<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I had to look this up... I am not a fan of Kurt Vonnegut.</div><div><br></div><div>All content below from websites:</div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron</a></div><div><br></div><div><span>"<b>Harrison Bergeron</b>" is a <a title="Satirical" class="gmail-mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satirical"><font color="#0066cc">satirical</font></a> and <a title="Dystopia" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia"><font color="#0066cc">dystopian</font></a> <a title="Science-fiction" class="gmail-mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science-fiction"><font color="#0066cc">science-fiction</font></a> <a title="Short story" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story"><font color="#0066cc">short story</font></a> written by <a title="Kurt Vonnegut" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut"><font color="#0066cc">Kurt Vonnegut</font></a> and first published in October 1961<span></span></span></div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><span><span><strong>Diana Moon Glampers</strong>, 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.<sup class="gmail-reference" id="gmail-cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron#cite_note-1"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">[1]</font></a>"<span></span></sup></span></span></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div><font size="4">What does the name of Diana Moon Glampers suggest?</font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-name-diana-moon-glampers-suggest-773253">https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-name-diana-moon-glampers-suggest-773253</a></div><div><br></div><span><span></span></span></div><div><span><span><font size="4">"...it represents the dumbing down of the society to order to ensure equality."</font></span></span></div><div><span><span>---------------------------------------</span></span></div><div><span><span>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br></span></span></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 4:19 PM g crabtree <<a href="mailto:direoutcome@gmail.com">direoutcome@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"> Reich with the enthusiastic assistance of <span id="gmail-m_7114994056697935385:lw.1">Gier</span> humbly submit themselves for the position of Diana Moon <span id="gmail-m_7114994056697935385:lw.3">Glampers</span>. You WILL be equal!<div><br></div><div>g</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 9:54 AM Nicholas Gier <<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com" target="_blank">ngier006@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia,serif">There will be a free showing of
Robert Reich’s award-winning film <i>Inequality
for All</i> at the Kenworthy Theatre on September 5 at 7 PM.<span style="margin:0px"> </span>It is sponsored by the Moscow Human Rights
Commission, the UI Faculty Federation (AFT), and the Latah Human Rights Task
Force.<span style="margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(18,18,18);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"> 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.</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia,serif"><font face="georgia,serif">For those who do not receive the DNews, here is my column on the topic.</font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia,serif"><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia,serif"><font face="georgia,serif">
<p align="center" style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000" face="georgia,serif">The Effects of Income Inequality on Mental
Health</font></span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000" face="georgia,serif">by Nick
Gier, The Palouse Pundit</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000" face="georgia,serif">In 2011 British epidemiologists Richard
Wilkinson and Kate Pickett released the second edition of their book <i>The
Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger</i>. The authors
studied levels of trust, mental illness, life expectancy, infant mortality,
educational achievement, teen births, homicides, and incarceration rates. </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><font color="#000000"><font face="georgia,serif"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%">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.</span><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"> Significantly, the more
equal American states had better results on these issues.</span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000"><font face="georgia,serif">In their new book <i>The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies
Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity, and Improve Everyone’s Wellbeing</i>, Wilkinson
and Pickett have gathered more data about inequality’s negative effect on
mental health. <span style="margin:0px"> </span></font></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000" face="georgia,serif">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. </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000" face="georgia,serif">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.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000" face="georgia,serif">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.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font face="georgia,serif"><font color="#000000">Research
has shown that status anxiety is much higher in unequal countries, and one
study revealed that “</font><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">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.” </span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><font face="georgia,serif"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);line-height:150%">Anxiety has been found to cause depression, drug addiction, and
increases in suicidal thoughts, narcissism, and </span><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000">schizophrenia</font><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">. Excessive drug use correlates tightly with economic
inequality all over the world.</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000" face="georgia,serif">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. </font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000" face="georgia,serif">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.”</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><a name="m_7114994056697935385_m_7257016501152573279__Hlk522712825"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);line-height:150%"><font face="georgia,serif">Wilkinson and Pickett report an ever increasing “defensive,
narcissistic presentation of self” in unequal societies, and a reviewer from <i>The Guardian</i> newspaper remarks that “we
risk creating a society of mini-Trumps all clawing at one another’s hairpieces.”
</font></span></a></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><font face="georgia,serif"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);line-height:150%">Trump certainly epitomizes this
description of narcissistic persons:</span></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000">
“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.</font></span></span></font></p>
<span style="margin:0px">
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><font face="georgia,serif"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);line-height:150%">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</span><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000"> opioid
overdoses.</font></span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px;line-height:150%;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:150%"><font color="#000000"><font face="georgia,serif"><span style="margin:0px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;line-height:17.33px;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><font color="#000000">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."</font></span></font></font></span><br></p></span></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-m_7114994056697935385m_7257016501152573279gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia,serif"><font face="georgia,serif"> <div style="width:auto;height:auto"> <div> <div><div><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div></font></font></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font face="georgia,serif"><font face="georgia,serif"><font face="georgia,serif"><font face="georgia,serif">A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. <br><br>-Greek proverb</font></font></font></font></div><div><font face="georgia,serif"><font face="georgia,serif"><font face="georgia,serif"><br>
“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.<br>
<br>
--Immanuel Kant<br>
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