One of the most used words is “criminal”. Usually, it all starts with a roller coaster ride of character-blemishing behavior, heckling, and hazing.  In addition to character blemishing, heckling, and hazing, the concept of criminal behavior stems from the bioaccumulation of all types of pollution on our planet, from fine-scale to broad-scale, past, present, and future.   The complexity, confusion, conflict, and chaos create a bioaccumulation of this pollution over time, magnifying and multiplying it in a feedback loop.   When you combine this concept with the amount of preventable suffering, all our responsibilities, and everything else, mental confusion ensues, leaving the person overwhelmed and “overtopped” by it all.  When you mix the requirements, processes, procedures, laws, rules, regulations, and these responsibilities, from fine scale to broad scale, past, present, and future, the cumulative totality is just too much for a normal person to handle.   People lower on the socioeconomic spectrum get labelled criminal more often because of the extreme survival zone stressors and response mechanisms above and beyond the cumulative toxicity pollution. The cumulative total of all the pollution and the cumulative total of all the stressors cause mental health problems, physical health problems, drugs, relationship problems, alcohol abuse, and ultimately, more survival zone suffering.   This is especially true when you combine layers of hierarchies, power, dynamics, infinite variabilization, and all other forms of anthropogenic and anthropocentric pollution over time.    As things change over time, different stimuli (Stimulus Addition Theory, Dr. Machell, WCSU), requirements, characteristics, societal problems, and environmental problems, like environmental injustice and social injustice, contribute to being labeled a criminal. Therefore, the more survival zone suffering that occurs, the more the positive feedback loop intensifies until an inflection point is reached, leading to the labelling of a criminal. Everyone has their own survival zone breaking point behavior, which gets labelled.

The word criminal is a term of art used in ultra-competitive endeavors and in complex, market-based, or other industrial economies.   If you’re labeled a criminal in this world, everything gets taken from you, such as ideas, creativity, labor, your dignity, respect, and everything else of value.  (Is being manufactured as a criminal and taking an extraction exchange exclusion competition in an industrial world?) Likewise, relationships suffer, amplifying the multiplier effect and creating a positive feedback loop for the individual and family.   Moreover, all gun violence and mass shootings come from this type of cumulative totality pollution phenomena, and multiplier effects thereof. Leading to a downward spiral feedback loop resulting in an inflection point of horrific violence.    For example, people with guns in this world are responding to a world of power and authority, thinking that if they have a weapon, it means they have power and authority.   I am annoyed over this latest ICE killing, which took another 37-year-old male, because he had a gun on his person. Once a person detrimentally interacts with police, they can get labeled by the ICE or police as being a criminal because of tunnel vision on the officer’s part. Police officers or ICE have a tremendous amount of prerogative and discretion as long as they can articulate suspicion or that they thought their own lives were in danger. This is tremendously dangerous for anyone who carries a weapon, whether it is brandished or not. Being labeled by a law enforcement department is a highly detrimental form of manufacturing pollution, leading to being labeled a criminal. We must stop the itinerant pollution of our people, who are children of God. Do politicians use law enforcement as a tool to gain popularity through their manufactured political agenda, at any cost, thereby increasing labelling by the industrial machine? If so, it increases the conveyor belt’s speed, increasing the number of labeled people manufactured.

  Many people in this world are suffering from loneliness, isolation, confinement, divorce, depression, mental health issues, physical health issues, and multiple detrimental impacts. These are all potential downward-spiral feedback loops as well, leading to inflection points that increase the likelihood of being labelled a criminal.    I hypothesize that we have created a criminal manufacturing machine on planet Earth. In fact, the cumulative totality pollution exclusion machine renders a person excluded, not accepted, and lacking inspiration to live life to the fullest. The choice is either to become homeless, a labelled criminal, or both. The detrimental impacts and suffering in the survival zone are more pronounced when you are labelled with any one of these things. Furthermore, when labelled, harassment, blame, and articulable suspicion occur, leading to investigations, stressors, and increasingly severe survival zone suffering, pollution, and exclusionary behavior, which in turn create more positive feedback loops and inflection points, further worsening survival zone suffering and rendering the person hopeless. Once a person is labelled, they are polluted for life. Furthermore, when impacted by the justice system, you are made to take all the responsibility for being labelled a criminal, resulting in a problem where cumulative totality reality never gets figured out, as we never hone in on the true nature of the problem.

Without a doubt, people give up on fighting the pollution and accept the compulsion to get labeled a criminal, therefore leading themselves to a life of crime because it pays the bills and more. Once you get into the downward spiral of being labelled, you accept the label. People must be forgiven and go through the concept of reconciliation, confession, and counseling to get their lives back. Furthermore, pollution overtopping, coupled with extreme competition, leads to violent crime as a cumulative significant impact survival zone inflection point is reached.

We need to transition this itinerant criminal manufacturing machine on industrial Earth into holistic inclusion, holistic acceptance, and holistic inspirational incentives that lead to the creation of holistic, well-motivated, and positive-energy people. Once included in the Earth Unidiversity Research Explorers Cycle, there are so many opportunities beyond traditional definitions of success, leading to a favorable, positive, holistic outcome for all those labelled criminal and homeless. Likewise, the similarity foundation creates a concept of loving, caring, sharing, giving, forgiving, genuine kindness, striving for all to bring about conditions of comfort, joy, love, hope, unity, equity, and sustainable striving for happiness. That’s all you have to remember in terms of the criterion of importance and significance on planet Earth. Behave with these values, and you don’t have to remember all the laws and holistic behaviors needed on Earth. One can also use these values as a check to guide oneself holistically and prescriptively. Before behaving in a certain way, one can ask oneself: is it loving? is it caring? is it sharing? Is it giving? Is it forgiving? And is it genuine kindness striving? Furthermore, one can ask: Does it bring about comfort? Joy? Love? Hope? Unity? Equity? Faith? and sustainable striving for happiness? With these holistic value criteria in one swoop, we can transition all pollution, pollution exclusion, laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, etc., into a holistic, well-motivated, positive-energy, sustainable, desired future condition.

I want to thank everyone in the Justice and Law administration department at Western Connecticut State University and everyone at the University of Vermont for helping me to learn about this topic. I find the two-degree programs an excellent window into the concept of pollution and getting labelled a criminal. One program focused on the current state of things, and the other on the desired future condition. I also want to thank everyone else, especially the Catholic church. I want to thank God most of all!!!