Sunday, July 20, 2003

Thinking Globally & Acting Locally Timothy Wilken, MD writes: I am pleased to announce the formation of  a new synergic organization, BIAS systems, which will offer consultations, training and support on a  continuing basis to those individuals seeking to optimize the  efficiency and productivity within their own organizations. Our primary tool will be the ORTEGRITY. BIAS systems is a research based company.  Synergy means working together and synergic science is the study of working together. Our products were developed during twenty years of intensive research on human intelligence, human behavior, human relationships and human wellness working with hundreds of real people in high stress environments and situations. Our research revealed "that whenever humans experience conflict they lose access to their full intelligence".  When humans are confronted with conflict, their mind-brains shift to a very primitive and highly reactive way of thinking called the survive mode.  The survive mode evolved in the jungle to insure physical survival.  Its primary skills are fighting and fleeing.  Its extremes are rage and terror. All humans thinking in the survive mode will find their intelligence to be severely limited.  Access is lost to the faculties of reason and intuition.  In severe conflict, many of us lose even our ability to speak.  Unfortunately, the survive mode turns on with the slightest conflict, and instantly our intelligence begins to decrease.  It is not simply on or off.  It is more like the rheostat dimmer switch controlling a dining room light.  A little conflict will produce a little loss of intelligence, while a large conflict will produce a large loss of intelligence.  If we remain in conflict for weeks, then we will operate at limited intelligence for weeks.  And in full rage of terror, we humans access only a tiny fraction of our potential intelligence. Since human efficiency and productivity are derivatives of human intelligence, conflict is to organizations as friction is to machinery. (07/20/03) Fascism Anyone? Laurence W. Britt writes: Fascism's principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for. The cliché that people and nations learn from history is not only overused, but also overestimated; often we fail to learn from history, or draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the norm. We are two-and-a-half generations removed from the horrors of Nazi Germany, although constant reminders jog the consciousness. German and Italian fascism form the historical models that define this twisted political worldview. Although they no longer exist, this worldview and the characteristics of these models have been imitated by protofascist regimes at various times in the twentieth century. Both the original German and Italian models and the later protofascist regimes show remarkably similar characteristics. Although many scholars question any direct connection among these regimes, few can dispute their visual similarities. Beyond the visual, even a cursory study of these fascist and protofascist regimes reveals the absolutely striking convergence of their modus operandi. This, of course, is not a revelation to the informed political observer, but it is sometimes useful in the interests of perspective to restate obvious facts and in so doing shed needed light on current circumstances. (07/20/03) 7:05:16 AM

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