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He Notices Things Like That

31 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by 80smetalman in Autism, Uncategorized

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My very first experience of what some might call a weird ability came when I was in sixth grade. During the first half of the year, in gym class, my class would almost always beat the other class who did gym with us in sports. However, half way through the year, one of the star players from my class moved and it seemed after that we would lose to the other class most often. One day, after yet another loss, I pointed out the fact that we didn’t start losing to the other class until our star player moved and that if he was still in our class, we would still be winning. Most of those who heard it, poo-pooed it, probably because it was I who said it. But one boy did comment, “He notices things like that.”

This personal phenomenon has been true of me throughout my entire life. I always seem to spot the small unknown details that no one else notices. Many times, this has been a help for me. One example was when I played street hockey back in high school. In two seasons, I scored three goals against who many considered to be the best goalie in the league. Two of those goals came about because I found his one flaw in his goalkeeping. He had a tendency to drop down to his knees too quickly, thus leaving him exposed to high shots. I thought that if I noticed this, why didn’t anyone else?

The answer is that it’s because I do have a tendency to pick out the little things, notice some small detail that very few people can see. Usually this is a good thing but it does have a down side. On account of my mind, I focus so much on that small detail that I can often miss the big picture and that hasn’t always yielded the best results. It did cause problems at school from time to time and frustrated teachers. The problem was that it also got me branded ‘stupid’ by some when I’m clearly not.

Book link alert: In “He Was Weird,” one of Mark’s teachers points this out to his mother at a parent-teacher conference. The teacher points out he will miss the entire point of a lesson but pick out some small detail that even the teacher doesn’t see. I have to agree with the teacher, it can be extraordinary really.

This can be a wonderful quality for people who have Aspergers Syndrome or any type of autism. An ability to see the small intricate details can be beneficial in many fields. The problem is that, like in my case, it was seen as abnormal or irrelevant because I was looking at a piece instead of the whole picture. What these people never realized that sometimes that little piece can tell a big story.

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33 Years On, A Tragedy That Still Causes Me Much Anxiety

24 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by 80smetalman in Autism, books, Uncategorized

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Marines Clear Up the Carnage of the Bombing

Marines Clear Up the Carnage of the Bombing

Thirty-three years ago yesterday, October 23, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a van loaded with explosives into the barracks of the US Marines in Beirut, killing 241 of them and wounding many more. The marines were sent into Beirut over a year earlier to keep the peace between Israeli forces and Lebanese militias. Therefore, the bombing of the barracks had a great impact for many Americans. Flags were flown at half mast for a week and there was a genuine sense of mourning during that time. Then when America felt it had mourned enough for the fallen marines, it went back to its business and seemed to forget about it.

Unfortunately for me, I couldn’t forget it that quickly. Reason was that the unit that got hit over there was the one I had spent nearly three-quarters of my military life with, First Battalion, Eighth Marine Regiment. I served, lived and partied with many of those marines who were over there at the time. They’re loss weighed particularly heavy on me. My problem was that I felt I had no one really to talk about it with. I remember before the bombing that I mentioned to someone that my old unit was over there at the time but it appeared that person didn’t really believe me. That where certain anxieties started.

The worry of people not believing anything I said goes back to the time period which influenced me to write “He Was Weird.” Like Mark in the story, I was accused of telling loads of lies and fake stories. True, a good number of those things were gross exaggerations and fantasies which I converted into reality but I wasn’t the liar I was made out to be. I know now that in many cases, the people hearing those stories took what I was saying the wrong way and totally blew it further out of proportion. Often times, their version was completely different to what I had said originally. Still, it resulted in me being very guarded in the things I said and wouldn’t say anything unless I had concrete evidence to back it up. While I could back up the fact that it was indeed my old unit that was blown up in Beirut, my anxieties told me it was best not to make it common knowledge.

As a result, I swallowed how I was feeling about the loss of my friends in Beirut. However, I did mourn in the way I knew how. Many of my closest friends from my old unit were big Cheech and Chong fans, so one evening at work, I found myself doing a monologue from a scene in “Up in Smoke.” I got a lot of weird looks that time. A year later, when Ronald Reagan was running for re-election, I stated that I couldn’t vote for him because he ordered my friends to their death. In a separate scene, a friend, who was a devout Born Again Christian, said he was voting for Reagan because he wasn’t afraid to use the military. My response was that because of that, many of my friends are dead. He didn’t have an answer for that but not long after, he pontificated on how the evil heathens that made up America’s military back then had corrupted me. My guess, that was the reason why he wasn’t too bothered about Lebanon was because It was a bunch of heathens who got killed. Then again, that’s often how America’s peace time military is viewed.

Scene from Up In Smoke

Scene from Up In Smoke

The burden that this was placed upon me began to be lifted three years after the event when I came to the UK. There were people who were willing to listen to me without judgement. In fact, I married one of them. What I hoped the final nail in the coffin came when I saw a documentary on the 10th anniversary of the bombing. That did give me a lot of absolution, however, the anxieties still haven’t gone away and I still think that most of America chooses to keep it swept under the carpet. Three years ago, I posted a question about the 30th Anniversary of the bombing on an opinion site and only one person stated he remembered the event but confessed that he didn’t know it was the 30th anniversary. It is now the 33rd anniversary and I will stop and drink a toast remembering my friends who were killed on that day. I hope those who read this will join me. However, I still believe that the United States owes the Lebanon veterans an apology.

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Does Society Itself Create a Bullying Culture?

17 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by 80smetalman in books, Bullying, Uncategorized

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Americans, books, bullying, Karl Marx, race relations, social settings

This morning I have discovered this piece by Mark Karlin which gives a very interesting and alternative view of bullying. No matter what your personal politics are, I think everyone should have a read of this.

What causes bullying in the United States? In Bully Nation, Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass show how US inequalities of power, militarism and aggressive capitalism make both personal and institutional bullying commonplace. Click here to order the book from Truthout and learn what we can do to stop this insidious trend!

The following is an interview exploring the systemic problem of bullying in US society. Truthout speaks with Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass, authors of Bully Nation: How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society.

Mark Karlin: We often approach bullying from a single perspective. For instance, someone might start a campaign to stop bullying in the schools. The subheadline in your book, however, indicates that bullying cannot be stopped by isolating it: How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society. How did you come to see this as a systemic cultural problem?

Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass: Bullying has been a means of controlling people, putting them in “their place,” for perhaps as long as there have been humans. Until about 20 years ago, it was dismissed as “normal,” a rite of passage that children and adolescents must go through and “get over.” Some endure relatively little of it — perhaps they are bullies themselves — and it leaves little long-term impact. For others, it is a trauma that leaves lifelong scars.

For the most part, the discourse on bullying has been controlled by psychologists, who see it as a problem for individuals who need therapy, but we need to look at why it is so entrenched; do powerful people and institutes have an interest in encouraging and perpetuating it?

We live in militarized capitalism. Capitalism assumes competition — winners and losers. Militarism requires violence, aggression and submission to authority. Bullying builds these very traits. Psychology is inadequate to understand the cause and power of bullying. Indeed, bullying is about power, and psychology hardly has a concept of power. It is all about individuals changing their attitudes. Sociology and politics are much better at understanding power. The 1950s sociologist C. Wright Mills spoke of the “sociological imagination,” where he argued you cannot separate “personal troubles” from “public issues.” We need the sociological imagination to understand bullying — how are children raised to blend into militarized capitalism? What kind of school system does militarized capitalism need? How do school authorities encourage a student culture which prepares for militarized capitalism and sees bullying as a “normal” part of life?

I am intrigued by the phrases in the book: “militarized capitalism” and “capital bullying.” Can you explain the difference?

Not all capitalist societies are militarized (think Costa Rica or Sweden), and not all militarized societies are capitalist (think Russia or Saudi Arabia). We sometimes forget this because the US has so seamlessly melded militarism and capitalism, creating “militarized capitalism.” Militarism is, inherently, a bullying force, and independently, capitalism is very much a bully system. So all militarized states, even those not capitalist, are bullies. And the same is true of capitalist states which are not militarist.

Charles Derber (left) and Yale R. Magrass. (Photos courtersy of Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass)Charles Derber (left) and Yale R. Magrass. (Photos courtersy of Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass)But when you have a militarized capitalist system, the effects are multiplied. Both the militaristic and capitalist elements of the system create bullying — and the synergy creates super-bullying. That is one of the reasons the US is the most powerful and dangerous bully nation.

The term “capital bullying” — which is the title of Chapter 2 — refers to the bullying inherent in capitalism. Capital bullying refers to the bullying carried out by capitalist elites even in non-militarized societies. The capitalist class (including corporations) bullies workers, consumers, suppliers, corporate rivals and suppliers. Of course, Marx built his whole theory of capitalist exploitation as a bullying relation between the capitalist class and the working class. Since he developed this in his masterpiece,Capital, we thought it apt to call such bullying “capital bullying.”

How does the 2016 election, and specifically Donald Trump, provide an illustration of “bully nation”?

Donald Trump embodies most people’s image of a bully. With his insults, put-downs and even violent threats, he looks like an over-sized, over-aged schoolyard bully. But again, we must be careful not be overly psychological.

There is a more important sociological-political question: why is he so popular, at least in some circles? People often say Hitler was crazy, but that begs the question: how did a lunatic gain millions of followers and take over one of the most advanced countries in the world? Although they are brutal and cruel, bullies are often admired. When Trump had his reality show — “The Apprentice” — people cheered when he announced “You’re fired!” In a time of anxiety, when wages have been stagnant for decades, when white males fear their status threatened by women and people of color, when third-world peoples can defy the United States in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, some may feel a need for a protector who will “make America great again.” By “great,” Trump means America must feel free to go anywhere it wants, do anything it wants, anywhere in the world, with impunity. Nobody can be allowed to mess with America. A strong-man — a bully — is needed. In order to protect you, he must make sure no one can challenge him — he must be able to destroy you. The more effectively the bully bullies, the more secure you will feel. You can even feel empowered in his glow; you can be part of the dominant caste, the winning team. Personally, your life may not be great, but at least you can be part of something great — the world bully.

Can you discuss a bit about racial and class bullying?

Capitalism is bullying; it is competition — winners and losers. Class inequality is at the core of capitalism. The weak deserve their fate. Anyone who can be bullied deserves to be. The poor don’t have the stamina and the will. They must submit to the power of those who have the strength to build industries, fortunes and empires. The strong are meant to rule the weak. For the economy to thrive, the 1% must be free to bully the 99%.

Racial bullying is not essential to militarized capitalism, but it is useful. The United States began when Europeans crossed the Atlantic to seize the lands of Native Americans and annihilate them. They were free to do so because the Natives were defined by Europeans as inferior uncivilized people, unfit to be free, have their own culture and their own land, maybe even unfit to live. The Europeans were chosen by a higher force. They had “Manifest Destiny” to bully, dominate and prevail.

At first, the Europeans tried to enslave the Natives, to bully them into doing their work for them, but that proved impractical as the Natives died out or escaped into lands that they knew better than the Europeans. Instead, the Europeans turned to Africans who again they defined as less-than-human, child-like creatures, incapable of taking care of themselves, who needed the European’s civilization and protection. They had to be bullied for their own good but 20 million were forced to cross the Atlantic in the “Middle Passage,” with half dying on the way.

Black slavery may have made poor whites even poorer, deepened class divides and may have enhanced class bullying, but at least poor whites could feel they were part of the bullying race. However, it made a select few very rich, with more wealth coming from slavery than from land, crops, railroads or factories. Racial bullying has reinforced class bullying. It has divided the 99% and brought many within the 99% to identify with the 1% rather than challenge them.

When slavery ended, racial bullying against Blacks continued in the form of Jim Crow segregation, and even when that ended, racial bullying subsists with evidence like police brutality against Blacks. Racial bullying helps account for the popularity of people like Donald Trump.

Many people probably don’t think of environmental bullying. Can you explain the concept?

In our era of catastrophic climate change, it is hard not to think about “environmental bullying.” But while all militarized capitalism creates devastating environmental effects, we did not find any works that use this term.

In everyday life, of course, most know that some people bully their dogs or other pets. People also realize that there is a culture of animal bullying — like the deadly dogfighting business that Michael Vick turned into a huge news story. And most people are also aware that agribusiness — whether Purdue, Tyson or Cargill — turns bullying of animals into a merciless profit engine.

But while it is quite obvious that animals are bullied, it may seem less clear that plants or soil or rocks can be bullied. Bullying implies the victim can experience some form of consciousness. While many Indigenous cultures believe all of life and nature have spirit or consciousness, Western societies have constructed a nonsentient view of plants and all nature, permitting humans to attack and destroy all forms of life.

Science now shows that many plants do, indeed, have remarkable forms of consciousness and communication. Recent studies of trees show that they communicate by intertwining their roots, and actually survive and prosper by building “tree communities.” Scientists studying forests now talk of “lonely” trees which become isolated and die quickly.

But what about rocks? Can you bully a rock? If you hack it apart or blow it up, will it suffer or feel pain? This seems less clear, so we introduce the concept of “environmental bludgeoning.” It is our term to describe human violence against natural objects that may not have consciousness. The book explores the relation between environmental bullying and bludgeoning — and shows how militarized capitalism fuels both, now threatening to destroy not just humans but all species and perhaps, nature itself.

In your epilogue, you discuss some new ways to think about reducing bullying. Can you describe a few of your ideas?

The conventional psychological view — that bullying is simply a form of personal disorder or mental illness — leads to the idea that therapy is the only solution. This leads to a virtual industry of school counseling — giving jobs to shrinks, psychologists, social workers and teachers — in an effort that has not stopped the persistence of bullying by kids (in the schoolyard or online).

We are hardly surprised, since the therapeutic approach overlooks the main root of the problem. When kids or adults bully, they are responding to the norms or incentives of their companies and their militarized society. They are not “sick” or maladjusted or “under-socialized;” they are rather already well adjusted to the larger system and don’t need therapy to become further adjusted.

We discuss the rise of a significant “anti-bullying” movement in the schools and the larger society that has good intentions but remains plagued by its psychological focus. Bullying will remain rampant until we throw out the conventional wisdom and focus on the roots of the problem.

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That means using the “sociological imagination” and seeing that many personal troubles — and bullying is a prime example — are actually social problems. The best way to reduce bullying is to change our society by reducing its militarism and moving toward a less capitalist system.

Social democratic countries, such as Sweden, have low rates of bullying. That is because they are not militarized and can be viewed as what Bernie Sanders called “democratic socialism.” Their universal social welfare, and strong labor movement, reduces the inequalities of wealth and power that are the systemic causes of bullying.

Such “regime change” in the US will happen only when social movements against militarized capitalism and social hierarchies based on race, class and gender grow stronger. Such movements are widespread in the US, but they are fragmented and need to work together (what [Derber] calls “universalized resistance” in a forthcoming book). Since bullying is a systemic problem, it takes movements seeking broad systemic change to reduce bullying.

Some anti-bullying groups in the US — growing out of targeted groups, such as women, African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, members of the LGBTQ community and the disabled — are beginning to build recognition that bullying is a social problem. But to be effective, they must universalize their movements. This means working together to reduce all social hierarchies and create an alternative to militarized capitalism that ensures equal rights and power and respect for everyone.

Copyright, Truthout. May not be reprinted without permission.

MARK KARLIN

Mark Karlin is the editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout. He served as editor and publisher of BuzzFlash for 10 years before joining Truthout in 2010. BuzzFlash has won four Project Censored Awards. Karlin writes a commentary five days a week for BuzzFlash, as well as articles (ranging from the failed “war on drugs” to reviews relating to political art) for Truthout. He also interviews authors and filmmakers whose works are featured in Truthout’s Progressive Picks of the Week. Before linking with Truthout, Karlin conducted interviews with cultural figures, political progressives and innovative advocates on a weekly basis for 10 years. He authored many columns about the lies propagated to launch the Iraq War.

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What Could He Have Done?

10 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by 80smetalman in books, Bullying, Parents, Sports, Uncategorized

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Anytime I learn of a bullying injustice, I always highlight it here on Peaceful Rampage and add my two pennies worth to the story. Those who have followed me for a while are probably aware of this. Well, it saddens me to say, but it has happened again. This time it happened in the world of American Football. A youth team coach got his team together and told them bullying would not be tolerated on the team. After his talk, it was pointed out to him that one of his players was still bullying. In true football fashion, the coach made the player concerned run extra laps, a common sanction in football where players are sometimes made to do extra running when they drop a pass, miss a blocking assignment or a tackle and so on. I know, I did my fair share of running when I played. After the bullying player, finished running his laps, the coach congratulated him for doing so without complaining, another coaching technique in the sport.

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One would think that that would have been the end of it, right? No, the coach, who was a volunteer, was told by the team’s governing body that he was fired as coach over the incident. One member of the board asked him what qualifications he had to handle such a thing like bullying. The coach responded, “I’m a parent.” As a result, the team is now without a coach and now the coach along with several other parents, have pulled their own children off the team. For the full story, click the link below:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/07/volunteer-middle-school-football-coach-dismissed-for-making-boy-run-laps-after-he-bullied-teammate/

Is this another victory for the bullies? I would say yes and am backed up by the fact that a mother of one of the other boys pulled her son off the team, citing that the governing body is saying that bullying is okay. It also nullifies everything the coach told the team about bullying not being tolerated because now, you can and if any of the coaches step in to end it, they themselves will be dismissed.

While I don’t mention it much in “He Was Weird,” I did experience some bullying when I played football in the town where the story is based. The worse case was when two teammates ripped my personal jersey and basically got away with it because the one boy was the son of the varsity coach. However, like Mark in the story, the worst bullying came when I quit the varsity team a year later. In the eyes of many adults, I had brought it on myself because I quit the team. Really, do you think I did?

I have said from day one, that bullying is something that should never be tolerated. True, it will never be eradicated but then it never will be if those who try to take steps against bullying are the ones who are punished for it.

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Some Autistic Abilities

05 Wednesday Oct 2016

Posted by 80smetalman in Autism, books, Bullying, Sports, Uncategorized

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It has said that everyone has them, it’s just autistic traits aren’t as prominent in most people as they are in with who do have genuine Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Some of these abilities can be quite fascinating if the person who has them is allowed to express them in a way that benefits that person. Unfortunately, most people tend to simply branded that person annoying or at the very least, use the person with autism’s unique ability for their own amusement.

Often times, the ability would come from an interest that a person has. In many cases, the person with autism would throw themselves head first into that interest and learn everything there is to know about it. My first instance of this was when I was seven. For a limited time in 1968 and 9, you could buy little figures of all the American Presidents. Note, Nixon was president at the time but that’s just a side point. Not only did I collect all the figures, I read books about them too. So not only can I name all the presidents from Washington to Obama, I could tell you when they served, what number president they were, if they died in office and with a good deal of certainty, what political party they were a member of. My experience is typical of someone who is on the autistic spectrum.

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Another ability/obsession came in my early adolescence when I was playing sports. Because American sports media seems to like to make a big deal of sports statistics, I became a big pundit on my own statistics. In gym class in junior high school, I could tell you how many pass receptions, interceptions and touchdowns I had in touch football. How many baskets and free throws I made in basketball and compute my average per game. It was even more detailed in baseball where I could not only compute my batting average, but how many singles, doubles, triples and home runs I hit. Oh, if anyone tries to joke that I know how many home runs I hit because it was none, then the joke would be inaccurate.

Book relation alert: I do give Mark a similar ability in “He Was Weird.” From when I first learned it in fifth grade, a piece of US and British history has been stuck in my mind. Note: in 1754 both countries’ history was intertwined. It was the reason why British General Braddock lost the opening battle of the French and Indian War and his life. It was because he ordered his soldiers to stand shoulder to shoulder like they would have in an open field battle. I confess that I cheat a little in the story. Not long ago, I learned that the reason why generals arrayed their armies in tight formations was down to the fact that the smooth bore muskets that most soldiers used at the time were largely inaccurate. Therefore, they were all grouped together in the hopes that with all of them shooting at the same target, they might hit something. Mark points this out in his history class, unfortunately his classmates use it as an excuse to bully him and though I didn’t say it in the story, their justification would have been that Mark was showing off. Another problem that people with ASD have.

18th Century battle formation

18th Century battle formation

That leads nicely to the point I am trying to make here. There are many people with autism who do have some rather special abilities but people aren’t very perceptive of it. They can work out things quickly in their head or make links that so called normal people can’t or they can astound you with their knowledge of a given subject because their fascination with that subject has led them to research it thoroughly. These people should be encouraged, not seen as annoying or irrelevant or derided for having a one track mind. They should be listened to and taken more seriously and most importantly, appreciated for who they are.

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