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Toward a Unified Theory of Justice in America

Forebrain #1
July 17, 2022

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

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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…

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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being; Racism in the USA

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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…

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The Things We Do To Ourselves

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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being; Racism in the USA

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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…

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Unity and Change in America

Forebrain #1
January 18, 2021

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…

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Let’s Not Turn Healthcare Into Welfare

Forebrain #1
December 27, 2020

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…

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Role Of Parenting

Forebrain #1
December 20, 2020

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…

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The Things We Keep To Ourselves

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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being; Racism in the USA

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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…

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Elephants In The Room

Forebrain #1
December 20, 2020

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…

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Michael Sandel

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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…

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Ellen Brown Public Bank Solution and How We Could All Be Public Bank Shareholders

Forebrain #1
May 16, 2021

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

Forebrain #1
May 2, 2021

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…

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Otto Scharmer, and Getting to the Bottom of Theory U

Forebrain #1
March 14, 2021

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

Forebrain #1
February 15, 2021

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…

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Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal on America’s Ailing Healthcare

Forebrain #1
December 20, 2020

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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Are Corporate Tax Incentives Worth It? Amazon and The New Feudalism

Forebrain #1
January 1, 2022

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

Forebrain #1
January 25, 2021

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

Forebrain #1
December 27, 2020

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…

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Michael Sandel’s job is to explain justice, democracy, and ethics to the rest of us. Current enrollment for this semester’s …

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 …

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An Educational Paradigm for the Second Age of Enlightenment

Everybody has a cure for Public Education; it’s difficult to know who is right. What if we changed our Educational Paradigm …

What Americans Should Know About Their National Parks

National Parks bring private business $20 Billion in visitor spending, while the public pays all the expense. The Great …

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The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita – a Book Review

The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good PoliticsBy Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair SmithGoodreads …

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The Alchemists by Neil Irwin – a Book Review

Irwin thoroughly laid out the steps the Fed took to save Wall Street, because Wall Street, in the current system, was “too …

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Racial Justice in the Age of Obama by Roy L. Brooks – a Book Review

Professor Roy L. Brooks brings everyone up to speed on post-civil rights theory, in the hope of moving the conversation along …

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty – a Book Review

Thomas Piketty must have struck a nerve to have so many people falling over themselves to contradict him. Now we have …

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The One Percent Solution by Gordon Lafer – a Book Review

Gordon Lafer dives into the shallow end of the genetic pool, in order to observe Homo Economicus up close, and better explain …

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With Liberty and Dividends For All by Peter Barnes – a Book Review

Peter Barnes wants to upgrade our 18th century economic operating system to serve 21st century people, but over 300 years …

Giving Kids a Fair Chance by James J. Heckman – a Book Review

Not one to be an economic cheerleader on the sidelines of a rigged game, economist James Heckman instead works to level the …

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Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz – a Book Review

Joseph Stiglitz believes that economics should serve people, not divide and conquer them; we believe that 99% of people, once …

The Future of Capitalism by Sir Paul Collier – a Book Review

Sir Paul Collier wants to infuse Economics with some Ethics. We would prefer to start with Ethics and build some Economics …

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Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert Reich – a Book Review

In Saving Capitalism, Robert Reich shows us how far the cancer of Inequality has spread. His advice? Every action must have …

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The Public Bank Solution by Ellen Brown – a Book Review

Ellen Brown’s compendium of public banking history shows how it consistently outperforms the private version which often …

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