Post No. 2,938 - Losses [Content Warning - language]

For some relaxation this morning, I was watching the movie “The Imitation Game”, and the scene where the character Joan Clarke is treated dismissively - disbelievingly - over being a candidate for a code breaking job because she is a woman, combined with re-reading Robert Harris’s Cicero trilogy (see here, here, and here), the vile comments by misogynists of late along the lines of “your body, my choice”, and my lived experience of multiple forms of discrimination, and it all coalesced into an understanding that western societies probably acheive no more than 10% of their human and economic potential because of misogyny, white supremacism, genocidal bigotry, unmanaged unconscious bias and all the other personal character flaws that are ignored, tolerated, or even encouraged (especially in military, paramilitary, authoritarian, and management/business schools).

The next time I read of or hear a politician or economist or influencer shooting their mouth off about productivity, I’m going to try to find a way to challenge their rubbish. 

As some initial thoughts: 

• ~50% of the population is female, and the pay gap is typically 15 - 30% so there is indication that society is losing 7.5 - 15% of its potential productivity; 

• racism is costing the economy at least 3% of its GDP. I suspect that is very low, and note that 3% of Australia’s population are Indigenous with a life expectancy ~90% of non-Indigenous people - or, to put that another way, 3% of Australia’s population are experiencing at least a 10% loss of human potential, which is 0.3% of the total human potential, so I am going to class that as at least 3.3% unrealised potential; 

• given that ~30% of Australia’s population have been born overseas, and 11-17% (say 14%) are LGBTQIASB+, making a gross simplifying assumption that the effects of anti-LGBTQIASB+ discrimination is the same as racism, that is 14/30 * 3 = 1.4% further loss; 

• there appears to be around 7.5% loss of life expectancy for being autistic, and - again, making a grossly simplistic assumption - assuming that applies to the ~15% of people who are neurodiverse there is another 1.1% loss of GDP; 

• if my profession was less sociopathic in its go-go-go macho culture, I could have probably worked for another 4 years - which would have been another 10% of my working life, so I am going to class ageism and abusive work culture as costing another 10% of human and economic potential. 

So, without trying much, and ignoring the additional loss along the way from unmanaged unconscious bias and all other forms of bigotry/discrimination and the problems of using GDP/economy to measure anything, society is clearly losing 23.3 - 30.8% of its human and/or economic potential. 

My snarky initial comment of 10% is probably too low, but I would not be surprised if we are achieving no more than 30% of our potential globally - issues such as global inequity & poverty, and war, rob the greater portion of humanity of a great deal ...

In fact, the world average per capita GDP is up to around $14,000, compared with ~$66,000 in my nation (Australia), so ... globally, the GDP is 22% of what it could be when compared to my nation’s underperforming numbers ... so 0.22 * 77 - 69 gives 15 - 17%, so my 10% was actually not too far off the mark, perhaps ... 

The world GDP is ~70% of ours, and we’re doing no better than 70% of what we could without discrimination, so the world is performing at around 15% of its potential ...

And all because our work-economic-political systems are - and apologies for the crudity - effectively all based on competitive ****-swinging ... (which is hated by a lot of men, incidentally) 

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

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Post No. 819 - A New Saying

I've made a new addition to my quotations page, a new saying from - ahem - moi, aimed at those who are concerned homogeneity will occur as a result of the mingling of cultures / pathways / etc. I consider that there is a valid spiritual need for variety, which is that there is a variety of spiritual needs. As the blend of spiritual needs evolves over time, so too, do I consider, the variety of spiritual pathways and experiences available may also evolve - which, as with spiritual evolution, will probably involve a few broad pathways that suit the more common spiritual needs, plus a few more specialised offerings to meet the specific needs of a few.

Despite the efforts of proselytisers, we will NOT all eventually wind up one religion - any more than we will all wind up one homogeneous culture, as the xenophobes fear (assuming that such culture would be something alien to them - and, I find it ... ironic that such xenophobes here is Australia are happy to have cappuccinos and pizzas ...). There may, however, be - drum roll - change ....

As an example, consider Hermeticism, which came to us in the West through the various Western Mystery Traditions, and have influenced several mystical orders in recent centuries which have, perhaps, culminated in the OSOGD, Wicca, New Age, etc. Very few people identify as Hermeticists these days, but those aspects of it which WORK for some people, have been used and will continue to be used by those people - because they WORK.

Those people who do not find it works, have other pathways available to explore until they meet their needs.

Much as the medical profession is starting to - slowly - learn, to match specific techniques to specific people (i.e., ask not "what do statistics tell us works most often for most people?" but "what are the limits for each methodology, and how does one determine who it best suits and who it is contraindicated for?"), so too much our attitudes towards spiritual, metaphysical and psychic evolution / development / learning / living. Thus:

The reason for diversity / variety in life is not to allow choice, it is to enable the meeting of the diversity / variety of spiritual needs in life. 

Gnwmythr

My contributions to the "sayings" sections of my quotations page (those in green are all mine, and all have a point, but are not as significant to me) now are:

Human dignity is the inherently cumulative holistic combination of human rights, wellbeing and potential, and all actions or interaction which promote, realise or facilitate same. The converse also applies: whatever degrades, diminishes or robs humans of dignity, is inherently undignified.

Gnwmythr

The “purpose” of spiritual evolution is not the attainment of “spiritual perfection” - not in the sense of not having to evolve further, at any rate, since there is no such thing. We need to evolve in order to grow - but we can take rest breaks (hopefully well earned :) ) along the way. No, the “purpose” of evolution is, rather, to perfect our ability to learn, and thus grow.

Gnwmythr

The reason for diversity / variety in life is not to allow choice, it is to enable the meeting of the diversity / variety of spiritual needs in life. 

Gnwmythr

Our greatest struggle with, to borrow from pop culture, the Jedi-Sith scale, is not with the Sith, whether they are hiding or not: it is with the annoying, snotty-nosed, heroine/hero-worshipping little kid who keeps intruding, stopping us from being cool enough to be with our heroines/heroes, the big kids ...

Gnwmythr

 

 

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

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