SpiritualWiki

Wiki / Dignity

Wiki-Menu:  

2·2012


Hawkins-Menu:


 

Dignity – Human dignity
Dignitarian movement

 

Dignity is an idea whose time has come.
Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D., US American dignity researcher



 

Inhaltsverzeichnis: (verbergen)

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) third president of the United States of America, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, 4. Juli 1776
The Unanimous Declaration of The Thirteen
United States of America

 

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 1, issued by United Nations, Paris, 10. December 1948

 

Human dignity is inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.
German constitution, Basic Law, Article 1,
paragraph 1, 23. May 19491

 

Article 11. The Republic shall be a democracy in which fundamental human rights and freedoms and respect for the dignity and worth of the human person shall be guaranteed […], and in which effective participation by the people through their elected representatives in administration at all levels shall be ensured. The Constitution Of The People's Republic of Bangladesh, 1975, 1991

 

[...] Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.
Constitution Act, Part I, Preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 1867-1982

 

The Republic of South Africa is one sovereign democratic state founded on the following values:
(a) Human dignity, the achievement of equality and the advancement of human rights and freedoms. […]
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, chapter 1, section 1, paragraph a, 11. October 19962

 

Human dignity is inviolable.
European Constitution, Article II, 61,
Rome, 29. October 2004


 

Historic traces of dignity

Portwein
Glass Port wine

In 1486, the Italian humanist and Renaissance philoso-
pher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) presented his classical text Oration on the Dignity of Man (Oratio de hominis dignitate) to a crowd of
hostile clerics. Pico outlined the principles of modern humanist anthropology of his era by inviting men to emulate the "dignity and glory" of the angels, through the pursuit of philosophy and the liberal arts.
Pico emphasized that dignity of humans is based on his free choice between animalistic and angelic aspects.
Published in 1486, Pico's dignity speech was not grace-
ously received. In February 1487 Pope Innocence VIII condemned it as partially unorthodox.

 

"A great miracle, Asclepius, is man!"
Hermes Trismegistus [Thrice-great Hermes] syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth, Asclepius. The Perfect Discourse of Hermes Trismegistus: A Secret Discourse of Hermes Trismegistus, Latin text of the edition Henricus Stephanus, Paris, France, 1505, Bloomsbury, 22. March 2007

 

5 «A great miracle....» see Asclepius VI, 1-2. The hermetic writings are ascribed to the Egyptian God Thot, in Greek Hermes Trismegistos, the inventor of writing, who was made to correspond to the Latin Mercurius. They are in Greek and in Latin, are dated between the 1st and the 3rd century AD and were highly appreciated during the Humanism and the Renaissance, thanks to Marsilio Ficino's translation of the most important among those writings, the Poimandres. Among those works there is the Asclepius (Asclepius, Lat. Esculapius, god of medicine and of prophecy).

 

"There is nothing to see more wonderful than man!"
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) Italian humanist, Renaissance philosopher, Oration on the Dignity of Man, 1486

 

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) influential French Renaissance philosopher, politician, writer, cited in:
Goodreads Quotable Quote

Liberty – Equality – Fraternity

The Age of Enlightenment picked out as a central theme the topics Liberty – Equality – Fraternity.
It seems difficult to come up with a valid general definition of human dignity.
In general human dignity is understood as the sum of all basic rights and human rights.
Respect and protection of human dignity serve human beings to evolve

  ☛ Freedom of choice – Either-or
  ☛ Equality of Divine origin – As-well-as
  ☛ conceptual Siblinghood among themselves – Neither-nor
  ☛ Dignity for all in culture, economy and politicsAll-in-all

Reference: en.Wikipedia entry Liberty – Equality – Fraternity

Descriptions of dignity – dignitas and humanitas

  Bild            Bild            Bild

 

Human Dignity ...

 

* is based on man's creation in the image of God and the Tat Tvam Asi [Thou are that].
* acknowledges the sovereignty of GOD as the creator and origin of Life.
* avows itself to the immanent and transcendent Divinity as a source of strength.
* is inalienable and invulnerable.
* dwells in the domain of Divine power.
* is the expression of the immanent essence of the soul.
* dwells in the domains of the self and the SELF.
* is known as dignitas (inner inalienable aspect) and
   humanitas (outer alienable vulnerable aspect).
* is integrous.
* is gradually activated in around 20% (one fifth) of humanity.
* acknowledges the right to live of fellow creatures.
* welcomes and grants the freedom of choice of all people.
* acknowledges the equality and innate human dignity of all people.
* acknowledges the multi-leveled interdependence und unity of all forms of life.
* thinks and acts holistically.
* accepts the given circumstances.
* welcomes human evolution and transformation in general.
* is foreign to the human ego.
* is drawn to modesty, simplicity, serenity.
* welcomes present, spontaneous, not predefined emergence.
* welcomes accountability and self-responsibility.
* believes in the goodness of the universe and in human beings.
* adheres to life-affirming principles.
* is empathetic.
* is kind to all expressions of life.
* respects.
* trusts.
* is geared to the truth for its own sake.
* cooperates with others.
* mediates between others.
* regards, supports and offers excellence to its best ability.
* welcomes moral courage.
* retains its composure when faced with (public) humiliation.
* does not lose ground when offended or humiliated.
* avoids pride and negative company.
* avoids a sense of entitlement, control and force.
* tends to allow things to happen on their own.
* is true to itself.
* supports choices based on conscience.
* welcomes orals and ethics.
* keeps ethical codes of conduct and obeys the laws of men.
* is the remedy for rankism [abuse of rank] and class warfare.
* views its fellow men not through the lens of the "Somebody" ⇔ "Nobody" gap.
* avows itself to identified weaknesses of character.
* is not dependent on status, wordly success and wealth.
* avoids stress which allows a healthier life.
* is able to regret its behavior and to recontextualize.
* avoids victimhood.
* is rarely discussed in the society as a whole.

References: en.Wikipedia entries
Image of God and ► Tat Tvam Asi and ► Inalienable right and ► Cooperation
See also:
GodLifeSoulEssenceSelfSELFHealth
PowerForcePrinciple 3:1PrinciplesInterdependenceEmergence
TruthAcceptanceChoiceResponsibilityRecontextualization/Metanoia
RespectTrustVulnerabilityVictimhoodHumility/ModestyIntegrityAuthenticity
SimplicityFreedomEqualityHolism
GoodnessEmpathyKindnessMoral courageRelationshipListening
Letting beConscienceEthicsEvolutionTransformation
HumiliationPrideConflictControlSuccessWealthEgoNegativity
Siehe auch: ► Würde

Dignity consciousness in companies

The Study about human resources policy 2009 showed that out of 80 questioned German companies every 12th had no idea about human dignity [human capital] as their motivation to act is solely based on pecuniary values.

  • 15% of the German speaking companies denied the human dignity of their employees by scoring zero points for their costly [money-wise] employees. They speciously prefer short-term monetary profits via stockholders and customers.

 

Companies or joint practices that use, manipulate, exploit, and control staff members and customers as a means to the end of short-term profits will sooner or later ruin themselves whereas dignitarian companies that do not tolerate rankism [humiliating behavior towards those in lower ranks] do gain strength in the long range.

 

Siehe auch: ► Wertschätzung des Personals – Deutschsprachige Studie 2009

Afflicted emotions and human dignity

According to the psychodynamic theory of Hungarian US American psychoanalyst Sandor Rado, M.D. (1890-1972) shame and guilt are the most destructive emotions within a group of emergency emotions (including anger,
grief, greed, and pride) damaging the whole and undermining the good of all.
Whoever feels shamed, fixates inwardly. The inviolable human dignity –
both the sacred and the tabooed – has been desecrated (dishonored) in front of and by others.
Whoever feels guilty, fixates outwardly.
He or she desecrates (dishonors) their inalieable innate inviolable human dignity.
Restored feelingAchievementImplication
Transformed shameBeyond inferiority and victimhoodSense for the sacred
Transformed guiltBeyond self-defeating flagellationSense of regret, reversion, recontextualising, metanoia
Transformed griefBeyond indictment and whiningSense of understanding for the human condition and compassion
Transformed righteous anger ("Holy" wrath)Beyond disempowering aggressionSense of justice and the strength
ready to launch social reforms
Transformed prideBeyond superiority and supremacy, narcissm and predatory impulsesSense of divine dignity,
reflected in human dignity
See also: ► Shame and ► Guilt and ► Grief and ► Anger and ► Pride

Threshold between pride and integrity

Erklärung
Line containing Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) use of the phrase "all men are created equal", in the Declaration of Independence.

 

According to the Map of Consciousness developed by Dr. David Hawkins the frequency field of pride3 and volition vibrates at the level of consciousness (LoC) 175-199. Pride is an attitude supporting personal gain while damaging community and society.

 

The threshold from where on ethical [moral] behavior beneficial to the community becomes possible is at LoC 200. It marks a fundamental leap in consciousness, to transcend the line of demarcation between pride and dignitarian integrity.
The consciousness level of mankind collectively has crossed the borderline of integrity in 1987.
In August 2009 it has reached LoC 206.

 

Actually the [deeply ingrained] concept of WE and [against] THEM is no longer there – according to the new reality. [...] Therefore treat others as a part of yourself. The entire world should be part of WE. Here we need the concept of one-
ness
of humanity
[...] and we need a sense of global responsibility. [...] The reality is no longer separate, this I feel.
Video panel dialog with H.H. 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (*1935) Tibetan monk, leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibe-
tan Buddhism, Peace Nobel Prize laureate, 1989, and Mary Robinson (*1944) Irish elder, first female president of Ireland (1990-1997), United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), Global Elder, founder and chair of Realizing Rights, Wisdom and Compassion for Challenging Times, part 6, presented by The Tibet Fund, moderated by Pico Iyer, The Town Hall, New York City, New York, United States, 3. May 2009, YouTube film, minutes 2:38, 3:40, 4:37, 8:37 minutes duration, posted 19. May 2009

 

See also: ► Pride and ► Integrity and ► Ethics

Women's leadership superseding men's leadership

In 2002 the average level of consciousness of the executive board members and CEOs of the 500 best companies worldwide listed by Fortune magazine showed the most pronounced expression of pride.
On average and predominantly the male chief executives of corporations world wide [97.5% in Germany] have a prideful attitude.
The mostly male chief executives who played an instrumental role in triggering the global financial meltdown in 2008 do not seem to have noted or internalized this message yet.

 

In 2008 the management consultancy McKinsey & Company confirmed:

  • Women score higher in leadership in respect to
    • staff development,
    • team decisions,
    • inspiration (intuition) and
    • rewarding.4
In 2000 the 30 DAX-listed German companies had not a single woman on their executive boards.
According to the German institute of economic research (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) only 2.5% women hold top-level leadership positions in the 200 biggest German companies [status end 2009].

 

Pepperdine [University] found that the Fortune 500 firms with the best records of putting women at the top were 18 to 69 percent more profitable than the median companies in their industries. McKinsey looked at the top-listed European companies and found that greater gender diversity in management led to higher-than-average stock per-
formance.
Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, TV journalists, authors of Womenomics, Fixing the Economy? It's Women's
Work
, presented by the US American daily newspaper The Washington Post, 12. July 2009

 

  • In 2004 Norway passed the law: 40% of all positions in supervisory boards must be held by women.5 It took eight years
    to meet the quota.
  • The government of The Netherlands discusses to require by law to fill the executive boards of companies with a certain proportion of women.
  • Study results show that the more balanced the sex ratio among chief executives is the more successful the respective companies will be.
  • European stock corporations with a relative high percentage of women in management positions perform especially successful – by
    • faster growth,
    • higher profits and
    • better stock market quotations.

 

Source: ► Cora Werwitzke, Weibliche Intuition in der Führungsetage. Studien belegen den Zusammenhang zwischen Frauenanteil im
Vorstand und Unternehmenserfolg
[Female Intuition in the management level], German TV station ZDF, 10. December 2009
  • A cross-cultural study sponsored by the World Bank found that governments with more women in power had less corruption.

 

The presence and the expertise and the bravery of Hillary Clinton changed the molecules in the air kind of so that we now can imagine female chief of state in a way we couldn't before. But I think the inability to see women in leadership in public life is indeed because we still associate female authority with childhood. That's when we see female strength. Video interview with Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's move-
ment, visionary and political activist, founder and editor of the feminist magazine Ms., journalist, writer, Gloria Steinem Visits BG, spon-
sored by the Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 24. September 2012, presented by the American TV station 13abc, host C. Williams, YouTube film, minute 1:17, 2:36 minutes duration, posted 17. February 2013

 

Study references:
Study Corruption and women in government, presented by the academic The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
     volume 46, issue 4, S. 423-429, December 2001
Data favor the "fairer system" thesis. Women are more inclined toward honesty and the common good.
Two recent influential studies found that increased participation of women in government reduced corruption.
Study by Hung-En Sung, Fairer Sex or Fairer System? Gender and Corruption Revisited, presented by the quarterly peer-reviewed
     academic journal of social science Social Forces, volume 82, issue 2, S. 703-723, The University of North Carolina Press,
     December 2003
[*]
Article Susan Adams, Companies Do Better With Women Leaders (But Women Need More Confidence To Lead), Study Says,
     presented by the US American business magazine Forbes, Susan Adams, 5. August 2014
Article 40 Years of Research Proves Women Are Better Managers Than Men Because They Tend to Have This Crucial Skill,
     presented by the US American monthly business publication Inc. magazine, Michael Schneider, 19. April 2017

 

  • [*] The US American Senate (83% male senators, 13% female senators) voted to embark in the second Iraq war.
  • [*] In 2009 roughly 200 nations in the world were run by about 5-7 stateswomen.
    The ratio of the male/female world power structure was 97:3 in 2009.
    In 2015 roughly 200 nations in the world are run by 11 stateswomen.
    The ratio of the male/female world power structure is 95:5 in 20156.
    • 97-95% nations are run by predominantly dominance seeking [Dopamine] men,
      3-5% nations are run by predominantly stability seeking [Serotonine] women.

 

See also:
Two versions of Darwin's Evolutionary Theory – Dr. David Loye
Evaluating male and female leadership qualities – Pew Survey 2008

Women's self-defeating programming towards successful sisters

  • And those women who were seen as leaders – the highest-achieving, most competent, and most outspoken – were "trashed" and purged from the movement. "Sisterhood is powerful," Ti-Grace Atkinson is credited with saying. "It kills sisters." The movement ate its leaders. In eliminating those women who were pushing the edge, the upward surge of woman rising slowed almost to a halt. This dark unsisterhood has little to do with helping or caring for others – at least not other women. Differences are tolerated as long as they make no difference – in other words, as long as they do not reveal differences in power, ability, or status. And power operates covertly: unacknowledged rather than unused. […] We faltered in leaping further because the ideology of the time said that all differences between the sexes came from cultural conditioning, which could be changed. But in fact, there was something more fundamental, more primi-
    tive, operating in us at an instinctual level. A deeply rooted, biologically driven impulse to compete against each other not only destroyed the movement's leadership, but it
    sabotaged sisterhood – and any hope for further col-
    lective transformation.

    Article Where Are the Women? The New Women's Liberation part 1, page 2, presented by the dissolved US American magazine What is Enlightenment? / Enlightennext, Elizabeth Debold, Ed.D., US American gender researcher, senior teacher of evolutionary enlightenment, cultural commentator, senior editor of the dissolved magazine WIE / EnlightenNext (2002-2011), author, issue 29, June/August 2005

Four developmental periods in biology, ecology, finance and economics

Four stages of biologal, ecological, financial and economic evolution
༺༻FeatureExpressionBiological / ecosystemsRemarkEconomics/Finances
1.Neediness ParasiticVirusesAppropriation
Monopolization
Interest and compound interest
2.Neediness PredatoryPredators"Eating·and·being·eaten" "Fuck·or·kill" Private Banking, debt creation
3.Fractioned mindset CompetitiveMammaliansSurvival of "the fittest"7 International stock corporations
in Western societies run by nearly only white male CEOs and board members
4. Beginning field consciousness SymbioticCooperating cell aggregates
for common welfare
Biotope, habitat [Locally] cooperative social economics
Global networking
Source: ► Video lecture by Watts Wacker (1953-2017) US American futurist, speaker, author, annual meeting Sodexho
On futurism · Difference between futuring and visioning, Paris, 2006, 53:33 minutes duration, 6. June 2006
See also:
Four stages of spiritual development – M. Scott Peck and ► Four correlations in ecosystems and economies
Information Age ⇒ Conceptual Age ⇒ Changing expressions of creativity – Daniel Pink
Siehe auch: ► Vier-Phasen-Entwicklung in Biologie, Ökologie, Geldwesen und Wirtschaft

 

Cooperating cells corresponding are precedents [correlations] of global networking.

Each one of our cells is a collective of ancient formerly living bacterial types. [...] In the world two billion years ago there were only bacteria. The shift from a very exploitative, destructive lifestyle to this lifestyle of cooperation among bacteria [nucleated cells] is a wonderful parallel to what is going on in the human world today.
Interview Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. sahtouris.com (*1950) Greek-American post-Darwinian creationist evolutionary biologist, pas-
tist/futurist, promoter of anthropomorphism over mechanomorphism, business consultant, former UN consultant, adapted from the public radio series "Insight & Outlook", presented in the Brazilian journal "Revista Thot", February 1999, republished in the article From Mechanics to Organics: An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris, Scott London, August 2007

Simple cells – selfprocreating (prokaryotes) – exist 4 billion years.
Complex cells – procreating by nuclear division, mitosis – (eukaryotes) exist since 2 billion years.


 

The Darwinian story only goes to the adolescent part. [...] Sustainability happens when species learn to feed each other instead of to fight each other. Selfinterest is good as long as it is contained by the selfinterest of a community. What we need now is glocalization. Together we can make it happen. Deleted YouTube video presentation by Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. sahtouris.com (*1950) Greek-American post-Darwinian creationist evolutionary biologist, pastist/futurist, promoter of anthropomorphism over mechanomorphism, business consultant, former UN consultant, After Darwin, part 1 of 3, 9:26 minutes duration, posted 30. August 2012

Moving into dignity politics – Four historical arcs of evolution

Pressurized by 10-12 allied revolting English barons the "Evil King" John of England signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede
in England on June 15th, 1215. This first legal charter granted fundamental political freedoms to the nobility.
"Earls and barons shall not be amerced except through their peers […]."
Followed by an extensive historical process the Magna Carta led to the rule of constitutional law in the English speaking world.
It influenced the development of the common law and many constitutional documents, including the United States Constitution.

 

Four historical arcs of evolution
༺༻Forms of governmentTyranny typeIssuer/Triggerer
1. Monarchy One·tyrant·tyranny King / emperor
2. Fascism Group tyranny Nobility / upstages
3. Communism People tyranny Middle classes /
Interlaced corpotocracists
4a. DemocratorshipFractioned mindset
Prestage pseudo democracy
Neoliberal casino capitalism
Greed tyranny Propaganda/Advertisement
4b. Dignitarian
democratic culture
Beginning of field consciousness Movement waves
in social media
Active power posters
Stakeholders
See also: ► Spiral Dynamics – Correlation and terminology according to Ken Wilber

 

༺༻Historical ageHuman producersServices, productionLocationOrientation
1.Agricultural Farmers Produce / food Nature Cultivating the land
2.Industrial Factory workers Products / goods Cities Overcrowded areas
3.Information Knowledge workers Facts-Programming-Ideas
Logical, linear, goal oriented
Left brain dominance Pride culture
4.Conceptual Creators and empathizers Context / Flow / Inspiration
Paradoxical, nonlinear, inventive, heartfelt
Right brain integration Dignity culture
Source: ► Daniel Pink danpink.com (*1964) US American motivational speaker, chief speech writer of US vice president
Al Gore (1995-1997), visionary author, Information Age ⇒ Conceptual Age ⇒ Changing expressions of creativity – Daniel Pink

 

EraTime frameChakraGodMovementSymbol HistoryPrincipleParadigm Consciousness
frame
[♥]
1.?-12,000
years ago
RootGoddess StaticCircle·[*] Her-Story Easy go luckyINFANCY
Land of plenty
Unconscious heaven
2.5,000
years ago
SacralGod DynamicArrow His-story Either-orCHILDHOOD
Resistance
Unconscious hell
3.2,500
years ago
Domination
Solar plexusGod StaticCross His-story Grow or die!ADOLESCENCE
Submissiveness
Conscious hell
4.250-50
years ago
Power·of·love
HeartGoddess DynamicSpiral Our-story Both-andYOUNG ADULTHOOD
Reclaiming power
Conscious [emerging] heaven
Source: ► Anodea Judith (*1952) US American psychotherapist, historian, mythologist, lecturer on body/mind integration, author,
The Global Heart Awakens. Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love, Energy Psychology Press,
1. January 2010, Shift Books, 2nd edition 18. July 2013
Reference: ► [♥] Ken Wilber (*1949) US American transpersonal philosopher, consciousness researcher, thought leader
of the 3rd millennium, developer of Integral Theory, author, The Eye of Spirit, 2001

 

༺༻Dialogue type [♦]Team and community building [☯]Dignitarian culture and politicsFrame
1. Nice conversation Pseudo team, pseudo community Freedom [of choice] Either-or
2. Fierce·conversation Chaos – Confusionary phase Equality, equivalency, parity As-well-as
3. Reflective dialogue Sobering phase –
emptiness, zeropoint
Siblinghood [contextual unity] Neither-nor
4. Generative·dialogue Functioning team
True community
Dignity for all in culture, economy and politics All-in-all
Sources:
[♦] Otto Scharmer ottoscharmer.com (*1961) German American senior lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), founding
     chair of the Presencing Institute, core faculty member of the United Nations leaders program, Presencing. Learning From the Future As
     It Emerges. On the Tacit Dimension of Leading Revolutionary Change
, presented at the conference Knowledge and Innovation, Helsinki,
     Finland, 25.-26. May 2000
[☯] M. Scott Peck (1936-2005) US American psychiatrist, psychotherapist, author, Four phases of team and community building

 

༺༻Insights of the 14 Dalai Lama
1. Money or wealth failed to bring inner peace.
2. Modern education [science] failed to bring inner peace.
3. Technology also failed to bring inner peace.
4.In the 21st century we need to promote human values, compassion and affection.8
Source:H.H. 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (*1935) Tibetan monk, leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism,
     Peace Nobel Prize laureate, 1989, Vancouver Peace Summit 2009, presented by the Canadian broadcast television network CTV Television Network, last section of part 2 of 4, minute 14:53-17:59, Vancouver, Canada, Sunday 27. September 2009

 

Siehe auch:Vier geschichtliche Entwicklungsbögen auf dem Weg zur Würdekultur

 

We are developing a new culture. Culture is what happens when you have the collision of ideology [a body of doctrine] and civilization.
We have organized around political war [including the ideologies monarchy, fascism, communism, and liberal demo-
cracy]. And liberal democracy has already won.
Video presentation by Watts Wacker (1953-2017) US American futurist, speaker, author, Watts Wacker: Internationally Acclaimed
Mind Reading Comedian
, deleted YouTube film, minute 2:40, 6:24 minutes duration, posted 16. October 2009

 

Fascism should more properly be called corporativism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. Giovanni Gentile [Philosopher of Fascism] (1875-1944) Italian neo-Hegelian idealist philosopher, politician, peer of Benedetto Croce, ghostwroter of La Dottrina del Fascismo, written for Benito Mussolini ['Il Duce'] (1883-1945) Italian key figure in the creation of fascism, leader of the National Fascist Party, 40th prime minister of Italy (1922-1943), Enciclopedia Italiana, first published in 1932

Perspectives

One day a rich father took his son on a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and a night on the farm of a very poor family.

 

When they got back from their trip the father asked his son,

"How was the trip?"
"Very good Dad!"
"Did you see how poor people can be?"

the father asked.

"Yeah!"
"And what did you learn?"

The son answered,

"I saw that
➤ we have a dog at home, and they have four.
➤ We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden,
     they have a creek that has no end.
➤ We have imported lamps in the garden, they have the stars.
➤ Our patio reaches to the front yard, they have a whole horizon."

When the little boy was finishing, his father was speechless.
His son added,

"Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are!"
Source: ► Poem by an unknown author Rich Or Poor – How Rich Are You?,
presented by the blogspot sapphyr.net
References featuring Robert T. Kiyosaki (*1947) US American investor, businessman, motivational speaker, financial literacy activist, financial commentator, self-help author
Book (German) Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Was die Reichen ihren Kindern über Geld beibringen, Arkana,
     11. Dezember 2006
Video presentation Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki – How To Make Money, YouTube film,
     10:03 minutes duration, posted 14. March 2010
See also: ► Recontextualization and ► Stories

Rankism, humiliation and indignity Dignity for all, always – Robert W. Fuller

Rankism is an essential feature of the competitive domination system9 that thrives on exploiting and/or humiliating those with lower status or less perceived power. Rank is meant to serve, rankism is a self-serving perversion of service. Rankism is a collective name for power abuses in the context of rank difference.
Indignities are the result of somebodies abusing their rank to overpower so called nobodies.

List of a wide range of rank-based indignities and abuses:
Predatory survival strategy ♦ Dominating pride/shame based behavior ♦ Classism ♦ Superiority (white male rich) ♦ Supremacy ♦ Excep-
tionalism ♦ Caste system ♦ (Corporate) Corruption ♦ Obfuscation by elites ♦ Undue influence (mind control) ♦ Privately run debt and inte-
rest based money system ♦ Nepotism ♦ Graft ♦ Predatory lending [loan to own] ♦ Wall Street
lobbying ♦ Invisible poverty ♦ Exploitation ♦ Disappropriation ♦ Sexism ♦ Sexual harassment ♦ Sexual abuse ♦ Rape ♦ Trafficking ♦ Racism ♦ Racial segregation ♦ Mobbing ♦ Bully-
ing
(school, workplace, cyberspace) ♦ Machismo ♦ Ageism ♦ Elder abuse ♦ Anti-Semitism ♦ Tenure (i.e. unaccountablity of teachers, pro-
fessors, judges, clerics) ♦ Life-time appointments ♦ Retention of rank ♦ Rank determined bonuses ♦ Homophobia ♦ Ableism ♦ Prisoner abuse ♦ Slavery ♦ Domestic violence ♦ Torture ♦ Hate crimes ♦ Childism ♦ Child abuse ♦ Paternalism ♦ Speciesism ♦ Xenophobia ♦ Human population control ♦ One-upmanship ♦ Lack of franchise ♦ Peddling ♦ Condescension ♦ Indignity ♦ Name-calling

 

Heiligherz
People in the museum d'Orsay view the distant church Sacré Cœur.

US American professor of physics and college president Robert Fuller, Ph.D. was a media darling in his 30s and a diplomat in his 40s and 50s. In 1995 when he left titles and positions behind for which he felt treated as a nobody. His periodic sojourns in "nobody-
land" led him to identify and investigate "rankism". One night he said to himself:

"Nobodies of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our shame."

That sparked off his first book to lay the groundwork for the digni-
tarian movement
.

 

Rankist societies are the largely unconscious (second nature) norm within male dominated societies [patriarchy]. All-perva-
sive superior rank-based abuse is discriminatory or exploitative behavior towards people of lower rank in a particular hierarchy. Rankism insults dignity; indignity is the result thereof.

 

After 12,000 years of ingrown and intertwined rankism on all levels of society, Fuller found, that things have changed. Ran-
kist organisations and companies are less successful than dignitarian organisations which do not tolerate abuse
of rank.
10

 

The AlterNet interview The Somebody Mystique and the Rise of the Uppity Nobody with Robert W. Fuller, author of Somebodies and Nobodies. Overcoming the Abuse of Rank refers to Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mysti-
que
, published 1963, which made known the term "sexism"11 in order to refer to a complex of ideas about human sexuality and reproduction that were consonant with the general advancement of women's rights. J. B. Buescher, More lurid than lucid: the spiritualist invention of the word sexism, presented by the US American peer-reviewed academic journal Journal of the American Academy of Religion, published by the American Academy of Religion, volume 70, S. 561-592, issue 3, 2002
Fuller's analysis identifies rankism as an ism akin to sexism, racism, classism and others. The upsurging counter-force he calls the digni-
tarian movement
.

 

Dignity and humiliation researcher Evelin Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. discovered that

12,000-10,000 years ago (in the Neolithic) people were faced with the scarcity of (free) land which brought about
     the establishment of violent unequal dominator societies by means of circumscription. Morals were based on the
     concept of RANKED HONOR. Honor being a collective concept.
300-250 years ago – first in 1757 – people discovered the concept of decorum, individual unequal dignity, emer-
     ged.
☛ In 1948 EQUAL RIGHTS of humans were announced.

From the concept of EQUAL DIGNITY humanity started to move into an era of equal caring eco-societies.

☛ Faced with the scarcity of resources of water, air, oil, minerals (1980) and money (2008) a redistribution of dignity
     and wealth is imminent.
☛ In 2016 onwards the focus on human dignity is imperative.

 

TermGlossary
Rank One's place in the hierarchy
Rankism Abuse of the power inherent in rank to exploit or humiliate people of lower rank (less power) in a particular hierarchy; Inflicting indignity on others, a lack of dignity, discrimination
Somebodies Feelings: Noticed, encouraged, welcomed, appreciated, respected, included, esteemed, acclaimed, elevated, loved –  People whose dignity is secure
Nobodies Feelings: Overlooked, discouraged, spurned, depreciated, disrespected, excluded, shamed, disdained, demeaned, despised – People whose dignity is insecure or under attack
Dignity A secure place within the system, appreciation, no banishment
Indignity Lack of dignifying, honoring, affront, violation of someone's sense of dignity, embarrassing, offense, humiliation, degradation
Dignity·security Get a high enough position which no-one dares to threaten
Dignitarian·politics "Not yet existing" – To be established within the next 4-6 generations
Source: ► Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity
and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, All Rise, YouTube film, 3:10 minutes duration, posted 20. February 2008

 

Waagschale
Justice holding scales
[Golden rule] in one hand and in the other hand
a book with "Dieu, la Loi, et le Roi"
Bernard d'Agesci (1757-1828)

The politics of dignity
The three great traditions liberty, equality, and fraternity coined by the French Revolution work much more effective as soon as the forth sub-
suming pillar of dignity will be added.
It will result in liberty in dignity, equality in dignity, fraternity in dignity.

 

(↓)

Dignitarian politics

Delegitimizing residual predation, by disallowing rankism, would usher in a dignitarian era in human history, an era in which we're obliged to respect and protect the dignity of others as we would have them respect and protect ours. Dignitarian politics gives the golden rule teeth – by naming indignities and so making them targetable. Together, science, religion, and politics could, plau-
sibly, retire the predatory survival strategy, which has been cha-
racteristic of Homo sapiens until now, in favor of a dignitarian strategy that will describe our species going forward.
Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Rankism vs. the Golden Rule, presented by the online publication LA Progressive, 3. May 2013

 

(↓)

Dignity violation

The word for the source of dignity violation is rankism.
Rankism is abuse of the power attached to rank.
➤ When a boss shouts at an employee, that's rankism.
➤ When a doctor demeans a nurse, that's rankism.
➤ When a customer is rude to a waitress, that’s rankism.
➤ When a professor exploits a graduate student, that's
     rankism.
➤ When a company executive has an intimate relationship
     with an intern and she loses her job over it, but he doesn't,
     that's rankism. […]
➤ Sometimes rankism is unconscious – a simple, unwitting misuse of power.
➤ [O]ften, the misuse of power occurs because the perpetrator feels "spe-
     cial" or "better than" someone else and believes that this position of superiority carries with it license to
     diminish the other person's dignity.
➤ Common, everyday snobbery falls into this category, as do racism, sexism, classism, and other "isms."
➤ Feeling superior to others for any reason usually gives rise to rankism. […]
Rankism is an umbrella term that encompasses any other "ism" that sets one group or individual apart from another
and then claims superiority. [M]ore specific "isms" are subspecies of rankism. With all "isms," one person or group
believes itself to be "better than" another, and uses its perceived rank to deprive others of their dignity.
Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Dr. Pamela Gerloff (*1955) US American rankism and dignity researcher, "Project on Civic Reflection",
co-author, Be a dignitarian. We can overcome rankism and build a world that honors the dignity of every person, presented by the publication Unitarian Universalism, 11. January 2008

 

(↓)

Negative results: psychological, emotional, and organizational dysfunction

Unhealthy behaviors: undue fear, bullying, silencing of cautionary or creative voices, cliques, factionalizing, bootlicking, backbiting, gossiping, undermining, sabotage

Humiliation is actually more dangerous than plutonium.
Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor
of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, The Dignity Revolution, UC-Berkeley, presented by TEDx Berkeley Talks, aired
19. February 2011, YouTube film, minute 17:15, 19:41 minutes duration, posted
23. March 2011; cited by blogger Renee Blodgett, 22. February 2011

 

Video interviews featuring Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, YouTube films
Why Rankism?, presented by the TV station Voice of America (VOA), program "Talk To America", host Mary Tillotson,
     recorded April 2003, 2:15 minutes duration, posted 3. October 2017
What is Rankism?, presented by CITS TV Ontario, Canada, program "On the Line", host Christine Williams,
     recorded 18. September 2006, 5:35 minutes duration, posted 3. October 2017
► Keynote speech Q&A Corporate Rankism, sponsored by Centerpoint Energy, Houston, Texas, 2007, 1:41 minutes duration,
     posted 3. October 2017
Rankism in religion, presented by In Shaykhs Clothing, 3:20 minutes duration, posted 28. June 2017
"If we want to get rid of rankism in spiritual communities we are going to have to make the holders of high rank accountable
to the parishioners in some way."  Minute 3:02
See also: ► Three historic periods of human development including two normative turning points – Evelin Lindner

NASA space shuttle disasters 1986 and 2003 – a field effect of rankism

  • Relatively small problems can turn into major crises because of rankist behavior. Silencing of "whistleblowers," truth tellers, or dissenters, for example, can mean loss of information crucial to organizational functioning. This, in turn, reduces the or-
    ganizations's capacity to effect optimal outcomes. Before the 1986 U.S. ["Challenger"] space shuttle disaster, lower ranking individuals within NASA repeatedly tried to call attention to the shuttle's faulty O-rings, later found to be the source of the shuttle explosion. Higher-ranking officials silenced those voices, the launch occurred as planned, and the shuttle blew up minutes later.
    Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Dr. Pamela Gerloff (*1955) US American rankism and dignity researcher, "Project on Civic Reflec-
    tion", co-author, Dignity for All. How to Create a World Without Rankism, chapter 7 "Rankism in Organizations: Lessons from NASA", Berrett-Koehler, 2008

 

Bild
Messier 92 in the Hercules constellation
  • In most organizations, hidden ground rules govern what can be said and what cannot. Such cultural rules run deep, and they typically resist change. At NASA, for example, the cultural ground rules that contributed to the Challenger explosion sixteen years before were still operating in 2003, leading to the Columbia shuttle disaster. The panel that investigated the Columbia tragedy went beyond the technical cause – a chunk of flyaway foam that da-
    maged a wing – to blame an organizational culture where engi-
    neers were afraid to raise safety concerns with managers
    more worried about meeting flight schedules than about averting risks. Head of NASA Sean O'Keefe said in the aftermath of the Columbia tragedy that no employee who speaks up about safety concerns, even to outsiders, would be reprimanded in any way.
    But since 2003, NASA has become even less transparent as a re-
    sult of pressure put on political appointees to the agency to keep employees, including a NASA scientist concerned about global
    warming
    , from publicly expressing views not in keeping with current administration policies.
    Warren Bennis (1925-2014) US American scholar, professor of business administration, organizational consultant, pioneer of contemporary leadership studies, author, Daniel Goleman (*1946) US American psychologist, science journalist, author, James O'Toole, US American journalist, Patricia Ward Biederman, US American writer, Creating a Transparent Culture, presented by the publication Leader To Leader, No. 50, 4. September 2008

 

(↓)

Disaster breeding climate of NASA:

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003 was the result of a dominating defective climate within NASA. The investigative commission concluded that no single NASA employee could be found as having "caused" the space accident.

  • "Events" emerge as a consequence of the inner qualities of content and field, and the explanatory principle of one-to-one causation that dominates our current society is an insufficient explanation for events. The accident involving the insulation of the space shuttle led initially to a search for singular cause or a responsible individual, but none was found. Then, with a brilliant jump of consciousness, the researchers deduced that the event was the impersonal consequence of the "climate" of NASA at the time. [Ref. Headline of International Herald Tribune, 27. August 2003]
    Dr. David R. Hawkins, Truth vs Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, S. 56, 2005

 

  • [T]here was virtually no discussion about the fact that seven astronauts had their lives at stake. The discussion turned entirely technical. It had very much of a managerial feel to it, and the ethical part of the decision faded from aware-
    ness.
    Video presentation (engl.) by Max Bazerman, Ph.D., US American professor of business administration, Harvard Business School, Unintended Evil: The Challenger Disaster was Preventable, presented by the US American web portal Big Think, 2:46 mi-
    nutes duration, posted 21. October 2011, YouTube film, reposted 15. November 2011

 

See also:
Culture and ► Attractor
Rankism, humiliation and indignity ⇔ Dignity for all, always – Robert W. Fuller
Quotes by Robert W. Fuller – Dignity ⇔ Rankism
Occult-Luciferian roots of US space defense agency NASA
Siehe auch: ► NASA Columbia Weltraumunglück 2003 – ein Feldeffekt

Quotes by Robert W. Fuller – Dignity ⇔ Rankism

Personal avowal

  • When people ask what I do, I'm tempted to blurt out, "My name is Bob and I'm a nobody" – at least while the stigma remains.
    I've come to think of myself as a home for identities. When incubating something, I'm a nobody. When presenting it, I'm a somebody. Being a somebody is like a trip to the big city – exciting, but taxing. After a while it's nice to leave the commotion behind and go back where I'm most comfortable and most alive. I count this as the biggest surprise of my life.
    Growing up, I always expected to be the same somebody for life, like my father. But at fifty I could look back
    and identify several different somebodies that had used me to make one case or another.
    Now, a decade la-
    ter, I see movements between somebody and nobody as a natural part of the life cycle of any contemporary questing person. Robert Fuller, Ph.D., presented by GBN Global Business Network, quoted from Somebodies and Nobodies

 

Familie
Family: parents and three children

The Demise of an "Ism"

  • Let me use my own family to illustrate how an "ism" can lose its grip:
    • My great-grandparents regarded racist slurs as self-evident truths.
    • My grandparents didn't parade their racism, but used the N-word.
    • My parents muted racism in their speech, but it lurked in their hearts.
    • I grew up committed to civil rights, but was initially perplexed by slogans like "Black is Beautiful" and by Gay Pride celebrations.
    • My children dated interracially.
    • My grandchildren are of different races, and don't understand what the fuss is about. They wouldn't object if MLK-day were skipped now and then, not because they find fault with its ideals, but because
      it's belaboring something they already know.
Blog article by Robert Fuller, Ph.D., Rankism: The Poison that Destroys Relationships, presented by the US American liberal-oriented online newspaper Huffington Post, 12. June 2012, updated 12. August 2012

 

Call for action

  • Nobodies of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our shame.

 

Conclusions

  • The strongest defense is not giving offense.

 

  • When you get power the very possession shields you from a meaningful interaction from the people over whom you hold it. They're shy around you. They won't tell you the truth. They won't tell you when you're stupid.
    Radio interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Rankism on the Defensive, part 9, presented by the listener-funded Californian radio station KPFA, Berkeley, California, aired 8. May 2000

 

Future outlook

  • I think it will soon become anybody's business to be against, to be alert to any form of rankism and to disallow it.
    Radio interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Recognizing Rankism/Global Affairs, part 3, presented by the listener-funded Cali-
    fornian radio station KPFA, Berkeley, California, aired 8. May 2000

 

Caution

  • It is dangerous to be an uppity Nobody.

 

Recommendations

  • You have to find some enlightened leader in the company who outranks the bully.
  • Everyone has value.

 

 

  • The predatory impulse to put people down is failing us now.

 

  • What is rankism?
    Rankism is what Somebodies do to people they take for nobodies.
    1. Racism – whites putting and keeping non-whites down
    2. Sexism – males limiting and disadvantaging females
    3. Ageism – patronizing the young, condescending to the elderly
    4. Anti-Semitism12 – discriminating against Jews
    5. Classism [class war] – putting down people on the basis of differences in class
    6. Homophobia – heterosexuals demeaning gays and lesbians
    7. Ableism – humiliating people with disabilities
    8. Colonialism – subordinating and exploiting another society or nation
    9. Workplace and schoolyard bullying
    10. Sexual harassment, child abuse, and domestic violence
    11. Corporate, bureaucratic, and political corruption
    12. [...]
Article by Robert Fuller, Ph.D.,US American physicist, former president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, author, What is rankism and why do we "do" it? Rankism is what Somebodies do to people they take for nobodies., presented by the
US American bimonthly magazine Psychology Today, 17. February 2010

 

  • Rankism is an assertion of superiority. It typically takes the form of putting others down. It is what people who
    think they're Somebodies do to people they take for nobodies. It turns out that rankism is the source of most man-
    made suffering. […]
    Rankism wins, wins, wins, and then one day it loses. In the end, it loses because organizations and societies groun-
    ded in dignity for all trump those driven by the threat of indignity. Blog article by Robert Fuller, Ph.D.,US American physi-
    cist, former president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, author, |What is Rankism and Why Do We "Do" It?, presented by the US American liberal-oriented online newspaper Huffington Post, 19. April 2010, updated 25. May 2011

 

  • We happen to live in a time when the Golden Rule is no longer optional. It's becoming mandatory. We're go-
    ing to begin living up to it in the next twenty or thirty years all over the world.
    It's one of those things which
    arises everywhere simultaneously. It's in the air.

 

  • Rankism won't be eliminated over night. […] It will take 4-6 generations to change the deep hard wiring in our brains and the 21st century to grow into a dignitarian society model.

 

  • One can hold high rank and not abuse it. George Washington [ Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther
    King Jr., etc.] did not abuse his power, he led by example.

 

 

  • Doctors are M.D.s not M.Deities.

 

Taube
Dove carrying an olive branch
  • We love people of high rank who use it well and serve the group.
    I am not saying everybody is equal, we are actually radically unequal. That is no basis to subjecting them to indignity. Rank helps to make these distinctions.

 

  • Until you name it, you don’t notice it. In the 1960s, for instance, women were constantly experiencing indignities, both personal and institutional. Then they gave it a name: sexism. And through the power of naming it, feminists broke its hold on society. Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D., The Dignitarian Way, page 1, presented by the business magazine Strategy+Business, 13. Febru-
    ary 2007

 

  • Rankism is abuse of the power inherent in rank [...] and any kind of domination wherein "somebodies" use their position to demean and exploit "nobodies" (who have lower status). [...] The abuse of rank, which is rampant in our culture, is the source of an im-
    mense amount of unacknowledged and unnecessary suffering and organizational dysfunction.

    Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D., The Dignitarian Way, page 1, presented by the business magazine Strategy+Business,
    13. February 2007

 

 

  • All the various, seemingly disparate forms of discrimination [i.e. segregation, patriarchy, homophobia] actually have
    one common root – the presumption and assertion of rank to the detriment of others.
    Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, The Dignitarian University, page 1, around 2007

 

  • Rankism is like racism in that although it has been around a long time, it can be disallowed and eventually overcome.
    It’s been a survival technique throughout history to prey upon the weak – to enslave them or exploit them. In our
    culture, we no longer enslave others, but we still exploit them.
    Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D., The Dignitarian Way, page 1, presented by the business magazine Strategy+Business,
    13. February 2007

 

 

 

  • Over the next half-century or so, poor nations will find ways to force the developed world to grant them comparable dignity, much as blacks and women did in the last 50 years, and as gays are doing now. In most parts of the world, it
    is no longer acceptable to insult the members of these groups. At some point, that will be true for any human being. Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D., The Dignitarian Way, page 1, presented by the business magazine Strategy+Business,
    13. February 2007

 

 

 

  • It’s time to shift the focus from job security to the broader notion of dignity security, and take steps to protect dignity when, inevitably, changes occur in the particular roles and ranks we hold. Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D.,
    The Dignitarian Way, page 2, presented by the business magazine Strategy+Business, 13. February 2007

 

 

  • Organizations are not going to become dignitarian overnight. In many of them, rankism is still below the radar. But giving it a name may help them evolve. Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D., The Dignitarian Way, page 3, presented by
    the business magazine Strategy+Business, 13. February 2007

 

  • Until the abuse of rank is recognized as no more legitimate than abuse based on traits like color and gender, rankism will continue to exact a toll on health, happiness, and productivity. Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D., The Dignitarian Way, page 3, presented by the business magazine Strategy+Business, 13. February 2007

 

  • A dignitarian era is coming, because, in the end, most people don’t want to live in a world in which their dig-
    nity depends on either superficial traits or rank.
    Since we are, all of us, once and future nobodies, it’s in our inte-
    rest to make our institutions and our society less rankist and more dignitarian. Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D., The Dignitarian Way, page 3, presented by the business magazine Strategy+Business, 13. February 2007

 


 

  • Rankism is contextual. Most of the time, no matter how high up we are, we can look around and see someone of higher rank than we are. [...] a famous singer came to see the president of the United States [in the White House]. I watched as each of these extraordinarily powerful and famous men began to feel insecure around each other, clearly feeling like a nobody in comparison to the somebody they thought they were shaking hands with.
    Interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Standing Up to RANKISM, presented by the publication "More Than Money", host Dr. Pa-
    mela Gerloff
    (*1955) US American rankism and dignity researcher, "Project on Civic Reflection", writer, issue 35, March 2004

 

Baum
Hands of a Javanese tree shrew and a human
  • Rankism is felt as a lack of dignity. You experience your relative worthlessness; you feel you are worth less as a person when someone treats you in a rankist way. Interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Stan-
    ding Up to RANKISM
    , presented by the publication "More Than Money", host Dr. Pamela Gerloff (*1955) US American rankism and dignity re-
    searcher, "Project on Civic Reflection", writer, issue 35, March 2004

 

  • Institutional rankism is the rankism we encounter when we deal with bureaucracies, nonprofit organizations, schools, hospitals, chur-
    ches, and governments. In police states it takes the form of exploi-
    tation and oppression of the citizenry. In democracies it consists of
    the daily indignities of dealing with institutions whose de facto goal
    is self-preservation and aggrandizement rather than service.
    Interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936)
    US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism
    researcher, lecturer, author, Standing Up to RANKISM, presented by the publication "More Than Money", host Dr. Pamela Gerloff (*1955) US Ame-
    rican rankism and dignity researcher, "Project on Civic Reflection", writer, issue 35, March 2004

 

  • You can't end rankism with rankism.
    To actually end rankism, you have to preserve the dignity of perpetrators while offering correction. You have
    to protect other people's dignity as you would have them protect yours. It's like the golden rule.
    Interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, digni-
    ty and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Standing Up to RANKISM, presented by the publication "More Than Money", host Dr. Pamela Gerloff (*1955) US American rankism and dignity researcher, "Project on Civic Reflection", writer, issue 35, March 2004

 

  • It is because rankism encompasses the other -isms that I say that whoever identifies rankism and sets out to overcome it is going to lead the world in the next century. Interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Standing Up to RANKISM, presented by the publication "More Than Money", host Dr. Pamela Gerloff (*1955) US American rankism and dignity researcher, "Project on Civic Reflection", writer, issue 35, March 2004

 

  • We only hate in others – whether in individuals or whole peoples – what we cannot accept in ourselves. […]
    We need our enemies in order to complete ourselves.
    […]
    As the sense of threat diminishes, we redesignate our former "enemies" as "adversaries." With the first hint of positive mutual value, "adversaries" become "rivals," a term which acknowledges each as a secret teacher of the other. Finally "rivals," recognizing their mutual dependency, come to see themselves as "partners." […]
    We'll have to transcend global civil war not by allying ourselves with former enemies in the face of a new enemy, but
    by learning enough about our adversaries to establish forbearance for the differences that have, during these first
    close encounters, so scared and agitated us. Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D., A Better Game Than War. Understanding the origin of our "fear of the other" may lead us to the elimination of war, presented by the US American Context Institute, The Foundations Of Peace (IC#4), Gastgeber David Hoffman, S. 18, Autumn 1983

 

  • The lens of race highlights the well-known injustices of racism. The lens of rank reveals the less well recognized in-
    dignities of rankism. [...] Rank, in itself, is not the problem. Like race, rank is just a fact of life. Rank tells us who's in
    charge. [...] The problem lies not with rank per se, but in rank abuse. Rankism is the principal source of man-
    made indignity.
    Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, Rankism: The Elephant in Professor Gates's House, presented by the US American liberal-oriented online newspaper Huffington Post, 27. July 2009, updated 25. May 2011

 

  • Dignitarian governance does not necessarily mean giving everyone a vote on every issue, but it does mean giving everyone a voice. To ensure those voices are heard generally requires having at least some voting repre-
    sentatives from each of the organization’s constituencies serving at every level of its governance. This is sometimes
    referred to as multi-stakeholder or collaborative problem-solving.
    Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, The Dignitarian University, page 14, around 2007

 

  • Andrew Grove at Intel insists that every 20-year-old can tell him that he's wrong on anything technical. The slogan
    in many of the best firms in Silicon Valley companies is: The only boss is a better idea.
    That's where we are all headed. We are not there yet. Radio interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Rankism on the Defensive, part 9, presented by the listener-funded Californian radio station KPFA, Berkeley, California, aired 8. May 2000

 

  • The first thing that happens is when people get power they notice that they are now insulated from retribution when
    they abuse their power is that they indulge themselves in it. Twenty years later you've got Stalin you have a des-
    pot. [...] Every increment of power added puts the perpetrator in a position to abuse it even more and continue to get
    away with it. That's in the nature of power. Radio interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US
    American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Rankism on the Defensive, part 9,
    presented by the listener-funded Californian radio station KPFA, Berkeley, California, aired 8. May 2000

 

PT-Mem
  • All rankism is bullying of one form or another. But you always have to
    1. either risk your own self in opposing it – being an uppity nobody – or
    2. you have to quietly organize a group of other nobodies to stand with you against the abuse of rank.
Training ourselves to do the latter thing is the evolu-
tion of democracy. [...] We do have a recourse in this
country, when officials abuse their power, we diselect them. [...] but not so in hospitals, in schools, in fami-
lies, in work places. We need to build recourse so that rankism, when it first rears its ugly head, immedi-
ately is challenged. [...] Challenging rankism does-
n't prove it's rankism, but it sure puts it on the defensive.
Putting racism, sexism on the defensive was good enough.
Radio audio interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Rankism on the Defensive, part 9, presented by the listener-funded Califor-
nian radio station KPFA, Berkeley, California, aired 8. May 2000

 

  • Once you get rid of rankism rank gets the honor it really deserves. It is always a sign of earned and maintained excel-
    lence. Radio audio interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, col-
    lege president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Rankism on the Defensive, part 9, presented by the listener-funded Californian radio station KPFA, Berkeley, California, aired 8. May 2000

 

(↓)

Equality issue:

Inequality of ranks ⇔ equality of dignity and equality before the law

  • We are equal in dignity. We're unequal in almost every other respect we can think of. But we are equal in dignity. […] To go after equality [as such] is too general. Equality before the law, that's an essential part of dignity. Deleted video interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Somebodies and Nobodies, presented by Cal Poly Tech University Pomona, California, Hot Talk, host Saul Landau, US American journalist, filmmaker, commen-
    tator, professor emeritus, minute 10:26 and minute 25:55, 28:07 minutes duration, aired end 2002

 

  • Rank and authority aren't really the problem. It is the abuse of rank that is always the problem and is what I call rankism. […] Without rank we collapse into a kind of anarchy. […] We need rank to coordinate ourselves. […] There is nothing wrong with rank when it signifies excellence. But that doesn't mean that the high ranking people get to abuse their rank and bully the lower ranking people. Deleted video interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com
    (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Somebodies and Nobo-
    dies
    , presented by Cal Poly Tech University Pomona, California, Hot Talk, host Saul Landau, US American journalist, filmmaker, commentator, professor emeritus, minute 6:27, 28:07 minutes duration, aired end 2002

 

(↓)

Triages: Intervening ⇔ countervening the law

Diligence of differentiating in case of military interventions

  • You have to discriminate [in the case of very difficult moral choices]. And it's very difficult. […] [Example: Ending the terror regime of Nazi Germany] There was one voice that did say that [Stop it!]. It was Churchill's voice. He was right, too. […] Intervention is not always wrong but you have to do it with the greatest care. What we need is a new frame work that could guide it and limit the tendency of America to act like a bully because it can get away with it. Deleted video interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Somebodies and No-
    bodies
    , presented by Cal Poly Tech University Pomona, California, Hot Talk, host Saul Landau, US American journalist, filmmaker, commentator, professor emeritus, minute 19:59, 28:07 minutes duration, aired end 2002

 

(↓)

Differentiating Dignitarian policy ⇔ Marxism

Key phrase: Nobodies of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our shame.

  • [The dignity approach] is not a class based argument. It's is not proletariat versus aristocracy or anything remotely Marxist. It's a different divide. It's the divide along power as signified by rank […]. The high rank people [in the organisations] are at liberty to abuse lower rank people. Not that all of them do it. By no means do they. Many people instinctively respect other's dignity. But they can get away with it and it is still sanctioned. Deleted video interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Somebodies and Nobodies, presented by Cal Poly Tech University Pomona, California, Hot Talk, host Saul Landau, US American journalist, filmmaker, commentator, professor emeritus, minute 4:12, 28:07 minutes duration, aired end 2002

 

 

  • Religion teaches dignity; theology sometimes promotes indignity. When Islam was first introduced it championed women’s liberation (See Huston Smith’s Religions of the World which points out that Mohammed’s wife had a very
    big hand in writing it). Some Islamic theologians have since interpreted it in ways that oppress women, but that’s poli-
    tics operating under the guise of religion (as it does in every religion). In their core beliefs, religions have all been
    a powerful force for recognizing the universal and non-negotiable dignity of Man.
    Interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Dignity's Apostle: My Interview With Author Robert W. Fuller, first presented by the blog Intrepid Liberal Journal, Robert Ellmann, reissued by the group blog and internet forum focused on liberal American politics Daily Kos, 20. May 2006

 

(↓)

Rankism defeated:

Exemplified on the fall of TV talker Don Imus

  • Something new is happening where the predatory strategy [to put people down] which we followed for millions of years is finally failing us. Why? Because the peo-
    ple we take for nobodies are getting too powerful. It always takes the mobiliza-
    tion of countervailing power to stop one of these systemic types of abuse.
    Video presentation by Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Media Watch: Rankism, presented by Linkmedia, YouTube film, minute 2:05, 4:34 minutes duration, posted 17. April 2007

 

(↓)

Dignitarian politics

(↓)

Rankism defeated:

Exemplified on the fall of TV talker Don Imus

  • A dignitarian society which actually sees to it that everyone experiences equal dignity is a different society than a democratic society. But it's within reach. And I think it is democracy's next natural evolutionary step to build a dignitarian society that goes beyond a democratic society and actually disallows ran-
    kism in all of society.
    Video presentation by Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Media Watch: Rankism, presented by Linkmedia, YouTube film, minute 3:39,
    4:34 minutes duration, posted 17. April 2007

 

 

 

  • The ill-effects of rigid work schedules, inequitable pay, and other demeaning practices are now the subject of a growing body of research documenting the damage done not only to individual employees but to the companies for which they work. It turns out that rankism – the rank-based discrimination and abuse to which most indignities can be traced – is
    no better for the bottom line than racism, sexism, and homophobia. All the discriminatory "isms" are self-inflicted wounds that drain away the life-blood of enterprises harboring them. Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D., The Dignity of Work. Transforming the one-size-fits-all workhouse into a custom-fit workplace, 23. August 2010

 

'Dignity for all' principles

  • Dignity is a basic need.
  • Rankism begets rankism.  Note: The human tendency is to respond to rankism with rankism.
  • Dignity works.13
  • Always keep others' dignity intact.  Golden Rule principle14
  • Proactive is more effective than reactive.
  • A paternalistic system is inherently rankist, no matter how benevolent it may be.
  • Rankism creates a dysfunctional system.
  • To create "tipping point change", focus in one area until it "tips."
  • Allow everyone a voice – and listen attentively.
  • Teach, learn – and tell others.
Article Be a dignitarian. We can overcome rankism and build a world that honors the dignity of every person, presented by the publication Unitarian Universalism, Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Dr. Pamela Gerloff (*1955) US American rankism and dignity researcher, "Project on Civic Reflection", writer 11. January 2008

 

Cornerstones of a Dignitarian World

  • Dignity is your right. It's also everyone else's.
  • Defend others' dignity as if it were your own.
  • Dignity is the steppingstone from Liberty to Justice.
  • Building a dignitarian society is democracy's next step.
  • Rankism is abuse of the power inherent in rank.
  • What people want is dignity. Rankism is a source of indignity. To secure dignity, disallow rankism.
  • We don't have to put up with rankism any more than women must put up with sexism, minorities with ra-
    cism, gays with homophobia, etc.
  • No society that rations dignity can reach its full potential because threats to dignity inhibit creativity and
    tax productivity.
  • Humiliation and indignity are as dangerous as uranium and plutonium.
  • The only thing as important as how we treat the Earth is how we treat each other.
Blog article by Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dig-
nity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Dignity's Future, presented by the US American liberal-oriented online newspaper Huffington Post, 7. March 2016, updated 6. December 2017

 

  • Most valuable to us are people in whom our faults are writ so large that we recognize ourselves in them. They're easy to spot: we hate them. Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college pre-
    sident, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Twitter comment, posted 6. February 2010

 

  • We know dignity through its absence – indignity. With our first taste of indignity, we begin a lifelong vigil to shield ourselves from putdowns, ridicule, and exploitation. Yet indignities are still widely condoned. Humiliation is the staple of television entertainment. For many viewers, watching the degradation of others helps them cope with the dai-
    ly dose of indignity they are putting up with themselves. Blog article Robert Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, president
    of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, The Dignity Movement Finds Its Feet, presented by the US American liberal-
    oriented online newspaper Huffington Post, 6. March 2011, updated 25. May 2011

 

(↓)

Liberating nobodies, minorities, and women ༺♥༻ Balancing of the subdued right hemisphere.

  • The dignity movement can be seen as nobodies' liberation. Robert Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, author, The Dignity Revolution, presented by TEDx Berkeley Talks, UC-Berkeley, aired
    19. February 2011, YouTube film, 19:41 minutes duration, posted 23. March 2011

 

(↓)

Universalizing dignity: a task for the Left and the Right parties and the left and right hemispheres

  • Equal dignity is grounded in the fact of our dependence upon specialization and cooperation for survival, or, more fundamentally, in the co-creation of our very iden-
    tities. This suggests that both the Left and the Right have equal stakes in, and res-
    ponsibility for, universalizing dignity.
    Blog article Robert Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, author, The Source of Indignity, presented by the US American liberal-oriented online newspaper Huffington Post, 12. April 2013, updated 6. December 2017

 

  • The French revolutionary slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" overlooks the sine qua non of social harmony:
    dignity. A persistent lack of dignity breeds indignation. […] Rankism is the residue of predation. Humanity's next step is to build dignitarian societies by overcoming rankism. Knowing that the moral arc of history bends toward justice gives reason to hope that the religious intuition of universal dignity is achievable.
    If science and religion cooperate to uphold and extend dignity, and left and right remove the inequities that thwart fair competition, we can build a global society that's as close to heaven as we have need for, and realize the brotherhood
    of man not merely in our dreams, but here on Earth, not in the indefinite future, but before this century is out.
    Blog article by Robert Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, author, The Brotherhood of Man and the Politics of Dignity, presented by the US American liberal-oriented online newspaper Huffington Post, 31. May 2013, updated 6. December 2017

 

  • To succeed, a movement needs to be clear about two things: what it's for and what it's against.
    The Dignity Movement is for dignity, and against rankism, the source of most man-made indignity.
    Rankism is the exploitation or humiliation of those with less power or lower rank.
    Eliminating rankism does not mean getting rid of rank any more than eliminating racism means getting rid of race.
    Rank can be a useful organizational tool that, used respectfully, helps achieve group goals.
    But, in rankist environments, creativity is stifled, students don’t learn, workers are disloyal, health is compromised, families suffer dysfunction, and victims seek revenge.
    Dignity is the antidote. Robert Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity resear-
    cher, author, Facebook comment, 19. January 2017

 

  • Rankism is the source of human indignities; the mother of the familiar, ignoble "isms." Robert Fuller, Ph.D.,
    US American physicist, president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, author, Facebook comment, 8. August 2019

 

  • • Dignity is not negotiable.
    • Got dignity?
    • Dignity is the stepping stone from liberty to justice.
    • Creating a dignitarian society is democracy's next step.
    • Dignity is your right; it's also everyone else's.
    Everybody belongs. There are no nobodies.
    • Defend others' dignity as if it were your own.
    • So long as we tolerate threats to dignity, personal revenge and social upheaval will persist.
    Revenge sustains cycles of reciprocal indignity.
    • Indignity is more dangerous than plutonium.
    • Universalizing dignity will mark the end of the predatory epoch and the realization of the perennial wisdom.
    Dignity is the social counterpart of love.
Robert Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, author, Facebook comment, 11. August 2019

Reversing the Somebody Nobody mind set

Outgrowing poverty by The Power of Dignity

(↓)

Historical note on microlending:

US president Benjamin Franklin was the first one to create microlending in 1789.

Economist Prof. Muhammad Yunus at the Chittagong University in Bangladesh, Peace Nobel Prize Laureate (2006) purports the idea of the Social Business Company [see Caring Economics by Riane Eisler].

Concluding that the traditional banking system is keeping the imbalance of poverty in place within a male dominated Islamic Bangladesh Yunus works towards a selfless business. Whereas the lending institutions refuse to give loans to the poor the founder of the Grameen Bank invests in giving rather than taking. He subsequently invented micro fi-
nancing
.

 

At conception Yunus stipulated a 50:50 ratio of microcredits to be given to women and men alike. Surrounded by skeptics visionary Yunus reports, "My students did not believe the 50:50 ratio male:female was attainable."
At first, the poor women were reticent to accept loans due to cultural pressures and low self esteem. The social minded banker coached them patiently for six years which helped to change their mindset. Then they were willing to assume an entrepreneurial role.

 

The Grameen Bank

  • exists since 1983.
  • practices selfless economy, a concept that won the Nobel Prize in 2006.
  • works like a caring cooperative.
  • gives loans to start a small business.
  • hands out micro-credits i.e. small loans of 35 US$ each.
  • gives out loans worth 100 $ million each month.
  • has creditors who are part owners.
  • has share holders who are the lenders themselves.
  • pays profits back as dividends to its share holders.
  • has encouraged poor women to overcome their timid minds for 6 years.
  • fulfilled its vision to give out equally shared loans to men and women alike. 50:50 ratio [status 1990]
  • has 8 million poor borrowers. [status 2009]
  • 3% of the borrowers are male, 97% of the borrowers are female. [status 2009]
  • enjoys a repayment rate of just below 99%. [status 2009]

 

  • Poverty is not created by poor people. There is something lacking in the system that creates and perpetuates poverty. […] Poor people are Bonsai People, without a base, the Bonsai trees are stunted and cannot grow.

 

  • Humans possess selfishness but also selflessness. [Conventional] Business is based on selfishness. The concept of business is to make money. Human beings are not money making machines. […]
    We normally ask a CEO how much money have we made? With Social Business, we ask:
    How many people have we helped?
Source: ► Lecture by Muhammad Yunus, Ph.D. (*1940) Bangladeshi professor of economy, Chittagong University, founder of the
Grameen Bank, microcredit institution, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2006, SFU Talk Yunus "Financial Services and
Psychology" Part 1
, sponsored by the Sigmund Freud Universität (SFU), Vienna, Austria, 28. May 2009,
YouTube film, 9:42 minutes duration, posted 8. Juli 2009
Quelle / Source: ► Peter Spiegel peterspiegel.de (*1953) deutscher Unternehmensgründer, Sachbuchautor, German
entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the WeQ Institute, author, Roger Richter, Herausgeber / editor Hans Reitz,
The Power of Dignity – Die Macht der Würde. The Grameen Family, Vorwort von / preface by Muhammad Yunus,
deutsch/englische Ausgabe, German/Englisch issue, J. Kamphausen Verlag, Bielefeld, Dezember 2008

 

We have to get out of this [rankist] mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.
Muhammad Yunus, Ph.D. (*1940) Bangladeshi professor of economy, Chittagong University, founder of the Grameen Bank, microcredit institution, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2006, cited in: Article "Banker to poor" has suggestion for bankers to rich, presented by the international news organization Reuters, Michelle Nichols, 26. September 2008

Quotes on 'women embracing dignity for all'

(↓)

Women rising

  • Women's marvellous power is lying dormant. If the women of Asia wake up, they will dazzle the world. My experiment in non-violence would be instantly successful if I could secure women's help.
Lächeln
Smiling Punjabi woman
Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian sage, spiri-
tual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter, cited in: Richard L. Johnson, editor, Gandhi's Experiments with Truth. Essential Writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi, S. 156, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lexington Books, 2006

 

  • The world will be saved by the western woman.
    H.H. 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (*1935) Tibetan monk, leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism, Peace Nobel Prize laureate, 1989, proclamation, Vancouver Peace Summit 2009, 27.-29. September 2009

 

 

Conventional banking (Me) ⇔ Social banking (No-me / We / Other)

REVERSAL of Me-BANKING PRINCIPLES – Conversion to others / aliens
                     Profit maximising business                     
                      Reptilian marketing Social business ❄ Caring economics
Fields Private Banking
Somebodies / Haves
Father principle
Social Banking exemplified by Grameen Bank
Nobodies / Have-nots
Mother principle
Focus on Status matter money Soul connectivitymeaning
Ownership Privately owned conventional banks Collectively owned social banks
Ownership Somebodies – a few rich men Nobodies – many of the poorest women
Business strategies Profit maximising for self
[Money – matter]
People business / caring economics for others
[ Meaningsoul]
Business strategies Borrowing money from outside / government bailouts
[Business as usual]
Self-sustenance, self-sufficiency
[Banking phenomenon]
Business strategies Big credits extended to haves
[Ocean tanker]
Microloans to have-nots
[Dingy boats on shallow waters]
Customer / borrower policy Mistrust, digging in the past (credit histories) Trust in future developments
Customer / borrower policy Collaterals No credit guarantees requested
Customer / borrower policy Engaging encashment lawyers No encashment lawyers needed
Customer / borrower policy Business plan required
from literate mainly male borrowers
No business plan required
from unexperienced, uneducated borrowers
Infrastructure Stationary bank buildings in cities receive customers. Traveling bank agents go into the villages to address the poorest.
Philosophy – Principles Debt consciousness
Materialism

Belief in deficiency / shortage
Trust consciousness
Dignitarian approach

Belief in abundance
Philosophy – Principles Classism, inequality / power gap, poverty, debt system Inclusivity, ending of poverty by 2030
Idea of man One-dimensional money making human being Multidimensional complete human being
Ruling – law Deregulation / existing bank laws Creating new banking laws / renewed legislation

 

Yunus
Professor Muhammad Yunus
Salford, England, 18. May 2013
"The less you have the more attractive you are. If you have nothing you get the highest priority."  Muhammad Yunus, Ph.D. (*1940) Bangladeshi professor of economy, Chittagong University, founder of the Grameen Bank, microcredit institution, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2006

"This revolution of values must go beyond traditional capitalism and Commu-
nism. We must honestly admit that capitalism has often left a gulf between su-
perfluous wealth and abject poverty, has created conditions permitting necessi-
ties to be taken from the many to give luxuries to the few, and has encouraged
small hearted men to become cold and conscienceless so that, like Dives before
Lazarus, they are unmoved by suffering, poverty-stricken humanity. The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspire men to be more I-centered than thou-centered."
  Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American clergyman, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, Cornel West, editor, The Radical King, S. 91, Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, revised edition 1992,
13. January 2015

 

Video sources:
► Excerpted from video presentation by Muhammad Yunus, Ph.D. (*1940) Bangladeshi professor of economy, Chittagong University, founder
     of the Grameen Bank, microcredit institution, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2006, Creating a World Without Poverty, sponsored by the
     non-profit educational organization Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, California, and Link TV, recorded by the event
     video production company Fora.tv, YouTube film, 5:33 minutes duration, 1. May 2008
Explaining the "social business" model – addressing social issues through entrepreneurship
► Video lecture by Muhammad Yunus, Ph.D. (*1940) Bangladeshi professor of economy, Chittagong University, founder of the Grameen
     Bank
, microcredit institution, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2006, Creating a World Without Poverty, presented by the Committee on
     Global Thought (CGT)
, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), co-sponsored by the Center for the
     Study of Human Rights, Center for the Humanities, recorded by UChannel, 27. January 2009, YouTube film, 1:11:00 duration, posted
     19. February 2009
Book English/German: ► Muhammad Yunus, Ph.D. (*1940) Bangladeshi professor of economy, Chittagong University, founder of the Grameen Bank, microcredit institution, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 2006, Creating a World Without Poverty.
Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
, Perseus Books Group, 7. January 2008
See also:
Crisis Response – 4 Dimensions of Systems Change – Otto Scharmer Matrix of Crisis Response
Two versions of Darwin's Evolutionary Theory – Dr. David Loye
Adolescent self-interest-driven Reduced Darwinism (1859) ⇔ Darwinism rediscovered based on Mature Mutuality (2007)

 

Similar providers:
Kiva.org
► Article Small U.S. businesses thrive with Ethiopian woman's help, presented by the US American TV channel CNN, news outlet
     CNN edition, Heroes, aired 26. June 2009
► Article The Women's Crusade, presented by the US American daily newspaper The New York Times, Nicholas D. Kristof (*1959)
     US American journalist, The New York Times op-ed columnist, author, two-fold Pulitzer prize laureate, Sheryl WuDunn (*1959)
     US American business executive, philanthropy expert, lecturer, writer, Pulitzer Prize laureate, authors of Half the Sky. Turning Oppression
      Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
, 2009, 23. August 2009
Four responses in four dimensions of the paradigmal system change

Transition into emergent culture

The old
profit maximizing
exclusive
dominating
corrupted system
is declining.

 

The new
holistic, regenerative
caring, social
equality based/dignitarian
inclusive system
is rising.



Learning to listen while on a mission to save the poor

Learning to listen while on a mission to save the poor

 

Jacqueline Novogratz, an idealist young woman from Wall Street, went on 'a mission to save the third world'.
The poor women of The Ivory Coast sent her away saying:

Africans don't want saving – thank you very much – at least not by you.

 

This taught her the humility to start listening.
In Kenya she found a bakery run by a classic charity organization which occupied twenty prostitutes who in fact were
unwed mothers struggling to survive.
There Novogratz began to understand the power of language.
Her insight is:        What we call people so often distances them from us and makes them little.

 

Three lessons learned in Africa by Jacqueline Novogratz
༺༻ApproachFocusLesson
1. Dignitarian way DignityDignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth. [...]
People want to be seen and heard and given the dignity of choice.
2. Socialist way CharityTraditional charity and aid alone will not solve the problems of poverty.
3. Capitalist way WealthMarkets alone will also not solve the problems of poverty.
[...] As people get wealthier they also get healthier.
Source: ► Video presentation by Jacqueline Novogratz (*1961) US American social entrepreneur, founder and leader of the busi-
nesslike nonprofit aid organisation Acumen, author, Tackling poverty with "patient capital", Patient Capitalism transcript,
presented by TED Talks, starting at minute 3:38, 18:10 minutes duration, filmed June 2007, posted August 2007
References:
► Article The patient capitalist. Jacqueline Novogratz wants to transform the world's approach to development, presented by the
      English-language weekly newspaper The Economist, 21. May 2009
► Article The Problem With Capitalist Philanthropy, published originally in the US American left-wing quarterly magazine Jacobin,
     T. Rivers, 6. February 2018
Video reference: ► Philanthropy Is A Scam. Capitalists are fooling the world with this hoax,
presented by teleSUR English via Facebook, 2:11 minutes duration, posted 7. February 2018
See also:
Ten interlinked ways to honor or violate human dignity – Donna Hicks
Reducing poverty rates via welfare programs – Lane Kenworthy
Listening and ► Humility and ► Language and ► Choice and ► Patience and ► Questions and ► Pride
Siehe auch: ► Menschenwürde ist wichtiger als Reichtum, Wohlfahrt und Handel.

 

I learned then that listening isn't just about patience. But that when you've lived on charity and were depen-
dent your whole life long it's really hard to say what you mean. And mostly because people never really ask you. And when they do you don't really think they really want to know the truth. I also learned that listening
is not only about waiting, but it is also about learning how better to ask questions.

Video presentation by Jacqueline Novogratz (*1961) US American social entrepreneur, founder and leader of the businesslike nonprofit aid organisation Acumen, author, Tackling poverty with "patient capital" [Patient Capitalism], transcript, presented
by TED Talks, YouTube film, minutes 3:38 and 4:51, 20:20 minutes duration, filmed June 2007, posted 4. July 2016

Misconceiving human dignity with outer wealth

Hände
Hands at the Cuevas de las Manos upon Río Pinturas,
near the town of Perito Moreno,
Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, 12. August 2005

 

  • Real poverty lives within. Poverty […] can include a lack of clean water, adequate food, shelter, clothing and productive employment. […] At its core we [the westerners] hold poverty as a miscon-
    ception that inner human dignity equates with outer material wealth.
    […] Paradoxically, because our own inner dignity is built upon our wealth we are ill equipped to help the world’s poor develop its own dignity. Even at low material living stan-
    dards we can offer […] and foster inner dignity among the material poor. But those in the developed world actually perpetuate the suf-
    fering of poverty if we don’t change our own perception that human dignity is not available at all levels of material progress. They are us.

 

Deleted dialog between Martin Burt (*1957) Paraguayan social entrepreneur, former mayor of Asunción, founder and CEO of the Fundacion Paraguaya (*1985), author, The End of Poverty, presented by the publication Integral Life, host Ken Wilber (*1949)
US American transpersonal philosopher, consciousness researcher, thought leader of the 3rd millennium, developer of Integral Theory, author, 33 minutes duration, aired January 2010

Income and status gap in 23 of the rich developed countries worldwide – Wilkinson/Pickett

How much richer are the top 20% in highly developed countries than the poorest 20%?
% Least income gap% Smaller income gap% Middle range income gap% Bigger income gap% Huge income gap
3.4%Japan 4.6%Belgium 5.6%Spain 6.2%Greece 7.0%Australia
3.7%Finland 4.8%Austria 5.6%France 6.7%Italy 7.2%UK
3.9%Norway 5.2%Germany 5.6%Canada 6.8%Israel 8.0%Portugal
4.0%Sweden 5.3%Netherlands 5.7%Switzerland 6.8%New Zealand 8.5%USA
4.3%Denmark   6.1%Ireland   9.7%Singapore
Source: ► Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British professor emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Nottingham,
economy historian, researcher of inequality data in health and social determinants, How economic inequality harms societies,
presented by TED Talks, YouTube film, minute 2:58, 16:55 minutes duration, filmed July 2011, posted 24. October 2011
After 30 years of research British socioepidemiologists Wilkinson and Pickett found
a unilateral pattern concerning (mainly) all social maladies in modern wealthy countries:
The size of the income gap interrelated with psychosocial concordant dignity gradients.

Correlation: the bigger a nation's income gap interrelated with its concordant dignity gradient is
the bigger are its failures in regard to health, human capital, and social relations.

 

Economic inequality and status anxiety resulting in trouble spots of human life
༺༻ Health Human Capital Social Relations
1.ObesityChild wellbeingPoverty
Among 35 developed nations U.S. has 23.1%
child poverty rate, second only to Romania.
2.Infant mortalityTeenage pregnancies and births
[ 1- 10, tenfold difference]
Child conflict
3.Stress
Anxiety, Depression
Math and literacy scores
Educational standards
Violence and homicides  [ 15-150]
4.Life expectancyHigh school drop outsCrime rate, punishment, imprisonment
[ 40- 400 out of 100,000 inhabitants; tenfold difference]
The United States (300 million) have 7.2 million people imprisoned.
China (over 1.3 billion) has 1.6 million people in jail. (ratio 30:1)
5.Mental illness
[ 1-3; threefold difference]
Social mobility
[Father's income influences career.]
Corruption and "Mutual trust"
[ 15- 60-65; 4-fold difference]
6.Drug and alcohol addictionSocial capital, Community relations 
7.Disease rate  
Source: ► Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British professor Emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Nottingham,
researcher of inequality data in health and social determinants, How economic inequality harms societies,
presented by TED Talks, YouTube film, 16:55 minutes duration, filmed July 2011, posted 24. October 2011
References featuring Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British professor Emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Nottingham,
researcher of inequality data in health and social determinants, author
Book: Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., Kate Pickett, Ph.D. (*1965) British professor of epidemiology, University of York, co-author,
     The Spirit Level. Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, Bloomsbury Press, 22. December 2009
Video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British professor Emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Nottingham,
     researcher of inequality data in health and social determinants, sponsored by Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, YouTube film,
     posted 11. March 2011
     The Spirit Level, part 1 of 3, 12:30 minutes duration
      ♦ The Spirit Level, part 2 of 3, 13:46 minutes duration
      ♦ The Spirit Level, part 3 of 3, 11:07 minutes duration
Reference: en.Wikipedia entry The Spirit Level: ... Why Equality is Better for Everyone, updated version, 2010

 

Wellbeing status in countries 2010
༺༻Ranking of countriesCountries
1.THRIVING 1. Denmark 72% (most happy) – 2. Sweden 69% – 3. Canada 69%
4. Australia 65% – 5. Finland 64% – 6. Venezuela 64%
2.MOST UNHAPPY
End of the list
Haiti 2% – Central African Republic 2% – Chad 1%
Source: ► Article High Wellbeing Eludes the Masses in Most Countries Worldwide. Majorities in 19 out of 124 countries
"thriving," mostly in Europe and the Americas
, presented by the publication Gallup, Julie Ray 19. April 2011
See also:
Sociology
Dignity outweighs wealth, charity, and markets.
Worldwide economic inequality gap – Statistics 2014-2018
Statistics of economic inequality in United States (1774-2011)
Reducing poverty rates via welfare programs – Lane Kenworthy
Politics of poverty and violence – Pride-guilt-shame culture of socio-economic status in the United States
Variance in life expectancy as a result of the social inequality gap

Dignity culture ⇔ Pride culture

  Quotations by Edward and Carter   Orientation – focus
I'm not everyone! Pride, Fear of humiliation
Well, that's true –
you're certainly not everyone, and
everyone is everyone.
Dignified humility
Valuation of the individual by appreciating all
This was supposed to be fun.
That's all it ever was.
Ego-centered
Not connected to the whole
Find the joy in your life, Edward. Visionquest
I'm deeply proud that this man
found it worth his while to know me.
Gratefulness pervaded by pride
He saved my life.
And he knew it before I did.
Pride transcended by
gratefulness and reverence

Legend:

Billionaire Edward Cole opting for
PRIDE – FUN – ME ⇔ YOU-THEM structure
Mechanic Carter Chambers opting for
DIGNITY – JOY – WE culture
Source: ► Excerpted from the US American movie The Bucket List, released 11. January 2008
YouTube clip The Bucket List – Ending, 4:38 minutes duration, posted 9. April 2009
Memorable quotes from The Bucket List, presented by imdb.com, 2007
See also: ► Culture and ► Pride
Siehe auch: ► Würdekultur ⇔ Stolzkultur (Filmbeispiel)

Reconciliation between Hercules and Hydra – a healing story

                How the hero Hercules and the multi-headed Hydra of Lerna solved their conflict                

 

Before embarking on his mission to terminate the terrorizing nine-headed water snake Hydra, the Greek hero Hercules consulted with his mentor, the centaur Chiron. He had advised him:

Not common means will serve here; destroy one head, two grow apace. So be aware:
We rise by kneeling,
we conquer by surrendering,
we gain by giving up.

 

Hercules' linear mindset was puzzled. Unfamiliar with such a counterintuitive paradoxical approach, he first dismissed this counsel at hand. The hero wears his characteristic lionskin and wields a club.
Herakles
Hercules and the Hydra, ~1475
Antonio del Pollaiuolo (1429-1498) Italian painter

He invested into traditional war making by sending a flood of arrows into Hydra's cavern. This strategy had failed, since the sea-snake did
not emerge.
Next Hercules dipped his arrows in burning pitch, to rain them into the cavern of perpetual night, the entrance to the Underworld. The monster furiously appeared with nine angry heads breathing flame.
Whenever the hero, wearing a rag over his mouth to protect him from
the fuming breath – coming from above and from outside – cut off one
of its heads with his sword two new heads instantly grew from the blee-
ding stump.

 

Confronted by the known means of sheer violent force, willpower, or intellect, Hydra had grown stronger. It could not be terminated with
self-righteous supremacy
or the mindset of 'We against Them'.

 

Only when Hercules started to faint from exhaustion, he was finally willing to change his approach following Chiron's advice.
He knelt right into the mud with Hydra. From a level headed position
he grasped one of Hydra's heads under the mud with his bare hands
and pulled it out above him. Suspended in mid-air and plain daylight
it withered away and dropped off by the wind. And so he continued
with exposing the other heads following the humble path. Made cons-
cious and owned by both sides the Hydra's heads were not dangerous any longer. His nephew Iolaus lit a torch and burned the stumps after
the heads were gone, which prevented them from growing back. Hy-
dra's destructive force was defeated, when the ninth head, still fiercely hissing, was severed.

 

Hercules estimated this mystically immortal head as a jewel and sheltered it beneath a rock.
So the victory was won. The sea-monster had taught him a lesson and he had taken it well.

 

References: en.Wikipedia entries Hercules and ► Hydra
See also: ► Hercules and the Hydra
Siehe auch: ► Herakles integriert seine innere Hydra.

 

Implications of Hydra and Scorpio
"We can say that the hydra can mean many things:     ⚑ jealousy, vengeance, resentment, anger , frustrated sexuality, violence.
Scorpio is a sign of intense desire; and the hydra's many heads can mean the many desires of the uncivilized human heart. Left to grow in the darkness, they can become poisonous, and begin to destroy others. But they cannot be dealt with by repression. They must be understood, held up to the light, respected as part of oneself. And although vanquished, it is a good idea to remember that one immortal head. For Scorpio, all human beings carry within them the seeds of good and evil. Evil is not an abstract thing, or somebody else's fault; it is in everyone. Human brutality cannot be blamed on society, but ultimately only on oneself. […] the deepest meaning of Scorpio's myth:     ⚑ come to terms with the hydra in yourself, and you redeem the world."
Liz Greene (*1946) US American-British astrologer, depth psychologist, combining Jungian archetypes with astrology, author, Astro-
logy for Lovers
, section The Scorpio Myth, Weiser Books, September 1990, reprint February 2009


You can't end rankism with rankism.
To actually end rankism, you have to preserve the dignity of perpetrators while offering correction.
You have to protect other people's dignity as you would have them protect yours. It's like the golden rule.
Interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dig-
nity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Standing Up to RANKISM, presented by the publication "More Than Money", Dr.
Pamela Gerloff
(*1955) US American rankism and dignity researcher, "Project on Civic Reflection", writer, issue 35, March 2004

The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as
fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must per force act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, Gerhard Adler, editor, R. F. C. Hull, translator, Aion. Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self. Collected Works of C.G.
Jung Volume 9 (Part 2)
, "Christ, A Symbol of the Self", paragraph 126, 1935, 1951, Princeton University Press, 2nd edition
1. June 1979, 2nd revised edition 1. August 1981

We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Walt Kelly (1913-1973) US American animator, cartoonist, citing the character Pogo in the classic comic strip Pogo, 1971

Dichotomy between Somebody ∞ Nobody ⇔ Everything ∞ Nothing

         Conversation between an ordinary guy and a TV known nameless futurist         

Hey, you're somebody.
No, I'm nobody.
I saw you on TV.
What's your name?
My name is Watts Wacker.
You're right. You are a nobody.

 

><)))°> <°(((><

 

Source: ► Video presentation by Watts Wacker (1953-2017) US American futurist, speaker, author,
Watts Wacker, Speaker Demo Video, minute 0:44, 8:46 minutes duration, posted December 2008
See also: ► Narcissism and ► Pride

I am a nobody!

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us – don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong June
To an admiring bog!

 

Source: ► Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) US American poet, Poem 260
See also: ► Void
Siehe auch: ► Ich bin ein Niemand

Void ⇔ Allness

God is nothingness that seeks to become everything.

Source: ► Jakob Böhme (1575-1624) German Christian mystic, philosopher, theologian

The fear of nothingness ⇔ the denial of allness

Out of fear of becoming nothing, consciousness denies
its only reality that it is everything
the infinite, everlasting Allness out of which existence itself arises.

Source: ► Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), The Eye of the I, S. 373, 2001

Quotations on Human dignity

Quotes by different sources

PRIDE –– "The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like
other people – robbers, evildoers, adulterers – or even like this tax collector.'"
Luke 18, 11 (NT)

 

SHAME –– The tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven,
but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
Luke 18, 13 (NT)
I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt
themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
Luke 18, 13 (NT)

 

(↓)

See also:

The Gospel of Thomas, translated by Thomas O. Lambdin, 50-140 AD (1945)

Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary [Magdalene] leave us, for females are not worthy of life."
Jesus said, "Look I shall guide her to make her male so that she too may become a living spirit
resembling you males.
For every female who makes herself male will enter the Kingdom of Heaven."
Gospel of Thomas, verse 114, translation by Elaine Pagels, Marvin Myer, cited in: Elaine Pagels, Ph.D. (*1943)
US American religious historian, Biblical scholar of gnosticism, author, Beyond Belief. The Secret Gospel of Thomas,
S. 241, Random House, 1st edition 6. May 2003

 

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, issued 10. December 1948

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks
upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 12, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Personal avowals

  • As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) assassinated 16th US President (1861-1865), abolisher of slavery, On Slavery, presented by the Lincoln Home, Illinois, statement issued 1. August 1858

 

  • I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a de-
    sire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) former South African anti-apartheid acti-
    vist,first black president of South Africa (1994-1999), 27 years imprisoned during apartheid, Long Walk to Freedom. The Autobio-
    graphy of Nelson Mandela
    , Macdonald Purnell, 1995, Back Bay Books, 2. June 2008

 

  • I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose,
    ➤ human liberty as the source of national action,
    ➤ the human heart as the source of national compassion, and
    ➤ in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas.
    John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) assassinated 35th US American president (1917-1963), Congressional Record, V. 149, PT. 20,
    S. 186, 5.-11. November 2003

 

  • In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright. Oprah Winfrey (*1954) US American talk show host, actress, visionary, billionaire, philanthropist, presented by the US American monthly magazine O, The Oprah Magazine, cited in: Tuchy Palmieri, Oprah, in Her Words: Our American Princess, S. 81, Carl Palmieri, 2008

 

(↓)

Racist moments of the richest black woman in the world

 

(↓)

Racism combined with common sexism

  • True racism is being able to have power over somebody else. So that doesn't hap-
    pen to me that way. It shows up that sometimes I'm in a board room or I'm in cer-
    tain situations where I'm the only woman, or I'm the only African American person
    within a 100 mile radius, and I can see in the energy of the people there, they don't sense that I should be holding one of those seats. I can sense that. I can never tell is it racism or is it sexism, because often it's both. The sexism thing is huge. The higher the ladder you climb, it gets huge. Oprah Winfrey (*1954) US American talk show host, actress, visionary, billionaire, philanthropist, to TV show host Nancy O'Dell of US TV programme Entertainment Tonight, Oprah Winfrey reveals "racist" treatment in Switzerland, presented by the British publication So Feminine, 10. August 2013

 

(↓)

Breaking pathological silence

  • I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sen-
    sitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views,
    that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
    Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) German-French Jewish professor, political activist, Nazi concentration camp survivor, writer, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Hope, Despair, and Memory, Oslo, Norway, 10. December 1986

 

(↓)

Holocaust survivor

Final statement at the historic visit at the forced labor camp memorial Gedenkstätte Buchenwald in Germany together with President Barack Obama (*1961) 44th US American President, and Angela Merkel (*1954) German chancellor

  • When I was liberated in 1945, April 11, by the American army, somehow many of us were convinced that at least one lesson will have been learned – that never again will there be war; that hatred is not an option, that racism is stupid; and the will to conquer other people's minds or territories or aspirations, that will is meaningless.
    I was so hopeful. Paradoxically, I was so hopeful then. Many of us were, although we had the right to give up on humanity, to give up on culture, to give up on edu-
    cation, to give up on the possibility of living one's life with dignity in a world that has no place for dignity. Deleted video statement by Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) German-French Jewish professor, political ac-
    tivist, Nazi concentration camp survivor, writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1986, at the end of his historic visit at Gedenkstätte Buchenwald (forced labor camp memorial) together with President Barack Obama (*1961) 44th US American President, and An-
    gela Merkel
    (*1954) German physicist, first German female chancellor (2005-), Wiesel: Had the world learned there'd be no Darfur, presented by the US American news cable and satellite television network MSNBC, 9:41 minutes duration, aired 5. June 2009

 

  • I don't agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
    Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868-1956) English writer, biography on Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) French philosopher
    of the Age of Enlightenment, social critic, proponent of the French Revolution, advocate of civil liberties, freedom of religion, free
    trade, deist, writer, The Friends of Voltaire, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906; summarizing Voltaire's thinking on free speech issues

 

 

(↓)

Overcoming RANKISM (class conceit)

  • I think I was imprisoned by part of my life that was not a part of what I would say is truth. [...] I stood on top of the heap and said 'I am more valuable than you. Hey, I am the director, man. You are just a camera man.' I don't support that anymore. I think we are all part of it. And there can be a little difference but not the kind of difference that I supported. [...] I've gone through some pretty substantial changes which I think have opened me up. I'm more sensitive. I hope that I
    have walked further down the empathic road.
    Video interview with Tom Shadyac (*1958) Aramean American comedian, Hollywood film director, truth seeker, neardeather (2007), multimillionaire converted to the path of simplicity, screenwriter, producer of the documentary DP/30 – I AM, Director Tom Shadyac, presented by DP/30, host David Poland, MCN Videos, YouTube film, minute 4:38, 33:35 minutes duration, posted 11. March 2011

 

(↓)

Striving for somebodiness – position, status, money

  • He was impressed easily by position, status, money. He grew up poor and al-
    ways wanted to be somebody, to make a difference, to prove himself, you know. He has to be historic to justify his life. Marianne Gingrich on her former husband US American politician Newt Gingrich; cited in: Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican, presented by the US American men's fashion and lifestyle magazine Esquire, John H. Richardson, 10. August 2010

 

  • I'm tired of all this isolation. I'm tired of this triviality of life. I want real human emotion. I want to feel the natural sponta-
    neity of life, the beautiful randomness and rawness that is life. I want to see you and I want you to see me and I want
    to bask in that moment of humility and intimacy and the acknowledgement of your dignity and my humanity, even if it
    is for a second. That'll be enough. Kate Miller (*1969) US American stage, film, television and voice-over actress, cited in: I'm tired of all this isolation., presented by quotetab

 

Recommendations

(↓)

Note

The Silver rule [reciprocity]

  • Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.
    子貢問曰、有一言、而可以終身行之者乎。子曰、其恕乎、己所 不欲、勿施於人 Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese sage, social philosopher, Analects of Confucius [Lunyu] [Selected Sayings], chapter 15, 23, 475 BC-220 AD, cited in: Frédéric Clément , Russell Freedman, Confucius. The Golden Rule, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st edition 1. September 2002

 

  • Remember this – that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) Roman Emperor (161-180 AD), last of the Five Good Emperors, important Stoic philosopher, au-
    thor, Meditations, part IV, S. 32, Penguin Classics, 31. October 2006

 

  • Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) US American philoso-
    pher, Unitarian, lecturer, poet, essayist, presented by "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862", S. 69, Harvard University Press, 1976; cited in: AZ Quotes

 

  • Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the
    liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
    John Brown (1800-1859) US American revolutionary abolitionist, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

 

Question/appeal

 

Appeals

 

  • There must be a revolution in our hearts, in our minds, in our souls, to respect the dignity and worth of all hu-
    mankind
    . If we're going to build a sense of community in this nation [The United States], we have to include every-
    body. We've got to live together like brothers and sisters. During the early days of the civil rights movement, we tal-
    ked about a 'coalition of conscience.' We must help our young people to form a coalition of community, a sense of
    the beloved community, even the kingdom of God. John Lewis, congressional representative in of Georgia, student worker
    for civil rights during the 1960s, cited in: deleted article A sense of Faith, presented by the Cathedral Age Magazine, winter 1999

 

Conclusion

 

Insights

  • The issue is not simply one of needing to save the world, but also of needing to solve the problem of loss of soul throughout the modern world. Part of what has been lost in the reckless rushing of modernity is the sense that each
    life has an authentic interior that shelters important emotions as well as inherent purpose, and that the dignity of existence includes a necessary instinct to unfold the unique story woven inside each living soul.
    Michael Meade Mosaicvoices.org, US American storyteller, scholar of mythology, psychology, anthropology, ritualist, spokesman
    in the men's movement, author, Facebook comment, 8. May 2017
  • Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic desire for freedom and dignity.
    H.H. 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (*1935) Tibetan monk, leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1989, A. A. Shiromany, editor, The Spirit of Tibet, Universal Heritage: Selected Speeches and Writings of HH The Dalai Lama XIV, S. 196, Friedrich-Naumann Foundation, 1995

 

(↓)

Encyclical "Charity in Truth", July 2009:

Pope Benedict called for a new world financial order ( "a profoundly new way of understanding business enterprise") respecting the dignity of workers and looks out for the common good by prioritizing ethics and social responsibility over dividend returns.
He denounced the outsourcing work to the cheapest bidder thereby endangering the rights of workers. He demanded that workers be allowed to organize in unions to protect their rights and guarantee steady, decent employment. Pope urges financial order guided by ethics, 7. July 2009

  • Profit is useful if it serves as a means toward an end. Once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced by improper means and without the common good as its ultimate end, it risks destroying wealth and creating poverty. […]
    One of the greatest challenges facing the economy is to achieve the most efficient use – not abuse – of natural resources, based on a realization that the notion of 'efficiency' is not value-free. Pope Benedict XVI (1927-2022) German theologian, 265th head of the Roman Catholic Church (2005-2013), third encyclical of his pontificate "Charity in Truth", July 2009

 

Fundamental culture: based on human dignity, equality, caring integrity

  • On the fundamental level there are no differences between all human beings. Mentally, emotionally, physically
    we are the same. On that level there is hardly any reason to fight.

Secondary culture: status based, prideshame based on error

  • On the secondary level there are a lot of divisions and barriers. On the secondary level there are different nationa-
    lities, different races, different colors, different religions. Within the communities there are the richer, the poorer, the educated, the uneducated, the more respected because of their highly esteemed professions, some are looked down because of their work.
    Many man-made problems, I believe, are due to too much emphasis on the secondary level of differences. We are forgetting the basic oneness of human beings. Video presentation by H.H. 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (*1935) Tibetan monk, leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1989, Vancouver Peace Summit 2009, presented by the Canadian broadcast television network CTV Television Network, part 2 of 4, 2/3rd section,
    minute 50:13-55:00, Vancouver, Canada, Sunday 27. September 2009

 

  • As long as we observe love for others and respect for their rights and dignity in our daily lives, then whether we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in the Buddha or God, follow some religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt
    we will be happy. H.H. 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (*1935) Tibetan monk, leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism, Peace Nobel Prize laureate, 1989, Facebook comment, 20. September 2010

 

(↓)

Dignity resides in each of us, quietly waiting to unleash its transformative power upon the world.

  • Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
    Aristotle (384-322 BC) classical Greek pre-Christian philosopher, physician, scientist, miso-
    gynist, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

 

  • Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it. Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658) Spanish philosopher, Jesuit university teacher, leading Spanish exponent of conceptism, baroque prose writer, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, S. 53, written in 1647 Joseph Jacobs, translator, Macmillan and Company, London and New York City, 1892, Dover Publications, 2005

 

  • We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able
    to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity – a rainbow nation
    at peace with itself and the world.
    Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) leading South African anti-apartheid activist, prisoner for 27 years during apartheid, first black pre-
    sident of South Africa (1994-1999), Inaugural Address, Pretoria, South Africa, 10. May 1994

 

  • Prison and the authorities conspire to rob each man of his dignity. In and of itself, that assured that I would survive, for any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose because I will not part with it at any price or under any pressure.
    Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) former South African anti-apartheid activist, first black president of South Africa (1994-1999), Long Walk to Freedom. The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Macdonald Purnell, 1995, Back Bay Books, 2. June 2008

 

(↓)

Rankism defeated:

Exemplified on the fall of public approval of Don Imus (*1940) US American radio host, humorist

  • Something new is happening where the predatory strategy [to put people down] which we followed for millions of years is finally failing us. Why? Because the people we take for nobodies are getting too powerful. It always takes the mobilization countervailing power to stop one of these systemic types of abuse. Video presentation by Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Media Watch: Rankism, presented by Linkmedia, YouTube film, minute 2:05, 4:34 minutes duration, posted 17. April 2007

 

  • Dignity is something each and everyone is born with. It's part of our DNA. It's part of what it means to be hu-
    man.
    […] When I go out into the world people haven't even thought about dignity. It's just your basic value and worth,
    inborn. You've got it. You don't have to even do anything. It is a given that you have dignity. Respect isn't the same as
    dignity. [...] I'd say to my colleagues, "You can't demand respect because respect has to be earned."
    […] We're all born with inherent value and worth, but we're also born inherently vulnerable to having that dignity ques-
    tioned, violated. […]
    My favorite dignity mentor archbishop Tutu said: "No one can strip you of your dignity." […] "These wounds to our dig-
    nity are real." [...] "Dignity wounds need to be healed. People need acknowledgement for the suffering they endured against their dignity." […]
    The brain research has shown that when people experience an assault to their dignity that it shows up in the brain in the same area as a physical wound, a physical injury. Video interview with Donna Hicks, Ph.D., US American psychologist, facilitator during international conflicts, associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, public educa-
    tor, author, Dignity: Why it Matters More than Ever, presented by Global Dignity, host Cynthia Guyer, 1st director of Global Dignity, YouTube film, minute 18:12, 1:01:05 duration, filmed 4. March 2021, posted 5. March 2021

 

(↓)

Difference between dignity and respect

  • Dignity is something that we are all born with. It is part of us. We don't have to do anything to have dignity.
    Respect, on the other hand, is earned.
    People confuse these two things.
    When people say "We demand respect", I think, what they are really yearning for is to be treated as a human being,
    to be treated with dignity.
    Video presentation by Donna Hicks, Ph.D. drdonnahicks.com US American psychologist, facilitator during international conflicts, associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, public educator, author, #Peacemakers2014 – Dr. Donna Hicks, presented at Peacemakers 2014, 24.-27. June 2014, sponsored by Koç University, Istambul, Turkey, YouTube
    film, minute 16:31, 50:56 minutes duration, posted 19. August 2014

 

  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. [...] The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American Baptist minister, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, collection of sermons Strength To Love, 1963

 

 

  • Your net worth is not your self worth. Your value is not based on your valuables. Video presentation by Father Rick Warren (*1954) US American evangelical Christian minister, Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, California, philanthropist, bestselling author, Living a life of purpose, presented by TED Talks, 2006, YouTube film, minute 13:56, 21:48 minutes duration, posted 15. April 2008

 

  • The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
    Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish statesman, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-1961), journal entries Markings English translation, Faber & Faber, 1964

 

  • Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated. Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Swedish statesman, Secretary-General
    of the United Nations (1953-1961), journal entry 1955, Markings English translation, Faber & Faber, chapter 12, S. 105, 1964

 

 

  • Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, how-
    ever remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the begin-
    ning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing
    the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe. Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) Polish-born US American rabbi, leading Jewish theologian and philosopher of the 20th century, Who Is Man?, chapter 5, "The sense of the ineffable", S. 88-89, Stanford University Press, 1. June 1965

 

  • Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) Polish-born US American rabbi, leading Jewish theologian and philosopher of the 20th century, Insecurity of Freedom. Essays on Human Existence, S. 44, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1959, 1966
(↓)

Dignity gap

All humans and societies are vulnerable and imperfect. In cruel societies missing out on human dignity vulnerability is seen as weakness, imperfection is seen as inadequacy. Many humans buy into the idea to be "less than", not worthy of belonging.

 

  • Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit. Thomas S. Szasz (1920-2012) Hungarian US-American professor emeritus of psychiatry,
    State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse, New York, social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psy-
    chiatry and scientism, cited in: Picture Quotes

 

  • [O]ne has a responsibility to maintain one's dignity – to be, as it were, a faithful steward of human dignity in one's per-
    son – and many of the rights associated with dignity are tinged with this responsibility.  S. 140
    [Complimentary to this,] there will be some haughtiness – horizontal haughtiness […] – and formality and even ritual
    in the way dignified people bear themselves […] we will expect [dignity] to be associated with a furious sense of one's
    own rights and a willingness to stand up for them as part of what it means to stand up for what is best and most impor-
    tant to oneself.  S. 145
    Jeremy Waldron, Ph.D. (*1953) a New Zealand professor of law and philosophy, New York University, Dignity, Rank, and Rights (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures), Oxford University Press, 2009, reprint paperback edition 1. February 2015

 

  • We're still living in an 'either-or' culture, not in an 'and' culture. We're still ranking instead of linking. We still have
    a hierarchical view of life instead of a circle.
    And actually for most of human history we've lived the other way. It's
    been about linking, not ranking. The circle [not the pyramidal structure] was the paradigm of society. Video TV interview with Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political activist, founder and editor of the feminist magazine Ms., journalist, writer, @katiecouric: A Woman's World?, presented by the US American TV station CBS News, host Katie Couric (*1957) US American talk show host, anchor journalist, author, YouTube film, minute 37:29, posted 22. June 2010

 

  • The people whose paradigm is the pyramid not the circle, the people who believe in ranking not linking are losing control. Vimeo video presentation by Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political activist, founder and editor of the feminist magazine Ms., journalist, writer, When Women Are People… and Corporations Are Not: Why the First Inequality Will Also Be the Last, presented by Bioneers Live, host Nina Simons, Bioneers Conference 2011, San Rafael, California, 14. October 2011, minute 32:16, 35:27 minutes duration, posted 10. November 2011

 

  • Often the same adversaries oppose women’s, anti-racist, environmental, peace, human rights, indigenous, sexual liberation, consumer, children’s rights and other such movements. Yet these movements often remain separate and don’t see their organic linkage. Vimeo video presentation by Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political activist, founder and editor of the feminist US American magazine Ms., journalist, writer, When Women Are People… and Corporations Are Not: Why the First Inequality Will Also Be the Last, presented by Bioneers Live, host Nina Simons, Bioneers Conference 2011, San Rafael, California, 14. October 2011, 35:27 minutes duration, posted 10. November 2011

 

(↓)

Appearance: being somebody:

The Somebody : Nobody mystique is based on narcissism.

  • Men go into positions of power to BE SOMEBODY [appear as a somebody].
    Women in power often go into power [postions] to DO SOMETHING different.
    Men that need to be be somebody often have narcisisstic liabilities. They lead a ve-
    ry empty life. They need to be buttressed by these external features around them.
    Video interview with Drew Pinsky, M.D. (*1958) US American board-certified internist, radio and TV personality, addiction medicine specialist, assistant clinical professor, Keck USC School of Medicine, Dr. Drew on what's next for Weiner, presented by the US American TV channel CNN, program "360°", host Anderson Cooper, minute 3:17, 4:18 minutes duration, aired 16. June 2011

 

  • It is very hard to unlearn this lesson that you are nobody and nothing. Video interview with Colin Ross, M.D. (*1950) Canadian psychiatrist, trauma expert, president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (1993-1994), researcher, lecturer, author, Childhood Trauma & Sexual Abuse | Child Mental Health, presented by the YouTube channel Psyche-
    truth
    , host-correspondent Corrina Rachel, YouTube film, minute 12:10, 14:57 minutes duration, posted 20. December 2012

 

(↓)

Dignified approach even the most violent toward prisoners

 

  • Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
    Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) Swedish queen (1632-1654), cited in: Liz Curtis Higgs, It's Good to Be Queen: Becoming as Bold, Gracious, and Wise as the Queen of Sheba, S. 16, WaterBrook Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 2015

 

  • Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the presidency.
    Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) 37th US president, cited in: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971, S. 555, 1971, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2005

 

  • Human dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope
    of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. James Thurber (1894-1961) US American cartoonist, wit, author, Writings & Drawings, 1162, Literary Classics of the United States, New York, 1996

 

 

 

  • All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything
    is either symbol or parable. Paul Claudel (1868-1955) French diplomat, poet, dramatist, cited in: Matthew T. Vossler, Astro-
    logy in Depth
    , S. 51, Dreamz-Work Productions, 2009

 

  • When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) US American radical political and social activist, co-founder of the Youth International Party ("Yippies"), writer, cited in: Lloyd Chiasson, Jr. editor,
    The Press on Trial. Crimes and Trials as Media Events, S. 154, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, London, 1997

 

 

  • I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998) US American pediatrician, author, cited in: Dominic Bliss, Being The Best Man For Dummies, S. 113, A. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 2006

 

 

  • True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. Philip Massinger (1583-1640) English dramatist, cited in: Ted Goodman, editor, Forbes Book of Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life, S. 409, 1976

 

  • Dignity is a useless concept above and beyond human rights or human autonomy.
    Steven Pinker, Ph.D. (*1954) Canadian-born US American Johnstone professor of experimental psychology, Harvard University, cognitive scientist, linguist, popular science author, The stuff of Steven Pinker: Language, dignity, and thought, presented by The Science Network (TSN), host Roger Bingham, minute 50:15, 1:15:00 duration, aired 10. September 2008

 

  • The problem is that "dignity" is a squishy, subjective notion, hardly up to the heavyweight moral demands assigned
    to it. Article Steven Pinker, Ph.D. (*1954) Canadian-born US American Johnstone professor of experimental psychology, Harvard University]], cognitive scientist, linguist, popular science author, The Stupidity of Dignity, presented by the US American liberal magazine on politics and arts The New Republic, 28. May 2008

 

(↓)

Combating xenophobia in Switzerland

~23% of the 8 million Swiss residents are of non-Swiss origin.

  • [I]mmigrants to Switzerland who live and work here, people who visit Switzerland as tourists or who seek asylum here, and people of a different skin colour are not accorded adequate protection from xenophobia and racism in certain areas of life. The two phenomena of xenophobia and racism are intertwined, because aggres-
    sive comments and behaviour towards such people often only arise from their assumed foreignness. As a consequence, xenophobic actions, subtle acts of exclusion and discrimination or unequal treatment affect both residents and foreign nationals. Report of the Federal Commission against Racism (FCR) on the second Universal Periodic Review of Switzerland, PDF, presented by the Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Berne, 26. March 2012

 

  • Hitlerismus has shown that it is possible to deny human dignity to a certain category of people and to kill them off like vermin. Furthermore, it has become apparent that in a modern society even majorities can be mobilized and a highly complicated societal mechanism can be instrumentalized to achieve this. Hence, human dignity does not exist. It, however, is valid. And only as long as it is valid and where it is valid, it also exists. When the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany calls human dignity »inalienable«, yet does not expressly leave it up to a democratic majority decision, then this is an attempt to erect a sacred taboo in a secular world.
    Rüdiger Safranski (*1945) German philosopher, author, Das Böse oder Das Drama der Freiheit [Evil or the Drama of Freedom], Carl-Hanser-Verlag, München, 1997, Fischer, 10. Taschenbuchauflage 1. Februar 1999

 

  • Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it. Our problems must be dealt with through part-
    nership
    ; progress must be shared. [Applause] Historic address to the Muslim world by Barack Obama (*1961) 44th US president, Remarks by the President on a New Beginning, Cairo University, Egypt, presented by Whitehouse.gov, Thursday, 4. June 2009

 

  • To expand freedom to more people, we cannot accept that freedom does not belong to all people. We cannot allow oppression, defined and justified by religion or tribe to replace that of ideology. We have a responsibility to address conditions everywhere that undermine the potential of boys and girls and men and women that sap human dignity
    and threaten global progress. Hillary Clinton (*1947) 67th United States Secretary of State under president Barack Obama, US senator for New York (2001-2009), wife of the 42nd US president Bill Clinton, Keynote Address at the Atlantic Council Gala Dinner, Adlon Hotel, Berlin, Germany, 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, 8. November 2009

 

(↓)

Ayn Rand's world view is void of the concept of reincarnation.

  • Since men are born tabula rasa, both cognitively and morally, a rational man re-
    gards strangers as innocent until proved guilty, and grants them that initial good
    will in the name of their human potential. After that, he judges them according to
    the moral character they have actualized. If he finds them guilty of major evils, his
    good will is replaced by contempt and moral condemnation. (If one values hu-
    man life, one cannot value its destroyers.
    ) If he finds them to be virtuous, he grants them personal, individual va-
    lue and appreciation, in proportion to their virtues. Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-American philosopher, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, The Virtue of Selfishness, "The Ethics of Emergencies", interviewed by Alvin Toffler (1928-2016) US American futurist, focused on digital revolution, communication revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity, writer,
    S. 71, 1962, New American Library, 1964

 

  • Pride [as a function of relative rank] goeth before a fall. Saying [international]
    • It was with unrivaled pride that we saw the world. We were somebody. Nazi SS officer, reminiscing about German military victories in the early years of World War II

 

Reference: en.Wikiquote entry Dignity

Literary quotes

  • It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English playwright, novelist, short story writer, secret service agent, Of Human Bondage, 1915

 

  • When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live – or at least try to live – the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with compo-
    sure. Mitchel David Albom (*1958) US American bestselling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, musician, radio and television broadcaster, cited in: Morrie Schwartz Quotes, presented by Tuesdays with Morrie

Quotes by David R. Hawkins

⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

Personal avowal

(↓)

Alternative source:

David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D, 50:47 minutes duration, posted 9. December 2012

  • People will do anything to get a moment of fame [glamor]. It just amazes me the extent that people will go 'to be somebody'. The narcissistic core of 'being some-
    body' is overwhelming at times. It is amazing what people will do to get a moment of the world's attention. I guess that would be the ego's dream that the whole world gets to know you're a somebody. I find that life is better the other way, being a nobody, being anonymous. Podcast audio interview with Dr. David R. Hawkins, Differentiating truth from falsehood – November 18th 2010, episode 331, presented by the US American web radio station podcast Theatre of the Mind, host Kelly Howell, aired 18. November 2010, minute 18:53, 50:47 minutes duration, posted 9. December 2012

 

Recommendation

  • Live your life with dignity. Audio interview with Dr. David R. Hawkins, presented by the suspended US American web radio station "Beyond the Ordinary", hosts Nancy Lorenz and Elena Young, air date unknown
⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

  • On examination, we'll see that power arises from meaning. It has to do with motive, and it has to do with principle. Power is always associated with that which supports the significance of life itself.
    ➤ It [power] appeals to that part of human nature that we call NOBLE – in contrast to force,
         which appeals to that we call CRASS.
    Power appeals to what uplifts, dignifies, and ennobles. Force must always be justified,
         whereas power requires no justification.
    ➤ Force is associated with the partial, power with the whole.
Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 8 "The Source of Power", S. 132, Hay House, Februar 2002

 

  • Not only did Gandhi bring the British Empire to its knees, he effectively brought the curtain down on the centuries-old drama of colonialism [LoC 175], and he did it by simply standing for a principle: the intrinsic dignity of man, and his right to freedom, sovereignty and self-determination. […] Gandhi believed that human rights aren't granted
    by any earthly power, but are ingrained in the nature of man himself because they are inherent in his creation.
    Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 10 "Power in Politics", S. 152,
    Hay House, February 2002

 

(↓)

Inspirited power ⇔ weakening force

 

  • [E]verything is always in the process of creation, it means that everything is an expression of Divinity, or it would not have the capacity to exist at all. The realization that everything which exists reflects the Divinity of Creation is why it is worthy of respect and reverence. This accounts for the reverence for the spirit within all living beings and nature, which is characteristic of many cultures. Dr. David R. Hawkins, The Eye of the I from Which Nothing is Hidden, chapter 1, S. 29, 3rd paragraph; Kindle Locations 374-380, S. 8, revised edition Veritas Publishing, 2002

 

 

 

(↓)

Inner inferiority has people projecting self-hatred on subgroups.

  • Racist hate groups, including anti-Semitic, anti-Black, and white supremacist groups have a long history in the United States, of which the Ku Klux Klan is the most flagrant example. They demonstrate a dualistic split in the psyche and the projection of self-hatred onto subgroups. This is also based on inner inferiority. People with adequate self-esteem have no need to hate others.
    Dr. David R. Hawkins, Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, chapter 11 "The Downside of Society", S. 182, 2005

 

(↓)

Honor, dignity, sanctity

  • We honor that which we esteem in others as well as ourselves. Out of this, one honors one's own humanity and that of others and ends up honoring all of life in all its expressions by resignation to Divine Will. With surrender of the ego, the spirit becomes aware of the sanctity of existence.
    Out of self-honor arise chilvary (cal. 465) and respect for countrymen as well as heritage and appreciation for the va-
    lor of true responsibility. From self-respect arises respect for the rights of others as well as responsibility for personal
    accountability. Honor is far beyond pride and is, at its very core humble, thankful, and grateful, out of which one sen-
    ses the divinity of Creation and the knowingness, which is expressed by the exclamation "Gloria In Excelsis Deo."
    Dr. David R. Hawkins, Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man, S. 224, 2008

 

 

 


 


 

 

  • [Paraphrased] The herd instinct suppresses the superego. If one person wants to lynch someone it's evil, but if a
    lot of people do, it's seen as okay.
    David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD, Sedona Seminar The Human Dilemma, 3 DVD set, 18. August 2007

Quotes by Evelin Lindner

Personal avowals

(↓)

Honor ⇔ dignity – fear ⇔ humiliation:

The age of honor started to be replaced by the age of dignity around 1757.

  • William Ian Miller informs us that "the earliest recorded use of to humiliate, mea-
    ning to mortify or to lower or to depress the dignity or self-respect of someone, does not occur until 1757." In other words, in the English-speaking world, humili-
    ation was not seen as hurtful until about 250 years ago. [...] For millennia, people around the world believed that it was normal and morally correct to have masters and underlings, and that masters were entitled to be treated as higher beings and underlings deserved to be shown "where they belonged." [...]
    The emergence of the modern meaning of the word humiliation (1757) co-occurs with a number of other transitions. The author of The Invention of the Self [1978], John O. Lyons, for example, analyzed travelers' descriptions of their experiences and found that around 1750 the authors began to insert themselves as subjects with a personal perspec-
    tive on what they observed. This change closely preceded the American Declaration of Independence (4 July 1776) and the French Revolution (4 August 1789), rallying points for the development of the human rights movement. [...] Religions such as Christianity and Islam teach ideals of equality. However, these ideals did not move to the forefront
    of Western consciousness until about 250 years ago. [...]
    The West was the first region to be impacted by [...] the second round of globalization, which brought about a new set
    of global realities. Those realities eroded
    • the old age of honor (with fear as defining negative emotion)
and gave way to
  • the new age of dignity (with humiliation as defining negative emotion).
Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and huma-
nities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author, Making Ene-
mies. Humiliation and International Conflict
, chapter 2 "Once the Cure, Now the Disease", S. 22-23, Praeger, 30. June 2006

 

  • Times of transitions are particularly difficult times. Paradigm shifts are painful. It is painful, for example, to over-
    come loss aversion or leave behind just world thinking. It is very hard for people who believe themselves to be good people (and that includes just about everybody) to accept that they have harmed themselves and others, even unin-
    tentionally. Both shame and humiliation are thorny issues; many choose self-justification instead of admitting to change.34
    Cognitive dissonance is one of the causes for discomfort when there is discrepancy between what we know or be-
    lieve and new information or interpretations. Traditional elites who feel entitled to supremacy resent being labeled
    oppressors, violently repressing shame when they lose superiority, while underlings are caught between self-dispa-
    raging shame and angry projections. Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdis-
    ciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation
    Studies
    (HumanDHS), author, Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security. Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs, chapter 5 "Humiliation Addiction: How Dangerous It Is", S. 70, Praeger, 26. February 2010

 

  • Interdependence connects two entities, ❍ and ❍, in a nondualistic way, ∞. Dualism, in contrast, means merging
    them into one entity, ❂, or separating them into two isolated entities, ❍|❍. Dualism means either separation or mer-
    ging; either agreement or disagreement; either one or two. Nondualism means separation and connection; agree-
    ment and disagreement; one and two. For successful pendulation, the right kind of distance is critical, for individuals
    as much as for society at large. For example, having a wide network of relatively weak social connections provides
    more individual autonomy than being embedded into one single tightly knit social context that allows only for mini-
    mal dissent. Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social
    sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author, Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security. Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs,
    chapter 6 "The Humiliation Antidote: How About the Audacity of Love", S. 76, Praeger, 26. February 2010

 

  • Since the past 10,000 years are closer to us than the 95% of our history we believe that the past 10,000 years describe us, how we are as humans. But the past 10,000 years is a kind of aberration. What we are is what we de-
    veloped there [in the 95% of peaceful human history (without any crushed skulls) in the first round of globalisation lasting 100,000-200,000 years]. It is extremely important to understand that 95% of our socialisation, of our gene development, was not like the last 5% or 1% of our history. The last percent was a kind of malign aberration, I
    would say. Video presentation by Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author, 2011 Lecture – Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad, part 1 of 2, sponsored by Faculty of Social Sciences (PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology), University Oslo UiO, minute 28:50, 45:27 minutes duration, recorded 12. Janu-
    ary 2011, posted 11. February 2011

 

  • A woman who is beaten would not be allowed to say, 'I feel humiliated as violation.' She would have to say, 'I feel hum-
    bled', the pro-social meaning of humiliation. 'I respect being beaten. This is what I deserve.' She would not have the right to go to duel against her husband who beats her. Only the husband, the man, would defend his honor in a duel-
    like manner. [...] Everybody had only one arm [in the malign period of human history lasting 10,000 years]. Both gen-
    ders
    ] were basically handicapped. Man did not learn about emotions. They had to be fearless to go to war, to die ear-
    ly. This crippled their emotions by default [as a result of] 10,000 years of socialisation. […] Women did not learn to
    lead. So today, if we want to do something different, women have to learn to lead and men have to learn to feel and
    to nurture. Video presentation by Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary
    scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author, 2011 Lecture – Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad, part 1 of 2, sponsored by Faculty of Social Sciences (PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology), University Oslo UiO, minute 38:30, 45:27 minutes duration, recorded 12. January
    2011, posted 11. February 2011

 

  • At the moment we have an indecent global village. We need a decent one.
    And there we have to work together as women and men now.
    • We had the maintenance and cleaning script for women in the past.
    • And we had the guarding and dominating/killing for men in the past.
Let's take the beneficial and constructive elements of each of these scripts – namely maintenance from the female
and guarding from the male – and let's use them together as men and women. Maintenance and guarding, this is the
script for the future, for One Global Village that is one inside.
Community sharing can create a dignified world – globegalization! It is in need of pro-active support from radical de-
mocracy! Video presentation by Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary
scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author, 2011 Lecture – Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad, part 2 of 2, sponsored by Faculty of Social Sciences (PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology), University Oslo UiO, minute 35:24 and 40:54, 49:13 minutes duration, recorded
12. January 2011, posted 11. February 2011

 

(↓)

Complex topic of feeling feelings

 

  • We simply intensify the adaptation we learned 10,000 years ago. We simply intensify the adaptation of domination. We intensify a solution that we learned and we don't recognize really that it's an unsustainable solution in the longterm. […] We have to think new. We have to find a new solution, a new adaptation. We have to think in circles, we have to think in the symbol, connecting, circling. […] Only when we really grasp that we are one [human] familiy on one planet then we have a chance because then the security dilemma is defined away and then the tragedy of the commons dilemma can be tackled together. […] Therefore globalisation – at the moment needs – to be humanized through egalisation, the manifestation of "dignity in equality". Video presentation by Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psy-
    chologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author, sponsored by Faculty of Social Sciences, PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology, University Oslo UiO, Oslo, Norway, Humiliation and Terrorism, part 1 of 2, sponsored by Faculty of Social Sciences, PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology, University Oslo, UiO, Oslo, Norway, minute 51:18, 1:11:30 duration, recorded 15. February 2012


Position Honor humiliation
Traditional
Dignity humiliation
Transitioning phase
SubalternsAccept subjugation. Sense of humiliation (real or imagined)
is no longer easily accepted.
Elites Eye for an eye policy, victory or
defeat, duel, combat, peace as submission
Constructive social change à la Mandela,
transcending the elite/underling dichotomy,
peace as Equal Dignity dialogue

 

(↓)

Since 10,000 years sadistic draw-down entitled imperialist societies continually overpowered "good examples".

  • By their nature agricultural societies are imperialist, they're based on draw-down. Civilization follows that same pattern over and over, where
    ➤ they conquer the region,
    ➤ they gut the colonies,
    ➤ they extract what they want,
    ➤ they leave the place a desert.
    That's being going on for 10,000 years. What that means is: for 10,000 years these invading, sadistic cultures of
    draw-down and entitlement have come into contact with other cultures that, many of which were egalitarian, peaceful,
    sustainable cultures. This is the pattern for 10,000 years. In all of that time, the living example of a culture that is ega-
    litarian and sustainable, has never once stopped the invaders. It has never once worked as a strategy. They've seen
    the good example. It does not change the invaders.
    History is literally the story of [those] invasions wiping out the nice people, […] [leaving] the sociopaths on
    top.
    We just need to really say this out loud. Personal example has never worked. We've gotta give this one up. There's too much at stake. Video presentation titled "Culture of Resistance" by Lierre Keith (*1964) US American outspoken feminist, food activist, radical environmentalist, writer, Deep Green Resistance – Strategy to Save the Planet, part 2 of 7, presen-
    ted by the US American organisation Deep Green Resistance, San Francisco, California, May 2011, YouTube film, minute 7:02-8:03,
    8:06 minutes duration, posted 11. August 2011

 

(↓)

Dynamics of genocide

 

Dynamics of humiliation hinder reality testing. Cycles of humiliation create a deeply polarized world, caught in biases such as reactive devaluation (which makes vulnerable to "divide and rule"): This is black (even though it is white), and if you do not share this belief with me, you are my enemy, because our enemies believe it is white!

  • In the United States there is an atmosphere of hatred which really reminded me that cycles of humiliation hinder reality testing. There is only humiliation going on. If you say socialism you are hated by one half. If you say capitalism you are hated by the other half. And nobody knows what socialism or capitalism really means. There is no reality testing, there is only humiliation going on. Video presentation by Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author, HumanDHS lecture 2013: Dignity and Humiliation: Norway and the Concept of likeverd, sponsored by the Faculty of Social Sciences, PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology, University Oslo UiO, Oslo, Norway, minute 25:40, 1:23:48 duration, recorded 23. January 2013, posted 8. February 2013

 

(↓)

Culture of domination: Male honor humiliation ⇔ female dignity humiliation

  • The proud male [of a dominator society] will act on honor humiliation which is completely different to dignity humiliation. Honor humiliation means if I am an aristocrat and you are an aristocrat and you humiliate my honor I have the right to duel with you. I defend my honor in duel. However, if this knight beat his wife she had no right to go to duel with her husband. She had to swallow it to be beaten. if the female had said 'I feel humiliated by being beaten,' she would have been knelled at. Video presentation by Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author, HumanDHS lecture 2013: Dignity and Humiliation: Norway and the Concept of likeverd, sponsored by the Faculty of Social Sciences, PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology, University Oslo UiO,
    Oslo, Norway, minute 50:14, 1:23:48 duration, recorded 23. January 2013, posted 8. February 2013

 

Quotes on human rights and human values

(↓)

Note:

Shy and insecure in the early part of her life, Eleanor Roosevelt found her voice as the co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Doing so, she became one of the most important women of the 20th century.

  • Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) US American First Lady (1933-1945), advocate for civil rights, supporter of her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal" policies, United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

 

(↓)

Note:

President Jiang did not approve of the second part of Robinson's reply.

 

  • Value is what people are willing to pay for.
    John Naisbitt (1929-2021) US American futurologist, living in Europe and China, author of Megatrends, 1982, cited in: AZ Quotes

 

Literary quotes

  • It is excellent to have a giant's strength;
    but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English actor, playwright, dramatist, lyricist, play Measure for Measure, II, ii, written in 1603/1604, 1623

Quotes on pride and shame ⇔ dignity

Personal avowal

 

  • It was with unrivaled pride that we saw the world. We were somebody.
    Nazi SS officer, reminiscing about German military victories in the early years of World War II, cited in: Blog article Rankism: The Poison that Destroys Relationships, presented by the US American liberal-oriented online newspaper Huffington Post, Robert Fuller, US American dignity researcher, 12. June 2012, updated 12. August 2012
Erdsphären
The Three Speres of Earth
Rene Descartes, Principia philosophiae, IV, 6, 1644
  • Dignity is oblivious of relative rank, whereas pride exults in out-ranking others.
    Dignity entails a shared sense of worth; pride, a sense of superiority; shame, a sense of inferiority.
    Dignity is a creature of mutuality and reciprocity; pride, a feature of domi-
    nant-subordinate relationships. Robert Fuller, US American dignity researcher, PDF Vocabulary for a Dignitarian Society, S. 2, ~2006

 

  • Then "true pride" is identified as the dignity that inheres in someone whose place in society is secure, and "false pride" is understood as the compen-
    satory self-inflation originating in the insecurity that invariably accompanies an assertion of relative superiority. Robert Fuller, dignity researcher, PDF Vocabulary for a Dignitarian Society, S. 2, ~2006

 

  • Pride is an artifact of a stratified society – one in which rank carries the right to marginalize, indignify, or exploit those of lower rank. The right to deny dignity, to non-citizens and to second-class citizens alike, is a resi-
    due of a predatory strategy, that, for millennia, has co-existed alongside a dignitarian strategy, but is now, in an epochal transformation, losing out to its dignitarian alternative. Robert Fuller, dignity researcher, PDF Vocabulary for a Dignitarian Society, S. 3, ~2006

True dignity

True dignity abides with him alone
Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,
can still suspect, and still revere himself
In lowliness of heart.

Source: ► William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English Romantic poet,
Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew Tree, written in 1795, first published in 1798

Learning about and introducing 'equal dignity culture' – paradigm shift

Ten interlinked ways to honor or violate human dignity – Donna Hicks

Hicks
Donna Hicks, Ph.D.
Dignity is an inalienable godgiven endowment located in the human soul.
Dignity is an inborn, inherent value, a priceless and irreplacable worth of
    human beings.
Dignity is a given by sheer existence/being,
    whereas respect is earned by deeds.
Dignity is relational on three levels: 1) self, 2) others, 3) greater arenas15.
⚑ Treating others with dignity is a human imperative.
⚑ Though vulnerable, dignity remains intact and can never be removed from
    the man or woman who is in charge of their dignity.
⚑ Neuroscientific FMRi research at UCLA (2004-present)[*] has incontrovertibly
   proven that physical injuries and dignity violations overlap. Acknowledged
   physical pain and social pain (discredited by "Get over this touchy feely stuff") are
    similarly registered, stockpiled and not differentiated by the limbic system/amygdala.

⚑ Assaulted and wounded human dignity requires attendance and healing.
Dignity dialogues, though slow work requiring a "sacred moment", can
    effectively solve deep-seated conflicts.

 

Ten essential cluster elements of dignity and indignities
Enhancing human relationships by foregoing the temptations to violate dignity
༺༻Dignity featureDignitarian behavior
1.Acceptance of identity Approach people as neither inferior nor superior to you.
Give others the freedom to express their authentic selves without fear of being negatively judged.
Assume others have integrity. Interact without prejudice or bias, accepting how race, religion, gender, class, sexual orientation, age, disability, are at the core of their identities.
2.Acknowledgment Give people your full attention by listening, hearing, validating and responding to their concerns and what they have been through.
3.Inclusion Make others feel that they belong at all levels of relationship
(family, community, organization, nation).
Note[*]: Exclusion is one of the most painful violations of dignity.
3.Safety·Sacred·moment Put people at ease at two levels: physically, where they feel free of bodily harm; and psychologically, where they feel free of concern about being shamed or humiliated, that they feel free to speak without fear of retribution.Asking people to let go of their self-preservation instinct
is a high call.
5.Recognition Validate others for their talents, hard work, thoughtfulness, and help.
Be generous with praise; give credit to others for their contributions, ideas and experience.
6.Fairness Treat people justly, with equality, and in an evenhanded way, according to agreed upon laws and rules – both implicit and explicit.
7.Benefit of the doubt Practice bias reduction. Withhold judgement of others. Treat people as trustworthy.
Start with the premise that others have good motives and are acting with integrity.
8.Understanding Believe that what others think matters.
Give them the chance to explain their perspectives, express their points of view. Actively listen in order to understand them.
Note: Learning to listen while on a mission to save the poor
9.Independence Empower people to act on their own behalf so that they feel in control of their lives and experience a sense of hope and possibility.
10.Accountability Take responsibility for your actions. If you have violated the dignity of another, apologize. Make a commitment to change hurtful behaviors.Note: Extending genuine apologies to reestablish trust
Sources featuring Donna Hicks, Ph.D., US American psychologist, facilitator during international conflicts, associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, public educator, author
Short summary The Ten Essential Elements of Dignity, presented by the keda Center, 2011
Article How to Resolve Conflict with Dignity, presented by the publication Arts Fwd, John McCann, guest contributor, 12. December 2012
Book Dignity. Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict, Yale University Press, 6. September 2011, reprint edition 29. January 2013
Book Leading with Dignity. How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People, Yale University Press, 21. August 2018
Media sources on neuroscientific research on social pain [*]
Study by Geoff MacDonald, Mark R. Leary, Why Does Social Exclusion Hurt? The Relationship Between Social and Physical Pain, PDF,
     presented by the bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal Psychological Bulletin, volume 131, issue 2, S. 202-223, 2005
Study by Naomi Eisenberger, Ph.D., US American social psychologist, psychobiologist, Why Rejection Hurts: What Social Neuroscience
     Has Revealed About the Brain’s Response to Social Rejection
, presented by the Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory,
     University of Los Angeles, UCLA, chapter 39, PDF, 19. January 2011, PDF issued 31. May 2005
Article by Naomi Eisenberger, Ph.D., US American social psychologist, psychobiologist, Why Rejection Hurts, presented by the
     nonprofit online magazine Edge, 6. July 2011
Video/transcript featuring Naomi Eisenberger, Ph.D., US American social psychologist, psychobiologist, Social Pain. A Conversation With
     Naomi Eisenberger
, presented by the nonprofit online magazine Edge, 10. September 2014
► ► Edge video Social Pain, recorded by amara.org, YouTube film, 29:22 minutes duration, posted 11. September 2014
Video on Social Pain and Physical Pain, YouTube film, 4:38 minutes duration, posted 25. April 2010
Social rejection and physical pain on the human brain are found to be very similar.
Video presentation by Matthew Lieberman, Ph.D., US American professor and social cognitive neuroscience lab director, department of
     psychology, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, UCLA, The social brain and its superpowers, presented by TEDx St. Louis Talks,
      Missouri, recorded 19. September 2013, YouTube film, 17:58 minutes duration, posted 7. October 2013
The human kryptonite keeps ignoring the importance of inherent social superpowers and social intuition.
See also: ► Respect and ► Trust and ► Vulnerability and ► Relationship and
Listening and ► Humiliation and ► Conflict and ► Principle 3:1
Descriptions of dignity – dignitas and humanitas
Dignity outweighs wealth, charity, and markets.
Extending genuine apologies to reestablish trust
Audio and video links – Donna Hicks

Three historic periods of human development including two normative turning points – Evelin Lindner

From metahistory to modern history: Three periods of human development
༺༻TimelineFocus of periodSociety
type
EmotionLegendPercentage of historyQuality of period
I.200,000-
100,000
years ago16

Lunar
age
"Pristine Pride"

ROAMING
Mobile following food
Roamers and migrators
Hunting-gathering
Trust in abundance

Violence not practiced
Nature and people are regarded as relatives. Words and tools are seen as connections. Living in small groups; egalitarian social structures; Goddess figurines and cave painting found, no archeological signs of systematic war found95-99% Benign
Egalitarian


No systemic wars
II.12,000-
10,000
years ago
Neolithic

Solar
age
"Ranked Honor"

DOMINATION
Local agriculture
Dominator societies
Fragmented
Fear
Indebtedness
Shame

Violence favored
Fragmentation, establishing gradients of power consisting of dominators/masters and underlings; violence, coercion, humiliation applied to counter the security dilemma, objectification of nature and people seen as tools as objects of utility. Agriculture and pastoralism became dominant. Nomadic pastoralists (i.e. Mongols, Somalis) became raiders.
One-armed people were born unequal in dignity and human rights. Men did not learn to feel, women did not learn to lead.
1-5% Malign aberration
Hierarchical


Systemic wars
III.300-250
years ago

Stellar
age
"Equal Dignity"

ONE FAMILY
Global knowledge
Partnership societies
Global Knowledge Society17
Humiliation18
Trust in egalisation19

Nonviolent approach
Dignifying of nature and humankind. All people are born equal in dignity and human rights.
Women are learning to lead, men are learning to feel and to nurture.
./. Benign
Egalitarian

 

Two rounds of globalisation marked by two turning points in human history
༺༻TimelineEnd of round of globalisationAdaptation requiring
1.10,000-12,000
years ago
By circumscription
Scarcity of land
Establishing violent unequal dominator societies
2.300 years ago
1757
By circumscription
Scarcity of resources:
Water, air, oil, minerals, money
Moving into equal caring eco-societies

 

Timeline
DatePeriods – Event Dignity statusTrend
200 000 years agoRoaming and migrating one ample EarthEquality
Pristine pride
Benign
➣ 10 000 years ago
    Neolithic
Domination in a fragmented binary system Inequality
Ranked honor
Malign
➣ 1757EgalizationReturn of equalityBenign
1948The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 1: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
Human rightsBenign
➣ 1980Overuse of global resources  Scarcity
➣ 1989End of the Cold War – One World Benign
➣ 2008Collapse of market triumphalism  Alert
Past 2008 Window of opportunity (open for ~50-70 years) to glide into an era ofEqual dignityBenign

 

During the past millennia honor in the dominator Society meant rising from humiliation. The past 5% of human history was marked by aiming for victory through competing for domination. Dignity as solidarity and care emerged both in the years 1757 and 1948. However, during the following decades dignity and nature were again being sold out for new victo-
ries. Dignity is seen as autonomy and profit resulting in evermore humiliation.

A woman who is beaten would not be allowed to say, 'I feel humiliated as violation.' She would have to say, 'I feel humbled', the pro-social meaning of humiliation. 'I respect being beaten. This is what I deserve.' She would not have the right to go to duel against her husband who beats her. Only the husband, the man, would defend his honor in a duel-like manner. [...] Everybody had only one arm [in the malign period of human history lasting 10,000 years]. Both [genders] were basically handicapped. Man did not learn about emotions. They had to be fearless to go to war, to die early. This crippled their emotions by default [as a result of] 10,000 years of socialisation. […] Women did not learn to lead. So today, if we want to do something different, women have to learn to lead and men have to learn to feel and to nurture.  Video presentation by Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author, 2011 Lecture – Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Cross-
road
, part 1 of 2, sponsored by the Faculty of Social Sciences (PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology), University Oslo UiO, recorded 12. January 2011, minute 38:30, 45:27 minutes, posted 11. February 2011


Since the past 10,000 years are closer to us then the 95% of our history we believe that the past 10,000 years describe us, how we are as humans. But the past 10,000 years is a kind of aberration. What we are is what we developed there [in the 95% of peaceful human history (without and crushed skulls) lasting 100,000-200,000 years, the first round of globalisation]. To understand that 95% of our socialisation, of our gene development, was not like the last 5% or 1% of our history. The last percent was a kind of malign aberration.
Video presentation by Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author, 2011 Lecture – Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Cross-
road
, part 1 of 2, sponsored by the Faculty of Social Sciences (PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology), University Oslo UiO, minute 28:50, 45:27 minutes, recorded 12. January 2011, posted 11. February 2011


By their nature agricultural societies are imperialist, they're based on draw-down. Civilization follows that same pattern over and over, where
➤ they conquer the region,
➤ they gut the colonies,
➤ they extract what they want,
➤ they leave the place a desert.
That's being going on for 10,000 years. What that means is: for 10,000 years these invading, sadistic cultures of draw-down and entitle-
ment have come into contact with other cultures that, many of which were egalitarian, peaceful, sustainable cultures. This is the pattern for 10,000 years. In all of that time, the living example of a culture that is egalitarian and sustainable, has never once stopped the invaders. It has never once worked as a strategy. They've seen the good example. It does not change the invaders.
History is literally the story of [those] invasions wiping out the nice people, […] [leaving] the sociopaths on top. We just need to really say this out loud. Personal example has never worked. We've gotta give this one up. There's too much at stake.
Video presentation titled "Culture of Resistance" by Lierre Keith (*1964) US American outspoken feminist, food activist, radical environmentalist, writer, Deep Green
Resistance – Strategy to Save the Planet
, part 2 of 7, presented by the US American organisation Deep Green Resistance'', San Francisco, California, May 2011,
YouTube film, minute 7:02-8:03, 8:06 minutes duration, posted 11. August 2011
Sources – Video presentations featuring Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author, sponsored by the Faculty of Social Sciences, PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology, University Oslo UiO, Oslo, Norway
2011 Lecture – Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad, part 1 of 2, minute 28:50, 45:27 minutes, recorded 12. January 2011,
     posted 11. February 2011
HumanDHS lecture 2013: Dignity and Humiliation: Norway and the Concept of likeverd, 1:23:48 duration, recorded 8. February 2013
► Book: William L. Ury, US American anthropologist, negotiation and mediation specialist, co-founder of "Program on Negotiation", Harvard
     University, director of the "Project on Preventing War", Harvard University, speaker, author, Getting to Peace, Viking Adult,
     27. September 1999
References:
► Uncompleted video conversation/documentary featuring the present misunderstanding of neolithic people by Robert Lawlor (*1938)
     US American mythographer, symbologist, translator, metaphysical author, sponsored by Jay Weidner SacredMysteries.com (*1953)
     US American film producer, scholar on hermetic and alchemical traditions, author, recorded by Sacred Mysteries TV in 1998, YouTube film
     ♦◊♦ Positive Primitive, part 1 of 3, 14:23 minutes duration, posted 23. February 2011
     ♦◊♦ Positive Primitive, part 2 of 3, 12:53 minutes duration, posted 4. March 2012
     ♦◊♦ Positive Primitive, part 2 of 3, 11:22 minutes duration, posted 4. March 2012

 

See also:
From pride ⇒ ranked honor ⇒ dignity
Macrohistoric timetable of evolution – Goddess vs. Alphabet (right and left brain hemispheres) – Leonard Shlain
Historic cycles – From the love of domination to the power of love – Anodea Judith
Four Great Turnings during human history – Eileen Workman
Great reconciliation – Macrovision by Peter Gold
Dynamics of power in setting up human civilization – Keith Chandler
Key phrases describing the hyperdimensional cultural psychosis spanning ages
Personality types, parenting styles, historical-cultural-political manifestations – Lloyd deMause
Correlating the right hemisphere with the left hemisphere – Iain McGilchrist
Downward evolution from dignity ⇒ empathy ⇒ love ⇒ truth – Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell
Current trend – Shifting from PUSH mode to PULL mode
See also: ► Paradigm shift and ► History

Shifting paradigms from domination to partnership – Evelin Lindner

Transitioning from domination to partnership – unequal dignity to equal dignity
Changing consensus and mindset reflected in language patterns
Topic Cultural consensus
·Malign·fractured·domination·systems

10,000 year period (outphasing)
Cultural consensus
∞·Benign·egalitarian·approach

Activated for 300-250 years
DependenceDependence ⇔ independenceInterdependence
Humiliation
Degrading
Pro-social action/attitude
Duty placed in the hands of "masters"
Antisocial action/attitude
Violation of human dignity/human rights
Humiliating pedagogy"Breaking the will of the child"
See Alice Miller
Poisonous pedagogy, strict father model of parenting, child abuse, bullying20
Humiliating
wife beating
Domestic chastisement is alpha male's duty.
See Mahatma Gandhi until ~1925
Domestic violence, trauma
See Mahatma Gandhi after ~192521
Female genital cutting FGCTraditional cultural customCultural violence, harmful traditional practice
Honor code Honor killing: Raped daughters were force-married
to the rapist or killed to restore the family's honor.
Honor war: The United States in war with Iraq after 9/11
Cultural rape myths exposed22; Raped women live and receive therapy. Rapists are prosecuted.
Public humiliation Adulteresses were stoned to death by the public.
Super alpha emperor Nero exposed Christians
to lions in a public arena.23
Adultery is not legally prosecuted.
See Jesus
No more public executions of minorities.
Fragmented
empire building
Segregation
Protection of "our" identity
Apartheit, colonialism, racism
Cowed underlingsPeace within
See North Korea
Structural violence
See Johan Galtung
War creed If you want peace, prepare for war.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (~400 AD)
Latin author, De Re Militari
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
A. J. Muste (1885-1967) [attributed to Mahatma Gandhi], presented by The New York Times, 16. November 1967
Armed conflict(Final) Solution of the security dilemma,
Redeeming national honor – 
See Adolf Hitler
War, genocide, terrorism
See Nazi-Germany, Rwanda
Armed conflict"War on terror", "Fog of war"
See G.W. Bush
Policing of terrorist acts and transparency
Military securityRegional or national integration-cohesion-harmony
Teaching lessons to "enemy" nations
See G.W. Bush following honor code
Global integration-cohesion-harmony, Global viillage, path to insecurity, abuse
RealpolitikTraditional national military security
Asylum
New Realpolitik: global human security
Global passport
Satyagraha approach
Firm truth∞love
Meek appeasement
See Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Adolf Hitler, G.W. Bush
Waging good conflict
See Nelson Mandela, Truth and reconciliation
Economy
Predatory capitalism
Maximising profit as realistic utilitarianism
See Ayn Rand, M. Friedman,
A. Greenspan
Greed, Homo economicus, 'Unlimited Growth' agenda, utopian unsustainable delusion
See Banking crisis 2007-2008
Economy
Predatory capitalism
Legalized speculation on food stuff
Murder by starvation
See Jean Ziegler, Empire of Shame
 
Sources featuring video presentations by Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), sponsored by Faculty of Social Sciences, PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology, University Oslo UiO, Oslo, Norway
2011 Lecture – Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad, part 2 of 2, minute 0:00-4:05, 45:27 minutes, recorded 12. January 2011,
     posted 11. February 2011
Humiliation and Terrorism, part 1 of 2, sponsored by Faculty of Social Sciences, PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology, University Oslo
     UiO, Oslo, Norway, minute 35:04, 1:11:30 duration, recorded 15. February 2012
See also:
Domination system ⇔ partnership system – Riane Eisler
Macrohistoric timetable of evolution: Goddess ⇔ Alphabet ♦ Images ⇔ Writing ♦ Right ⇔ left brain hemispheres
Correlating the right hemisphere with the left hemisphere – Iain McGilchrist
Transforming rankist rape culture into digntiarian consent culture
Two opposed American dreams – Charles Moore

Communication styles in traditional patriarchy ⇔ equal dignity society

Two different communication styles
      Traditional paradigm     
     Left brained     
      Dignity equality paradigm     
     Right brained     
Promoter
Confrontational debate
► in media as it 'sells',
► in politics as it 'wins elections',
► in academia 'for clarity's sake'
Socratic dialogueSocrates
I-It monologueI-Thou dialogueMartin Buber
I and Thou, 1923
1) Shared monologueNice talk
2) Skillful discussionFierce discussion
3) Generative dialogue
4) Reflective dialogue24
William Isaacs, Ph.D.
Otto Scharmer
1) DownloadingNice talk, politeness
2) DebateTough talking
3) DialogueInquiry
4) Collective creativityPresencing, flow25
Otto Scharmer26
Verdict thinkingLet-it-flow thinkingSeymour Mike Miller
Separate knowingConnected knowingMary Belenky
Women's development theory
Stored explicit knowledgeFlowing tacit knowledge /unexpected encounters27John Hagel III28
 Bohmian Dialogue29David Bohm
 Deliberate discourseAristotle
 Public deliberationJürgen Habermas
 Interreligious/intercultural Deep Dialogue 30Leonard Swidler
 Communicating effectivelyDavid D. Burns, Ph.D.
 PersuasionMorton Deutsch
 Listening into voiceLinda M. Hartling, Ph.D.
 Human flourishingMartha Nussbaum
Amartya Kumar Sen, CH
 Grappling-nudging dialogueDr. Inga Bostad
Jonas Gahr Store
Source:
► Video presentation by Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social
     sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author,
     Humiliation and Terrorism, part 1 of 2, sponsored by the Faculty of Social Sciences, PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology, University
     Oslo, UiO, Oslo, Norway, minute 40:28, 1:11:30 duration, recorded 15. February 2012
See also:
Dialogue and ► Communication styles and ► Current trend – Shifting from PUSH mode to PULL mode
Enhancing collective intelligence by social perceptiveness (EI) and equal participation
Crisis response – four dimensions of Systems Change – Otto Scharmer

 

Image Presencing and the Art of Conversation, presented by Presencing Institute, undated Bild


Transitioning from unequal worth and rights to equal worth and rights

Unequal worth and rights ⇔ Equal worth and rights
༺༻ Transition from equal rights to
equal dignity–cohesion to cohesion
Pitfalls of transitioning to
global egalitarian [dignitarian] relations
1.Unequal rights
Ranked honor cohesion (in patriarchy)
Equal worth roaming plenty of free land
200,000 years in the pre-neolithic world
2.Equal rights
Ruthless individualism resulting in a lack of cohesion
Unequal worth in a fragmented world
10,000 years, starting in the neolithic
3.Equal dignity [Likeverd]
∞ Cohesion as mutuality
(in interdependency)
Equal worth in ONE interdependent World
Since the end of the Cold War, 90ties
Double standards, genocide, terrorism, abuse of
the global power vacuum
See also: ► Equality

Learning curve in the 20th century – Robert Fuller

Patriarchy is waning.    ✿    Dignitarian ways are rising.
Traditonal rankist-dominating structures in 20th century        Evidence of change end of the 20th century       
Imperial powers believed themselves superior to the peoples they colonized and exploited.Imperialism yielded to decolonization.
The British, French, and others withdrew from Asia and Africa.
Imperial designs of the Germans, Italians, and Japanese – intoxicated with their presumed ethnic superiority – led to the utter destruction of these would-be conquerors.
The collapse of the Soviet Empire in the final decade of the century punctuated the end of empire.
The doctrine of White Supremacy took many forms,
including Jim Crow and Apartheid.
White Supremacy has become indefensible;
the N-word unspeakable.
Gentiles deemed Jews an inferior race. 
Ethnocentrism was the norm.Environmental protection and animal rights
are gathering support.
The rich looked down their noses at the poor. 
Male supremacy and patriarchy were all but universal.Male supremacy and patriarchy are in retreat.
Dominion over the Earth was defended as a God-given right. 
Co-religionists typically believed their faith superior to others. 
Heterosexuals regarded their moral superiority
as self-evident.
Homosexuality came to be seen as inborn,
like heterosexuality.31
People with physical or mental disabilities were stigmatized.Disabilities were de-stigmatized and people with disabilities laid claim to equal dignity.
Native-born citizens felt superior to immigrants, and earlier immigrants felt superior to later arrivals. 
Traditional hierarchies of class and caste persisted.
White collar workers looked down on blue.
By century's end, reflexive acceptance of entitlement and authority was out. Public skepticism, if not cynicism, toward anyone or any nation pretending to superiority was the new norm.
The academic world both mirrored and reinforced these valuations. Intelligence tests were regarded as certifying mental superiority and were used to justify consigning low-scorers to low-status jobs. 
Source: ► Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president,
dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, The Most Important Thing People Learned in the 20th Century,
presented by the US American bimonthly magazine Psychology Today, 8. July 2013

Four systemic practices of humiliation

Violations against human honor/shame/status ⇔ human dignity in equality/human rights
༺༻Type of
humiliation
Legend Honor humiliation Dignity humiliation
1.Conquest Strong power reduces the relative autonomy of rivals, previously regarded as equals, and forces them into a position of long-term subordination. Creation of hierarchy or addition of a new upper tier within a hierarchical order. X 
2.Relegation An individual or group is forcefully pushed downward within an existing status hierarchy. X 
3.Reinforcement Routine abuse of those less powerful in order to maintain the induced meme of their inferiority. X 
4.Exclusion An individual or group is forcefully ejected from society, for instance through banishment, exile, or physical extermination. X X
Adapted from source: ► Article by Dennis R. Smith, Ph.D., British sociologist, Organisations and Humiliation. Looking Beyond Elias, presented by the peer-reviewed academic journal Organization, issue 8, No. 3, S. 543, 2001
See also: ► Humiliation and ► Principle 3:1 and ► Trauma and ► Shame

Y

...

 

Links on Human dignity and Human rights / Menschenwürde

Literature

Almost every modern social problem – ill-health, violence, lack of community life, teen pregnancy, mental illness – is more likely to occur in a less-equal society. This is why US America, by most measures the richest country on earth, has per capita shorter average lifespan, more cases of
mental illness, more obesity, and more of its citizens in prison than any other developed nation.

Englisch/German

Literature – Robert W. Fuller

Books by Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author
 Co-authorBook titlePublisherRelease date
breakingranks.net Somebodies and Nobodies. Overcoming the Abuse of RankNew Society Publishers2003 2nd edition
1. April 2004
breakingranks.net All Rise. Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of DignityBerrett-Koehler Publishers25. May 2006
Dr. Pamela GerloffDignity for All. How to Create a World Without RankismBerrett-Koehler Publishers1. June 2008
 From Genome to Wenome. The Key to Universal Dignity, 26 pagesAmazon Digital Services(Kindle Ebook)
30. July 2013
 Religion and Science. A Beautiful Friendship?, 126 pagesCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Amazon Digital Services
6. September 2012
(Kindle Ebook)
17. August 2012
 The Rowan Tree. A NovelCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform12. January 2013
 The Theory of EverybodyCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, paperback6. August 2015

Literature – Evelin Gerda Lindner

Books by Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author
                 Book title                 PublisherRelease date
Making Enemies. Humiliation and International ConflictPraeger30. June 2006
Emotion and Conflict.
How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict
Praeger1st edition
20. March 2009
Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security.
Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs
Praeger26. February 2010
A Dignity Economy.
Creating an Economy that Serves Human Dignity and Preserves Our Planet
Dignity Press28. December 2011
Honor, Humiliation, and Terror. An Explosive Mix – And How We Can Defuse It with DignityDignity Press4. July 2017
                 Article title                 Publishing organRelease date
Were Ordinary Germans Hitler's 'Willing Executioners'? Or Were They Victims of Humiliating Seduction and Abandonment? The Case of Germany and SomaliaIDEA ISSN: 1523-1712
volume 5, issue 1
11. December 2000
Humiliation in a Globalizing World: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force?Social Science Research Network (SSRN)18 February 2005 
[*] In Times of Globalization and Human Rights: Does Humiliation Become the Most Disruptive Force?, PDF
"Feelings of humiliation are the nuclear bomb of the emotions."
Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies,
volume 1, issue 1
1. March 2007

Literature (German)

Englisch/German


External weblinks (engl.)




The Gini index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income in a country.' The index is calculated from the Lorenz curve,
in which cumulative family income is plotted against the number of families arranged from the poorest to the richest.

Reflecting the value of excellence and dignity

Audio and video links

Elliott conducted a widely known classroom experiment to exemplify Racism "Blu-eyed vs. brown-eyed", Iowa, 1968

Reflecting the origin of Human Rights

The death of the female student Neda Soltan (26) attending a protest march in Tehran after Iranian elections on the streets became a stand-out image worldwide. Dr. Arash Hejazi, studying in England, holding up human rights tried to rescue Neda's life. Giving his testimony as an eye-
witness on BBC will put his life in jeopardy.

Note: Neda Soltan is alive and went into exile in Germany due to persecution in Iran.

Human trafficking: 27 million are in slavery in modern times. Ending slavery cast 10.8 billion dollars.

90-year-old entertainment legend Mickey Rooney shared in an emotional testimony that he "suffered silently" for years due to elder abuse and needed courage and help to speak up.

Explaining the "social business" model – addressing social issues through entrepreneurship

Effectively dealing with irksome or frustrating people

Dignified approach even toward the most violent prisoners: "None are good, but all are sacred."


Linkless media offering

Audio and video links – Robert W. Fuller

Audios and videos by Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author
TypeOfferingTitle ♦ Sponsor ♦ LocationDurationRelease date
YouTube videosPlaylist
interviews
Presentation
Dignity For All  
AudioRadio interviewPresented by the listener-funded Californian radio station KPFA, Berkeley, California,
Introduction – What is Rankism?, part 1
Somebodies and Nobodies, part 2
Recognizing Rankism/Global Affairs, part 3
Caller 1 – Patriarchal Society, part 4
Caller 2 – Rankism vs. Classism, part 5
Opposing Rankism/Education/PCness, part 6
Seeking Recognition, part 7
Caller 3 – Confronting Rankism, part 8
Rankism on the Defensive, part 9
Callers 4 and 5 – Why do we Abuse Power?, part 10
.
323K
318K
246K
89K
84K
263K
205K
199K
302K
342K
8. May 2000
VideoInterviewSomebodies and Nobodies, presented by Cal Poly Tech University Pomona, California, Hot Talk, host Saul Landau, US American journalist, filmmaker, commentator, professor emeritus28:07 minutesEnd 2002
Deleted videoInterviewTalk to America, Washington D.C., presented by breakingranks.net, host Mary Tillotson
Bill Clinton regrets most to have missed to stop the Rwandan genocide by military intervention.
George H. W. Bush's decision to send troops to Somalia ended the famine in the late 80ties/early 90ties and saved 0.5-1 million lives.
After 4 years of indecision NATO and US troops stopped the genocide in Bosnia.
 7. April 2003
VideoPresentationDignitarian Society: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank, 57th Annual Conference on World Affairs, sponsored by The University of Colorado at Boulder, moderator John Steiner, Thomas Lofstrom / ECS, UMC Center Ballroom
Disempowering rank / power differences are: anti-semitism, racism, sexism, ageism, ablebodism, homophobia
1:59:575. April 2005
YouTube videoPresentationPatient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future, SALT talk, sponsored by The Long Now Foundation, Fort Mason Conference Center, San Francisco61:31 minutes~August 2005
25. April 2011
Deleted Google audioInterviewRank and Dignity, presented by the US American web radio station KQED, host
Michael Krasny ––  "Rankism" and the politics of dignity
51:28 minutes18. July 2006
YouTube videoPresentationMedia Watch: Robert Fuller – Rankism, presented by Linkmedia
Inspecting Don Imus' expulsion from TV show
4:34 minutes17. April 2007
Video / audioTV interviewRobert Fuller: Politics of Dignity, episode #15210, presented by the satellite television channel University of California Television (UCTV), UC Santa Barbara, host Thomas Scheff, US American professor and his students, UCSB, Santa Barbara –– MP3 Politics of Dignity55:31 minutes Recorded 11. March 2008
Posted 20. October 2008
Audio
Removed Real Audio
Radio interviewRankism: The Unethical Response, New York Society for Ethical Culture, presented by the US American WBAI broadcast, Ethics on the Air, hosts Andra Miller and Dr. Phyllis Harrison-Ross~60 minutes28. March 2008
YouTube videoInterviewRobert W. Fuller On Obama's Race Speech, presented by the University of California (#15210), Santa Barbara, host Thomas Scheff, US American professor emeritus, UCSB10:01 minutes Recorded
May 2008
Posted 13. July 2008
AudioInterviewToward a Dignitarian World, presented by the US American radio station New Dimensions, program #3271, host Michael Toms60 minutes11. August 2008
AudioInterviewPolitics of Dignity, presented by "Great speeches and interviews", MP355:25 minutes17. January 2009
YouTube videoPresentationThe Dignity Revolution, UC-Berkeley, presented by TEDx Berkeley Talks19:41 minutes Aired 19. February 2011
Posted 23. March 2011
YouTube videoPresentationSomebodies and Nobodies, presented by TEDxMSJHS Talks, Mission San Jose High School21:35 minutes25. August 2012
AudioInterviewRobert Fuller on Rankism and Dignitarianism, presented by The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show, host Rob Kall, US American radio host61:00 minutes21. August 2013
YouTube videoInterviewO World Project Interview – Dr. Robert Works Fuller, presented by the Canadian TV media outlet O World Project, producer and host Randall Melnyk, Vancouver44:39 minutes26. February 2014
YouTube videoPresentationOvercoming Rankism and Creating a Culture of Dignity, presented by University of Maryland, "Rise Above Isms Week"27:57 minutes22. October 2014
AudioInterviewBob Fuller x Youngest US University President x Rankism, presented by The Jake Sasseville Show, host Jake Sasseville (*1985) US American media propietor, television host, producer, writer46:51 minutes4. February 2015
YouTube videoInterviewDr. Robert W. Fuller, presented by Dhaka-based TV station NTV, Frankly Speaking, Bangladesh, host Zahirul Alam24:57 minutes14. June 2015

Audio and video links – Donna Hicks

Audios and videos by Donna Hicks, Ph.D., US American psychologist, facilitator during international conflicts, associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, public educator, author
TypeOfferingTitleSponsor ♦ LocationDurationRelease date
YouTube videoPanel openingOpening: "Dignity and Conflict Transformation"Ivies and the Military: Toward Reconciliation Conference, Panel 1, 3.-4. April 2009, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts9:4123. April 2009
YouTube videoPresentationDeclare DignityStormont, Northern Ireland, 28. March 201319:394. April 2013
YouTube videoPanel contributionBuilding trust: the role of dignityFirst International Colloquium "Improving society from ethical reflection" by IECO – Improving society from ethical reflection, hosted by the Real Colegio Complutense (RCC), Harvard University, 4. April11:0922. May 2013
YouTube videoPresentation#Peacemakers2014 – Dr. Donna HicksPeacemakers 2014, sponsored by Koç University, Istambul, Turkey, 24.-27. June 201450:5619. August 2014
YouTube videoPresentationThird Conference on Reconciliation & Change: The Importance of Dignity"Third Conference by the Cuba Study Group's Reconciliation Project, in partnership with Beyond Conflict", sponsored by Florida International University, hosted by Miami-Dade College50:5928. September 2014
YouTube videoInterview snippetDonna Hicks – The Role of Leadership in Fostering Cultures of DignityIkeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue, Cambridge, Massachussetts4:185. January 2015
YouTube videoInterview snippetExploring the Meaning of DignityIkeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue, Cambridge, Massachussetts3:325. January 2015
YouTube videoInterview snippetDignity and Trust in the WorkplaceIkeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue, Cambridge, Massachussetts3:425. January 2015
YouTube videoPanel contributionThe role of dignity in the development of trust and ethically healthy organizationsHarvard University, moderator William English17:0429. April 2015
YouTube videoPresentationDonna Hicks: Entender el conflicto en la empresaFundación Universidad-Empresa de la Universitat de València (ADEIT), Valencia, Spain59:5813. October 2015
YouTube videoSpoken contributionDignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving ConflictThe Brainwaves Video Anthology, Boston, Massachussetts7:5325. September 2017
AudioInterviewLeading with Dignity with Dr. Donna HicksCultural Brilliance Radio: The DNA of Organizational Excellence, host Claudette Rowley55:1824. March 2017
YouTube videoPanel contributionWhat is missing in our education of future leaders?Fifth International Colloquium Educating Millennials for Ethical Leadership and Trust by IECO – Improving society from ethical reflection, hosted by the Real Colegio Complutense (RCC), Harvard University, 23. March 20178:011. May 2017
YouTube videoPresentationDonna Hicks – Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving ConflictsThe Brainwaves Video Anthology 7:5325. September 2017
YouTube videoPanel contributionLeading with dignity humanizes business organizations – Donna HicksHarvard University, IECO – RCC – AAI12:158. May 2018
YouTube videoPanel contributionBuilding Trust Through Meaningful Work – Donna HicksAPB Speakers12:2221. August 2018
YouTube videoInterview snippetThe Meaning of Dignity – Donna HicksAPB Speakers3:2321. August 2018
Audio
YouTube video
InterviewLeading with Dignity with Dr. Donna Hicks – #116The Remarkable Leadership Podcast, host Kevin Eikenberry35:1829. August 2018
YouTube videoInterviewDonna Hicks – Leading with Dignity – Lunch and LearnHumanistic Management Association (IHMA)1:02:4027. April 2018
YouTube videoInterviewDignity: Why it Matters More than EverGlobal Dignity, host Cynthia Guyer of GD1:01:054. Mar 2021
5. Mar 2021
See also: ► Ten interlinked ways to honor or violate human dignity – Donna Hicks

Audio and video links – Evelin Lindner

Audios and videos by and with Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author
TypeOfferingTitle ♦ Sponsor ♦ LocationDurationRelease date
VideoPresentationDignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad, part 1 of 4
Humiliation and Coping in War, part 2 of 4
Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad, part 3 of 4
Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad, part 4 of 4
sponsored by the Faculty of Social Sciences, PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology, University Oslo UiO, Oslo, Norway
13:32
12:47
27:47
28:20
14. January 2009
Video collectionDigniloguesVideo-taped Dialogues on Dignity or Dignilogues./../.
VideoPresentation2011 Lecture – Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad,
part 1 of 2
2011 Lecture – Dignity or Humiliation: The World at a Crossroad,
part 2 of 2, sponsored by Faculty of Social Sciences (PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology), University Oslo UiO, Oslo, Norway
45:27
49:13
Recorded
12. January 2011
Posted 11. February 2011
YouTube videoInterviewWorld Dignity University – Evelin G. Lindner interviewed by Ragnhild Nilsen: The Emergence of Dignity, host Ragnhild Nilsen, Norwegian artist Arctic Queen, Oslo11:34 Recorded 8. February 2011
Posted
13. May 2016
AudioRadio interviewThe linkage between dignity or humiliation MP3 podcast, presented by Radio New Zealand National
Humiliation studies show that the corrosive effect of humiliation is the cause of much of humanity's troubles.
19:2728. August 2011
YouTube videoShort presentationThe Role of Human Rights Ideals for Honor, Dignity, Shame, and Humiliation, sponsored by World Dignity University initiative, host Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., US American director of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, editor of the "Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies" (JHDHS), Portland, Oregon3:51 Recorded
30. October 2011
Posted
31. October 2011
YouTube videoShort presentationDignity, Humiliation, Love, Hate, and Other Emotions, sponsored by the World Dignity University initiative, host Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., US American director of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, editor of the "Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS)", Portland, Oregon5:24 Recorded
30. October 2011
Posted
31. October 2011
YouTube videoShort presentationThe Role of Dignity and Humiliation for World Economy[*], sponsored by the World Dignity University initiative, host Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., US American director of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, editor of the "Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies" (JHDHS), Portland, Oregon3:24 Recorded
30. October 2011
Posted
31. October 2011
YouTube videoShort presentationThe Role of Dignity and Humiliation for National Sovereignty, sponsored by the World Dignity University initiative, host Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., US American director of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, editor of the "Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies" (JHDHS), Portland, Oregon4:41 Recorded
30. October 2011
Posted
31. October 2011
YouTube videoShort presentationEvelin Lindner: The Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Love, Hate, and Other Emotions, sponsored by the World Dignity University initiative, host Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., US American director of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, editor of the "Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies" (JHDHS), Portland, Oregon
In the 1994 genocide in Rwanda people were forced to "choose" between two "loves" in the service of cycles of humiliation.
5:24 Recorded
30. October 2011
Posted
31. October 2011
YouTube videoShort presentationThe Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Peace, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness, sponsored by the World Dignity University initiative, host Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., US American director of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, editor of the "Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies" (JHDHS), Portland, Oregon4:37 Recorded
30. October 2011
Posted
31. October 2011
YouTube videoShort presentationThe Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Genocide, sponsored by the World Dignity University initiative, host Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., US American director of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, editor of the "Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies" (JHDHS), Portland, Oregon7:28 Recorded
30. October 2011
Posted
31. October 2011
YouTube videoShort presentationThe Role of Dignity and Humiliation for Trauma Therapy, sponsored by the World Dignity University initiative, host Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D., US American director of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, editor of the "Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies" (JHDHS), Portland, Oregon4:18 Recorded
30. October 2011
Posted
31. October 2011
YouTube videoPresentationDo We Need Concepts such as Humiliation, Dignity, and Respect to Understand Majority/Minority Relations?, sponsored by Valle de las Animas, near La Paz, Bolivia20:04 Recorded
10. May 2012
Posted
11. May 2012
VideoPresentationEvelin Lindner: Humiliation and Terrorism, part 1 of 2
Evelin Lindner: Humiliation and Terrorism – Questions – Comments – Faculty of Social Sciences, part 2 of 2
sponsored by Faculty of Social Sciences, PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology, University Oslo UiO, Oslo, Norway
1:11:30
28:57
15. February 2012
YouTube videoDialog
Presentation
The Scale of Humiliation – the Smallest and Largest Effects, presented by host Gabriela Saab, São Paulo, Brazil
Humiliation research: macro to the micro level of human relationships (international, intergroup, interpersonal, and intrapersonal levels, relationship with our ecosphere)
20:2022. May 2012
YouTube videoPresentation
Lecture
Evelin Lindner: Education, Dignity, and Crosscultural Communication, sponsored by the Associação Brasil-América (ABA) for the ABA administrative-cultural staff and faculty, host executive director of ABA Eduardo J. G. Carvalho, co-founder Francisco Cardoso Gomes de Matos, Recife, Brazil1:32:19 Recorded
15. June 2012
Posted 27. September 2012
Audio podcastInterviewThe Paradigm of Dignity, presented by Future Primitive podcasts, host Joanna Harcourt-Smith (1946-2020) Swiss-born British psychedelic activist, lover of Timothy Leary, founder of Future Primitive Podcast, poet, author46:1924. August 2012
AudioRadio interviewDignity, Humiliation, and Conflict, presented by webradio program The Texas Conflict Coach, host Pattie Porter, US American conflict resolution expert and coach, mediator, conflict coach1:06:00214. November 2012
YouTube videoPresentation
Book launch
A Dignity Economy, sponsored by the Teachers College, Columbia University, Gottesman Library, New York City
Introduction of the term "dignism"
1:05:43 5. December 2012
Posted 20. January 2013
YouTube videoPresentation
See above
A Dignity Economy With Evelin Lindner Teachers College, Columbia University, sponsored by Columbia University, Teachers College, Gottesman Library, New York City1:05:42January 2013
18. November 2014
VideoPresentationHumanDHS lecture 2013: Dignity and Humiliation: Norway and the Concept of likeverd, sponsored by Faculty of Social Sciences, PSYC3203 – Applied social psychology, University Oslo UiO, Oslo, Norway1:23:48Recorded 23. January 2013
Posted 8. February 2013
YouTube videoPresentation
Lecture
Evelin Lindner's Introduction of 21st Annual Conference titled 'Search for Dignity' of HumanDHS network, 24th April 2013, filmer Akinlolu Makinwa, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 24.-27. April 20131:00:51 Recorded 24. April 2013
Posted 3. May 2013
YouTube videoInterview with Howard Richards (*1938) US American philosopher of social scienceHoward Richards' 3 Most Important Messages to the World, 5th June 2013, recorded by Justine Richards, Pretoria, South Africa, 5. June 201338:105. June 2013
14. January 2018
YouTube videoPresentation
Lecture
Evelin Lindner: Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies: Transdisciplinarity in Practice, sponsored by the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Capacity (PERC), University of Cape Town, host Robert Morrell, South African co-ordinator, Cape Town, South Africa1:07:334. July 2013
YouTube videoPresentation
Lecture
23rd Dignity Conference 27: Global Dignity, Evelin Lindner, titled 'Returning Dignity', sponsored by be "Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network", 23rd Annual Conference, Chiang Mai University, Northern Thailand, day 5 out of 8.-12. March 201412:43Recorded
12. March 2014
Posted
22. March 2014
YouTube videoPresentation
Lecture
Evelin Lindner: Dignity Renaissance, Kigali, Rwanda, June 2015 titled "Regaining Dignity: A Dignity Renaissance", prepared for the 25th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, Kigali, Rwanda, 2.-5. June 20151:09:48Recorded
30. June 2015
Posted
8. July 2015
YouTube videoPresentation
Lecture
Evelin Lindner 76: Deep Dao Dialogue
Norsk Taiji Senter / Norwegian Taiji Centre, host Pamela Hiley, recorded by Allan Hiley
25:12Recoreded
11. March 2016
Posted
15. March 2016
VideoPresentation
Lecture
From Humiliation, Vengeance, and Genocide to Reconciliation: Experiences from Rwanda, sponsored by the department of psychology, PSY4506, University Oslo UiO, Oslo, Norway1:23:21Recorded
3. March 2016, posted
8. July 2016
YouTube videoShort interview2016 NY Dignity Workshop 42: Interview Evelin Lindner – Challenges of our Time. Learning to Connect, conference "The Globalization of Dignity", 13th Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, sponsored by Columbia University, Teachers College, New York City, 8-9 December 20167:4631. January 2017
VideoPresentation
Lecture
Evelin Lindner: "On Dignity and Humiliation" , sponsored by the department of psychology, University Oslo UiO, Oslo, Norway1:29:44Recorded
2. March 2018, posted
13. March 2018
YouTube videoPresentationEvelin Lindner 109: From Humiliation to Dignity: For a Future of Global Solidarity, organized by the Office of International Services (OIS), International Education Week 2018, Teachers College (TC), Columbia University, New York City, New York City40:1520. November 2018
YouTube videoAnnual Mandela LectureFrom Humiliation to Dignity: For a Future of Global Solidarity, #113, sponsored by the Red Cross Nordic United World College in 6968 Flekke, Norway, 29. March 20191:00:1222. May 2019
YouTube videoConclaveSathya Sai Vidya Vihar Presents E-Conclave On Humiliation To Dignity: Future of Global Solidarity., sponsored by Sri Sathya Sai Vidhya Vihar Indore1:05:2511. July 2020
YouTube videoPresentation2020 Dignity Workshop 01.5: Evelin Lindner's Lecture "For a Future of Global Solidarity"47:4625. December 2020
YouTube videoPresentation2021 Dignity Workshop 302: Evelin Lindner's Lecture "For a Future of Global Solidarity", '-18th Annual Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, "Toward a New Global Normal: Dignity Through Solidarity," Columbia University44:5111. December 2021
Evelin Lindner's lecture titled "From Humiliation to Dignity: For a Future of Global Solidarity — From a Virus Pandemic to a Pandemic of Dignity: How Can We Escape Complicity with Institutionalized Humiliation?" delivered on Day Three of the 17th Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict at Columbia University in New York City, 10.-11. December 2020.

Audio and video links – Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett ♦ The Equality Trust

30 year long studies on social inequality, status insecurity and competition i.e. rankism, Nottingham, United Kingdom, published in The Spirit Level. Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, termed the most important book of the year 2009
Powerpoint presentation for download – The Spirit Level - slides from The Equality Trust

3 Things Economics Can't Solve (3:19) – Can an Unequal Society Become Sustainable? (5:47) –
Anxiety Shape Society? (3:56) – Inequality Is Bad for Your Health (3:39)

  • Video interview with Richard Wilkinson, British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, Kate Pickett, Ph.D. (*1965) British professor of epidemiology, University of York, co-author, referring to their book The Spirit Level, presented by Bloomsbury Press, YouTube film, 3:08 minutes duration, posted 3. February 2010

Reference to Wilkinson / Pickett by Zeitgeist Movement

Tribute to the study results of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett Minute 4:08

Tribute to the study results of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

Tribute to the study results of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, the status quo sustaining role of the advertisement industry Minute 2:20

  • Video interview with Kate Pickett, Ph.D. (*1965) British professor of epidemiology, University of York, co-author, Does Anxiety Shape Society?, presented by the US American web portal Big Think, 3:57 minutes duration, posted 24. March 2010
    The most powerful source of stress for humans is the possibility of being judged negatively by others.
  • Video street presentation by keynote speaker Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, on Wellbeing for All? Achieving wellbeing in an unequal world, Richard Wilkinson: Equality & wellbeing, presen-
    ted by UCL TV, filmed 16. June 2010, YouTube film, 3:34 minutes duration, posted 22. June 2010
  • Video interview with Richard Wilkinson, British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, co-author of the bestselling book The Spirit Level, Income inequality bad for everyone, presented by CCPA, host Trish Hennessy, Toronto, Canada, YouTube film, 7:52 minutes duration, posted 17. December 2010
  • Video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, The Spirit
    Level – Richard Wilkinson speaking
    , sponsored by "Friends of the Earth" and Edinburgh University Business School, Scotland,
    YouTube film, 46:42 minutes duration, posted 23. December 2010
  • Video TV interview with Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, Q+A 'The Spirit Level' author Richard Wilkinson, #1341, presented by the TV station TVNZ, YouTube film, 13:41 minutes duration, posted 28. January 2011
  • Video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, The Age of Unequals, presented by the Canadian Educational Television TVO, YouTube film, 52:54 minutes duration, posted
    2. February 2011
  • Video keynote speech by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, sponsored by the conference "Marxism 2011. Ideas To Change the World",
    30. June-4. July 2011, London, YouTube film, 44:45 minutes duration, posted 10. August 2011
    "The more inequality [in income and status] there is in a society the more superiority and inferiority, status competition and consumerism, status insecurity, social evaluation anxieties (fear of negative judgements) will result from." Minute 33:44.
  • Vimeo video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British professor emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Nottingham, economy historian, researcher of inequality data in health and social determinants, erindi á landsfundi, sponsored
    by Iceland, October 2011, 55:41 minutes duration, posted end of October 2011

Right wing critics claim that Wilkinson's data are manufactured evidence as if there is nothing wrong with social inequality.
Background information on the low infant mortality rates in Singapore). Minute 18:06


Linkless media offering

  • Video interview with Richard Wilkinson British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, Kate Pickett, Ph.D. (*1965) British professor of epidemiology, University of York, bestselling authors, The Spirit Level. Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, 30 years of sociological research, The Spirit Level. Why more equal societies almost always do better, host Owen Metcalfe, Associate Director of the Institute of Public Health, Ireland (IPH), YouTube film, 6:36 minutes duration, posted 8. June 2009

 

See also: ► Audio and video links (engl.) – Richard Wilkinson

Audio- und Videolinks (German) – Menschenwürde [Human dignity]

Rückblick auf 70 Jahre des internationalen Bekenntnis Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte durch die Vereinten Nationen am
10. Dezember 1948


Musical offerings

Dignity

Rankism

 

Internal Links

Wiki (German)

Hawkins

 

 

1 Positioning human dignity first order in the Constitution – as originally issued in the 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights' by the UN in 1948 – declares it to be one of the most important inviolabe human rights. Following the pattern set in the US 'Declaration of Independence' issued by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and by the 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights' issued by the United Nations in 1948 the Constitutions of Germany (1949), Canada (1982), South Africa (1996), Europe (2004), Bangladesh, Finland, and Portugal mention human 'dignity', the 'Creator', the 'supremacy of God', the 'Almighty Allah' right in the beginning of their supreme written documents which were presented by members of ethics commission not by public votes or polls.

2 Everyone has inherent dignity and the right to have their dignity respected and protected.
See also: Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, section 10, 11. October 1996

3 Map of Consciousness (overview) by D. Hawkins

4 Women Matter in top management and corporate performance, such is the result of four McKinsey & Company studies/reports consecutively published in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. Women Matter: Gender diversity, a corporate performance driver
"The 2010 Women Matter study provides a focused analysis on how to achieve gender diversity at top management level. Its findings are partly based on a survey we conducted in September 2010 of about 1,500 business leaders worldwide across all industries, from middle managers to CEOs. The survey concretely reveals that a majority of leaders, both men and women, now recognize gender diversity as a performance driver, while also showing that actual implementation of gender-diversity measures in corporations remains limited."
Grafik Wirtschaftsleistung von Unternehmen mit Frauenquote (McKinsey), präsentiert von der überregionalen deutschen Zeitung Die Tageszeitung (taz)

5 Deleted article Making Corporate Gender Inequality Illegal, presented by the US American web portal Big Think

6 List of elected or appointed female heads of government

7 Two versions of Darwin's Evolutionary Theory – David Loye

8 Women are more sensitive to pain or suffering of others. […]
Therefore, [women of the Western world] please take a more active role.

9 Two versions of Darwin's Evolutionary Theory – David Loye

10 "Firms of endearment" show greater efficiency and productivity from employees, greater loyalty from customers, stronger, more profitable relationships with vendors and quantifiable payback of SRM investments. Deleted Book Review: "Firms of Endearment", November 2012

11 Nineteenth-century American spiritualists coined the word sexism long before its modern incarnation. – See Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, published 1963. This book made known the term "sexism" known to the public debate and as a consequence issued laws to strenghten women's position in society

12 "The term 'anti-Semitism' is used by the Israel lobby in the United States to restrict criticism of Israel's violent and inhumane policies against the Palestinian people and Israel's domination over the US government." Images From Palestine, Facebook comment, 9. January 2016

13 Dignity oriented businesses, organizations, and community groups are more productive, peaceful, and resilient than those that allow rankist behavior.

14 The Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

15 Gesetz 3:1

16 Journey of Mankind, interactive trail adapted from Out of Eden / The Real Eve, Stephen Oppenheimer, 2003, presented by bradshawfoundation.com, undated

17 Term coined by William L. Ury, US American anthropologist, negotiation and mediation specialist, co-founder of "Program on Negotiation", Harvard University, director of the "Project on Preventing War", Harvard University, speaker, author, Getting to Peace, Viking Adult, 27. September 1999

18 During current transition

19 Vision for the future

20 Facts, myths, and signs of bullying at school, at the workplace, in the cyberworld
Childhood bullying resulting in psychiatric illness in early adulthood
Bystander effect – withheld intervention due to diffusion of responsibility
Statistical data on school bullying – Canada

21 Dr. (Ms) Anupma Kaushik, Indian reader in political science, Banasthali University, Gandhi on Gender Violence and Gender Equality: An Overview. Introduction, presented by mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org, undated

22 See: ⚡ Rape myths – a result of cultural denial

23 Video Quo Vadis: Nero unleashes the lions on the Christians, YouTube film, 3:27 minutes duration, posted 1. April 2018

24 Four-stage evolutionary model of dialogue

25 Crisis response – four dimensions of Systems Change – Otto Scharmer

26 Otto Scharmer ottoscharmer.com (*1961) German US American senior lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), founding chair of the Presencing Institute, core faculty member of the United Nations leaders program, A Matrix of Crisis Response: 4 Levels of Response, 4 Dimensions of Systems Change; cited in Seven Acupuncture Points for Shifting Capitalism to Create a Regenerative Ecosystem Economy, 8.-9. June, 21. September 2009

27 Current trend – Shifting from PUSH mode to PULL mode

28 Tacit knowledge is the most important knowledge in a rapidly changing world. That tacit knowledge is embedded in people. If you are not having unexpected encounters with people you are not going to have unexpected encounters with this tacit knowledge. That's the power of the social networks as they start to focus on connecting people. […] Because it's so hard hard to express tacit knowledge I'm typically going to hold back […] unless there is some kind of trust-based relationship there. John Hagel III, US American consultant, co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, speaker and author on the intersection of business strategy and information technology, John Hagel – Real Time Web, part 2 of 3, presented by the O'Reilly radar, host Joshua-Michéle Ross, minute 4:26 5:18 minutes duration, 24. October 2009

29 Four-stage evolutionary model of dialogue

30 See also Seven stages of interreligious and intercultural Deep Dialogue – Leonard Swidler

31 Lady Gaga's hit "Born That Way" sums it up.

Letzte Bearbeitung:
01.02.2024 um 18:41 Uhr

Page generated in 1.752 seconds.