In music the flowering of a tone from a singularity to the richest point and
then the diminution to a singularity is called a messa di voce and is the way
that voices have been developed from the schola cantorum in the third century
to the present. Recently the form was used by IBM to designate the distance
between the PC -(the upper leg of the shape)- and the consumer - (the lower
leg) -
The distance between the two
legs was the distance that had to be mastered by the education of the public to
diminish complexities of the first PC and stimulate sales.
The problem became to move the complexity to a singularity through a
educational construction that reduced the complexity to a generic singularity.
Wealth constitutes a complexity and when wealth is rising individual control is
falling and perceptual abilities become desensitized through two mechanisms.
1. the need to focus to avoid failure and 2. the reactionary psycho-physical
response of holding the breath which cuts off air to the blood and the brain.
(The washed out look and the defensiveness.) What is stranger than a
person with millions of dollars in the bank comparing themselves to a person
with a few hundred as an equivalency? Because their panic is real and
because their hands are cold, their heart is laboring and thinking is oxygen
starved, the wealthy believe that the same symptoms found in extreme poverty
makes them the same and rationalizing makes sense to them. Teachers of
performance are well aware of these problems of hysteria that rise to the level
of a pathology in such things as the frozen muscles and vocal chords of stage
fright. (Hysterical Aphonia) But because a poor person has an aphonia, as
does a rich person, does not mean that they are the same. This is a
psychopathology and a problem of educational complexity, not a virus that both
share that is trying to devour their lives.
The wealthy person has more resources to deal with the behavioral effects but
usually has a problem of "face" or "ego" that makes dealing with it difficult.
Note: Ann Romney's house wife work is work but the poor mother's housewife
work is NOT work according to Romney. According to the government neither Ann
Romney or the welfare mother is working. They labor but they do not work.
Wealthy Ann Romney has the means to invest in her children while the poor must
go to "work" and leave their children to daycare. Is it any wonder that
both groups spend so much of their psychic and spiritual energy in defense?
Nontheless, the truth here is that the wealthy have the capital to invest while
the poor do not and that makes their excuses for a lack of empathy and
compassion not to mention "humanity" less defensible.
My people solved the problem by elevating the person who had the ego strength
to give it all away. All of it. The giver would get a return that was
less but the gift meant that they had the ego strength to do it all again and
to acknowledge not that they were poor but that even the poorest could find
their way to plenty through the path of giving and acknowledging the
relationship and dependency of all life on one another for success. John
Dunne said it for the English when he said "no man is an island."
I've seen this behavior in certain groups that are sure that monetary value
equals worth. They will demand a salary that literally destroys their
employment before they will take a cut in pay. They use terms like "not
devaluing their worth" even if the company goes under. These people are an
island and only in the case of war and destruction do they find their way to
becoming human beings once again. They are "poor" of heart.
REH
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Such narrowness of view is what is damaging even scientific studies. In fact it
could be the problem with any study. The need for specifics drives the
researcher to remove as many aspects of conflict within a study as possible in
order to obtain 1 clear and definitive outcome. This is a problem (as has been
mentioned on this list before) with the 'western' educational system. There is
a decided lack of ability of most western minds to encompass all the differing
aspects of large problems to achieve a coherent and sensible answer.
The other aspect of this 'study??' is the generality of assuming that the
driver of a luxury car is wealthy. They may merely be social climbers and
really stressed for the cash to maintain the appearance of wealth and must
chase on to the next 'mark' they can score from.
D.
On 24/04/2012 10:16 PM, Keith Hudson wrote:
In principle I could well accept the suggestion of the Berkeley psychologists
but these experiments haven't shown that "as people climb the social ladder,
their compassionate feelings towards other people decline". All that they have
suggested so far is that there is a correlation between status and impetuosity
in a couple of specific situations. Impetuosity (or high status) cannot be
interpreted as lack of empathy or compassion in a general way. The same high
status experimentees would have to be tested in other situations also.
Furthermore, nothing can be said about the effect of actually climbing the
social ladder. The experiments were merely snapshots of individuals who'd
already arrived at an assumed status (on the basis of the car they drove). To
prove that the climbing is the cause would need a longitudinal survey from, say
adolescence (when status aspirations first become apparent) to at least late
middle age (when even high status individuals have peaked).
Keith
At 02:53 25/04/2012, you wrote:
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April 24, 2012 5:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SPAM] How
Wealth Reduces Compassion How Wealth Reduces Compassion As riches grow, empathy
for others seems to decline By Daisy Grewal Scientific America April 10, 2012
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-wealth-reduces-
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compassion
Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal - the poor person or the rich one?
It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to
act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier
to think about what others may need. But research suggests the opposite is
true: as people climb the social ladder, their compassionate feelings towards
other people decline. Berkeley psychologists Paul Piff and Dacher Keltner ran
several studies looking at whether social class (as measured by wealth,
occupational prestige, and education) influences how much we care about the
feelings of others. In one study, Piff and his colleagues discreetly observed
the behavior of drivers at a busy four- way intersection. They found that
luxury car drivers were more likely to cut off other motorists instead of
waiting for their turn at the intersection. This was true for both men and
women upper- class drivers, regardless of the time of day or the amount of
traffic at the intersection. In a different study they found that luxury car
drivers were also more likely to speed past a pedestrian trying to use a
crosswalk, even after making eye contact with the pedestrian. To read more, go
to http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-wealth-reduces-compassi
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