Ignorance of different opinions and solutions, complaining about what is going on, adaptation, and giving up is taking us to the social dead end, where the existing negativity become even more grotesque, situation more disastrous, and demagogy more refined.

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Hominem ex operibus eius cognoscere
Being a Human: Understanding,
Opportunities, Choice
As painful as the truth wouldn’tbe, wehave to admit that the majority
of us are still blindly fighting the problems, difficulties, and absurdities
created and constantly reproduced by the ruling power in various ways.
In order to survive, we put all of our efforts to adapt to the situation
without paying attention to what is going on, without thinking about the
cause, and withouttrying to find the root of the problems. Then weadapt
to the situation and get used to living in conditions which are not at all
humane.
Seemingly normal people are turned into narrow-minded obscurants,
creatures who lose their ability to reason, analyse, and see the difference
between good and bad in educational systems staged in the interest of
the ruling power and as a result of sophisticated propaganda becoming
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it and becoming a subject which may be manipulated in the social
engineering schemes developed by these very persons.
Under such conditions the power elite starts to believe that they are
almighty super-humans who can pick their puppets by the principle of
cretinism(usefulidiot), degrading the whole state administration system,
planting the seeds of ignorance, xenophobia, and mistrust in society,
encouraging to hate those who think differently, repressing the human
creativity, and strictly limiting chances of development and expression.
Such democracy becomes its own opposition, a self-destruction tool
which maintains its quality as the antinational institutions established by
the power have reached a state where the majority of the people are
considered the senseless crowd.
Itis a body of people which may be easily manipulated by those in the
power trough supposedly democratic elections, by aggressively denying
and radically restricting other alternatives. The power system which is
established now is degrading a large portion of society by massive
propaganda and control over organisation and content of education,
making them simple-minded fools – controllable creatures. The
experience so far shows that such power methods are effective enough
so that those in the power would give them up by free will. As a result,
the formal democracy which works in the interests of politicians is
successfully turned into a fiction for the society.
The approach of the ruling power which has led the people to a state
of senseless crowd is clearly inhumane, harmful, and antinational as it is
degrading the personality and stopping individuals and the whole society
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skills. People who would otherwise naturally fit in the social life are now
turned into a blind tool controlled by groups and noblemen who have
boosted the power; democracy becomes a mean to oppress opinion of
the manipulated majority on the minority who still strive to think
differently. It really slows down the social development with all of the
negative consequences coming with it.
Isn'tit now the time to finally become awareof the essential need to
create such social environment where every person would have the
opportunities to live to the fullest and realise the mission and essenceof
being a human?! We have to find a way to cut off oppression of this
pseudo-democracy, we have to find an exit from the threats we all are
facing! By continuing this, destruction of the fundamentals of humanity
becomes an obvious perspective of the nearest future as the increasing
social problems due to intensified political, ideological, religious, and
ethnic disagreements are being tackled by violence causing tragic
consequences to the nations and humankind.
Ironically, this approach after all becomes suicidal to the members of
the power elite who consider themselves omnipotent, although in their
unquenchable desire for power they will keep forcing polarization of the
society, put out obstacles to any efforts of self-organisation, use all of
their powers to keep stupefying the majority and igniting the sordid
instincts, by letting the genie of evil out of its bottle and not being able or
knowing how to get it back in eventually becoming hostages of their own
created situation. Thus their arrogant, short-sighted, obscure, and selfish
approachultimately leads to their owndestruction and unfortunatelyalso
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We all make mistakes. The most important though is how we
respond to these mistakes! Why do we repeat mistakes of the previous
generations even taking them to a whole new level and quality without
learning anything fromall the harsh pastexperiences?! Whatwould have
to be done for us to still become capable of avoiding this tragic
progression of events – changing this pessimistic vision of the future?
And at this point we haveremember the age-old truth that we are the
ones who createour own happiness(and problems),our own lives. Weall
come into this world with particular and individual set of genes: our skills,
talents, good and bad qualities, which are then either developed and
improved or slowed down and restricted after a young person has
adapted to life in the respective environment. Society and its central
element family play the largest role in formation of identity. This social
environment either provides an upcoming person with self-development
and self-realization opportunities or degrades to the level of primitive
reflexes and instincts necessary for existence. This depends on the
dominating values and needs, the individually adopted (often oppressed
and cultivated by the stat) system of interests and motives, moral
standards, and extent of humanity.
To get the necessary supportfromsociety in discovering, recognising,
and forming of one’s identity it is necessary to find socially effective
means – adequate scientific tools of education and upbringing. As one of
such possible means and socially effective tools I offer social identity
passports (SIP) – see the conceptual summary of the idea in articles
ImprovementPossibilities for Democracy and On the TargetFunction of a

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Social Identity Passport: http://ceihners.blogspot.com/ =
www.blogger.com.
In the view of the majority of society, especially of those reactionary,
cynical, and selfish persons in power, it is not only an extraordinary
initiative but also an unacceptable proposal directly threatening their
positions of power and destroying the base of their self-established
controllable democracy. From their point of view this initiative has to be
ignored, kept silent, or characterised as dangerous, naively ideological,
one which violates privacy of the members of society. Therefore,
unacceptable which is not worthy of a public discussion by evaluating it
critically and scrupulously. Of course, such attitude may for a while slow
down the progress of the SIP initiative and create obstacles for its
realisation. As a result of which the social crisis will become only deeper,
socialproblemswill grow,causingeven greater consequencesand brining
to as new tragedies and ruined lives.
We may not say anything to those who have not understood the goal
of the social identity passport, caught the idea of the SIP, or studied its
potential as we all from the very birth are subjected to constant
ideological treatment which twists ourperception, makes a pattern in our
worldview, and trains us to accept the very minimum and even that is
even hardly achievable under the current conditions.
Only by tryingto find oneself in the socialmirrorand recogniseoneself
as a social being, a person is capable of mobilising his/her intellectual
potential, creating preconditionsto decline the stereotypes, illusions,and
prejudiceoppressed by the ruling power as well as to filter and clear your
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stumbleupon the truth which has been proven through thehistory of our
civilization that the basic criteria for activity of any public person is the
coherence between what has been said and what has been done
measuring the results only based on the amount and quality of work not
the volume of the pseudo-democratic slogans, manipulation of statistical
data, or number of various different excuses.
Until the society will not have gained understanding and perception
of the true content and expression of the human values, politicians will
keep producing their pathetic populist slogans without any substantial
results without putting end to demagogy and spreading of myths.
I believe and am convinced that self-realisation of every member of
the society is the key to the greatness both for individuals and society as
a whole!
Any society or state is based on people – individuals with all of the
characteristics making up their identities: both positive and negative.
While we are being the regular citizens our influence on the state power
structures is rather indirect - mostly through the democratic institutions
functioning in a given state. But once weget into the state structures and
become public personswith legislative, executive or judiciarypowers,our
legal capability and influence on the social processes increases
significantly, but this awareness of power also boosts our ambitions,
develops a sense of superiority, arrogance, and vanity. Consequences of
decisions made by these public persons have an impact on everyone in
the hierarchyof the respectiveadministration and related to it. Therefore
in any given democratic country today it is becoming a requirement for
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people, i.e. voters,one’sindividualpotential and characteristicswhichwill
eventually play a significant role in the actions taken by the person
representing the interests of the people, quality of decisions made,
compliance with the democratic standards, and at the end – progress of
society as a whole, living standards and quality of every individual, and
extent to which the people trust the state power.
The barrier of fear has constantly made it difficult or even disallowed
to perceive and understand the truth that now the only how people may
get free from the worldview cultivated by the power structures, the
oppressed conceptions and moral norms and to avoid further
manipulations with the majority is by restricting their own selfishness,
eliminating prejudice, and reasonably evaluating the possibility to
maintain and ensure complete privacy in the modern society. Thus
stopping progress of the anti-humane processes and promoting real
democracy. Only by being aware of and following this guidance it is
possible to create the necessary preconditions for not repeating the
mistakes made by previous generations, so that the hard work would not
go to wasteand opportunitieswould becreated forbeing in harmonywith
one's identity and using one’s abilities, skills and talents for the sake of
oneself and the whole society.
By stubbornly refusing to understand it and ignoring novelties will
make suffer all of us: including, the always-busy passive spectators and
persistent oppositionists as well as the political formations and leaders
who due to their narrow-mindedness, obscurantism, and crooked
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for manipulation with human minds by creating a hypnotised generation,
guiding people into moral downfall, and discrediting humanity.
That is why over the course of a detailed evaluation and analysis of
the SIP initiative, its implementation in a well-considered and gradual
manner hasbecomea requirement arisingoutof unbiasedcircumstances.
The most importantis that the brightand altruistic minds would perceive
it as motivation for purposefuland immediate action so that it would not
be critically late for the society and the state!
Accumulation, systematisation, and use of personal data is a reality
of today which many of us are still not aware of or ignore just like an
ostrich putting his head in the sand. A good proof of that is the On-line
service developed by psychologists at the Cambridge University which
creates a psychological portrait of a person based exclusively on the
information available on his/her Facebook profile (see:
http://applymagicsauce.com/you.html). According to the mass media,
also a great amount of private information in respect to the
administrative staff of the US has been obtained during a cyber-attack,
disclosing 20 million data units and personal profiles of the employees
working for the state administration (see:
https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity).
To maintain and ensure development of every citizen and the whole
state, it is necessary to have assurancethat the current situation will not
go worse. There is also a need for guarantee of such assurance which
could be provided by the SIP initiative. We finally have to acknowledge
that the SIP is not a threat but rather a tool for discovering and using of
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us to open a new page in a full-fledged democratic development of the
society.
The risks of social disasters are increasing by leaving the adverse
processes without any control. Development of the social processes is
unpredictable if the state structures and their leaders form an
environment which may not be controlled by the society (by creating the
parallel political reality = mythical kingdom of distorting mirrors). The
development vector under such conditions motivates a significant
majority of the society to act based on sordid instincts, thus making them
to discredit their own humanness.
Ignorance of different opinions and solutions, complaining about
what is going on, adaptation, and giving up is taking us to the social dead
end, where the existing negativity become even more grotesque,
situation more disastrous, and demagogy more refined.
The author has proposed the idea of SIP with an aim to make the
society more humane and offered to approbate the SIP initiative as a
measureof the morality level and mental development of public persons
and as a tool for improving democracy so that at the end the state
administration wouldbebased on strictprinciples in respectto thepeople
and with a real and strong feedback.
In this way the author is trying to activate the minds of reasonably
thinking people, offer a possible solution for the current problems, and
find an alternative forthe currentretrogradepolitics becauseit is wewho
can recognise the need and dare to change the old power institutions.
The future is born today. And we are responsiblefor how this future will
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of us individually has to evaluate our worldview and decide how to act as
the great Latvian poet Rainis has said the one who is going to last is the
one who is willing to change.
The author has no intention of increasing fear about the future and
dramatizing the situation, butrather to open the eyes of his fellow people
about the painful truth and warn about the potential risks at the same
time offering theSIPasa toolfor elimination (minimisation) of theserisks.
Has anyone ever thought that when the artificial intelligence, which is
still in its very initial phase, is improved to a certain point, it will come to
an argument and logical conclusion after analysing and evaluating
functioning of the society (if the new generation has not mobilized its
humane potential and changed to the good by crucially strengthening its
humane identity) that the majority people are destroying fundamentals
of the society and spreading infection which may be lethal to the
existence of the society. Therefore they have to be isolated, treated, or
maybe even modified. The artificial intelligence will dominate over the
potential of a human mind and its iron logic will beat the irrationality of
the narrow-minded people as it may be seen today.
Why would we keep playing the hypocrite, speculate with ideals, why
would we have to fix the mistakes made by others, spend enormous
resources, and put huge efforts to deal with the consequences caused by
contra-productiveactions (or inactions) of the members of society if we
could have it all avoided and lived much more harmonious state system.
Up until this day, I have not found a single convincing and logical
general solution for cutting off the negativity of the modern society and
the current problems of the state at their very root. Therefore, I am

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offering the idea of the SIP as to today we are facing all the necessary
conditions, reasonable preconditions and have sufficient technical and
scientific resources as well as creative intellectual potential for its
implementation. We only have to overcome these large barriers of fear,
selfishness, disbelief, ruling power not being interested in
implementation of the SIP initiative, acceptance and adaptation to any
circumstances we are provided. Otherwise, we keep living in a socially
corrupted environment without attempting to change it (or unknowingly
not looking for the possibilities to do it).
The cause of the actual problems is not being eliminated by the
hopeless fight against difficulties created by ourselves and by others,
withouttrying to find alternatives, searching and finding the rootof these
problems because a significant part of it may be found in ourselves: we
are not capable of admitting our narrow-mindedness, short-term
thinking, and selfishness; we don’t see it as necessary to maintain
unbiased reasoning, meaning, to critically analyse and adequately
perceivethe information (propaganda)providedbymassmedia; wedon’t
want to get rid of our prejudice; we build walls and dig trenchless were
instead wewould haveto build a bridgeofunderstanding. And this is how
we get the awareness that our truth is absolute which we keep deep
inside of ourselves without risking of getting involved into reasoned
discussions and not taking into account all of the facts which contradict
the majority.
By seeing what is going around us, doesn’t it provethat a significant
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keep moving forward towards the apocalypse under the leash of the
ruling power and unknowingly pulling the rest of us in with them?
By looking at how adequate the members of various layers of the
modern society perceive reality in respect to their social status, the
following initial structure was observed:
1. People who mostly in their lives are constantly fighting for survival
of themselves and their families, meaning, fighting for their
existence, by trying to adapt to reality in various ways and
expressingthey protestagainstthe state institutions and disbelief of
propaganda as well as actively opposing the ruling power only in
desperate situations. In different countries proportion of such
population varies from 20 to 80 per cent;
2. The corrupted part of the society who due to some certain reasons
have been forced to live a criminal life, practice deception, fraud,
blackmailing, prostitution, smuggling, illegal gambling, are fallen
into addiction of drugs and alcohol or influenced by mafia, radicals,
and extremists. Activity of this part of the society is tended to be in
a formof violent protests in situations when the state structures are
demonstrating complete incapability of changing environment they
are in and motivation they are driven. This layer accounts for 5 to
even 25 percent of the population;
3. The prosperous part of the society (including most of the staff and
officials working in the state administration) who can afford good
education and adequate health care, entertainment, and trips as
well as are able to find time for personal development. Thus, they
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they are willing to accept external evil if it does not apply directly to
them, often becoming conformistsand philistines. Number of such
people varies from 20 to even 60 percent in highly developed
countries;
4. The elite of society: oligarchs, aristocrats, bankers, TOP managers,
high-level politicians and members of church, millionaires, and
billionaires as well as a part of excellent artists and sportsmen. All
together they add up to lessthan one tenth of a precentof thewhole
population in any country in the world and almost all of them are
willing to maintain the current power system only not to lose the
privileges arising from their social statuses.
It is obvious that the greatest potential of protesting lays within the
membersof the 1st
sociallayer, butit is also harderto makethemperform
constructive actions, while in desperate situations they are easier
convinced by revolutionaries and extremists. Those who make
evolutionary changes in the society mostly may be found in the 3rd
layer.
Number ofthem havean adequate intellectual developmentand required
moral maturity to reformthe structure of the state in the interests of the
nation, reorganisethe state power system, and be aware of the need for
improving democracy (also to be prepared to discuss, understand, and
carefully evaluate useof the SIP for thesereasons). Hereweneed to find
the necessary informativesupportfor theidea of the SIP and offer proper
incentives for purposeful actions, including, development of the action
plan, suggestions of measures and methods for achievement of the goal
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Manywho aredisappointed and haveno other alternatives, notbeing
able of finding the good life in the motherland, are leave the country and
seeking for happiness abroad because today the power institutions are
rather passive and incapable in respect to its citizens, sometimes even
acting as a strange force instead of being the helping hand, adviser, and
support for the individuals striving for normal lives.
In this new historical situation, nation with a gene pool which already
has been impaired by wars, repressions, deportations, and emigration is
once again pulled into a very dangerous and risky geopolitical game
played between amoral leaders which is often commanded by external
forces. By just observing the ongoing, making meaningless comments,
without making any real and effective actions, the society will simply run
out of the time assigned to it in history to get on the track with long-time
mature reforms and change and to avoid the irreversible.
The ones in power are willing to maintain the power system which
provides them opportunities to fool the people, produce blind obedient
puppets with no common sense, influence thosethinking otherwise, and
blackmail the disobedient. The last thing they want to see is open and
truly free elections as well as effective control of the voters (nation),
which may be achieved through implementation of the SIP.
How can we complain about the hard life, apathy and disgrace of
fellow people, wickedness of the power, if we are still blindly trying to
fight the consequences and takeonly cosmetic actions, ignoring the roots
of the current hardships and problems as we are not trying to precept,
comprehend, and analyse the SIP initiative and thus fearing it instead of
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eats away our micro-world which was built on our own efforts, our usual
environment created as a result of our work is crushed endangering the
future of any given member of the society.
The power which is barely controlled by the nation cripples
democracy and inspire those in power to feel mighty, unpunishable, and
superior. By losing ties with the people, self-criticism is diminished and
cult of leadership ignited when the person who has obtained the
authorities conceive oneself as a centre of the world due to the strong
power vertical, when one's ideas, personalfeatures, characteristics- both
positive and negative are projected onto the rest if the world, when
others are evaluated and judged by their appearance and resemblance,
forgetting that the judge himself is wicked.
Hiding behind noble slogans and words for greatintentions which are
supposedly for the good of the people, the ones in power do amoral and
dirty affairs, kill personalities, play theatre of illusion with the society, by
spreading constantdisinformation of differentkinds, turning themajority
of peopleinto a senselesscrowdforwhichthepower may paintthereality
both in white and dark shades, justas it wishes. Thus, the credulous are
deceived in respect to perception and understanding of good and evil.
Why do people have to be fooled? Why do we all have to suffer because
of that?
Therefore, as much as I can, I amtrying to open the eyes of my peers,
break their habit of accepting demagogy, myths, and tales from the
politicians about the absolute truth, provide an alternative way of
perception, thinking, and conduct so that everyone could start the
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For the good to beat the evil, we must purify ourselves and restrict
our selfishnessbyunderstandingtherole of solidarity,collaboration, and
tolerance, accepting the thoughtthat all of the people arethe samesocial
beings as you, that they suffer the wrongdoings just like you, that by
helping yourkind youaremaking yourselfhappy Itstimulates cooperation
of people, cultivates compassion, and spreadssincerity and generosity, at
the end making you realise the social need for strict and legally regulated
disclosureof the personaldata of public persons for the sakeof common
good.
An individual may not change the whole world, butone can create an
environment around oneself (his own circle) which stimulates and helps
the fellow people with their improvementstep by step, makechanges for
oneself and thus gradually also changing the whole system. If we give
up to fear, helplessness, and disbelief or if we cannot make our own
choices based on reasonable truth, then others will do it for us by
oppressing their worldview on us
Why would you adaptto controllable crowd and loseyour mind along
with other puppets if you can remain being yourself and if you are
confident about your standpoint, truth you have found through the
hardshipand exploration of life, need forbalanced reforms,if you already
reflect the situation as close as possible to the truth after analysis and
critical evaluation of information obtain fromvarious sources, thus being
able to distinguish reality from lies as well as recognising manipulation
with facts and disinformation.
Maybe the author has exaggerated here and then by reflecting the
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the existing socialproblems and emphasiseon the acute need fortackling
these problems.
Even though we all have common sense, ability to understand events,
find problemroots,and desireforfighting injustice, I amnotsurewhether
there will be any supporters of this opinion and whether I will have
convinced the brightestminds about the urgentneed for implementation
of the SIP initiative. Yet I will be satisfied only by the fact that I have been
able to popularise my vision and opinion, formulate my life credo, and
bring to people the viewpoint which has been formed over the courseof
my life. I am doing that to help our generation avoiding critical mistakes,
to extract the aggression, hate, and intolerance from relationships of
people, thus spreading love, respect between on another, and mutual
solidarity by providing guidance of how to achieve it through the road of
the social progress - how to be a Human!
It is a road of moral development and strengthening of humanity, so
we all could live happily and in harmony with ourselves, oneanother, and
rest of the world in accordancewith our conscious and heartfelt humane
identity.
By continuing to hide in our individualshell and seemingly locked out
micro-universe, muffling our conscience and trying to endure the
problems not being aware of our involvement in what is going on around
us, fearing to be socially active, not trying to go deeper in the concept of
the idea of the SIP, and stubbornly not believing to the possibility of its
realisation, weonly aggregatethecurrentsocialproblems and deepen the
crisis being turned into a puppet controlled by the power-thirsty
politicians.

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21.09.2015. Ervins Ceihners, Dr.oec