Possibilities, Temporal Perspectives
The Deontologically of Divided Loyalties of Scientists, Educators, and Politicians
The curriculum, organization of schools, and teaching techniques are shaping the youth of our population to accommodate to the pernicious corporate modus operandi.
PTAs and Emphasis on Parental Involvement in and Responsibility for Youths’ Education Results in Maintaining the Status Quo; Prevents the System from Innovation and Creative Experimentation; and Is Unfavorable for Learning and Love of Learning or Character Development
There Is a Schism in Our Culture between the Intellectual Disciplines and the Commercial Occupations That Involve Gaining Power and Making a Profit
Early 20th Century Sociological Theory and Functionalism versus Evolutionary Psychology and Structuralism [41]
There is an urgent necessity for all academic disciplines to include courses that teach an, not a multi-discipline understanding but a understanding of how to analyze the interaction of structures and systems that determine the fate of future civilizations and the earth.
The scientific method, hypotheses, experiments, and theories as the scientific brand of ‘truth’ and truth seeking contrasts with the applied sciences of engineering and its varieties of technology, contrast with social sciences, economics and political science, Military Science.
The geographical location of schools is inimical to the development of a sense of community and responsibility for the quality of life in neighborhoods.
The vertical structure of the organization of school systems ensures shaping of obedience rather than self-determination. . .
The horizontal structure and physical layout of school buildings . .
Financial structure
Social
Evaluative structure
Integration within the community
ETC
The grading system in public schools exposes students across the nation from first grade to graduation from high school to a perpetual experience of failure and rejection. It also engenders invidious comparisons, rivalry, and the development of a caste system.
The lockstep nature of curriculum ensures the impossibility of mastery of subject for all but a tiny minority.
The regimentation entailed in the structure of class assignments ensures depersonalization and interpersonal estrangement.
Education in elementary, secondary, university and particular elite universities for Maturity, Ethics, and Peace is excluded from education at the peril of the nation and world.
Teaching the five categories of the highest level of adult maturity requires restructuring pedagogy curriculum and methods of instruction.
small farmers were like shucks to the agri-banker
Farm Loans destroying small farmers.
Gigantic farm monopolies destroy small farms. Food product corporations are destroying our health.
This is what the GMO controversy is all about. The big food corporations want to put the small farmers and whole (naturally grown and unprocessed) foods’ grocers out of business. These big food corporations have gained control over the EPA, FHA, and FDA and related federal agencies and together they have been waging war through civil suits for patent infringement and now have taken over the local police, and in this CA case, to use them as soldiers with weapons to enforce their domination of every facet of the food industry. The stories abound about this corporate war against the small farmers and naturally grown and unprocessed foods. Total monopoly of the food industry is their goal. Of course, we are seeing the same collusion between the government and the pharmaceutical industry as well. Ordinary citizens must resist and prevent this from happening. [45]
The history of raw milk provides a telling example of how a corporate leader used the media and deception to change dairy farming and milk a primary food staple. [47] As a child, born on the 1st of January 1933, I was served raw milk until circa 1940 until the news media spread the fabrication that you could get undulant fever or brucellosis as is now called and you had to switch to pasteurized. While my mother usually bought pasteurized milk from then on, we often still drank raw milk as the families of many of my friends had cows in pens by their homes and milked their cows daily. The city made livestock in town illegal due to the threat of disease, though there had been not such disease for a hundred years. Some of my friends lived just outside the city limits and still kept milk cows. I often took turns milking and we would squirt the milk from the cow’s teat into our mouths. In years after that, we were persuaded by the media that we should only drink skimmed milk to avoid getting fat. I was a very thin youngster and never got fat even though I drank nearly half a gallon of raw milk daily. I recall that the milk set at our doorstep from the horse drawn milk wagon soon separated into cream and milk. Mother used the cream in making deserts. I have never known or heard of anyone contracting undulant fever. As I look at the scholarly articles on raw and pasteurized milk, I am amazed at how thoroughly the myths about raw and cautions to only use pasteurized have infiltrated the popular mind.
Mother’s breast milk co-opted for commercial baby formula
How Monsanto garnered 100% of soy bean market, driving out smaller soy farmers.[48]
The Future of Food 2004 90 minutes Before compiling your next grocery list, you might want to watch filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia's eye-opening documentary, which sheds light on a shadowy relationship between agriculture, big business and government. By examining the effects of biotechnology on the nation's smallest farmers, the film reveals the unappetizing truth about genetically modified foods: You could unknowingly be serving them for dinner.
In 1962, Rachel Carson began publishing her book called “The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson” and set off the beginning of a firestorm of protests against the use of pesticides. [50]
* Percy Schmeiser vs Monsanto: The Story of a Canadian Farmer's Fight to Defend the Rights of Farmers and the Future of Seeds *Gathered here in Bonn this week are some eighty Right Livelihood Award laureates, including the Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser, who has battled the biotech giant Monsanto for years. When Monsanto seeds blew into Schmeiser's property, Monsanto accused him of illegally planting their crops and took him to court. Ultimately his case landed in the Canadian Supreme Court. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1997 for fighting to defend the rights of farmers and the future of seeds. Listen/Watch/Read
hydrogen car [54]
The Story of Enron[55]
Patents and patent law as a form of theft.
Exxon hires Scientist to debunk Climate Change[57]
.[58] Energy Corporations: the world of Tuxedo and Tails Criminals: Journalist Exposes How Private Investigation Firm Hired by Chevron Tried to Recruit Her as a Spy to Undermine $27B Suit in Ecuadorian Amazon
Enron and Multi-billions in Fraud and Vast Interconnected Corporations in Collusion and California’s Energy Crisis
Tuxedo Criminals and their sophisticated strong-arm tacts in the corporate domain
World Com The Tesla Car, electric car, Tesla and Wireless Communication versus Marconi
The DeLorean Car fiasco
Cost cutting targets
Labor force reduction and hiring part time and temporary workers
Price Fixing between similar corporations
Combined alluring ads, prices inflated when compared to the worthlessness of the goods, and veiled impoverishment as their ‘unintended consequence’
Charging what the traffic will bear. Make it outrageous if the traffic with bear it
Charging what a product would cost if made in the USA even when it is made for less than 1/10th of that in foreign sweatshops
Price gouging in times of disaster or hard times[61].
Example of Wal-Mart [62]
Corporations can assume the right to destroy ruthlessly and with impunity, competition or competitors
The example of the paradox of the salesman as psychologically astute yet non-empathic character
Character sketches of two late sixties most highly paid CEOs, Charles Bludorn and James Ling [63]
Personality of Jeff Skilling
World Com
The policies of massive, nationwide, inhumane destruction of natural environments and human health
Due to their personhood status has led to committing harmful acts on the community of citizens at large with impunity. The vertical structure of a corporation leads to both a diffusion of a sense of guilt on the part of employees at every level of the corporate structure and, actually, an inability for them to be aware of the fact that they are indirectly a part of the commission of such acts.[65]
The Movie “Erin Brockovich”, [66] once was the quintessential indictment of corporate America on film. Now that this new global corporate environment that is beyond the reach of traditional national or local police and even the international police called the Interpol, Erin Brockovich’s fortissimo of bringing down a corporate giant is obsolete.
Once US Legitimized business policies that slowly, inconspicuously kill or rob consumers and toxic dumping kills innocents were restricted to US but they have spread to most of the underdeveloped nations.
Let sleeping dogs lie. Let lying dogs sleep.
Kick the mangy, stray dog out of the neighborhood
The Backgrounds from which politicians come determine which variety of more serious fraud they will evolve into when once in the highest, most powerful, most influential offices in the land.
Education and Objectivism with Respect to Teaching the History of First Europeans Arrival in the Americas and the Slaughter of Native American Tribes [68]
Putting More Bluntly, to be Liars
The phrase in our Constitution, “By the people,” in a country with political parties that are necessarily opposed to each other essentially requires that the nation be divided against itself.
The target audiences of types of media such as television channels, magazines, movies, radio, and professional journals reveal the layers of our culture.
The means is keeping the sectors of the economy funded and functioning. For corporations, the end justifies the means no matter how harmful to the people. Government use ineffective regulations and legislation and pitifully weak penalties to defend against corporate aggressors, cheaters, exploiters, abusers, swindlers, and polluters, and then minister to their casualties. Pentagon plans demand military weapons and services and procures contracts for military-industrial complex. This Keeps military budget high and military related industries profitable.
Us economics in disarray: Finance, Housing, Education, Labor, and Outlandish Inequitable Distribution of Wealth [71]
Best justice, legislators-lation, exec branch, money can buy
megalo-blindness oligarchs foreordained blindness
The mid levels can just barely maintain the struggle to keep their jobs and pay bills. The lowest levels struggle for a roof over their heads, enough food to keep from starving, and hope for government assistance if they lose their unskilled labor jobs.
Initially, we incorporate what we experience with our senses. We incorporate what we are verbally instructed to believe about the experience-able world even when we have not directly experienced its validity. Subsequently, we act as though the instruction, the belief, is reality. In more advanced cultures, we incorporate beliefs through text. In our modern culture, we incorporate what comes to us through multi-media in which a machine, an electronic machine like TV or the Computer, instructs and informs us about what is real. In other words, once Homo sapiens evolved with language, we increasingly became, by varying degrees, removed from reality. Homo sapiens constructed levels of meta-reality. I would now like to invent a word for our species that more accurately designates what we are and how we exist. That word in Homo deludiens. In other words, the experience-able world became shrouded in a linguistically constructed veil. The Homo deludiens can only see the material world through that veil; can only see a meta-world. Homo deludiens lives varying degrees removed from material reality, ‘it’ lives in a meta-world, and cannot break through the linguistic veil because ‘it’ does not know the veil exists. Once in this meta-world, Homo deludiens had become remarkably, easily manipulated to believe and to act on the most incredible beliefs without the ability to test to determine their value and utility for their daily living and in some circumstances for their very survival. This explains why such phenomena as “doublespeak” have had such disastrous success. When an occasion arises in which the message, the linguistically constructed meta-world, is contradicted by direct experience, the first impulse is to doubt direct experience. The further removed one is from the possibility of direct experience, or the possibility of testing direct experience, the more completely deluded one can become by “doublespeak.” A major problem has become that even scientific experiments and the exposes of earnest investigative reporters are enmeshed in the vast, linguistically constructed, meta-world.
Homo deludiens lives in a culture-deludiens. That is humanity’s zeitgeist. The individual’s worldview is constructed from within a culture-deludiens from which he cannot escape. The intelligence of humans in arrayed on a Bell curve. The mass of humans want to be led and are easily led. The maturity of humans is also on a Bell curve, however, the average level of maturity varies with the person’s culture, and the type of transmission of culture varies with each culture. To oversimplify for the sake of this issue, the type of leadership can be power-based or intelligence and education based. These easily led masses are led by one of these types but all types are leading within this linguistically constructed meta-world, or bubble. What the masses are led to believe and do depends upon the agenda of the leaders.
The masses can be led to ravenously consume products which are essentially either unessential or even harmful. They can be led to kill people whom they do not know and who have done them no harm, nor done anything deserving of being killed. Leaders who are intelligent and immature or unwise, can skillfully lead others to do incredibly insane things with ease, all because of the way this linguistically constructed meta-world makes this possible, so easily achieved. Furthermore, if the consequences of leadership are incipient and subtle, distant and out of sight, or not to be felt until the distant future, a leader can get away with just about anything. To its great misfortune, Homo deludiens cannot break out of this bubble to get a more historically and futuristically expanded and rational perspective on existence. Doublespeak reigns supreme.
Doublespeak Begins As a Second Language in Childhood and Those Who Master It Rise to Become Leaders in Our Predatory and Controlling Occupations.
Now, what if we stop and study and reason about the structures and systems surrounding the emerging personality of the children, how do they learn to lie, cheat, and steal? be politicians, ad men, PR men, salesmen, professionals, and even, truth be known, educators
Language and exploitation[74]
The majority of people are almost universally superstitious and easily persuaded by enchanting phony ads, arguments by mock authorities or status figures that are actually hucksters, recommendations by pseudo experts, or testimonies by seeming ordinary people just like them acting on behalf of an exploitative corporation. The ads on TV for pharmaceuticals and germ phobia and symptom illusions.
Chamber of Commerce[76]
National Rifle Association[77]
Women’s and Men’s business and Professional organizations[78]
There are nascent chinks in the armor of power.
There are nascent chinks in the armor of power. Concealed beneath the dignified bravado and unrivaled self assurance of the powerful person’s public personality, concealed even from their self-acknowledged nefarious private person, there is an Achilles Heel which is a form of insanity and nearsightedness. The peril of this insanity is that it is unable to recognize the strength, ruthlessness, and obsessive ambition of their potential successors. For these, too, are clever charmers devoid of conscience. Like crafty lionesses on the alert, ready to close in when they detect the first signs of vulnerability, they devise their devious plans to stealthily move in for the kill. The ruthlessness of the kill by their rivals will likely eclipse the degree to which the sovereign has demeaned them. Perhaps an even worse flaw of those whose secret creed is power for power’s sake is their belief in their omnipotence. They become drunk with the license to which ‘kings of the hill’ are prone and eventually they far overextend the reach of their control and overestimate the strength and abilities required to achieve their greedy and grandiose ambitions.
The ‘wounded’ king is unwilling to relinquish what everyone knows he has lost. Nevertheless, to maintain his power, when the jackals are closing in, he must and usually does resort to flamboyant displays of retaliation, boisterous protestations, recrimination of his betrayers, character assassination of suspected enemies, economic warfare, attempts at dirty political counterattacks, or even brutal force. Witnessing these grotesque theatricals, fear tends to grip his followers like the jungle’s surrounding scavengers. His assassins are not similarly moved as their Alpha male victor begins his metaphorical victory dance as though on the vanquished king’s grave. He enjoins his co-conspirators to share in the dance. However, among the king’s people, those who were his overt loyal supporters, there is initially fear, which this quickly turns into resentful distrust, and then quickly metamorphoses into sabotage and then outright rebellion as the weakened sovereign is seen to capitulate. Their loyalty is sheepishly transferred to the gloating usurper as he, with great fanfare, ascends the throne. Now begins the sad and sordid cycle as the new king enters the stage with a repeat performance of drunken megalomania. And so, as with the nascent chinks in the king’s armor, the historically demonstrated nascent chinks in civilization, whether with governments or corporations, as well as in the nascent chinks in the very nature of humankind, continues on.
The combination of US politics and economics makes class warfare inevitable
Unexpected Weapons in Class Warfare Are Matters of Diction, Manners, Taste, Privileged Social Access, Travelogue Ownership of Objets d'art, and Expensiveness and Formality of Dress
What is the optimal level of unemployment for a healthy economy?
Across the US, technological Innovation is pitted against the pressures for full or optimal employment. Technology replaces functions of workers and eventually replaces the workers. Let call these technological innovations robots. Although actual robots that walk around the room are extremely rare, it is the engineering specialty called robotics that increasingly takes over and performs the work of the employee. Mass production with individuals performing single task like sewing, assembling parts, sorting, inspecting, packaging and so on is very costly if a US worker is used. However, those discrete tasks can be shipped overseas where foreign workers can do the job far more cheaply than robotics. Therefore, whether it is US robotics or cheap foreign labor, the US worker is gradually being put out of work. Ironically, as the outsourced production becomes more profitable, the foreign corporation will choose to replace, let us say, one hundred workers with one robotic machine that in turn will be more reliable, less difficult to manage, and probably produce more units than the one hundred workers. The foreign workers are laid off and, if lucky, they find piece meal work somewhere else at even cheaper wages. And so it goes.
Immigration when there is wholesale outsourcing of unskilled and semi-skilled jobs equals domestic conflagration.
Labor Unions first formed the US in [80]
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door! "
After they go through that door, I will work their asses off for the lowest possible wages and house them in squalid quarters!
The people are like virtual sheep. The media pulls the wool over their eyes while the politicians provide the shears for the corporations to legally fleece them.
From whatever meager wages they make and after employers find ways to deduct for deals they cannot refuse and then make money off of through clandestine investments, next our politicians have devised a way to gyp them out of just a little bit more by luring them to buy a one in ten million chance to win the lottery.
A hypothetical but likely CEO is head of a hypothetical corporation that is responsible for many deaths resulting from dispensing, not by his own personal hand, lethal chemicals into the environment. Perhaps hundreds or thousands of infants die; out of sight and at a distance from him. He is not arrested. His corporation is sued for damages. The legal system’s protocol for such delicate situations allows the proceedings to drag out for decades. Finally, the corporation is ordered to pay what sounds to the public like huge sums of money. The corporation had already set aside funds for ‘accidental expenses’ just such as this. In fact, that huge sum of money is mere pittance to the corporation and it goes on its merry way, learning from this ‘accident’ and finding new loopholes so as to more safely avoid such legal untidiness in the future. Representatives from the public are allowed to protest aggressively and loudly. They call that CEO a heartless, unscrupulous, criminal. The media waves its arms and beats its breast providing vicarious catharsis for the public by calling him a monster. The CEO is not fired. The protest fades from the public’s memory and eventually dies a natural death. The academic experts on psychology of persuasion and crisis management had more than earned the grants they had received from the corporate world.
The hypothetical corporation sued for dispensing lethal chemicals was also the employer of many locals. Locals were employed as factory workers; materials transport; word processors; researchers; maintenance workers; marketers and advertisers; trainers; public relations and liaison officers; production systems analysts; risk, forecasting, production statisticians; legal analysts; medical staff; security; human resources; and many more. Many of these employees are likely to be second or third generation to have been employed by this corporation. The corporation also contributed funds to the community to create recreational centers and sports programs, and even local arts and theatre programs that employed many locals. The distribution of the raw material for the corporation’s products and distribution of those products around the nation employed many people. Most likely, some of the executives of the corporation lived in the local community and got themselves elected to the city council and school board. The corporation donated campaign funds for local elected officials. In one way or another, the corporations had direct or indirect control over a huge percentage of the people working in this community and likely many other communities. In other words, if you consider the way corporations are spread across the nation, employment in under the control of the corporations. The welfare of the employed is directly dependent upon corporations. Now, imagine that you are one of their employees and you suspect that the corporation is engaged in something that is harmful to people in your community and perhaps even yourself. How greatly outweighed are the pressures to whistleblow by the pressures to keep your mouth shut and remain loyal to the corporation. If someone does become a whistleblower, they are likely to be ostracized. Law firms with legal researchers were hired from outside the local community so as to be immune to such pressures. The local Chamber of Commerce will, of course, rush to support and defend the offending corporation.
US Chambers of Commerce stands in a unique relation between businesses and corporations, labor and Labor Unions, and the Military. While virtually absent from media coverage, they, nevertheless, are one of the most powerful lobby organizations influencing legislative and executive decisions and the ultimate direction of the nation. They also have had the greatest influence on the issue of undocumented foreign workers, particularly the workers from Mexico.
Regulating the numbers of workers of various types and levels of skill is a highly complex, difficult and delicate art. Decisions about quotas for importing workers, managing the level of domestic unemployment, and apportioning the size of the military are politically volatile. All three pose a mathematically challenging quandary to macro economists, corporate executives and their lobbyists, the Secretary of Labor, state governors, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, plus the Chamber of Commerce and the Labor Unions. [82] All of these, as well as many Special Interest Organizations act in tandem and yet with constant friction between them, which in turn exerts political pressure on the Executive Branch and an assortment of major parts of the government. All of these are a ‘system’ whose parts cannot be understood apart from one another. Yet, this one very complex system is also is interconnected with all of the other systems being “Singled Out” in this essay.
The Free Enterprise System Irreconcilably Pits the Small Number Corporate Owners and CEOs of Corporations Against the Vast Number of Laborers
The Ping-Pong Politics of Labor
Corporate Competition Requires keeping costs as low as possible and labor, as one of the biggest costs, must be treated as a commodity, or rather a thing, to be purchased at the lowest price, regardless of the harmful effects on the laborers.
The Financial System and the Stock Market
Bernie Madoff and Ponzi scheme
Stockholders [89]
Demand dividends from these corporation peddling lethal products
Hedge funds and housing-mortgage crisis
Predatory credit card co.
Small loan sharks
Interest rates
US banks financing the illegal narcotics trade
R
“The Ascent of Money: The Financial History of the World”, a movie made by T Rowe Price (2009), gave me one of the best insights into the Western world's total lack of self-awareness or self-understanding of how thoroughly conniving and psychopathic the West's evolving economic system has been. It is an exhaustive expose of how brilliant, innovative, totally greedy, narcissistic, megalomaniac, steely, and ruthless have been the men who shaped it and, in turn, have been shaped by it. A fascinatingly dark journey through a history that is the psychological equivalent of a documentary of the mind of Jack the Ripper. For the dispassionately self-examining person, it should also suggest how your culture and you along with it have been shaped. I highly recommend sitting through the full four hours, especially if you have an insatiable curiosity about what makes the world go round, namely money but including the callous exploitation of entire continents and the causes of wars and the vast carnage they have left behind. To see through the glory, opulence, and mind boggling intellectual feats of this odious financial odyssey and gain insight into the profound and incorrigible corruption of the West, you need to maintain an intensely skeptical mind as you view it.
For now, it is important to examine the military independent of the nation’s defense, the Department of Defense, and the Pentagon, the State Department and all of the other departments that determine the missions, materiel, and size of the military. The military, in and of itself, is deeply interwoven in the history, educational systems, fraternal organizations, corporate America, foreign relations, and, particularly important, American family life and civic rituals. The characteristics of the military can be described, metaphorically, as a personality. The characteristics of that personality is infused into the character and personalities of the populace, especially the American male.
‘Man the warrior’ has become an institution and war, with our military, the Pentagon, and the military industrial complex, is avoided only at the risk of wrecking the entire economy. The military, through the ROTC, establishes stations in schools, universities, and ghettos to do their recruiting. They penetrate, integrate into, and adapt to the culture of each setting in such a manner as to appeal to the unique characteristics of the young men and women common to each of these settings.
A highly profitable media industry has been created in the video game arena that is designed entice youth and mold their minds as future cyber versions of ‘Man the Warrior.’ The best example is the proliferation of ‘Black Ops Entertainment.’ Kids can play games that destroy mythical enemies on their monitors. From there, it is easy to recruit them into the military’s cyber warfare. What great self esteem booster to guide a predator to a foreign village, spot what their commanders say is the hideout of vicious enemies, and blow them to bits. [92]
In the computer cubicles within their homes, youth and adult alike are submitting themselves to brainwashing by proxy. Hour after hour, masses engage in mesmerizing multitasking with brief messages of nonsensical trivia, disintegrating their long-term memory and shrinking the span of their short-term memory.[94] With the power of an addiction, young people are seduced into committing virtual horrid acts of brutality yet, they are made to feel that it is only a harmless game, even cathartic if you will. All the while video war games are shaping their brains into becoming impersonal killing machines; perfectly suited for the new way of world warfare, the ultimate anomie of killing at a distance.
TV still works of ensure the influence of the V like pronouncements of Presidents to mold public opinion but they are rapidly being replaced by online sources provided by major networks but especially and more completely by the dominating online Twitters. Yesterday, nothing could beat an image of a president, like all celebrities, created by the image-makers. Just consider the power of JFK when the myth-makers manufactured his the King Arthur persona and is administration as the new Camelot. But now, persuasion psychology has left that in the musty old archives of history with the invention of Twitters and its many replicas. When someone gets online and responds with a one-liner to the issue or question framed by a newscaster, whether it is a yeah or boo, they are thoroughly and vehemently hooked on just the narrow, irrelevant company spiel sought by their corporate sponsor.
You want a war; just get the addled-brained, would-be brainiac, multitasker to enter a response about it on Twitter. One might call the US ‘Hoax Heaven’ for the modern-day hawker who is also a hawk with respect to going to war.
Whether growing in ghetto neighborhoods with a maelstrom of confusion, aggression, and crime or in a upper middle class gated community, youths learn to see other groups, or nations, as enemies that can be killed with impunity. These new excitingly bombastic brutality and war video games simply make the transition to ‘Patriotic’ murder and smooth transition. Their depersonalized environments breed alienation and resentment of demands by parents and authorities to conform to requirements and conventions. These video games, then, also provide catharsis for pent up rage which peaks in the susceptible years of early adolescence.[95]
Cultivating shallow minds and relationships devoid of empathy, the ‘Cult of the New,’ which the media uses to create hero and celebrity worship, causes the youth to covet and lust after the fashions, vogue, the ‘in’ things, the latest that are owned or worn or done by those the idolize. This is the corporate world’s utopia. It is the old consumerism on speed (‘methamphetamine).
Media’s necessity for conflicts, scandals, and disasters – if none exists, create a bogus one.
Leaks reveal corruption and war crimes in Afghan [98]
The Military Institutionalizes Eradicating Empathy and Inculcating Antipathy toward ‘The Other’
The spy industry’s necessary psychological orientation is suspicion and intrusion into personal space and therefore antithetical to empathy
The Nation’s Various Security Agencies Exempt Huge Mercenary Corporations from Scrutiny
News and Framing Reports and Framing Debates the Art of Obfuscation and Deluding [102]
The Populist Cinema, Musical Genres, Documentary Films, Radio Ideologies, Levels of Print Media, The Internet and the Humanitarian Web Sites versus the Alternative News Sites, The Influence of International Media,
When so few can hold sway over the opinions of so many, democracy is impossible. Three Corporations own most of all of the various types of media outlets.
Media Cannot Bite the Hand That Feeds Them
The FCC’s Role in Cultural Control
FCC allowing vertical and horizontal monopoly of all types of media outlets
The pseudo regulation and rating of the sex and violence content of movies
Libel and slander in political campaign speech
Selecting isolated, inconsequential controversial protests to dramatize and magnify to make a point to the broadest public.
Internet online media is a threat to government and corporate secret, covert, deceptive policies and practices
The Media Is Turning the Population into Hoi Polloi of Opinionated, Narrow-minded, Simpleminded, Course, Politically Easily Manipulated, Redneck Mobs
Media Has Irreconcilable Differences with Transparency and Empathy
Real Versus Fake Crises: Concealing The Risk of An All Out Nuclear Media Used to Deliberately Mislead the People [106]
Early training of youth in violent sports
Violent sports heroes as models
The sports dilemma: learn the ethics of sportsmanship versus winning by doing “whatever it takes.”
Doping and Gambling in Sports to win
Commercialism in sports
Disproportionate Salaries of Athletes
Crime and Sports
Glamorizing violence, predatory sexuality, gender stereotypes
The ethical license given entertainment celebrities and the worship of fame and gaudy fortune.
Concert crowds, cult followings, spectator loyalty and sports teams
Presenting them as different from the rest and deserving entitlement
Idolatry and Inducing the Populace to Model after Competitive Sports’ Heroes and Idolized Entertainers Causes Insensitive Deprecation of Losers and Also Rans
The Segmentation, Or Segregation, of Sectors of the Population in Cities Generates Antipathy and Denigration between Classes and Ethnic Groups
Who Are the Elite? Where Do They Live? Where Do They Deposit Their Money? To What, Especially What Nations, Do They Owe Their Loyalty? How Have They Shaped Our Culture? By What Hierarchical or Vertical Structure Do They Wield Their Power? How Have They Designed the Structures of Urbanization? [108]
Industrialization, Urbanization, and Transformation of America into a Culture of Anomie [109]
The more unstructured is a person’s condition of life, the more the distal are the forces shaping their personality and behavior. In school, a young person is shaped by the rigorousness of the structure of the school. In their neighborhood, it is the affluence, the location, the quality of facilities or neighborhood institutions, and the degree and quality of supervision or monitoring by adult authorities that shapes the personality and behavior of the person. The more there are periods in unstructured settings, the more distal factors such as radio and television music and examples of celebrities exert influence, especially when these are consistent with their life conditions such as type of neighborhood and home. Day after day of being exposed to these external forces, they gradually shape the youth’s worldview, language, values, and conventions of behavior, choice of friends, and immediate preferences and goals.
The various processes of
Demographics shape Worldviews and channel expectations and life paths.
US and war crimes
US pharmaceutical industry
and foreign trade[115]
US selling contraband pharmaceuticals to foreign countries[116]
Illegal weapons foreign trade
Human trafficking
Escaping US Taxes by depositing in the Cayman Islands has been an international custom for many years.[117]
Democratic Western Nations have been following un-impede-able currents propelling toward corruption, exploitation, and enslavement of poor countries for centuries.[118]
Western nations have pursued a non zero sum game[119] in economic relations with underdeveloped countries.
An international version of the ‘Commons Dilemma’[120]
The history of so-called colonialization of continents and territories populated by primitive peoples to civilize them for their own good is now seen by independent scholars with integrity, objectivity, and compassion (that really is possible you know) as glaring, but properly scripted, lies. The last several hundred years of colonialization and exploitation were nothing but theft of their land, natural resources, and enslavement of their people for the aggrandizement of the colonialists.
Tarzan movies and the dehumanization of Africans.
A long-standing, increasingly perfected, Goebbels-esque media campaign compartmentalizes the world of fantasy the populace lives in from the brutal, villainous, law distorting and eluding reality thriving far out of its sight. Well, sometimes that reality is just behind an awesome façade right down the street. Propagandists know people will always opt to watch a dog being rescued from a crack in a lake’s ice than an eyesore toxic waste dump that is slowly rotting the insides of hundreds of innocent children.
Property Rights and the theft of lands in underdeveloped countries[121]
Disinvestment of stocks of corporations in South Africa to end apartheid.
Everyone loves characters like Charlie Chaplin’s “Little Tramp,” who seeming to poke fun at the hoity-toity, is actually a perfect foil for them.
Oil and the US Militant Cold War with Oil Rich Nations
The United Nations and its impotence to intervene in international injustice[122]
Blood diamonds The European Union, as a single market, is currently the sole authority to publish rough diamond trade statistics in Europe http://ask.reference.com/web?qsrc=2352&o=10616&l=dir&dm=&q=diamond%20smuggling [123]
The bogus Kimberly Process and diamond smuggling[124]
Gold mining and slavery[125]
Sweat Shops around the World Modern Slavery and Sex Trafficking[126]
The use of Western Property Law to steal the land of primitive peoples.
Illegal gun trade [127]
International weapons illegal trafficking and fomenting civil wars and wars between nations[128]
US and international crime: banks and drug trafficking; [129]
Money Laundering and the Global Drug Trade Fueled by Capitalist Elites
International crime and war crimes [130] http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=israeli+military+siege+on+gaza+according+to+netanyahu&aq=0&aqi=m1&aql=&oq=Israel+military+siege+on+Gaza+according+to+Netanyahu&gs_rfai=
The Great International Brain Drain: Imported, Highly Educated and Skilled Talent Versus Non-Foreign Born, Indigenously Educated
redistribution of higher education level skills in globalization [132]
brain drain away from foreign countries to US in globalization [133]
Increase in wage inequalities across nations in globalization [134]
International Treaty Organizations and the Paper Wars of Diplomacy in the SEATO,[135] NATO[136], OAS[137], and UN
The United Nations General Assembly has declared for the first time that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. In a historic vote Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 122 countries supported the resolution, and over forty countries abstained from voting, including the United States, Canada and several European and other industrialized countries. [138]
Globalization and the New World Order
Elite, Wealthy Families and a Few, Select, Brilliant Insider Individuals Have Formed Strong, Cross-national Bonds and, Together, Have a Common Global Vision for the a Future Civilization
Applying Our Analysis to the Interconnectedness of US Systems and Structures with the Full Range of Nations and Cultures
Many Levels of Offenses against humanity that are now in an international ‘no-man’s-land.’
Use of contractors in foreign nations, use of soldiers of fortune as mercenaries, Black Ops[139], like Xe or Blackwater to operate incognito and beyond the law to accomplish US goals that are illegal and contrary to international law and treaties. Use of covert operations in posse comitatus to transgress national borders and perform illegal military missions.
Truman and Enola Gay and Robert Oppenheimer and FBI [140]
Chomsky and the ethics of Nations
AFRICOM Genocide, Exploitation of Natural Resources, Slavery, Instigating Civil Wars, Assignations and Coup d’états [143]
Their seeming immunity to the shaping by the structures and systems of their era is the exception that proves the rule.
Ancient Political visionaries: Babylonia and Egyptian, Plato, Caesar, Alexander the Great, Constantine, Suleiman the Magnificent, Genghis Kahn. Modern Political visionaries: Kucinich, Bernie Sanders
Scientific visionaries: Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus (99-55 BC), Galileo, Marks, Oppenheimer, Tesla
Ethical visionaries: Gandhi, Mandela, Chomsky,
http://www.google.com/search?q=Roman+poet+Titus+Lucretius+Carus,&hl=US&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&aq=t http://www.iep.utm.edu/lucretiu/ http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/L/LUC/lucretius.html,
To overcome the combined effects of the shortcomings of our species and the long, defective devolution of civilizations over many millennia, our cultures must create programs to simultaneously train the entire populace in the traits of maturity on the one hand and institutions dedicated to understanding and redesigning the structures and systems of our cultures that are perpetually self modifying.
Use of roles and teachable-moment situations
So, who is not innocent? By now, I hope you know that that is the wrong question. Existentialism may put to rest the personal quest for objective answers about the meaning of existence and whether or not there is an ultimate external authority who can tell you how to be saved and not die; how to achieve immortality. It does not answer the pressing and practical question concerning what, and mind you not ‘who’, is evil. The question of who is ‘not’ innocent is an existential question and is concerns authenticity and integrity. Civilizations, cultures, which have been built, ever since their origin, on deception; require, require even, deception and therefore inauthenticity. Inauthenticity is the opposite of innocence. If cultures require it, if humans are not aware of or do not acknowledge that, then ‘original sin’ is an inevitable result of culture. Consequently, the cause of human evil acts does not spring from within any person. Ironically, it was Kierkegaard, the Danish theologian-existentialist philosopher mentioned above, who made the famous statement “Man is constituted by his relations.”
The ultimate, but difficult to grasp, source of human evil acts is to be found in the structures and systems of civilizations and their cultures. The law is one of those systems. The law will never, can never, put an end to human evil acts. It neither is an effective deterrent nor is it an effective punishment. The law exists because the other systems are virtual factories that mass-produce patterns of human evil actions. Civilizations can continue to futilely tilt at the windmills of human evil acts using justice systems as its spear. Regardless, it will only be an unwitting, quixotic impossible dream, an outmoded system that should have been entombed with the many other ill-begotten contrivances of humankind’s civilizations for all too many millennia now.
The majority humans will continue to look upwards for a god to save them. They must continue to cling to the musty old texts and genuflect at the feet of hoary headed would be gurus of ‘the way.’ To some extent, teaching the young to look for natural causes may help eliminate superstitious thinking. This may help eliminate the tendency to look to the supernatural as the cause for anomalous events, as well. Atheism, however, will never be in vogue. Preaching atheism is as quixotic as Don Quixote’s tilting at windmills. On the other hand, what can be done to end the pain, criminal acts, destruction, murder, and wars that humans inflict on one another is for intelligent and courageous humans to undertake the necessary massive transformation of civilizations’ antiquated structures and systems. These, in contrast to human intentions and personal responsibility, are not innocent. These are the true evil. The humans shaped by them to commit evil acts are innocent. Calling those who commit evil acts evil is an injustice of gargantuan proportions.
Keep this in your mind until the end of your days: The Days of the Innocents Being Called Evil Must End. “I must help to end this wayward path of all past civilizations for the sake of the health, wholesomeness, and survival of all future civilizations.” To many it may seem unfortunate that the true evil cannot be punished. However, the true evil, being the structures and systems of civilizations, is the only aspect of human existence that can be rehabilitated, corrected, or reformed. For the first time in human history, evil can be reformed when we decide to transform society’s evil structures and systems. Not an easy task as humans will have to make a kind of Copernican Revolution in their thinking. We will have to relinquish our devotion to those multitudes of human activities and enterprises that have provided us with a selfish sense of success, gratification of all manner of desires for acquisition, and with the ephemeral sense of security that came from flitting among all those appealing distractions. To admit that your lifelong goals and beliefs have been in error is extraordinarily difficult for humans.
For The Days of the Innocents Being Called Evil to End, some humans must find the inner strength to make these dramatic transformations in civilizations and cultures. Some brave souls must take up the long and difficult challenge to understand and reform, or restructure, the heretofore irresistibly commanding and pernicious shaping effects that external structures and systems of civilizations have upon the internal structures and processes of individuals. The highly complex interaction between structures and inner processes, specifically the processes of intentionality are the crux of the matter. Within this interaction, its details of how humans universally come to deceive and commit evil acts must be laid bare. A new chapter in history will begin to unfold as the corrupting influence of all previous millennia is undone, rolled back, and positive structures foster authenticity, integrity, and humans’ mutual facilitation of each others’ welfare. If this were to occur, it will be far more significant for humans and human civilization than the Copernicus’ insight that the earth revolves around the sun rather than vice versa. In the modern world, revolutionaries in science or in engineering such as the inventors of the computer are celebrated while an insight that could revolutionize culture is scoffed at or shunned like a pariah.
There are many people in intellectual disciplines, which are to some extent outside of the vast dysfunctional and corrupt aspects of our culture. Some of them objectively study these problems. I suspect that many of them have insights as to what corrective alternatives might work. These experts are aware that the people have been failed by the traditional organizations whose purpose is to care properly for the people. Consider how ineffectual the non-political governmental agencies, pop psychology, religion, science, charitable foundations, and philosophy have been. Whether any group of experts with the knowledge, power, and influence to do so will accept the challenge to make the comprehensive changes needed in the structures and systems of our culture, let on a global scale, is doubtful. Furthermore, if they did accept the challenge, I am extremely pessimistic concerning the possibilities for their success.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States (1913–21), was creator and leading advocate of the League of Nations. In the 1930s, George Herbert Mead, father of Margret Mead, wrote a landmark book called “Mind, Self, and Society” and, in the Appendix, he advocated the globalization of the economy. President Clinton was a strong advocate of globalization. President Wilson was descended from a long line of aristocratic, elitist, Presbyterian clergymen, and scholars, while President Clinton was from a populist background though he received his graduate education from Oxford. Both George, a philosopher, and his daughter Margaret, a cultural anthropologist, were professors and liberal intellectuals. All four were globalists with a small g. Both of the Bush men were capital G globalists. The globalists with a capital G came into influence toward the end of the Reagan presidency with the “Project for the New American Century” (NeoCons[147]) and were Imperialists. They were strongly allied with the British government’s Prime Minister and friend of Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, an ultra Conservative. This continued, in disguise, with the Liberal Party Prime Minister, Tony Blair. The NeoCons pretended to be linked to Wilson but nothing could be further from the truth.
Capital G Globalization is now the center of incendiary political controversy. With strong hues of pro-elite financial philosophy, libertarian opposition to welfare, a penchant of spying on US citizens, promotion of a new sophisticated digitally controlled weaponry, and goals of militaristic world domination, they are now credited with being the cause of the worst recession since the Great Depression beginning in 1929.
It is clear that there is a cataclysmic political war in progress between the small and capital G Globalists.
The Future of Capitalism in a Globalized World
Problems with the Stock Market in a Globalized World
Coming of age in a globalized world
The Future Government in a Globalized World
Ending Exploitation in a Globalized World
War as Unfeasible in a Globalized World
Allocation of work in a Globalized World http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=allocation+of+work+in+a+Globalized+World&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
Reallocation of work in a Globalized World http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=Reallocation+of+work+in+a+Globalized+World&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=m1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
Redistribution of Wealth in a Globalized World http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=Redistribution+of+Wealth+in+a+Globalized+World&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
The worldwide epidemic of AIDS [149]
United Nations’ World Health Organization and International Epidemiology [150]
Worldwide diminishing fresh water resource
New global alternative energy systems will avert a global environmental disaster.
What are
the paths that globalization possibly could take?
[151]
“Collapse” 2009 is an avant-garde soliloquy, investigative journalist Michael Ruppert details his unnerving theories about the inexorable link between energy depletion and the collapse of the economic system that supports the entire industrial world. Helmed by filmmaker Chris Smith (American Movie), Ruppert's monologue explains how the lies and political propaganda fed to Americans by big business will eventually lead to human extinction. This guy said all of the things and many more that I have been writing about for fifteen years, only he said it so much more brilliantly. View the documentary “Collapse” and then reread (My essay on From a Meaningless to a Meaningful World)[153]
by Edwin L. Young, PhD
Dear World,
It’s not happening to you.
It is not happening to your neighbor.
It is not happening where you can see it.
But, can there be a greater crime than to know it may be happening
somewhere to some
and you won’t inquire.
To know
it is happening somewhere to some
and you do nothing,
nothing at all,
nothing at all,
nothing,
nothing.
The Invisible Crime:
None greater than to not inquire.
None greater than
to know
and do nothing.
Nothing at all,
nothing at all,
nothing,
nothing.
For more essays by Edwin Young, go to http://TheNaturalSystemsInstitute.org
[1] Founding Fathers owned slaves: http://www.nas.com/~lopresti/ps.htm
[2]http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/home/content/84226102.html
It was in this timeframe with the Judeo/Christian edict Doctrine of Discovery that all of the atrocities toward Native Indians would ensue - this edict was in essence a license to terrorize, steal, genocide and deem the Indigenous Peoples as subhuman.
The Doctrine of Discovery was a principle of international law developed in a series of 15th century papal bulls and 16th century charters by European monarchs. A racist philosophy, the Doctrine gave white Christian Europeans the right to claim the lands and resources of non-Christian peoples and kill or enslave them – if other Christian Europeans had not already done so.
[5] Aliases are Buridan’s Ass, Hobson's Choice, and Pascal’s Wager http://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=Balaam's+Ass
[6] Sin versus psychopathology Freudian theory http://www.google.com/search?q=Sin+versus+psychopathology+Freudian&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
OH Mowrer http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865989,00.html
[7] Brains of Serial Killers Compared to Geniuses http://www.google.com/search?q=Fallon+and+Brain+Imaging+of+Serial+Killers&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&aq=t
[8] Brain chemistry and mental illness
[9] psychiatric diagnosis and psychological testing and psychological counseling of offenders and the courts http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=psychiatric+diagnosis+and+the+courts+&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/library/special_problems13.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12819436
exhibited clinical elevations on scales 8 (Schizophrenia), 6 (Paranoia), 4 (Psychopathic Deviate), and 7 (Psychasthenia). Among females, two clinically elevated profiles emerged. One Impulsive-Antisocial cluster consisted of clinical elevations on scale 4 (Psychopathic Deviate), which has been consistently associated with delinquent and antisocial behavior. The second cluster, labeled Irritable-Isolated, produced elevations on MMPI scales 4 (Psychopathic Deviate), 8 (Schizophrenia), 6 (Paranoia), and 7Psychasthenia). http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=Is+psychological+testing+of+offenders+useless&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=Is+psychological+counseling+of+offenders+useless&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
www.iga-bg.org A recent study from Bulgaria has results very similar to the US.
59 % are of Roma ethnic origin. 36 % are Bulgarians.
71 % of the respondents come from urban areas and 29 % -from rural areas.
7 % of the respondents are married. But another 52 % admit to some form of relationship similar to marriage.
18 % have had a close relative or family member sentenced to imprisonment.
63 % are below the elementary education level, while only 1 % have university education. 15 % have high school and 22 % have primary education.
36 % of them have never worked before they were sent to prison. 22 % have less than a year of working. Only 4 % have had a stable occupation for more than 3 years.
79 % of the respondents do not have any kind of professional qualification.
Environment factors predisposing to criminal behavior:
[10]
The Profession of Psychologist Suffers from the Free Enterprise
Disorder. Carl Rogers’ Opposition to Certification of Psychotherapists
http://books.google.com/books?id=CRnR87UQbMwC&pg=PA364&dq=Carl+Rogers'+opposition+to+the+certification+of+psychotherapists&ei=4qMfTMr4B4u2NtHy-aYN&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
As soon as we set up criteria for certification —
whether for clinical
psychologists ... You
would want to know what he is like as a person and a
therapist, ...
[11] http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865989,00.html
http://www.test-de-inteligencia.es/articulos_inteligencia/scientists_dissect_mystery_of_genius_iq.html Intelligent research is full of surprises. For example, the brains of smarter people, as measured by IQ, tend to be less active but more efficient, Haier says.http://www.pediatrics.uci.edu/faculty/neurology/haier/haier.html
[12] Politicians Must Support Getting Tough on Crime If They Want to Get Elected http://www.google.com/search?q=Politicians+and+the+fallacy+of+getting+tough+on+crime&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[13] President as Unifying Figurehead http://books.google.com/books?id=1knt-D9l0AQC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=The+President+as+Icon+Representing+the+Government+to+the+People&source=bl&ots=lgbxrVdBOY&sig=jEZeN_OdNgR8vjcdZaqsLx3W7kU&hl=en&ei=KOePTJLcLMGBlAeZ-7CmAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
[14] Interactive graphic of all branches of government http://www.netage.com/economics/index.html
[15]
Federal Government and its agencies
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/fedgov.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_agencies
[16] The Power Elite
http://www.google.com/search?q=C.+Wright+Mills&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Elite
[17] Free Enterprise and the corruption of Justice as in the Privatization of Prisons http://gatheringforjustice.ning.com/forum/topics/judges-take-bribes-to-send
http://www.morningliberty.com/2010/05/10/prisoner-rights-corrections-corp-of-america-are-you-next/
http://www.correctionscorp.com/
http://www.justicetalking.org/ShowPage.aspx?ShowID=657
[18] Public defenders and the US In-Justice System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_defender http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=Public+defenders+and+court+appointed+attorneys+and+the+US+in-Justice+System&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
[19] Court appointed attorneys and the US In-Justice System
http://social.jrank.org/pages/1360/Legal-System-Price-Defending-Criminal-Poor.html
[20] Plea bargaining and the US In-Justice System http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=plea+bargaining+and+the+US+in-Justice+System&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
[21] bondsmen’s and profiteering http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=bondsmen’s+and+profiteering++&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
http://www.justicetalking.org/ShowPage.aspx?ShowID=657
and Bail bonding as a corrupt business http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=Bail+bond+as+a+corrupt+business&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=CpE17mwOFTKTPIo-GNKSh2bAGAAAAqgQFT9AA77U
http://www.napsa.org/publications/napsafandp1.pdf
[22] Budgets fo prisons not schools http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=State+budgets+sacrifice+education+for+prisons&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
[23] The ‘Now’ generation http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=Now’+generation+&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
[24] enlightened self interest’ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=enlightened+self+interest+philosophy&aq=6&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=enlightened+self+interest+&gs_rfai=
[25] AT&T collaborating with NSA to spy on citizenshttp://www.google.com/search?q=AT%26T+collaborating+with+NSA+to+spy+on+citizens&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&aq=t
[26] “The Outsider” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wilson
[27] “New World Order.”
[29] Oaths as bogus protection of patients, consumers and clients and plaintiffs
http://mbaoath.org/about/the-mba-oath/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703866704575224433181083858.html?mod=wsj_india_main
http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/02/business-school-pledge-book-leadership-careers-mba-oath.html
[30] Attorney’s Oath http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/4/title4sec806.html http://calbar.xap.com/applications/CalBar/PDFs/code_section_6068.pdf
[32] Personality of the White Collar Criminal versus Personality of the Common Criminal http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/samenow.htm
White Collar Psychopaths are far more frequent
than Psychopaths in the Common Criminal Population
http://www.hare.org/links/saturday.html
[33] Oliver Stone’s “Natural Born Killers” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110632/ http://www.google.com/search?q=Oliver+Stone&hl=US&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125745788725531839.html
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2303
[34] Demography is destiny http://www.google.com/search?q=Demography+is+Destiny&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&aq=t
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Comte
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/07/demography-destiny
[35] The Movie “Machete” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694/
[36] West Side Story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVBdv2igOeY&feature=related
[37] The role of demographics in the future of diverse aspects of the future of the globe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography
http://www.mercatornet.com/demography/
http://www.demographicbomb.com/
http://blog.demographicbomb.com/
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/090322_demography.htm
[38] Gates on the Malthusian Catastrophe http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/928.html
[39] Mathus theory of the crisis of overpopulation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_castasrophe
[40] Supreme Court Rubber Stamps the ‘Corporate Tuxedo Criminals’
Jan 21, 2010 ... BREAKING
NEWS: Supreme
Court rules
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is a major victory for big oil,
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bigjournalism.com/.../supreme-court-drop-kicks-mccainfeingold-scores-victory-for-1st-amendment/ - Cached - Similar
[41] Early 20th Century Sociological Theory and Functionalism versus Evolutionary Psychology and Structuralism
[42] Digital Nation and Transformation of Minds
[43] Food wars:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/935.html http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/ http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=infowars&aq=0s&aqi=g-s5g1g-s2g2&aql=&oq=inforw&gs_rfai=CaDKAWICPTPylNZG6hATQ6rSoBgAAAKoEBU_Q5BYp http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=infowars&aq=0s&aqi=g-s5g1g-s2g2&aql=&oq=inforw&gs_rfai=CaDKAWICPTPylNZG6hATQ6rSoBgAAAKoEBU_Q5BYp#hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=prison+planet&revid=-1&sa=X&ei=YICPTNabFoS0lQfXk6AU&ved=0CF4Q1QIoAA&fp=6052204b889acdd8 http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-alex-jones-show-ron-paul-exposes-obamas-regulatory-dictatorial-powers-fed-plan.html
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/The-Future-of-Food/70038794?trkid=1211018
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032851/
[44] The Perverse History of the Banks and the Decommissioned Anti-Trust Laws
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/agoutlook/apr1999/ao260e.pdf
http://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/index.htm
[45] Gigantic farm monopolies destroy small farms. Food product corporations are destroying our health.
http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/09/plastic-bpa-in-cans
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/933.html
[46] A survey of how our food supply is being deliberately contaminated by corporate America. Video:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/935.html
[47] http://www.raw-milk-facts.com/milk_history.html When the War of 1812 broke out, the supply of distilled spirits from Europe essentially dried up. Although the conflict only lasted about two years, its impact on our country was substantial, and strangely enough for milk, particularly nasty.
[48] How Monsanto garnered 100% of soy bean market, driving out smaller soy bean farmers http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&ei=NKD6S4-9EIL-8AaGn-3jCg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CBEQBSgA&q=Soybean+corporations&spell=1
[49] The Future of Food 2004 90 minutes
Before compiling your next grocery list, you might want to watch filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia's eye-opening documentary, which sheds light on a shadowy relationship between agriculture, big business and government. By examining the effects of biotechnology on the nation's smallest farmers, the film reveals the unappetizing truth about genetically modified foods: You could unknowingly be serving them for dinner http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70038794&trkid=1211021 http://www.thefutureoffood.com/
[50] Pesticides and the book “The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson” in 1962 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+Silent+Spring+of+Rachel+Carson%22+by+Rachel+Carson&hl=en
[51] The Global Danger of Patenting of Genetically Engineered Life Forms http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=Patenting+of+genetically+engineered+life+forms&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=C6ZvASkSRTPOgMZG6hAT0jYnAAQAAAKoEBU_QWjWk
The Global Danger of Patenting of Genetically Engineered Life Forms and Forcing Out Natural Farmers http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/17/percy_schmeiser_vs_monsanto_the_story
[52] Statistics on Mental Illness Timeline http://www.google.com/search?q=Mentally+Ill%2BNumber+diagnosed+by+year+from+1930+to+2009&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[53] Is hydrogen a viable alternative source of energy and fuel
[54] history of hydrogen cars and the Tesla car http://127.0.0.1:4664/cache?event_id=121855&schema_id=6&q=hydrogen+cars&s=pxKS-3xniG16BuOpdY3K-HXxOD8
http://www.teslamotors.com/media/press_room.php?id=2509
[55] What were the illegal practices of Enron http://www.google.com/search?q=What+were+the+illegal+practices+of+Enron&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
How did Enron Cheat the California Utilities http://www.google.com/search?q=What+were+the+illegal+practices+of+Enron&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362#hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=How+did+Enron+Cheat+the+California+Utilities&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=How+did+Enron+Cheat+the+California+Utilities&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=f36d3c22a357aa92
[56] Most referenced sources of information on Petroleum Industry Statistics
http://www.spe.org/industry/statistics/
Global Comparisons of Oil Production and Consumption
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_pro-energy-oil-production
CIA statistics on global oil https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/rawdata_2178.text
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2178rank.html
The United States Oil Dependency
http://silver.theicecave.org/library/usoil.html
Our Culture is Dependent upon Costly and Often Deadly Derivatives from Oil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum#Other_derivatives
Peak Oil Is Real
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/09/04/oil_spin?page=full
The Race to Suck the Last Drop of Oil from Depleted Reservoirs
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3159/is_6_222/ai_75918332/
Globes Oil Reserves and Political Conflicts and Exploitation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oil_Reserves.png
Reckless, Illegal, and a Threat to Humanity and the Earth
Abandoned oil wells make Gulf of Mexico 'environmental minefield'
AP investigation finds BP was responsible for 600 of more than 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jul/07/abandoned-oil-wells-gulf-mexico
Efficiency or Illegal Encroachment – Horizontal or Slant Well Drilling (The Main reason Iraq attacked Kuwait)
http://www.energyindustryphotos.com/how_oil_and_gas_wells_are_drille.htm
[57] ExxonMobile hires Scientist to debunk Climate Change http://www.google.com/search?q=Exxon+hires+Scientist+to+debunk+Climate+Change&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[58] The white tails and tie criminals in the corporate energy world. http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/16/journalist_exposes_how_private_investigation_firm
[59] Oil Statistics Compared Globally
http://www.energyindustryphotos.com/us_rig_count_worldwide_rig_count.htm
[60] Corporations Adoption of a Social Darwinian Philosophy
[61] Price gouging in times of disaster http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=Price+gouging+in+times+of+disaster+&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=Cqw0w_ACNTJzpDKeqgASmsLSZBgAAAKoEBU_QJ9of
[62] Big Corporations Driving Out Little, Bad Money Driving Out Good, Unethical but Legal Practices that Kill the Competition: The Case Against Wal-Mart http://www.google.com/search?q=Small+towns+case+against+Walmart&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wal-Mart
[63]
Character sketches of two late sixties
most highly paid CEOs, Charles Bludorn and James Ling
http://www.google.com/search?q=Bludorhn&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362#hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=james+ling+businessman&aq=1&aqi=g6&aql=&oq=James+Ling+&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=f36d3c22a357aa92
Charles Bludorn
http://ruk.ca/content/gulf-western
[64] The Corporate Culture Shapes People into Its Own Brand of Psychopath Rogue’s Gallery Of Corporate And Political Crime And Multinationals’ Eluding Charges
In the 2001–2008 George W. Bush Administration and 1981–1989 Ronald Reagan Administration corporate scandals, failures or corruption are not included unless there is significant political involvement. Thus many such as the Lockheed bail out, Harken Energy, MCI Inc., Bernard Madoff, Tom Petters, and Stanford Financial Group are not included, but Scott W. Rothstein, VECO Corporation and Enron Scandal are not included here.
World Com and Crime Bernard Ebbers http://www.google.com/search?q=World+Com+and+Criminal+Charges&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
How Many Major Corporations Guilty of Criminal Charges in Last Twenty Years
Corporate crime statistics
Number of Big corporations Charged with crime
Kinds of Crimes corporations are Charged with
Corporations charged with pollution violations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Worldwide
Corporations charged with Security and Exchange Crimes
US Corporations Charged with Exploitation of Labor in Foreign Countries
US Corporations Charged with Exploitation of Child Labor in Foreign Countries
US Corporations dumping waste and toxic waste on foreign soil
US Corporations dumping waste and toxic waste on Bangladesh
Crime of US Pharmaceuticals distributed to foreign countries
Bird Flu Vaccine Crime http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/
US Pharmaceutical Corporations defective medications distributed to foreign countries
Practices of US Corporations that are legal but inhumane
CIA complicity in the global drug trade
US Government Complicity in Corporations Crimes
US Government Complicity in Illegal Weapons Sales Abroad
Randy "Duke" Cunningham
Crime: California's Republican Rep. Randall
"Duke" Cunningham, 67, received $2.4 million in bribes from military
contractors and evaded more than $1 million in taxes.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/white-collar-criminals-in-jail-2009-7#randy-duke-cunningham-4#ixzz0ylxGI92c
Multinational corporations escape laws of specific to singular nations
Multinational corporations elude laws of nations
Personality of Jeff Skilling and Corporations as Breeding Grounds for Slick, Brilliant Psychopaths
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041200941.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/enron/1249343.html
William McGuire, M.D., was the chairman and CEO of UnitedHealth Group Inc., parent of United Healthcare, the second-largest health insurance company in the U.S. He earned a reported $124 million in 2005.
Jeff Dachis, co-founder, CEO and chairman of the now-defunct Razorfish, an Internet consulting firm. Founded in 1995, Razorfish quickly expanded to 1,800 employees in 13 cities.
Charles Keating Charles Keating is best remembered for his role in the S&L scandal of the 1980s and for his association with and financial contributions to U.S. senators -- the so-called Keating Five -- to secure preferential treatment from regulators. The dis-honor roll is impressive. It includes savings and loan executioner Charles Keating of American Continental;
Richard
Scrushy
Crime: Former
HealthSouth Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Scrushy, 56, was found
guilty of bribery and mail fraud for his participation in a scheme to
pay $500,000 bribes in return for a spot on a state regulatory panel.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/white-collar-criminals-in-jail-2009-7#richard-scrushy-5#ixzz0ylx8DlNA
Richard Scrushy, accused of telling
Healthsouth Corp. employees to cook the books
Ken Lay, the former honcho at Enron Corp., who died in July 2006 a few months before sentencing on 10 counts of securities fraud and related charges. (An appellate court squashed the conviction because Mr. Lay did not live long enough to exercise his right of appeal and judicial review.)
Ivan Boesky rose to fame and fortune during the 1980s by taking huge positions in companies that were about to be taken over. But he was charged and found guilty of stock manipulation and insider trading in '86.
Boris Berezovsky is a
former Russian oligarch turned exiled dissident and vocal critic of
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. A Moscow court found him guilty
in absentia of fraud and embezzlement.
Nick Leeson The unsupervised speculative trading of derivatives trader Nick Leeson caused the collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment bank in 1995.
Lou Pearlman In 2006, it came to light that the former boy band manager and talent scout had perpetrated one of the biggest and longest running Ponzi schemes in American history. He pled guilty to charges of conspiracy and money laundering.
Barry Minkow For several years back in the 1980s, a teenaged Barry Minkow passed himself off as the proprietor of a successful carpet-cleaning company that didn't in fact exist. The fraud ended up costing investors an estimated $100 million.
Mark Whitacre Once an apparent shoo-in to be president of Archer Daniels Midland, he turned whistleblower and admitted his part in a global price-fixing scheme. Despite assisting the FBI in its investigation, he was convicted of embezzlement a
Michael Milken Milken turned the market for junk bonds into a gold mine for himself and Drexel Burnham. In a plea bargain, he agreed to pay $650 million in fines and plead nolo contendere to a few counts of stock parking and stock manipulation.
John Rigas John Rigas and his son allegedly used Adelphia, the company they founded, as their personal piggy bank, driving the company to bankruptcy. In 2004, they were convicted of concealing $2.3 billion in loans in small companies left off Adelphia's books.
Scott Salyer, 54, of Pebble Beach, was charged with violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in connection with various schemes to defraud SK Foods' corporate customers through bribery and food misbranding. http://www.ksbw.com/r/22604649/detail.html
Jack Abramoff This well-connected lobbyist pled guilty in 2006 to defrauding American Indian tribes and the corruption of public officials. In 2008 he was found guilty of trading expensive gifts and sports trips for political favors.
George Soros Though better known for his social activism and philanthropy, billionaire investor Soros was fined $2 million by a French court in 2002 for insider trading of shares of Société Générale. On appeal, France's highest court upheld the ruling in 2006. http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2008/11/20/financial-felons-george-soros/
Andrew & Lea Fastow Andrew Fastow, Enron's CFO, was a key figure behind the limited partnerships used to conceal massive losses. His wife Lea pled guilty to submitting a fraudulent income tax return without profits from her husband's off-the-books partnerships.
Steve Madden, founder of shoe company bearing his name, currently serving a 41-month sentence for stock fraud and money laundering.
_ Leona Helmsley, New York hotelier convicted of tax evasion. Served 18 months in prison beginning in 1992.
http://inform.com/topic/A.+Alfred+Taubman
_ Mark Swartz, Tyco's finance chief, received same sentence as former boss and has been imprisoned since 2005.
_ Joseph Nacchio, former Qwest CEO, sentenced to six years after being convicted in 2007 of 19 counts of insider trading.
Sam Waksal, ImClone Systems founder, sentenced to seven years in prison in 2003 in insider trading scandal involving ImClone drug Erbitux.
Bernard Madoff
http://inform.com/people/bernard-madoff
Charles Ponzi, an Italian immigrant from whom the Ponzi scheme got its name, is one of greatest swindlers in US history. It was he who concocted and perfected the simple pyramid-style scam: Claim to have a sure-fire investment plan and promise clients an obscenely high return (in his case, a 50 per cent profit in 45 days), then pay them from the investments of later investors. And so on. When it all came crashing down in 1920, as newspapers had finally and comprehensively blown the whistle on Ponzi's impossible scheme, most investors received only 30 per cent returns on their initial investment. Five banks were ruined in the process. Reflecting America's ambivalence to white collar crime at the time, Ponzi was sentenced to only 5 years in federal prison. Upon his release, however, he was charged by the state of Massachusetts and later in Florida (for another scam), and forced to serve, in total, an additional seven years. He was deported upon his release and died penniless years later, in Brazil.
Barry Minkow
Before the 'Greed is Good' ethic consumed Wall Street in the 1980s and
increased throughout the 1990s, white-collar crimes of a massive nature
just didn't occur with the frequency that they do today. So when
carpet-cleaning king Barry Minkow, of ZZZZ Best, ran what appeared to be
a successful carpet-cleaning company, ZZZZ Best, people were shocked to
see it all collapse in 1987, rotten from the inside-out. His
fraud cost investors an estimated $100 million, and he was convicted of
fraud and sentenced to 25 years in prison. There, in prison, he
became involved in Christian ministry and underwent a complete
transformation. Today he is a pastor and is an outspoken voice
against fraud in the business community.
Frank William Abagnale, the notorious conman, forger and impostor who Leonardo DiCaprio played in the film Catch Me if You Can, was a master of passing off bad cheques, a scheme he employed to great effect, to the tune of over $2.5 million, to be exact. He struck in 26 countries, making him one of the most infamous criminals of the 1960s. After being caught, he served less than five years before he was released in 1974 by the US federal government on the condition that he would help authorities fight crimes committed by fraud and scam artists. He later founded Abagnale & Associates, a financial fraud consultancy.
James Lewis, Another famous Ponzi-styel scamster was James Lewis, who made a living off swindling the elderly of California. He collected around $311 million from investors over 20 years by promising high returns and relying on word of mouth to bring in more investors, paying dividends all the while, to keep up the facade. But he turned around and used the rest of the money to finance his own high lifestyle of fancy cars, big homes and girlfriends, keeping fabricated assets on paper. When it all came crashing down in 2003, Lewis fled to Texas, where he was caught after an FBI manhunt. Upon his conviction in 2006, he was told he had committed a 'crime against humanity', and was sentenced to 30 years. 60 years old at the time, Lewis will likely die in prison.
Martin Frankel, a former US financier from small-town Ohio, was convicted in 2002 of insurance fraud worth at least $208 million, racketeering and money laundering. Frankel was a master at ripping off small-town insurance companies, and he left a path of destruction in every state he visited: Ohio, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi. In an attempt to earn sympathy for the white-collar criminal, Frankel's lawyer said the mousey money manager would be 'particularly vulnerable' to physical assaults in prison, and pleaded for mercy. It fell on deaf ears. Frankel is currently serving a 16 year prison sentence.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288392,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288392,00.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_scandals_of_the_United_States#Scope_and_organization_of_political_scandals
[65]
Corporate personhood and legal liability
http://www.google.com/search?q=legal+liability+and+the+idea+of+the+personhood+of+the+corporation&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[66] Corporations heedlessly endanger the US and whole world http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195685/ the movie “Erin Brockovich“ dramatizes the deceptive, heartless, and murderous policies and practices of corporations and how they are either legally immune to prosecution or slip through loopholes in the law or else they blatantly escape consequences by the fiat of copious bribery or avoid repercussions through the use of skillful public relations and media spin. For any of these, they are typically allowed to sail past detection or consequence unless an Erin Brockovich takes them to task.
[67] Politicians Who Are Atheists http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=Ethical+Dilemma+of+Atheist+Political+Leaders&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=C5PFlfE2BTK66KZDezATc6NyJBgAAAKoEBU_QZADe
[68] Early Settlers Their Genocide of Native American Tribes
[69] Rich Men backing the Tea Party http://www.google.com/search?q=rich+men+backing+tea+party&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[70] How Corporations Own the US Congress September 15, 2010 By Shamus Cooke URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21052
[71]
Us economics in disarray
http://baselinescenario.com/
http://13bankers.com/
http://13bankers.com/title/
[72] Gini coefficient of income inequality
http://www.google.com/search?q=Gini+coefficient&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States
[73] Evils of Advertising http://www.google.com/search?q=evils+of+advertising&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[74] Language and exploitation
http://www.google.com/search?q=Doublespeak&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&aq=t
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=doublespeak+in+advertising
[75] The new incognito US political party called the Corprocrats and the new for of government called Corprotocracy [75] (See: http://www.alternet.org/story/147675/how_to_dismantle_the_american_empire_before_this_country_goes_under for an essay and extensive comments on this issue.)
[75] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
http://gov4sale.blogspot.com/2008/02/corprotocracy-and-globalism-two-faces.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=Corprotocracy&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&aq=t
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&&sa=X&ei=gwRhTKTmPIL-8AbG1Mz1CQ&ved=0CEkQBSgA&q=Corporatocracy&spell=1
Comments by those in the Movement “Corporations Are Not People”
http://www.usalone.com/last25.php?paper=1&qnum=pnum1029
[75] www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19007
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18676
[75] www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20510
[75] http://www.the-philosopher.co.uk/whocares/popups/warcrimes.htm
http://gov4sale.blogspot.com/2008/02/corprotocracy-and-globalism-two-faces.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=Corprotocracy&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&aq=t
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
[76] Chamber of Commerce and what it lobbies for:
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Chamber+of+Commerce
[77] National Rifle Association’s illegal and anti-humane activities http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=National+Rifle+Association
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000082 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association http://www.nraila.org/
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-168982549.html
[78] Women’s and Men’s business and Professional and Fraternal Organizations and Secret Organizations and Their Lobbying Efforts
[79] Role of Unemployment in the US Economy -- What is the optimal level of unemployment for a healthy economy?
http://www.econguru.com/macroeconomic-unemployment-explained/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment
[80] http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=when+was+the+first+labor+union+formed&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&oq=When+was+the+first+lab&gs_rfai=CdTNBrIRQTP74EIvwygStuq25CgAAAKoEBU_QlxgG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union#19th_Century_American_Unionism
[81] Chambers of Commerce vis-à-vis Labor and Labor Unions http://www.google.com/search?q=How+many+Chambers+of+Commerce+are+there+in+the+US&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&aq=t
[82] Immigration, Unemployment, and the Size of the Military http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/federal/gov_immigration.html
[83] Save the Banks and Kill the Economy Global Research, September 12, 2010
By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21009
[84]
The Global Economy 'Still Has Deep-Seated Structural Problems'
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,717248,00.html#ref=nlint
[85]
The One Percent Who Own the Country
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The-One-Percent/70092779?strackid=7866041464f1fcfb_0_srl&strkid=1169114543_0_0&trkid=222336
[86] Credit Cards and the Economic Rape of Americans
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gsearch.html?q=The+Card+Game&x=8&y=14
Elizabeth Warren and Consumer Protection
http://pol.moveon.org/warren_fivethings_share.html?id=23486-2449206-OiXBoax&t=2
[87]
There are three economies:
1. The one the financial "news" reports
2. The one we experience
3. The real one that drives the bus
The current state of the real economy, short and sweet. Video:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/937.html
[88] Stock Market and Unethical and Illegal Stocks
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financialcareers/08/broker-ethics-tips.asp
[89]
Shareholders and business ethics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder
http://www.worklore.com/eStore/buy-the-book.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinvestment_from_South_Africa
[90]
Perils of Insurance
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=Explaining+Insurance&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=C7Bg--pFxTNTtNpP4M7mZ-QMAAACqBAVP0C-srw
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=analysis+of+insurance+industry&aq=1&aqi=g2g-m8&aql=&oq=Analysis+of+Insurance&gs_rfai=
http://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+the+aggregate+worth+of+Insurance+companies&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[92] Black Ops Entertainment preclude to sanitary murder. http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=black+ops&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=Black+op&gs_rfai=CFI9FVLRKTObOGIXyzATu7unACgAAAKoEBU_QHJcY
[93] Whether growing in ghetto neighborhoods with a maelstrom of confusion, aggression, and crime or in a upper middle class gated community, http://www.thenaturalsystemsinstitute.org/XI%20Education%20Parenting%20and%20Training%20for%20Teen%20and%20Adult%20Growth%20in%20Maturity/Parenting%20Skills/Section%202%20Teen%20Life%20History/LESSON%203%20The%20Structure%20of%20the%20Teen's%20Neighborhood%20Community%20and%20How%20It%20Shapes%20Their%20Personalities.ppt
Youths learn to see other groups as enemies to be killed with impunity. These new war and brutality video games simply make the transition to ‘Patriotic’ murder and smooth transition. http://www.google.com/search?q=violent+video+games+effects+on+youth&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[96] The Nation: Docs Reveals Blackwater-Linked Companies Provided Intel & Security to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Chevron *
"Blackwater's Black Ops"—that's the title of an explosive new article in The Nation magazine that reveals how entities closely linked with the private security firm Blackwater have provided security and intelligence services to a range of powerful corporations over the past several years. The companies include Monsanto, Chevron, Deutsche Bank and others. Blackwater has also provided intelligence and training services to foreign governments, including Jordan, the Canadian military and the Dutch police. We speak with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill. Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/16/the_nation__docs_reveals_blackwater
[97] Posse Comitatus http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Posse_Comitatus_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
[99]
America’s Tarnished Image Abroad, Der Spiegel: DRILL HELD TO DETAINEE'S
HEAD
Ex-
CIA
Agents Confirm Torture at Polish Black Site
Former CIA agents have confirmed rumors that the agency tortured terror
suspects at a detention center in Poland. One agent allegedly held a
drill to a prisoner's head while he was naked and hooded.
Der Spiegel: DID US SOLDIERS TARGET AFGHAN
CIVILIANS?
War Crime
Allegations Threaten to Harm America's Image
Five US soldiers are facing charges of war crimes, suspected of
deliberately killing Afghan civilians. The unfolding scandal threatens
to harm America's image abroad and derail President Barack Obama's
efforts to draw a line under the abuses of the Bush era.
[100] CIA and assassinations of South American Heads of State http://www.google.com/search?q=CIA+and+assasinations+of+South+American+Heads+of+State&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[101] The CIA’s Role In Instigating Wars Between and Within Nations and Insurgencies http://www.brasschecktv.com/index.php
[102] Framing Reports and Framing Debates the Art of Obfuscation and Deluding G:\ http://www.TheNaturalsystemInstitute.org/I ThoughtPerspectiveTakingandCreativity\Framing Reports and Framing Debates the Art of Obfuscation and Deluding.htm .docx
[103] Who Owns the Various Media Outlets?
http://www.google.com/search?q=How+many+large+media+corporations+are+there%3F&hl=US&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_conglomerate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company#Full_acquisitions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times#Ownership
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/rupert_murdoch/index.html
[104] Freedom of Speech Amendment
http://skattertech.com/2010/07/the-future-of-the-internet-net-neutrality/
[106] Media Used to Deliberately Conceal Grotesque US Military Plans: Real Versus Fake Crises: Concealing The Risk of An All Out Nuclear War By Michel Chossudovsky URL of this article: Global Research, September 16, 2010
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21044
[107] Competitive recreation and cultivation of violence versus sportsmanship
sportsmanship In “Sports in America,” one of his two non-fiction works,
author James Albert Michener (1907-1997) points out that rather than develop
character, athletics reveal character.
Because Lombardi's win-or-nothing imperative brought success on the field, it swept though American sports, elbowing aside the ideal of the sportsman. It even had a huge effect on school sports. Writer James Michener lamented in his mid-seventies book Sports in America that coaches were applying it to kids, robbing youth sports of civility and fun.
http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/dfrankl/CURR/kin380/PDF/Youth_Sports-Innocence_Lost.pdf
http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_2_bring_back_sportsmanship.html
[108] Where do the wealthiest elite live and where do they put their money?
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/wealthy-elite-americans-do-not-shop-walmartthey-shop-buy-our-uscongress
http://wealth.mongabay.com/tables/100_income_zip_codes-20000.html
http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/archive/2010/09/09/where-do-washingtons-wealthy-live
http://realestate.aol.com/pictures/finance/richest-towns
To What, Especially What Nations, Do They Owe Their Loyalty?
[109] Industrialization, Urbanization, and Transformation of America in a Culture of Anomie
[110] What Effect did the Cold War and Arms Race with Russia have on the demise of Russian Communism?
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/What-a-Way-to-Go-Life-at-the-End-of-Empire/70102661?trkid=226870
[112] World Population Reduction by Ted Turner and Other Billionaires
[113] CO2 and Polluting Air and Ocean http://www.aseachange.net/
Boats Send Ocean Acidification SOS from “Coal Bay” in AK
On September 6, 2009, Cook Inletkeeper and more than 100 fishing boats, sail boats, skiffs and kayaks took to the waters off Homer, Alaska. They spelled out an urgent message to protect jobs, coastal communities, and fisheries from the threat of ocean acidification. http://co2now.org/
http://www.wunderground.com/climate/:
[114]
Covert US foreign regime change actions
http://www.google.com/search?q=Covert+US+foreign+regime+change+actions&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[115] US pharmaceutical industry and foreign trade http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=US+pharmaceutical+industry+and+foreign+trade&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
[116] US selling contraband pharmaceuticals to foreign countries http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=US+selling+contraban+pharmaceuticals+to+foreign+countries&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=m1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
[117] US corporations Escape Taxes in Cayman Islands http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&pwst=1&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&&sa=X&ei=AI8eTMJ8wrvyBoSI9KgM&ved=0CBIQvwUoAQ&q=Cayman+Islands+and+escaping+US+Taxes&spell=1
[118] Voter fraud as an example of the un-impede-able riptides in democracy propelling toward corruption http://www.google.com/search?q=Dibold+and+vote+fraud&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[119] West and its non zero sum game with underdeveloped nations http://www.google.com/search?q=zero+sum+game&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[120] “The Commons Dilemma” and the fate of the world ”http://www.google.com/search?q=Commons+Dilemma&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[121] Property Rights and the theft of lands in underdeveloped countries http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=Property+Rights+and+the+theft+of+lands+in+underdeveloped+countries&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
[122] The United Nations and its impotence to intervene in international injustice
[123] Diamonds and Slavery in Africa http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=diamond+mines+in+the+world&aq=5&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=Diamond+mines&gs_rfai=CCX3Id88bTK_aKofAzQS3rZWfAwAAAKoEBU_QWaxl
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/diamonds/diamond_update.xml
[124] Kimberly Process and diamond smuggling
[125] Gold mining and slavery around the world http://www.google.com/search?q=Gold+mining+and+slavery&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[126] Sweat Shops around the World, Modern Slavery, and Sex Trafficking Obama signs Bill July 27, 2010 – But it is too weak to have much real results.
http://humantrafficking.change.orgb/log/view/obama_signs_legislation_to_label_conflict_minerals
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/10/AR2009081000492.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/20/AR2010072006212.html
http://www.enoughproject.org/blogs/obama-signs-financial-reform-ushering-new-law-conflict-minerals
[127] Illegal gun trade in the US and Internationally http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=illegal+gun+trafficking+statistics&aq=4&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=illegal+gun&gs_rfai=
[128] International weapons illegal trafficking and fomenting civil wars and wars between nations.
US Banks funding illegal trafficking in weapons for both sides in civil wars in underdeveloped countries
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=International+weapons+illegal+trafficking+and+fomenting+civil+wars+and+wars+between+nations&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Who supplies the weapons for the Congo Civil War? http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=Who+supplies+the+weapons+for+the+Congo+Civil+War%3F&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=C-ImmzvV3TMiJJ5aCywS6sdWxCwAAAKoEBU_QIYfM
[129] US and international crime: US banks and drug trafficking; Illegal Drug smuggling financing weapons for both sides in civil wars in underdeveloped countries http://www.netflix.com/Movie/American_Drug_War_The_Last_White_Hope/70094699?trkid=226871
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Plan_Colombia_Cashing_in_on_the_Drug_War_Failure/70021025?trkid=201912
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/19/thailand.arms.dealer.case/index.html
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/American_Drug_War_The_Last_White_Hope/70094699?trkid=226871
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Plan_Colombia_Cashing_in_on_the_Drug_War_Failure/70021025?trkid=201912
Money Laundering and the Global Drug Trade Fueled by Capitalist Elites
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20210
[130] International crime and war crimes http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=israeli+military+siege+on+gaza+according+to+netanyahu&aq
[131] Redistribution of highly education level skills in globalization http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=redistribution+of+high+level+skills+in+globalization&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&&sa=X&ei=y3V6TMLRE4KKlwfQyImwCg&ved=0CBEQBSgA&q=redistribution+of+higher+education+level+skills+in+globalization&spell=1
[132] Redistribution of higher education level skills in globalization http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&&sa=X&ei=y3V6TMLRE4KKlwfQyImwCg&ved=0CBEQBSgA&q=redistribution+of+higher+education+level+skills+in+globalization&spell=1
[133] brain drain away from foreign countries to US in globalization http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=brain+drain+away+from+foreign+countries+to+US+in+globalization&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
[134] increase in wage inequalities across nations in globalization http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=increase+in+wage+inequalities+across+nations+in+globalization&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
[137] http://www.oas.org/en/default.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_American_States
[138] http://www.alternet.org/story/147704/un_declares_water_a_fundamental_human_right_--_u.s._abstains_from_voting_on_resolution
[139] Soldiers of Fortune or Black Ops clandestine activities outside the standard military protocol http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=black+ops&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=Black+op&gs_rfai=CFI9FVLRKTObOGIXyzATu7unACgAAAKoEBU_QHJcY
[140] Ethics of Nations and Chomsky’s book
WW II and Truman and Atomic Bomb and Robert Oppenheimer and the FBI http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS268&q=Harry+Truman+and+Enola+Gay&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=CsC9yk48cTMWUFYOczAT20ITuDQAAAKoEBU_Qv8vF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer#Security_hearings
[141] US’s Illegal Wars and Whistleblower Reports http://www.spiegel.de/international/search/index.html?suchbegriff=Julian+Assange
[142] US Military and Corporate Recolonization of Africa http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=US+military+control+over+Africa&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
[143] Apocalypse Africa: Made in America 2008 http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Apocalypse-Africa-Made-in-America/70105969?trkid=226870 Journalist Del Walters's documentary explores secret recordings, classified films and other archival evidence that suggest the United States' involvement in the downfall of Africa, including genocidal wars in Darfur, Uganda and Rwanda. Through top-secret data, hidden documents and other sources obtained from government archives, this film reveals links between the destruction of Africa and those who influence American foreign policy.
http://www.google.com/search?q=NSSM+200&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[144] International Treaties the US Has Refused to Sign When Most Other Nations Have Signed Them http://www.google.com/search?q=US+Refuses+To+Sign+International+Treaties&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&aq=t
http://www.the-philosopher.co.uk/whocares/popups/warcrimes.htm
[145] Pointers for Redesigning Civilization http://www.thenaturalsystemsinstitute.org/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
http://www.google.com/search?q=Enewetok&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&aq=t
[146] Globalization and the New World Order http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19873
The Innocence of Evil addenda refs Council on Foreign Relations; Trilateral Commission; Collectivism; biggest Media Corps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations
[147]
The
NeoCon, far right, Imperialist architects of the Iraq war
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lind1.html
[148] Problems Inherent In Transitioning to Globalization
[149] The worldwide epidemic of AIDS http://www.google.com/search?q=AIDS+Statistics+Worldwide&hl=en_US&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362
[150] United Nations’ World Health Organization and International Epidemiology http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=United+Nations+Health+Organization+and+Epidemiology+&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
[151]
What
are the possible paths globalization could take?
http://www.google.com/search?q=Will+the+future+be+governed+by+corporations%3F&hl=en&sourceid=gd&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362#sclient=psy&hl=en&rlz=1D2GGLD_enUS362US362&q=What+are+the+possible+paths+globalization+could+take%3F&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=What+are+the+possible+paths+globalization+could+take%3F&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&psj=1&fp=1de331493393b8ab
[153] Begin to invent a new kind of globalization or you and the planet will die http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Collapse/70123600?trkid=226870
