The Power of Being Human Beyond Equality and Equity

William N. Spencer

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For far too many people today, their perception and discernment of history begins with the day that they were born. And unfortunately, most of these very same people truly believe that the world, and all life on earth, revolves around them.
Each and every one of us need to learn our proper place in life and in the world: To be a leader, a follower, or to just stay well out of the way of both of the others.
In America, we are constitutionally granted the rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Read and listen closely; we are not guaranteed any degree of happiness, only the freedom to seek happiness on our own.

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Éthique et morale
• Movements
• Philosophie et théologie
• Philosophy
• Humanism
• Ethique et morale

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• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 16 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669850656
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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THE POWER OF BEING HUMAN BEYOND EQUALITY AND EQUITY
An Academic Study into our Warped and Twisted Life Today
William N. Spencer


 
 
 
Copyright © 2022 by William N. Spencer.
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CONTENTS
Prologue
Foreword
Overview
 
Me Too Movement
Fake Equity Words
How This Happens
Moving Beyond Equality Without the fakeness of equity
Empathy
The Joke of Being “Woke”
Cancel Culture
Learning from our mistakes
Follow the Money
Where are we today? Where are we going tomorrow?
A very inconclusive conclusion:

PROLOGUE
It has always been said that: “Words mean things”, and for the most part, they do, that is, unless the speaker or writer is not telling the truth, or telling half-truths—or like Congressman Adam Schiff, just make up a stupid garbage fairy-tale as he goes along—which today, in most print and television mainstream media, is the case just about every time. Always, or maybe just 99.44 percent of the time in politics, what is spoken or written is the exact opposite of the actual and factual truth, the exact opposite of what is really meant nor intended, or the exact opposite of what honestly and truly happened.
How else can we explain the mainstream media’s penchant for absolute total dishonesty and lying about anything and everything with both the 2016 presidential election, and again with the 2020 presidential election, and now again, with this dishonest portrayal of the January 6, 2021 Capital building photo-op event? They proudly told the whole world that each and every illegal and criminal action undertaken by any democrat candidate was right and just, while disparaging and demeaning any pre-proven and successful action plan proposed by any republican as being bad or evil!
Starting in the late 1980s with Bill Clinton’s ascendency to the Democrat Party throne, into and through the 1990s, we began in earnest the age and era of ‘total fake news’.
Beginning with the print media’s move to being primarily on-line fake / parody news—the Onion, The Daily Kos (Kos, a fake label for a real person named Markos Mouslitsas), The Huffington Post, etc.—soon led the way for spoof / satire late night television turning into 24/7/365 bogus/sham/imitation news. The Daily Show, with Jon Stewart paving the way for the Colbert Report—a television comedian pretending to be honest and truthful, which he and they definitely were not. And before too long of a time, this segued into an entire television network, MSNBC, dedicated to spewing and spouting 100 percent fake news and lies 100 percent of the time. And quite shortly, a once long ago honest and truthful Cable News Network (CNN), followed in the MSNBC footsteps of total lies and dishonesty.
And then, seemingly all at once, a used to be serious monthly magazine, Time, became nothing more than a laughing stock liberal democrat / anti-republican propaganda rag. And pretty soon, thereafter, the once stalwart and indubitable television networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC became less than half the time honest, truthful, or believable.
Oh yeah, right. It really is not only just the predominate liberal democrat media that is dishonest and disingenuous, the three main supposedly ‘fair and balanced’ national television networks are equally discriminating and dishonest through omission, just as much as the main communist networks.
Daniel Levitin tries to explain these things for us: “It is easy to lie with statistics and graphs because few people take the time to look under the hood and see how they work. Recognizing faulty arguments can help you to evaluate whether a chain of reasoning leads to a valid conclusion or not. Related to this infoliteracy—recognizing that there are hierarchies in study source quality, that pseudo-facts can easily masquerade as real facts, and biases can distort the information we are being asked to consider, leading us to faulty conclusions.
You might object and say: It’s not my job to evaluate statistics critically. Newspapers, bloggers, the government, Wikipedia, etc. should be doing that for us. Yes, they should, but they don’t, not always. We—each of us—need to think critically and carefully about the numbers and words we encounter if we want to be successful at work, at play, and in making the most of our lives. This means checking the numbers, the reasoning, and the sources for plausibility and rigor. It means examining them as best as we can before we repeat them or use them to form an opinion. We want to avoid the extremes of gullibly accepting every claim we encounter, or cynically rejecting everyone. Critical thinking doesn’t mean that we distinguish between claims with evidence and those without.”
The ‘left-est’ of the ‘left’ does not consist simply of those people who are more extreme than any other garden variety of progressive or liberal, it does consist of many varied and different groups. And many of these are blatantly derisive and disparaging of modern ‘liberals’ and modern ‘liberalism’, although almost all heartily embrace progressivism, even if today, there is little or no agreement of what that really is.
Harry Bruinius provides a little better explanation: “The term ‘fake news’ has become one of the most charged political terms in the emerging rough-and-ready digital era. This confusion and misinformation creates an environment where it is increasingly normal to accept facts only if they conform to one’s own worldview. The penchant to believe fake news is often rooted in a deep-seated feeling of alarm and powerlessness. People who think they’ve been pushed out of the political world as it is right now are going to be susceptible to misinformation – they’re going to focus on whatever makes them feel better.”
Whether we are talking about every day liberal mainstream media fake and dishonest pseudo-news, or their disingenuous and deceitful spin on the pro-republican political semi-truth, we, the real mainstream public are at the mercy of the duplicitous charlatans of network rating numbers. And worse than anything, this demeaning of corporate news responsibility has filtered its way down into the local level. In my little city of three-fourths of a million people, the local network affiliated on-air people are just as dishonest and deceitful as the big national news bobble-head liars.
This segues into one seemingly brazen yet relevant fact of life as described by Streiff: “Research has found that being attractive influences many things in a person’s life — their salary, their popularity and grades in school, even the prison sentences they receive. Numerous studies have shown that good-looking people are likely to earn more, and that people who earn more are typically more opposed to redistributive policies, like the progressive taxes and welfare programs favored by the left. Past studies have found that the more attractive people believe themselves to be, the lower their preference for egalitarianism, a value typically associated with the political left. The researchers also offer a more general psychological explanation for the trend: That good-looking people are often treated better than others, and thus see the world as a more just place.”
Pretty, attractive, homely, down-right ugly; yes, it makes a major difference in life in hundreds of major and minor everyday actions dealing with the public. It’s bad enough for males, but for females this is sometimes a life or death situation.
Lisa Damour shrewdly illustrates this conundrum: “As confirmed by report after report, girls are more likely than boys to labor under feelings of psychological stress and tension. Studies tell us that compared to boys, girls feel more pressure, and that they endure more of the physical symptoms of psychological strain, such as fatigue and changes in appetite. Young women are also more likely to experience emotions often associated with anxiety.”
Yet, the most familiar of these liberal groups, communists and socialists, argue that social institutions such as ‘the government’ should be the ones to distribute all resources to the people judiciously and fairly. While these socialist / communists of the past twentieth century swayed most progressive and liberal politicians, they also provided the rationale and momentum for the likes of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao.
Brian Weeks has a few insightful sentences to impart on this topic: “Although the emphasis on fake news has uncovered an important problem for democracy and contemporary journalism, focusing the public discussion primarily on these made-up websites and stories may be distracting us from other, more typical ways the public becomes misinformed about politics. In particular, ideological or partisan news—those news organizations from the political right and le