A reminder to the World to bless and respect women. Kicked to nonfunctional safety nets, set to somebody else’s problem is not all pretty. As you wish to be treated
Figured I would give a greater explanation of the diagram.
Insulation helps reduce the need for power requirements. A house with no insulation will likely have higher heating bills, air conditioning bills, an electrical power requirements. Thus insulation factors into energy efficiency and insulation factors into more power available.
I also think of insulation in the metaphorical sense. If one is closer to power, authority, and leadership – one is potentially more insulated, more protected than others or at least that is the perception. Famous people might have more power available, more people like bodyguards looking out for them and they might also have more risks that all can’t fully comprehend or perceive.
Thus insulation factors into risk management and risk management factors into inclusion and insulation. Risk management factors into protection and support, more people fighting for your cause. Thus power in inclusivity facilitates greater amounts of support.
If you have a data center and IT support – you might have greater support and capacity to deliver a message than you otherwise would – if you were imprisoned, or oppressed, or inspired to believe your words mean less, are less valuable. People backing your message, looking for the parts that need sanding, telling you when you are saying something wrong all factors into greater capacity to communicate.
Capacity to communicate factors into ability to teach, inspire learning, and the value created via question and answer sessions. Capacity to communicate factors into popularity, appreciation, and ability to relate which facilitates greater open communication channels. People that know how to talk better to each other in advance is powerful.
Open communication channels factor into listening or lack there of. If people don’t constantly communicate there is potential for less listening to each other. The idea there is no cost for silence and not talking with each other, A see A, sounds nice but might be more brittle and less powerful in practice. Listening factors into Learning, Listening turned down will likely equal things missed, less learning.
Listening and Learning factors into Better Words, having the right words at the right time. Better Words also facilitate ability to close ground faster, say more with less words. Thus Listening and Learning factor into Better Words, better words chosen that might mitigate more risk and thus factor into and facilitate efficiency.
Better Words and Listening factors into Throughput.
Open Communication channels factor into seeing. If you don’t spend time with others, don’t talk with them commonly, there might be things you don’t see, things you miss. Seeing factors into Trust – if you see a person doing right, you are likely to trust them more for better or worse.
Seeing factors into Pattern Matching – if you don’t see something, you are less likely to see patterns in it. Pattern matching like how letters are constructed factors into language and reading.
Reading and Listening factor into Hearing – I realize there are no physical sound waves – yet I am using hearing metaphorically – words said or written matter, have capacity to change things in valuable ways.
Seeing factors into problems perceived – if you can see or perceive a problem – like a flat tire, you have capacity to plan for it, fix it in advance – in a way that doesn’t ruin your plans or leave you stranded on the road.
Thus Open Communication Channels factor into seeing, perceiving problems, and capacity to fix or plan for problems. Problems fixed in advance factor into power available on any given day. Power available factors into throughput – like if you have a water bottle factory, if your machines are broken, you produce less, but if they are fixed you might have capacity to deliver more water at critical times.
Problems Perceived factors into Problems Fixed which factors into Head-starts. If a problem like oppression is fixed in advance you likely have a head-start you wouldn’t otherwise have. Less oppression might equate to more potential to listen, learn, and live.
Head-starts valued more for all, trying to enable all in better ways, increasing throughput for all – factors into a more healthy respect for time. A minute, an hour, a day, a week, 5 years, 10 years, 50 years – what do they mean to you, what do they mean to others? Respect for time is not a given, turned up in advance is not a given. Respect for time both yours and others facilitates time as a useful commodity, time as a liquid asset versus a indefinite frozen asset that devalues throughput for society.
Time factors into problems perceived. If people don’t have time to see the stuff breaking in society, they won’t fix it in advance. The engineer that built the bridge left in jail and silenced is a possible system – might create potential for problems people can’t always see and solve in a timely manner.
Seeing (capacity to see problems) valued, Problems Perceived valued, and Time valued is power. More Power available is Hope that might not be available otherwise. Time valued facilitates Hope, Hope that problems will be fixed in a timely way, that people will be able to accomplish their dreams.
I will start with the counter argument. The counter argument is everything is the way it should be, turns up everything in ideal ways. Systemic design is perfect and injustice is non-existent.
I don’t agree with the counter argument, thus I propose a hypothetical – a potential society that is built in a different way, that for both good and bad delivers in different ways.
The hypothetical is simply this.
If we changed “In God We Trust” on the dollar bill to “In Matthew 19:21 We Trust” or to “In John 8:7 We Trust” how would it change the World? We have a government that sometimes likes to put The Ten Commandments in government buildings yet we still claim to believe in Freedom of Religion, Separation of Church and State.
What God do we trust in, who’s God do we trust in, why do we trust in them? The past hasn’t been all bad, and the past hasn’t been all good. There are differences, differences we don’t always ponder or reflect upon that could change the World in dramatic ways.
What guarantees do we have for less witch burnings, less demonization of others in society, less potential for a Scarlet Letter like society? Why do things like the compound in Waco, TX get turned up?
Religious freedom unchecked might lead to human sacrifices, Heaven’s Gate or Jonestown like events. Thus a state that wants to deliver protection, justice, and love for its citizens has to find ideal gray area – close enough not to let children be abducted and brainwashed vs giving people the freedom to express their earnestly held beliefs.
The Bible teaches give and expect nothing in return. That God will get vengeance for you so you don’t have to.
That said, if you go to work and work 8 hours – do you expect a paycheck or expect no paycheck? You have given your time, effort, and care to help solve problems. I personally think you should be able to expect something in return for your efforts.
If you couldn’t expect anything in return – what would the implications be? It might reinforce slavery as useful – don’t have to value or pay for that as useful. How precedent is set matters. Less requirements to respect the worker is not all workers respected.
On a different note if you do community service – you might want to live up to the altruistic motivations of God or religion. You might want to do right by others, help others see a better world and better days because you care, not because you have a backchannel billion dollar deal and this puff piece will help seal that deal.
That said a justice system or governments might decide to mandate community service at a certain point. Keeping an unjust system from putting the incarcerated to work like slaves, from mandating community service is not a guarantee. Cheap labor is profitable, might profit some more than others.
If you believe that others will look out for you in ideal ways, how does that change your choices? Less need to prepare? Less need to defend oneself? Less need for risk mitigation? Less need to have the right words prepared for legal gotchas in advance? Less need for the right laws to be written that profit both you and others, not just others? Less need to worry about a government that borrows, filters money into the hands of the rich – we could sell to the government but we need to increase the price and the government doesn’t have money for that – until, they do now.
Does our national debt give the feeling of God will right that in advance for you, family, friends, fellow citizens and future generations? Does wars in the world give feeling of less money or more money will be needed for defense? If God actually righted it, there might be less need to borrow and less need to be protective. It is consequential – what money, and who’s money is spent – which corporations win and which corporations lose is all of consequence.
Each day actions that are consequential are turned up in the World – some win and some lose. The idea expectation of nothing in return is a blanket statement, can be applied to all things does not feel correct. A teacher gives homework, homework like fixing the national debt – will expectation be people have to work on that, or “they were supposed to expect nothing in return”?
I get it, you want the greatest new fighter jet and you want to be able to help people in natural disaster zones – you don’t have enough money, so you can borrow extra – you will look like saints, likely make it up in GDP next year – but it keeps on progressing – and there are winners and losers, while the rich get richer and the tent cities in USA get more plentiful. Combine that with increased cost of medical and reduced access – it is a certain recipe, a certain recipe I think The God that kicked us out of Eden might expect us to fix – as all things possible through God might not cut the mustard on delivered. Those 28 hypothermia deaths? Just part of God’s plan?
Debt per citizen at $350,000+ per tax payer, will go nice while sleeping in a tent?
If someone goes to work, they are in pursuit of a goal. They have been educated, trained, and delegated tasks by those higher up. Getting work done facilitates profit—or a lack thereof. In an unstable climate, profit equals support, making the goal feel more crucial than ever.
But the worker sees some things and misses others. As society shifts, they might need to reallocate their pursuit to more important tasks, yet that is not a guarantee. It is easy to be lulled by a happy mountain path—the rosy view that because everything looks bright and sunny, everything is bright and sunny.
We operate on a concept of “A see A.” It is a shorthand of mutual respect between experts, friends, and corporations. We stay in our own wheelhouses to avoid being naysayers or stepping on toes. We have our own daily problems to solve, so we grant others a default of perfection. We negate our progress by perpetuating less interaction, relying on a “requirement to trust” rather than a requirement to comprehend.
The problem is the “non-ideal silence.” You might see a critical flaw I miss, yet stay silent to avoid wasting my time. When “A see A” takes precedent over real-world problem solving, we move toward the edge together.
I might want to solve a problem. I might not see that if I stay on my particular path, an axe will drop on the support of others. There are many in boats; I do not see what they see. There are many on the streets; I do not see what they see.
I try to solve problems from “I see some things.” Yet I must remind myself: seeing some things is not seeing all things. This has been a pain point of my life, and likely the lives of others. We want better days, but we risk losing them by choosing the comfort of our own lanes. True support is not just staying out of the way; it is the willingness to break the silence before the axe falls.
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