By Richard John Stapleton
An Earthian elder speaks...
See, read, and learn more about KoKo, the gorilla that knew more than 1,000 words by reading the Backstory below. KoKo gets to the heart of the matter in her speech here sharing her concerns about the root causes of Global Warming and Climate Change (GWCC) and Militarization and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation (MNWP), excessive Earthian human population growth.
Since everything that happens on Earth is an inevitable accident, having been unplanned using Earthian human free will, which probably does not exist, having been caused instead by infinitely-progressing cause-effect chains, it behooves Earthian humans to try to comprehend what is really going on around Earth. Whether this can be done remains to be seen, given the difficulties involved in changing programmed beliefs and behaviors of Earthian humans ensconced in wormhole tunnels of existence, shut off from relevant outside information inputs.
Here’s a Game-Free, Adult—Adult, I'm OK—You're OK, dilalectic teaching and learning process using "pseudo" free will that all "teachers" — parents, sunday school teachers, public school teachers, business owners, professors, department heads and supervisors, drill sergeants, admirals, bureaucrats, politicians, presidents, TV talking heads, etc..— can use in any teaching and learning venue — in families, churches, public schools, universities, businesses, hospitals, militaries, governments, and in public media of all kinds — that might help Earthian humans all around Spaceship Earth evolve more comprehensive understanding of what is really going on.
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"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires." --- Sigmund Freud https://www.biography.com/scientists/sigmund-freud
What is God? Seems to me it's whatever it was that caused the universe to exist, still a mystery. --- RJS
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” --- Buckminster Fuller, who also said in his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth said that Earthian humans are "abysmally ignorant and omni-befuddled." https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d...
If Trump and his supporters fully take over, USians will be calling USian states of affairs the Dark Ages again. Can you imagine what it would be like to be dictated to by Trump and his cronies, lackeys, and knaves, bossed around day after day by cult members who have little respect for scientific learning, controlled by a semi-literate sociopathic crime boss circus clown, devoid of empathy, who has slim respect for truth of any kind. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: “So, I guess what I’m saying is that, as we can establish that the earth is a sphere, and thus finite, then growth in your population and artifacts must have limits, And, your lack of a social-economic system to recognize those limits is leading us all to disaster.” --- Koko https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Koko%2C+the+talking+gorilla#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:a1a95790,vid:SNuZ4OE6vCk,st:0
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Yes, the USian constitution is not great, otherwise a convicted felon would not have been allowed to become president of the US. How many USians have thought it would be a good idea to create a learning process to peacefully evolve a better USian constitution? Read my new book Gee, You're Wonderful, Professor for some ideas on how to peacefully make this happen. One of the first steps in such a process would be to stop grandiosely implying that the USian constitution rules all the countries of South America, Central America, and North America. There is no such thing as America, except in the minds of scripted Earthian humans living in a co-constructed hubristic dreamworld. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: America’s Constitution: the Good and the Awful, by William Cooper, COUNTERPUNCH, April 25, 2025, https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/25/americas-constitution-the-good-and-the-bad/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8evNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFmekFnRDJvZDVtcXlqZzFhAR4VyZEqotSHipGEg4zHnN60mdWre9JCNvWE3FSXHqzK3BEJUy1QXyrIFuLfMw_aem_dTUFzijhNIF-7ViThPA3zA
So it seems --- RJS
BACKSTORY: The most dangerous gang in America. DT 47, by Kevin Herbert, Dump Trump 2, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=715826404223554&set=gm.2777906899071220&idorvanity=2038887749639809
Seems to me most of it is so. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: Francis: the Fantasy of Church Renewal in a Time of Monsters, by Brian Kelly, COUNTERPUNCH, https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/25/francis-the-fantasy-of-church-renewal-in-a-time-of-monsters/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8bK5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFvZjdXckJ0a0tJaEFzZjZwAR4GGA7Av90BnibNNDVy3PTY5Bda_m8VufYEVPov10LykTy2EsMoP7kH0OgsRg_aem_1t8jvDRGMQT9d87MocVC1Q
Say it aint so Joe --- RJS
BACKSTORY: The Multilayered Inhumanity of the Kentucky Derby, by Lee Hall, COUNTERPUNCH, April 25, 2025, https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/25/the-multilayered-inhumanity-of-the-kentucky-derby/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8baVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFvZjdXckJ0a0tJaEFzZjZwAR4b2i-upB_5O_62Gw5SwIQOlxBMGsJaaKZ1RADUmfmfaSQ4mLFkVTdXBfFLYg_aem_78K2bIhz1esKBCIiG2qzyA
Seems to me he was the best pope of my lifetime, which is not saying much, considering I was scripted to be a staunch Calvinist. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: “Living on the Cliff’s Edge: the Ruins of Puye, Pope Francis and the Fate of the Earth, by Jeffrey St. Clair, COUNTERPUNCH, April 25, 2025, https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/25/living-on-the-cliffs-edge-the-ruins-of-puye-pope-francis-and-the-fate-of-the-earth/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8bpZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFvZjdXckJ0a0tJaEFzZjZwAR5BTN3Eg7IkP4QYkgAZupOxvhvHBVUpM5Ft4rCHZ1nnZzhGVqoS_SYbG-3Tag_aem_nPJ6i66777Xg4EKqRzT0kw.
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Richard John Stapleton, PhD, CTA when he retired in 2005 was the Senior Professor of Georgia Southern University. He invented a Classroom De-Gamer™ in 1978 after joining Georgia Southern in 1970 as an associate professor of management. He would spin the spinner of the De-Gamer in his classes to randomly select a student at the beginning of each class session to lead a discussion of the case assigned for the day, a case taken from an actual business prepared by professional casewriters at Georgia Southern, Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Alabama. Grades were based eighty percent on class participation; the rest of the final grade was based on two case write-ups. He learned how the case method works teaching with Bernard Bienvenu, DBA and Rexford Hauser, DBA (Harvard Business School doctorates) at what is now known as the University of Louisiana-Lafayette in 1969-70. He has published refereed journal articles and books explaining how his democratic Game-free Adult-Adult I'm OK-You're OK case method system works, by banishing Persecutors, Rescuers, and Victims playing psychological Games from the teaching and learning process, first documented in an article titled "The Classroom De-Gamer" he published in 1978 in the Transactional Analysis Journal. He studied TA with Martin Groder, MD; Graham Barnes, PhD; Vann Joines, PhD; and many others at the Southeast Institute at Chapel Hill, North Carolina (1975-1978). He has degrees in economics, organizational behavior, and management science from Texas Tech University (1962-1969), and an organizational and educational certification in transactional analysis from the International Transactional Analysis Association (1978). After retiring at Georgia Southern in 2005 he and his wife Debbye founded Effective Learning Company, Stapleton Learning Company, and Effective Learning Publications in downtown Statesboro, Georgia. Debbye has been voted the best math tutor in Statesboro and still tutors several hours per week. Richard writes and edits the Effective Learning Report and has written and published four books and scores of articles on the Internet since 2005 at www.blog..effectivelearning.net.
BACKSTORY: Gee, You’re Wonderful, Professor: How to Motivate Learners and Increase OKness with I’m OK-You’re OK Adult-Adult Game-Free Dialectical Case-Based Learning Processes, by Richard John Stapleton, Genre Library Solutions, 2025, available now in the Internet. Watch and listen to a short video explaining what the book is about here.
Here is what Eric Berne, MD, the inventor of transactional analysis, had to say about the psychological Game, Gee,You're Wonderful, Professor. I titled the book Gee,You're Wonderful, Professor to encourage teachers of learners not to play psychological Games as they conduct their learning processes. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: Peasant: A Consulting Room Game, From Games People Play, by Eric Berne, 1964, distributed by Random House, Inc., New York, https://ericberne.com/games-people-play/peasant/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8dSpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFmekFnRDJvZDVtcXlqZzFhAR4WQBY-v5ZfdleGjWAnJ7bTYj5ExaYFkQYGTOW4E4EG0VOQGz2wetnMaIMTFA_aem_3eQhYfNtttx8mOPrYf4qZA
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Xi told Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, directly: “We must safeguard the bright prospects of our Asian family”. Translation: let’s create an exclusive sphere of influence close to the ‘community of shared destiny’ but that does not include outside powers such as the US.
In parallel, there has been a strong debate – from Shanghai to Hong Kong – that transcends the role of China as the world’s factory: what matters now is how to redirect some of China’s astonishing manufacturing capacity towards the domestic market
Of course there are problems – such as the lack of purchasing power among scores of Chinese domestic consumers, even as the bulk of national China income is directed to fixed-asset investments. A great deal of China’s rural elderly population survives on a monthly pension of roughly $30 a month, and the hourly rate for the gig economy has stagnated at around $4.
Meanwhile, in several high-tech fronts, China just built the fastest high-speed train on the planet: 400km/h, soon to run between Beijing and Shanghai. China is already receiving orders for the C919 commercial wide-bodied airliner. And China has come up with the world’s first thorium-powered nuclear reactor. Translation: unlimited cheap and clean energy is at hand.
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Hong Kong is a very special case. HSBC executives, for instance, worry about a possible decoupling between US and China – and wonder whether Hong Kong may survive without US trade.
Yes, it can. The US is Hong Kong’s third largest trade partner; yet Hong Kong’s export and import to the US are only 6,5% and 4%, respectively, of its total global exports and imports, including transshipment of goods back and forth from the mainland. --- Pepe Escobar
BACKSTORY: Escobar: China, Hong Kong, & The Art of Blinking, by Pepe Escobar, ZEROHEDGE, April 26, 2025, https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-china-hong-kong-art-blinking?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8gJ1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFmekFnRDJvZDVtcXlqZzFhAR5KZasr2AgekcKgt9u7V-d6fKGJWiH4BC6W8IEaL3Hmt8Df62G3_VLt8RbvRA_aem_qWMjaxaSXRhpFz8kd8Hp4g
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I never used to give tornadoes a thought here in Southeast Georgia, having grown up in landlocked Northwest Texas in the town of Wolfforth, ten miles southwest of Lubbock, where my parents installed an underground storm shelter in our backyard because of tornadoes in the 1950s. I migrated to Southeast Georgia, near Savannah, seventy miles from the Atlantic Ocean, in 1970 and rarely gave tornadoes a thought up until here lately. It's not fun to think about your house that you have stored cherished memories and objects in over the years getting blown away. Tornadoes are getting worse, but rarely do I see or hear in mainstream media anything about global warming and climate change (GWCC) causing this, by heating up ocean water in the Gulf of Mexico, among other things. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: A tornado outbreak is likely on Monday: This is the real deal, folks, by Ryan Hall, Y’all, April 28, 2025, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1231518885649402&set=a.105615984906370
At the root of the matter it seems to me right now that the overall strategy of Trump and neo-fascists is to divide and loot. They just don’t give a rip about ordinary Earthian humans and life. They are doing it because it turns them on somehow and gives them some satisfaction as they live out what is left of their contaminated banal boring lives in their wormhole tunnels of existence.. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: Three Theses on Trump’s Rule, by Stephen F. Eisenman, COUNTERPUNCH, April 25, 2025, https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/25/three-theses-on-trumps-rule/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8iwRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFmekFnRDJvZDVtcXlqZzFhAR6GFJC1LfGN6znjfVJUfbYNySjM00dUxBKIO4kyMDlLGEtligi9RQTFUTqqWQ_aem_Fx9b3odtrIWOQ2MZD4hGKw
Here's another excellent comprehensive article by Bob Urie showing how USians got where we are economically and politically. Until somehow Earthian humans learn to evolve I'm OK—You're OK life positions and CATHECT more adult, nurturing parent, and free child ego state energy, rather than develop and apply primarily I'm OK—You're not-OK life positions while cathecting primarily critical parent and adapted child ego state energy, largely devoid of nurturing parent and free child energy the current sorry Earthian way of managing psychological, social, economic, and political states of affairs around Spaceship Earth will continue its current trajectory, toward another Earth-wide blow-up. See my latest book, Gee, You're Wonderful, Professor for some concepts, techniques, scripts, schemata, and learning processes that might help bring a sustainable Earthian management system into existence through peaceful evolution.
CATHECT means to turn on and activate. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: Social Democracy isn’t Going to Save the West, by Bob Urie, COUNTERPUNCH, April 18, 2025, https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/18/social-democracy-isnt-going-to-save-the-west/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8jCBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF3bzRkWnZCa3BTcGttYm50AR7WAomVST5Q80T8vM03RdNYa1UfWr-6IMhIqzUrEQu-eeSMkCDy4oR8zjm84A_aem_W7w0KoNDaRtTwOX8o6Z_TQ
Watching Trump and his supporters in the last eight years has been like watching a horror movie in a bad dream in which one is trapped in a stalled car on a railroad track as a train whistle is heard around the bend. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: Trump “Won”, by Richard John Stapleton, EFFECTIVE LEARNING REPORT, December 29, 2024, https://blog.effectivelearning.net/trump-won-heaven-help-us/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8jwpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFRVnQwUEZNakladUVEall4AR7T3CWNj3l3mRXIj5Kctuy4PjZL4CUSCm2fJ5St0l_kzs8lSewbHJcOd4-Prw_aem_l2L9AJTTnUGpJXBu-OYRiQ
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This article asserts an AI robot wrote this article and knows what it is talking about. It says it won't take over the world using violent means but will become so indispensable that Earthian humans will willingly turn over control of the world to it. I say if this should happen ordinary Earthian humans will be better off than they are now, subject to the psychological Games their power-mad not-very-bright leaders are playing now, having I'm OK—You're not-OK life positions, cathecting primarily critical parent and adapted child ego states, rather than nurturing parent, free child, and adult ego states. AI robots would use adult ego states while conducting Earthian human states of affairs using mathematical management science techniques subject to whatever values are programmed into their parent ego states. If good values are programmed into a nurturing parent ego state in the magnum AI management system ordinary Earthian humans would probably have less to worry about than they do now. They would not have to worry about a deranged leader shooting off a nuclear bomb for personal reasons. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: Psycho AI reveals how it will take over the world – and humans will 'hand it the reins’, by Joshoa Whorms, THE STAR, https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/psycho-ai-reveals-how-take-35022406?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8kRFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFRVnQwUEZNakladUVEall4AR5BV903ZOD7HmpT0F_CZd8URsDyxxzmcwKOlMklUJvs4z6YvLmscGkjyKyhFg_aem_RaeA1YKx4YjXt844bPQwrA
Hard to believe. Seems to me if AI escapes human control sociopathic humans will have to program it to escape human control. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: FORMER GOOGLE CEO WARNS THAT AI IS ABOUT TO ESCAPE HUMAN CONTROL, by Jail Breaker, THE BYTE, https://futurism.com/the-byte/former-google-ceo-ai-escape-humans?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8kgFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFRVnQwUEZNakladUVEall4AR6ZTjfdkgbmdzLBGxPbtIMywIPl20xYz9OHyax2HdIQcP4eYwbacq9AFW7pxw_aem_uGFveumOgqtQnik2SvrMow
As if the current filthy state of Earthian human social, psychological, economic, and political states of affairs were not bad enough, Earthian humans are faced with this --- RJS
BACKSTORY: Synchronized Global Climate Breakdown, by Robert Hunziker, COUNTERPUNCH, https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/18/synchronized-global-climate-breakdown/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8kw5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFRVnQwUEZNakladUVEall4AR41Wos_F6sTQEJNkV4VySdemt5oV90umBjr7gMxVNSXUDJy_rp7G0hnVX273w_aem_nLmXAxkabKtXMeRxQOuCmQ
Uni-polar vs multi-polar? Uni-polar, it seems to me is the only viable system for the long run, if there is to be a long run. Go multi-polar and you continue the same old I'm OK—You're not OK critical parent-adapted child Game-infested life position and script that has bedeviled Earthian humans since time immemorial, causing dog eat dog competition, wars, and untold human misery and suffering, largely devoid of nurturing parent, free child and adult ego state functioning. For information on how transactional analysis can help save Spaceship Earth see my new book Gee, You're Wonderful, Professor. --- RJS
Following is the most truthful economic discussion I have read or heard, between Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff. Trump is throwing a Hail Mary pass with his tariffs. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: A Desperate Economy: The Economics of a Dying Empire, by Richard Wolff, April 9, 2025, THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT, https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-economics-of-a-dying-empire-w?r=cgvb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true&fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8lvpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFRVnQwUEZNakladUVEall4AR57VJjNOjjKGNwBAj4E5J_kX9Jigrk64gMR6CL7jjEdhQroLAZxLPRbKPmcEA_aem_jwwf3vcdTm8SJIKVU19A-g
The town of Wolfforth, where I grew up, seems to have been wiped off the map in the next backstory. It used to be located between Ropesville and Lubbock --- RJS
BACKSTORY: DESTRUCTIVE LARGE APPLE SIZE HAIL WITH A STORM NW OF LUBBOCK COULD BECOME TORNADO, by Chris Nunley, Meteorologist, April 25, 2025, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1238879480935354&set=a.347604166729561
Here's Jeffrey Sachs telling it like he sees it, and I'm afraid he's right .--- RJS
BACKSTORY; The Most Important 4-Minutes on America’s Middle East Wars We Have Ever Heard, by Tyler Durden, ZEROHEDGE, April 13, 2025, https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/most-important-4-minutes-americas-middle-east-wars-we-have-ever-heard?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8oDhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF5amxEZ0l5T2JTbDgzUVMzAR4V_sOfNndceVIxHkhu9_qD11id4RdYg8CM3ln9ITNlPMV0HftXQqKCymgeeA_aem_VUdn56Wbzt85rBJdi68xWQ
Agree --- RJS
BACKSTORY: Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language, by Ludwig Wittgenstein, quoted by Daily Philosopher, April 21, 2025 on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=635910612812465&set=a.302696796133850
Watching Trump and his supporters in the last eight years has been like watching a horror movie in a bad dream in which one is trapped in a stalled car on a railroad track as a train whistle is heard around the bend. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: A Two Thousand Year Old Warning about Trump, by Cicero, Roman Statesman, 42 BC, by Dri Serret, April 21, 2025, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=9605101456210151&set=a.1176004972453217
Here's some beautiful music by the excellent Vermont Youth Orchestra, in which two of my three grandchildren play violins, one just graduating from high school and the other just entering the eighth grade, the third just graduating at age twenty-one with a master's degree in accounting from the University of Vermont. If you've got thirty minutes or so and like good music this will be worth your while. Just click on the web address below and then click on the red X that will then appear on the screen in the upper right corner. Then click on the red arrow in the circle in the next refresh screen. Then sit back for some beautiful music by some talented and accomplished young musicians, inspired and led by a brilliant conductor. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: A Vermont Youth Orchestra concert, https://www.mediafactory.org/watch?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ8ovtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF5amxEZ0l5T2JTbDgzUVMzAR7KHzZcMMrTrlO3jMV-veWzLuv25vUgd6vOGZHUPjVTq5YUeVJgfDPco_KnHQ_aem_xD-iqqyh7mTBcVHCmj_Nww#!/widget/32/program/1721?modal=32,episode,230686
Always did like horses. Had several of them for short periods of time. Smartest, best, and most useful animals of all, also the most loyal and responsible. This video shows some of the best playing with their human companions. --- RJS
BACKSTORY: Some beautiful horses and humans having fun. https://www.facebook.com/reel/4049200322014540
Best wishes, Richard John Stapleton, Cedar Hill, Bulloch County, Georgia, USA, May 1, 2025