Help make “rankism” a household word—by using it—so those who are dismissed as “nobodies” can pin the label “rankist” on their abusers.
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The only thing as important as how we treat the Earth is how we treat each other. Ending rankism brings dignity to all and to Mother Earth.
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End Rankism! Don’t Put Up with Indignity! Dignity for All! 20 things you can do: http://bit.ly/bJa2r
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Looking for allies to use social media to grow a movement dedicated to the proposition of equal dignity for all. http://www.dignity4all.org
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Malrecognition usually takes the form of too little recognition. Idolization is rarer form, but it too can be fatal—Jackson, Presley, Monroe.
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Malrecognition is too little, or too much, or unwarranted recognition. Recognition is to the self what food is to the body.
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Michael Jackson died of “malrecognition.” Everyone knows what malnutrition is—and that you can die of it. But what is malrecognition?
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“Without a theory, the facts are silent.” – Friederich A. von Hayek “Without the facts, theories are dreams.” – Thomas J. Scheff
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Wherever you find a society that harbors a big income disparity between its richest and poorest, there is RANKISM. http://bit.ly/QgMxd
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Idolization does to humans what royal jelly does to a bee. It inflates and distorts and renders them vulnerable, dependent, even grotesque.
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To make change you must know 2 things: What you’re for and what you’re against. What Moms Are Rising Against at HuffPo: http://bit.ly/NDCb9
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Rank differs from class, and rankism from classism. Rankism—putting others down—is the wellspring of social inequality. http://bit.ly/deVqL
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Idolization is one form of malrecognition, which is as harmful (Jackson, Presley, Monroe) and as dangerous (terrorism) as is malnutrition.
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The idolization we foist on our troubadours is like the royal jelly force-fed a Queen Bee. Results are similar: distortion and grotesquerie.
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What is rankism? It’s what we’re seeing in Iran—it’s when one group uses power to put down, demean, discriminate against, or exploit others.
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The route from liberty to justice goes by way of dignity. As we stand up for dignity, economic justice becomes a realistic political goal.
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To secure dignity for all, we must target RANKISM—the source of indignity—as civil rights movement targeted racism.
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The original N-word is unspeakable. The new N-word is “Nobody,” a rankist epithet, & like its predecessor, headed for disuse.
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A dignity movement against rankism (humiliating, dissing, disadvantaging, or exploiting other people) is democracy’s next evolutionary step.
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When the word “rankism”—putting people down—is as well known as “racism” and “sexism,” it will be as indefensible as they are.
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At some point in this century, humankind will retire its old predatory strategy—exploiting the weak—in favor of protective strategy for all.
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We’ve tried Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity as keystones of human governance. If we added Dignity, wouldn’t the world work for everyone?
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The Ayotollahs don’t seem to understand Vartan Gregorian’s deep insight that “Dignity is not negotiable.”
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Rankism is what somebodies do to people they see as nobodies: they put them down. For 20 ways to combat rankism: http://bit.ly/B2tq6.
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If we can get “rankism” into the vocab. of regular folks, it will do for them what “sexism” has for women.
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Hard data from British team proves bleeding-heart liberals right: More Equal Societies Do Better. Explained at HuffPo: http://bit.ly/YPqwx
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New Community Model in prisons drops recidivism rate from 50 to 5 %. Pamela Gerloff blog at HuffPost: http://bit.ly/1myY8v
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Dignity works, even and especially, in prisons. A new program drops the recidivism rate from 50 to 5 %. http://bit.ly/Tzs26
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War is SO Over! (It simply doesn’t work any more. In our time, predation & indignity yield to protection and dignity for all.)
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Dignity is not negotiable. – Vartan Gregorian
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Dignity, YES! Rankism, NO!
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The Civil Rights, Suffragette, Modern Women’s, & Gay Movements are all campaigns that produced behavioral change on a national scale.
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An ass had the task of carrying the statue of Isis, & when the populace honored the statue, he thought the honor was his.–Georg Lichtenberg
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Aristotle could have avoided thinking women have fewer teeth than men by simply asking Mrs. Aristotle to open her mouth. -Bertrand Russell
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Pres. Obama’s appeal comes from practicing the politics of dignity: Everyone is a somebody; no one’s a nobody. Rankism’s out; dignity’s in.
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Obama heralds a new politics of dignity. Dignitarian politics transcends libertarian & egalitarian politics to embrace equal dignity for all.
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Rankism is to mental health as pollution is to physical health. Living with chronic rankism is as bad as smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day.
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During the 21st century, humankind will retire its ancient strategy of preying on the weak & adopt a new survival strategy—dignity for all.
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President Obama is an instinctive dignitarian. More than most, he understands that dignity works and treats others without regard for rank.
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Dignity works in prison. A dignitarian community model in Virginia lowers recidivism rate from 50 to 5%. http://bit.ly/1aqE5E
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20 ways to combat rankism: http://bit.ly/B2tq6. Rankism is what somebodies may do to those they (mis)take for nobodies.
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Dignitarian politics is a synthesis of libertarian and egalitarian politics that can deliver on social justice. http://www.dignity4all.org
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The route from liberty to justice goes by way of dignity. As we stand up for dignity, economic justice becomes an achievable political goal.
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The only thing as important as how we treat the Earth is how we treat each other. Ending rankism brings dignity to all and to Mother Earth.
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What is rankism? Briefly: http://bit.ly/qz3yO. In depth: http://dignity4all.org. Rankism creates indignity & indignity creates indignation.
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What is rankism? It’s abuse of the power attached to rank. Typically, it’s what “Somebodies” do to “Nobodies.”
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“Somebodies and Nobodies” & “All Rise” & “Dignity for All” define rankism and call for dignity movement to overcome it. http://bit.ly/MysYQ
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If we establish the right to die with dignity, can we not also establish right to live in dignity: healthcare, higher ed, living wage 4 all?
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Dignity protected in constitutions of South Africa, Germany, Canada, Bangladesh.
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“To have a name is to be.”—B Mandelbrot (father of “fractals”). Likewise, calling abuses of rank “rankism” renders them real and resistible.
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Know you what it is to be a child? … it is to believe in belief … — Francis Thompson, British poet (1859–1907)
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Looking for fellow geeks who can figure out how to use social media to build dignity movement to fight rankism. HELP! http://dignity4all.org
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Imagine the Self not as singular and immutable, but as a superposition of selves-in-waiting, any one of which may someday take center stage.
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“Modern art [is a] cultural expression of a larger political gamble on the…possibility of living in change & without absolutes.”-K. Varnedoe
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A dignity movement that targets indignities by disallowing rankism in all its many guises is democracy’s next natural evolutionary step.
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Subspecies of rankism: racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism, ableism, classism, corruption, bullying, torture, exceptionalism, one-upmanship.
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Genes encode bodies that reproduce & promulgate their genetic constituents. Memes encode selves that promulgate their mimetic constituents.
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Rankism is what “somebodies” may do to people they (mis)take for nobodies: presuming themselves superior or more important, they condescend.
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“War is a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.” —Wm. Cowper (18th c). We need to devise a better game than war.
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“Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself, and then comes to resemble the picture.” — Iris Murdoch (as quoted by Simon Leys in NYRB)
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A “dignitarian” society aims to equalize dignity regardless of role or rank. It disallows rankism, as now we deligitimize racism, sexism…9:58 AM Apr 28th from web
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Nobodies of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our shame.