We have found through previous writings and the research that hate often has mental health aspects based on the false distortions of self-perception on those who engage in hate but also from their social networks that have come to accept certain demeaning symbolism into their decision making (i.e. the "other".). What we often don't discussion is the financial incentives to hate and how that can be an important contributor to those who transgress common values.
First, no legal system is going to be perfect. There are mistake, there are people with different viewpoints, it doesn't see everyone, have God's insight, and in many ways it is fighting against a prior legacy where the large swaths of society maintain some skepticism (This is the biggest danger to society is when institutions are seen as not focused on justice. I'm not saying that is the case here but I'm saying there are lots of moving parts and while justice often tries to do the right thing it might not have a full grasp of what life is like for the "average" person; even less so if people "love to hate". Different systems and stakeholders will have different views on what justice looks like in any particular situation. This is why we need diversity, as defined across multiple aspects of life, throughout society so we can gain a wider perspective.)
Everything in this life is a choice and a learning opportunity that comes to define us as individuals and us as a nation. I have learned the hard way that once you, your family, and people like you are seen as "undesirables" lots of other factors make their way into everyone else's decisions; of course decisions they want you to live with whether you like it or not. A problem being that the targets wear the risks like a gold star. You can see this occur here where social support among a Good Old Boy (including the ethnic, racial, sports, and other defining characteristics of that clan) allowed certain shared societal values to be circumvented (Trust me I'm as confused as you. 🤔 ). This is why we have state and federal stakeholders that have opportunities to correct the wrong (That is why the proof is always in the pudding, the choices, and the outcomes. If we are 50/50 on justice then it is because we are 50/50 in our decision making and 50/50 in our deeply rooted values. If local institutions default then it is because the people that were elected, appointed, and hired to those positions hold values that allow such systems to have secondary missions that are not stated publicly.)
Set Up #2(of 4) "That Person Has Lots of Money"
A day or two after Set Up #1 I walk into a local establishment (it has no reflection on the establishment) and I notice some people who were associated with the person causing the issues (Keep in mind that I'm not 100% sure I understand what is going on. Thus far I'm aware of general aggressive commotion, was already put in harm's way twice, my children recklessly treated, a large group of rude/aggressive people, multiple officers and departments involved, a missed attempt to cleanse, and lots of unknowns in front of me. See decision making uncertainty while under threat. Keep in mind I haven't made a whole lot of conclusions yet and was in the gathering info stage. As people acted and reacted to my, and children's presence, the more information I gained.
(Its not the first time I been in a situation where I had to make big decisions over limited, intentionally masked, and misaligned information where the outcomes could be final. As a general strategy, I look at all the options, re-evaluate my model each time worthy new information becomes known, go back and check my assumptions with devils advocate criticism, and then select those paths that are most likely to be chosen based on currently known information and determine the best defensive strategy. I will also check that counter strategy with the most unknown pathways with limited data just incase there is a curve ball thrown in that was impossible to see at that time. Its a little like completing a 360 evaluation of the problem from many different angles and paying special attention to the areas you don't have enough information.
The kicker....guess what happens sometimes after getting through a complex decision making metrics? I'm sometimes still wrong and to make up for errors of judgement one might want to ensure they keep their strategic position in a place with the most potential options as new data becomes available. Where is that place at the end of all of the complex calculates, possibilities and probabilities. The truth! Its hard to go wrong with the truth! 😲 )
A few people invited me to sit down and started asking me about my job, career and things that I'm doing in my personal life (I did feel it was odd that they were very concerned all the sudden but there is no harm in chatting and at this time I wouldn't know why they took this sudden interest.)
They asked me questions about what I do, any research I'm working on and other activities I'm engaged in on a personal level. They were polite (meaning they were aware but not sure of the full intent to do harm) but seemed to think I was lying about everything I'm saying but didn't specifically call me out (They were making me responsible for their lack of knowledge on such topics. For example, I tried to explain that I'm looking at how to collaborate multiple industries on specific R&D projects that speed innovation through cross-industry knowledge sharing that leads to innovative synergy in a way that it solves specific government problems that also benefits participating industry through product/service market leading radical development. That also may have included a discussion on how infrastructure and national development policies impacts the root business platforms, i.e. like the Internet, in a way that influences the overall performance of an entire economic systems and all the subtransactions that rely on the platforms infrastructure. Long story short is that if you put the right elements in the right place at the right time with the right budgets and the right market needs you can develop faster cross-industry innovations that utilize an export and information driven infrastructure network to move products from the prototype stage to the worldwide markets and off the shelves into households. Kind of like what the toaster did. I call it economic transactional innovative clusters. A few other researchers see something similar. Its simple! I don't understand why anyone would be confused? 🤷)
Either way, as I became aware something isn't exactly right I walked over to talk to someone I know very well. One of the ladies directly associated, and a beneficiary of the "hate game", stated to me in a rude fashion, "This person has lots of money." and gave me that kind of "now you will see" look (It seems subjective I know! Yet very out of place unless there was a purpose to telling me that. Yes I might be able to explain in detail her body language, keen interest in what was going on, her reaction when I walked in, and her tone, pace, implied, meaning, etc.. but to the average reader its not going to make sense and I would have to pull a lot of research on paralanguage to explain it.)
(I used to teach communication a long time ago and think I could explain the facial features and behaviors that would give a fairly solid insight into intentionality. However, there were four people present and a few more that were not sitting with us but came over and didn't seem happy with how the group was acting. It wouldn't take much to ask them what they knew and when they knew it! Names, dates, times 🤔)
If someone had prior knowledge and they were intentionally misrepresenting information that would be criminal in nature and an attempt to manipulate the system for self gain. FYI most of them were not fully aware of how they were being used as tools for a potential crime. It only takes a few core members to coordinate character/hate narratives to dehumanize and damage the reputation of others. We don't want this to become a legal method of obtaining advantage over families in our system.)
(Let me add something important here because we understand things better as we grow up. There were other people who have said other things about missing money that I would not really have understood at the time they said them. It wasn't in my mind people could do such things. That includes an accountant, a guy that used to work in the trust department, indications of 2 different documents, a lady who worked at a bank, etc... More information puts prior discarded information into context.)
(Hate narratives are unfair and immoral no matter how low, deprived, inhuman and useless the targets seem to be. I'm making a point that beyond the law, beyond the politics, there are some very fundamental things as a society we should look on with disdain. The intentional manipulation of information to create harm should be in many ways a universal "no no". It makes no difference if your President or Pauper.)
Not All Things In Our Society Are About Money!
Forget money for a second! I love money but there are limits to its true value! While money is important it isn't the most essential thing to our lives (We can't eat it and we can't boil kitchen water with it! See Anthropology of Money ). If the laws are designed around the technicalities that help enrich certain people at the expense of others so be it! Yet let us not consider how immorality can grow and spread as a socialized value system when we allow certain behaviors to go forward without consequence.
I would much rather have the system donate misappropriated, stolen, embezzled, and/or manipulated money to charity than allow the perpetrators to enrich themselves from bad behavior (I know a few good charities that would help children and kids the rest of their lives versus the short term buying habits of the perpetrators.). From a broad perspective I think as a root value societal value system most people would understand my key points because they are essential to an orderly society.
Consider that at our deepest roots we are a single society and place that union based value system in our artifacts such as our Pledge of Allegiance, Our Constitution, and even within our courtrooms with various forms of ,"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.". These are our professed values and those that live those values are walking the talk and it makes no difference their color, creed, position, religion, education, etc... (See how a universal value system negates the lower form of judgement and replaces it with higher forms of perception based on essential shared truths. Success, failure, opportunities, justice, etc. should be based on the merits of the person and not the "class/kind/other" of people.)
As values passed on from generation to generation they become he essential shared perspectives that allow us to maintain that single entity perspective. (Think about its essential meaning and its universal value application that create trust for the majority of society. Except extremists, repeat criminal offenders and those engage in corruption where such values mean little. There are some challenging and distorting those messages for personal power and gain.). When such values become systemically disparate it will eventually erode that trust; a place no nation ever wants to be!No matter what happens I'm at a level of peace with it all. The heightened darkness by which some are willing to walk, and those that support them, cannot be justified for money, religion, skin color, power, sports ability, politics, ethnic affiliation or close connection. The law should always chase morality and if we reverse that polarity then we are lost in the technicalities of orators and the leaves of the tree become much more important than the health of the entire ecosystem.
“Shared meanings—their expression in social practices and their representation in symbols—actively shape money as a tool of calculation, as a material form and as a means of creating and sustaining differences in social hierarchy and rank (Dodd 2014: 294)
We have found through Set Up #1 Mental Health is often at the root of such hate and through Set-Up #2 that there may some tangible financial and other benefits to hate (Hate as a manipulative tool for power over dynamics). We still got 2 more to go so lets just hold off on any final conclusions.
Dodd, Nigel. 2014. The social life of money. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
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