If you haven't already, I highly recommend this book:
All Rise - Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity
Like Ghandi did for India, I believe Dr. Robert W. Fuller is offering us a way out and away from the divisiveness that is crippling our democracy and, quite frankly, threatening to send us into a negative social spiral of chaos because of the HUGE indignities too many are suffering as the result of income insecurity and it's impact on personal self worth.
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You might ask: Why is War on Error promoting Dr. Robert Fuller?
I will tell you why.
I just recently discovered Dr. Fuller's huge body of work and found that he has presented the missing keys necessary for the implementation of what I call Sufficiency Capitalism, a way of doing business that affords all the players dignity and fair wages. Until reading his work, I have been unable to articulate some aspects I applied in my businesses intuitively, but didn't have the words to describe. Fuller has provided those words. I can hardly contain my excitement and want everyone to hear about his important and extremely timely work.
I fear we are heading towards an abyss and believe Robert Fuller has the brakes we need to stop us from a headlong plunge of social unrest and even chaos.
The brilliance of his ideas is that the whole social system doesn't necessarily have to change, only the manner which people within the system treat each other.
He states that all 'isms' are subspecies of Rankism. He's offering us a way out of our political stalemate.
Keith and Rachel, Dr. Fuller is a fresh breath of progressive air!
Isn't it clear that it is time for the next stage of democratic evolution before we reach a tipping point of social unrest?
Rooting out what Fuller's terms rankism and re-tooling all aspects of our society to enable all to feel the basic human need, dignity, is that next step.
So, Keith and Rachel, please invite Dr. Fuller to be a new participant in your political and social conversations.
You can read about Dr. Robert Fuller and his work on the following links:
About Robert W. Fuller
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His June 1977 meeting with President Carter in the Oval Office helped lead to the establishment of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger.
Dignity
http://www.politicalcortex.com/...
All Rise - Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity
By Robert W. Fuller
http://www.psychologytoday.com/...
One of my favorite quotes:
Dignitarian politics respects the free market as an inherently anti-rankist economic mechanism, but tempers market forces with institutions of social responsibility that insure that concentrations of financial power are not turned to monopolistic exploitation or used to gain unearned educational or political advantages. You shouldn't have to be rich to attend quality schools, or command a fortune to stand for office.
A dignitarian society provides genuine equality of opportunity. In a dignitarian society, loss of social mobility, let alone division into master and servant classes, is unacceptable. There's a way out of poverty within a generation in a dignitarian society. It's a society where the American dream is alive and well and a beacon to humankind as it has long been
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Did I mention that Obama is a dignitarian?
President Obama is a herald of the politics of dignity. He's an instinctive dignitarian. Not libertarian, not egalitarian. Dignitarian. It matters not when and how he acquired his dignitarian manner, or that he may not conform to it one hundred percent of the time. What matters is that in his personal relations and political positions he sets an example of respecting human dignity, regardless of role or rank.
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Other articles by Robert W. Fuller:
Rankism: The Elephant in Professor Gates's House
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Bleeding Heart Liberals Proven Right: Too Much Inequality Harms a Society
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