A Formal Call for a Politics of Dignity
While others have celebrated freedom, we have celebrated money. While others, living under dictatorship, have celebrated choice, we have celebrated celebrity.
While others have celebrated freedom, we have celebrated money. While others, living under dictatorship, have celebrated choice, we have celebrated celebrity.
Charlotte Hill | Posted 12.19.2011
Occupy Wall Street is not, in the literal sense of the word, an egalitarian movement. No, Occupy Wall Street is a dignitarian movement.
Tijana Milosevic | Posted 07.23.2011
"The Pippa Middleton Ass Appreciation Society," which by now has over 200,000 Facebook fans, raises interesting questions of how we choose to use our spare time and the role of social media in this process.
Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
The weak are not as impotent as they once were. Using weapons of mass destruction and strategies of mass disruption, the disenfranchised can bring modern life to a stop. Humiliation is a time bomb.
Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
A culture of dignity in the workplace provides a competitive advantage because it means happier, healthier, more creative and productive employees.
Robert Fuller | Posted 11.17.2011
If you are a boss, it's not enough to avoid treating your employees in a rankist manner; you are also responsible for making sure that your subordinates treat their subordinates with dignity.
Robert Fuller | Posted 11.17.2011
If you're "just" you, don't be ashamed of the nobody within. It's actually your genius. Your inner somebody is dependent on it for new ideas, so don't let your somebody put your nobody down.
Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
So long as the middle of our political spectrum is depopulated, liberals and conservative are at loggerheads. The answer to the impotence of the old parties is a new party -- the Dignity Party.
Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
Rankism is an assertion of superiority. It typically takes the form of putting others down. It's what "Somebodies" do to "nobodies." It turns out that rankism is the source of most man-made suffering.
Robert Fuller | Posted 11.17.2011
When strangers ply us with questions like "And you are?", "Who are you with?", or "Where did you go to school?" they are likely sizing up our power as belied by our affiliations.
Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama got the prize not for doing, but for being. Not for making peace, but for exemplifying something new on the world stage -- the politics of dignity.
Robert Fuller | Posted 11.17.2011
We won't be able to confront rankism until we overcome our fear of seeming uppity by using the word in public.
Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
Who are the nobodies? They are Everyman, Everywoman, Everychild. In our heart, each of us aspires to become someone new, someone more.
Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
Whether directed at an individual or a group, rankism aims to put targets in their place and keep them weak so they will do as they're told and submit to being taken advantage of.
Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
We were quick to look at the Gates affair through the lens of race. To bring things fully into focus, we need a second lens -- that of rank.
Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama has yet to tell us how to repair our broken institutions. But he may be doing something equally important. He may be showing us the way.
Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
The well being of whole societies is closely correlated not with average income level but rather with the size of the disparity of income between the top 20% and the bottom 20%.
Pamela Gerloff | Posted 05.25.2011
The "everything is possible" mantra is no longer viewable as just a naïve belief, open to scoffing by cynics and pessimists. It's no longer just an idea, a possibility. It happened.
Charlotte Hill | Posted 02.06.2012