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"Society exists for
the benefit of its members
– not the members for the benefit of
society."
– Herbert
Spencer
"It is a brutal fact that all human attempts to
design society from the top down, as opposed to
letting it grow organically, have been abject
failures."
- Charles Eisenstein
"Practice the whole range of activities
Jesus used - honesty toward the
real world, partiality for the "little ones,"
deep-seated mercy, faithfulness to the mystery of
God - act on social reality and transform that social reality in the
specific direction of the Kingdom of
God. To follow the practice of Jesus
with his spirit is an ethical demand of the historical
Jesus himself."
- Jon Sobrino Jesus
the Liberator
"Man is born into society
just as an ant is born into its ant-hill or a bee into its hive; man is born
into society from the very moment that he takes his first step toward humanity,
from the moment that he becomes a human being that is, a being possessing to a
greater or lesser extent the power of
thought and speech. Man does not choose society; on
the contrary, he is the product of the latter, and he is just as
inevitably subject to the natural laws
governing his essential development as to all the
other natural laws which he must
obey." - Mikhail
Bakunin
"People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of
their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are
not under rational human control." - Theodore
John Kaczynski
"America does not have anything that an
anthropologist would recognize as a true society. America consists of a mere
cluster of people and groups with various and often opposing
beliefs who often have little tolerance for the
beliefs held by others. It has been said that
Americans do not live together, they merely live side by side. These
individuals and groups openly seek to promote their own interests at the
expense of the interests of all. Freedoms of all
sorts are being restricted and those people who fall outside of the dominant
groups are left to their own devices or abandoned entirely. What passes for an
American society is afflicted with numerous irresolvable
contradictions. Sooner or later
it mush crash headlong into reality. What passes for
a society continually unravels, no social problems are ever
solved, the people are abandoned for the sake of
institutions founded on
erroneous beliefs, and
eventually the nation collapses. " - John Kozy
"We live in a social
feedback loop where our individual comfort zones interact. If we step outside
of the social norms, speak about things that make other people uncomfortable we
need to step outside of our comfort zones in order to do it. Usually the social
response is some form of hostility because, hey, you're impinging on other
people's comfort zones. If you're a normal caring person, your natural response
is to retreat into your comfort zone. The lesson far too many take away from
this is not to venture outside of the comfort zone and certainly don't invade
anyone else's. So we end up policing and censoring ourselves, censoring
ourselves for fear of becoming the outcast we fear we will become. What we
really need to face is why do we accept this self-imposed mind prison? We are
supposed to be the land of the brave yet we cringe over the slightest
imposition to our petty little comfort zones. We should encourage those that
have the strength of character to stick their necks out and speak about things
most of us are afraid to speak about." - Bruce McDonald, a truly patriotic
American
Social is defined as:
Living together in communities.
Intended
for convivial activities.
Of or relating to communal
living.
Of or relating to the
upper classes.
Naturally growing in groups or masses.
Consisting in
union or mutual
intercourse.
Relating to human society
and its members.
Involving allies or members of a
confederacy.
Spent in or marked by friendly relations or companionship.
Inclined to
seek out or
enjoy the company of
others; sociable.
Of or
relating to human society
and its modes of organization.
Living together in organized groups or similar close aggregates.
Of, relating to, or involved with matters
affecting human welfare.
An informal social
gathering, as of the members of a church congregation.
A party of
humans assembled to promote sociability and communal
activity.
"American society has lost
its capacity to look past the ever present howls of single
issue litmus tests, and it is not
looking at thefundamental shared
challenges that face us as humans and
Americans regardless of our social status, politics,
values or faith. Every one of us has abdicated
the responsibility of leadership by letting
earnest and sometimes contentious dialogue of substance give way to the shortsighted
selfishness exhibited by our
political leaders and
the mass media. Consensus on critical
issues by
opposite camps is a hallmark of a
civilized society
that can move forward while agreeing to disagree. We're not only not moving
forward, we're regressing."-Nick Peters, 09/05
"My
personal experience supports and confirms what I
have since learned as a social scientist
with a doctorate in the history of
religions: Healing has always and everywhere in
human history been practiced by
religious experts. Life, death,
illness and mystery are the province of both
religion and science. In fact, one can demonstrate
that the physician, a medical scientist,
is also a religious expert. In our seriously misguided
technological society, we divide
knowing about ultimate
things from religious practice, calling it "science," which is
merely the generic word for knowledge. In our actual experience, religion and
technology are intermixed. Attempts
to separate medical practice from
spiritual life is not
only lamentable, it is impractical. People seek consolation when they or their
loved ones are ill, and they hope for
miracles. I am not arguing that
prayer heals all ills or that science
is incomplete without rituals. I am arguing that the
mystery of being
human includes the necessity of
religion - in one form or
another. I don't argue this because
I am a Christian but because I am an
agnostic and a scientist with an
unquenchable thirst for knowledge in any form that
it takes." - Jean E. Rosenfeld 12/06
"I'm at a
complete loss to see how any society that
considers itself to be evolved and
civilized can
entertain the
thought of any sort of torture of
another
human being. Yet the discussions in the
American Capitol are not that inhumanity is wrong
because it demeans and lowers us to a status below
animalism, but because it might cause the
same vicious behavior to
be used upon our own. What manner of people are we to argue that the
savage misdeeds perpetrated by
others justify the same sort of treatment by us? Even if we
were unaware that information obtained by hideous means is generally
false and are sure that unspeakable actions have
been and are being taken by others, our own moral, ethical,
civilized beliefs
should preclude vengeful acts that mirror those who would
destroy us. Otherwise we lose all claim
to having developed more than the thinnest veneer that, when scratched, returns
us to the stage of the first man who walked upon a dangerous
Earth millenniums ago." -
Eleanor Jackson 10/06
"Modern corporations have
targeted children of all ages with the most
ambitious social stimulus response
campaign in American history. Children have been taught the
logic of the
invisible hand of the
market - that everything is for sale,
corporations are your friend,
and things can be valued more than people.
Societal taboos that separated childhood
development and the market have been
forgotten. The child's consciousness has been
put up for sale in schools, in the home,
and in the community."- Jamie Court
technological advances in
communication and social lifeEver since the discovery of the first
tools people have seen technological advances as positive and
desirable - fire, the wheel, pottery, glass, horticulture,
boats, writing, the printing press, locomotives, telephone, airplane,
television, satellite, microwave, computer,
etcetera.
Technological
advances have reduced the distance between communicants. Although the distance
between cultures continues to shrink, the distance
between interpersonal communicants appears to be expanding.
Paradoxically, the closer we get, the further apart
we appear to be.
Communications technology is largely responsible for
this increasing social/interpersonal distance.
Tools are intended to make one's work
easier. However, the increased ease and time saved,
afford people the opportunity to become
less interdependent and more autonomous and self-reliant.
Where
women once gathered at the
water's edge to do the laundry in
social groups outside the
home; men and women now
go to the laundry room and turn
on the washing machine, quickly returning
to the comfort of the living
room, kitchen, or
den.
Tools originally
designed to aid in the execution of some activity
sometimes come to replace that activity.
Human input goes from maximum to almost
nonexistent.
The telephone facilitates the delivery of food to our
front doors as cable access delivers recently released
movies for
home viewing while internet
availability permits shopping for nearly anything anytime on-line. A
consumer can take advantage of all of
these services and never leave
the comfort - and the isolation - of the
home.
All of this
increased social isolation is encouraged and
validated.
The AT&T slogan, "Reach out and
touch someone," encapsulates the
ideology being spread by Verizon, Dell, Microsoft,
Apple, Time-Warner, General Electric, Viacom, News Corp, etcetera. The
enthymematic force of this slogan advances the position that mediated contact
and virtual interaction through
machines is synonymous to face-to-face
communication.
Corporate propaganda equalizes
touching someone in an
emotional sense as
equivalent to physically
touching someone.
Hence, the
paradox; one feels closer because some form of contact is
experienced and further apart because that
contact serves to create a less accurate
representation of the participants and their messages. The absence of the
characteristics associated with face-to-face communication can result in a
loss of fidelity and an increase in the
psychological distance between
communicants.
The desire for the
acquisition of new
technology conspires to place a
heavier financial burden on the family making dual
income families normal in developed countries.
In American families having children between 6 and 17, 73 percent of
the women are employed. Dual income families have
given rise to the "latchkey children"
phenomenon,
children returning from
school before either parent has return
from work. These
children's contact with parents is limited, and they spend a large
part of their day with babysitters or
day care workers and with the
television and/or computer.
As exposure
to communication media increases the potential for
influence by these media also increases.
Television viewing is often used for companionship
or to battle loneliness.
Consequently, television has an obvious impact on how people
initiate and maintain interpersonal relationships.
An obscure Russian playwright
named, Nicolas Evreinoff, who was a pioneering theorist in the interplay between reality and imagination,
believed
theatricality was an "instinct" and called it
fundamental to human
life, just as Johan Huizinga in Homo Ludens
had called play, an
instinct to
entertain as well as be
entertained, one of the
essentials of human
existence.
Those inclined toward
showmanship have tended to be
able to entertain their
way through life.
The ability to awe your audience gives you a position of
reverence in your
audiences eyes.
(As in ‘I stand in
awe of God')
American's have
transcended social distinctions by adopting the guise of the
social status that they which to attain.
Americans place great store in
wealth as a measure of industriousness and a signal
of social success possibly
because wealth is hard to fake.
And if you can
fake wealth in
America, that is as good as
having wealth.
"One's worth relative to others appears to be more
important to the individual than
their absolute worth. The cultural standard for
being "well off" has thus become greater today
than ever. The race to think up, beyond one's needs
and means, has become a national obsession. The societal perspective encouraged by the
corporation is for the
individual to look up, not down.
In this way, many
individuals fail to see the actual distribution of
wealth in society." - Jamie
Court
born to actSo
important was deemed the ability to communicate that by the late 19th century
elocution had become an obligatory subject in the curriculum of
American schools. One
popular
textbook, The Delsarte Speaker
(1896) taught students how specific
gestures corresponded to specific emotions - what
later generations would call 'body language'. By the end of the 19th
century almost every American was familiar with the
Delsarte System and
knew that hands clasped to the
breast signaled
mother's love, a
hand clapped to one's forehead
remorse, an arm extended with open palm repulsion, both arms extended, one pointing
up and one pointing down, patriotism.
(These were the gestures presented by the
actors in the early silent
movies.)
Every
American is expected to
know how to
act.
Acting became
embedded
within
American social culture.
'The child was
acting out.'
'The
child was
acting
up.'
"American
society is a society in
which individuals have learned
to prize social skills that
permit them, like actors, to
assume whatever role the occasion demands and to "perform" their
lives rather than just
live them." - Neil Gabler,
American author
Scientists can now tell us how stars turn
and how cells reproduce, but are we any closer
to understanding how
society works? Or is "social science"
still an oxymoron?
Perhaps we should first ask whether, even if a
scientific theory of society were
possible, it's something we really want. Such ideas
are often floated at the scarier extremes of the left and right, where they
acquire a totalitarian odor.
The earliest attempt to create a "physics of society," by Thomas Hobbes in the 17th century, is
not a good advertisement for such an
endeavor.
Thomas Hobbes used
Galileo Galilei's
physics to argue that the best
society is a benevolent monarchy. But there is a long
tradition that associates a
rationalistic social
science with
enlightened
liberalism:
John Locke, Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill shared the
belief that there are "natural laws" governing
society, and that these might be uncovered by
systematic enquiry, just as
Isaac Newton divined the
laws that direct the planets.
That
tradition is now back in fashion and
this time there's some heavy-duty science going into it. Researchers from a
discipline called statistical physics are bringing their
formidable theoretical tools and computational
techniques to bear on things that appear a long
way from
physics: voting procedures, the
waxing and waning of the economy, traffic flow
and pedestrian motion, the
demographics of marriage and crime, the
conflict of nations.
It is important to appreciate that the modern "social
physics" is not what it was in
the 19th century when the French philosopher
Auguste Comte coined the term. Although these early efforts - even that of
Thomas Hobbes - were
motivated by a sincere
wish to make the world a better place, they displayed a deterministic
tendency that subjugated or denied the role of free
will.
In contrast, today's statistical
social physics
embraces the
idea that we are at liberty to make choices. It shows that
mathematical, law like statistical regularities can still emerge (and the
data show that they do) from a
mass of individuals who are
free to choose.
In part, however, this
reflects the often very
limited range of the choices we actually employ. After all, if we are driving a
car, we can, in principle, steer it
anywhere at any speed, but of course we don't. Left to our own devices, we
still tend to drive on the right hand
side at a speed roughly appropriate to the context. Here and elsewhere, we are
far more predictable than we believe. And the new
physics of society reveals that our freedom is constrained not just by laws and conventions but by the effects of interactions
with fellow citizens.
Traffic flow is a good
illustration of these
principles in action. Interactions
between individuals arise here
primarily because they all aim to avoid collisions. This makes us responsive to
what the vehicle ahead does. The result - distinct types of flow such as
regularly spaced waves of congestion
- is relatively simple but also non intuitive; it
can't easily be deduced from the
behavior of
individual drivers. Traffic also
appears to display abrupt switches in flow that bear a close similarity to
"phase transitions" in physics.
Such transitions - ice melting, for example
- demonstrate that in systems of many
interacting components, things often stay unchanged until some
influence reaches a certain threshold that
suddenly flips the system into a new mode
of behavior.
Some
physics based models of the
spread of crime show such jumps in the
proportion of criminally active
individuals when
influences such as the severity of the
criminal justice
system are altered gradually. Sudden
changes in crime rates, for example, in the
"clean-up" of New York city in the mid-1990s were
among the phenomena
explored by Malcolm Gladwell in
The Tipping Point. Gladwell suggested that the shifts were comparable to
the spread of epidemics. But perhaps physics, rather than biology,
provides the best framework for understanding social
phenomena.
Social
physics does brush away romantic
illusions about a free
society. The statistics of
democratic elections, for instance, indicate
that they are not simply determined by the sum of independent choices among the
electorate. Instead, they show a mathematical
pattern that
physicists recognize as the signature of
systems of strongly interacting
components, which is to say that choices are not independent but highly
interdependent.
Our choices are
influenced by many elements including our friends and neighbors, for
example - and physicists have found that
strongly interacting systems like this are
prone to "avalanches," so that even tiny influences may engender big effects.
Might, say, media bias in campaigns be even more of a factor than we
think?
As we uncover more of the
"interaction rules" underlying social phenomena, we should be able to
predict the effect of changing those rules and thus
formulate public
policies more likely to achieve their objectives. We
might be able to design better driving
regulations; more ambitiously, we might hope to
gauge such things as the effects of regulations on the performance of
economic markets.
That is the potential
value of a physics of society: Rather than persuading us that things must be
the way they are, it could show us
the best way to reach a goal. Of
course, science cannot tell us what
that goal should be; there we must
appeal to our sense of justice, equality and ethical values.
-Phillip Ball, author
social stigmasSocial stigma is severe social disapproval of personal characteristics
or beliefs that appear outside of social
cultural norms.
Social stigma often leads to marginalization.
Words in parenthesis ( ) are examples.
Social
stigmas can be physical (leprosy, anorexia nervosa, obesity, scars or tattoos)
or mental disabilities (mongolism),
disorders or illnesses (acne), as well as illegitimacy, skin color or
membership with a specific
nationality, religion (Pentecostal) or lack of
religion (atheist).
A social stigma may be
created by proclaiming oneself to be of a certain ethnicity (mixed or
minority), religion (Heaven's Gate),
ideology (neo-conservatism/neo- liberalism,
corporatist,
communist, socialist),
political party (Nazism,
Zionism) in any of a myriad of
geopolitical and corresponding sociopolitical contexts in various parts of the
world.
What is excepted in one
social culture may be seen as totally
aberrant in another social culture.
The perception or attribution, rightly or wrongly, of criminality in
all social cultures carries a strong
social stigma. Since criminals (illegal drug users, thieves,
pedophiles) refuse to abide by
the rules of conduct of the
social culture it is easy to
understand the social stigma branding.
Individuals that are
perceived to have poor "manners" or "strange" behavior are many times
stigmatized as criminals even though no criminal intent or actions have been
committed.
Tribal stigmas are traits of an ethnicity, nation, or
religion that is deemed to constitute a deviation
from what is perceived to be the prevailing normative ethnicity, nationality or
religion or all three. Although the specific social
categories that become stigmatized can vary across time and place, the three
basic forms of stigma (physical deformity, unacceptable personal behavioral
traits, and tribal outgroup status) are found in most cultures and time periods.
It is most likely the tendency to stigmatize has evolutionary roots.
Individuals that are perceived to function poorly in the group
environment are seen as uncooperative and therefore untrustworthy.
Cooperation is the trademark of
successful social groupings.
Of special note here it must be pointed out
that individuals who perceive a disjunction of the
social culture from actual real
conditions and speak out may be stigmatize even though they have a valid, if
unpopular, point of view.
Ashkenazi and social mores"Now that
the Askenazi has entered into society, he has become a source of disorder, and,
like the mole, he is busily engaged in undermining the ancient foundations upon
which rests the Christian state. And this accounts for the decline of nations,
and their intellectual and moral decadence: they are like a human body which
suffers from the intrusion of some foreign element which it cannot assimilate
and the presence of which brings on convulsions and lasting disease. By his
very presence the Askenazi acts as a solvent; he produces disorders, he
destroys, he brings on the most fearful catastrophes." -Lazare Marcus
Manassé Bernard*
"Herein lies the pulse of
today's Jewish morality: corruption, deviance, exploitation, deception --
anything to protect the Tribe. Universalistic moral precepts take second rung
to the hysterically defensive Judeocentric injunction to defend the Tribe from
all and any attack, large, small, or marginally perceptible. The greatest
threat to collective Jewish survival comes not from Frankenstein-like
"anti-Semites" and a world Islamic uprising. It comes from the potential
"Holocaust" within the Jewish fortress line: the long, steady tradition of
Jewish "self-hatred" (an in-house form of "anti-Semitism") that has always
paralleled -- like a magnetic echo -- Jewish self-obsession, self-delusion, and
self-evasion." - Chad Powers
Persons of Askenazi background or
traditions entered the United States in large numbers in waves of immigration
between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Communist-inclined
Ashkenazi immigrants from Eastern Europe to America peaked during the five-year
period between the end of World War I (1919) and the passage of the 1924 law
restricting immigration. Between 1919 and 1924, three million recorded
Ashkenazi immigrants came to America.
"How many
Askenazi are in the United States ? No Gentile knows. The figures are the
exclusive property of the Askenazi authorities... Immigration into the United
States became a business - a strictly Askenazi business... For this reason :
there are countries in Europe from which today no Gentile can be admitted to
the United States. From Germany, from Russia, from Poland, it is with the
utmost difficulty that even one person can be won permission to enter this
country. But Askenazi from Poland, Germany, and Russia by the thousands come in
most freely, in utter disregard of the laws, in open contempt of the health
regulations - a strictly Askenazi business of getting another million Askenazi
into the United States. It is like moving an army, which having done duty in
Europe for the subjugation of that continent, is now being transferred to
America." - Henry Ford
"There had
been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a
marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct.
Ashkenazism has insidiously affected every channel of expression. The fact that
these influences are all traceable to one racial source is something to be
reckoned with .Our opposition is only in ideas, false ideas, which are
sapping the moral stamina of the people." -
Henry Ford
"Ashkenazi will never be
assimilated and will never adopt the customs or morals of strangers. The
Ashkenazi will remain Ashkenazi under all circumstances."
- Leopold Kahn*, World Zionist
Actions Committee
"In addition to a persistent concern that America
be a safe haven for Ashkenazi fleeing outbreaks of anti-Semitism in foreign
countries, there is evidence that Ashkenazi, much more than any other
European-derived ethnic group in America, have viewed liberal immigration
policies as a mechanism of ensuring that America would be a pluralistic rather
than a unitary, homogeneous society. Pluralism serves both internal
(within-group) and external (between-group) Ashkenazi interests. Pluralism
serves internal Ashkenazi interests because it legitimates the internal
Ashkenazi interest in rationalizing and openly advocating an interest in
Ashkenazi group commitment and non-assimilation, what Howard Sachar terms its
function in 'legitimizing the preservation of a minority culture in the midst
of a majority's host society.' The development of an ethnic, political, or
religious monoculture implies that Talmudism can survive only by engaging in a
sort of semi-crypsis. The increased sense of ethnic consciousness seen in
Ashkenazi circles recently has been influenced by this general movement within
American society toward the legitimization of minority group ethnocentrism." -
Kevin MacDonald
"The western world has become more Ashkenazi. The
commercial drive which was said to characterize the Ashkenazi and which was
regarded with such disdain by the European (if not the American) bourgeoisie,
has become, if not respectable, then at least more widespread and acceptable."
- Chaim Berman
"This campaign against the American people - against traditional
American culture and
values - is systematic
psychological warfare. It is orchestrated by a vast array of interest
comprising not only the Eastern establishment but also the radical left. Among
this group we find the Department of State, the Department of Commerce, the
money center banks and
multinational corporations,
the media, the educational
establishment, the entertainment
industry, and the large tax-exempt foundations." - Senator Jesse Helms,
December 15 1987
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