SpiritualWiki - Dignity

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

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Historic traces of dignity

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

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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 politics – All-in-all

Reference: en.Wikipedia entry ► Liberty – Equality – Fraternity

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Descriptions of dignity – dignitas and humanitas

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:
► God ❄ Life ❄ Soul ❄ Essence ❄ Self ❄ SELF ❄ Health
► Power ❄ Force ❄ Principle 3:1 ❄ Principles ❄ Interdependence ❄ Emergence
► Truth ❄ Acceptance ❄ Choice ❄ Responsibility ❄ Recontextualization/Metanoia
► Respect ❄ Trust ❄ Vulnerability ❄ Victimhood ❄ Humility/Modesty ❄ Integrity ❄ Authenticity
► Simplicity ❄ Freedom ❄ Equality ❄ Holism
► Goodness ❄ Empathy ❄ Kindness ❄ Moral courage ❄ Relationship ❄ Listening
► Letting be ❄ Conscience ❄ Ethics ❄ Evolution ❄ Transformation
► Humiliation ❄ Pride ❄ Conflict ❄ Control ❄ Success ❄ Wealth ❄ Ego ❄ Negativity

Siehe auch: ► Würde

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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

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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 feeling	Achievement	Implication
Transformed shame	Beyond inferiority and victimhood	Sense for the sacred
Transformed guilt	Beyond self-defeating flagellation	Sense of regret, reversion, recontextualising, metanoia
Transformed grief	Beyond indictment and whining	Sense of understanding for the human condition and compassion
Transformed righteous anger ("Holy" wrath)	Beyond disempowering aggression	Sense of justice and the strength ready to launch social reforms
Transformed pride	Beyond superiority and supremacy, narcissm and predatory impulses	Sense of divine dignity, reflected in human dignity

See also: ► Shame and ► Guilt and ► Grief and ► Anger and ► Pride

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Threshold between pride and integrity

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

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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.

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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

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Four developmental periods in biology, ecology, finance and economics

Four stages of biologal, ecological, financial and economic evolution

༺༻	Feature	Expression	Biological / ecosystems	Remark	Economics/Finances
1.	Neediness	Parasitic	Viruses	Appropriation Monopolization	Interest and compound interest
2.	Neediness	Predatory	Predators	"Eating·and·being·eaten" "Fuck·or·kill"	Private Banking, debt creation
3.	Fractioned mindset	Competitive	Mammalians	Survival of "the fittest"⁷	International stock corporations in Western societies run by nearly only white male CEOs and board members

4.	Beginning field consciousness	Symbiotic	Cooperating 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

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

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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 government		Tyranny type	Issuer/Triggerer
1.	Monarchy		One·tyrant·tyranny	King / emperor
2.	Fascism		Group tyranny	Nobility / upstages
3.	Communism		People tyranny	Middle classes / Interlaced corpotocracists
4a.	Democratorship	Fractioned 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

༺༻	Historical age	Human producers	Services, production	Location	Orientation
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

Era	Time frame	Chakra	God	Movement	Symbol	History	Principle	Paradigm	Consciousness frame [♥]
1.	?-12,000 years ago	Root	Goddess	Static	Circle·[*]	Her-Story	Easy go lucky	INFANCY Land of plenty	Unconscious heaven
2.	5,000 years ago	Sacral	God	Dynamic	Arrow	His-story	Either-or	CHILDHOOD Resistance	Unconscious hell
3.	2,500 years ago Domination	Solar plexus	God	Static	Cross	His-story	Grow or die!	ADOLESCENCE Submissiveness	Conscious hell

4.	250-50 years ago Power·of·love	Heart	Goddess	Dynamic	Spiral	Our-story	Both-and	YOUNG 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 politics	Frame
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

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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

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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

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.

Term	Glossary
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

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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

Siehe auch: ► NASA Columbia Weltraumunglück 2003 – ein Feldeffekt

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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

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.

Dignity is a halfway-house between liberty and justice.
Cited in: Article For Whom the Phone Rings, presented by the publication Texas Observer, Geoff Rips, 1. August 2003

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.

When legitimately earned and appropriately used, rank has an indispensable role to play in education.
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 5, around 2007

Doctors are M.D.s not M.Deities.

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

Status is relative. […] Nearly every "nobody" is looking for someone that he or she can feel superior to. 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

Any organization that encourages or tolerates rankism is systematically undermining the creativity and productivity
of its own people. Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D., The Dignitarian Way, page 1, presented by the business magazine Strategy+Business, 13. February 2007

A dignitarian environment might mean paying employees more fairly. It might mean the kind of humility that James C. Collins, Ph.D. wrote about in his book Good to Great (HarperBusiness, 2001) as "Level Five leadership." It might mean more transparency about salaries and about the unacceptability of firing or demoting people for speaking
their mind. 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

In the present rankist environment, the loss of one’s job can be a terrible blow to one’s dignity. Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D., The Dignitarian Way, page 2, presented by the business magazine Strategy+Business, February 13, 2007

Tenure is unfair to the young, much as "whites only" signs were unfair to blacks. Interview with Robert Fuller, Ph.D.,
The Dignitarian Way, page 2, 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

Antidiscrimination laws were a significant step for the civil rights movement. 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

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 dominant-subordinate relationships. Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936) US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, PDF Vocabulary for a Dignitarian Society, ~2006

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

Dignity is not dependent on winning. 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

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

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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

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Dignitarian politics

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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

Malrecognition usually consists of too little recognition.
Idolization is a rarer form, but it too can be fatal – Jackson, Presley, Monroe.
Robert Fuller, Ph.D., Twitter comment, 1. January 2010

Tragically, avoiding humiliation trumps personal growth. Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D. robertworksfuller.com (*1936)
US American professor of physics, college president, dignity and rankism researcher, lecturer, author, Somebodies and Nobodies. Overcoming the Abuse of Rank, New Society Publishers, 2003 and The Dignitarian University, page 6, around 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

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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

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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

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Reversing the Somebody ⇔ Nobody mind set

Outgrowing poverty by The Power of Dignity

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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

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Quotes on 'women embracing dignity for all'

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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.

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

At first, women are scared to death to try. Peer support and encouragement of Grameen Bankers helps success. […] If
a woman tries, and is successful, it will snowball.
Lecture by Muhammad Yunus, Ph.D. (*1940) Bangladeshi professor of economy, Chittagong University, founder of the Grameen Bank, micro-
credit 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

The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution.
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, The Women's Crusade, presented by the US American daily newspaper The New York Times, 23. August 2009

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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 – connectivity – meaning
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 [ Meaning – soul]
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

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

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Transition into emergent culture

Big scary fish

The old
profit maximizing
exclusive
dominating
corrupted system
is declining.

Big self-organizing fish

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

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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

༺༻	Approach	Focus	Lesson
1.	Dignitarian way	Dignity	Dignity 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	Charity	Traditional charity and aid alone will not solve the problems of poverty.
3.	Capitalist way	Wealth	Markets 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

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Misconceiving human dignity with outer wealth

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

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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%

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.	Obesity	Child wellbeing	Poverty Among 35 developed nations U.S. has 23.1% child poverty rate, second only to Romania.
2.	Infant mortality	Teenage 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 expectancy	High school drop outs	Crime 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 addiction	Social 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 countries	Countries
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

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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)

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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.

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

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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

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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

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Void ⇔ Allness

God is nothingness that seeks to become everything.

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

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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

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Quotations on Human dignity

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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)

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Quotes by David R. Hawkins

⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

Personal avowal

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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

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Inspirited power ⇔ weakening force

True power equals life equals spirit, whereas force equals weakness equals death. When an individual has lost or lacks those qualities we term spiritual, he becomes devoid of humanity, love and self-respect, perhaps selfish and violent.
⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, S. 180, Hay House, February 2002

[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

Force, by its nature, triggers counterforce, and every ego position has its opposite.
⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, chapter 5 "The Essential Structure of Truth", S. 50, 2005

The consciousness level of the ego is based on the utilization of the qualities of force, whether they are emotional, intellectual, or physical. The undoing of the ego, consequently, is not by the utilization of moralistic or emotional counterforce but by use of the power of truth itself.
⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, chapter 5 "The Essential Structure of Truth", S. 50, 2005

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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

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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

The decisions to "be kind to all of life" or to respect the sacredness of all that exists are powerful attitudes in spiritual evolution, along the virtues of compassion, the willingness to forgive, and seeking to understand rather than to judge. By constantly surrendering, perceptions dissolve into the discernment of essence. ⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, Along the Path to Enlightenment. 365 Reflections from David R. Hawkins, edited by Scott Jeffrey, S. 82, Reflection of June 1st, January 2011

To undo shame [LoC 20-29], it is helpful to realize that it is based on pride [LoC 175-199]. The loss of status is pain-
ful to the degree that the ego relies on pride as a prop to self-esteem. Were it not for narcissistic pride, a mistake or negative feedback would be experienced only as a regret and ascribed to human frailty and fallibility. Mistakes help one retain humility. ⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, Along the Path to Enlightenment. 365 Reflections from David R. Hawkins, edited by Scott Jeffrey, Reflection of October 18th, January 2011

In the reality of non-duality, there is neither privilege nor gain nor loss nor rank. Just like a cork in the sea, each spirit rises or falls to its own level in the sea of consciousness by virtue of its own choices, not by any external force or favor. Some are attracted by the light and some seek the darkness, but it all occurs of its own nature by virtue of Divine freedom and equality. ⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, Along the Path to Enlightenment. 365 Reflections from David R. Hawkins, edited by Scott Jeffrey, Reflection of October 22th, January 2011

What's happening with our economy is a reorganization based on values other than just making money. The economy is really based on greed: every product is an effort to make money. And making money doesn't infer anything ha-
ving to do with responsibility. Now, we're bringing up responsibility. As citizens, we're asking, "Should these com-
panies reveal what they know?" So there's disorganization based on a current lack of clarity about values.
Interview with David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., presented by the US American magazine Holistic Networker, Gina Mazza Hillier, 17. June 2009

To deliberately undermine the dignity of one's leaders, is self destructive.
⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar What is Truth? The Absolute, 3 DVD set, 21. July 2007

[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

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Quotes by Evelin Lindner

Personal avowals

I call feelings of humiliation "the nuclear bomb of the emotions."
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, Emotion and Conflict. How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict, S. 84, Praeger, 1st edition 20. March 2009

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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

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Complex topic of feeling feelings

How are feelings felt. How do we decide which feelings are appropriate. Which feelings should we give priority to? This is an invitation of get away from saying "This person is good, this person is evil." This you can say in one homogenous cultural realm. […] What if two different realms clash? 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, Dignity, 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)", YouTube film, minute 4:36, 5:24 minutes duration, recorded in Portland, Oregon, 30. October 2011, posted 31. October 2011

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
Subalterns	Accept 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

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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

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Dynamics of genocide

It was a very cost effective genocide in Rwanda. It needed only a humiliated mind invited into a narrative of humiliation.
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 23:21, 1:23:48 duration, recorded 8. February 2013

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

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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

We have big societies that are lacking in emotional relational literacy.
Interview with Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (*1954) German physician, psychologist, transdisciplinary scholar in social scien-
ces and humanities, human dignity researcher, founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), author, 2016 NY Dignity Workshop 42: Interview Evelin Lindner – Challenges of our Time. Learning to Connect, conference "The Globaliza-
tion of Dignity", 13th Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, sponsored by the Columbia University, Teachers College, New York City, 8-9 December 2016, minute 7:01, 7:46 minutes duration, posted 31. January 2017

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Quotes on human rights and human values

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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

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

President of China Jiang Zemin: Do you the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights believe religion is important in this world given the advancement of scientific knowledge?
Mary Robinson: While there is indeed scientific advancement, religion and spiri-
tuality are extraordinarily important in our world and will continue to be.
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, cited in: article World: Asia-Pacific Dissidents petition Mary Robinson in China, presented by the British website BBC News Online, September 1998

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

The highest calibration in the United States Declaration of Independence [LoC 700] lies in this one line: "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."
⚡ Dr. David Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Realization of the Self and the "I", 3 DVD set, 1. November 2003

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

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Quotes on pride and shame ⇔ dignity

Personal avowal

The gift of faith instantaneously became built into me. My pride had paid a very high price. In despair, I cried out, "Now
I am willing to do anything. If there is a God, will he show himself!" And he did.
⚡ Bill Griffith Wilson [Bill W.] [LoC 540] (1895-1971) US American co-founder of the international mutual aid fellowship Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Language of the Heart. Bill W's Grapevine Writings, Part III, S. 246, Grapevine, October 1988

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

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

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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

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

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Ten interlinked ways to honor or violate human dignity – Donna 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 feature	Dignitarian 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.

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

From metahistory to modern history: Three periods of human development

༺༻	Timeline	Focus of period	Society type	Emotion	Legend	Percentage of history	Quality 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 found	95-99%	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

༺༻	Timeline	End of round of globalisation	Adaptation 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

Date	Periods – Event	Dignity status	Trend
➣ 200 000 years ago	Roaming and migrating one ample Earth	Equality Pristine pride	Benign
➣ 10 000 years ago Neolithic	Domination in a fragmented binary system	Inequality Ranked honor	Malign
➣ 1757	Egalization	Return of equality	Benign
➣ 1948	The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."	Human rights	Benign
➣ 1980	Overuse of global resources		Scarcity
➣ 1989	End of the Cold War – One World		Benign
➣ 2008	Collapse of market triumphalism		Alert
➣ Past 2008	Window of opportunity (open for ~50-70 years) to glide into an era of	Equal dignity	Benign

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: ► Paradigm shift and ► History

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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
Dependence	Dependence ⇔ independence	Interdependence
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 FGC	Traditional cultural custom	Cultural 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 underlings	Peace 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 security	Regional 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
Realpolitik	Traditional 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

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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 dialogue	Socrates
I-It monologue	I-Thou dialogue	Martin Buber I and Thou, 1923
1) Shared monologue – Nice talk 2) Skillful discussion – Fierce discussion	3) Generative dialogue 4) Reflective dialogue²⁴	William Isaacs, Ph.D. Otto Scharmer
1) Downloading – Nice talk, politeness 2) Debate – Tough talking	3) Dialogue – Inquiry 4) Collective creativity – Presencing, flow²⁵	Otto Scharmer²⁶
Verdict thinking	Let-it-flow thinking	Seymour Mike Miller
Separate knowing	Connected knowing	Mary Belenky Women's development theory
Stored explicit knowledge	Flowing tacit knowledge /unexpected encounters²⁷	John Hagel III²⁸
	Bohmian Dialogue²⁹	David Bohm
	Deliberate discourse	Aristotle
	Public deliberation	Jürgen Habermas
	Interreligious/intercultural Deep Dialogue ³⁰	Leonard Swidler
	Communicating effectively	David D. Burns, Ph.D.
	Persuasion	Morton Deutsch
	Listening into voice	Linda M. Hartling, Ph.D.
	Human flourishing	Martha Nussbaum Amartya Kumar Sen, CH
	Grappling-nudging dialogue	Dr. 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

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

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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

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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

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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

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Literature

Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D. (*1946) Australian professor of psychiatry, philosophy and anthropology, University of California, Irvine, editor, Frances Vaughan, Ph.D. (†2017) US American transpersonal psychologist, educator, spiritual author, editor, Paths Be-
yond Ego, Tarcher, 15. September 1993
John H. Engler, Ph.D., US American transpersonal psychologist, meditation teacher, author, Jeremy D. Safran, editor, Psycho-
analysis and Buddhism. An Unfolding Dialogue, Wisdom Publications, Boston, 9. April 1995, paperback issue 1. June 2003
- Essay by John H. Engler, Ph.D., US American transpersonal psychologist, meditation teacher, author, Being Somebody and Being Nobody, presented by The Midnight Heart, 14. June 2007, cited in: Jeremy D. Safran, editor, Psychoanalysis and Buddhism. An Unfolding Dialogue, Wisdom Publications, S. 35-79, first published by Wisdom Publications, Boston, 15. June 2003
Dr. Julie Ann Wambach, Battles between Somebodies and Nobodies. Combat Abuse of Rank at Work and at Home, Brookside Press, 1. October 2008
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, paperback, reprint edition 1. February 2015
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, 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 after 30 years of sociological research, US American issue The Spirit Level. Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, Bloomsbury Press, 22. Decem-
ber 2009

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.

Donna Hicks, Ph.D., US American psychologist, facilitator during international conflicts, associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, public educator, author, Dignity. Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict, Yale University Press, 6. September 2011, reprint edition 29. January 2013
Book review, 2011
Donna Hicks, Ph.D., US American psychologist, facilitator during international conflicts, associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, public educator, author, Leading with Dignity. How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People, Yale University Press, 21. August 2018

Englisch/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
Peter Spiegel peterspiegel.de (*1953) deutscher Unternehmensgründer, Sachbuchautor, German entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the Geschäftsführer des 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, December 2008

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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-author	Book title	Publisher	Release date
breakingranks.net	*Somebodies and Nobodies. Overcoming the Abuse of Rank*	New Society Publishers	2003 2nd edition 1. April 2004
breakingranks.net	*All Rise. Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity*	Berrett-Koehler Publishers	25. May 2006
Dr. Pamela Gerloff	*Dignity for All. How to Create a World Without Rankism*	Berrett-Koehler Publishers	1. June 2008
	*From Genome to Wenome. The Key to Universal Dignity*, 26 pages	Amazon Digital Services	(Kindle Ebook) 30. July 2013
	*Religion and Science. A Beautiful Friendship?*, 126 pages	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Amazon Digital Services	6. September 2012 (Kindle Ebook) 17. August 2012
	*The Rowan Tree. A Novel*	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform	12. January 2013
	*The Theory of Everybody*	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, paperback	6. August 2015

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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	Publisher	Release date
*Making Enemies. Humiliation and International Conflict*	Praeger	30. June 2006
Emotion and Conflict. How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict	Praeger	1st edition 20. March 2009
Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security. Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs	Praeger	26. February 2010
A Dignity Economy. Creating an Economy that Serves Human Dignity and Preserves Our Planet	Dignity Press	28. December 2011
*Honor, Humiliation, and Terror. An Explosive Mix – And How We Can Defuse It with Dignity*	Dignity Press	4. July 2017

Article title	Publishing organ	Release date
*Were Ordinary Germans Hitler's 'Willing Executioners'? Or Were They Victims of Humiliating Seduction and Abandonment? The Case of Germany and Somalia*	IDEA 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

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Literature (German)

Englisch/German

Muhammad Yunus (*1940) bangladeschischer Professor für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Chittagong Universität, Gründer und ehemaliger Geschäftsführer der Grameen Bank, Begründer des Mikrofinanz-Gedankens, Friedensnobelpreisträger, 2006, Creating a World Without Poverty. Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, Perseus Books Group, 7. January 2008

Peter Spiegel peterspiegel.de (*1953) deutscher Unternehmensgründer, Sachbuchautor, Roger Richter, The Power of Dignity. Die Kraft der Würde: The Grameen Family, J.Kamphausen, Dezember 2008

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External weblinks (engl.)

Wikipedia entries Abuse, Blasphemy indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or
used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity. When used generally in statutes or at common law, blasphemy is the use of irreverent words or signs in reference to the Supreme Being in such a way as to produce scandal or provoke violence, Bullying, Class discrimination Classism, Discrimination, Dignity, Elitism, Exploitation Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy, Pecking order, Social peer-to-peer processes, Power harassment, Rankism, Roi fainéant [Lazy kings] French kings were dethroned for refusing to beat their underlings, White Supremacy
Personalities Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. German dignity and conflict researcher
Wikiwand Dignity

humiliationstudies.org
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, presented by the organisation Humiliationstudies.org
Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D., Twitter account

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly of the United Nations resolution 217
A (III), 10. December 1948

The World Factbook: Gini Index coefficient – distribution of family income, presented by the US American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), undated

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.

Presentation Journey of Mankind, interactive trail adapted from Out of Eden / The Real Eve, Stephen Oppenheimer, 2003, presented by bradshawfoundation.com, undated
Article Respect: Why Some People Get It, and Some People Don't. It's not fair...but is it inevitable? Is bullying – between men and women, young and old, higher-ups and lower-downs – wired into us?, presented by the US American monthly magazine O, The Oprah Magazine, Elaina Richardson, April 2003
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", Dr. Pamela Gerloff (*1955) US American rankism and dignity researcher, "Project on Civic Reflection", writer, issue 35, March 2004
Article by Harvey Mansfield, Ph.D. (*1932) US American professor of political theory, Harvard University, author, Democracy and Greatness. The education Americans need, presented by the US American conservative opinion magazine The Weekly Stan-
dard, volume 12, issue 13, 11. December 2006

Reflecting the value of excellence and dignity

Article by 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 Unitarian Universalism, 11. January 2008
Article The way we live now. A hard-hitting study of the social effects of inequality has profound implications, presented by the British daily newspaper The Guardian, Lynsey Hanley, 14. March 2009
Article The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better – Fitter, happier, more productive, presented by TimesHigherEducation.uk, John Welshman, 21. May 2009
Interview with Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, former president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity resear-
cher, 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
Blog entry by Robert W. Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, former president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity resear-
cher, Must Love End?, presented by the US American bimonthly magazine Psychology Today, 20. September 2009
Article Women on the frontline for human rights, presented by the non-governmental organization Amnesty International, ReliefWeb.int, 10. December 2009
Article by Robert Fuller, Ph.D.,US American physicist, former president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, au-
thor, 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
- Blog 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?, presented by the US American liberal-oriented online newspaper Huffington Post, 19. April 2010, updated 25. May 2011
Blog article by Robert Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, former president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, author, The Dignity Movement Finds Its Feet, presented by the US American liberal-oriented online newspaper Huffington Post,
6. March 2011, updated 25. May 2011
Blog article by Robert Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, former president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, author, The Moral Arc of History, presented by the Wordpress blogspot Fight Rankism, 14. May 2011
Blog article by Robert Fuller, Ph.D., US American physicist, former president of Oberlin College, rankism and dignity researcher, 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
Opinion by Jimmy Carter (*1924) US American politician, 39th US president (1977-1981), member of The Elders, since 2007, A Cruel and Unusual Record, presented by the US American daily newspaper The New York Times, 25. June 2012
Article by Joyce E. A. Russell, US American licensed industrial and organizational psychologist, senior associate of Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, Career Coach: What to do when someone pulls rank on you, presented by
the American daily newspaper The Washington Post, 8. April 2016
Article Dignity… the "cult" we are missing?, presented by the stories outlet Medium, Ernesto Eduardo Dobarganes, 9. June 2020

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Audio and video links

Video interview and classroom presentation by Jane Elliott, courageous US American teacher, A Class Divided (full film) | FRONTLINE, presented by the US American TV station PBS, town in Iowa, 1968, YouTube film, 53:00 minutes duration,
posted 18. January 2019

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

Video presentation by 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, Who are we?, pre-
sented by the US American web portal Big Think, 8:19 minutes duration, aired 28. November 2007

Reflecting the origin of Human Rights

Video short documentary on a dignitarian community model in Southside Regional Jail, Emporia, Virginia, United States, lowe-
ring recidivism rate from 50 to 5%, saving 3/4th of the costs invested otherwise, Community Model in Corrections®, YouTube
film, 5:13 minutes duration, posted 13. February 2009
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
TV interview with Dr. Arash Hejazi, physician, human rights defender, translator, journalist, The man who tried to save Neda, presented by the British flagship TV channel BBC One, 19:01 minutes duration, aired Thursday, 25. June 2009

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.

Video presentation Robert Jensen, US American professor of journalism, University of Austin, Texas, The Color of the Race Problem Is White, YouTube film, 52:39 minutes duration, posted 1. July 2009
"Where does racism come from? It comes from white supremacy."
Video presentation by Kevin Bales, How to combat modern slavery, presented by TED Talks 2010, 18:01 minutes duration, filmed February 2010, posted March 2010

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

Video presentation by Mickey Rooney (90) US American actor Mickey Rooney tells Senate panel he was a victim of elder abuse, presented by the US American TV channel CNN Entertainment, Tom Cohen, 2. March 2011

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.

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, Muhammad Yunus: Creating a World Without Poverty, YouTube clip of 5 minutes, sponsored by the Emory University, YouTube film, 59:20 minutes duration, posted
9. March 2010

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

Video interview with Sister Roselle Haas, Coping with Prickly People, presented by the broadcaster Houston Public Media, program "Living Smart", # unknown, host Patricia Gras (*1960) US American television anchor, reporter, journalist, YouTube film, 26:46 minutes duration, posted 15. March 2010

Effectively dealing with irksome or frustrating people

Video presentatoin by James Gilligan, Ph.D., US American psychiatrist, violence expert, author, All Human Beings Are Sacred, presented by the psychology channel PsychAlive, YouTube film, 1:21 minutes duration, posted 1. February 2011

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

Video presentation by Bryan Stevenson (*1959) US American human rights lawyer, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, fighting poverty and racial discrimination in the criminal justice system, We need to talk about an injustice, presented by TED Talks 2012, 23:41 minutes duration, filmed March 2012, posted March 2012
Video interview with different educators, What Bullying Is and The Massachusetts Law Banning It In Schools, presented by
the Massachusetts School of Law, host assistent dean Diane Sullivan, 2006, YouTube film, 3:31 minutes duration, posted
17. August 2013
Video presentation by Regina Meredith, US American TV and video presenter and interviewer in the field of growth and cons-
ciousness, Regina Meredith – Bow to No One, Honor Everyone, presented by the "Time for Truth" conference, Laughlin, Ne-
vada, 10. November 2017, YouTube film, 57:34 minutes duration, posted 14. April 2018

Linkless media offering

Video interview with Steven Pinker, Ph.D. (*1954) Canadian-born US American Johnstone professor of experimental psycho-
logy, Harvard University, cognitive scientist, linguist, popular science author of The Stuff of Thought. Language as a Window into Human Nature, Viking Adult, 1st edition 11. September 2007, The stuff of Steven Pinker: Language, dignity, and thought, presented by The Science Network (TSN), The Science Studio, host Roger Bingham, 1:15:00 duration, aired 10. September 2008
Video panel discussion with Bishop Desmond Tutu, Stefan Lindfors, and Prince Haakon of Norway, Believing in the Dignity
of All, general topic Global Dignity Initiative, sponsored by the World Economic Forum (WEF), founder and host Klaus Schwab (*1938), recorded by the event video production company Fora.tv, 57:44 minutes duration, posted 1. February 2009

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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

Type	Offering	Title ♦ Sponsor ♦ Location	Duration	Release date
YouTube videos	Playlist interviews Presentation	*Dignity For All*
Audio	Radio interview	Presented 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
Video	Interview	*Somebodies and Nobodies*, presented by Cal Poly Tech University Pomona, California, Hot Talk, host Saul Landau, US American journalist, filmmaker, commentator, professor emeritus	28:07 minutes	End 2002
Deleted video	Interview	*Talk 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
Video	Presentation	*Dignitarian 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	1:59:57	5. April 2005
YouTube video	Presentation	*Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future*, SALT talk, sponsored by The Long Now Foundation, Fort Mason Conference Center, San Francisco	61:31 minutes	~August 2005 25. April 2011
Deleted Google audio	Interview	*Rank and Dignity*, presented by the US American web radio station KQED, host Michael Krasny –– "Rankism" and the politics of dignity	51:28 minutes	18. July 2006
YouTube video	Presentation	*Media Watch: Robert Fuller – Rankism*, presented by Linkmedia Inspecting Don Imus' expulsion from TV show	4:34 minutes	17. April 2007
Video / audio	TV interview	*Robert 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 Dignity*	55:31 minutes	Recorded 11. March 2008 Posted 20. October 2008
Audio Removed Real Audio	Radio interview	*Rankism: 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 minutes	28. March 2008
YouTube video	Interview	*Robert W. Fuller On Obama's Race Speech*, presented by the University of California (#15210), Santa Barbara, host Thomas Scheff, US American professor emeritus, UCSB	10:01 minutes	Recorded May 2008 Posted 13. July 2008
Audio	Interview	*Toward a Dignitarian World*, presented by the US American radio station New Dimensions, program #3271, host Michael Toms	60 minutes	11. August 2008
Audio	Interview	*Politics of Dignity*, presented by "Great speeches and interviews", MP3	55:25 minutes	17. January 2009
YouTube video	Presentation	*The Dignity Revolution*, UC-Berkeley, presented by TEDx Berkeley Talks	19:41 minutes	Aired 19. February 2011 Posted 23. March 2011
YouTube video	Presentation	*Somebodies and Nobodies*, presented by TEDxMSJHS Talks, Mission San Jose High School	21:35 minutes	25. August 2012
Audio	Interview	*Robert Fuller on Rankism and Dignitarianism*, presented by The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show, host Rob Kall, US American radio host	61:00 minutes	21. August 2013
YouTube video	Interview	*O World Project Interview – Dr. Robert Works Fuller*, presented by the Canadian TV media outlet O World Project, producer and host Randall Melnyk, Vancouver	44:39 minutes	26. February 2014
YouTube video	Presentation	*Overcoming Rankism and Creating a Culture of Dignity*, presented by University of Maryland, "Rise Above Isms Week"	27:57 minutes	22. October 2014
Audio	Interview	*Bob 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, writer	46:51 minutes	4. February 2015
YouTube video	Interview	*Dr. Robert W. Fuller*, presented by Dhaka-based TV station NTV, Frankly Speaking, Bangladesh, host Zahirul Alam	24:57 minutes	14. June 2015

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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

Type	Offering	Title	Sponsor ♦ Location	Duration	Release date
YouTube video	Panel opening	*Opening: "Dignity and Conflict Transformation"*	Ivies and the Military: Toward Reconciliation Conference, Panel 1, 3.-4. April 2009, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts	9:41	23. April 2009
YouTube video	Presentation	*Declare Dignity*	Stormont, Northern Ireland, 28. March 2013	19:39	4. April 2013
YouTube video	Panel contribution	*Building trust: the role of dignity*	First International Colloquium "Improving society from ethical reflection" by IECO – Improving society from ethical reflection, hosted by the Real Colegio Complutense (RCC), Harvard University, 4. April	11:09	22. May 2013
YouTube video	Presentation	*#Peacemakers2014 – Dr. Donna Hicks*	Peacemakers 2014, sponsored by Koç University, Istambul, Turkey, 24.-27. June 2014	50:56	19. August 2014
YouTube video	Presentation	*Third 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 College	50:59	28. September 2014
YouTube video	Interview snippet	*Donna Hicks – The Role of Leadership in Fostering Cultures of Dignity*	Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue, Cambridge, Massachussetts	4:18	5. January 2015
YouTube video	Interview snippet	*Exploring the Meaning of Dignity*	Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue, Cambridge, Massachussetts	3:32	5. January 2015
YouTube video	Interview snippet	*Dignity and Trust in the Workplace*	Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue, Cambridge, Massachussetts	3:42	5. January 2015
YouTube video	Panel contribution	*The role of dignity in the development of trust and ethically healthy organizations*	Harvard University, moderator William English	17:04	29. April 2015
YouTube video	Presentation	*Donna Hicks: Entender el conflicto en la empresa*	Fundación Universidad-Empresa de la Universitat de València (ADEIT), Valencia, Spain	59:58	13. October 2015
YouTube video	Spoken contribution	*Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict*	The Brainwaves Video Anthology, Boston, Massachussetts	7:53	25. September 2017
Audio	Interview	*Leading with Dignity with Dr. Donna Hicks*	Cultural Brilliance Radio: The DNA of Organizational Excellence, host Claudette Rowley	55:18	24. March 2017
YouTube video	Panel contribution	*What 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 2017	8:01	1. May 2017
YouTube video	Presentation	*Donna Hicks – Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflicts*	The Brainwaves Video Anthology	7:53	25. September 2017
YouTube video	Panel contribution	*Leading with dignity humanizes business organizations – Donna Hicks*	Harvard University, IECO – RCC – AAI	12:15	8. May 2018
YouTube video	Panel contribution	*Building Trust Through Meaningful Work – Donna Hicks*	APB Speakers	12:22	21. August 2018
YouTube video	Interview snippet	*The Meaning of Dignity – Donna Hicks*	APB Speakers	3:23	21. August 2018
Audio YouTube video	Interview	*Leading with Dignity with Dr. Donna Hicks – #116*	The Remarkable Leadership Podcast, host Kevin Eikenberry	35:18	29. August 2018
YouTube video	Interview	*Donna Hicks – Leading with Dignity – Lunch and Learn*	Humanistic Management Association (IHMA)	1:02:40	27. April 2018
YouTube video	Interview	*Dignity: Why it Matters More than Ever*	Global Dignity, host Cynthia Guyer of GD	1:01:05	4. Mar 2021 5. Mar 2021

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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

Type	Offering	Title ♦ Sponsor ♦ Location	Duration	Release date
Video	Presentation	*Dignity 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 collection	Dignilogues	Video-taped Dialogues on Dignity or Dignilogues	./.	./.
Video	Presentation	*2011 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 video	Interview	*World Dignity University – Evelin G. Lindner interviewed by Ragnhild Nilsen: The Emergence of Dignity*, host Ragnhild Nilsen, Norwegian artist Arctic Queen, Oslo	11:34	Recorded 8. February 2011 Posted 13. May 2016
Audio	Radio interview	*The 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.	19:27	28. August 2011
YouTube video	Short presentation	*The 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, Oregon	3:51	Recorded 30. October 2011 Posted 31. October 2011
YouTube video	Short presentation	*Dignity, 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, Oregon	5:24	Recorded 30. October 2011 Posted 31. October 2011
YouTube video	Short presentation	*The 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, Oregon	3:24	Recorded 30. October 2011 Posted 31. October 2011
YouTube video	Short presentation	*The 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, Oregon	4:41	Recorded 30. October 2011 Posted 31. October 2011
YouTube video	Short presentation	*Evelin 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 video	Short presentation	*The 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, Oregon	4:37	Recorded 30. October 2011 Posted 31. October 2011
YouTube video	Short presentation	*The 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, Oregon	7:28	Recorded 30. October 2011 Posted 31. October 2011
YouTube video	Short presentation	*The 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, Oregon	4:18	Recorded 30. October 2011 Posted 31. October 2011
YouTube video	Presentation	*Do We Need Concepts such as Humiliation, Dignity, and Respect to Understand Majority/Minority Relations?*, sponsored by Valle de las Animas, near La Paz, Bolivia	20:04	Recorded 10. May 2012 Posted 11. May 2012
Video	Presentation	*Evelin 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 video	Dialog 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)	20:20	22. May 2012
YouTube video	Presentation 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, Brazil	1:32:19	Recorded 15. June 2012 Posted 27. September 2012
Audio podcast	Interview	*The 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, author	46:19	24. August 2012
Audio	Radio interview	*Dignity, Humiliation, and Conflict*, presented by webradio program The Texas Conflict Coach, host Pattie Porter, US American conflict resolution expert and coach, mediator, conflict coach	1:06:002	14. November 2012
YouTube video	Presentation 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 video	Presentation See above	*A Dignity Economy* With Evelin Lindner Teachers College, Columbia University, sponsored by Columbia University, Teachers College, Gottesman Library, New York City	1:05:42	January 2013 18. November 2014
Video	Presentation	*HumanDHS 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, Norway	1:23:48	Recorded 23. January 2013 Posted 8. February 2013
YouTube video	Presentation 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 2013	1:00:51	Recorded 24. April 2013 Posted 3. May 2013
YouTube video	Interview with Howard Richards (*1938) US American philosopher of social science	*Howard Richards' 3 Most Important Messages to the World, 5th June 2013*, recorded by Justine Richards, Pretoria, South Africa, 5. June 2013	38:10	5. June 2013 14. January 2018
YouTube video	Presentation 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 Africa	1:07:33	4. July 2013
YouTube video	Presentation 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 2014	12:43	Recorded 12. March 2014 Posted 22. March 2014
YouTube video	Presentation 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 2015	1:09:48	Recorded 30. June 2015 Posted 8. July 2015
YouTube video	Presentation Lecture	*Evelin Lindner 76: Deep Dao Dialogue* Norsk Taiji Senter / Norwegian Taiji Centre, host Pamela Hiley, recorded by Allan Hiley	25:12	Recoreded 11. March 2016 Posted 15. March 2016
Video	Presentation Lecture	*From Humiliation, Vengeance, and Genocide to Reconciliation: Experiences from Rwanda*, sponsored by the department of psychology, PSY4506, University Oslo UiO, Oslo, Norway	1:23:21	Recorded 3. March 2016, posted 8. July 2016
YouTube video	Short interview	*2016 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 2016	7:46	31. January 2017
Video	Presentation Lecture	*Evelin Lindner: "On Dignity and Humiliation"* , sponsored by the department of psychology, University Oslo UiO, Oslo, Norway	1:29:44	Recorded 2. March 2018, posted 13. March 2018
YouTube video	Presentation	*Evelin 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 City	40:15	20. November 2018
YouTube video	Annual Mandela Lecture	*From 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 2019	1:00:12	22. May 2019
YouTube video	Conclave	*Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar Presents E-Conclave On Humiliation To Dignity: Future of Global Solidarity.*, sponsored by Sri Sathya Sai Vidhya Vihar Indore	1:05:25	11. July 2020
YouTube video	Presentation	*2020 Dignity Workshop 01.5: Evelin Lindner's Lecture "For a Future of Global Solidarity*"	47:46	25. December 2020
YouTube video	Presentation	*2021 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 University	44:51	11. 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.

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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

Video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, sponsored by the LEAP conference "Capitalism Isn't Working", Birkbeck College, London, recorded 25. April 2009
- Inequality and racism, YouTube film, 1:52 minutes duration, 5. May 2009
- Envisioning a new society, YouTube film, 1:43 minutes duration, posted 6. May 2009
Video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, Institute of Education, London, 13. June 2009, YouTube, posted 18. June 2009
- Address at the Compass 'No Turning Back conference, part 1 of 2, starting minute 4:29, 9:45 minutes duration
- Address at the Compass 'No Turning Back' conference, part 2 of 2, 5:32 minutes duration
Video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, sponsored by the LEAP conference, Birkbeck College, London, 25. April 2009, YouTube film, posted 7. August 2009
'Capitalism Isn't working.'; 'Status competition leads to destruction of the planet.'
- Part 1 of 5, 9:10 minutes duration
- Part 2 of 5, 10:07 minutes duration
- Part 3 of 5, 9:50 minutes duration
- Part 4 of 5, 7:43 minutes duration
- Part 5 of 5, 3:39 minutes duration
Video interview with Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, Equality trust, presented by the TalkingStick.TV, YouTube film, 29:12 minutes duration, posted 14. January 2010
Audio interview with Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, Does Income Inequality Hurt Countries?, presented by the The Young Turks Interviews, 6:46 minutes duration, 15. January 2010
Video interview with Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, Kate Pickett, Ph.D. (*1965) British professor of epidemiology, University of York, co-author, Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, recorded by the TalkingStick.TV, YouTube film, Hogness Auditorium, University of Washington, recorded 8. January 2010, YouTube film, 1:30:14 duration, posted 23. January 2010
Video presentation/interview with Kate Pickett, Ph.D. (*1965) British professor of epidemiology, University of York, co-author,
Big Think Interview With Kate Pickett, presented by the US American web portal Big Think, 18:56 minutes duration, aired
27. January 2010

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

Video presentation by Peter Joseph, US American non-commercial film director, activist, producer of the documentary film Zeitgeist: The Movie, founder of The Zeitgeist Movement, conference "Zeitgeist Day 2010", topic Social Pathology, New York City, New York, United States, 13. March 2010, YouTube film
- Speech on Zday 2010, part 1 of 10, 10:59 minutes duration, posted 31. December 2010
- Speech on Zday 2010, part 2 of 10, 10:59 minutes duration, posted 31. December 2010
- Speech on Zday 2010, part 3 of 10, 10:59 minutes duration, posted 31. December 2010
- Speech on Zday 2010, part 4 of 10, 10:59 minutes duration, posted 31. December 2010

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

Speech on Zday 2010, part 5 of 10, 10:59 minutes duration, posted 31. December 2010

Tribute to the study results of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

Speech on Zday 2010, part 6 of 10, 10:59 minutes duration, posted 31. December 2010

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

Speech on Zday 2010, part 7 of 10, 10:59 minutes duration, posted 31. December 2010
Speech on Zday 2010, part 8 of 10, 10:59 minutes duration, posted 31. December 2010
Speech on Zday 2010, part 9 of 10, 10:59 minutes duration, posted 31. December 2010
Speech on Zday 2010, part 10 of 10, 5:59 minutes duration, posted 31. December 2010

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

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, How economic inequality harms societies, presented by TED Talks, YouTube film, 16:55 minutes duration, posted 24. October 2011
Video lecture 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, Inequality: The Enemy Between Us?, spon-
sored by The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NYC, 29. November 2012, 1:11:47 duration, posted 14. February 2013
Video lecture by Richard Wilkinson, British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, Kate Pickett, Ph.D. (*1965) British professor of epidemiology, University of York, co-author, produced by Media Education, KTLS18: Richard Wilkinson on In-
equality – The Enemy Between Us, sponsored by the KCL Law's King's Transnational Law Summit 2018, YouTube film, 43:33 minute duration, posted 11. June 2018

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

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

Video Interview mit Muhammad Yunus (*1940) bangladeschischer Professor für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Chittagong Universität, Gründer und ehemaliger Geschäftsführer der Grameen Bank, Begründer des Mikrofinanz-Gedankens, Friedensnobelpreisträger, 2006, Philosophie der Kreditgebung, präsentiert von dem ersten Fernsehprogramm des Schweizer Radio und Fernsehens (SRF) SRF 1, wöchentliche Diskussionsrunde Sternstunde Philosophie, Gastgeber Roger de Weck, Sendetermin 6. Januar 2008, Videogold Film, 56:50 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 18. August 2008, wieder eingestellt 7. Oktober 2009
Audiointerview mit Elfriede Ammann, Wuerdekultur – eine Bewegung kommt nach Deutschland, [Dignity culture – A Movement comes to Germany], via den US-amerikanischen Rundfunksender Blogtalkradio, Sendung PowerCoaching, Gastgeberin Anja Jeffries, 30 Minuten Dauer, 13. Januar 2010
Videovortrag von DDr. Evelin Gerda Lindner (*1954) deutsche Ärztin, Psychologin, Würde- und Erniedrigungsforscherin, Grün-
derin und Präsidentin des Forschungsnetzwerks Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS), Autorin, "Übergänge – eine Herausforderung", Evelin Lindner 2013 Talk in Montreux, Switzerland, veranstaltet von dem 5. Kongress der Psy-Verbände Schweiz, Thema "Konstruktive Veränderungsprozesse in der Behandlung von traumatisierten oder anders gedemütigten Men-
schen", 2013 [Congress of Psychiatrists and Psychologists of Switzerland 2013, speech titled "Transitions – A Challenge"], Mon-
treux, 13. September 2013, YouTube Film, 1:21:22 Dauer, eingestellt 31. Oktober 2013
Video Fernsehsendung Alle Menschen sind frei? Wozu es Menschenrechte braucht, präsentiert von dem deutschen öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehsender Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ARD-alpha, 28:11 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 29. Juni 2020

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

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Musical offerings

Dignity

Video song by Shirley Bassey, Somewhere, song from Westside Story by Leonard Bernstein, YouTube film, 2:50 minutes duration, posted 31. March 2008
Sarah Brightman, Somewhere ✣ I Feel Pretty ✣ Tonight from Westside Story 1997, composed by Leonard Bernstein, YouTube film, 5:45 minutes duration, posted 4. May 2012

Rankism

Cactus Cuties, Madeline and Blaire sing from the Broadway Play Annie Get Your Gun Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better, YouTube film, 3:37 minutes duration, posted 3. November 2008

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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 ⇑

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

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Dignity – Human dignityDignitarian movement

Historic traces of dignity

Liberty – Equality – Fraternity

Descriptions of dignity – dignitas and humanitas

Dignity consciousness in companies

Afflicted emotions and human dignity

Threshold between pride and integrity

Women's leadership superseding men's leadership

Women's self-defeating programming towards successful sisters

Four developmental periods in biology, ecology, finance and economics

Moving into dignity politics – Four historical arcs of evolution

Perspectives

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

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

Quotes by Robert W. Fuller – Dignity ⇔ Rankism

Reversing the Somebody ⇔ Nobody mind set

Quotes on 'women embracing dignity for all'

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

Transition into emergent culture

Learning to listen while on a mission to save the poor

Misconceiving human dignity with outer wealth

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

Dignity culture ⇔ Pride culture

Reconciliation between Hercules and Hydra – a healing story

Dichotomy between Somebody ∞ Nobody ⇔ Everything ∞ Nothing

I am a nobody!

Void ⇔ Allness

The fear of nothingness ⇔ the denial of allness

Quotations on Human dignity

Quotes by different sources

Quotes by David R. Hawkins

Quotes by Evelin Lindner

Quotes on human rights and human values

Quotes on pride and shame ⇔ dignity

True dignity

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

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

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

Shifting paradigms from domination to partnership – Evelin Lindner

Communication styles in traditional patriarchy ⇔ equal dignity society

Transitioning from unequal worth and rights to equal worth and rights

Learning curve in the 20th century – Robert Fuller

Four systemic practices of humiliation

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Links on Human dignity and Human rights / Menschenwürde

Literature

Literature – Robert W. Fuller

Literature – Evelin Gerda Lindner

Literature (German)

External weblinks (engl.)

Audio and video links

Audio and video links – Robert W. Fuller

Audio and video links – Donna Hicks

Audio and video links – Evelin Lindner

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

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

Musical offerings

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Dignity – Human dignity
Dignitarian movement