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1 – Einer genügt, um einen zu kennen.
10 – Zwei genügen, um einen anzuerkennen.
100 – Eine Gruppe kann dich heilen.
1000 – Es braucht alle, um eins zu sein.

1 – It takes one to know one.
10 – It takes two to acknowledge one.
100 – It takes a group to heal one.
1000 – It takes all to – be one.
Elfriede Ammann

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Einkommens- und Statusgefälle im weltweiten Vergleich – Wilkinson und Pickett

Der britische Wirtschaftshistoriker Richard Wilkinson (ehemals Universität Nottingham) und seine Kollegin und Partnerin, die Sozialepidemiologin Kate Pickett (Universität von York) fanden im Verlauf von jahrzehntelangen Vergleichsstudien bezogen auf 21 Industrieländer (Nordamerika, Europa, Australien, Japan) heraus:

Die Wurzel einer Vielzahl von sozialen Missständen in Industrieländern liegt nicht an der Höhe des Ein-
kommens, sondern an der Einkommenskluft innerhalb einer Gesellschaft und dem damit einhergehenden Bewertungs- und Würdigunggefälle.

Ab einer Einkommens- und somit Chancenverteilung''', die grundlegende Lebensbedürfnisse abdeckt – wie etwa in dem Land Kuba – ist nicht für das allgemeine Wohlbefinden und die Lebensqualität der Gesamtbevölkerung mehr die Höhe
des Durchschnittseinkommens ausschlaggebend, sondern der Abstand im Gefälle von Einkommen und Status.

Source: ► Ed Diener, Daniel Kahneman, Raksha Arora, James Harter, William Tov, Income's Differential Influence on Judgments
of Life Versus Affective Well-Being, Assessing Well-Being, Social Indicators Research Series, Volume 39, 2009

US-amerikanische Gallup Umfrage/Studie von Ed Diener, Daniel Kahneman et al., 2009
Ab einem Jahreseinkommen von 60.000 $ ist man nicht mehr glücklicher, sondern wähnt sich glücklicher.
Der Differenz zwischen dem erlebenden Selbst und dem Erinnerungsselbst verfälscht Umfrageergebnisse.

Anhand von öffentlich zugänglichen und von Fremdquellen erstellten Statistiken auf internationaler Ebene schlussfolgerte das Forscherpaar Wilkinson/Pickett, dass das rankistische Machtgefälle zwischen den 20% der ärmeren und den 20%
der reicheren Bevölkerungsschichten in Industriegesellschaften deutlich mit einer Vielzahl der drängendsten sozialen Probleme korreliert. Während das Einkommensgefälle zwischen Ober- und Unterschicht in Japan und den skandinavi-
schen Staaten bei einem Faktor von 3,5+ liegt, ist es in Vereinigten Staaten, Großbritannien, Portugal, Australien und Neuseeland mehr als doppelt so groß.

Je gravierender das Einkommens- und Statusgefälle zwischen den Gesellschaftsschichten in einem Staat ist, desto verschärfter treten auch dessen Problemfelder auf, hervorgerufen durch Rangstellungsmissbrauch. Je ungleicher die Gesellschaftsschichten eines Volkes beschaffen sind, desto mehr wird es durch Herrschaftsansprüche (Überlegenheit/
Unterlegenheit – Stolz/Scham), Statuskonkurrenz, Statusunsicherheit, Angst vor sozialer Geringschätzung herausge-
fordert. Durch diesen Umstand verschlechtert sich die Lage des ganzen Volkes in verschiedenen sozialen Problem-
feldern (besonders davon betroffen ist die körperliche und seelische Gesundheit):

Armut,
Stress,
Gemeinschaft und soziale Beziehungen,
Schulische Leistung und Bildungsstandard,
Fettleibigkeit,
Geisteskrankheit,
Allgemeine Lebenserwartung,
Krankheitsrate,
Teenagerschwangerschaften,
Drogenmissbrauch,
Gewalt,
Mordrate
Verbrechensrate, Gefängnis und Bestrafung,
"Gegenseitiges Vertrauen" und Korruption,
Aufstiegsradius und Ursprungsfamilie (Soziale Mobilität)

Quelle: ► Richard Wilkinson (*1943) britischer Gesundheitswissenschaftler, emeritierter Professor für Sozialepidemiologie,
Universität von Nottingham, Prof. Kate Pickett (*1965) britische Professorin für Epidemiologie, Universität York, Mitautorin,
Gleichheit ist Glück. Warum gerechte Gesellschaften für alle besser sind, Tolkemitt bei Zweitausendeins, 3. Auflage Dezember 2009

Siehe auch: ► Würde

Fazit: Die Wurzel von (weitgehend) allen sozialen Übeln liegt im Einkommens- und
Statusgefälle und dem damit einhergehenden Würdigunggefälle.

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Resilienz – Zwei Drittel ⇔ Ein Drittel-Verhältnis

Der Psychoanalytiker, Kinderpsychologe und KZ-Überlebende Jude Bruno Bettelheim, der im Alter Selbstmord
begangen hat, bestätigte in einer psychologischen Analyse in seinem Buch Aufstand gegen die Masse. Die
Chance des Individuums in der modernen Gesellschaft (Kindler, 1980) folgende soziologische
Drei-Drittel-Faustregel der Resilienz angesichts des Umgangs mit Lebenskrisen.

Reaktionsschema bei Extremsituationen

3-6-9er-Drittelung	Biblischer Hinweis	Verhaltensqualität	Beschreibung
1. Drittel 333	Ohne Brot sind sie nicht imstande dazu!	Sie können nicht.	Das erste Drittel, bestehend aus den ins KZ verschickten Juden und Sinti, ist bereits während des Transports aus Angst vor der Ungewiss- heit ihres Schicksals und der Aussicht auf das Lagerleben gestorben.
2. Drittel 666 [**]	Ohne Spiele sind sie nicht bereit dazu!	Sie wollen nicht.	Das zweite Drittel starb während der KZ-Inhaftierung, weil die Bedingungen dort unerträglich für sie waren.

3. Drittel 999	Mit nur wenig BROT und SPIELEN	halten sie durch. __________________ Wenn der Tipping Point 1000 erreicht ist, geschieht der Systemwandel.	Das letzte Drittel entkam auf wundersame Weise beziehungsweise es überlebte die Torturen der persönlichen Entmachtung bis zur Befreiung durch alliierte Truppen. Die Befreiten oder Freigewordenen verdankten dies ihrer geistig-seelischen Stärke, ihrem unerschütterlichen Vertrauen in ihr Schicksal und ihrer körperlichen Disziplin.[*]

[*] Beachte: Das 2/3:1/3-Verhältnis tritt auch in der apokalyptischen Offenbarung (NT) zutage:
Ein Drittel der Menschheit wird während der Endzeit sterben¹,
das letzte zäh-nachhaltige Drittel der Menschheit wird sich in den "Tagen der Trübsal" bewähren.

[**] Beachte: 666-Zahlenmagie – An sich neutrale Zahlen drücken Frequenzverhältnisse aus. 2/3 = 0,666 periodisch.
Das Zwei-Drittel-Verhältnis nimmt innerhalb des universellen Fraktals, das auf viele Dimensionen (wie Masse, Länge, Zeit) übertragbar ist,
eine Schlüsselposition ein. Das 666-Verhältnis öffnet das Tor in die sogenannten "grünen Bereiche" in der Natur. In diesen Zonen finden ge-
häuft natürliche Keimprozesse statt. Machtorientierte Geheimbünde verwenden die mächtige Schöpfungszahl 6 in Form der Zahlenreihe 666, um ihre Vorhaben schneller materiell zu manifestieren. Dabei missbrauchen sie die neutrale Sechserfolge zur Ausübung von Zwansgs-
macht.

"Nimm die Zahl 666, die in guten oder schlechten Verhältnissen entweder einen vollendeten Menschen oder einen vollendeten
Teufel bezeichnet. Teile du die Liebe im Menschen gerade in 666 Teile; davon gib Gott 600, dem Nächsten 60 und dir selbst 6! Willst du aber ein vollendeter Teufel sein, dann gib Gott sechs, dem Nächsten sechzig und dir selbst sechshundert!"
Jakob Lorber [Schreibknecht Gottes nach innerem Wortdiktat] (1800-1864) österreichisch-steirischer Musiker, Vertreter eines liberalen Universalismus, christlicher Schriftsteller von Neuoffenbarungen, Großes Evangelium Johannes, 11 Bände, Band 2 "Jesu umfassende Wiederoffenbarung seiner Lehren und Taten", Kapitel 77 "Rechtes Maß an Liebe zu Gott, zum Nächsten um sich. Entsprechungen der Zahl 666", S. 247, Vers 2-3, Erstausgabe 1871, 1891-1893, Lorber-Verlag, Bietig-
heim-Bissingen, 7. Auflage 2000; Books on Demand (BoD), 6. März 2019

Siehe auch:
► Vertrauen und ► Lichtnahrung und ► Heilung und ► Gesetz 3:1
► Krebsheilung – Zwei Drittel ⇔ Ein Drittel-Verhältnis
► Verteilungsrate von Denken und Fühlen bei den Geschlechtern
► Statistik zum Thema Tod in Deutschland – Zwei Drittel ⇔ Ein Drittel-Verhältnis

Im Jahr 1970 wertete Aaron Antonovsky (1923-1994) eine Erhebung über die Anpassungsfähigkeit von Frauen verschiedener ethnischer Gruppen an die Menopause aus. Eine Gruppe von Probandinnen war 1939 zwischen
16 und 25 Jahre alt gewesen und hatte sich zu dieser Zeit in einem nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager befunden.
Ihr psychischer und körperlicher Gesundheitszustand wurde mit der einer Kontrollgruppe verglichen. Der Anteil
der in ihrer Gesundheit nicht beeinträchtigten Frauen betrug in der Kontrollgruppe 51%, im Vergleich zu 29%
der KZ-Überlebenden. Nicht der Unterschied an sich, sondern die Tatsache, dass in der Gruppe der KZ-Überle-
benden 29% der Frauen trotz der unvorstellbaren Qualen eines Lagerlebens mit anschließendem Flüchtlingsda-
sein als (körperlich und psychisch) 'gesund' beurteilt wurden, war für ihn ein unerwartetes Ergebnis.
Wikipedia-Eintrag zum Stichwort Salutogenese

In der aufwendigen Kauai-Längsschnittstudie analysierten die amerikanische Entwicklungspsychologin Emmy Werner (1929-2017) und ihre Kollegin Ruth Smith die Langzeitfolgen von prä- und perinatalen Risikobedingungen sowie die Auswirkungen ungünstiger Lebensumstände in der frühen Kindheit. Ihre Probanden, 698 polynesische Kinder, stammten aus einem kompletten Jahrgang. Sie wurden bei der Geburt und im Lebensalter von 1, 2, 10, 18,
32 und 40 im Hinblick auf ihre physische, kognitive und psychische Entwicklung untersucht. Überrascht stellten
die Forscherinnen fest, dass sich ein Drittel der Kinder und Heranwachsenden aus der Risikogruppe ausnehmend
positiv entwickelten.
Resilienzforschung der Entwicklungspsychopathologie nach Emmi Werner

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Krebsheilung – Zwei Drittel ⇔ Ein Drittel-Verhältnis

Zwanghaft wachstumsorientierte Krebszellen tragen nicht wie gesunde Zellen zum Gesamtwohl des Organismus bei.
Für ihr unmäßiges Wachstum verbrauchen sie das 32-fache an Energie. Sie geraten in einen energieraubenden Strudel
des Eigennutzes.

Duktales Karzinom in situ

Bei erfolgender Heilung einer Krebserkrankung werden etwa zwei Drittel der nicht wandlungsfähigen entarteten Zellen als ausgefällter Eiweißstoff vom Körper verbraucht beziehungsweise ausgeschieden.
Bei einem Drittel der Krebszellen gelingt der Prozess der Umbildung.
Bis zu 57 Wandlungsstufen auf der Zellebene sind zu durchlaufen,
damit Krebszellen schließlich wieder – wie gesunde Zellen – in die
Lage zu kommen, die Botschaft des innewohnenden Gencodes voll-
ständig zu entschlüsseln und in kopierter Form bei Zellteilungen getreu weiterzugeben.

Während dieses Genesungsprozesses erhöht sich der Lichtquotient
der ehemals kranken Zellen beträchtlich.

Siehe auch:
► Heilung und ► Rekontextualisierung
► Resilienz – Zwei Drittel ⇔ Ein Drittel-Verhältnis
► Verteilungsrate von Denken und Fühlen bei den Geschlechtern
► Statistik zum Thema Tod in Deutschland – Zwei Drittel ⇔ Ein Drittel-Verhältnis

Dieses Beispiel auf Zellebene lässt sich ebenfalls auf gestörte Individuen sowie pathologische gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse übertragen. Prophezeiungen sprechen davon, dass ein Drittel der Weltbevölkerung den Prozess der
globalen Transformation nicht schaffen werden, wohingegen ein standhaftes ein Drittel ihn gut bewältigen wird.

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Statistik zum Thema Tod in Deutschland – Zwei Drittel ⇔ Ein Drittel-Verhältnis

Gut zwei Drittel Deutsche fliehen den Tod, während drei Fünftel der Deutschen glauben, dass es kein Weiterleben nach dem
Tod gibt.
Der Pressemitteilung zur Studie "Spiritualität in Deutschland" der Identity Foundation in Düsseldorf, April 2007, ist zu ent-
nehmen, wie Deutsche mit dem Tod umgehen. Im März 2006 wurden 1.000 Interviewpartner auch zu ihrem Verhältnis zum
Tod befragt:

68,4% sagen:	Über den Tod soll man nicht nachdenken.
60,7% glauben:	Mit dem Tod ist alles aus.
31,1% denken	öfters über den Tod nach.
26,6% fühlen sich gestärkt	durch ihren Glauben, der sie den Tod nicht fürchten lässt.

Laut einer Umfrage [in den Vereinigten Staaten] aus dem Jahre 2001 glauben zwei Drittel der "keine"[Konfession]-Anhänger an Gott, über ein Drittel betrachtet sich selbst als religiös und kauft eine Menge Bücher über Spiritualität. Wenn man die steigende Zahl der Menschen betrachtet, die spirituelle Erfahrungen haben, und den Rückgang derer, die sich einer der traditionellen Religionen zugehörig fühlen, dann ist es sehr wahrscheinlich, dass viele von denen,
die heutzutage mystische Erfahrungen haben, auf einem eigenen unorthodoxen Weg dahin finden.
Interview mit Roland Benedikter (*1965) Südtiroler Stiftungsprofessor für Soziologie, Politikwissenschaftler, Autor zu Themen der Kulturanalyse und Gesellschaftsentwicklung, Spirituell aber nicht religiös. Jenseits der postmodernen Spiritualität, präsentiert von dem deutschen Magazin "Was ist Erleuchtung? (WIE)", Elizabeth Debold, US-amerikanische Genderforscherin, Lehrerin, Chefredakteu-
rin des aufgelösten Magazins WIE / EnlightenNext (2002-2011), Kulturkommentatorin, Autorin, Ausgabe 19, ~2005/2006

See also: ► Tod and ► Statistik

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Verteilungsrate von Denken und Fühlen bei den Geschlechtern

Das Verhältnis von Fühlen und Denken bei Männer und Frauen

Geschlecht	Fühlen	Denken	Gesellschaftliche Anerkennung Mainstream-Orientierung	Vorurteil
Frauen – Fühlen	Zwei Drittel	Ein Drittel	JA	./.
Frauen – Denken	Ein Drittel	Zwei Drittel	NEIN	Mannweib
Männer – Denken	Ein Drittel	Zwei Drittel	JA	./.
Männer – Fühlen	Zwei Drittel	Ein Drittel	NEIN	Weichling

Zwar verteilt sich hier das Ergebnis recht gleichmäßig, Forscher fanden jedoch heraus, dass zwei Drittel der Männer Denkende und zwei Drittel der Frauen Fühlende sind. Das klingt nach Stereotypen, doch erinnern wir uns, dass Füh-
len und Denken von Anhängern der Jungschen Theorie gleichermaßen geschätzt werden, ein Drittel der Männer sind Fühlende und ein Drittel der Frauen sind Denkende. Es bleibt darauf hinzuweisen, dass die Gesellschaft Denken und Fühlen anders bewertet, so dass fühlende Männer und denkende Frauen oftmals Schwierigkeiten im Umgang mit den stereotypierten Erwartungen der Menschen haben können. Prof. C. George Boeree (*1952) niederländisch-amerikanischer Psychologe i.R., Shippensburg University, CARL JUNG 1875-1961, Persönlichkeitstheorien, Copyright 1997, 2006

Siehe auch: ► Genderforschung

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Zitate zum Thema Soziologie / Sociology

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Zitate allgemein

Schlussfolgerungen

Auf die Frage eines Journalisten, was sie aus dem Holocaust gelernt habe, antwortete Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
in einem Fernsehinterview mit einer für mich verblüffenden Botschaft:
- 10 Prozent jeder beliebigen Bevölkerung sind grausam, egal was auch immer passiert,
- 10 Prozent sind mitfühlend, ungeachtet der Umstände, und
- die restlichen 80 Prozent kann man in beide Richtungen dirigieren.

Artikel von Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) US-amerikanischer Künstler, Humanist, Kriegsveteran, einflussreicher Schriftsteller
des 20. Jahrhunderts, Susan Sontag and Arthur Miller, präsentiert von der US-amerikanischen politisch progressiven Monats-
zeitschrift In These Times, 3. März 2005

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Minderheiten sind meist Vorreiter der Wahrheit.

Die Wahrheit ist immer in der Minderheit. Und die Minderheit ist immer stärker als die Mehrheit, weil sich im Allgemeinen jene in der Minderheit befinden, die wirklich eine Haltung einnehmen, wohingegen die Stärke einer Mehrheit Täuschung ist. Sie bildet sich aus Gruppierungen, die keine Meinung vertreten – und deshalb, sobald es offenbar
wird, dass die Minderheit stärker ist, augenblicklich deren Auffassung übernehmen [...]. Währenddessen gesellt sich
die Wahrheit wiederum zu einer neuen Minderheit.
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) dänischer existentialistischer Philosoph, Theologe, Schriftsteller, Theodor Haecker, Übersetzer, Die Tagebücher (1834–1855) in zwei Bänden, 1850, S. 203, Brenner-Verlag 1923

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Wanderanekdote des Sozialgefälles

Dieser Ausspruch wurde bereits der ersten Frau von Ludwig XIV. vorgeworfen, später der französischen Königin Marie Antoinette. Er stammt nachweislich nicht von ihr.

Wenn sie kein Brot haben, dann sollen sie Brioche [Kuchen] essen. Um 1766
Endlich erinnerte ich mich des Notbehelfs einer großen Prinzessin, der man sagte, die Bauern hätten kein Brot, und die antwortete: Dann sollen sie Brioche essen! Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Schweizer-französischer Aufklärer, Wegbereiter der Französischen Revolution, Kulturphilosoph, Pädagoge, Naturforscher, Schriftsteller, Autobiografie Die Bekenntnisse, 6. Buch, vollendet 1770, veröffentlicht 1782, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), 1. Mai 2012

Selbst wenn unser Weltbild falsch ist, erfüllt es seine psychologische Funktion. Aber es war nie völlig falsch oder vollkommen richtig, sondern stets eine annähernde Erklärung der Phänomene, die ausreichte, um dem Menschen das Leben zu ermöglichen. Unser Weltbild entspricht nur in dem Maße der Wirklichkeit, wie unsere Lebenspraxis frei von Widersprüchen und Irrationalität ist. Erich Fromm (1900-1980) deutsch-US-amerikanischer Sozialpsychologe, Psychoanalytiker, humanistischer Philosoph, Autor, Haben oder Sein. Die seelischen Grundlagen einer neuen Gesellschaft, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1976, S. 135, 1980

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Hinweis:

Bangladesch gehört mit einem Bruttoinlandsprodukt pro Kopf im Jahr 2007 von ungefähr 490 US Dollar zu den ärmeren Ländern der Welt.

Frage: Wer hat größere Chancen das 65. Lebensjahr zu erreichen? Männliche Schwarze aus Harlem oder männliche Einwohner von Bangladesch?
Antwort: Die Einwohner Bangladeschs werden eher 65 als die schwarzen Männer in Harlem. Und das, obwohl dieses Land doch um einiges ärmer ist als die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, die 2007 immerhin über ein rund 91-faches Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) pro Kopf von 44.594 US Dollar verfügten.
Andreas Zeuch, "Gleichheit ist Glück" – eine gesellschaftsverändernde Analyse, 19. Juli 2010, Referenz zu: Richard Wilkinson (*1943) britischer Sozialepidemiologe, emeritierter Professor, Gesundheitswissenschaftler, Universität von Nottingham, Prof. Kate Pickett (*1965) britische Professorin für Sozialepidemiologie, Universität York, Mitautorin, Gleichheit ist Glück. Warum gerechte Gesellschaften für alle besser sind, Tolkemitt bei Zweitausendeins, 3. Auflage Dezember 2009

Bei den männlichen Beamten der unteren Ebene (Boten, Portiers etc.) betrug die Sterbeziffer das Dreifache der Sterbeziffer für leitende Beamte. Richard Wilkinson (*1943) britischer Sozialepidemiologe, emeritierter Professor, Gesundheitswissenschaftler, Universität von Nottingham, Prof. Kate Pickett (*1965) britische Professorin für Sozialepide-
miologie, Universität York, Mitautorin, Gleichheit ist Glück. Warum gerechte Gesellschaften für alle besser sind, S. 94, Tolkemitt bei Zweitausendeins, 3. Auflage Dezember 2009

Konflikt zwischen den unterschiedlichen Ebenen der Energiefelder beeinflusst die daraus resultierenden Klassenkämpfen und die Zusammenstöße in der Gesell-
schaft mit all ihren politischen Standpunkten. […] Auf den höheren Ebenen werden Konflikte durch Verständnis, Mitgefühl und Erkenntnis gelöst, während sie auf den niedrigeren Ebenen zu Streit, Verfolgung und Krieg führen. ⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, Das All-Sehende Auge,
Kapitel 5, S. 129, 2005

Soziologie – Die Assimilierung von gesellschaftlichen Minderheiten wird erfüllt sein.
Ergebnis des Zukunftsvorausschau-Projekts 2050 unter der Leitung von Dr. Stephan A. Schwartz, US-amerikanischer Kognitions-
wissenschaftler, Trend- und Zukunftsforscher, Samueli Institute, Laboratories for Fundamental Research, Autor, Project 2050 – Re-
mote Viewing Experiment – Zukunftsvorausschau 1978-2050

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Narren und Emporkömmlinge ⇔ Verräter (Psychopathen/Soziopathen)

Eine Nation kann ihre Narren überleben – und sogar ihre ehrgeizigsten Bürger. Aber sie kann nicht den Verrat von innen überleben. Ein Feind vor den Toren ist weniger gefährlich, denn er ist bekannt und trägt seine Fahnen für jedermann sichtbar. Aber der Verräter bewegt sich frei innerhalb der Stadtmauern, sein hinterhältiges Flüstern raschelt durch alle Gassen und wird selbst in den Hallen der Regierung vernommen. Denn der Verräter tritt nicht als solcher in Erscheinung: Er spricht in vertrauter Sprache, er hat ein vertrautes Gesicht, er benutzt vertraute Argumente, und er appelliert an die Gemeinheit, die tief verborgenen in den Herzen aller Menschen ruht. Er arbeitet darauf hin, dass die Seele einer Nation verfault. Er treibt sein Unwesen des Nächtens – heimlich und anonym – bis die Säulen der Nation untergraben sind. Er infiziert den politischen Körper der Nation dergestalt, bis dieser seine Abwehrkräfte verloren hat. Fürchtet nicht so sehr den Mörder. Fürchtet den Verräter. Er ist die wahre Pest! Erfundenes Cicero-Zitat von Millard F. Caldwell (1897-1984) US-amerikanischer Politiker, 29. Gouverneur von Florida (1945-1949), Oberster Richter von Florida, Cicero's Prognosis, präsentiert anlässlich des 22. Jahrestreffens der Association of American Physi-
cians and Surgeons, Columbus, Ohio, 7.-9. Oktober 1965, Neudruck März 1996

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Ethik des [Steuern] Ein-Nehmens und Gebens

These: Steuern zu entrichten, ist eine versäumte Chance thymotischer Genugtuung.

Wir leben in einer psychopolitisch falsch konstruierten Wirklichkeit. [Minute 0:28:38]

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Fokus auf Geld oder Herz:

Peter Kruse: Wir haben seit dem Mittelalter keine Fiskalphilosophie. [Minute 0:27:44]
Mittelalterlicher fiskalischer Lehrsatz: "Wo der Fikus [Reichsschatulle] ist, dort liegt das Reich [Befehlsvollmacht]." [Ubi fiscus ibi imperium. ]
Jesus Christus: Wo dein Schatz ist, da wird auch dein Herz sein. Matthäus 6, 21 (NT)

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Das griechische Wort * Thymos bedeutet:

Lebenskraft, Gemütsanlage, das emotionale sterbliche Bedürfnis nach Anerkennung. (Thymos)

Wir können keine partizipative Demokratie leisten, weil wir den Bürger in seinem thymotischen Zentrum^* nicht ernst nehmen. [Minute 0:43:08]
Der Staat ist heute eine Maschine zur Zerstörung von Bürgerstolz. Der Bürger wird vom Staat wie ein [obendrein verdächtigter] Schuldner behandelt. [Minute 0:43:08]
Das Steuernzahlen ist eine chronisch gewordene automatisierte Geberleistung von Individuuen in Bezug auf das Gemeinwesen. [Minute 0:43:08]
Solange der Steuerzahler nur ein Steuerdulder ist, ist er kein Bürger. [Minute 0:29:44]
Alle Steuerzahler direkter Steuern sollen über die Grundlagen ihres Verkehrs mit dem Gemeinwesen neu nachdenken. [Minute 0:27:44]
Wir müssen die Steuer als Gabe denken. Es geht um den Unterschied innerhalb des Ganzen. [Minute 0:28:38]

Video TV Interview mit Peter Sloterdijk (*1947) deutscher Kulturwissenschaftler, Professor für Philosophie, Universität Karlsruhe, Fernsehmoderator, Essayist, Vision der gebenden Hand – Die neue soziale Frage, präsentiert von dem ersten Fernsehprogramm des Schweizer Radio und Fernsehens (SRF) SRF 1, wöchentliche Diskussionsrunde Sternstunde Philosophie, Gastgeberin Katja Gentinetta, Sendetermin 20. März 2011, YouTube Film, 1:00:58 Dauer, eingestellt
8. September 2014

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US-amerikanischer Materialismus, Kultur und Gegenkultur

Kultur ist ein Konzept, das Anthropologen vor etwa hundert Jahren entwickelt haben. Kultur ist ein System von Werten und Überzeugungen, die ein Volk definieren. Kultur ist in gewisser Weise wie eine Hypnose. Kultur ist ein sehr starkes Konzept, da es um Vieles tiefer geht als die Politik. Die Politik schwebt sozusagen auf der Oberfläche einer Kultur. Die zugrunde liegenden kulturellen Werte sind wirklich das, was die Gesellschaft bewegt. […]
Mich interessiert die gemeinsame Schnittmenge, wo sich Republikaner und Demokraten sowie Atheisten und wie-
dergeborene Christen treffen? Sie verbindet, dass sie Teil der amerikanischen Kultur sind, die auf dem Materialis-
mus basiert. Es gibt jüdische Materialisten, christliche Materialisten, republikanische Materialisten, demokratische
Materialisten und atheistische Materialisten. Das Herzstück unserer [US-amerikanischen] Kultur ist der Materialis-
mus [und der Narzissmus]. Und dies wird von unseren Konzernen durch die starke Meinungsbildungskraft der Unternehmenswerbung gefördert. […]
Für mich geht es in unserer Kultur nicht um die Schaffung von Freiheit, sondern von Sucht, Kaufsucht auf breiter
Basis. Unsere Kultur neigt dazu, in gewisser Weise narzisstisch zu sein. Wir wollen Waren haben, und wir wollen
sie der Welt wegnehmen, und wir wollen uns selbst als sehr heilig betrachten.
Audiointerview mit Dr. Gerald Rosen (1939-2010) US-amerikanischer Professor für englische Literatur, Lehrer, Schriftsteller, America – An Insider's View, präsentiert von dem US-amerikanischen Webradiosender New Dimensions, Programm #3328, Gastgeber Michael Toms, 56:59 Minuten Dauer, Sendetermin 6. November 2009

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Die höchste Kindergeburtenrate wurde bereits 1990 erreicht.

Der globale Bevölkerungsanteil der Kinder im Alter von unter 5 Jahren lag in den 1960er Jahren bei 15% und 2012 unter 7%, und er sinkt weiter. Die jährlichen Geburten erreichten Ende der 80er Jahre mit ~138 Millionen ihren Höhepunkt und blieben seitdem nahezu – konstant bei 135 Millionen (2011), und sie werden bald sinken. Der Anteil der Weltbevölkerung unter 18 Jahren betrug 27% (2012) und wird nur von Jahr zu Jahr sinken. Die Geburtenraten sinken fast überall rapide, während sich die durchschnittliche Lebensdauer jedes Jahr geringfügig verlängert. Im März 2011 überschritt die Weltbevölkerung die Rate von 7 Milliarden Menschen. Man rechnet damit, dass sie im Jahr 2025 8 Milliarden betragen wird. Im Jahr 2012 prognostizierten die Vereinten Nationen 9 Milliarden bis 2050 und 10 Milliarden bis 2100.

Die höchste Kindergeburtenrate wurde bereits 1990 erreicht. Die Anzahl der Kinder weltweit wächst nicht mehr.
Wir debattieren immer noch, ob das Höchstmaß der Ölförderung erreicht wurde, während der Höchststand der Kin-
dergeburtenrate definitiv schon geschehen ist. Und die Weltbevölkerung wird nicht mehr wachsen. Die Bevölkerungs-
abteilung der Vereinten Nationen hat angekündigt, dass sie ab 10 Milliarden Menschen nicht weiter ansteigen wird. Religion hat sehr wenig mit der Anzahl von Geburten pro Frau zu tun. Alle Religionen der Welt sind in der Lage, ihre Werte zu bewahren und sich an diese neue Welt anzupassen. Wir werden nur 10 Milliarden Erdbewohner weltweit haben, wenn die Ärmsten aus der Armut herauskommen, ihre Kinder überleben und sie Zugang zur Familien-
planung erhalten. Das ist notwendig. Aber es ist unvermeidlich, dass wir zwei bis drei Milliarden mehr haben werden.
Videovortrag von Prof. Dr. Hans Rosling (1948-2017) schwedischer Professor für Internationale Gesundheit, Karolinska Institut, Stockholm, Direktor der Gapminder-Stiftung, Referent, Autor, Religions and babies [Religionen und Babys], deutsches Transkript, präsentiert auf dem TEDxSummit 2012, Doha, Katar, Minute 10:14, 12:13 und 12:27, 13:20 Minuten Dauer, gefilmt April 2012, eingestellt Mai 2012

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Wenn das Mediensystem unliebsame Stimmen marginalisiert und ausgrenzt:

Die Wächter der öffentlichen Diskussion – die Vertreter der Leitmedien - wähnen nur jene Akteure im "Wahren", die sich an Orten äußern (dürfen),
die von den medialen Torhütern als legitim anerkannt sind.

Es ist immer möglich, dass man im Raum eines wilden Außen die Wahrheit sagt; aber im Wahren ist man nur, wenn man den Regeln einer diskursiven 'Polizei' gehorcht. Antrittsvorlesung von Michel Foucault (1926-1984) französischer Soziologe, Philosoph, Die Ordnung des Diskurses, anlässlich der Einweihung des neu errichteten Lehrstuhls zur "Geschichte der Denksysteme", Collège de France, Paris, 2. Dezember 1970; Die Ordnung des Diskurses, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt
am Main, 1991

Referenz: de.Wikiquote-Eintrag ► Soziologie

Literaturzitate

Denn wer sich grün macht, den fressen die Ziegen. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) deutscher Universalgelehrter, Bühnendichter, Schriftsteller, Gedicht Ein Meister einer ländlichen Schule, zitiert in: Das Frankfurtlesebuch. Geschichten, Essays und Gedichte, Gedichte, Kapitel 392, Verlag Projekt Gutenberg-DE, Taschenbuch, 2018

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Zitate über Normopathie durch Selbstentfremdung – E. Fromm, A. Gruen, H-J Maaz

[D]er Wahnsinn, der sich selbst überspielt und sich mit geistiger Gesundheit maskiert, [...] hat es nicht schwer, sich zu verbergen, in einer Welt, in der Täuschung und List realitätsgerecht sind. […]
Während jene als verrückt gelten, die den Verlust der menschlichen Werte nicht mehr ertragen, wird denen Normalität bescheinigt, die sich von ihren menschlichen Wurzeln getrennt haben. Arno Gruen (1923-2015) deutsch-schweizerischer Psychologe, Psychoanalytiker, Zivilisationskritiker, Schriftsteller, Der Wahnsinn der Normalität. Realismus als Krankheit. Eine Theorie der menschlichen Destruktivität, "Vorwort", Auszüge – Leseprobe, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), 1. Januar 1992

Jede Gesellschaft setzt alles daran, mit Hilfe ihrer kulturellen Einrichtungen, ihres Erziehungssystems, ihrer religiösen Ideen usw. einen Persönlichkeitstyp zu schaffen, der das zu tun wünscht, was er tun muss, und der nicht nur das Erfor-
derliche tun will, sondern mit Eifer die Rolle auszufüllen sucht, die die Gesellschaft von ihm verlangt, damit sie reibungs-
los funktioniert. Erich Fromm (1900-1980) deutsch-US-amerikanischer Sozialpsychologe, Psychoanalytiker, humanistischer Philo-
soph, Autor, Die Pathologie der Normalität. Zur Wissenschaft vom Menschen, Ullstein Taschenbuch, 8. Auflage 12. April 2005, Open Publishing Rights, 2015

Das falsche Leben ist die Folge von Beziehungsstörungen – von Anfang an.
Die frühe Beziehungsqualität prägt die Persönlichkeit und entscheidet über «echtes» oder «falsches Leben».
Fehlentwicklungen und Fehlverhalten als Folge von Beziehungsstörungen sind schwer erkennbar, wenn eine Mehrheit davon betroffen ist. [Stichwort: Normopathie]
So können Störung, Abnormität und Destruktivität als normal, richtig und notwendig erscheinen, wie wir dies etwa im Nationalsozialismus und Sozialismus zur Kenntnis nehmen mussten und heute in einer narzisstischen Gesellschaft
als Gefahr einer bedrohlichen Fehlentwicklung erkennen sollten.

Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz (*1943) deutscher Psychiater, ärztlicher Psychoanalytiker, Autor, Das falsche Leben. Ursachen und Folgen unserer normopathischen Gesellschaft, Leseprobe, Verlag C.H.Beck, München, 1. Auflage 16. March 2017

Kollektive Protestbewegungen entstehen zumeist dann, wenn die "falschen Selbste" mit ihren (Ersatz-)Entwicklungs-
chancen eine kritische Grenze der möglichen (Ersatz)-Befriedigung erreicht haben. Dann wirken die Drogen des "fal-
schen Lebens" nicht mehr ausreichend beruhigend und ablenkend und es werden Kräfte für Protest und für Verände-
rungswünsche frei. Der Widerstand kündigt einen Gesundungswillen an, der sich aber häufig in einer neuen Form des falschen Lebens verirrt. […] Protest transportiert immer einen Ich-Willen, formuliert ein "Nein" gegen erlebte Belastung, Benachteiligung und Kränkung. Protest entsteht zumeist aus einem Zusammenspiel einer individuellen innerseelischen Krise und realen äußeren Belastungen und Bedrohungen, verbunden mit der Gefahr, dass dann nur noch die äußeren Auslöser und kritikwürdigen Verhältnisse angeprangert werden, ohne die Qual der falschen Selbst zu erkennen.
Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz (*1943) deutscher Psychiater, ärztlicher Psychoanalytiker, Autor, Das falsche Leben. Ursachen und Folgen unserer normopathischen Gesellschaft, Leseprobe, Verlag C.H.Beck, München, 1. Auflage 16. März 2017

Der 'Stammtisch' ist der seelischen Wahrheit oft näher als moralische Statements sozialer Tugendhaftigkeit.
Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz (*1943) deutscher Psychiater, ärztlicher Psychoanalytiker, Autor, Das falsche Leben. Ursachen und Folgen unserer normopathischen Gesellschaft, Leseprobe, Verlag C.H.Beck, München, 1. Auflage 16. March 2017

Quelle: ► Video Fernsehinterview mit Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz (*1943) deutscher Psychiater, ärztlicher Psychoanalytiker, Autor,
Das falsche Leben, präsentiert von dem Schweizer Non-Profit-Internet-Fernsehen Free Spirit-TV, Gastgeberin
Aline N. Brandstetter, YouTube Film, 1:16:31 Dauer, eingestellt 14. April 2019

"Falsches Leben" ist die Folge von Selbstentfremdungen. Durch eine defizitäre, behinderte, fehlgeleitete Selbst-Entfaltung findet der Mensch nicht mehr zu sich selbst, sondern lebt ein erzwungenes, manipuliertes verführtes Leben. Falsches Leben bedeutet einen permanenten Konflikt zwischen Natur und Kultur, zwischen originärer Individualität und geforderten, genormten Verhalten.

Hans-Joachim Maaz

"Falsches Leben" bedeutet einen innerseelischen Dau-
erstress zwischen dem, wie ein Mensch leben soll oder muss und dem, wie er leben möchte. Massenpsychologisch bildet eine große Zahl von Selbst-
entfremdungen eine "Normopathie" mit der großen Ge-
fahr gesellschaftlicher Fehlentwicklung mit destruktiven
Folgen für das soziale Zusammenleben und globalen
Folgen von Klimaveränderungen, Umweltzerstörung, Aus-
beutung, Kriegen und Migration.

Die Ursachen von Selbstentfremdungen sind Erzie-
hungsnormen. Ich stelle Beziehung gegen Erziehung. Erziehung ist ein Subjekt (Erzieher)-Objekt (Kind)-Verhältnis, das stets autoritäre Züge trägt, indem die erziehende Person vorgibt, was richtig und falsch sei. Dagegen versteht eine Subjekt-Subjekt-Beziehung auch das Kind als Beziehungspartner, dessen Bedürfnisse, Möglichkeiten und Begrenzungen erkannt, berücksichtigt, befriedigt und begrenzt werden sollten. Das Kind als Beziehungspartner meint keine gleichberechtigte Beziehung "auf Augenhöhe", sondern den empathischen, re-
spektvollen Austausch von Bedürfnissen, Gefühlen, Möglichkeiten und Begrenzungen. Die Beziehungsqualität zwischen Mutter-Vater-Kind entscheidet über die Entwicklungschancen des Kindes und der Eltern.

Unter "Normopathie" verstehe ich eine gesellschaftliche Fehlentwicklung, eine Gesellschaftspathologie, in der das Gestörte, das Krankhafte nicht mehr erkannt wird, weil die Mehrheit die Fehlentwicklung für gut und richtig findet.
Und was die Mehrheit denkt und tut, muss dann ja wohl richtig sein. So werden selbst kollektive Verbrechen wie Krieg, Völkermord, Verfolgung Andersdenkender mehrheitlich akzeptiert oder sogar für gut und notwendig befunden – meist mit ideologischen und politischen Argumenten untermauert. Der normopathische Nationalsozialismus hat Rassenwahn für normal gehalten. Der normopathische DDR-Sozialismus hat Klassenkampf, Herrschaft einer Ideologie und Denun-
ziation für notwendig gehalten. Die heutige narzisstische Normopathie akzeptiert unbegrenztes materielles Wachstum mit verhängnisvollen Folgen für Klima und Umwelt und mit wachsender sozialer Ungerechtigkeit.

Die sogenannten "Frühstörungen" aus den Beziehungsdefiziten der kindlichen Frühentwicklung sind nicht wirklich heilbar. Deshalb ist prinzipiell Prävention (optimale Frühbetreuung!) besser als Therapie. Wenn Selbst-Beschädigun-
gen vorliegen, ist die wichtigste Hilfe, darum zu wissen und die Kompensationen, mit denen man ja in einer normo-
pathischen Gesellschaft durchaus erfolgreich sein kann, kritisch infrage zu stellen. Mit dem Erinnern und Verstehen
der eigenen Entwicklungen und allen Selbstentfremdungen kann schließlich eine Kontrolle und Regulation eines
problematischen oder schädigenden Verhaltens gelingen. Ich nenne das einen "kompetenteren und verantwortli-
chen Umgang mit der eigenen Selbstentfremdung".

Würde ist die Basis für "richtiges Leben". "In-Würde-Sein" und "In-Würde-Handeln" heißt, bemüht zu sein, aus den originären, den echten Selbstanteilen zu leben, also die Entfremdungen und Defizite mit aller ich-haften Kompensation zu kontrollieren und zu begrenzen.

Parallelgesellschaften, feindselige Auseinandersetzungen, rassistische Vorurteile, extremistische Kämpfe [entstehen] als Folge unbewältigter unbewusster psychosozialer Störungen. Entfremdete Selbste neigen immer zu Spaltungen (ich gut – Du schlecht) und Projektionen (Du bist schuld!). Die Integration des Islam könnte nur gelingen, wenn Religionsfreiheit und Religionsgleichwertigkeit auch von Muslimen akzeptiert wird, ebenso wie die Trennung von Staat und Kirche (Moschee), von Politik und Religion. Erst wenn "das Andere" beweist, dass es friedfertig ist, dass kulturelle und religiöse Unterschiede respektiert und nicht bekämpft werden, kann man von Integration sprechen. Psychodynamisch gesprochen ist Integration die Überwindung von Spaltung und Projektion. Ohne eine demo-
kratische, freiheitlich-liberale Grundposition als innerseelische Kompetenz – in Überwindung von Selbst-Entfremdung – kann eine politische, kulturelle und religiöse Integration nicht gelingen. Das betrifft alle Beteiligten einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft.

Quelle: ► Gelöschtes Videointerview mit Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz (*1943) deutscher Psychiater, ärztlicher Psychoanalytiker, Autor,
Das falsche Leben, YouTube Film, 59:44 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 17. Februar 2018

Die Gesellschaft, die Erziehungsverhältnisse, die Normen prägen ja einen Menschen. Wenn man in der Therapie feststellt, dass mich das krank gemacht hat und ich das anders will, dann gehe ich aus einem guten therapeutischen Prozess eigentlich als Gesellschaftskritiker hervor. Minute 18:56

Die Hauptursache für psychische Probleme im Erwachsenenalter ist die frühkindliche Entwicklungsphase.

Es wird offensichtlich auch gemeint, dass eine frühe Fremdbetreuung dazu beiträgt, dass der Mensch manipulierbar ist – sowohl als Konsument als auch für politische Korrektheit, dass er gar nicht mehr allzu sehr wagt, eine eigene Meinung zu entwickeln. Und ökonomisch wünscht man natürlich, dass die Eltern, auch jungen Mütter, sehr schnell wieder arbeiten können. Minute 24:57

Social engineering steuert in die Normopathie.

Viele Angepasste in der Gesellschaft werden durch Erziehungsdruck in eine bestimmte Richtung (Anpassung, Unter-
ordnung, Leistung) gedrängt. Eine Mehrheit dieser sich selbst entfremdeter Menschen bildet dann das Mitläufersyn-
drom, das ich als Normopathie bezeichne, wobei das Besondere daran ist, dass das Pathische, das Gestörte, nicht mehr als Störung wahrgenommen wird, sondern für normal gehalten wird. […]
Die Frühentfremdung, die vorhandene Selbstentfremdung und Identitätschwäche, die Abhängigkeit von äußeren Mehrheitstrends und Werbebotschaften führt dazu, dass man auf keinen Fall eine Außenseiterposition einnehmen möchte. Wenn die individuelle Problematik massenpsychologisch gesehen wirksam wird, entsteht daraus eine Normopathie. Minute 34:17, Minute 36:17

Keine Werbung würde richtig funktionieren, wenn die Menschen nicht abhängig wären, abhängig von dem, was von außen kommt, was gut und richtig sein soll. Wenn die Politik von entfremdeten, narzisstischen Persönlichkeiten ge-
tragen wird, dann besteht die Gefahr, dass eben auch die Gesellschaft in eine solche falsche Richtung marschiert [Normopathie]. Minute 37:23

Die Definitionen der Eigenschaften von Mütterlichkeit und Väterlichkeit sind nicht ans Geschlecht gebunden. Wichtig
ist, dass ein Kind beides, Väterliches und Mütterliches, braucht, um sich gut entwickeln zu können. Minute 39:14

Die drei deutschen Normopathien sind:
1. die nationalsozialistische Normopathie,
2. die realsozialistische Normopathie und
3. die narzisstische Normopathie. Minute 48:30

Das falsche Selbst kann man leider nicht ablegen, die Erziehungsfehler kann man nicht ungeschehen machen. Daher ist die Prävention in der Frühbetreuung und die Familienbetreuung wichtig, und die unvermeidbare frühe Fremdbetreu-
ung von Kleinkindern muss optimiert werden, höchstens 2-3 Kleinkinder pro Krippenerziehung, statt wie heute 12-15. Und es kommt auf die Beziehungsfähigkeit und Herzensbindungsfähigkeit der Betreuer an, nicht auf deren pädago-
gische Bildung. Minute 55:57

Frühkindliche Beziehungstraumata kann man nicht wirklich heilen im Sinne von ungeschehen machen. Man sollte gründlicher reflektieren (und bewusst werden) und ihre Gefühle zum Ausdruck bringen. Man kann lernen, mit der eigenen Störung kompetenter umzugehen. Minute 57:03

Siehe auch: ► Mütterlichkeits- und Väterlichkeitsstörungen – Hans-Joachim Maaz und ► Familiäre Konstellationen – Hans-Joachim Maaz

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General quotes

Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who
enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Matthew 7, 13-14 (NT)

Personal avowals

One might not believe one is a certain way, but social influence is very strong. I discovered that racism [sexism,
etc.] can be ingrained in you even though you don't want it to be. Audio interview with Annette Jahnel (*1962) South African photographer, artist, world traveller offering the project "Searching for Galileo", public speaker, author, Interview With Author Annette Jahnel, presented by the US American radio station Voice of Vashon, Vashon Island, Washington, program on Prose, Poetry & Purpose, host March Twisdale, minute 2:02, 1:02:20 duration, recorded summer 2014, posted 5. October 2014

Conclusion – from things to persons

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Shifting from things to persons

Speech delivered to the clergy and laymen concerned about the Vietnam war

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplet of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. Excerpted from a speech by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American clergyman, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, Beyond Vietnam, Riverside Church, New York City, 4. April 1967

Neoliberal individualized ideology

There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government
can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.
Interview for Woman's Own ("no such thing as society") with Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) British stateswoman and politician, prime minister of the United Kingdom (1979-1990), leader of the Conservative Party (1975-1990), 23. September 1987, cited in: Douglas Keay, Woman's Own, S. 8-10, 31. October 1987

Conclusion – from democracy to inverted totalitarianism

We are living in a time of Inverted Totalita-
rianism, in which the tools used to maintain the status quo are much more subtle and tech-
nologically advanced. These include propagan-
da and major media outlets that hide the real news about conditions at home and our activi-
ties around the world behind distractions […].
Another tool is to create insecurity in the popula-
tion so that people are unwilling to speak out and
take risks for fear of losing their jobs and being
unable to afford food, a home and health care.
Changes in the work environment, such as the attack on unions and the war on whistleblowers, have led to greater job insecurity. Changes in college education also silence dissent, including the trend toward adjunct rather than tenured professors. Adjunct professors, now comprising 85 percent of faculty, are less willing to teach topics that are viewed as controversial. This, combined with massive student debt, are tools to silence the student population, once the center of transformative action.
Article Lifting the Veil of Mirage Democracy in the United States, presented by the US American nonprofit, progressive daily online newsletter Truthout, Margaret Flowers, Kevin Zeese, February 2013

Warning – Future outlook

A nation that year after year spends more money on military defense, than it does on programs of social uplift is facing spiritual death. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American Baptist minister, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, speech "We as a Nation Must Undergo a Radical Revolution of Values", 4. April 1967, YouTube clip 1967: "Radical Revolution of Values", 3:51 minutes duration, posted 20. January 2014

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Roman empire and Western civilized materialistic capitalist society

Status 1948

It is true that the materialistic society, the so-called culture that has evolved under the tender mercies of capitalism, has produced what seems to be the ultimate limit of this worldliness. And nowhere, except perhaps in the analogous society of pagan Rome, has there ever been such a flowering of cheap and petty and disgusting lusts and vanities as in the world of capitalism, where there is no evil that is not fostered and encouraged for the sake of making money. We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) Anglo-American Catholic Trappist monk, mystic student of comparative religion, social activist, poet, writer, autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, Harcourt Brace, 11. October 1948

The more a man's life is shaped by the collective norm, the greater is his individual immorality.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, R.F.C. Hull, editor, H. G. Baynes, translator, Psychological Types – The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 6, 1921, Princeton University Press, 2nd edition 1971, 1. October 1976

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"Civilization." What does it mean?

It means a society based upon the opinion of civilians. It means that violence, the rule of warriors and despotic chiefs, the conditions of camps and warfare, of riot and tyranny, give place to parliaments where laws are made, and independent courts of justice in which over long periods those laws are maintained. That is Civilization – and in its soil grow conti-
nually freedom, comfort and culture. When Civilization reigns, in any country, a wider and less harassed life is afforded to the masses of the people. The traditions of the past are cherished, and the inheritance bequeathed to
us by former wise or valiant men becomes a rich estate to be enjoyed and used by all.
The central principle of Civilization is the subordination of the ruling authority to the settled customs of the people and to their will as expressed through the Constitution. […]
Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe. ⚡ Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) British prime minister of the United Kingdom during the 2nd World War (1940-1945) and (1951-1955), Civilization, chancellor's address, University of Bristol, 2. July 1938; cited in: Blood, Sweat, and Tears by Randolph S. Churchill, editor, S. 45-46, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1941

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Quote misattributed to Albert Einstein in this variation:

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before. Poster by Francis Phillip Wernig [Ashley-Pitt], 15. July 1970; Eda LeShan (1922-2002) US American child activist, counselor, educator, television host, playwright, writer, The Wonderful Crisis of Middle Age, S. 304, Warner Books, New York, copyright 1973, first printing November 1974

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Introducing social wealth indicators taking the status of women into account

Did you know that this wealthy United States now has
➤ the highest infant mortality rates,
➤ the highest maternal mortality rates,
➤ the highest child poverty rates

of any developed nation? And of course that does not show up in GDP. […]
A research study at the Center for Partnership Studies compared statistical measures of 89 nations […] and found that the status of women can be a much better predictor of general quality of life and longterm economic success than GDP. Video presentation by Riane Eisler, Ph.D., J.D. (*1931) Austrian-born US American scholar, cultural historian, systems scientist, partnership researcher, activist, attorney, educator, writer, Building A Caring Economy, presented by TEDx Santa Cruz, California, recorded June 2011, YouTube film, minute 1:37 and minute 10:15, 23:54 minutes duration, posted 7. September 2011

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Micheal, a 10 year old boy, had inquired in a letter as to whether Fuller was a "doer" or a "thinker".

The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done – that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) US American engineer, systems theorist, architect, constructor, desig-
ner, inventor, futurist, philosopher, author, letter to "Michael", 16. February 1970, Critical Path, St Martins Press, 1981; cited
in: Stephen M. Shapiro, Goal-Free Living. How to Have the Life You Want NOW!, S. 49, John Wiley & Sons, 2006

It is evidenced that throughout all earlier times until yesterday, the ruling social powers assumed the human masses to be universally ignorant and accredited them with having only muscle and dexterity value. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) US American engineer, systems theorist, architect, constructor, designer, inventor, futurist, philosopher, author, Critical Path, S. 108, St Martins Press, 1981

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Need to share one's gifts

Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave:
1. the full realization of their innate gifts,
2. and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed.

There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because
the world around them is blind to it. Dr. Malidoma Patrice Somé (1956-2021) West African Burkina Faso born, American ba-
sed psychologist, medicine man, author, The Healing Wisdom of Africa. Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Commu-
nity, Penguin Putnam, New York, 1988, TarcherPerigee, 13. September 1999

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Creative nonconformity:

This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Dangerous passions of pride, hatred and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; truth lies prostrate on the rugged hills of nameless Cavalries. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American Baptist minister, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1964, On Nonconformity, 1963

Only after the victory of humanism and the Enlightenment as the religious foundation of the Western society did anxiety about spiritual nonbeing become dominant. The breakdown of absolutism, the development of liberalism and democra-
cy, the rise of a technical civilization with its victory over all enemies and its own beginning disintegration – these are the presuppositions for the third main period of anxiety in history [the post/modern era]. In this period the anxiety of emptiness and meaninglessness is dominant. We are under the threat of spiritual non-being.
Paul Tillich (1886-1965) German US American theologian, Christian existentialist philosopher, The Courage to Be, 1952, Yale University, New Haven, 2nd edition 2002

One black sheep in a white sheep herd

Most often in history it was the conquerors who learned willingly from the conquered. Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
US American longshoreman philosopher, social writer, The Ordeal
of Change, 1963, Hopewell Publications, 6. June 2006

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) [...] did get off one soundbite in an interview on television, which was to me a stunning sermon in and of itself. She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that
- 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that
- 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that
- the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.

Article by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) US American humanist, artist, WWII veteran, influential writer of the 20th century, Susan Sontag and Arthur Miller, presented by the US American politically progressive/democratic socialist monthly magazine In These Times, 3. March 2005

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Future prospect of multiculturalism

The Human Races will never again be able to go back to their citadels of high-walled exclusiveness. They have been exposed to each other, physically and intellectually. The shells, which have so long given them full security within their individual enclosures, have been broken, and by no artificial process can be mended again. So we have to accept the fact, even though we have not yet fully adapted our minds to this changed environment of publicity, even though through it we may have to run all the risks entailed by the wider expansion of life's freedom.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian Bengali philosopher, musician, painter, playwright, poet, novelist, Nobel laureate in lite-
rature, 1913, editor Sisir Kumar Das, The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Vol. II. A Miscellany, S. 71, paragraph 152,
Sahitya Akademi, Wellwish Printers, Dehli, 1st edition 1996, reprint edition 2003, 2006

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Diversity, immigration, and multiculturalism are the core sociological problem in the West.

I've been fascinated by how American politics used to look so different from European politics until 2015 and 2016, but that has changed. I think that diversity, immigration, and multiculturalism are right at the heart of the sociological problem in Western democracies, along with the new and pernicious role of social media. [...] The concerns now are around civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, all of which are important and all of which involve high moral stakes. [...] As multiculturalism is emphasized more and more, there emerges a reaction against it on the right, which is attractive to the authoritarian mind and also appeals to other conservatives. [...] Multiculturalism and diversity have many benefits, including creativity and economic dynamism, but they also have major drawbacks, which is that they generally reduce social capital and trust and they amplify tribal tendencies. [...] I really believe social media is one of our biggest problems. So long as we are all immersed in a constant stream of unbelievable outrages perpetrated by the other side, I don’t see how we can ever trust each other and work together again. I don’t know what we're going to do about social media. I'm hopeful that future generations will learn social media responsibility and somehow manage to communicate without demonizing the other side.
Interview with Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D. (*1963) US American professor of social, cultural and moral psychology and ethical leadership, New York University Stern School of Business, author, Why social media is terrible for multiethnic democracies, presented by the US American news and opinion website Vox owned by Vox Media, Sean Illing, 5. January 2018

Sociology is the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see. Video presentation
by Sam Richards, US American sociologist, iconoclast, one of the "101 Most Dangerous Academics in America", A radical expe-
riment in empathy, presented by TED Talks, minute 0:16, 18:07 minutes duration, filmed October 2010, posted April 2011

Why do the Christian nations, which were so weak in the past compared with Muslim nations begin to dominate so many lands in modern times and even defeat the once victorious Ottoman armies? […]
Because they have laws and rules invented by reason. Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674-1745) Transylvanian-born Ottoman diplomat, polymath: historian, historiographer, Islamic scholar and theologian, sociologist, economist, courtier, astronomer, man of letters, printer, publisher, Rational Basis for the Politics of Nations, 1731

China seems to have been long stationary, and had probably long ago acquired that full complement of riches which is consistent with the nature of its laws and institutions. But this complement may be much inferior to what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation might admit of. A country which neglects or despises foreign commerce, and which admits the vessels of foreign nations into one or two of its ports only, cannot transact the same quantity of business which it might do with different laws and institutions. Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish US American social and moral philosopher, pioneer of classical political economic theory, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, initiating classical economics, book 1, chapter 9 Of the Profits of Stock, 1776

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For his criticism of the "malefactors of great wealth" T. Roosevelt was deemed "insane".

Roosevelt mused on "the right kind of a civilization".

It [American civilization] must not be, it shall not be, the civilization of a mere plu-
tocracy, a banking-house, Wall-Street-syndicate civilization; nor yet can there be submission to class hatred, to rancor, brutality, and mob violence, for that would mean the end of all civilization.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th US president (1901-1909), President Roosevelt and the Capitol Dedication, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 4. October 1906, cited in: The works of Theodore Roosevelt Volume 7, S. 88, University of Michigan Library, 1. January 1882

We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will. Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) French social psychologist, sociologist, amateur physicist, originator of and author on herd behavior, crowd psychology and group dynamics, racial superiority, The Crowd. A Study of the Public Mind, S. 19, first published 1896, Start Publishing, 2012

No movement really lasts unless it lasts for a hundred years. Gerda Lerner (1920-2013) Austrian US American professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pioneer of women's history, teacher, author, source unknown

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US American materialism, culture, and counterculture

Culture is a concept that the anthropologists came up with about hundred years ago. […] Culture is a system of values and beliefs that define a people. […] Culture is like a hypnosis in a way. […] Culture is a very powerful concept because it goes so much deeper than politics. Politics sort of floats on the surface of a culture. The cultural values underneath are really what moves society. […]
What interests me is what the Republicans and the Democrats have in common, and what the atheists and the born-agains have in common? […] What unites them is that they're part of the American culture that is based on materialism. There are Jewish materialists, Christian materialists, Republican materialists, Democratic materialists, atheist materia-
lists. But at the heart of our [US American] culture is materialism [and narcissism]. And this is encouraged by our corporations through the powerful educational force of corporate advertising. […]
For me this culture is not about creating freedom, it's about creating addiction, addiction to shopping in its broadest level. […] Our culture tends to be narcissistic in a way. We want things and we want to take them from the world and
we want to think of ourselves as very saintly. Audio interview with Gerald Rosen, Ph.D. (1939-2010) US American professor of English literature, educator, novelist, America – An Insider's View, presented by the US American web radio station New Dimen-
sions, program #3328, host Michael Toms, 56:59 minutes duration, aired 6. November 2009

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10,000-hour rule of practice to mastery

No one – not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires and not even geniuses – ever makes it alone. […]
What's really interesting about this 10,000-hour rule is that it applies virtually everywhere. You can't become a chess grand master unless you spend 10,000 hours on practice. The tennis prodigy who starts playing at six is playing in Wimbledon at 16 or 17 [like] Boris Becker. The classical musician who starts playing the violin at four is debuting at Carnegie Hall at 15 or so.
Malcolm Gladwell, CM (*1963) Canadian historian, sociologist, civil engineering professor emeritus, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, business consultant, speaker, journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker magazine since 1996, author, Outliers The Story of Success, Little, Brown and Company, 1st edition 18. November 2008

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Importance of stubbornness and collaboration in problem-solving ⇔ rare to find genius

If quantity really matters more than quality, the only way you solve problems is if you have 13 smart people instead of one really, really smart person.
Video presentation by Malcolm Gladwell, CM (*1963) Canadian historian, sociologist, civil engineering professor emeritus, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, business consultant, speaker, journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker magazine since 1996, author, Genius: 2012, location 2012: Stories from the Near Future conference, sponsored by the US American magazine The New Yorker, introduced by David Remnick, host Henry Finder, minute 52:42, 27:37 minutes duration, aired 7. May 2007

In the United States the more opulent citizens take great care not to stand aloof from the people. On the contrary, they constantly keep on easy terms with the lower classes: They listen to them, they speak to them every day. They know that the rich in democracies always stand in need of the poor. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French historian, political thinker, publicist, author, Democracy in America, Volume II, S. 212, 1840

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The impact of the Internet on society

We have on the one hand a lot of subcultures and you have quite a trivial surface culture. What will happen on the Internet is something like a basic culture and a lot of highly complex subcultures. Video interview with Peter Kruse, Ph.D. (1955-2015) German psychologist, expert on complexity processing in intelligent networks, CEO of Nextpractice, The Network is Challenging Us, presented by Mefeedia, minute 10:42, 26:50 minutes duration, 31. March 2010

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Peak Child reached in 1990

The global percentage of children at age <5 was 15% in the 1960s, and was under 7% in 2012, and is further declining. The total annual births peaked at ~138 million in the late 1980s and remained essentially constant since then – at 135 million (2011) , and will soon be declining. The fraction of global population <18 was 27% (2012) and will only go downward year after year. Birth rates are dropping precipitously almost everywhere, whereas the average lifespans lenghten a bit every year. In March 2011 the world population transcended the rate of 7 billion humans. It is projected to reach 8 billion by 2025. In 2012 the United Nations prognosticated 9 billion by 2050, and 10 billion by 2100.

We have reached peak child. The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child. And the world population will stop growing. The United Nations Population Division has said it will stop growing at 10 billion. Religion has very little to do with the number of
babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully capable to maintain their values and adapt to this new
world. And we will be just 10 billion in this world, if the poorest people get out of poverty, their children survive,
they get access to family planning. That is needed. But it's inevitable that we will be two to three billion more.
Video presentation by Hans Rosling, M.D., Ph.D. (1948-2017) Swedish professor of global health, medical doctor, statistician,
data visionary, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, public speaker, Religions and babies, transcript, presented by TEDxSummit 2012, Doha, Qatar, minute 10:14, 12:13 and 12:27, 13:04 minutes duration, filmed April 2012, posted May 2012

Two societies confronting each other with conflicting universes will both develop conceptual machineries designed to maintain their respective universes. From the point of view of intrinsic plausibility the two forms of conceptualization may seem to the outside observer to offer little choice. Peter Ludwig Berger (1929-2017) Austrian-born US American sociologist, Protestant theologian, radical constructivist, Thomas Luckmann (1927-2016) American-Austrian sociologist, radical constructivist, The Social Construction of Reality, chapter 2, S. 126, Anchor Books, 1966, 1991

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According to the UNDP Human Development Report, ~663 million people moved above the world's absolute poverty level between 1990 and 2010. The poverty rate was halved from 43% to 21%. The World Bank estimated 1.29 billion people (~400 million people in India and 173 million people in China) were living in absolute poverty in 2008.

FAO – The State of Food Insecurity in the World – 2012
Dan Pallotta: "In the United States, poverty has been stuck at 12% for the last 40 years." 1. March 2013

[T]he historic trend is this. The number of people living in back-breaking, soul-crushing extreme poverty has declined from
➢ 43 percent of the world's population in 1990 to 33 percent by 2000
➢ and then to 21 percent by 2010. Give it up for that. (Applause) Halved. Halved.

Now, the rate is still too high – still too many people unnecessarily losing their lives. There's still work to do. But it's heart-stopping. It's mind-blowing stuff. And if you live on less than $1.25 a day, if you live in that kind of poverty, this is not just data. Video presentation by Bono [Paul David Hewson] (*1960) Irish singer (rock band U2), musician, venture capitalist, humanitarian, The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news), presented by TED Talks 2013, 13:57 minutes duration, filmed February 2013, posted March 2013

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US America is seized by and stuck in pious Puritan fanatical capitalist beliefs.

Puritan constraints and double standard of US charities: Nonprofits are rewarded for frugality (little spending) – not for their accomplishments (morality).
Dan Pallotta: "In the United States, poverty has been stuck at 12% for the last 40 years." "Let's change the way we think about changing the world." 1. March 2013

From 1970 to 2009, the number of nonprofits that really grew, that crossed the $50 million annual revenue barrier, is 144. In the same time, the number of for-profits that crossed it is 46,136. So we're dealing with social problems that are massive in scale, and our organizations can't generate any scale. All of the scale goes to Coca-Cola and Burger King.
So why do we think this way? Well, like most fanatical dogma in America, these ideas come from old Puritan beliefs. The Puritans came here for religious reasons, or so they said, but they also came here because they wanted to make a lot of money. They were pious people but they were also really aggressive capitalists, and they were accused of extreme forms of profit-making tendencies compared to the other colonists. But at the same time, the Puritans were Calvinists, so they were taught literally to hate themselves. They were taught that self-interest was a raging sea that was a sure path
to eternal damnation. [...]
Well, charity became their answer. It became this economic sanctuary where they could do penance for their profit-making tendencies at five cents on the dollar. So of course, how could you make money in charity if charity was your penance for making money? Financial incentive was exiled from the realm of helping others so that it could thrive in
the area of making money for yourself, and in 400 years, nothing has intervened to say, "That's counterproductive and that's unfair." Video presentation by Dan Pallotta, US American activist, fundraiser, The way we think about charity is dead wrong, presented by TED Talks 2013, 18:55 minutes duration, filmed March 2013, posted March 2013

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Two thirds of the US Americans favor prosperity over fairness.

If you accept the [existing economic orthodox] paradigm [social] inequality is a feature of prosperity then the best argument you can make against inequality is
to say that it is mean, it is unfair. The problem is that Americans rightly prefer by a 2:1 margin prosperity over fairness. The problem with inequality is that it destroys growth. If the average person doesn't have any money to spend any more the virtuous cycle of increasing sales and hiring and prosperity dies and you end up in that death spiral of decreasing consumption that characterizes our economy today. Video interview with Nick Hanauer nick-hanauer.com, US American multi-millionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, Charlie Rose Part 3: Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer about their new book "The Gardens of Democracy"., part 3 of 3, presented by the US American TV station PBS, interview show Charlie Rose, host Charlie Rose, Bloomberg, 28. April 2012, YouTube film, minute 5:52, 7:46 minutes duration, posted 27. April 2012

Health is not an individual dynamic, but very much a product of the social and economic environment. Medicine thinks illness is an individual problem with individual solutions. It's organized insanity for the medical profession to ignore those links. The biggest predictor of health or lack thereof is actually social status. The socioeconomic system doesn't support a healthy childhood and we try to medicate kids' brains. It's not just money; it's the degree of control over our lives. Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian addiction expert, talk at St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church, Vancouver, 27. November 2011; cited in: Article Gabor Maté: 'Organized insanity' for doctors to ignore health, poverty link. Can social inequity cause sickness? Vancouver's Dr. Gabor Maté thinks so., presented by the independent Canadian online newspaper The Vancouver Observer, 29. November 2011

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Individualism ⇔ collectivism

Narcissism ⇔ totalitarianism

Individualism is very good for the immune system because the individual is allowed to be praised in a job or to [just] be praised. [T]he US is a very individualistic country as opposed to Japan, which is a very collectivist country.
In Japan, you have to say, in essence, "I'm nothing without my group." That's not good for the immune system. You have to disown whatever action you took and give it to your group.
When shaming occurs in the US, you feel ashamed because of something you did. In Japan or [other] Asian countries, you feel the shame for your group, not for yourself, and it's even worse because you're disowning the process. That's even worse. If you take individualism too far, then it becomes narcissistic. If you take collectivism too far, then
it becomes totalitarian. Those are examples of how a culture can actually help or hurt an immune system.
Audio interview with Mario Martinez, PsyD, Uruguaian clinical neuropsychologist, contemplative psychologist, psycho-neuroimmu-
nologist, author, Empowerment and 'Navigating the Drift', podcast MP3, presented by the US American multimedia publishing company Sounds True, Insights at the Edge, host Tami Simon (*1953) US American founder and director of Sounds True, minute 55:14, 1:07:30 duration, aired 2. October 2012

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Period of 'global graxxing'

The ethical veracity of what we do as a planet now is under scrutiny. We are in a period of 'global graxxing', a biological term that, according to Rupert Shel-
drake, describes the action of individual bacteria or slime mold or humans, anything coming together as an intelligent community to address a challenge that cannot be resolved alone. Our task is to animate the most desirable story and spiral it forth into the memesphere.
Caroline Casey (*1971) US American visionary activist astrologer, Coyote Network, MP3, aired 5. January 2012

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their gar-
ments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the carrier of the plague.
Concept invented by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), quote by Millard F. Caldwell (1897-1984) US American politician, 29th governor of Florida (1945-1949), Florida supreme court justice, Cicero's Prognosis, presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Columbus, Ohio, 7.-9. October 1965, reprinted March 1996

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.
Will Durant (1885-1981) US American historian, philosopher, writer (on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation), cited in: More History from the Will Durants: Spry Old Team Does It Again, presented by the US American magazine LIFE (1883-2000),
S. 89, Jim Hicks, 18. October 1963

Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, so the self-compulsion of ideological thinking ruins all relationships with reality. The preparation has succeeded when people have lost contact with their fellow men as well as the reality around them; for together with these contacts, men lose the capacity of both experience and thought. The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-Jewish political theorist, philosopher, specialized in analyzing the rise of totalitarianism, author, The Origins of Totalitarianism [Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft, 1951], Schocken Books, 1951

The true goal of totalitarian propaganda is not persuasion, but organization of the polity. [...] What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-Jewish political theorist, philosopher, specialized in analyzing the rise of totalitarianism, author, The Origins of Totalitarianism [Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft, 1951], Schocken Books, 1951

[T]he proper image of totalitarian rule and organization seems to me to be the structure of the onion, in whose center,
in a kind of empty space, the leader is located; whatever he does: whether he integrates the body politic as in an autho-
ritarian hierarchy, or oppresses his subjects like a tyrant, he does it from within, and not from without or above. All the extraordinarily manifold parts of the movement: the front organizations, the various professional societies, the party-membership, the party hierarchy, the elite formations and police groups, are related in such a way that each forms the facade in one direction and the center in the other, that is, plays the role of normal outside world for one layer and the role of radical extremism for another. The civilian members of Himmler's General SS, for example, represented a rather philistine facade of normality to the SS Leader Corps, and at the same time could be trusted to be ideologically more trustworthy and extreme than the ordinary member of the NSDAP.
The same is true for the relationship between sympathizer and party member, between party member and party officer or SA-man, between the Gauleiter and a member of the secret police, etc. The great advantage of this system is that the movement provides for each of its layers, even under conditions of totalitarian rule, the fiction of a normal world along with a consciousness of being different from and more radical than it. Thus, the sympathizers of the front organizations, whose convictions differ only in intensity from those of the party membership, surround the whole movement and provide a deceptive facade of normality to the outside world because of their lack of fanaticism and extremism while, at the same time, they represent the normal world to the totalitarian movement whose members come to believe that their convictions differ only in degree from those of other people, so that they need never be
aware of the abyss which separates their own world from that which actually surrounds it. The onion structure
makes the system organizationally shock-proof against the factuality of the real world.
Article by Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-Jewish political theorist, philosopher, specialized in analyzing the rise of totali-
tarianism, author, presented by the quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal The Review of Politics, volume 18, issue 4,
S. 403-417, October 1956

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Definition of "Inverted totalitarianism"

Inverted totalitarianism is a term coined by political philosopher Sheldon Wolin, Ph.D. (1922-2015) in 2003 to describe the emerging form of government of the United States. Wolin believed that the United States is increasingly turning into an illiberal democracy, and uses the term "inverted totalitarianism" to illustrate similarities and differences between the United States governmental system and totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. In Days of Destruction. Days of Revolt (2014) by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco, inverted totalitarianism is described as a system where corporations have corrupted and subverted democracy and where economics trumps politics. In inverted totalitarianism, every natural resource and every living being is commodified and exploited to collapse as the citizenry is lulled and manipulated into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government through excess consumerism and sensationalism. Opening paragraph of Wikipedia entry Inverted totalitarianism, status October 2016

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Classical totalitarian ⇔ inverted totalitarianism

In classical totalitarian regimes, such as those of Nazi fascism or Soviet communism, economics was subordinate to politics. Under inverted totalitarianism the reverse is true. Economics dominates politics – and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness. Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the corporate state. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, a free press, parliamentary systems and constitutions while manipulating and corrupting internal levers to subvert and thwart democratic institutions. Sheldon Wolin, Ph.D. (1922-2015) US American professor emeritus of politics, political philosopher, writer, cited in: article Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism, presented by the progressive US American news website Truthdig, Chris Hedges (*1956) US American journalist, war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies, author, Pulitzer Prize laureate, 2. November 2015

It is always possible one could speak the truth in a void; one would only be in the true, however, if one obeyed the rules of some discursive 'police' which would have to be reactivated every time one spoke.
Inaugural lecture by Michel Foucault (1926-1984) French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist, literary critic, author, The Discourse of Language, presented at Collège de France, Paris, 2. December 1970;
Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, S. 224, Pantheon Books, 1972; Michel Foucoult, co-author Didier Eribon
(*1953) French historian, philosopher, Betsy Wing, translator, The Discourse of Language [L'Ordre du discours], Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachussetts, [1989] 1991

Germans are different from others.
The German traits are:
Exactness – continuous improvement to get it right.
Law and order and formality – requirement for a codified system that provides absolute security and stability.
Engineering mind – sense of curiosity, innovation and "was steckt dahinter?", organization logistics, process tools and technology
A love of complexity and abstraction coupled with craftsmanship
Punctuality – expectations of consistency
Environmental outlook and sustainability – protection of resources, connection with nature and concern for the future
Pessimism – worry about things, tendency towards angst, think before you act, get arguments/proofs
Orientation towards consensus as a result of a rigorous process of give and take – personal restraint, self-effacement and not wanting to stand out.
Language – is the grease that makes all others work together in harmony. The German language is beautiful and concise, unique and perfectly suited for effectiveness.
Less observable but equally integral German traits are:
Mannerisms – in a still photo of Northern Europeans there is little difference, yet in movement, gestures and expression the German stands out.
The finger pointing upward, the pursing of the lips and the unique re-positioning and body language based on the level of comfort with a stranger.
Courage – throughout history, when a German is convinced of the rightness of their cause they are not afraid to stand up, sacrifice, or even bleed: They are among the world's most courageous people.

Blog article by William Toel (*1945) US American germanophile professor of economics, finance and marketing, messenger of
God, What do Germans have? (part 2), 2. December 2016

Anyone who wants to lead in Germany needs to make the 93% [of normal people] their first priority. Listening to and protecting these people at all costs, not foreigners – no matter how needy – but these normal people. Those who continue on the path of
➢ "know-it-all" smugness
➢ and use the press, the police, and their political parties to control
will bring about the unthinkable – a right wing government, without coalition in less than three years.

Blog article by William Toel (*1945) US American germanophile professor of economics, finance and marketing, messenger of
God, The Trump Lesson for Germany is Simple…, 2. January 2017

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Reflecting the German flooding with refugees 2015-2021

☛ The total number of refugees was understated.
☛ The gender makeup of the refugee streams was distorted.
☛ The ethnicity and national origin of the refugees was misreported.
☛ The education/expertise level of the refugees was exaggerated.
☛ Cultural disparities were publicly dismissed with "these are not 'real' Muslims".
☛ The impact on vulnerable groups, such as the Jewish community, was not discussed (taboo).
☛ The unintended consequences on four million previous legal immigrants (some third generation)
were not considered.
☛ America's most famous democratic success story, Germany, failed entirely; neither referendum,
nor public input, nor debate, were considered.
☛ Germany's admired education system was disrupted; parents were angry.
☛ Germany's fabled security and quality of life was permanently undermined.
☛ The financial impact on society was disregarded with the flippant "we can handle it".
☛ The effect on the national identity of Germany (over 75% ethnic Germans) was basically undiscussed.

Blog article by William Toel (*1945) US American germanophile professor of economics, finance and marketing, messenger of
God, Truth in the public realm?, 6. January 2018

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Quotes by David R. Hawkins

⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

Societal choices, more often than not, are the result of expediency, statistical fallacy, sentiment, political or media pressure, or personal prejudice and vested interest. Crucial decisions affecting the lives of everyone on the planet are made under conditions that virtually guarantee failure. Because societies lack the necessary reality base for formulation of effective problem resolutions, they fall back, over and over, on a resort of force (in its various expressions – such as war, law, taxation, rules, and regulations), which is extremely costly, instead of employing power, which is very economical. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force, S. 27-28, Hay House, February 2002

Fury over social injustice, victimization, and inequality has created great movements that led to major changes in the structure of society. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force, chapter 4 "Levels of Consciousness", S. 82, Hay House, February 2002

There's nothing to feel guilty about and nothing to blame. There's no one to hate, but these are those things that are better avoided, and such blind alleys will become increasingly apparent. Everyone has chosen his own level of consciousness, yet nobody could of done otherwise at any given point in time. We can only get "there" from "here." Every leap has to have a platform to originate from. Pain exists to promote evolution; its cumulative effect finally forces us in a new direction, although the mechanism may be very slow. How many times is it necessary to hit bottom before
a lesson is learned? Perhaps thousands, which may account for the sheer quantity of human suffering, so vast as to
be incomprehensible. Slowly, by inches, does civilization advance. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 7 "Everyday Critical Point Analysis", S. 127, Hay House, February 2002

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Keeping one's own counsel

Spiritual views are not very popular in society in general. It is not necessary to impose one's views on others. Proselytizing is best done by example rather than by coercion and lapel grabbing. We influence others by what we are rather than by what we say or have. To express views that are contrary to public opinion may be sociologically praiseworthy, but
to do so leads to conflict and enmeshment in the arguments and discord in the world. The pursuit of 'causes' is the
role of the social and political reformer, which is an activity different from that of the seeker of enlightenment. […] Embroilment in the issues of society is a luxury which the seeker of spiritual enlightenment needs to forego. […] We change the world not by what we say or do but as a consequence of what we have become. Thus, every spiritual aspirant serves the world. Dr. David R. Hawkins, The Eye of the I. From Which Nothing Is Hidden, S. 68-69, 2001

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Social reforming via signs and slogans

Question: What of social problems?
Answer: Being a social reformer is an entirely different career from that of seeking enlightenment. It is well to remember that spiritual advancement influences everyone else from within, whereas force tries to change the external only. Surrendering a personal grievance or grudge is more rewarding for all society than marching up and down with provocative signs and slogans. To the spiritually advanced persons, whether other people agree with them or not is immaterial as they no longer need
to look outside themselves for validation or agreement.
Dr. David R. Hawkins, The Eye of the I. From Which Nothing Is Hidden, chapter 12, S. 198, revised edition 2002

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Karma – Akashic Records

The universe notes and records every action and returns it in kind.

Question: So what can the spiritual seeker do to be of help to society?
Answer: To endeavor to evolve spiritually is the greatest gift one can give. It actually uplifts all mankind from within because of the nature of power itself. Power radiates and is shared, whereas force is limited, self-defeating, and evanescent. All society is subliminally and subtly influenced by every kind and loving thought, word, or deed. Every forgive-
ness is a benefit to everyone. The universe notes and records every action and returns it in kind. Karma is actually
the very nature of the universe because of the innate structure and function of the universe itself. In the universe
time is measured in eons. Beyond that, it does not even exist at all. Every kindness is therefore forever.
Dr. David R. Hawkins, The Eye of the I. From Which Nothing Is Hidden, chapter 13 "Explanations", S. 268, revised edition 2002

'An idea whose time has come'.
[Paraphrased] The idea stands for the content, the 'time has come' for the context.
Context as such is comprised of millions of components.
When a critical degree of balance, intensity, and density on a socio-political, economic, geographic level is reached, the idea may be activated into a reality. The activation is not due to 'causation' but resulting from the volition of the populace and the shifting of human proclivities.
⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, I. Reality and Subjectivity, S. 431-432, 2003

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Spiritual and social evolution

Like social evolution, internal growth and development may be disquieting and tumultuous. The differentiation between fact and fallacy is challenging and requires both integrity and courage. The most important quality necessary for true growth and evolution is the practice and principle of humility. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, chapter 8 "Fact Versus Fiction: Reality and Illusion", S. 75, 2005

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Culture war and decline of an adolescent nation

In the current 'cultural war', politicized sociology, sophistry, and rhetoric have now significantly replaced reason and verifiable truth. Even history, language, mathematics, and science, as well as the ethics of responsibility, have been attacked and repudiated. While these relativistic positions could be excused or overlooked as adolescent, naive,
and regressive, another element of this decline emerges that reveals the motivations behind the regression, that of
"justified hatred". Dr. David R. Hawkins, Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, S. 256, 2005

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Resolving cultural disparities

The resolution of the world's current cultural disparities will require the collective wisdom and intention of all who have, by virtue of good fortune and ethical inten-
tion, become more advanced, conscious, and aware. It is therefore a teaching function. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, S. 314, 2005

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Dissolving social programming

Suspending beliefs

Safeguards against being programmed by society are
1. emotional detachment, in which all information is viewed as provisional,
2. awareness that ordinary mentalization is unable to discern perception from essence, and
3. knowing that the wolf often hides beneath sheep's clothing.

This suspension of belief is the practical application of the basic dictum to "wear the world like a light garment." To
"be in the world but not of it" is a mode of attention that nevertheless still allows spontaneous interaction and func-
tion in society. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man, S. 158, 2008

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Turningpoint 1987-2012-2026:

Leap from self-interest to altruism at the threshold of integrity

Life in its beginning is selfish. The core of that life energy is survival. In order to survive it has to get. The core of the ego is to get because it doesn’t have a source of energy within itself. The quality of the ego is primarily self-interest, up to consciousness level 200. At 200 there is a major change from selfishness to altruism. Interview with Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force, presented by the US magazine In Light Times, Kathryn M. Brinkley, November 2004

Question: What about the choices between self-evolution and social responsibility?
Answer: How are they different? Each one is an expression of the other.
Dr. David R. Hawkins, Prescott Seminar What is the World?, 3 DVD set, 28. February 2009

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Quotes by Richard Wilkinson ♦ Kate Pickett ♦ James Gilligan ♦ Thom Hartmann

Personal avowals

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Restoring the sense of DIGNITY

Especially males act violently when faced with disrespect, shame, or threats to their social status.

I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed, and that did not represent the attempt to prevent or undo this "loss of face" – no matter how severe the punishment, even if it includes death. James Gilligan, Ph.D., US American psychiatrist, violence expert, author, Violence. Our Deadly Epidemic and its Causes,
S. 110, Diane Publishing, February 1996, cited in: book review Epidemiologists find link between social ills and inequality. Review of The Spirit Level: New book uncovers connections between economic disparities and social ills, presented by the publication Street Speech, Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. equalitytrust.org.uk (*1943) British retired social epide-
miologist, University of Nottingham, August 2010, posted 1. February 2011

We are the first generation who got to the end of what material economic growth can do for us. That's an incredible important thing. And we got to the end it at a time when we know that the environmental constraints mean that we should stop doing that. What we have to do now is to refocus from raising material standards to thinking about the social quality of life. The quality of social relations in our society is built on material foundations, on the extent of income differences between us. The intuition that people have had that [income] inequality is divisive and socially corrosive is absolutely right. Video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, Address at the Compass "No Turning Back conference", part 1 of 2, Institute of Education, London,
13. June 2009, YouTube film, starting minute 4:29, minute 7:27, 9:45 minutes duration, posted 18. June 2009

Peas in their pods

Inequality creates a general social dysfunction [in respect to health, trust, education, social mobility]. People must know this. […]
Greater income differences increase the pressure to consume. In more unequal countries there is more status competition. It is more important to earn more. Video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, Address at the Compass "No Turning Back conference", part 2 of 2, Institute of Education, London, 13. June 2009, YouTube film, minute 1:41 and minute 2:56, 5:32 minutes duration, posted 18. June 2009

Capitalism isn't working. […] Status competition leads to destruction of the planet.
Video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, LEAP conference, Birkbeck College, London, 25. April 2009, YouTube film, posted 7. August 2009

Obviously we [humans] lived in everthing from the most awful tyrannical dictatorships to the most egalitarian societies. […] Actually for most of (90%) human prehistory we lived in very egalitarian societies with food sharing reciprocities
gift sharing and so on. Video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British retired social epidemiologist, University
of Nottingham, economic historian, Part 3 of 5, sponsored by the LEAP conference, Birkbeck College, London, 25. April 2009, YouTube film, minute 8:16, 9:50 minutes duration, posted 7. August 2009

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National US religion:

Consumerism and competitiveness

The solution to problems caused by inequality is not mass psychotherapy aimed at making everyone less vulnerable. The best way of responding to the harm done by high levels of inequality would be to reduce inequality itself.
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, Wikipedia entry, Bloomsbury Press, 22. December 2009

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The end of economic growth has been reached in wealthy nations.

The rich developed countries have reached a turning point in human history. Politics should now be about the quality of social relations and how we can develop harmonious and sustainable societies. Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. equalitytrust.org.uk (*1943) British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, cited in: article Epidemiologists find link between social ills and inequality. Review of The Spirit Level: New book uncovers connections between economic disparities and social ills, presented by the publication Street Speech, August 2010, posted 1. February 2011

The evidence suggests that in the rich countries [of the world] we've got to the end of the real benefits of economic growth. It no longer drives health or wellbeing or happiness. And the evidence increasingly shows that to improve
the real quality of life for us all now we need to reduce the income differences, the class differences, the differences in status, lower the social hierachy in our society. And I think we need to do that not only by raising
top tax rates and more generous benefits but more particularly by building greater democracy into our economic institutions and work places.
I think that the benefit culture was only possible because the people at the top felt they could do just what they liked
and didn't have to account to anyone.
We need to have a vision of the future, not only a more equal society but also of a small sustainable society and
work places that are more democratic and so more social in terms of employee owned companies, cooperatives,
mutuals, friendly societies, all those more democratic forms which have much smaller pay differences within them.
And the evidence increasingly shows they work better than other companies.
Video interview with Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. equalitytrust.org.uk (*1943) British retired social epidemiologist, University of Nottingham, Cuts and inequality, sponsored by the Unite officers seminar, hosted by the platform Don't Break Britain, YouTube
film, minute 0:58, 2:24 minutes duration, posted 26. January 2011

The result of multi-level models studied by Harvard School of Public Health is: Inequality is a general social pol-
lutant (dysfunction) because its effects go so far up the income scale.
Video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British professor Emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Notting-
ham, researcher of inequality data in health and social determinants, The Spirit Level, part 2 of 3, sponsored by the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, YouTube film, minute 10:42, 13:46 minutes duration, posted 11. March 2011

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Timing for the inequality issues is right.

Excess growth and sustainablity of economy are social issues.

This [inequality gap research] is not about communism. We are not talking about perfect equality. […] It does look as if there are important advantages to getting at least as equal as countries like Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Japan. […] The idea that there is this sort of opposition between equality and freedom ... Equality used to be an American value. They lost it during the Cold War, because they believed that the Communist countries showed that the price of greater equality was a loss of freedom and freedom
of speech and so on. The bonus culture that is a problem now and why our societies have become more un-
equal in the last few decades is primarily because the richer run away from the rest of us. And that is substantially a reflection of a lack of democracy. Those people at the top feel they don't have to explain themselves, or account for themselves, or to answer to anyone. How we need to deal with it is by extending more democracy, by supporting all forms of economic democracy, whether by mutuals, coops, friendly societies, employee owned companies and so on. The evidence shows that they work better in terms of crude figures of productivity.
At work it's not only where wealth is created, but it's also where the inequalities are first created. It is also where we
are most subject to hierarchy and authority with lion managers and so on. But there is a potential for transforming
the experience of work in this. Video interview with Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British professor Emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Nottingham, researcher of inequality data in health and social determinants, Waarom gelijkheid beter
is voor iedereen, part 2, YouTube film, minute 3:08, 5:32 minutes duration, posted 20. April 2011

Close-up of a small red rose

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.
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", London, 30. June-4. July 2011, YouTube film, minute 33:44, 44:45 minutes duration, posted 10. August 2011

The average wellbeing of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. That's very important in poorer countries but not in the rich developed world. But the differences between us and where we in relationship to each other now matter very much.
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, minute 5:11, 16:55 minutes duration, posted 24. October 2011

The more unequal societies are more likely to retain the death penalty.
Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British professor Emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Nottingham, researcher of inequa-
lity data in health and social determinants, How economic inequality harms societies, presented by TED Talks, YouTube film,
minute 7:59, 16:55 minutes duration, posted 24. October 2011

If the Americans want to live the American Dream they should go to Denmark.
Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British professor emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Nottingham, researcher of inequa-
lity data in health and social determinants, How economic inequality harms societies, presented by TED Talks, YouTube film,
minute 8:54, 16:55 minutes duration, posted 24. October 2011

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Singapore's lowest infant mortality rates in the world are fabricated.

Background information: availed Poorest migrant workers (55%) are not allowed to get married or pregnant. minute 18:06

[Paraphrased] Right wing critics claim that Wilkinson's data are manufactured evidence as if there was nothing wrong with social inequality. 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, event sponsored by Iceland, October 2011, Vimeo film, minute 19:44, 55:41 minutes duration, posted end of October 2011

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Generosity and the concern for all is more pronounced in more equal nations.

More equal countries donate more in foreign aid. […]
More equal societies seem better able to act for the common good.

Video presentation by 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, minute 11:53, 18:57 minutes duration, posted 23. April 2012

If you had the same income or education and lived in a more equal society
➢ you'd probably live a little bit longer.
➢ You'd be less likely to become a victim of violence.
➢ Your children might do a bit better at school.
➢ They'd be less likely to become involved in drugs or
➢ to become teenage parents.

In terms of the really important measures of human wellbeing greater equality is good for us all.
Economic growth no longer drives

➢ improvement in life expectancy

➢ or measures of wellbeing

➢ or happiness.

What does make a difference to all of us is the quality of social relationships.
What the data shows us is that we can improve the quality of human relationships in whole societies by reducing the scale of income differences.

Removed 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, Kate Pickett, Ph.D. (*1965) British professor of epidemiology, University of York, co-author, The Spirit Level, presented by the Auckland Communities Foundation, minute 11:00, 12:14 minutes duration, posted 18. June 2012

The most powerful source of stress for humans is the possibility of being judged negatively by others.
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

Three Things Economics Can't Solve Minute 3:19
Can an Unequal Society Become Sustainable? Minute 5:47
Anxiety Shape Society? Minute 3:56
Inequality Is Bad for Your Health Minute 3:39
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, 27. January 2010

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References to the book Spirit level, compilation of 50 years of collected census data:

Biritish social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D., Kate Pickett, Ph.D. (*1965), The Spirit Level. Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, Bloomsbury Press, 22. December 2009

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The deadliest form of violence is poverty. Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is not the symptom. Poverty is the symptom of the problem. The problem is [social] inequality.
Video presentation by Thom Hartmann thomhartmann.com (*1951) US American former psychotherapist and entrepreneur, radio host of Air America, progressive political commentator, journalist, author, The more equality a society has, the better it does, referring to income inequality researcher Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British professor emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Nottingham, YouTube film, minute 1:37, 9:01 minutes duration, posted 28. July 2009

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Population stability is one of the benefits of dignitarian (egalitarian) societies.

Not money (bribes), nor contraceptiva, nor the one-child policy, nor force, but equality between men and women, i.e. shared human dignity allows for sustainability and stable population rates.

The one thing that defines whether a culture is going through population explosion or not is the power rela-
tionship between men and women. When women have relatively equal power with men in a single genera-
tion population will stabilize. And when women are the property of men we will invariably have a population
explosion. […] What do we do: Change the way we think!
Video interview with Thom Hartmann (*1951) US American journalist, progressive political commentator, radio host, psychotherapist, entrepreneur, business consultant, author of Threshold. The Crisis of Western Culture, The Crisis of Western Culture, YouTube film, minute 18:00, 29:05 minutes duration, posted 30. July 2009

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Englische Texte – English section on Sociology

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Income and status gap in 23 of the rich developed countries worldwide – Wilkinson und Pickett (2011)

The root of many social ailments is not due to the amount of income/living standard but due to the relative income gap and the corresponding estimation gap.

It isn’t about money, it’s about the monkey brain, the pecking order […].
I sometimes say, "This is about monkeys, not Marx.”
Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. (*1943) British professor emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Nottingham²

Homeless man, Paris, France, June 2005

Comparing the rich countries worldwide – as well as the 50 states of the United States of America among each other – Wilkinson/Pickett found that the more unequal societies are
the more social evils were apparent.
Not just the poor but the vast majority of the population are being affected by inequality. Indignifying inequality is divi-
sive and socially corrosive. It affects the social fabric from
top to bottom. Clusters of social failings are a response to the social gradients and the felt status differentiation.

Note: The major financial crashes in 1929 and 2007/2008 happened both when inequality and indebtedness peaked.

Once the basic needs for sustaining life are met in a country
(as is the case in Cuba for example) the focus on national income per capita will shift to the income and status gap.

The average life expectancy of Cubans is age 77, of US Americans age 78, and of Brits age 79.
Rich Cubans aren't much richer than poor ones. All Cubans spend way less money on health care than Americans.

In more equal societies skilled craftsmen are not regarded as losers. The culture shifts with a considerable inequality gap.
Children in the more unequal countries tend to have completely unrealistic aspirations. They want to be rich and famous
(sports stars, celebrities, or directors of large companies).

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Peer reviewed studies on social inequality:

50 academic papers discussed the relationship between income inequality and violence and imprisonment since 1993.
150 peer reviewed academic papers discussed the beneficial psychosocial relationships of friendsips.
200 peer reviewed academic papers discussed the relationship between income inequality and health problems.

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, author, 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.

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Individualism ⇔ collectivism – Narcissism ⇔ totalitarianism

[T]he US is a very individualistic country as opposed to Japan, which is a very collectivist country. […] If you take individualism too far,
then it becomes narcissistic. If you take collectivism too far, then it becomes totalitarian.
Audio interview with Mario Martinez, PsyD, Uruguaian clinical neuropsychologist, contemplative psychologist, psycho-neuroimmunologist, author, Empowerment
and 'Navigating the Drift' MP3, presented by Sounds True, host Tami Simon (*1953), minute 55:14 of podcast, 60 minutes duration, aired 2. October 2012

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
The book Spirit Level was on the bestseller list at various times. It sold about four times the numbers of copies in Britain (despite the much
smaller population) as in the United States. Over 20 foreign editions are either published or being translated. The impact of the book and over
500 speaking engagements [in a period of 2 years] on its findings worldwide have taken over the lives of the authors in a quite unexpected way.
The Quaker charity Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust support the Equality Trust financially.

Book recommendations
► Stewart Lansley, British economist, financial journalist, author, The Cost of Inequality. Three Decades of the Super-Rich and
the Economy, Gibson Square Books, 27. October 2011
► Kwame Anthony Appia, US American scholar, president of the PEN American Center, The Honor Code. How Moral Revolutions Happen,
W. W. Norton & Company, 13. September 2010

Video documentaries
► Video infographics Wealth Inequality in America, YouTube film, 6:24 minutes duration, posted 20. November 2012
Distribution of wealth in the United States of America, inequality and difference between the actual statistics and the perception of inequality, ignorance of US American citizens on the stunningly massive the wealth gap in the United States³
► Video infographics Viral Video Shows the Extent of U.S. Wealth Inequality, presented by the digital media guide website Mashable,
Charlie White, 2. March 2013
► Video infographics Global Wealth Inequality, presented by The Rules Org, YouTube film, 3:51 minutes duration, posted 7. July 2013
The richest 2% in the world have more wealth than the rest of 7 billion people worldwide.
The richest 300 people have more wealth than 3 billion people (population of India, China, Brazil, and the United States combined).
Gap 1810s: The richest countries were 3 times as rich as the poorest countries.
Gap 1960s (end of colonialism): The richest countries were 35 times as rich as the poorest countries.
Gap 2013: The richest countries are 80 times richer as the poorest countries.

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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Income, status and affective wellbeing – Having ♦ Doing ♦ Being

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US American Gallup survey / study by Ed Diener, Daniel Kahneman et al., 2009:

Income's Differential Influence on Judgments of Life Versus Affective Well-Being
Below an annual income of 60.000 $ people are progressively unhappy –
above 60.000 $ income per year feelings of happiness do not rise.
Depending on which self (experiencing self or remembering self) is predominant influences the poll results.
Personal income in the United States (average 45.000 $)

Two different selves: two notions of money and happiness – Daniel Kahneman et al.

༺༻	Secondary remembering self (Past) Programmed processing system 2 Having * Doing	Fundamental experiencing self (Present) Intuitive choosing system 1 Being
1.	The more money you have the more satisfied you are. That does not hold for emotions. *	Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money buys you misery. We can measure that very clearly. *
2.	Following the concept (Making) money makes you happy about 90% of people in the households in the United States, making at least 250,000 $ a year called themselves "very happy". **	Withheld conclusion: 10% very rich NOT HAPPY people find "making money" (gaining outer resources and status) does not result in sustainable happiness.** See multimillionaire Tom Shadyac's insight. Item 5a.
3.	Comparing one's income favorably to others, spending impulsively money, and overcoming self-doubt with money did not enhance one's subjective well-being. *******	Wanting to make money to feel secure, to feel proud of oneself, and to help others, were predictive of happiness or subjective well-being. *******
4a.	Wealthier people consistently reported a lower ability to savor, "enhance and prolong positive emotional experience." This impediment undermined any positive effect that money had on their happiness. ********	Money impairs people's ability to savor everyday positive emotions and experiences. ********
4b.	Solution: Deepening positive thinking and friendships. ********
5a.	I think I was imprisoned by part of my life that was not a part of what I would say is truth. [...] I stood on top of the heap and said 'I am more valuable than you. Hey, I am the director, man. You are just a camera man. I don't support that anymore. *****	I've gone through some pretty substantial changes which I think have opened me up. I'm more sensitive. I hope that I have walked further down the empathic road. *****
5b.	Conclusion: I think we are all part of it. And there can be a little difference but not the kind of difference that I supported. *****

* Video presentation by Daniel Kahneman (*1934) Israeli-American professor of psychology, Princeton University, founder of behavioral economics, Nobel laureate in economic sciences, 2002, The riddle of experience vs. memory on the "experiencing self" (present) ⇔ the "remembering self" (past, score keeper, story teller), presented by TED Talks 2010, minute 18:08+, 20:07 minutes duration, filmed February 2010, posted March 2010
** Study by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfer, Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being. Re-Assessing the Easterlin Paradox, Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, United States, April 2008
*** Rostyslaw W. Robak, Sheila H. Chiffriller, Melinda C. Zappone, College students' motivations for money and subjective well-being, presented by Psychological Reports, volume 100, issue 1, S. 147-156, 2007
157 undergraduate business and psychology students were asked on their motives for making money and several dimensions of subjective well-being.
**** Quoidbach J., Dunn E.W., Petrides K.V., Mikolajczak M., Money Giveth, Money Taketh Away. The Dual Effect of Wealth on Happiness, sponsored by University of Liège, published by Psychology Science, 759-63, 21. June 2010
***** Video interview with Tom Shadyac (*1958) Aramean American comedian, Hollywood film director, truth seeker, neardeather (2007), multimillionaire converted to the path of simplicity, screenwriter, producer of the documentary DP/30 – I AM, Director Tom Shadyac, presented by DP/30, host David Poland, MCN Videos, YouTube film, minute 4:38, 33:35 minutes duration, posted
11. March 2011

Literature:
► Carol Graham (*1962) US American professor of public policy, University of Maryland, senior fellow, Brookings Institution, research
fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor, Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires. Happiness Research, Economics, and Public Policy,
VOX CEPR Policy Portal, 30. January 2010

Further references:
► Video presentation by Hans Rosling, M.D., Ph.D. (1948-2017) Swedish professor of global health, medical doctor, statistician, data
visionary, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, public speaker, New insights on poverty, presented by TED Talks,
18:44 minutes duration, filmed March 2007, posted June 2007
► Video interview/presentation by Stephen Walt, US American professor of International Affairs, Harvard University, The Global Income
Gap, presented by the US American web portal Big Think, recorded 8. October 2007, 2:15 minutes duration, posted 27. December 2007
Stephen Walt: "Social Inequality is the biggest challenge in the coming decade." (2008-2018)

Source: ► Money

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

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Great Re-convergence – Balancing Westerners with Resterners

♦ The Great Divergence delineates the sociological inequality between East and West since the 1600s.
♦ Competition ♦ scientific revolution ♦ private property rights ♦ modern medicine ♦ consumerism ♦ work ethics were the six institutional means to achieve and ensure Western prosperity and predominance.
♦ At the verge of the 21st century after 500 years of gross imbalance between West and East, North and South the economic and political Western predominance is waning whereas the Resterners of the world are rising and gaining economic power and political influence.

The rise and fall of the Western system

༺༻	Means	Launched by	Note
1.	Competition		Void of cooperation
2.	Scientific revolution		Void of nobleness of heart / dignity
3.	Secured·private·property·rights	John Locke (1632-1704) English philosopher
4.	Modern medicine		Void of cooperative medicine
5.	Consumerism	Industrial Revolution	Expressing status insecurity and competition
6.	[Protestant] Work ethic	Max Weber (1864-1920) German sociologist, political economist, social theorist	Void of basic sustenance

⚑ 106 billion people have ever lived on Earth, most of whom in Asia.
⚑ 6% of the total Earth population are alive today.
⚑ Westerners are 19% of the world's population who possess two thirds of the world's wealth ($195 billions).
⚑ Since the 21st century the Great Re-convergence between Westerners and resterners began to become apparent.

Source: ► Video presentation by Niall Ferguson, M.A., D.Phil. (1964) British Harvard and Oxford historian, specialised in financial and economic history, colonialism, The six killer apps of prosperity*, presented by TED GLOBAL 2011, Edinburgh, Scotland, minute 1:19 / minute 8:20, 20:20 minutes duration, filmed July 2011, posted September 2011
Reference: ► Article What was the Great Divergence?, presented by the English-language weekly newspaper The Economist, C.W., 2. September 2013
Reference: en.Wikipedia entry ► Great Divergence
See also: ► Two versions of Darwin's Evolutionary Theory – David Loye ► Current trend – Shifting from PUSH mode to PULL mode ► Shifting from ego-system to eco-system awareness ► Brain lateralization resulting in 2,500 years of split Western culture – Iain McGilchrist ► Dignity and ► Leadership and ► Tao and ► Equality and ► Moral and ► Heart and ► Work and ► Money and ► Medicine

Today the West has lost its work ethic.
Today an average Korean is working 1,000 hours more per year than an average German. […]
China is just about to overtake Germany [2011]. […]
This is the Great Re-convergence. […]
It's our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance.
The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese [1970s].
Now it's just five times [2011], and soon it will be 2.5 times. […]
In 2016 the United States will lose its place as number 1 economy to China.
Video presentation by Niall Ferguson, M.A., D.Phil. (*1964) British Harvard and Oxford historian, specialised in financial and economic history, colonialism, The six killer apps of prosperity, presented by TED GLOBAL 2011, Edinburgh, Scottland, minute 12:45, 20:20 minutes duration, filmed July 2011, posted September 2011

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Resilience ratio: Two thirds unconscious ⇔ one third awakening

The Austrian psychotherapist and Nazi concentration camp survivor Viktor Frankl found meaning in his intense suffering. The spiritual / soul life strengthened the camp prisoners, helped them adapt, and so improved their chances of survival. It
was a matter of the attitude of the prisoners who had a better chance to survive camp.

Psychoanalyst, child psychologist, and Nazi concentration camp survivor Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990) found the sociological tripartition formula applicable to those who are faced with an extreme crisis in life. He published his
findings in his book The Informed Heart. Autonomy in a Mass Age in 1979:

One third of the people deported to the camps died during the transport – out of fear to starve.
The other third died in the camp when food was short, life was hard-hard, and trust was low.
The last third had a chance to survive as they kept trusting in an inviolable instance within themselves.

Bread and games keep the masses going.
When survival and play are jeopardized TRUST into the unknown becomes an essential asset.

Three kinds of reaction patterns when faced with traumatic conditions

Tripartition	"Bread and games" metaphor	Reaction	Behavior	Exemplified by death camp survivors
1st third	Without BREAD they are incapable to ...!	They cannot.	Giving·up	One third of the Jews and Sinti who were deported into Nazi death camps died during the transportation out of fear and the uncertain prospect of living in a death camp.

2nd third	Without GAMES that ordinary people play they are unwilling to ...!	They don't want to.	Drying·up	The second third died during the death camp imprisonment, because conditions there were unbearable for them.

3rd third	With hardly any BREAD and GAMES they ENDURE the hardship. ___________________ TRUST in what is happening despite the hardship is the trump that lets people survive amidst the hardest circumstances.	They endure the situation patiently and trustingly. ___________________ When the Tipping Point is reached, Transformation is at hand.	Keeping·it·up	The last third was released in miraculous ways or else it survived the tortures of personal disempowerment until they were freed by Allied troups. Those who were free men again owe this to the power of their mind and soul, their unswerving trust in their destiny and their physical discipline.

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Note:

These recommentations conincide with the lower and middle rungs of the pyramid of needs created by the US American psychologist Abraham Maslow.

Austrian-born author Bruno Bettelheim suggested:

Eat/drink what's available.
Excrement regularly.
Stay up and present.
Read whatever you can read.
Try to communicate under adverse conditions.

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Three kinds of people:
༺♥༻ Immovables
༺♥༻ Movables
༺♥༻ Moving ones

All mankind is divided into three classes:

Those that are immovable,
those that are movable,
and those that move.

Attributed by Benjamin Franklin [The First American, Founding Father] (1706-1790)
US American statesman, political theorist, occultist, polymath, diplomat, civic activist, author

Note:
♦◊♦ The Greek philosopher Socrates lived by the guidance of his inner voice (daemon). A two thirds majority of the committee in Athens
sentenced him to death (by hemlock poison) in 399 BC.
♦◊♦ Two thirds of the US Americans favor prosperity over fairness [social justice]. [Status 2011]
♦◊♦ The apocalyptic Revelation (last book of the New Testament) refers to the 2/3 ⇔ 1/3 ratio: Two thirds of mankind will perish whereas
a third of mankind will rise after having endured the shortened "tribulation" period.

Note: ⚑ Controversial status of Bruno Bettelheim
A spirit adverse Freudian, Bettelheim had survived the Nazi death camps in Buchenwald and Dachau. At the end
of his career, at age 86, he committed suicide. His death wish, he explained as such: "The problem is finding a reason
to live." It became painfully apparent that his writings and his actions were not congruent in the long run.⁴

Former students accused Bettelheim in print of
➤ having created an atmosphere of terror in his famous school,
➤ emotional and physical brutality and sexual abuse. Scholars accused him of
➤ plagiarism, and stories of falsified credentials (falsified curriculum vitae) and
➤ shoddy research.
Bettelheim
➤ invented accomplishments,
➤ academic degrees,
➤ connections with people in high places [such as Sigmund Freud, Eleanor Roosevelt], and
➤ professional training and experience that either had no basis in reality or else were gross exaggerations.
His repeated attacks of mothers of disturbed children were nourished by a culture pervaded by blind faith in a simplistic
Freudianism and a wish to find easy answers. What allowed the perpetuation of the Bettelheim myth, was hero worship.⁵

References / critical biographies:
► Nina Sutton, British-French journalist, author, Bettelheim. A Life and a Legacy, Basic Books, 1996, 2nd edition 20. July 1997
► Richard Pollak, US American author, The Creation of Dr. B. A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim, Simon & Schuster,
1st edition 1. January 1997, Touchstone, 6. April 1998
Definitive exposure of Bettelheim as a charlatan whose life was based on falsehood and self-aggrandizement

See also:
► Classic psychology experiments
Solomon Ash (1950s) and Stanley Milgram (1961) found that two thirds of the subject were conforming with authority whereas one third of the test persons
refused to take non-ethical orders from authority. They carried out the dictum of their inner value structure.
► Progression of addiction
Two thirds remain in addiction mode, one third endures the sobering relearning process.

See also: ► Psychology and ► Consciousness-Tables and ► Bread ♦ games ♦ endurance – when exposed to extreme conditions

Siehe auch:
► Resilienz – Zwei Drittel ⇔ Ein Drittel-Verhältnis
► Krebsheilung – Zwei Drittel ⇔ Ein Drittel-Verhältnis [Healing of cancer – Ratio of two thirds ⇔ one third]

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Reducing poverty rates via welfare programs – Lane Kenworthy

The American professor of sociology and political science Lane Kenworthy, Ph.D., East Carolina University (currently University of Arizona) published the results of his international comparative study of cross-cultural poverty assess-
ment in Western nations in 1999.
Kenworthy's team compared fifteen affluent industrialized nations extending welfare benefits. Both absolute and relative measures of poverty rates were applied over the period 1960-1991.

Country	Poverty rates before social welfare	Poverty rates after social welfare
France	36.1%	9.8%
Sweden	23.7%	5.8%
Canada	22.5%	6.5%
United States	21%	11.7%

Note: The US welfare benefits are not as generous, which may explain the weaker success rate in US.

༺༻	Insight
1.	Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.
2.	Traditional charity and aid alone will not solve the problems of poverty.
3.	Markets alone will also not solve the problems of poverty.

Source:
► Article Do Social-Welfare Policies Reduce Poverty. A Cross-National Assessment, presented by the quarterly peer-reviewed
academic journal of social science Social Forces, volume 77, issue 3, pp. 1119-1139, 1. March 1999

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Dunbar's number 150

The British anthropologist Robin Dunbar (*1947) proposed that humans can comfortably maintain only 150 stable, cohesive social relationships. He suggested that the number of ~150 [between 100-230] individuals as part of a human group comprise the theoretical cognitive limit for comfortably managing social interactions. The ideal human group size of 150 is correlated with the size and function of the human neocortex.

Robin Dunbar researched on village and tribe sizes. He found the band-level of tribal groups is past 150 members. 150 is the estimated size of a Neolithic far-
ming village, Mesopotamian tribes, ancient Roman army corps, 11th-century villages in Wales, the split-
ting point of Hutterite settlements, the basic unit size of professional armies in Roman antiquity and in modern times since the 16th century, appropriate company size. 200 is the upper bound on the number of academics in a discipline's sub-specialization.
The mean group size of 148, found by Robin Dunbar, was rounded up to 150 for simplicity's sake. 150-200 people is the extent of relationships humans are able to keep track of without taxing their cognitive limits and emotional capacity.

Layers of functional community comprise:
5, 15, 50, 150, 500, 1,500, 5,300 people.
The more people there are in a community the more relationships are of a lower quality.

☛ 5 – Kin – Genuine "always there" friends

☛ 15 – Super family – Soulmates

☛ 50 – Clan – Friends for social events

☛ 150 – Tribe – Stable relationships

☛ 500 – Casual stable relationships – Aquaintances

☛ 1,500 – People with a face and a name

☛ 5,300 – Plato's ideal size for a democracy

Plato said 350 BC: "The ideal size of democracy is 5,300 [people]."

Interestingy, the Mormons, the Hutterites, and the Amish do not allow their community sizes to grow bigger than 150 members each.
That way the establishment of a police force can be skirted as peer pressure is sufficient to guard the social stability.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Jim Rohn (1930-2009) American entrepreneur, motivational speaker, author, motivational video We are the average
of the five people we spend the most time with., YouTube film, 2:02 minutes duration, posted 11. September 2016

Reference: en.Wikipedia entry ► Dunbar's number Dunbar’s number 150 represents the ideal human group size.

Video presentations/interview featuring Robin Dunbar, Ph.D. (*1947) British anthropologist, specialist in primate behaviour, professor of evolutionary psychology, University of Oxford
► Social brain theory – Nobel Conference 2008, YouTube film, minute 15:00, 1:19:58 minutes duration,
posted 17. September 2009
► Dunbar's Number: Why We Can't Have More Than 150 Friends, 5:06 minutes duration, recorded by the event video production company
Fora.tv and Vision, RSA, London, first posted 18. February 2010, reposted 16. March 2010
► Interview Social Networking – Professor Robin Dunbar, presented by , YouTube film, 4:50 minutes duration, posted 17. December 2010
► Can the internet buy you more friends?, presented by TEDxObserver, London, LND, United Kingdom, 10. March 2012,
YouTube film, 15:16, minutes duration, posted 21. March 2012
► Robin Dunbar, Time budgets and the evolution of language, sponsored by the Committee for Philology, Department of English, Nicolaus
Copernicus University, Toruń, conference "Ways to Protolanguage 3", Torún, Poland, YouTube film, 57:35 minutes duration, posted 11. September 2013

Written reference: ► Article: How many friends do you really need?, presented by the US American daily newspaper The New York Times, Catherine Pearson, 7. May 2022, updated 10. June 2022

See also: ► Community and ► Friendship and ► Relationships ► Neuro science

Siehe auch: ► "Kleine-Welt"-Phänomen: Jeder kennt jeden über sechs Ecken.

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Links zum Thema Soziologie / Sociology

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Leseprobe

Prof. Bernhard Pörksen (*1969) deutscher Professor für Medienwissenschaft, Universität Tübingen, Die große Gereiztheit. Wege aus der kollektiven Erregung, Carl Hanser Verlag, München, 2. Auflage 19. Februar 2018

Die vierte Gewalt der Medien wird abgelöst von einer fünften Gewalt der Vernetzung.
Die digitalen Medien das "Kommunikationsklima der Gesellschaft elementar verändert" und dadurch bei den Menschen Verunsicherung, Verletzbarkeit und ein "Gefühl der Gereiztheit" bewirkt. S. 15
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Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz (*1943) deutscher Psychiater, ärztlicher Psychoanalytiker, Autor, Das gespaltene Land. Ein Psycho-
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Analyse der aktuellen politischen und kulturellen Situation Deutschlands

Klaus Doppler, deutscher Organisationsberater, Luyanda Mpahlwa, südafrikanischer Architekt, Stadtdesigner, Die Logik der Anderen. Warum wir Andersheiten akzeptieren und verstehen müssen, um zukunftsfähig zu sein, Campus, Frankfurt / New York, 1. Auflage 25. November 2020
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Dr. med. Gabor Maté (*1944) ungarisch-kanadischer Arzt, Suchtexperte, aufklärender Referent, Autor, Daniel Maté, Sohn und Mitautor, Vom Mythos des Normalen. Wie unsere Gesellschaft uns krank macht und traumatisiert – Neue Wege zur Heilung, Kösel-Verlag, München, 4. Auflage 24. Mai 2023

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Largest non-profit independent film release in history Political orientations (left-right voting) arise from three clusters of measurable personality traits i.e. opposing attitudes toward (1) tribalism: ethnocentricity ⇔ ethnophilia, (2) human nature: competitiveness ⇔ cooperation, (fundamentalist) religiosity ⇔ secularism, (3) tolerance of inequality: rankism, sexism, racism, classism.

Gregg Braden (*1954) US American educator, pioneer in bridging science and spirituality, author, The Turning Point. Crea-
ting Resilience in a Time of Extremes, Hay House, 28. January 2014

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Externe Weblinks

Wikipedia-Einträge Anarchie Zustand der Abwesenheit von Herrschaft, Diskriminierung, Dunbar-Zahl [150 Gruppenmitglieder = natürliche maximale Gruppengröße] Der britische Anthropologe und Evolutionspsychologe Dr. Robin Dunbar (*1947) nennt als theoretische kogni-
tive Grenze die Gruppengöße von 150 Menschen, mit denen ein Individuum infolge der Größe und Funktion seines Neocortex stabile soziale Beziehungen unterhalten kann., Kampf der Kulturen These von Samuel Phillips Huntington, Klassismus, US-amerikanischer Politikwissenschaftler, 1993, Soziologie, Synarchie Von vielen Menschen mitgetragene herrschende Herrschaftsform
Persönlichkeiten Dr. Robin Dunbar, Samuel Phillips Huntington

Artikel Die Ultra-Elite stammt aus bestem Hause, präsentiert von der Berliner Tageszeitung Der Tagesspiegel, Anja Kühne,
17. Juli 2015

Graf wertete für ihre Studie die Werdegänge von 407 Mitgliedern der Wissenschaftselite im Zeitraum 1945-2013 aus. Seit siebzig Jahren
stammen zwei Drittel der Ultra-Elite aus 3,5 Prozent der Bevölkerung – "eine enorme soziale Exklusivität der Wissenschaftselite".

Artikel Warum Sozialismus nicht funktionieren kann, präsentiert von der deutschen Zeitschrift PT-Magazin, Hanspeter Georgi, 30. August 2016

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Beiträge verfasst von Elfriede Ammann, präsentiert auf der kalifornischen Frage-und-Antwort Webseite Quora DE

Beitrag Was denkst du über Multikulturalismus?, 59 Aufrufe, 10. November 2018
Beitrag Welche von Arno Gruens Schlussfolgerungen und Einsichten haben dich “getroffen” oder betroffen gemacht?, 827 Auf-
rufe · 23 Likes, 8. Mai 2019
Beitrag Welche missbräuchlichen Erziehungsmaßnahmen an Kleinkindern haben einerseits Persönlichkeitsstörungen ausgelöst und andererseits in der gesamtgesellschaftlichen Entwicklung historische Abdrücke hinterlassen?, 259 Aufrufe · 3 Likes,
8. Juni 2019

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Wikipedia entries Anarchy Lawlessness of a society, entity, group of people, single person rejecting hierarchy, Behavioral sink, Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Thesis of Samuel Phillips Huntington, 1993, Class discrimination Classism, Dunbar's number [150: Dunbar’s number of human group size] Robin Dunbar suggested a cognitive limit of ~150 [between 100-230] individuals contained in a human group with whom one can maintain stable, cohesive social relationships. This human group size is due to the size and function of the neocortex., Fascism, Ingroups and outgroups, Inverted Totalitarianism, Pareto_principle 80/20 rule; Only a "vital few" peapods produce the majority of peas., Sociology, Synarchism "Joint/harmonious rule", Totalitarianism
Personalities Robin Dunbar (*1947) British anthropologist, Samuel Phillips Huntington, US American politics scientist, John B. Calhoun (1917-1995) US American ethologist, behavioral researcher

Article Under the Influence. How power, status, and social hierarchy shape us, presented by the US American bimonthly magazine Psychology Today, Michael W. Kraus, Ph.D., US American social psychologist, post-doctoral scholar, UC San Francisco, 5. December 2011
Article Lifting the Veil of Mirage Democracy in the United States, presented by the US American nonprofit, progressive daily
online newsletter Truthout, Margaret Flowers, Kevin Zeese, February 2013
Article Filmmaker Reveals the Truth About Subliminal Messages, presented by the US American online magazine Waking Times, Alex Pietrowski, staff writer, 23. February 2016
Article We Aren't the World, presented by the bimonthly US American magazine Pacific Standard, Ethan Watters,
25. February 2013

Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics – and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behavior and culture.
More than 96% (nearly 70% from U.S.) of the subjects tested in psychological studies from 2003-2007 were Westerners. Studies were made in countries that represent only 12% of the world’s population.

Article Political Correctness is All about Slave Morality, presented by the US American bimonthly magazine Psychology Today, Gregg Henriques, Ph.D., US American professor of psychologist, James Madison University, Virginia, 26. April 2016
Blog article Cognitive bias cheat sheet. Because thinking is hard., presented by Better Humans, Buster Benson, 1. September 2016
1. We don't see everything.
2. Our search for meaning can conjure illusions.
3. Quick decisions can be seriously flawed.
4. Our memory reinforces errors.
Article Rules of Engagement for The Environmental Century, presented by The Environmental Century, Stephen Mulkey, Ph.D., 30. August 2016

Rule 1. We need each other.
Rule 2. All other rules depend on Rule 1.
Rule 3. Facts matter.
Rule 4. Our genes do not determine who we are or what will become of us.
Rule 5. As a species, we are not evil, and we did not intentionally get ourselves into this mess.
Rule 6. Self-awareness is necessary if we are to manage our future.
Rule 7. Humility must be a collective core value if civilization is to survive.
Rule 8. Action is the ultimate antidote for the poison of despair.
Rule 9. Be of service to something bigger than yourself.
Rule 10. Learning is the foundation of our future.
Rule 11. We are not members of various tribes – White, Black, Asian, Hispanic. We belong to a species. We should act like it.
Rule 12. Nature is the source of spiritual renewal.

Interview with Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D. (*1963) US American professor of social, cultural and moral psychology and ethical leadership, New York University Stern School of Business, author, Why social media is terrible for multiethnic democracies, presented by the US American news and opinion website Vox owned by Vox Media, Sean Illing, 5. January 2018

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Vortrag des Horst-Eberhard Richter (1923-2011) deutscher Psychoanalytiker, Psychosomatiker, Sozialphilosoph, Wegbereiter der Familientherapie, Leitfigur der Friedensbewegung in den 1980er-Jahren, Autor, Fortschrittsmythos und Unsterblichkeitswahn, aufgenommen 10. Dezember 1987, präsentiert von dem deutschen öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehsender ARD, SWR, Tele-Akademie, 43:49 Minuten Dauer, Sendetermin 7. August 2022

Der moderne Fortschrittsmythos bewirkte Veränderungen im Fühlen und Denken der Menschen.

Videovorlesung von Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) deutscher Soziologe, transdisziplinärer Sozialwissenschaftler, Gesellschafts-
theoretiker, Begründer der soziologischen Systemtheorie, Autor, Reingehört: "Einführung in die Systemtheorie", präsentiert von der Carl Auer Akademie, produziert 1997, 4:30 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 7. Dezember 2016
Videoauschnitt aus einer ZDF-Fernsehserie, S05E07, Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht – Zum Thema "Political Correctness", vorgetragen von dem deutschen Schauspieler Robert Atzorn, YouTube Film, 1:54 Minuten Dauer, produziert 1999, eingestellt
9. Januar 2013
Videointerview mit Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse (1955-2015) deutscher Honorarprofessor für Allgemeine und Organisationspsycho-
logie, Universität Bremen, Psychologe, Netzwerkforscher zur Komplexitätsverarbeitung in intelligenten Netzwerken und kohärenter Musterbildung, Geschäftsführer von Nextpractice, Unternehmensberater, 07 Meilensteine der Kulturentwicklung, YouTube Film, 2:45 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 25. März 2008
Videointerview mit Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse (1955-2015) deutscher Honorarprofessor für Allgemeine und Organisationspsycho-
logie, Universität Bremen, Psychologe, Netzwerkforscher zur Komplexitätsverarbeitung in intelligenten Netzwerken und kohärenter Musterbildung, Geschäftsführer von Nextpractice, Unternehmensberater, 21 Wie erzeuge ich intelligente Bewertungssysteme für Plattformen, Youtube Film, 7:45 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 26. März 2008

Wirtschaft und Unternehmen im Übergangsstadium, Netzwerke als Wahrnehmungsorgan für Führung, Intelligente Generierungssysteme (Plattformen) brauchen intelligente Bewertungssysteme.

Video TV Interview mit Peter Sloterdijk (*1947) deutscher Professor für Philosophie, Universität Karlsruhe, Kulturwissenschaftler, Fernsehmoderator, Essayist, Vision der gebenden Hand – Die neue soziale Frage, präsentiert von dem ersten Fernsehprogramm des Schweizer Radio und Fernsehens (SRF) SRF 1, wöchentliche Diskussionsrunde Sternstunde Philosophie, Gastgeberin Katja Gentinetta, Sendetermin 20. März 2011, YouTube Film, 1:00:58 Dauer, eingestellt 8. September 2014

Ethische Betrachtung und Unterscheidung von Steuern GEBEN ⇔ Steuern DULDEN

Videointerview mit Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse (1955-2015) deutscher Honorarprofessor für Allgemeine und Organisationspsycho-
logie, Universität Bremen, Psychologe, Netzwerkforscher zur Komplexitätsverarbeitung in intelligenten Netzwerken und kohärenter Musterbildung, Geschäftsführer von Nextpractice, Unternehmensberater, 19 Informelle Netzwerke sind nicht formlos, YouTube Film, 3:01 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 31. März 2008

Das Missverständnis des formlosen informellen Netzwerkgedankens, die mystische Vorstellung von Selbstorganisation; Voraussetzung dafür: qualitätsgesicherte Prozesse, Disziplin, die Wichtigkeit von Feedbacks

Videopräsentation von Dr. Franz Hörmann (*1960) österreichischer visionärer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, außerordentlicher Professor für Unternehmensrechnung, Institut für Revisions-, Treuhand- und Rechnungswesen, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Autor, Systemische Gesellschaftswissenschaft, veranstaltet von dem 4. Kongress für Grenzwissenschaften des Hesper-Verlags, Saarbrücken, 22. Oktober 2016, YouTube Film, 1:15:48 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 4. November 2016
Videovortrag von Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz (*1943) deutscher Psychiater, ärztlicher Psychoanalytiker, Autor, Das falsche Leben,
unsere normopathische Gesellschaft, veranstaltet von Lehmanns Buchhandlung, Universität Leipzig, 2. Mai 2017, YouTube Film, 1:05:14 Dauer, eingestellt 3. Mai 2017
Video Kongressvortrag von Prof. Richard Wilkinson (*1943) britischer emeritierter Professor für Sozialepidemiologie, Univer-
sität von Nottingham, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Erforscher des Sozialgefälles weltweit, Autor, Vortrag Richard Wilkinson beim Armutskongress "Status, Poverty and Inequality", veranstaltet von der Armutskonferenz, 27.-28. Juni 2017, YouTube Film,
41:41 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 21. Juli 2017
Video Fernsehinterview mit Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz (*1943) deutscher Psychiater, ärztlicher Psychoanalytiker, Autor,
Das falsche Leben, präsentiert von dem Schweizer Non-Profit-Internet-Fernsehen Free Spirit-TV, Gastgeberin
Aline N. Brandstetter, YouTube film, 1:16:31 duration, posted 14. April 2019
Animiertes Aufklärungsvideo MASSEN-PSYCHOSE – Wie eine ganze Bevölkerung geistig krank wird, präsentiert von dem Anbieter CheckMateNews, Odysee Film, 21:05 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 2. September 2021
Videointerview mit Christian Dittrich-Opitz (*1970) deutscher Autodidakt, Seminarleiter, Schriftsteller, Normopathie – Das drängendste Problem unserer Zeit – Christian Dittrich-Opitz, präsentiert von dem deutschen online Fernsehportal Neue Horizonte.TV via Nuoflix, Gastgeber Götz Wittneben, YouTube Film, 1:21:34 Dauer, eingestellt 31. März 2022
Videovortrag von Dirk Pohlmann (*1959) deutscher Filmregisseur, Drehbuchautor, KenFM Reporter, Autor, Dirk Pohlmann: Westliche Werte?, veranstaltet von dem unabhängigen deutschen Internet-Fernsehsender Eingeschenkt.TV, Kernpunkte Kongress, Basel, Schweiz, 10.-11. März 2023, YouTube Film, 1:22:42 Dauer, eingestellt 31. Mai 2023

Linklose Medienangebote

Video Fernsehdokumentation über Prof. Richard Wilkinson (*1943) britischer emeritierter Professor für Sozialepidemiologie, Universität von Nottingham, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Erforscher des Sozialgefälles weltweit, Autor, "Gleichheit macht glücklich", präsentiert von dem französisch-deutschen Fernsehsender Arte, Nachrichtensendung Arte Journal, Redakteur Alexander Wolkers, 2:39 Minuten Dauer, gesendet 25. März 2011

Starke Ungleichheiten können schlimme Folgen (schlechtere Gesundheitsversorgung oder geringere Lebenserwartung) für die Ärmere haben.
Neu ist die Erkenntnis, dass auch die reicheren Schichten unter starken einem sozialen Gefälle leiden.

Video Fernsehinterview mit Dr. Hans-Joachim Maaz (*1943) deutscher Psychiater, ärztlicher Psychoanalytiker, Autor,
Hans-Joachim Maaz: "Wir dürfen nicht sein, wie wir sein möchten", präsentiert von dem deutschen öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehsender MDR / ARD, wöchentliche Kultursendung ttt – titel, thesen, temperamente, Gastgeber Carsten Tesch, gesendet 26. März 2017, YouTube Film, 25:24 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 15. August 2017

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Poverty

The quest to end poverty (8 talks), presented by TED Talks

Video presentation by and Q&A with Dr. Malidoma Patrice Somé (*1956) West African Burkina Faso born, American based psychologist, medicine man, author, Malidoma Patrice Somé Finding your life's Purpose Through Natural Rituals, and Community, sponsored by TransAtlantic Productions, produced ~2001-2002, YouTube film, 1:12:51 duration, posted
18. November 2017
Video presentation by Hans Rosling, M.D., Ph.D. (1948-2017) Swedish professor of global health, medical doctor, statistician, data visionary, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, public speaker, New insights on poverty, presented by TED Talks, 18:44 minutes duration, filmed March 2007, posted June 2007
Video presentation by Robin Dunbar, Ph.D. (*1947) British anthropologist, specialist in primate behaviour, professor of evolutionary psychology, University of Oxford, Social brain theory – Nobel Conference 2008, YouTube film, 1:19:58 minutes duration, posted 17. September 2009

Ongoing research in the Lucy to Language project
The Mormons, the Hutterites, and the Amish do not allow community size to grow bigger than 150 members. That way the establishment
of a police force can be skirted as peer pressure is sufficient to guard the social stability. Minute 15:00

Audio interview with Gail Dines, US American professor of sociology and women's studies, Wheelock College, Boston, anti-pornography campaigner, author of Pornland. How Porn has hijacked Our Sexuality, 29. June 2010 and Melinda Tankard Reist, Has porn hijacked our sexuality?, presented by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC Radio National,
program "Late Night Live", host Phillip Adams, 55 minutes duration, aired 27. October 2010
"One in five men who look at [ Internet ] pornography are [porn] addicted."
Article in Adult Video News (pornography industry publication), minute 24:16
Video presentation by Ernst Fehr (*1956) Austrian economist, professor of microeconomics and experimental economic re-
search (on fairness, reciprocity and bounded rationality), chairman of the department of economics, University of Zürich, Switzer-
land, The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power, sponsored by LSE, Old Theatre, Old Building, London, recorded 24. February 2011, YouTube film, 1:08:49 minutes duration, posted 28. February 2011
Video presentation by Sam Richards, US American sociologist, iconoclast, one of the "101 Most Dangerous Academics in America", A radical experiment in empathy, presented by TED Talks, 18:07 minutes duration, filmed October 2010, posted
April 2011

Empathy is the core of sociology.

Video documentation with a focus on the inequality research by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. Equality Trust (*1943) British profes-
sor Emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Nottingham, researcher of inequality data in health and social determinants, Why occupy Wall St? – The real effects of income inequality, YouTube film, 8:04 minutes duration, posted 30. November 2011

Excessive wealth in the hands of a few triggers a breakdown of society, particularly the United States

Audio documentary on The Wealth Gap, presented by BBC World Service, starting January 2012
- The Documentary. The Wealth Gap: The View from London, episode 1, 25 minutes duration, aired 21. January 2012
- The Documentary. The Wealth Gap: The View from London, episode 2, 25 minutes duration, aired 28. January 2012
Video presentation by Robin Dunbar, Ph.D. (*1947) British anthropologist, specialist in primate behaviour, professor of evolutionary psychology, University of Oxford, Can the internet buy you more friends?, presented by TEDxObserver,
YouTube film, 15:17 minutes duration, posted 21. March 2012
Video presentation by Richard Wilkinson, Ph.D. Equality Trust (*1943) British professor Emeritus of social epidemiology, University of Nottingham, researcher of inequality data in health and social determinants, Societal equality and global sustain-
ability, sponsored by conference Planet Under Pressure 2012, 26.-29. March 2012, London, YouTube film, 18:19 minutes duration, posted by PlanetUnderPressure 6. July 2012
Video presentation by Hans Rosling, M.D., Ph.D. (1948-2017) Swedish professor of global health, medical doctor, statistician, data visionary, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, public speaker, Religions and babies, presented by TEDxSummit 2012,
Doha, Qatar, 13:20 minutes duration, filmed April 2012, posted May 2012
Video presentation by Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D. (*1963) US American professor of social, cultural and moral psychology and
ethical leadership, New York University Stern School of Business, Hive Psychology and the Moral Life of Organisations, spon-
sored by the platform Authors@Google, Google Campus, Mountain View, California, YouTube film, 53:51 minutes duration,
posted 13. August 2012

On the origins of morality and its basis in politics and religion referring to Haidt's new book The Righteous Mind. Why Good People
Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Video infographics Wealth Inequality in America, YouTube film, 6:24 minutes duration, posted 20. November 2012

Distribution of wealth in US, inequality and difference between the actual statistics and the perception of inequality, ignorance of
US American citizens on the stunningly massive the wealth gap in their nation⁶

Dokumentarfilme

Fernsehdokumentationsfilm mit Prof. Dr. Hans Rosling (1948-2017) schwedischer Professor für Internationale Gesundheit, Karolinska Institut, Stockholm, Direktor der Gapminder-Stiftung, Referent, Mythos Überbevölkerung – Verblüffende Fakten zur Welt von morgen, produziert von wingspan productions 2013, präsentiert von ZDF info, bearbeitet von Kelvinfilm, Klaus Kastenholz, YouTube Film, 44:24 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 7. Februar 2018

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

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

Speech on Zday 2010, part 5 of 10, 10:59 minutes duration

Tribute to the study results of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Picket

Speech on Zday 2010, part 6 of 10, 10:59 minutes duration

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

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

Video documentary Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, presented by Zeitgeistmovie.com, released 15. January 2011, YouTube film, alternatively: cmn.tv, 2:41:25 duration, posted 25. January 2011, alternatively: Zeitgeist – Moving Forward | Human Survival | Economics | Peter Joseph, YouTube Film, 2:41:31 duration, posted 27. März 2012

Largest non-profit independent film release in history

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Narrated video summary of the French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931)'s classic Gustave Le Bon: The
Nature of Crowds, presented by Academy of Ideas, YouTube film, 8:41 minutes duration, posted 28. July 2013

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Englisch Wiki

Hawkins

¹ Offenbarung 9, 18 (NT) ⇑

² Interview "We quite suddenly realized that we were looking at a general pattern": Q&A with Richard Wilkinson, presented by the publication TEDBlog, Emily McManus, 26. October 2011 ⇑

³ From 1947 to 1979 the income of the bottom fifth of Americans rose by 122%. From the introduction of Reagonomics in 1879 to 2009 the income of the top 1% rose by 270% while the other 99%'s income remained stagnant. ⇑

⁴ Archived article LOVE & DEATH: In His Final Interview, Just Before His Suicide, Bruno Bettelheim Explained Why He Wanted to Die, presented by the US American daily newspaper Los Angeles Times, Celeste Fremon, US American free-lance writer, 27. January 1991 ⇑

⁵ Article In the Case of Bruno Bettelheim, presented by Leadership U, Molly Finn, 1996, June/July 1997 ⇑

⁶ From 1947 to 1979 the income of the bottom fifth of Americans rose by 122%. From the introduction of Reagonomics in 1879 to 2009 the income of the top 1% rose by 270% while the other 99%'s income remained stagnant. ⇑

Anhand der Skala des Bewusstseins (Gradeinteilung von 1-1000), erarbeitet von Dr. David R. Hawkins, hat Soziologie einen Bewusstseinswert (BW) von 260.
Innerhalb von Hawkins' System rangiert das Thema Soziologie im Bereich von gesellschaftsbildender Neutralität.
Quelle: CD-Serie The Discovery, CD 1 von 6, Spur 6, Nightingale-Conant, United Kingdom, Mai 2007

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Income, status and affective wellbeing – Having ♦ Doing ♦ Being

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