My Email to Elizabeth Warren for Senate All Night Discussion on Climate Change

To Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

We cannot talk about the topic of climate change without addressing the current energy industry. It's a privatized industry basically working as a middle man to manage the public resources used to produce energy for our country. We know this as a carbon-based or sometimes referred to as a fossil fuel based industry. 

Economics ties into our dilemma because so many powerful people subscribe to the cultish beliefs of The Free Market System. And because of this we have all been subjected to the proliferation of archaic means of energy production, not only in our own country but around the world.  Much money is being made by a select few by holding the world hostage to the fossil fuel industry way of meeting our energy needs. 

Now I know some people, the President included, have stated that natural gas is a clean alternative to oil and coal. Let's remind them that methane is a greenhouse gas. Let's also remind them that exploiting and contaminating our fresh water aquifers in order to drill for natural gas is hardly what any sane person would call clean energy.

In 2014 energy technology should be helping to make people more independent and more sufficient in obtaining their energy needs. It should be freeing up the ability for many more people to travel near and far. Our elderly and our children should never have to fear freezing to death in the winter due to an unpaid utility bill. Our families should easily be able to grow a portion of their own organic food all year around if they want to.

Empowering citizens to become more sufficient in providing for their own needs, without depending on a Corporation which is exploiting them for profit, is what we should be aspiring to. This is what advancing energy technology could do, and should do, as our society evolves towards more balance within our ecosystem. Solar power does not require humans to be subjected to a profiteering middleman, in order to keep from freezing to death or to feed themselves, and this is a good thing.

~ Stephanie Gilley

P.S. Good Luck Tonight, Senator Warren and Thank You For Speaking Out. xoxo

It's Dangerous To Let Psychopaths Have Control Of Public Policy

Written By: Stephanie Gilley 11/21/2013

It has been suggested not a few times that politicians on the Right feel put-out by the obligation of financially supporting the poor in society. Often the reasons they cite are blame related. Blaming the single mother for not having a husband to support her. Blaming the elderly for not saving enough money during their working years. Blaming the disabled for not having good genetics, or for bad luck of becoming injured. This callous disregard is the common line of thinking among many who support our society being ultra-capitalist. As in "Free-Market Capitalism which actually means a market "free" from governmental regulations. Relying instead only on the invisible hand of (God) the free market itself, to dictate the outcome of capital resources. Notice the magical thinking (often embraced by gamblers). Referring back to their view of a persons "luck" as a reasonable excuse for someone disabled by genetics (which they had no possibility to control) or an injury to suffer in poverty.

Where does this callousness emanate from? Why would anyone elected to serve the people and our society embrace policies that alienate different life-stages of human development? Such as Motherhood and our Golden Years? Preserving the integrity of people while they are in these stages benefits all of humanity. Knowing this, would it not be prudent to plan a strategy of readily available assistance? We know women with children are often abandoned.  And it is no big secret humans have experienced a lengthening of our lifespan. Most of this is actually due to nothing more than discovering the benefits of personal and public hygiene. Water safety standards making a huge impact on the health and longevity of the population. Though you will find no limit to the number of technologies and industries  that want to take credit for this achievement.

So I ask again where does this callousness toward humanity with all its diversity and wondrous life-stages come from? Why do leaders on the Right promote this anti-human anti-society mindset? We all know our natural ability to become corrupted by shiny gold things but is it more than that? And if so who are the wavers of these shiny gold pieces in order to achieve an agenda? Is there an agenda? Maybe not. Maybe these wavers of shiny gold pieces are just doing what they do best...getting what they want when they want it and enjoying watching the chips fall where they may. For fun. Sort of like running down the crowded beach with your buddies, crashing through as many sandcastles as you can. For fun. Laughing at the shrieks and cries of little kids as you keep running and noticing yourself grow larger down there. Is there a sexual satisfaction people like this get for example when they grow up and subject hundreds of millions of people to food insecurity? One should wonder.

As we have advanced technologically we have been able to clear up so many of the mysteries about our biology and our psychology. These discoveries should be used to help shape a more humane modern society. This leads the conversation to the topic of psychopathy and psychopaths. We now know specific details about the personalities and behaviors of psychopaths. We know that some have a great ability to maneuver their way to the top of corporations, to amass millions even billions of dollars, and to enjoy political leadership roles. Researchers and clinicians can diagnose psychopaths by watching a public figure promote destructive policy, alienate whole segments of the human population, and perpetuate human suffering by censoring information and funding propaganda. But there is no need to rely on purely a subjective diagnosis. Scientists are able to diagnose actual neurological brain differences in psychopaths which is the reason for their callousness towards others. Psychopaths have a perfectly functioning reptilian brain. And a not so well functioning of higher order brain networking. Thus the lack of emotions like empathy.

Are the politicians promoting destructive social policy all psychopaths? Perhaps some are just corrupted by the shiny gold things promised by the psychopath campaign donor? We don't know because there are no requirements for people in public office to submit to a psychoanalysis -brain scan. It could determine if they have sufficient higher brain functionality and are therefore fit to hold office (a position of power over others).  A strategy like this could curb much of the purposeful manipulation of public offices for the destruction of civil human society.  It would not be prudent to allow psychopaths to collaborate in order to manipulate and control the most powerful institutions on the planet. Think of these institutions, when working together they are wholly influential over the standard of living of everyone, i.e.  the news media, military industrial complex, banking, energy, farming, medicine, transportation, communication, education, government. It would be very dangerous to allow  any of them to be headed by people lacking higher neurological emotional functioning. It would be suicide to allow them all to be controlled by such people.

Far from being a witch hunt screenings for psychopathy using functional brain scans should be understood as a public health issue. It would work to flag people with the dysfunction as being ineligible for positions of power over any other people, animals or resources i.e. holding political office. Just like other health screenings it is better to diagnose early. It is important that we protect workers, and vulnerable groups such as children and the elderly from the manipulative and abusive tactics of psychopaths. It is important to protect all people from being subjected to living in a society run by psychopaths. If anything is a human right this is.