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Toward a Unified Theory of Justice in America
This article is part of a series of social science inquiries attempting to prove that socio-economic operating systems would provide more Certainty, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Sustainability if they were designed to empower people rather than control them. By Robert Simmons Preamble “If you don’t look at it, you can’t change it. You’ve got to look…
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Michael Sandel
Michael Sandel’s job is to explain justice, democracy, and ethics to the rest of us. Current enrollment for this semester’s online edX Justice Class is 420,000. By Robert Simmons There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin Michael Sandel has made it his sole purpose to help explain…
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being; Racism in the USA
Oppression is genetic. The Third Option has a treatment plan to downgrade Oppression to a chronic but manageable condition. The following exploration of Racism is meant, in part, to demonstrate how The Third Option plans to dismantle Racism at the systemic level. By Robert Simmons Atonement: A White People’s Four-Step Program Table Of Contents STEP…
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Fame: The Quintessential Pathology of Our Current American Dream
The Fire This Time: Self-worship, cannibalism and ritualistic human sacrifice in the Age of Consumerism. By Robert Simmons Fame cannot accomplish what is asked of it…Every new famous person who disintegrates, breaks down in public or loses their mind is judged in isolation, rather than being interpreted as a victim of an inevitable pattern within…
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A ‘Cursed’ People: the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Thanks to Patrice Lumumba, for six days in the summer of 1960, the Congolese people felt what it was like to be free. In reality, the West was never going to allow the Africanization of Africa. By Robert Simmons The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a country with huge natural wealth…diamonds, gold, copper, cobalt,…
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Immigration Nation
No manmade law can restrict the flow of people simply by calling them ‘illegal’, at least not until we find a way to make Oppression illegal as well. By Robert Simmons If poverty, unemployment, crime, spousal abuse, and other non-state-imposed forms of human suffering justify an asylum claim, then at least 2 billion people on…
The Things We Do To Ourselves
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being; Racism in the USA
Oppression is genetic. The Third Option has a treatment plan to downgrade Oppression to a chronic but manageable condition. The following exploration of Racism is meant, in part, to demonstrate how The Third Option plans to dismantle Racism at the systemic level. By Robert Simmons Atonement: A White People’s Four-Step Program Table Of Contents STEP…
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Fame: The Quintessential Pathology of Our Current American Dream
The Fire This Time: Self-worship, cannibalism and ritualistic human sacrifice in the Age of Consumerism. By Robert Simmons Fame cannot accomplish what is asked of it…Every new famous person who disintegrates, breaks down in public or loses their mind is judged in isolation, rather than being interpreted as a victim of an inevitable pattern within…
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Immigration Nation
No manmade law can restrict the flow of people simply by calling them ‘illegal’, at least not until we find a way to make Oppression illegal as well. By Robert Simmons If poverty, unemployment, crime, spousal abuse, and other non-state-imposed forms of human suffering justify an asylum claim, then at least 2 billion people on…
Unity and Change in America
Our politicians and news analysts seem to have never taken a civics course. We see a population that increasingly finds conspiracy theories more plausible than their everyday common sense. By John Simmons Tis really astonishing that the same people, who have just emerged from a long and cruel war in defence of liberty, should now…
Let’s Not Turn Healthcare Into Welfare
Addiction is the most important healthcare issue of our time. The Private Healthcare Industry’s addiction to money is a $4 Trillion dollar habit, and the first step is to admit we have a problem with that. The next step is to have an intervention, and the American people need to know, going in, that many…
Role Of Parenting
RULE NUMBER ONE : STAY IN YOUR OWN LANE Everyone has an important role in order for a child to develop fully, and the professionals will know their role. It’s really only the parent that needs any coaching, and it is important for parents to listen to this coaching, and learn from it. In the…
The Things We Keep To Ourselves
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being; Racism in the USA
Oppression is genetic. The Third Option has a treatment plan to downgrade Oppression to a chronic but manageable condition. The following exploration of Racism is meant, in part, to demonstrate how The Third Option plans to dismantle Racism at the systemic level. By Robert Simmons Atonement: A White People’s Four-Step Program Table Of Contents STEP…
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A ‘Cursed’ People: the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Thanks to Patrice Lumumba, for six days in the summer of 1960, the Congolese people felt what it was like to be free. In reality, the West was never going to allow the Africanization of Africa. By Robert Simmons The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a country with huge natural wealth…diamonds, gold, copper, cobalt,…
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The Language of Violence
It’s the language everyone speaks, but no one speaks about; until we listen to It, however, It will continue trying to make Itself understood. By Robert Simmons Viewing violence narrowly from the perspective of psychological dysfunction shirks the larger truth that the biological roots of rage exist in all of us.R. Douglas Fields, Ph.D. Since…
Elephants In The Room
By Robert Simmons Elephants are big suckers and take up a lot of space, but if you let them hang around long enough, you start getting used to them being there, and simply maneuver around them. Sometimes you almost forget they are there. Almost. In reality, the path or course We take everyday is altered…
Humans In The News
Michael Sandel
Michael Sandel’s job is to explain justice, democracy, and ethics to the rest of us. Current enrollment for this semester’s online edX Justice Class is 420,000. By Robert Simmons There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin Michael Sandel has made it his sole purpose to help explain…
Ellen Brown Public Bank Solution and How We Could All Be Public Bank Shareholders
Ellen Brown is looking to expand Public Banking in the U.S., and has written three convincing books toward that end. Here the Third Option attempts to capture the gist of her main arguments. By Robert Simmons A National Public Bank is the best possible long term investment for individual citizens (retirement dividends, affordable basic needs),…
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DAVE CHAPPELLE
Who owns the Chappelle Show? It’s “Chappelle’s” Show; says so in the title. “Intellectual Property”? Sounds like Mental Oppression; Welcome to the new slavery. By Robert Simmons Opening the door: Nobody’s life is perfect. No matter what it looks like from the outside, you don’t know what the fuck’s going on inside. Heading down to the…
Otto Scharmer, and Getting to the Bottom of Theory U
Otto Scharmer’s ‘U’ represents a deep dive below our disruptive surface, where presencing can see the deeper systemic disconnects & lead to more holistic decision-making. By Robert Simmons We are blind to the source dimension from which effective leadership and social action come into being. We know a great deal about what leaders do…
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Sir Paul Collier
Sir Paul Collier is the champion of the bottom billion, using pragmatism and evidence-based reasoning to take Economics to neighborhoods that it usually avoids. By Robert Simmons Modern capitalism has the potential to lift us all to unprecedented prosperity, but it is morally bankrupt and on track for tragedy. Human beings need a sense of purpose, and…
Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal on America’s Ailing Healthcare
Elizabeth Rosenthal shows us the serious side effects that occur when mixing profit-seeking with healthcare. By Robert Simmons In the past quarter century, the American medical system has stopped focusing on health or even science. Instead it attends more or less single-mindedly on its own profits…The Affordable Care Act was mostly a bill to make…
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Around Our Community
Are Corporate Tax Incentives Worth It? Amazon and The New Feudalism
Whether it swings right or left, U.S. Government has long since relinquished “Command” of our Economy to a Market system, of which tax incentives are inevitable. By Robert Simmons Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name Tax incentives are a natural externality of a…
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The Use of Biomimicry in Waste Water Treatment
The human race has utilized biomimicry throughout its entire existence; it is only recently that we have become consciously aware of it, however. By Robert Simmons When we look at what is truly sustainable, the only real model that has worked over long periods of time is the natural world.- Janine Benyus The human race…
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Our COVID Community Coffee Shop
What is an Independent Coffee Shop? It’s a Small Local Business that’s hurting, like all the rest, and like all the rest, a source of hope for their community. By Robert Simmons Every small community has at least one independently owned local coffee shop. Our area is no exception. In 2019 B.C. (Before Covid), the…