I believe terrorism and horrorism are a desperate attempt either to draw attention to a problem or a diversion from another more significant problem that is occurring on planet Earth. Sometimes, I wonder if these incidents are meant to elicit a response from people worldwide who care. We heard the term shock and awe factor in the Iraqi war. I wonder if the same technique (shock and awe) is occurring because they know how to show shock and awe. It is working because everyone in the world is paying attention to the “beheading,” etc, incidents that have occurred. Therefore, we must approach this issue with a helping attitude with peace and love. Showing up on the front doorstep with armaments does not make sense because that is what they want them to do. They want to draw more attention to their plight to divert more attention from what is really going on in our world today. Maybe it is true for both reasons. I believe that subservientized groups around the world are being sacrificed or are sacrificing themselves because they are in an extreme survival zone and will do anything to have their group survive. Jihad inherently means struggle (I heard it on the news yesterday). I think it is true that it is a struggle to have their perspective survive while simultaneously providing a diversion to other more significant problems occurring on planet Earth. I am not even sure the Jihadists know about the broader diversion if it exists. When groups display shock and awe, I wonder if it is out of desperation for themselves and their survival, and it may mean that transference is occurring from one more giant bubble to a smaller, seemingly more hostile, and desperate faction. I sometimes wonder if the time of Jesus was the same way. Were the elite status quo controllers concerned about Jesus being a threat to their top-down control? Weirdly, love could be a threatening thing. I am not sure about these things, but they sure are interesting. When you think about the martyrdom and horror that is going on, it makes you wonder about some command-and-control power organization that is being threatened. The people are being sacrificed either at their hands or by someone else. Does this power and control organization have some dominating power over the Jihadists to make them do what they do?
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Cumulative stressors and cumulative significant Impact
I hypothesize that cumulative stressors are killing people. These stressors don’t come from one place or the other but often are ubiquitous throughout. All stressors that humans endure contribute to their demise if they are not part of an accepted elite organizational bubble. Not being accepted causes homelessness, illness, suicide, terrorism, violence, and never-ending struggle for individuals in our society. That is one reason why we have terrorism. Those that contribute to pollution, stress, cumulative significant impact, and war towards an individual or others are responsible for the impact created in our society. Those who make the demand for war and violence are responsible for society’s downfall. This endless controversy creates more and more demand for more and more controversy. The qualities and characteristics will take on a life of their own as we decide whether we want a police state or something more holistic. I have discovered that organizations are self-promulgating in that when an organization has a mission, they will live up to that mission no matter what. When things are slow, they pick up the pace of trying to find things wrong with people so they may condemn them instead of allowing them to live in a sustainable, striving-free society. We take on our self-made characteristics, so if we want to have a police state, we will have that. However, I believe a peaceful state with an enlightened populous is more desirable than top-down, self-promulgating organizations that do what they do to people. We must completely transform our society from violence (in all forms) and get people in trouble to a society built on the foundations of love, education, and knowledge building into the future. We must help one another everywhere. Otherwise, we are susceptible to an archaic society that allows only certain people to succeed in the current definition and allows others to fail. Those connected to the elite side will always win, and those not related will lose and often be killed one way or another by the omnipotent powers that have determined that they matter more. However, I believe the people and our natural environment matter more than their preconceived anthropocentric notion of how we should be organized and function in this world. Few are interested in holistically solving problems, nor do they know how. Therefore, we must stop the elite power processes that determine what kind of society and world we will have and get them thinking about what they are doing and how things might be different in a more well-intentioned holistic context. We must stop playing label mark-recapture with the unfortunate in our society. This practice is a self-promulgating technique to keep their organizations strong and resources flowing toward them. I believe the same things happen with war on a global basis. We neglect holistically solving problems in favor of police actions, investigations, or war. What needs to happen on the broadest scale is to admit that we are imperfect and now want to include and work together with everyone on this planet. We must tell them that it is not about going to war with people or terrorizing them. It is about including them and helping them escape their extreme survival zone. I am tired of the human suffering on this planet, and it must stop. Therefore, we must have those who believe in status-quo archaic functioning step aside and allow our holistic leaders to take over leadership. Only then will the extreme violence stop in the Middle East and at home. Why is it we never admit having any problems at home? Why is it always some other country, some other place, some other terrorist group, or some “bad” people somewhere trying to harm the free world? Is it because we have not done what we need to do to help them survive on this planet in a more sustainable striving way? We must stop the ultra-competitive extreme form of capitalism that rewards those that cause the most harm to our planet. Meanwhile, we must embrace, love, care, and pick those up that have been over topped and subservientized by an out of control and out of context functioning that helps only those that have command and control over the rest of us on planet Earth. The cancer that they give to us is multidimensional, and we must stop it.
Every child has natural ability to learn something to help our world.
I find it difficult to understand how we spend so much time evaluating and assessing our children as they learn. It appears that some, if not most, resources should be allocated toward proactively understanding each child before they need help reactionarily. Sometimes, I worry that children in school are not matched appropriately with the opportunities available to learn. Because every child learns differently and is interested in different things, wouldn’t it make sense to try and assess their potential interests, aspirations, and aptitudes? Every child is a human miracle with fantastic potential to contribute what it is they were meant to contribute to planet Earth. Everyone in education knows that different kids learn differently, at different paces, and have other interests. These interests are the key to unlocking potential, and the sooner we find the interests each child has, the more we can match our resources to that potential. Each child’s interest is like a key, opening the door to a child’s imaginative exploration and desire to learn. Once you unlock the door, the child will desire to learn all they can about the things that interest them presently, realizing that their interests may change. Once we assess interests and aptitude in an integrated way, wouldn’t it be prudent to match individual children with a well-planned and designed curriculum that meets their needs at this particular time, realizing that things may change? This would solve many problems, including simultaneously mismatched kids in the same classrooms. Some kids are unprepared for pre-calculus and should be appropriately assigned to a more hands-on visual learning class. These classes could integrate classroom learning, multimedia presentations on the Internet, and in-class discussions. The resources and teachers teaching these classes could either be on the Internet, a volunteer professional from the local community, or an in-house teacher. Maybe those more broadly focused kids should get 50% of learning in a more hands-on visual way, including integrated presentations. I believe it is time to eliminate the rigidity in standardized curricula and provide a custom learning curriculum designed especially for each child. If it has been shown that specific courses are necessary for everyone, we could customize the schedule to accommodate some learning earlier than others for some children. Our kids are worth it, and so is planet Earth. Therefore, I favor holistic assessment for every child, considering the multiple criteria weighted by importance and significance. This cumulative indicator will match children with a curriculum that fits their unique abilities, leading to the highest potential for academic success in school. Wouldn’t this be a more rational and reasonable approach to “No Child Left Behind”.?
Supply and demand
Economists have immense potential to help with a sustainable striving planet Earth because they can see how manipulation of one area of the economy leads to systematic reactionary manipulation in other areas of the economy. Thus, they should be able to quickly transform and broaden their perspective by trying to understand everything. However, supply and demand are not so simple. They ought to be transformed into a more cumulative impact understanding of what supply does and what demand does in our “free” society. Demand ought to be replaced by a sustainable striving concept of rational demand in a more Eco-geo relativity way. Otherwise, everything is out of context with everything else, and whatever happens to our planet happens. Understanding the impacts of a supply and demand system of economics ought to be transformed into a more natural system concept considering things of relatively higher ecological value than simple consumer demand and corporate supply. Often, demand is artificially created by those with the power to create demand. But they often disregard everything else and fail to plan according to the most well-intentioned integrated multi-dimensionality. Thus, they start multiplying detrimental impacts somewhere else in time, somewhere else on the planet, or something else entirely, including the natural environment and people. For example, the worst idea is to develop the gold standard. If we go forth with a gold standard, we will tear up every corner of the Earth with a higher probability of containing gold looking for gold. The detrimental impacts associated with this free market capitalistic idea are massive relative to gold’s real inherent ecological value. However, we need to put relative demand in context with everything else so relative supply will be more sustainable striving. World without end…
Using legal data to help understand societal problems
If we captured all there is to capture in the files and cases, including all legal documents, we could understand things better from a holistic perspective to prevent detrimental stuff in our society from occurring in the first place. Too often, when the case is closed, the information and data contained therein get lost in a box somewhere in storage. It is the most ridiculous practice. Instead of using this information and data to acquire knowledge about the multidimensional functioning of society, we keep it locked up. We must capture all the information over time in legal cases and give information to researchers so they can find patterns of who, what, when, where, and why so that we can prevent problems in the future from occurring. Imagine what a world this would be if we used events that happened in our society as nothing but a constructive, continually learning adaptive process.
Transitioning the entire legal profession to holistic counselors and prescriptive advisers
It is time for the legal profession to transition to a more holistic concept to minimize perturbation on society and the Earth. It would be great to have holistic counselors and holistic prescriptive advisers giving us holistic prescriptive advice. This means that they should stop solely functioning in a reactionary way and integrate themselves into society’s everyday functioning in a dynamic way. Essentially, they could be a bridge between ecological niche organizations when things get too complex or difficult to understand. Instead of having pages of contracts, laws, rules, and procedures, why don’t we have what I can say is good faith “bridges” between those who will enter into some relationship? I believe the new role will be more exciting and continually enlightening as the nature of human interactions and dynamics get filtered through holistic prescriptive advice and counseling obtained from researchers and knowledge transference sources and those who know the most in society. I believe courtrooms should transform into a more natural setting for holistic arbitration because they give people perspective and contextualize things. I think the name for the court system should be changed to the holistic arbitration system. However, I suspect there will only be a few of these needed in a way things should be sustainable striving planet Earth. For example, wouldn’t it be great if you want to have a relationship with an ecological niche organization to conduct what we call “business,” that you speak with someone with both interests in mind? In essence, the intermediary will help bridge the gap of understanding needed to do business with one another so there are no misunderstandings. Hence, there will be no more legalese, contracts, fine print, misunderstandings, and confusion. However, there will be a cordial working relationship where counselors and advisers help cross-educate one another about the needs and expectations of both parties. Functioning in this manner allows continual growth, continuous improvement, continuous education, and continuous innovation and seems like a lot more fun than traditional reactionary legal formalities.
Consequently, we will cease the fighting and begin working together in a holistic, sustainable, striving manner that not only helps our integrated functioning but also allows more continuity and connectivity with one another in a positive way. I suspect that we will integrate more systems to help us work together in a more sustainable, striving, knowledge-building way. These systems will help these new counselors and advisers learn the most and bridge both sides with nothing but holistic, well-meaning bridging and innovation.
If we love we don’t need any laws and regulations
Today, in a church service, I was reminded that love should be the most crucial concept. If we treated each other with love and loved one another, do we even need anybody to tell us what to do or not to do? Maybe love is the most common sense, rational, and reasonable solution to all the world’s problems. Could it be as simple as that? We can continually improve and learn more if we combine love with all the education, knowledge, and holistic prescriptive advice from those who know the most. I sometimes wonder if the Ten Commandments would have even been necessary because it would be common sense if we all loved one another and tried to learn as much as possible. Maybe the Ten Commandments should also be known as holistic prescriptive advice because I do not want to offend God or anyone, for that matter. But it seems that talking about commandments allowed those who see themselves as perfect to create more and more commandments for the rest of us to obey rather than looking at things from a love, knowledge, and education holistic prescriptive advice context. Wouldn’t it be great if we could devote our brain energy to more constructive things like love, knowledge, education, and other holistic pursuits? I believe God and Nature would be happier with us if we loved individuals, our families, other families, neighbors, communities, local areas, regions, continents, societies, the natural environment, ecological niche organization (Future), planet Earth, and the Universe.
Itinerant complexity creation for profiteering
Profit ought to be something we consider only after adding as much ecological value, energy, benefits, and resources to the public good side of the continuum. It is strange to me that organizations will do almost anything to profiteer or increase their stock price. Much of the frustration and stress in our world comes from the tension created by organizations and their interactivity with those that insulate and isolate these organizations from perturbation. They have discovered that complexity is good for the bottom line because it creates confusion, so people cannot figure out what is happening. Much is about finding every possible way to profiteer regardless of the consequences to people or the environment. They either know what they do or don’t know what they do. For those who would like to transition to a more holistic point of view because they know what is going on, it is best to bring it up in the boardroom and risk getting fired. It may be the best thing to happen to you as we transition to how things could be world.
Self promulgating behaviors and organizational complacency
When we function more in a static way, we tend to work more to preserve the way things are above the need to adapt to changing conditions. Sadly, many organizations thrive on hurting people and our environment. It is not all their fault, but it seems we have created a situation where various organizations are stagnant and operating in a way that satisfies their self-interest only, whatever their roles are in our society. I would instead not identify those organizations and prefer to have them think about it and have a chance to adapt and transition to more sustainable striving functioning instead of self-preservation and complacency. It is rather strange to me that we have functions in our world that are seen as being those we respect the most in our society when their functioning contributes an immense amount of detrimental impacts. In fact, I believe the lack of the ability to imagine how things “could be world” keeps them functioning in the same manner. However, people are getting hurt, and our environment is being compromised for their self-serving behaviors.
Consequently, detrimental impacts from these behaviors have created a condition in our society like an out-of-control train heading for doomsday. It is time for us to realize that our self-promulgating behaviors and organizational complacency contribute to the opposite of the dynamic transitional sustainable striving behaviors we need today. As an illustrative example, if we have organizations that function out of control, self-preserving, self-interested, complacent, out of context, and pseudo-violent, Likewise if we give all the authoritative power to these types of organizations, they will get stronger and stronger in an ever-increasing way thus magnifying the detrimental impacts to society, individuals, and our environment over time. These organizations tend to take on a more reactionary perspective and, when enlightened by holistic perspectives, tend to retreat towards denial. Individuals love their jobs so much that they will do anything to keep them. Those given more authoritative power use it to keep themselves going rather than adapting and doing what is best and suitable for individuals, society, and the environment. It is sad because many of these people have tremendous brain power. It is just that they are using their brains in ways that hinder our functioning instead of helping. Wouldn’t it be great if they began recognizing what they are doing and transition themselves to ecological niche roles and organizations? We must help them understand and help them transition. Organizations are what they are. Self-analysis, self-assessment, learning, and growing are needed more than ever. I hope they start understanding sooner rather than later for obvious reasons. Hypothesis: I wonder if organizations that are so threatened by how things could be are acting out in such a way because their organization may be obsolete, and they are doing everything possible to keep it alive. If this is occurring, it must stop.
The Ecological Niche Organization
The ecological niche organization functions like a natural part of an ecosystem in context. It interacts with other ecological niche organizations to achieve their sustainable striving objectives in context with the Earth level to local, sustainable striving objectives. Assessing needs and problem-solving exercises will determine that this should be the priority. I believe that organizations ought to function along a continuum and produce benefits in a way that weighs public benefits and nature more than themselves. The integrative functioning will involve ecological equilibrium compensation and gentle constructive competition instead of today’s “win at any cost” mentality. In essence, instead of investing in a traditional stock market where bottom-line rules, we must consider everything else regarding ecological energy, value creation, and benefits creation in a relative way first. As a priority, we must strive to take care of our planet, everything, and everyone while functioning as an ecological niche organization. I have put together a concept that integrates current organizational functioning, such as the entirety of the stock market, commerce department, banks, IRS, social security, and others, as an integrated function of ecological equilibrium investing and disseminating organization that supports those organizations more than have more to offer. Imagine the incentive power. As an ecological niche organization, it also connects to those ENOs that can supply us with the science, knowledge, multidimensional priorities, and outcome of problem-solving assessments and research projects. It is like those with the most knowledge incentivize ecological niche organizations to create based on that knowledge. Today, many well-invested and funded businesses are out of context and not providing all they can to our integrated functioning.