EIGENVIELFALT III

 

Eigenvielfalt II

 

At 68...

 

At 68…

Realizing what I would have liked to know, really know, down into by bones, when I married the women of my life and what it would have meant for our three children…

I would have liked to know, really know, that her criticism was not a condemnation of my inaptitude to be a man, but a guidance to understand her and myself,

I would have liked to know, really know, that her doubts were not the end of all life but a step toward improvement,

I would have liked to know, really know, that her questions were not a call for a solution but an attempt to start a conversation,

I would have liked to know, really know, that her happiness was a guide to know her, not a present to me,

I would have liked to know, really know, the depth of unfairness women go through daily,

I would have liked to know, really know, that I was not expected to be the master nor the servant, nor the knight,

I would have liked to know, really know, that pretending to know was poison and that the admission of error or lack of knowledge was essential to a healthy relationship.

 

If I would have known this, I would have avoided…

For her, Anger, fights, fear, and despair

For myself, Anger, fights, fear, despair

For our children, fear, self-culpability and anger

 

And we would have more time to…

For us parents to…

To love them,

To Play with them,

 

For our children…

To grow stronger, to be more confident, more fulfilled.

 

EIGENVIELFALT I

 

 

A new World order?

 

In analyzing the recent tectonic political changes, including the slide of the US into fascism, I find it helpful to look at the Russian activities of the last 30 years.

All governments are worried about anarchy. That is fair. They all support a form of merit to organize role distribution. But the similarity ends there. Dictatorship’s definition of merit is to 98% a matter of power & wealth with very few left for true merit. Democracies vary on the power & wealth percentage, but true merit (empathy, passion, hard work, courage, care, dedication, knowledge, ethics, etc.) plays a larger role. In the last 30 years, the democratic merit implementation in democracies made immense stride because people are biologically attracted by ethical freedom. It empowers people to create and go beyond duty. It gives them the feeling of responsibility needed to further improve, question, progress, hope, care, etc.

This movement toward democracy has changed the balance of power away from countries like Russia. The additional geographic change brought by this democratic wave is a threat for any dictatorship. China can still count on a citizenship drive that Russia does not have at the same level but sooner or later they will have the same problem, namely that dictatorship is less attractive for citizens, and this, for many reasons. If one could measure freedom, even 1 % difference in freedom, provides an enormous attractive drive.

Then, if you are a dictatorship, how could you turn the tide? As usual dictators have at least a three pillar action plan:

1)        1) Hit those who want to move toward more democracy. They demonstrate no humane limit because justification always comes easy to dictators. Tools are numerous and of course include war, torture, and most pervasive, the individual exemplary ostracization.

 

2)        2) Demonstrate that democracy does not work. Here modern communication means are used ad libitum to move large section of the populations (often those forgotten by democracies) toward a violent discourse based on lies. Elections are a privileged moment as they bring a more rapid implementation when fascist parties obtain larger votes, thereby using democracy to kill democracy. This has happened worldwide, more recently in countries like in Hungary, Turkey, Austria, Germany, and the U.S.. These misinformation campaigns are done intensively by the Kremlin but also by China. Remember sooner or later, the power of freedom comes through, if not violently oppressed.

 

3)        3) The last and most important of the pillars is to take away the freedom from those who have more. This is the only one that deals with the long term. When reached, everyone is at eye level and no one remembers that things were and can be different. If this happens, this is the death of humankind and the birth of humanscourge.

 

In all these scenarios, there is the belief that a country can not be led without oppression. They consider that freedom is anarchy and are absolutely convinced that it is unavoidable that a few have all the power and wealth and that 99% of the citizen are there to serve them (well, they say a “higher purpose”). In doing so, they despise the human race as a whole and attribute value and merit to the “entitled”. Entitlement being also a human characteristic but not when it is based on power and wealth but on humane values like empathy, care, knowledge, courage, hard work, etc. These two convictions (Freedom for all VERSUS Freedom for the entitled) are at the base of all conflicts and most human sufferings.

The third pillar is playing out in the US through the action of elected players (Trump and Vance) and non-elected players, such as Musk, taking away thousands of jobs, threatening several citizens and non-citizens groups, and making life more difficult for the non-entitled. It would be naïve to think that this movement will be stopped when the non-entitled will rise. The brain-washed base of the “wealth entitled” is already ready to violently oppress the democrats who attempt to criticize them and to massacre and subdue the non-entitled. Few democrats will indeed be offered to join the entitled if they agree to play along. All this to say that before freedom will re-emerge, because it always does, there are many years of suffering for us non-entitled earthlings.

What we need to do is to never forget what care, love, empathy, real merit are and live them and transmit them to our children. Cultivate the practice of swarmship. And, yes, or course, fight for humane values, always, even if it means death. Because death of freedom and hope is worse than our own.

To the next Generations

Jacques

 

Further managing the assholes (as defined by Harvard's Robert Sutton)

 Considering that Governments' foundations around the world lay on one or an amalgame of the following ethics' form:

(i) judicial ethics/ethic of justice/rule-of-law (Ex. US, most but not all of the EU, Australia, Japan, etc),

(ii) religious ethics/moral (Several Muslim countries)

(iii) Authoritarian ethics (ex. China, Russia),

 

We argue that none of these ethics' forms can deliver on the SDGs nor keep the world temperature increase under 1.5oC or even 2oC.

It is impossible for these ethics to allow those limited by these ethics to even envision the changes that are needed, work on the changes needed, much less to implement them.

It is urgent to go beyond Kant (and a few others), if we are to make it as a species.

Many feel what is needed but few are able to give it a name. I did not invent the name nor the concept either.

The ethic that can deliver these and, as a collateral, a humane world, and a chance to keep the Hss species alive is "an ethic of care".

 

An ETHIC OF CARE.

One may ask, why are we not moving in the right direction? The answer is that we fooled ourselves to believe that people capable of violence demonstrate strength. By doing so, we have given them in many places withing governments and the private sector, executive powers. These are in many cases, our "leaders/upper management". And they have become good at what they do, namely oppressed the people/employees they are suppose to lead. It will take as much true strength to take away their power as they are willing to use violence to keep it. 

Now, we are a bit in a tough situation because the basis of all societies on earth is an ethic of justice (rule-of-law). Yes, granted, some are more just than others but nevertheless even in societies where you do not risk your life to criticize your boss, your government, or an institution, the justice system that is in charge of applying the law can not deliver on a task that seem to increase by the day. The abusers who are in charge, know very well how to abuse the judicial system. As an example, the many court cases against Trump require millions in resources and will deliver very few. There are many other examples that include the frustration of the police forces because it is so complicated and resources intensive to bring a criminal to jail. Yes the jailing system is another topic that needs to be addressed but for now I will leave it at that. 

The judicial system is overloaded worldwide and desto can't deliver on its promise of justice. The solution to be more rapid with judicial procedures was attempted many times but the assholes, again, know how to use this rapidity to incarcerate critics and opponents. One way or another, an ethic of justice is stuck in a place where it can not deliver on its role because it either takes too much time and resources to handle correctly (which is used by the abusers like Trump) or it handles rapidly and increase the risk of faultive condemnation (which in turns is used by the abusers).

All this to demonstrate that an ethic of justice can only be one element of a humane society.

If the goal of individuals is limited to follow the law, then we have what we live now: abuse of the environment (pollution, climate crisis), obscene wealth and poverty, abuse, violence, faltering systems (education, social, etc.)

What we need to develop is an ethic of care.

It is urgent for our societies to work on what a society based on an ethic of care would be. This means work, discussions, participatory development. And as for democracy, it will vary from culture to culture. 

Once this discussion will be started, it will be possible to rewrite a social economy, and justice system that will work for all.

 

 

 

QUANTICS

Relative quantum politic (Quantics)

It is not possible to define the Quantics components as they vary with time and space. They are diverse in nature. 

It is only possible to define its goal which is an ethic of care. (See note 1)

Its tools are:

1- True communication, therefore the need to develop the abilities to engage with diversity and change

2- Its willingness to welcome diversity, and its strength to defend its values.

3- Global social wellness and fairness. Global means earth.

4- Merit-based societies where empathy, kindness, creativity, courage, hard-work, knowledge are key values and where power, money, glory do not have value.

5- Economic system that value investment and avoid obscene (i) poverty (using care) and (ii) wealth (using taxes).

It exclude the following tools:

1- Violence 

2- Abuse. 

Quantics considers violence as a weakness and abuse as the dark side of the ego.

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Note 1:

Governments' foundations around the world lay on one or an amalgame of the following ethics' form:

(i) judicial ethics/ethic of justice/rule-of-law (Ex. US, most but not all of the EU, Australia, Japan, etc),

(ii) religious ethics/moral (Several Muslim countries)

(iii) Authoritarian ethics (ex. China, Russia)

To keep this text short, none of these ethics' forms can deliver on the SDGs nor keep the world temperature increase under 1.5oC or even 2oC.

It is impossible for these ethics to allow those limited by these ethics to even envision the changes that are needed, work on the changes needed, much less to implement them.

It is urgent to go beyond Kant (and a few others), if we are to make it as a species.

Many feel what is needed but few are able to give it a name. I did not invent the name nor the concept either.

The ethic that can deliver on these changes and, as a collateral, evolve a humane world, to give us a chance to keep the Hss species alive is "an ethic of care".

An ETHIC OF CARE.

Yes. Now would be the time to go and educate yourself. Yes, you. Yes, me too.

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Reference:

https://iep.utm.edu/care-ethics/