[Vision2020] Film on Inequality at Kenworthy, Sept. 5

Thu Aug 30 21:32:24 PDT 2018

I had to look this up...  I am not a fan of Kurt Vonnegut.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

"*Harrison Bergeron*" is a satirical
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satirical> and dystopian
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia> science-fiction
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science-fiction> short story
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story> written by Kurt Vonnegut
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut> and first published in
October 1961

*Diana Moon Glampers*, despite appearing in person for only four sentences,
represents the oppressive government and enforces the handicapping policies
of the government. It is mentioned early on that Hazel resembles Diana, and
Hazel mentions improvements she would make to Diana's handicap regulations.
She appears ruthless when she kills Harrison and his Empress without
warning, and threatens the musicians with a similar fate before the
broadcast is interrupted, leaving their future ambiguous. Diana's first and
middle names are possibly a reference to Diana, the Roman huntress, virgin
goddess of the moon.[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron#cite_note-1>"
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What does the name of Diana Moon Glampers suggest?

https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-name-diana-moon-glampers-suggest-773253

"...it represents the dumbing down of the society to order to ensure
equality."
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 4:19 PM g crabtree <direoutcome at gmail.com> wrote:

 Reich with the enthusiastic assistance of Gier humbly submit themselves
> for the position of Diana Moon Glampers. You WILL be equal!
>
> g
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> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 9:54 AM Nicholas Gier <ngier006 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There will be a free showing of Robert Reich’s award-winning film *Inequality
>> for All* at the Kenworthy Theatre on September 5 at 7 PM.  It is
>> sponsored by the Moscow Human Rights Commission, the UI Faculty Federation
>> (AFT), and the Latah Human Rights Task Force. The Task Force has chosen
>> inequality as the topic for Human Rights Day at the Market (September 8),
>> and before the film there will be a display table of powerful graphics and
>> informative hand-outs. Patrons are encourage to come early to check out the
>> Task Force’s table.
>>
>> For those who do not receive the DNews, here is my column on the topic.
>>
>> *The Effects of Income Inequality on Mental Health*
>>
>> by Nick Gier, The Palouse Pundit
>>
>> In 2011 British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
>> released the second edition of their book *The Spirit Level: Why Greater
>> Equality Makes Societies Stronger*. The authors studied levels of trust,
>> mental illness, life expectancy, infant mortality, educational achievement,
>> teen births, homicides, and incarceration rates.
>>
>> Among selected industrialized countries the authors found that the U.S.
>> performed the worst on all nine indicators, and that the most consistent
>> predictor was economic inequality. Significantly, the more equal
>> American states had better results on these issues.
>>
>> In their new book *The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce
>> Stress, Restore Sanity, and Improve Everyone’s Wellbeing*, Wilkinson and
>> Pickett have gathered more data about inequality’s negative effect on
>> mental health.
>>
>> For example, they found that only 10 percent of Japanese and Germans
>> suffered from some form of mental illness, while 20 percent of those in the
>> United Kingdom and 25 percent of Americans did so. The Japanese and Germans
>> are significantly more equal than Americans, with the British less so.
>>
>> Our authors cite research that showed that “in 1980, 4 percent of
>> Americans suffered a mental disorder associated with anxiety, today half
>> do.” Between 2007 and 2017 the number of Americans receiving Social
>> Security Disability benefits due to a mental disorder increased 2.5 times.
>>
>> Young people are also suffering. In Britain, since 2011, there has been a
>> 68 percent rise in rates of self-harm among girls aged 13 to 16, and 58
>> percent of British teachers believe that there is a mental health crisis in
>> their schools. From 2010 to 2015 there was a 36 percent increase in
>> depressive episodes among American adolescents. School bullying is also
>> much more prevalent in unequal countries.
>>
>> Research has shown that status anxiety is much higher in unequal
>> countries, and one study revealed that “people of lower status in
>> hierarchies have higher levels in their blood of a clotting factor called
>> fibrinogen, implying that their bodies are constantly on high alert to heal
>> potential wounds.”
>>
>> Anxiety has been found to cause depression, drug addiction, and increases
>> in suicidal thoughts, narcissism, and schizophrenia. Excessive drug use
>> correlates tightly with economic inequality all over the world.
>>
>> Most people do not realize that narcissism is categorized as a mental
>> illness in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistics Manual. From 1982 to
>> 2006, psychologists administered the Narcissistic Personality Inventory to
>> thousands of American college students, and they found a 30 percent
>> increase in the display of narcissistic symptoms.
>>
>> Two questions on this survey especially caught my eye: “If I ruled the
>> world, it would be a better place,” and “I can live my life any way I want
>> to.”
>>
>> Wilkinson and Pickett report an ever increasing “defensive, narcissistic
>> presentation of self” in unequal societies, and a reviewer from *The
>> Guardian* newspaper remarks that “we risk creating a society of
>> mini-Trumps all clawing at one another’s hairpieces.”
>>
>> Trump certainly epitomizes this description of narcissistic persons:
>> “They tend to lack empathy, react aggressively to criticism and favor
>> self-promotion over helping others.” Narcissists undermine the social
>> fabric of those around them, but the one in the White House has upset
>> economic and diplomatic relations throughout the world.
>>
>> The most alarming statistic is increased mortality rates for American men
>> without a college degree ages 45-54. They are dying prematurely because of
>> drug and alcohol abuse, and their suicide rate is eight times the national
>> average. From 2000 to 2016, 183,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses.
>>
>> As one reviewer of Wilkinson and Pickett's book observes: "The world’s
>> richest large country, the city on a hill, seems to be coming apart."
>>
>> A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they
>> shall never sit in.
>>
>> -Greek proverb
>>
>> “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
>> Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
>> from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in
>> lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
>> guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own
>> understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.
>>
>> --Immanuel Kant
>>
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