Friday, January 03, 2003

Essays and Articles by Timothy Wilken, MD 1) Understanding Order (PDF) 2) Dual World 3) A Synergic Future 4) ORTEGRITY 5) GIFTegrity (brief) (PDF) (scientific basis) 6) The Unified Stress Concept 7) Protecting Humanity  8) Beyond War  9) Crisis: Danger & Opportunity 10) Tensegrity 11) What is a Time-binding Trust? 12) What is a ‘knowing’utility? 13) UnCommon Sense Library  •FIRSTwords •Introduction •We Can All Win!-PDF  1—Life 2—Three Ways 3—The Relationship Continuum 4—Three Classes of Life 5—Human Neutrality 6—Interdependence 7—Wealth 14) UnCommon Science - (PDF)  4:20:40 PM     Leader-Follower Dee Hock wrote: Leader presumes follower. Follower presumes choice. One who is coerced to the purposes, objectives, or preferences of another is not a follower in any true sense of the word, but an object of manipulation. Nor is the relationship materially altered if both parties accept dominance and coercion. True leading and following presume perpetual liberty of both leader and follower to sever the relationship and pursue another path. A true leader cannot be bound to lead. A true follower cannot be bound to follow. The moment they are bound, they are no longer leader or follower. The terms leader and follower imply the freedom and independent judgment of both. If the behavior of either is compelled, whether by force, economic necessity, or contractual arrangement, the relationship is altered to one of superior/subordinate, management/employee, master/servant, or owner/slave. All such relationships are materially different than leader-follower. Induced behavior is the essence of leader-follower. Compelled behavior is the essence of all the others. Where behavior is compelled, there lies tyranny, however benign. Mere behavior is induced, there lies leadership, however powerful. Leadership does not imply constructive, ethical, open conduct. It is entirely possible to induce destructive, malign, devious behavior and to do so by corrupt means. Therefore, a clear, meaningful purpose and compelling ethical principles evoked from all participants should be the essence of every relationship, and every institution. (01/03/02) Let Them Eat Whatever Nature provides all African.com -- Both President Levy Mwanawasa and Vice-President Enoch Kavindele's statements on the current hunger, food shortages and food security require a more serious approach than what we have received from our two top leaders. In his New Year message to Zambians, President Mwanawasa said, among other things, this country has gone through the worst situation as far as food supply is concerned. He said reports in overseas media and other publications that millions of Zambians would die of hunger was a preposterous assumption. President Mwanawasa said while he acknowledged the food shortages resulting from poor harvest and weather vagrances, it was irresponsible to claim that millions of Zambians would die because this was now the middle of the rainy season where there were fresh vegetables and other tubers available for the people to eat. ... Is President Mwanawasa telling this nation and the world that his reference to the availability of tubers, backyard vegetables, and we add mushrooms, consists of an economic or agricultural policy that addresses the anxiety of the nation over food and hunger? The statement by President Mwanawasa is like saying 'let nature resolve our problems'. ... People want food, they want to be assured of food security now and for the future. Tubers and mushrooms are seasonal, they can't sustain citizens, they can't even provide a solution to this severe hunger problem. (01/03/02) American Rebellions Thom Hartmann writes: They covered their faces, massed in the streets, and destroyed the property of a giant global corporation. Declaring an end to government-backed global trade that was destroying local economies, this small, masked minority started a revolution with an act of rebellion later called the Boston Tea Party. On a cold November day, activists gathered in a coastal town. The corporation had gone too far, and the two thousand people who’d jammed into the meeting hall were torn as to what to do about it. Unemployment was exploding and the economic crisis was deepening; corporate crime, governmental corruption spawned by corporate cash, and an ethos of greed were blamed. “Why do we wait?” demanded one at the meeting, a fisherman named George Hewes. “The more we delay, the more strength is acquired” by the company and its puppets in the government. “Now is the time to prove our courage,” he said. Soon, the moment came when the crowd decided for direct action and rushed into the streets. That is how I tell the story of the Boston Tea Party, now that I have read a first-person account of it. While striving to understand my nation’s struggles against corporations, I came upon a first edition of Retrospect of the Boston Tea Party with a Memoir of George R.T. Hewes, a Survivor of the Little Band of Patriots Who Drowned the Tea in Boston Harbor in 1773, and I jumped at the chance to buy it. Because the identities of the Boston Tea Party participants were hidden (other than Samuel Adams) and all were sworn to secrecy for the next 50 years, this account (published 61 years later) is the only first-person account of the event by a participant that exists, so far as I can find. As I read, I began to understand the true causes of the American Revolution. (01/03/03) How not to be a Rich Doctor Steve MacLaughlin writes: I thought I would try and show why the malpractice insurance costs in West Virginia is such a problem for surgeons. Consider the economics of being a general surgeon in West Virginia: $220,000 (Average salary for a general surgeon) -$78,100 (Uncle Sam's 35.5% income tax) -$14,300 (West Virginia's 6.5% income tax) -$73,000 (Current malpractice insurance costs) -$27,000 (Expected increase in premiums) -------- $27,600 (What you have left of your salary) (01/03/03) 4:04:05 PM

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