Contents

PART I: Problem Analysis Using the Area of Enlightenment

Section I: Fundamentals

Chapter 1     Count von Bismarck

                      And His Soldiers’ Multi-Dimensionality...................... 6

Chapter 2     Getting Off The Line........................................................ 11

Chapter 3     How To Get Into The Area of Enlightenment............. 15

Section II:  Genetics And Imprinting

Chapter 4     Sociopathic Behavior—Genetics or Imprinting?........ 23

Chapter 5     The Dichotomy of Discipline......................................... 39

Chapter 6     “There Are No Bad Boys”............................................. 55

Chapter 7     The Joys of Stereotyping............................................... 72

Chapter 8     Smarts—IQ or Emotional Intelligence?........................ 82

Section III: Self-Esteem

Chapter 9     What IS Self-Esteem?...................................................... 89

Chapter 10   Self-Esteem—A Balance of Nature and Nurture......... 93

Chapter 11   Improving Self-Image...................................................... 102

Chapter 12   Be All You Can Be........................................................... 107

Chapter 13   A Good Attitude Counts................................................ 113

Section IV: Social Issues

Chapter 14   What A Lucky Guy!........................................................ 125

Chapter I5    Games People Play........................................................... 130

Chapter 16   Does Hard-Core Pornography Cause Violence?......... 134

Section V: Education

Chapter 17   The Great Reading Debate............................................. 153

Chapter 18   Abolish Competition And Grades?  Don’t Do It!....... 161

Chapter 19   Open Classrooms............................................................. 170

Chapter 20   Why Johnny Might REALLY Have To Fail................. 175

Chapter 21   Women-Only Feminist Classes..................................... 187

Chapter 22   TV—The Destroyer Of Our Young!............................. 195

Section VI: Business Conundrums

Chapter 23   Innovation and Entrepreneurial Drive.......................... 215

Chapter 24   Success, Ego and Drive.................................................. 220

Chapter 25   Type A Personalities—Doomed To Heart Attacks?.. 223

Chapter 26   The Clash Between Intelligence And Knowledge...... 230

Chapter 27   Analyzing Workers for Reasoning Ability

                      And Cautiousness........................................................... 236

Chapter 28   Government Control Or Laissez-Faire?....................... 240

Chapter 29   Should You Take The Gamble?..................................... 248

PART II: Deciphering Agreements And Disagreements Using The Area of Enlightenment

Section VII:  Non-Resolvable Arguments

Chapter 30   Setting The Stage............................................................ 254

Chapter 31   The Dole—Enabling Crutch or the Route to

                       Independence?................................................................. 262

Chapter 32   Homosexuality—Nurture Versus Nature..................... 272

Chapter 33   Abortion—Don’t Confuse Me With the Facts,

                       I’ve Already Made Up My Mind.................................. 285

Chapter 34   The Death Penalty Conundrum..................................... 303

Figures

Section I

Figure 1.1     Smart/Stupid and Lazy/Active....................................... 8

Figure 2.1     Proper Acting/Devious and Cowardly/Brave............. 13

Section II

Figure 4.1     Societally Positive/Sociopath and Nurtured

                       Negatively/Nurtured Positively..................................... 31

Figure 5.1     Societally Positive/Sociopath and Negative

                       Response to Reasonable Discipline/

                       Positive Response to Reasonable Discipline.............. 47

Figure 5.2     Societally Positive/Sociopath and

                       Unreasonable Discipline/Reasonable Discipline........ 52

Figure 6.1     Genetically Societally Positive/Genetically

                       Sociopathic and Imprinted Antisocial/Pro-Social....... 59

Figure 7.1     Person Appears To Be Bad: Does Stereotype/

                       Does Not Stereotype and Does Not Analyze/

                       Analyzes for Accuracy................................................... 75

Figure 7.2     Person Appears To Be Good: Does Stereotype/

                       Does Not Stereotype and Does Not Analyze/

                       Analyzes for Accuracy................................................... 78

Figure 8.1     High IQ/Low IQ and Low Emotional Intelligence/

                       High Emotional Intelligence........................................... 83

Section III

Figure 10.1   Socially Constructive/Sociopath and Low

                       Self-Esteem/High Self-Esteem........................................ 97

Figure 10.2   Active/Lazy and Low Self-Esteem/

                       High Self-Esteem.............................................................. 100

Figure 11.1   Societally Positive/Societally Negative and

                       In Denial/Owns Up.......................................................... 104

Figure 12.1   Competitive/Non-Competitive and Stop Trying/

                       Be All You Can Be........................................................... 109

Figure 13.1   Well-Intended—Feels Good About Self/

                       Feels Bad About Self and Tears Down Others/

                       Builds Up Others............................................................. 117

Figure 13.2   Not Well-Intended—Feels Good About Self /

                       Feels Bad About Self and Tears Down Others/

                       Builds Up Others............................................................. 120

Section IV

Figure 14.1   Capable/Inept and Few Opportunities/Many

                       Opportunities................................................................... 127

Figure 15.1   Person A—Winner/Loser and Person B—

                       Winner/Loser................................................................... 131

Figure 16.1   Societally-Positive/Sociopath and Engages in Hard-

                       Core Pornography/Does Not Use Pornography......... 144

Figure 16.2   Mutual Pleasure/Pleasure for Pain and Non-

                       Consensual Participation/Consensual Participation.. 147

Section V

Figure 17.1   Can Learn with Phonics/Cannot Learn with Phonics

                       and Cannot Learn with Whole Language/Can Learn

                       with Whole Language..................................................... 158

Figure 18.1   Self-Competitive/Non-Competitive and

                       No Grades/Analytical Grading....................................... 167

Figure 19.1   Self-Motivated/Unmotivated and Proscribed Class

                       Sequence/Free Choice in Class Sequence................... 172

Figure 20.1   Bright/Not So Bright and Not Held Back/

                       Held Back.......................................................................... 181

Figure 21.1   Female-Only Class/Co-Ed Class and Extreme

                       Radical Instructor/Rational Feminist Instructors........ 191

Figure 22.1   Impressionable/Not Impressionable and Doesn’t

                       Watch Much TV/Watches A Lot of TV...................... 208

Section VI

Figure 23.1   Strongly Entrepreneurial/Weakly Entrepreneurial and

                       Weakly Innovative/Strongly Innovative..................... 217

Figure 23.2   Thrives on Ambiguity/Hates Ambiguity and

                       Weakly Innovative/Strongly Innovative..................... 219

Figure 24.1   Big Ego/Small Ego and Unsuccessful In

                       Life/Successful In Life.................................................... 221

Figure 25.1   Internalizes/Externalizes and Easy Going/Type A...... 227

Figure 26.1   Smart/Stupid and Ignorant/Knowledgeable................ 231

Figure 26.2   Magnitude of Knowledge and FACTS........................ 233

Figure 27.1   Reasoner/Memorizer and Impetuous/Chary................ 237

Figure 27.2   Dexterous/Clumsy and Impetuous/Chary.................... 239

Figure 28.1   Not Exploitive/Very Exploitive and

                       Heavy Regulation/No Regulation................................. 244

Figure 29.1   Payoff Good/Payoff Poor and Failure Likely/

                       Success Likely.................................................................. 249

Section VII

Figure 30.1   Parties Agree/Parties Disagree and Conjectural

                       Argument/Factual Argument......................................... 258

Figure 31.1   Ambitious/Lethargic and On The Dole/Not On

                       The Dole............................................................................ 268

Figure 32.1   Genetic Heterosexual/Genetic Homosexual and

                       Imprinted Homosexual/Imprinted Heterosexual.......... 281

Figure 33.1   Pro-Choice/Pro-Life and Abortion On Demand/

                       No Abortion Ever............................................................ 288

Figure 34.1   Unintentional Murder/Heinous Murder and

                       Repeat Murderer/First Time Murderer......................... 312

GLOSSARY........................................................................................... 316

REFERENCES........................................................................................ 318

INDEX...................................................................................................... 328

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