KEN RUEGG
VICTIMIZED BY MILLIONS
bibliography and notes: relevant works and authors
                                                                                                                                                                THE AMERICAN STATE PAPERS, in "Great Books of The Western World", by Encyclopedia Britannica: The Declaration of Independence (see "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as justification for the war with England), The Constitution of the United States (see the Preamble and "Bill of Rights"), and The Federalist, articles by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, arguing for a federal government, i.e. ratification of the Constitution. For perfection in government, see Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, THE PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT, and THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.                    ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, and THE DESCENT OF MAN, by Charles Darwin: see Chapter 10 in On The Origin of Species: On the Imperfection of the Geological Record. Darwin knew about the absence of the varieties expected from a constant, gradual accumulation of change in populations of organisms.                      PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY, by Charles Lyell, describes slow, constant geological change over enormous lengths of time. Darwin mistakenly applied the idea to biological evolution.                                                      GREGOR MENDEL later discovered Genetics, explaining the mechanisms of inheritance of traits, which does not actually support gradual, steady evolution to higher levels, because species can only successfully reproduce sexually viable offspring within their own groups, and varieties, which could reproduce viably with other groups of varieties, are absent from the actual fossil record.                                                         CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, by Sigmund Freud, in part addresses the problem of violence and crime in society, what I have termed, "ape" mind. Sigmund Freud had witnessed the insanity of Nazi Germany descending into an abyss of depraved animal aggression! For a presentation of such violent human instincts, which Freud termed the "id", by novelists, see Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS, and William Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES.               GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO, by Sigmund Freud, indicates not only group mental identity rather than individuality in many cases, but also qualitative differences in the way in which "group" mind functions and behaves: those differences in mental functioning indicate a SPECIES OF MIND, unique to groups whose minds work in that manner, and that SPECIES OF MIND is at a particular STAGE OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT.                THE TRUE BELIEVER, by Eric Hoffer, describes avoidance of individual responsibility, by adherence to the authority of some belief system with blind, total obedience, or by total identification with some group. Germans and Austrians gave that obedience to Adolph Hitler. They rejected the personal responsibility required by democracy. One young German told an American journalist, "The Fuehrer has made us free of freedom!".                     THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH: A HISTORY OF NAZI GERMANY, by William L. Shirer, and HITLER: A STUDY IN TYRANNY, by Alan Bullock, chronicle the actions of the Third Reich.                      NIGHT, and subsequent works by Elie Wiesel, document the Holocaust.                        Blind obedience on a massive scale is extremely dangerous to the rest of us! Someone should tell President Barack Obama that the Iranians and the North Koreans are playing "follow the leader": aren't those nuclear warheads and missile launches? Whereas Iran is controlled by a SUPREME LEADER, Kim Jong Un is likewise SUPREME LEADER of North Korea!                   1984, a well-known novel by George Orwell, depicts the evils of totalitarianism.***                    THE SANE SOCIETY, by Eric Fromm, a Viennese psychoanalyst, argues that entire societies, which may also be countries, can become "insane" just as individuals can, resulting in all sorts of inappropriate violence and damage, which is what diseases do, whether they are called "mental illness", "criminal" mind, or what I have described as "ape" mind, a failure by persons or nations to reach and maintain a stage of mind necessary for order to be maintained in Civilization.                                          DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, by Alexis de Tocqueville, likewise addresses the issue of maintaining order, in this case in America without a monarch.* De Tocqueville was a French aristocrat, who visited the United States, and wrote on American democracy.                                                      CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, an essay written by Henry David Thoreau in 1849, advocates non-violent resistance to government policies violating one's conscience, the issue for Thoreau being the legalization of slavery in The United States. Thoreau's methods were employed successfully by Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in later times.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The writings of JEAN PIAGET describe childhood mental development in terms of STAGES: I believe the earlier stages to be evolutionary "hold overs" from our developmental past, just as the physical organ known as the "appendix" is one, and is now useless to grown humans. A child will reach out in a supermarket and take what he wants, and that stage of development is "ape" mind: it is what an animal does in the jungle. We are evolving mentally slowly, and we carry our past with us, to a significant extent at this point in time, in various ways throughout our lives.                                 HOW TO READ A BOOK, 2nd Ed., by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, describes levels and stages in the process of learning to read, an important part of the overall learning experience.                                  THE PHENOMENON OF MAN, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, is a mostly philosophical work dealing with the scientific issue of Mankind's mental development: Chardin postulated a "noosphere" ("sphere of mind") resulting from the "biosphere" ("sphere of life") on the surface of the Earth. He made the statement, "The proper study for Mankind is Man!". I have put this information here to demonstrate that the problems dealt with on this website, have been of serious concern, not only for ordinary people, but also for famous thinkers and researchers. See "Advancement as Intrinsic to Evolution", under "contact", for more information on the thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             THE SOCIAL CONTRACT, by Jean Jacques Rousseau, is an attempt to analyze and explain society, also called Civilization.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and DAS KAPITAL, written by Karl Marx, detail the evils of unregulated capitalist "laissez faire" competition for economic resources. See the **** footnote to "FORCE and FINESSE", under "about".                                                                                                                                                     THE NOVELS OF CHARLES DICKENS likewise describe the consequences of "laissez faire" economic capitalism in Victorian England.                                                                                                                                               THE POET WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wrote, "The world is too much with us! Late and soon, buying and selling, we lay waste our powers! Little we see in nature which is ours!". Wordsworth wrote his poetry in Victorian England, and was knighted by Queen Victoria.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             WHAT MEN LIVE BY, a moral treatise in story form written by Count Leo Tolstoy, the world-famous author of WAR AND PEACE; THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, and CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, the two great novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky; and THE OVERCOAT, a story by Nikolai Gogol, are examples of Russian literature written during Tsarist times, which detail aspects of "civilized" as opposed to "criminal" thought and behavior.                                                                                                                             SIGMUND FREUD called Dostoevsky's THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, "the greatest novel ever written!". The work characterizes both heroes and villains, i.e. those having "non-criminal" and "criminal" minds!                                                                                                                                     THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, a novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, depicts the differences in behavior between the "non-criminal" and "criminal" mind-types.                                                                                                                                                                                 THE TIME MACHINE, a novel by H.G. Wells, describes a scientist​​​​traveling into the future, who encounters a "non-criminal", surface- dwelling race of humans known as the "Eloi", who are being victimized by a subterranean, "criminal" race of depraved humans known as the "Morlocks". The novel illustrates the victimization of "non-criminal" groups by members of "criminal" cultures.                                                                                                                                                                           THE POETRY OF WILLIAM BLAKE mistakenly advocates Anarchy as the solution to the fundamental opposition of "criminal" mind to "non-criminal" mind.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       See "CRIMINAL MIND AND ANARCHY - ADVOCATING THE STATE OF NATURE", under "home".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Ludwig van Beethoven kept the following quote from Immanuel Kant written on a card on his piano: "The starry skies above, the moral law below!". Kant emphasized "duty" as a reason for moral behavior.                                                                                                                             Immanuel Kant's THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON, based upon ideas in his work THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON, is a philosophical analysis of the necessity for moral behavior in society. Once you have Civilization, the purpose of which is to protect human life, violence is a serious, unwanted problem. I have pointed out the origin of violence in Man, why it is present now, and how it works, and in so doing, I have explained the evolution of different species of mind in Homo sapiens sapiens.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 FUTURE SHOCK, a non-fiction work from the early 1960's, bears relevance to the overall accelerating pace of Evolution of Mind.                                                                                                                                       THE ODYSSEY of Homer, and THE AENEID of Virgil, are mythical representations of the ideal Greco-Roman "Great Men" of History.                                                                                                                                     See sections concerning The "Great Man" Theory of History, especially "GREAT MEN - THEIR SPEECHES AND IDEOLOGY", under "home";  and "THE GREAT APES AND CIVILIZATION - THE GREAT MAN THEORY OF HISTORY OVER TIME", the next-to-last item under "contact".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, by Edward Gibbon, blames the Emperor Constantine's declaration of Christianity as the Roman Empire's official religion, advocating forgiveness of one's enemies, and teaching that one must "turn the other cheek", without exhibiting violence and fighting back, and Constantine's subsequent division of the Empire into two separate parts, the Roman and the Byzantine, ruled respectively from Rome and Constantinople, which weakened it further, as being largely responsible for the fall of Rome, but Gibbon's work also emphasizes irreversible internal changes as culprits. A Roman historian of that time lamented the devaluing of the old Roman virtues, and the irresponsible behavior of the youth. The fostering of ideals, morals, and conscience was declining.                                                                                                                                                   I WAS YOUNG during the 1950's and early 1960's. Changes obvious to me in the United States and elsewhere since that time, especially moral decay and systemic violence, are presently endemic. And a large part of the problem is that people born later than myself lack a sane world with which to compare our present one! They see our present world as being normal for themselves! Note information on this site describing proper mental development as depending upon environments:                                                                                                                                                       LUIGI MANGIONE, the vicious killer charged with gunning down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in broad daylight on a Manhattan street in New York City, in a deliberate, targeted attack, received $75,000.00 in contributions online to help pay for his legal expenses! His supporters, angry with the healthcare system, have labelled the wanton murder of Thompson as being "justifiable homicide"! Incidents of lethal violence are everywhere, and significant numbers of citizens consider murders motivated by grudges to be "justified"!                                                                                                                                                                               DEATH THREATS, and the murders of targeted public officials and their family members, have been used as a political tool by Donald J. Trump and his deranged, criminal supporters for years! As Donald Trump has said, "So what? There are murderers everywhere!". Trump, a murderer and a convicted felon himself, will sit in the Oval Office for four years, with a legal right to commit crimes which are seen as being part of his "official" duties, that right having been provided to him by the Supreme Court! The Constitution authorizes crimes committed by Chief Executives during their terms in office? Is SCOTUS insane? The purpose of law is to deter and punish crimes, not to enable them to happen! Donald J. Trump intends to pardon all those whom he has incited into committing crimes for him, and will direct the U.S. Department of Justice, controlled by his choice for Attorney General, to arrest, charge, prosecute, convict, and imprison certain of his political opponents in Congress, including all members of the January 6th Select Committee which investigated his incitement of insurrection against Congress, and also members of the free press and media targeted for their objective reporting of his public statements and actions! Am I alone in seeing the "criminal insanity" of Donald J. Trump and his followers? More than seventy-seven million people voted for him!                                                                                                                                                                                                             See "home"; "ON POWER AND AUTHORITY", and "CRIMINALS AND CRIMINAL CULTURES - THE TACTICS OF DECEIT", the last two items under "about"; and "STAGES OF MIND", under "contact".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         GOVERNMENTS can maintain such things as infrastructure, economies, etc. But they cannot effectively legislate morality in increasingly violent environments. Systems of criminal justice are presently being stressed and overwhelmed as the numbers of criminals and their crimes continue to increase. The proximate cause of the fall of the Roman Empire was violence! St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, urged Christians to abandon Rome, and to establish monasteries on mountaintops! The monasteries were fortresses protecting their occupants from the carnage below! The Monastery of Monte Cassino, built on a rocky hill 80 miles southeast of Rome, is a prime example. It was sacked and subsequently rebuilt** many times during the centuries of violence following the fall of Rome. The monastic system survived a thousand years of darkness, commonly known as the "Dark Ages", and enabled the copying and preservation by monks of great works of learning, which were rediscovered by society during the "rebirth" of Civilization known as the "Renaissance".                                                                                                                           DURING THE DARK AGES, the concept of a legal system had been completely forgotten. Jurisprudence was accidentally rediscovered during the early Renaissance, when workmen excavating a building in Italy unearthed 20 ancient scrolls containing principles of Roman Law.                                                                                                                             THE ABSENCE OF LAW throughout the Dark Ages, promoted a culture of violence! Disagreements were decided with weapons, rather than in courtrooms! And it was violence which had destroyed The Roman Empire!                                                                                                                                                                                                                               CHANGES IN OUR PRESENT CIVILIZATION will likely lead to its decline and fall! Witness such recent events as then President Donald J. Trump's incitement of an armed, violent insurrection against the U.S. Congress, and Russian President Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine, which involves not only violations of international law, but horrendous war crimes, including genocide, as well!                                                                                                                                                                                       Please see "CRIMINAL MIND AND ANARCHY - ADVOCATING THE STATE OF NATURE", under "home", for additional insight into the relationship between Anarchy, "criminal" violence, the Dark Ages, and The State of Nature.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 See "CHEMICALS AND MIND", under "contact".                                                                                                                                                               See "THE AMOUNT OF SUFFERING THE CRIMINALS INFLICTED IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO BRING ME DOWN", under "home"; and "VILE PUERTO RICAN RACISM AND HATE CRIMES", under "about".                                                                                                                                                       See "CRIMINALS AND CRIMINAL CULTURES - THE TACTICS OF DECEIT", the last item under "about".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Would PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY have incited a mob of armed, violent extremists to attack the U.S. Capitol, in a criminal attempt to derail a legitimate election process?                                                                                                                                                                               "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN"? Who is Donald Trump trying to fool with his "criminal" rhetoric? He presently has substantial numbers of followers, including those running for office in both state and federal elections, who are certain that his lies and delusional ideas represent reality! As did Adolph Hitler and other "criminal" leaders in their own times! Donald J. Trump had indicated that he would run again for the United States Presidency in 2024! On November 5, 2024, Donald J. Trump was elected!                                                                                                                                                                                                                 See "GREAT MEN - THEIR SPEECHES AND IDEOLOGY", under "home", and other recommended sections, for more information.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN, is a work written by a schizophrenic whose disease went into remission. For information on famous people with disabilities, see "HOW I SPOT MY MIND", under "home".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 THE MACHINE STOPS, a short story by E.M. Forster, written prior to Marconi's development of wireless telegraphy, predicts automated air travel; computerized living environments, complete with automated medicine and surgery; and wired audio and video communications: unmanned military drones, and computer assisted surgeries are already a reality, as are self-driving boats, and soon self-driving automobiles. As of early July, 2023, Alef Aeronautics revealed its all electric "Model A" flying car, which can be driven on roads, and flown in the air! The above science fiction work poses the question, "What if something goes wrong with a totally computerized world?". Experts are asking that question about the development of artificial intelligence. They are concerned that automated systems such as robots, may decide to dominate or eliminate humans, for reasons which we won't be able to understand, once such systems are capable of independent thought. Systems developed to serve us will become our masters! WATSON, a computer developed by IBM at a cost of billions of dollars, is already capable to a certain extent of thinking on its own. Pitted against human contestants on the popular television show "Jeopardy", WATSON won!                                                                                                                                                           COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT is a science fiction movie made in 1970, about the same problem, which is currently presented in the media as both science fiction, and potential future fact. See the ***** footnote to "God and Man Evolving", under "contact".                                                                                                                                                         FORBIDDEN PLANET, a science fiction movie made in 1956, starring Walter Pidgeon, details an advanced alien civilization wiped out because they forgot about the "id", the origin of aggression labelled as such by Sigmund Freud. When able to project themselves everywhere on their planet, the aliens slaughtered each other overnight. See the sections describing the "id" as the source of "criminal" violence in humans.                                                                                                                                 See "FALLING ON YOUR SWORDS TOGETHER - THE MATHEMATICS OF THE EXTINCTION PROBLEM", under "about".                                                                                                                                                                       See the * footnote in "TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", under "home".                                                                                                                                                                                                                         See the sections "VIOLATING THE FREUDIAN MODEL", "ABSENT MIND - A PIECE IS MISSING", "ON POWER AND AUTHORITY", and "CRIMINALS AND CRIMINAL CULTURES - THE TACTICS OF DECEIT", under "about", for information on "criminal" cultures. Such cultures are always based upon the unrestrained satisfaction of violent urges emanating from the "id": the absence of functional conscience is the defining characteristic of "criminal" mind.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   AS FOR THE WORLDWIDE CULTURE of violence, note the popularity of televised professional wrestling and boxing matches, confrontations in the Octagon, news reports concerning criminals and criminal activity, and movies and documentaries depicting warfare and violent crimes! Aggression is being vicariously experienced and enjoyed by millions of viewers, while they themselves are not harmed as spectators! Many people satisfy the demands of their "ids" in this manner! The ancient Romans did exactly the same thing, by watching gladiatorial combats to the death, and lions devouring convicts and Christians, in arenas such as the Colosseum!                                                                                                                                                                                                             TOKYO is one of the safest cities on Earth! The Japanese buy and enjoy millions of comic books sold there which depict horrendous acts of rape, torture, and other forms of depravity. The population reads such comics to vicariously satisfy the demands of their "ids"! See information on this site describing daydreams and fantasy as being forms of Freudian "wish fulfillment".                                                                                                                                                                                                                             THE POWER OF THE "ID", as providing a mechanism for the satisfaction of mostly unconscious ancestral memories in humans, is considerable! We all share a need to experience and return to The State of Nature! Filmmaker Ken Burns directed and produced two seemingly unrelated documentaries shown on PBS: "The Civil War", and "The National Parks". Narration during a fund raiser featured on PBS, describing "The Civil War", noted the film's depiction of the "beautiful, natural surroundings" of the battlefields, which were soon to be "covered in blood"! Studying The Civil War is a convenient way to experience violence and death in natural surroundings without being harmed by the violence, and visiting National Parks, or watching documentaries and perusing books about such parks, enable tourists and others to experience and enjoy The State of Nature, an ancestral state of constant danger and violence, without being hurt! "Great Scenic Railway Journeys", another show aired on PBS, features trains with observation cars carrying passengers enjoying the spectacle of rural natural surroundings!                                                                                                                                                                               CENTRAL PARK and other parks in New York City, and in cities and towns across the country, serve the same purpose! People can experience and enjoy returning to The State of Nature, without actually encountering the danger and constant violence of that ancestral state! Private homes in suburbs have gardens and landscaped grounds! Many city streets are lined with trees, and houseplants commonly adorn homes! Christmas trees and other holiday decorations, and vases filled with flowers given to relatives on special occasions are similar examples! Tourists living in large cities often vacation in rural areas having natural surroundings!   Central Park, the Bronx Zoo, and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden in New York City serve a similar purpose, as do hiking trips to wilderness areas, and safaris to the African savanna!                                                                                                                                                                           MAINTAINING CONTACT WITH NATURE is standard practice! Whereas many people keep domesticated animals as pets, a few valiant souls raise chimpanzees, ocelots, anacondas, piranhas, and tarantulas! Calendars feature pictures of wild animals!                                                                                                                                                                   PRIOR TO CHARLES DARWIN, and even afterwards, nature was being extolled in literature, painting, music, and other media. While the poet William Wordsworth lamented, "Little we see in nature which is ours!", the English landscape painter John Constable, and other proponents of Romanticism, depicted natural scenes on canvas. Impressionists such as the French artist Claude Monet did likewise. Claude Debussy, Johannes Brahms, and similar composers wrote works of Romanticism, Debussy having become famous as the father of "musical impressionism". His most famous composition, "La Mer", conveys musical impressions of the motions of the sea! Both the Romantic and Impressionist movements glorified nature! Whereas the American State Papers made reference to "nature and nature's God", during the reign of King Louis XIV in France, the Grand Trianon at the Palace of Versailles housed a barn complete with cattle and other animals! Female courtiers, dressed as milkmaids, would milk the cows, thinking that they were experiencing the happy lives of peasants in rural surroundings! Nature, and the lives of those who lived and toiled in it, were being idealized!                                                                                                                                                                 MARIE ANTOINETTE'S misunderstood "infamous" remark, "Let them eat cake!", indicated that members of the French Court were unaware of the suffering of the common people! King Louis XIV had said, "L'etat, c'est a Moi!": "I am the State!", and maintained, "Apres Moi, le Deluge": "After me, the Flood!", a reference to the biblical great flood in Noah's time! Louis XIV had predicted what would happen to absolute monarchy in France after his demise! He foresaw The French Revolution!                                                                                                                                         MARIE ANTOINETTE, Queen of France, wife of King Louis XV, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, actually believed that her millions of subjects had an abundance of cake and other foods, except for bread, while her subjects were in point of fact starving!​ Large numbers of contemporary humans are similarly mistaken about Man's life in The State of Nature! Many people unrealistically idolize, idealize, and actually practice "criminal" violence, without regard for its criminality! The felons surrounding and victimizing myself have stated, "Our strength is that WE DON'T CARE!", and, "You'll be the only one hurt, and we'll walk away from it UNTOUCHED!". Members of "criminal" cultures harm others, while attempting to insure an absence of consequences to themselves for their behavior! They are criminally insane, in denial, and ignorant! They are a primitive species of mind, a holdover from our ancient past, who resort to crime and violence to survive in Civilization! Criminals enjoy so doing, and show neither conscience, nor remorse! They lack compassion for their victims! That guy in Hoboken who is so proud of his "man cave", mistakenly idealizes, romanticizes, and modernizes the violent lives of prehistoric cavemen living in The State of Nature! The popular televised cartoon series "The Flintstones" does exactly the same thing, and is watched by significant numbers of both adults and children!                                                                                                                       THE MOTION PICTURES "The Planet of The Apes", and "Return to The Planet of The Apes", depict Man's Great Ape ancestors as living in a Civilization of their own, and as hunting humans on horseback, with flintlock rifles, as a bloodsport! A depraved homicidal resident in an apartment near my own at Muhlenberg Gardens shouted, "You're our BLOODSPORT!". She must think that she's a British royal enjoying a fox hunt! Or perhaps that she's an ape! The criminals victimizing myself are enjoying committing their crimes and getting away with so doing!                                                                                                                                     WHEN ANTHROPOLOGISTS excavated a prehistoric cave, and unearthed bones of human children bearing adult human teeth marks, the scientists publicized their discovery as being "profoundly disturbing"! They had been in denial about prehistoric cannibalism in The State of Nature!                                                                                                                               THOSE HAVING FUNCTIONAL CONSCIENCE, who thus have sane, "non-criminal" minds, are a "species" of mind who satisfy the urges of their "ids" in ways acceptable to society, without resorting to depraved criminal activity! They create, protect, and defend Civilization!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ALL HUMAN PSYCHES retain ancestral memories of Mankind's violent prehistoric past!                                                                                                                                                                                                                 THE EVOLUTION OF TWO DIFFERENT MENTAL SPECIES in humans is presently like a coin, displaying "non-criminal" mind on one face, and "criminal" mind on the reverse side, both "species" being two different factors in Man's journey through time, which are at present inseparable from each other!                                                                                                                                                                                                                     BOTH "SPECIES" are present in the human population, and will continue to be so for tens or even hundreds of millions of years!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               See "CRIMINAL MIND AND ANARCHY - ADVOCATING THE STATE OF NATURE", under "home".                                                                                                                                                                                                       See "CHEMICALS AND MIND", under "contact".                                                                                                                                                                 See "ON PADDED CELLS AND PRISON CELLS", under "home".                                                                                                                                         See "FIGHTING CRIMINAL MIND", and "PUTTING THEM IN PRISON", under "home".                                                                                                                                                                                                                     See "THE PROBLEM IN A NUTSHELL", and "THE SOLUTION IN A NUTSHELL", under "about".                                                                                                                                                                                                   See "morality over time", under "contact".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       *several of The Founding Fathers urged George Washington to declare himself King at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War. Washington rejected the idea as unnecessary, arguing that democracy would work, and that order would be maintained by the citizens because they were religious, and knew biblical principles.                                                                                                                                                                             The provision contained in The U.S. Constitution, "Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of a religion", is a safeguard against government mandated beliefs: The Anglican Communion was the official state religion in Great Britain. During the reign of King Henry VIII, the monarch had been declared "Supreme Head of the Church in England"! People were penalized for not attending Anglican services, or for having other beliefs. The Pilgrims set sail on The Mayflower to escape from religious intolerance in England.                                                                                                                                                                                         Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in The United States. It commemorates the Pilgrims celebrating their religious freedom in the New World with a three day feast!                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Note the correlation between democracy, freedom of religion, and formation of conscience in post-colonial America. Nearly 80% of the Human Race presently have religious beliefs, and are raised to have conscience!                                                                                                                                                                                                                         See CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE above.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         **during World War II, German forces had occupied Monte Cassino as a strategic location. Allied bombers reduced the monastery to rubble, after dropping thousands of leaflets warning the monks and other civilians to leave. Monte Cassino was completely rebuilt after the war.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ***in George Orwell's novel "1984", anyone discovered harboring ideas contrary to those of "Big Brother", and the party controlling Oceania, is labelled a "thought criminal", and arrested and punished! Note that "Big Brother" is the "criminal" leader of the absolute dictatorship controlling Oceania! All dictatorships have "criminal" leaders in control of "criminal" cultures! The practice of "RINO" hunting ("RINO" meaning "Republican In Name Only") established by Donald Trump and his supporters, is an effort to weed out those in government likely to oppose Donald Trump's PROJECT 2025 Heritage Foundation's criminal agenda, so that they may be dealt with! President-elect Donald Trump is a fascist dictator seeking absolute control over the U.S. Government, and the American people! He will use lies, propaganda, political power, the concentration of enormous wealth in the hands of his loyalist supporters, and the enactment of laws to achieve it!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           It is significant that in the novel "1984", the world is dominated by the three major dictatorships of Oceania, Eurasia, and East Asia. Sustained warfare between these geopolitical criminal entities, and brainwashing of their respective populations to guarantee obedience, enables them to maintain power collectively!                                                                                                                                                                                                 Note information on this website about the establishment of "criminal world orders" maintained by violence, the proposed abandonment of support for NATO and Ukraine by Donald Trump, warfare in The Middle East being incited and funded by Iran, and the formation of the BRICS alliance, an economic and geopolitical group dominated by dictatorships in Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea, which has been established in an effort to counter the military, economic, and geopolitical superiority of The United States, The European Union, and NATO!                                                                                                                                                       BRICS gives economic support to Vladimir Putin and his insane war against Ukraine! Kim Jong Un of North Korea has been supplying Putin with arms and troops in support of that war! BRICS intends to establish a world currency intended to replace the dollar as the world monetary standard for the payment of international debt! The attack by BRICS upon legitimate democracy is total!                                                                                                                                                                                     See "FEDERAL MONETARY POLICY AND A PREDICTED DISASTER", under "home".                                                                                                                                                                                                                               See "GREAT MEN - THEIR SPEECHES AND IDEOLOGY", under "home"; and "FORCE and FINESSE", under "about", for more information about geopolitical "criminal world orders" as being realisations of delusional, warped "criminal world views" held by dictators and their followers! Do you remember Adolph Hitler's "thousand year Reich", and Osama bin Laden's "Islamic Empire"? Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has claimed that the BRICS alliance represents the establishment of a "new world order" (i.e. a "CRIMINAL world order"!). The thoughts and behavior of "great men" of the "criminal" mind-type, and their respective "criminal" cultures, consistently follow identical patterns! Whereas President Xi Jinping of China has his ambitions focused on Taiwan, and is building a "Great Wall of Steel" in attempting to counter the military superiority of Western nations, Donald Trump has nothing but praise for Adolph Hitler, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Hamas and Hezbollah! The concepts on this website are being confirmed over and over again by historical facts, scientific theories, masterpieces of literature, and recent developments reported by the media! Please download and read this entire website!                                                                                                                         See "home"; and "ON POWER AND AUTHORITY", and "CRIMINALS AND CRIMINAL CULTURES - THE TACTICS OF DECEIT", the last two items under "about".