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“Do Gooder Derogation”
and “Relax!
Just Because I am Right and You are Wrong,
Doesn’t Mean that I Want to Steal ‘Your’ Woman”
Contents
Cultural
and Historical Perspectives
The
Hunter-Gatherers Were Correct
The
Hunter-Gatherers Were Wrong
In
Praise of Civil Discourse and Tolerance
“Yay
Libertarians” Short Version
“Yay
Libertarians” Medium-Long Version..
Libertarianism
& “Do Gooder Derogation”
Help
Mom with the Dishes, Please!
Prairie
Dogs and Human Work-Places
Military
Veterans and Human Work-Places
In
political discussions (especially on-line, in chat rooms and comments boards),
many of us are familiar with “echo chambers” and “confirmation bias”. Also “projection” (if I am a jerk and act out
of totally short-sighted self-interest, then I will assume that others are just
like me). And many of us are tribalistic,
nationalistic, ethnic-group, religious, or political-party chauvinists… My
tribe good, yours bad! My violence good,
yours bad! These things are fairly familiar
to many of us.
What
is NOT as well known, is “Do Gooder Derogation”, AKA “Antisocial Punishment”. It is counter-intuitive! Here, I’ll try to make it short: From https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201016-why-some-people-are-cruel-to-others
... An out-take
from there is as follows: “This phenomenon is called “do-gooder derogation”.
It can be found around the world. In hunter-gatherer societies, successful
hunters are criticised for
catching a big animal (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797617752642
) even though their catch means everyone gets more meat. ”
End
out-take. To me,
sociobiology is often intuitive. At
first glance, the hunter-gatherer tendency (instinctually driven?) to
immediately “take down a peg or two” the hunter-hero who just bagged a good
kill of “red meat” to help feed me? This
is counter-intuitive! But take a deeper,
more thoughtful look at it: If we make a BIG hero out of the hunter-hero, he
might steal all of our women, and make all of our babies! So the tribal shaman will remind the
hunter-hero, and the tribe, that it is the shaman that knows how to beat the
drums just exactly the right way, who drives away the sun-god-eating (eclipse)
demons, and make the demons un-eat the sun-god!
And the tribal artist will remind everyone that it is he (maybe even
sometimes she) who knows the right way to carve the mammoth tusk, to make a magical
fertility icon-figurine, and keep the tribe fertile. We are ALL heroes around here, and NOT just
the hunter-hero! So the hunter-hero
needs to be reminded of that, so that he’ll not steal ALL of our women!
The
knuckle-dragging troglodytes among us, on the internet, even when we know darned
well that most of the commenters are anonymous, go into an instinctually-driven
mode of “punish the people who are wise, benevolent, and correct”, and make
them look bad! Else they might steal my
wife or girlfriend, and make my babies”!
It is knee-jerk stupidity, on a largely-anonymous chat board, but there
it is!
I
am a libertarian. I will justify that
further below. I believe that right now,
every government on the planet (OK, maybe not Somalia, but let’s set aside that
argument for now; it’s too big of a diversion) is too large, and personal
liberty is too small. More on that
further below. But, humans affairs are
complicated, and sometimes it might make SOME sense for government to do MORE,
in some category, to help the poor (see, liberals, I don’t mean to slam you all
day every day). And sometimes maybe
government should do MORE to make us more law-abiding and “virtuous” (see, I don’t hate all conservatives either). WHATEVER YOUR POLITICAL PERSUASION IS, keep
in mind that your low-brow “enemies” may sometimes fight you and call you bad
names… Because you’re right, and they’re wrong!
Because you made some valid points, and brought home some “red meat” for
the tribe, and so, they feel that you must be punished, for being right! So, don’t forget to remind them that you are
NOT trying to steal all of the women, and make all of the babies, when they act
that way!
Well,
I hope that that’s
a good, SHORT summary. It’s where I plan
to go, below.
Foot-note-ish
note here, hoping not to make the “short” intro too long… My imported link further above appears to be almost
broken, or very unwieldy. By Aleta Pleasant and Pat Barclay.
First Published https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797617752642 … So here is a copy of the abstract:
When choosing social partners, people prefer good
cooperators (all else being equal). Given this preference, people wishing to be
chosen can either increase their own cooperation to become more desirable or
suppress others’ cooperation to make them less desirable. Previous research
shows that very cooperative people sometimes get punished (“antisocial
punishment”) or criticized (“do-gooder derogation”) in many cultures. Here, we
used a public-goods game with punishment to test whether antisocial punishment
is used as a means of competing to be chosen by suppressing others’
cooperation. As predicted, there was more antisocial punishment when
participants were competing to be chosen for a subsequent cooperative task (a
trust game) than without a subsequent task. This difference in antisocial
punishment cannot be explained by differences in contributions, moralistic
punishment, or confusion. This suggests that antisocial punishment is a social
strategy that low cooperators use to avoid looking bad when high cooperators
escalate cooperation.
Please
excuse my bass-ackwards order here, but I want to
quickly send readers to well-documented sources right away, for anyone who
doubts that I’m serious, and well-justified, in what I say below. So, sources and links up front!
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-love-and-war/201706/why-some-people-resent-do-gooders
is an excellent place to start! A VERY
good high-level summary! Follow links
from there for more details. That’s
where I got some of my links that I’ll refer to below.
See “Antisocial Punishment Across
Societies”, https://science.sciencemag.org/content/319/5868/1362
... Don’t you go making me look bad, by
being a better person than I am! This is
why Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., etc., got themselves killed! This is an academic link here, and some of
the other links (below) refer to it in turn.
The
first link to the academic literature that I became aware of, came from the book, “BEHAVE The Biology of Humans at Our
Best and Worst”, by Robert M. Sapolsky.
Centered around pages 496-497 (in the
soft-cover version 2018 at least), there’s some interesting and relevant details
about human behavior. Much of it is from
experimental “economics games” with humans (further distantly, even capuchin
monkeys show some of the basics, behavior-wise, here as well). https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/0143110918/ref=asc_df_0143110918/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312064598816&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13654540330964297268&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027644&hvtargid=pla-469024892366&psc=1
The same “anti-social punishment” (AKA
do-gooder derogation) thing is referred to here… https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201016-why-some-people-are-cruel-to-others
… This is another excellent summary,
with many embedded links to the academic literature.
The over-arching rubric includes “my tribe good,
your tribe bad”, or, in more detail, “my tribe’s violence good, your tribe’s
violence bad”, and it is, sad to say, apparently programmed into our brains, by
evolution. “My tribe bad, your tribe
good” got you kicked out of your tribe VERY quickly, so those genes often got eliminated! (Sloppy way of
saying it, I know, but there it is).
What else fits in here
is summarized in the following links: https://www.salon.com/2021/08/08/a-terrifying-new-theory-fake-news-and-conspiracy-theories-as-an-evolutionary-strategy/
A terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary
strategy.
Social scientist Michael Bang Petersen on why people believe
outrageous lies — as a tool in violent group conflict.
And another
take on the same thing…
More comments on these immediately-above things at the bottom (last
section) of http://www.churchofsqrls.com/Jesus_Validated/. I don’t want this “sources”
section to get too long.
Popular
culture, “old sayings”, and history contain the same lessons. “No good deed goes unpunished.” Also “nice guys finish last”. Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount: “The
righteous will be persecuted”. https://bible.org/seriespage/8-blessed-are-persecuted-matthew-510-12
... There’s plenty more on that out
there! The Google knows all!
And
let’s not forget “Courage the Cowardly Dog”!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courage_the_Cowardly_Dog Out-take from there, “…a grumpy, selfish and greedy farmer
who regularly mistreats Courage out of jealousy and refers
to him as "stupid dog". “Stupid
dog, you make me look bad” (for doing the right thing) was a commonly repeated
refrain!
Don’t tell the Emperor that He has no
clothes! I am already a Perfect
One! Me AND my tribe are Already
Perfect! Any messengers bringing any
news to the contrary? Let’s shoot and
kill the messengers! This is a sad, sad,
and VERY old tale… Jesus telling the
hypocrites that they always kill the prophets… From http://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/MATT+23.html Therefore I am
sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others
you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.
See
just HOW old and sad it is?
In conclusion, “nice guys finish last”, in view of human history
and the deaths of Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., etc., the better
statement might be “nice guys get killed”! This is the more honest and complete version
of the statement! Also this: The “do-gooder derogation” instinct
(programmed emotion) could accurately be called the Jesus-killer ( Mahatma Gandhi-killer, Martin Luther King Jr.-killer,
etc.) instinct.
Our
sociobiologal roots (and our cultures) have
accumulated a lot of wisdom. Are we
wrong to fear that the hunter-hero (or the rich person, the sports or movies
super-hero, or the wise, benevolent, and correct) person might steal all of our
women? No! Think JFK, Tiger Woods, Donald Trump sleeping
with a porn star, Bill Clinton, and many, many more. Think of Genghis Khan and his 972 offspring. Did y’all know that about 1 in 10
men in certain areas of Asia, have the “Y” chromosome
of Genghis Khan? And 1 in 200 planet-wide? Use this
search-string in quotes: “1 in 200 men direct descendants of Genghis Khan”, or,
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan
... Monopolies (or near-monopolies) on
the harems of women leads to constant fighting, elephant-seal-style. Let’s all fight over our harems! Every reproducing male will know all about
how to grab the women, and no one will know how to be a good father any more! It’s not
the direction towards which I’d like to see humans evolve towards, biologically,
culturally, or otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_boys_(Mormon_fundamentalism)
and especially https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/14/usa.julianborger
, concerning fundamentalist, polygamous Mormons discarding their young men, are
good links to explore, to illustrate my just-above-made point.
Examples (of
monopolizing the women) abound. David
Koresh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh
and Mormon fundamentalists and “blood atonement” and Ervil LeBaron
and his harem, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervil_LeBaron. I’m sure that we could find more.
Sad to say,
even some of our moral-ethical heroes had “feet of clay” here as well. Martin Luther King Junior? Yes, apparently! See https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-tapes-allege-mlk-watched-rape-2019-5
for example... I may or may not have picked a very good link here. There’s more out there… And M. Scott Peck is a personal hero of
mine. He wrote that shrinks sleeping
with their patients was a bad idea… Yet apparently he was a hypocrite! https://www.amazon.com/Road-Travelled-Revealing-Biography-Scott/dp/1844135764
and https://couchtrip.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/the-road-less-travelled/
and maybe more good links (this is at a quick Google-glance;
I have read more about this, and may not have the best links here). OK, one more:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/oct/05/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries “Pop psychiatrist who ignored
his bestselling advice on adultery”.
OK, just ONE more, then! https://buffalonews.com/lifestyles/biography-going-beneath-the-veneer-of-m-scott-peck/article_21705172-664a-5365-8e8a-cea293ce3bf4.html
... This latter one is the best for a
short summary, I think. IF YOU ARE A
MORAL-ETHICAL LEADER, PLEASE TRY TO ACT LIKE ONE!!!
So the
hunter-gatherers were partly correct in fearing the “do gooders”
and other heroes. Don’t forget Jesus and
his warnings about “wolves in sheep’s clothing”. As soon as anyone (or a
category of people) is put up on the pedestal… Politicians, Boy Scout
leaders, military officers, poets, teachers, religious leaders (think Catholic
priests), best-selling self-help authors… Whatever category of people is “in
vogue” and-or powerful… As soon as such a group is well-thought-of, people WILL
join that group, for the WRONG (self-seeking) reasons!
OK, a few more. https://lancasteronline.com/news/sick-tales-of-torture-and-brutality/article_2a7b727e-9d82-5aae-930c-1e0a5dcf9839.html
Sick tales of torture and brutality
John M. Spidaliere May 30, 2003 Updated Sep 11, 2013
“Before the
war, the ministry was run by Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein,
who used his position to support his decadent lifestyle and satisfy his lust
for violence and sex.”
“Uday had a cruel reputation for crashing weddings
and either stealing the bride or any guest that intrigued him to rape and in
some cases murder them, Eberly said.”
Caligula: https://historycollection.com/12-historically-important-perverts/6/
As to
deviancy, among the sundry depravities attributed to Caligula, sex with his
sisters was just a start – as contemporaries put it: “He lived in habitual
incest with all his sisters, and at a large banquet he placed each of them in
turn below him, while his wife reclined above“. At dinner parties, he was in
the habit of ordering the wives of guests to accompany him to his bedroom, and
after having sex with them, would return to the party and rate their
performance, berating the cuckolded husbands if their wives had been lacking.
So then
“prima nocta” is disputed… Was it real, or not real? Historians disagree. https://www.dictionary.com/e/historical-current-events/prima-nocta/
… From the above (Caligula etc.), we might suspect that it happened from time
to time! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_du_seigneur
…
Now also https://historydaily.org/remember-youre-mortal
... “In Ancient Rome, a Slave Would Whisper
'Remember You're Mortal' in the Ears of Victorious Generals On
Their Homecoming Parade”… Now THAT was a
GOOD result of ancient hunter-gatherer wisdom!
Go ahead and DO take down a peg or two, those who might otherwise steal
all of your women! Impeach Bill Clinton
and Der TrumpfenFuhrer now and then!
At the logical extreme, the people who are
better (wiser, more benevolent) than we are?
We KILL them for it! Jesus,
Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., etc., got themselves killed for
that! All of them were killed for
calling us on (challenging us for) “my tribe good, yours bad”, and “my violence
good, your violence bad”. So… Let’s KILL those
who make us look bad! By being better
humans than we are! That’s WRONG! Period!
From way back when, to this day, chimps (and
ape-men) have warred on each other over territory, and so have our fully-human ancestors. Times get rough, food and territory gets
scarce, so we killed each other. That
was OK in hunter-gatherer days, at least so far as it goes, in that it didn’t
endanger the survival of the human race.
WE HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS NOW!!! We
must CUT this crap OUT! Jesus, Mahatma
Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and others, were RIGHT about this, and the
ultra-nationalists and ultra-tribalists are WRONG! We humans are ALL humans, and need to respect
each other as such! Full stop! (Even scapegoated so-called illegal
sub-humans from the wrong sides of the lines in the sand, are humans also;
please try to keep that in mind).
“The Jews killed Jesus” say those of shallow
understanding. A BETTER, more detailed
understanding would be, “First we grew fish brains, and the instincts and
emotions than went with them. Then ditto
lizard brains, then monkeys, then apes, and human hunter-gatherer brains,
instincts, and emotions. As
culture-bearing, supposedly fully thinking beings, by now we should have made that
post-hunter-gatherer mental, ethical, and moral leap. Jesus (and etc.) was (were) killed by those
who couldn’t or wouldn’t make that final leap.”
The
ethically advanced ones among us know that always immediately (in “standard
operating mode”) taking away the other guy’s dignity doesn’t add to our
dignity. The search for dignity is NOT generally
a zero-sum game! Yet balanced against
that, we do no one any favors when we refuse to criticize people who are
wrong! Jesus called them vipers and sons
of vipers! See https://biblehub.com/matthew/23-33.htm
and see https://tricycle.org/magazine/arent-we-right-be-angry/ , but enough on those digressions for now.
From
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201016-why-some-people-are-cruel-to-others
: “Yet there is a
hidden upside of do-gooder derogation. Once we have pulled down the do-gooder,
we are more open to
their message.
” End
quote. (Last link there = https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550611415695
and it is a clunky link, but enough said).
It’s not a HUGE amount of good news, but at least SOME good news. AFTER we have killed Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi,
Martin Luther King Jr., and they are DEAD men, and can NOT possibly steal our
women any more, THEN we are free to FINALLY listen safely to their messages!
Well
anyway, modern-day hunter-gatherers, find the limits to your anger! Don’t use those nukes! If despotism takes over the world tomorrow,
then future generations can always re-discover or re-invent freedom! But NOT if we’re all dead! (“Better red than dead.”)
Further on down, I plan to show that
libertarian (“live-and-let-live”) thinking and politics is better than
authoritarian, bossy, micro-managing thinking, of whatever (left, right,
middle, populist, elite-rich, anti-one-percenter, pro-proletariat, etc.) stripe
your authoritarian thinking might be.
Depending on who you are (Dear Reader), that
might step on your toes. So first, let
me demonstrate that I am NOT an intolerant rube, or a narrow-minded bigot! Hence the below…
Let’s start with the wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who said, ‘The
State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the
citizen.’
Here is the full-blown quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
‘Republics abound in young civilians
who believe that the laws make the city, that grave modifications of the policy
and modes of living and employments of the population, that commerce, education
and religion may be voted in or out; and that any measure, though it were
absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to
make it a law. But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand
which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow and not lead the
character and progress of the citizen; that the form of government which
prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which
permits it. The law is only a memorandum.’
Another
relevant Emerson quote:
“All men plume themselves on the
improvement of society, and no man improves.”
So anyway,
suppose that Government Almighty goes too far, and mandates no-meat diets,
which many people disagree with, just like the War on Drugs today…
Then there
will be underground, makeshift, amateurish animal-killing-and-butchering shops,
where the animals will be treated far less humanely than they are today! (Thank You shallow-understanding would-be Do-Gooders!!!)
You will
not be able to let Fluffy or Fido wander through the bushes in your own back
yard, for fear of meat-hungry lawbreaking pet-snatchers! (But, Meat-Hungry Lawbreaking Pet-Snatchers
would make a MOST EXCELLENT name for a garage band!)
In case
anyone doesn’t understand what we are saying here… “We” being
me & the Ralph Waldo Emerson in my pocket…
If I passed
a law saying that one may no longer burn witches for killing our calves and
babies, and making our crops fail, just because they are witches using
witchcraft… People would laugh at me. We got over witch-burning a LONG time ago, so
those laws aren’t needed any more! We’ve gotten over totally overt
anti-black-people bias, to the point where we might start ditching those laws
as well. (MAYBE). In their place, enforce “truth in adverting”
laws… Do NOT put up a sign in your shop, saying “all races welcome here”, and
then act to the contrary to your sign! For lack of a non-discrimination sign,
and for bad behavior, MOST people today, would punish
such a shop, enough! Boycotts work!
More
tolerance for gays is newer than more tolerance for blacks (I think, generally).
Give it time… In due time, cake-baking laws will be as
un-needed as witch-protection laws are today! Ralph Waldo Emerson was right! Let the state follow the progress of the
citizens, and not vice versa! Vice versa
causes WAAAY too much fighting, and WAAAY too much stupid!
Slight sub-topic
change; too much fighting is way too stupid, and we need BALANCE! Consider the below:
For all
ideological hard-core warmongers everywhere…
So ye lust
after the utter, eternal destruction of the “D” team, and the eternal victory of
the “R” team? (The inverse kind of
ideological idiot exists also, but not so much, on these pages = specifically
where I sometimes comment, at https://reason.com/latest/
).
“R” team
likes to demonize “D” team? Biden is
going to outlaw the internal combustion engine, tomorrow, to “Make American
Green Again”? The NEW MAGA?
Bullshit, demonizers!
“D” team
likes to say that the next “R” POTUS (Alex Jones maybe?) will outlaw ALL
abortion, and birth control? And turn
ALL women into enslaved baby-making machines, because every sperm is
sacred? Bullshit, demonizers!
All is for
The Hive… The Tribe-Nation… Or, All is for the
Individual, and you may NOT (of your own supposed “free will”) join a VOLUNTARY
commune?! There can be NO compromise,
traitors!!!
The males
must UTTERLY DEFEAT the females, who must NEVER speak again!
Yin must
smash Yang, till Yang exists no more!
Creation
must smash destruction! NO eggs may be
broken, for making omelets!
Life must
rule over death, and NO ONE may die, to make room for the new living! No matter HOW old and decrepit they get! YOU MAY NOT DIE!!!
Do you
ideological idiots NOT see that “R” v/s “D” falls into the same category? You would destroy it ALL (multi-party
democracy, “balance”) in the name of your POWER PIG FANTASIES!!!
The ONLY
way that ye will get your “ultimate victory” is in the DEATH OF IT ALL!!! The new POTUS, Alex Jones, will declare
Nuclear War for the Ultimate Victory…
And yin and yang, male and female, “D” and “R”, individual v/s tribe… they all ARE NO
MORE!!!
Are you
HAPPY now, ideological idiots and power-lusters?!!?
(Sorry if
that was “in your face”, but I hope that my point has been made).
One last
stab (or two) at this and then I’ll probably be ready to move on…
Early 20th
century clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick showed himself to be a man of wisdom
and benevolence (and tolerance and humility as well). http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5070/ and https://peaceloveshenanigans.tumblr.com/post/3419714173/there-are-many-opinions-in-the-field-of-modern. Here, look at this, of his: “There
are many opinions in the field of modern controversy concerning which I am not
sure whether they are right or wrong, but there is one thing I am sure of:
courtesy and kindliness and tolerance and humility and fairness are right. Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.”
And this one here from Martin Luther King Jr. is MOST
excellent! https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/martin_luther_king_jr_101472 for the shortened version:
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a
night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out
darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do
that. Hate multiplies hate,
violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a
descending spiral of destruction. So
when Jesus says “Love your enemies,” he is setting forth a profound and
ultimately inescapable admonition. Have
we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our
enemies– or else? The chain reaction of
evil–hate begetting hate, wars producing wars–must be
broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.”
Humility is a MUCH underappreciated virtue! See this:
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/27/army-has-introduced-new-leadership-value-heres-why-it-matters.html Even in a supposedly
“proud” profession, wise leaders treasure humility!
Books that
I recommend: Peter McWilliams “Ain’t
Nobody’s Business…” https://www.amazon.com/Aint-Nobodys-Business-You-Consensual/dp/192976717X
, written by a gay man. It’s a secular book, but has a LOT of content
about religious influences on USA history and culture. Funny and erudite, with LOTS of good quotes
from many-many sources! EXCELLENT book!
Jonathan
Haidt, “The Righteous Mind”, https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777
. Haidt
self-IDs openly as a liberal atheist, but (in a data-driven, tolerant, even-handed,
and broad-minded manner) examines different (liberal v/s conservative) ways of
thinking. He clearly advocates open,
tolerant, and civil discussions about everything. We CAN discuss things, and NOT yell at each
other, and-or past each other! It IS
possible!
Less-so
a “benevolent wise person” book and more-so a “general knowledge” book is this;
“The Evolution of Everything”, Matt Ridley, https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Everything-How-Ideas-Emerge/dp/0062296000/ref=asc_df_0062296000/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312741934517&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1463665821932812954&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027638&hvtargid=pla-432981011169&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=64940825031&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312741934517&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1463665821932812954&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027638&hvtargid=pla-432981011169
Well,
I hope that I’ve established my “bona fides” as being at least a wee tad tolerant
and broad-minded. Now let me move on, to
show why libertarian thinking is superior to authoritarianism. Is this clear? I hope so!
I am not opposed to all “leftism” or all “rightism”; I am only opposed
to such things, when they are extremist and-or authoritarian!
Libertarianism (non-authoritarianism) is a
straight-forward derivative of the “Golden Rule”. You do NOT want others to assume that they
are your moral superiors? You don’t want
them to boss you around all day, every day?
Then don’t do that to them! You
want your freedom and dignity? Grant it
to others as well!
When everything “good” is mandated, and
everything “bad” is prohibited, there will be NO room left for human freedom,
and human individual judgment!
Government
Almighty force is (should be) reserved for uses that protect us all against
evil people! We can almost all (say, 80%
or more) agree that murder, violence (real violence not verbal “violence”),
rape, theft, theft-by-deception, and gross, blatant, and obvious environmental
pollution (dumping of toxins) is bad.
Let’s use force or the threat of force to protect our freedoms from
these things. Beyond that, let’s tread
very carefully!
Libertarianism should sensibly allow moderate
regulation of common utilities like electrical power, gas lines, railroads, and
roads. We don’t have the room for 12
competing railroads to lay down tracks side-by-side. Such “natural monopolies” need regulated. Tread carefully though! Look up (Google) “regulatory capture” and “concentrated
benefits, diffuse costs” to see why!
We
have WAY too many requirements for degrees, licenses, and credentials,
obstructing honest and poor people who would like to earn a living! It also obstructs our freedoms, plain and
simple! Can anyone defend this: In the USA, and in the USA alone, among ALL
nations, I need to get a physician’s permission to blow on a cheap plastic
“lung flute”?!? See http://www.churchofsqrls.com/DONT_DO_THIS/
.
If
we try to tread the sensible “middle way”, we might also need to think about
“market failure”. If Bill Gates or Elon
Musk (or other rich person) shells out $50 billion to save some (?) 7.8 billion
people on the planet Earth from the next YUUUUGE asteroid, how does (say) Bill
Gates collect $6.41 (plus profit) from everyone on the planet? That’s a tough row to hoe! Sounds like Government Almighty getting
involved here might make SOME sense!
Other than a few special cases though, let’s not be “The Boy that Cried
Wolf”, and willy-nilly yell “market failure” at the drop of a hat! It gets old quickly!
If
you need more understanding of (or justification for, or want to send your
hard-earned money to) libertarian causes, follow https://reason.com/latest/ and-or https://www.cato.org/ and-or https://ij.org/ .
Persuasion,
not coercion! That is VERY classical
libertarian thought! As soon as your
coercion (guns, billy-clubs, jails)
is removed, people go back to what they were doing before. PERSUADE them instead, and they might
actually STAY persuaded!
Well
I guess it wasn’t that horribly long!
This space is reserved for more Deep Thoughts later, just maybe… Enough for now!
Combining libertarianism and “no good deed
goes unpunished” together, what do we get?
Well, throw in ONE more idea to spice it up, and let’s go! Add “social capital”, or, lack of public corruption,
or, our ability to trust each other, and our public institutions. THEN what do we get?
Human societies with greater income
differentials have less “social capital”, and people tend to trust one another
(as strangers) significantly less. This
is not good for “free market” operations to run smoothly! So within wise (judicious) limits, policies
in favor of more-equal income distribution make sense, and many reasonable
people (and voters) can see this. https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/media-culture/social-capital-and-the-free-market
at a casual search, was short and good… There’s plenty more out there!
I’m a free-market libertarian, sure, but I am
also a “poly-centrist”… We do NOT just
need ONE political party; we need more than one! And we need “power” (soft power at least) shared
with comedians and churches and mosques and temples and poets, priests, and
artists, as well as politicians! In a
dictatorship, the dictator typically tries VERY hard to shut down ALL other
voices! The comedians may NOT make jokes
about the dictator! That’s not what I
want… So, unlike the shrill voices of the
authoritarian conservatives on comment boards, I am glad that leftist-type
people show up as well. I do NOT think
that raw, naked income redistribution by Government Almighty is a good
“fix”… But excessive income inequality
is NOT a good thing, either! So leftists
have a part of the truth… Me,
personally, I would start by cutting the hell out of licensing and regulations
that keep poor people from being able to earn an honest living! If you don’t want to hire an unlicensed
interior decorator, then don’t! But
don’t get in my way when I want to hire one!
There are some more counterintuitive aspects
of human behavior that are also relevant.
Economic-behavior science calls it “antisocial punishment”… AKA, “no good deed goes unpunished”. If you are TOO charitable, and TOO
public-minded, TOO altruistic and benevolent, then others around you can and
will punish you for making them look bad!
The above-described phenomenon (and even more so, the lack of “social
capital” and trust, due to public corruption) is measured as being not super-powerful
in the USA, Australia, and Nordic nations, for examples, compared to
more-corrupt nations. “Social capital”
(we trust each other) is still prevalent, and so we don’t get all hell-bent on
punishing the good guys.
Certain societies have gotten themselves
sucked into a spiral vortex… Income
inequality skyrockets (the rich screw the poor with licensing schemes, among
other things), and the poor shoot back, by putting commies in power. Then the Government Almighty power pigs
(think of special stores in the USSR for Commie Party members only) abuse the
poor some more! It turns out that we are
all equal, but some are more equal than others!
And then, the poor (who can plainly see that Government Almighty power
pigs are screwing them) get even more pissed off (“social capital” deteriorates
some more), and WHO do they turn to, to punish the “bad guys”? … Yup,
some MORE Government Almighty power pigs (the RIGHT ones this time!), who will FIX
it for them!
Government Almighty power pigs collude with
big-business interests to screw over HONEST business that would compete with
them! Expecting Government Almighty to
be the “fix” for this is a losing game!
Asking Government Almighty power pigs to punish other power pigs (who
send bribes, ooops, I mean, campaign contributions to
our Lords and Masters) to fix it for us, doesn’t work!
The GENUINE good guys, like REAL
libertarians? They, too, must be
PUNISHED! How DARE they question the
Gospel of Government Almighty!?! How
DARE they question the benevolence of those who help the poor… By using the guns and jails
of Government Almighty, to make MY charity choices FOR me? “Here, let me help you; I will rob the
stranger next door to help you out!”
“Robbing Peter to pay Paul” doesn’t work well in the long run! THIS is the kind of power-seeking “do gooder” that gives do-gooding a bad name!
The same “anti-social punishment” thing is
referred to here……. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201016-why-some-people-are-cruel-to-others out-take from there
is
Sometimes people will even harm the
helpful. Imagine you are playing an economic game in
which you and other players have the chance to invest in a group fund. The more
money is paid into it, the more it pays out. And the fund will pay out money to
all players, whether they have invested or not.
At the end of the game, you can pay to
punish other players for how much they chose to invest. To do so, you give up
some of your earnings and money is taken away from the player of your choice.
In short, you can be spiteful.
Some players chose to punish others who invested little or
nothing in the group fund. Yet some will pay to punish players who
invested more in the
group fund than they did. Such acts seem to make no sense.
Generous players give you a greater pay-out – why would you dissuade them?
End out-take.
Answer to the ending question above is “because they make you look bad”. If I look bad, I might have to behave better,
and don’t want to! Also, you might steal
all of “my” women!
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-love-and-war/201706/why-some-people-resent-do-gooders
From the conclusion to
the above…
These findings suggest that we don’t need
to downplay personal triumphs to avoid negative social consequences, as long as
we make it clear that we don’t look down on others as a result.
End out-take.
Good advice! I’ll take it!
So, just
because you (authoritarian jerk if you are one) are nasty, does NOT mean that I
want you to feel BAD about YOU being a jerk, and me NOT being one! PLEASE feel GOOD about you being a jerk! And I do NOT want to steal “your” woman! You do NOT need to push me (or other REAL
lovers of personal liberty) down, so that you can feel better about being a
jerk! EVERYONE ADORES you for being that
jerk that you are, because, well, because you are YOU!
FEEL that self-esteem, now!
Bear with me
for a few minutes and this section-heading will make more sense.
Sometimes we
have several ways of putting things (even though the thing described remains
the same). Take some important flavors
of hedonism, for example: “Wine, women,
and song”. Old-time,
cultured, almost poetic. “Sex, drugs, and Rock & Roll.” In your face, but humorous to think it is
basically the same as the first. “Beer,
the Old Lady, and TV.” Again humorous, low-brow, with a twinge of boredom-humor.
OK, different topic, but
again, same thing described in different ways:
Old-time high-brow: Ralph Waldo
Emerson, “All men plume
themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.” Modern humorous and ALMOST in-your-face: PJ O’Rourke, “Everybody
wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” Short generic: “Work is love made visible”. Longer version by Khalil Gibran, “Work is love made visible. And
if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you
should leave your work
and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with
joy”.
Old-old-OLD-time religious: “You’ve observed how godless rulers throw
their weight around, how quickly a little power goes to their heads. It’s not
going to be that way with you. Whoever wants to be great must become a servant.
Whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave.” Jesus, Matthew 20
SQRLSY One comments: I shoe-horned this in here into this web
page, because I started out writing about the rampant poo-flinging (about
politics) on the internet (forums, chat groups, etc.). This fits right in! And some things never change!
All the wind-bag self-righteous power pigs imagine themselves
passing the perfect laws (and school-teaching rules for another example) in
THEIR Holy Images, and all would be perfect! Meanwhile, no one (hardly anyone at least
sometimes) is “helping Mom with the dishes”… CRT (“Critical Race Theory”) is a popular
culture-politics fighting topic right now (early summer 2021). In this case, working peacefully with, and
making friends with, people of other races (religions, political parties,
etc.), and teaching all children (whenever you get a chance, and usually by
example) to love all of their fellow humans, the trees, the bunny rabbits, and
the Earth, and the human future, yada-yada…
This is BORING! Akin to washing
dishes!
Well, STOP that self-righteous bickering! Let’s all get off our asses, stop being
arrogant know-it-all windbags, and go do some dishes!
Read the Beatitude #8 heading at the bottom of http://www.churchofsqrls.com/Jesus_Validated/
for more details about WHY the above section fits right in here… Tribalistic fighting over power (as compared
to being the “servants” of one another in peaceful cooperation) is among the
root causes of WHY the power pigs (“ethically challenged”) ones among us,
resent the better ones among us, and sometimes even KILL the “prophets”
(ethical teachers) of the modern-day era.
OK, another short set of notes added 12 May 2022… Please don’t think that the “ultimate”
do-gooders who get killed for doing good, are (were,
historically) the only ones punished for being righteous! Don’t just think of Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin
Luther King Jr. … Think also, even today,
of those punished for assisting so-called “illegal aliens” (“illegal sub-humans”
in the minds of their haters). I’ll just
show some links and leave it at that… https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/world/europe/greece-migrants.html He Saved
31 People at Sea. Then Got a 142-Year Prison Sentence. Hanad Abdi Mohammad is the hero here,
and law enforcement and their anti-immigrant hateful supporters are the villains. And it happens in the USA as well! https://reason.com/2019/01/15/trial-begins-for-aid-workers-accused-of/ Trial Begins for Aid Workers Accused
of Leaving Food, Water in Desert for Migrants https://reason.com/2017/11/12/how-immigration-crackdowns-scr/ How Immigration Crackdowns Screw Up
Americans' Lives
Again, bear with me to make sense of the above heading, please. And again, this fits into the
cooperation-v/s-fighting theme among humans, as laid out in the Beatitude #8
heading at the bottom of http://www.churchofsqrls.com/Jesus_Validated/
… PLEASE, let us all evolve (via
cultural evolution mostly these days) into higher beings! With apologies to Scott Adams (of “Dilbert”
fame), for me having cribbed a wee tad, let’s have at it!
A high-tech-related job (almost all
jobs these days involve computers) can stimulate LOTS of diverse thoughts about
LOTS of things, to include ethology (the study of human and animal behavioral
mechanisms as biological adaptations) and anthropology and history (the next
and higher levels of evolution in humans; AKA, “culture” and
“civilization”). I’ve summarized my
findings below; I hope that they are helpful.
Sad to say, honest reporting precludes saying that “everything is coming
up roses”. This is from the particularly
bleak perspective of an employee of a workplace that deliberately fosters a
dog-eat-dog work ethic, via constant layoffs, as driven by forced-bell-curve “metrics”
of your rankings, as judged by clueless managers.
If you have the patience to sit still
long enough, watch a prairie-dog town for a while. As a former farm-ranch-boy, I can tell you
about such things! You may have to sit
still for only minutes, or it might be hours or even days… The excitement comes in fits and starts; it’s “bursty”, in tech-speak. But sooner or later, you’ll see a prairie dog
popping his head up out of one of those elevated holes… Perhaps even standing tall, on his hind
feet… And making LOUD announcements! If you can understand prairie-dog, he is
saying, “Watch out! Eagles
and hawks, wolves and dogs, snakes and humans, oh my!” He’s scolding the predators, and warning all
p-dogs, “beware”! He’s looking out for
his fellow p-dogs… Often
warning his biologically-genetically related p-dogs. An elementary step towards
cooperative and then cultural, civilized behavior. … Similarly,
in modern cube-lands, if you sit there for long enough (no need to sit very
still here, actually; the actors here are LOOKING to attract your attention),
you’ll see engineers popping their heads out over the tops of their cubes
(maybe even standing on office chairs, and standing on their hind paws,
hazardous though that may be), and announcing to all in cube-land, “Lo and
behold, for all to see! Co-worker XYZ
has just come to ME, the All-Knowing Mega-Uber-Wizard, for help, at the mere
task of making provisions for dis-ambiguating the
slack pointers, for protecting the multi-snore OSPQW, in the event of a defrabrullator-coherency meltdown!”. If you perform elementary anthropological
investigations afterwards, you’ll find that worker XYZ was merely trying to
save hours or days or weeks of his/her work, so he/she went to Super-Duper-Wizard
(or other specialist at that narrow skill), since (Uber-VHDL-Wizard or other,
fill in the blank) Whatever-Wizard does it all day every day, and XYZ does this
particular thing once, only every few years.
XYZ made the mistake of thinking that efficiently getting it done
QUICKLY, for Cube-Land Inc., by using a primary attainment of human cultural
civilization, AKA “job specialization/cooperation/teamwork”, was more important
than appearing to know everything, and being smarter than your co-worker. So now, XYZ will lick his/her wounds, and
learn to study the manuals for hours or days on end, next time this sort of
thing happens, rather than approaching Uber-Wizard for some quick help. XYZ will dream of the day when Uber-Wizard
comes to him or her, and the tables are turned, and XYZ can get up on that
chair, popping out above ALL of the cubes in Cube-Land, to announce that
Uber-Wizard doesn’t know how to re-calibrate the deflection parameters tables
of ionizing radiation-gradients so as to optimize provisions for radiation hormesis. … The advantages of civilization have been
negated here, because it’s a ruthless war of all against all, under the
constant threat of layoffs, with the losers of the ego-wars being the ones
selected for layoffs. … But it gets even worse than that: If you think about it, the engineers (who
indulge in this kind of behavior) have sunk (at least in this instance of
behavior-categories) to a level of evolution below that of many animals! At least the prairie dogs, when they pop
their heads out to make loud announcements, are looking out for the entire town
of p-dogs. The same can NOT be said for
the engineers… They’re looking out ONLY
for themselves. There’s no cooperation
here, unlike in prairie-dog-town.
“Conscientiousness” is a
VERY important trait for ANY human worker or team member! This includes sharing your expertise,
unstintingly! For just one example, see https://news.westernu.ca/2020/11/getting-along-in-space/
, “’Conscientiousness’ key to team success during
space missions”
This section is meant to go over cooperation v/s fighting in the
workplace, yet again. Yes, I am a
military veteran… I’ll refrain from more
comments about that, other than to say, I hope and pray for the day when NO ONE
will be “called”, in any way, to perform these kinds of duties, any more! The below
could be taken as a warning for military veterans transitioning to jobs in the
civilian workplace. Beware!
“Cube-Land USA” discriminates against
veterans? No, no, absolutely not, in a
blatantly visible, obvious way, at least…
I think that’s going way too far.
There is no conscious, willful, or deliberate bias (of this kind) at Cube-Land. Also, if you as a veteran see (and can
document) repeated offenses (see below), and report them to your boss, then I
am fairly confident that you can often thwart the intent of the offenders, and
prevent them from turning you into their scapegoat (and target for the next
layoff). Yes, I know… Whining about your co-workers offends against
the very best values of military veterans (see below). But the work environment at Cube-Land has
gotten SO hostile to teamwork (and basic human decency), that you’d be doing Cube-Land
(as well as yourself) a favor, in systematically reporting these things as best
as you can document them. It’s a shame
that you have to divert effort away from productive labors for Cube-Land and Cube-Land
customers, towards calling down your ruthlessly non-team-playing “co-workers”,
but it is what it is. … The below is primarily intended as helpful
advice for service veterans struggling with the vicious nature of the current Cube-Land-USA
work culture (and ALL companies with raging in-fighting; I’ll bet there’s more
out there, not just YOUR instance of Cube-Land). Non-veterans may benefit from reading the below,
also... For understanding just how bad
things have gotten at Cube-Land, and for better
understanding the cultural (work-style ethics) that military vets bring to the
civilian world.
As we joined the services, at first,
they told us we were “nobody” (“maggots” or similar)… We were subjected to “hazing” and following
senseless orders and rules. Why? I later learned why! To drive out those with
large egos (no humility). If you
have an ego so large that you cannot humbly set it aside, in the name of your
fellow soldiers, and the organization and the larger goals, even when you don’t
know “why”, then there’s no room for you, in a very dangerous workplace, where
all must work as a team, in order to survive…
Egos and even lives must be sacrificed for the good of all. This ego-punishing hazing-harassing period is
designed (through cultural evolution) to drive out the “whiners, crybabies, and
prima donnas”, who are a hazard to all around them, in dangerous professions. Hazing-harassing of the newbies is found in
other dangerous professions as well (police, fire-fighters, oil-field workers,
etc.) for the exact same reasons. … When you find this being done to you in an
office environment (deliberately humiliating treatment, of usually milder sorts
than in the military) for the first few months or so as a “newbie”, then my
advice is to smile and march on. Don’t
be a whiner… Your new co-workers may
just be testing you, to see if you have a thin skin and a large ego. But if it goes on and on, past a few months,
they are NOT just testing you anymore; they are setting you up to be the
scapegoat for the next round of layoffs!
Never-ever forgot, at at least SOME Cube-Lands,
they have “forced distribution” or “bell curve” performance reviews, and so,
you have large temptations to shove your co-workers down, so that you can “pop
up”. I have seen it all… Stealing credit from you
for your work, trash-talking about you to the boss and everyone, and on and on. You have to tabulate these things and point
them out to the boss, if you are to survive, and make Cube-Land a better place
to work. … In the services, there is an “all together”
ethic. Once you get past basic training,
you go from being a “nobody” to (slowly) becoming a “somebody”… But a “somebody” ONLY because you’re part of
a team! You ALWAYS must rely on teamwork
from your fellow soldiers (even soldiers from other nations)… And reply in kind. You are a bunch of DEAD “somebodies” if you
forget that! You must assume your fellow
soldier is your team-playing co-worker, till proven otherwise. At Cube-Land, on the other hand, things have
gotten so cut-throat (in the face of “bell curve” reviews and constant layoffs)
that you must assume that your co-worker is out to make you look bad, till
proven otherwise. … In the services, you have ethics along the
lines of these semi-official organizational mottoes that I have seen (this is a
mash-up): “No whiners, no crybabies, no
prima donnas; Just get it done; Whatever it
takes”. In combat, you understand crystal-clear,
that when going through literal Hell on Earth, one does NOT linger long to carp
and moan. It prolongs the misery, and
tears down morale. At Cube-Land, whining
and moaning is often rewarded! The ones
(engineers especially) who can convince the boss that they are super-geniuses,
will whine and cry-baby about it when others “bother” them for help or
advice. So they can work and
concentrate, undisturbed by the “ignorant peons” who are so far below them. The military-style humble team-workers get
inundated for help, from others, so they can’t concentrate as much (and they
don’t brag as much), so they get laid off.
(The REAL heroes are humble… They
always say, “I’m just doing my job” when they help you, even heroically help
you.) Slowly but surely, the bad
elements are driving out the good, at Cube-Land. … Then
there’s the ethics and integrity thing.
Military officers (even senior ones) are driven out (forced to retire)
on a regular basis, for lying, or even for tolerating cheating and lying in
their organizations. At SOME Cube-Lands,
ALL of the management tells a BIG lie…
That there’s no “forced distribution” performance review system! Think about that… To be a member of management at SOME Cube-Lands,
you MUST lie! All of management is forced
to tell this lie, all the way down the org charts... They’ll only tell you the truth, after
they’re laid off. This lie, and this review system (along with rotten individual
worker ethics) is at the root of the non-team-playing. If military officers were all telling the
same lie, repeatedly, for years, as is done at SOME Cube-Lands, then there’d be
Congressional hearings and a large purge of officers. I’m still waiting for the equivalent to
happen at XYZ Cube-Land. … In summary, if you as a USA service veteran
want to survive at Cube-Land, you must invert all of your assumptions about
teamwork (your best values). Cube-Land
“leaders” may have turned your co-workers into your enemies! It grinds on the soul of a service
veteran… Try not to work for such a
place! If stuck in one, try your best to
fix it or at least report it!
Advice to Management in Cube-Land
Get rid of “forced distribution”
performance reviews. At the very-very
least, stop LYING about them! I don’t
know who you think you’re fooling… All
the employees know you’re lying, and we respect you MUCH less, for that. We wonder how many other lies we’re being
told. Many-many business and
business-management-consultant, respectable organizations’ web sites list Cube-Land
XYZ as having “forced distribution” performance reviews, so you’re not fooling
them, either. And many of them flat-out
tell you the same thing that I’m telling you:
This policy kills teamwork!
… If you cannot change your Cube-Land-destroying
policies, then at the VERY least, stop lying, and start rewarding teamwork, and
punishing back-stabbing. Else Cube-Land
is toast! Didn’t you know that those
organizations that live by the lie, die by the lie?
The above two sections may seem to be
a bit shoe-horned into here. If you
(dear reader) think that very strongly, then consider this: The bigger picture is summarized in http://www.churchofsqrls.com/Jesus_Validated/
beatitude #8 (towards the end), where I say that the next step in
evolution is for us all to reach towards the ancient ideal of “all men are
brothers”. Endless bickering over
politics (to include ugly office politics) is NOT going to get us there! The opposite (of “all men are brothers”) is
to constantly be looking for scapegoats!
Including scapegoats for the next round of layoffs! There is a perverse incentive going on here,
in the face of constant layoffs, for interviewers of the “new guy” to select
the weakest plausible candidate, so that he or she will be selected for the
next layoff! “New guy” will be the
“sacrificial anode”, attracting the next layoff to himself, to protect the job
veterans, as a “sacrificial anode” protects a building or a ship (or other mostly-metallic
structure) from corrosion, by attracting corrosion! (The Google Knows All Things, so, if curious,
Google “sacrificial anode”).
I have
personally seen the above phenomenon at work in CubeLand. If you need an example (from mainstream
media), see https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/amazons-controversial-hire-to-fire-practice-reveals-a-brutal-truth-about-management.html “Amazon's Controversial 'Hire to
Fire' Practice Reveals a Brutal Truth About Management.” Also consider “Googling” the term “displaced
aggression”, which I believe is related to scapegoating… When we’re angry at the
boss (or management in general), we can’t strike out at them, for fear of
losing our job. But we can
practice “displaced aggression”, and scapegoat a vulnerable co-worker! Kinda like beating the dog instead of having
a fight with your husband or wife, you see…
Ta-ta for now
(TTFN), more later maybe…
Turn to
associated page at http://www.churchofsqrls.com/Jesus_Validated/
(that page considers the 8 beatitudes, and this page here, that you are on
right now, is somewhat built around beatitude number eight).
Return to (thematically not much
related) root page at root page www.ChurchofSQRLS.com