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movement to amend, 289–292
classical economics, 27, 29–30
climate change, 167–173, 185–186
Clinton, Bill, 42, 46, 294
Clinton, Hillary, 275
Cobb, David, 291
commons, 302–311
airwaves, 41
cable/telephone infrastructure, 46–47
corporations free use of, 309–311
health care, 294
privatization, 302–303
seizing other nations’ via patents, 307–309
tradition of the, 11
water rights, 303–305
community resurgence, 251–252
comorbidities/comorbid conditions, 131–133
competition, 43–47, 52
consciousness, 155–157
conservatives, 11–12, 22–25, 128, 276–279
consumerism, 158–163, 256–257
Cornyn, John, 287
corporate charters, 255, 280
corporate personhood
birth of, 271–273, 279–280
international corporations, 286, 289
movement to rescind, 264–265
Santa Clara and, 263–264, 272–275, 280, 292
See also Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
corporate power
Boston Tea Party revolt against, 266–271
externalizing costs, 188–189
Founders’ limiting of, 10–11, 279–282
hostile takeovers, 305–307
Radical Right linked to, 11–12
remaking the American landscape, 53–54
restraining, 254–255
trade agreements fueling, 23–24
untaxed use of the commons, 309–311
corporations
CEO salaries, 312–316
changing citizenship, 309–311
corporatocracy and, 24–25
destabilizing indigenous cultures, 257–258
income disparity within, 15
lack of accountability, 24–25
profit motive, 14–17, 24–25
corporatocracy, 24–25, 30
Cracking the Code (Hartmann), 5, 58
cultural anthropology, 68–72, 74–77, 235–236, 246–250
cultural change. See solutions
cultural cycles, 248–250
cultural hemispheric imbalance, 107–108, 124–125
Darwin, Charles, 108–113
Davis, J. C. Bancroft, 272–273
death tax, 92, 94, 96–99
Declaration of Independence, 19
democide, 36
democracy, 31–38
in animal kingdom, 19–20
corporate personhood threatening, 285–289
founded on egalitarian/peaceful principles, 244
and the middle class, 17–22
peace with other democracies, 249
reinventing, 37–38
as resilient, 34–37
sin and punishment in, 31–34
vs. the conservatives, 22–23
workplace, 315–316
Democrats, 95, 100–102, 287
Denmark transportation initiatives, 188, 194, 196
deregulation, 8–9, 24–25, 40–43, 46
Descartes, René, 153, 190
desertification, 177
DiCaprio, Leonardo, 245
Dickens, Charles, 26, 34, 293
Drake, Francis, 268–269
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 273, 290
drinking-water supply, 180–182, 303–305
Drobney, Sheldon, 4
drug addiction, 147–149
East India Company, 267–270, 279
economic theory, 24–25, 27–30
ecopsychology, 153
Edison, Nancy, 62–63
Edison, Thomas, 62–63, 67, 76, 200
Edison gene, 62–64, 73–74, 130–135
education system
and Edison-gene children, 130–135
as failing, 116
handling ADHD students, 62–64, 128–130
need for public education, 48–52, 128
stress in schools, 126–128
vision for, 254
Einstein, Albert, 122, 200
Eisler, Riane, 125, 246
electorate, informed. See informed electorate
electric cars, 194, 196
electricity production, 183–184, 185, 191–194, 252, 302–303
Elizabeth I, Queen, 268–269
emotional healing. See bilateral therapy
energy consumption, 183–197
gas tax increase, 188–191
Germany’s solar initiative, 183–184, 191–194
oil dependence, 184–187, 194, 258
taxing carbon, 195–197
England, 147–148, 267–270, 279
Enron, 302–303, 309
environmental crisis, 167–175
carbon tax to curb, 195–197
in dispersal/disappearance of cultures, 235–236
fate of animals, 167–168, 174, 191, 236, 258–259
Germany’s solar initiative, 183–184, 191–194
greenhouse gas emissions fueling, 168–173
as human/cultural crisis, 173–175, 245, 259–260
interconnectedness and the, 166, 190–191
old cultures predicting, 81–82
recovering externalized costs, 188–190
soil salinity, 180–182
trees, 176–182
visible climate change, 167–168 See also solutions
Epic of Gilgamesh, 108–109
Equal Time Rule, 41
Essenes, 82
estate tax, 90–94, 96–99
ethanol, 186–187
ethnocentricity, 81
evil, 203, 244, 253, 276
extinction, 167, 191, 236, 258–259
Fairness Doctrine, 8–9, 40–42
Farb, Peter, 237, 246
farmers, 65–68, 78–81, 120–121
fascism, 11
fast-food industry, 179–180
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) airwaves regulations, 40–42
Feingold, Russ, 276
Field, Stephen J., 272
First Amendment rights, 271, 275, 277–279, 281–286, 289
flex-fuel vehicles, 186–187, 194, 196
food production, 179–180, 229, 252–253, 255, 258
Founders and Framers
belief in taxes, 96
limiting corporate power, 10–11, 264, 279–282, 307
vision of democracy, 17–19, 21, 96, 244
Fourteenth Amendment, 272–273, 279, 291
Fox News, 42
framing, 88–102
estate vs. death tax, 96–99
the gun control debate, 88–90
John McCain, 90–94
personal worldviews, 94–95
war vs. occupation, 99–102
Franklin, Benjamin, 17–18, 109
freedom, 34–35
Freud, Sigmund, 105–106, 152
future pacing, 90–94
future vision, 251–261
Garnatz, Michael, 73–74
gas tax, 188–191
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), 257
genetics, 62–65, 73–74
German health-care system, 298–299
German solar initiative, 183–184, 191–194
Gilgamesh, 108–109, 154
Gimbutas, Marija, 246–247
Gingrich, Newt, 12, 92, 95, 98
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 281
Gladish, William C., 313–314
global warming, 167–170
globalization, 313
God, 81–85
Gore, Al, 170
government-funded addictions, 147–148
government-managed health care, 297–301
Great Britain, 147–148, 267–270, 279
Great Depression, 5, 26–27, 103
greenhouse gases, 168–173
Greenspan, Alan, 28
Gregory, Dick, 140, 141, 249
gun control debate, 88–90
hallucinations, 155–156
Hamilton, Alexander, 5, 195, 307
Hannity, Sean, 4, 45
Hansen, James, 168–172
happiness myth, 158–163
Hartmann, Louise, 1–2, 4, 50, 57, 137, 138, 144, 150
healing, 103–105. See also bilateral therapy
health-care coverage, 293–301
lack of adequate, 14, 293, 295–297
Medicare system, 299–301
options in delivery of, 297–299
privatization of, 295–297, 299–301
right vs. privilege, 294
health insurance companies, 294–298, 300
hemispheric dominance, 107–108
Hewes, George, 266, 267, 269–270
Heyer, Horst Von, 222–233
Hobbes, Thomas, 18, 19, 22, 24, 33, 34, 244
Holocaust survivors, 103–104
Holocene period, 75–76
hospital privatization, 294, 295–296, 298
human development, 122–135
ADHD children, 128–130
hostile/safe polarization, 122–123
importance of home/family, 139–141
left brain dominance, 247–248
logical consequences vs. punishment, 140–141
nurturing Edison-gene children, 130–135
reptile brain predominance, 123–126, 129–130, 132
schools as key, 126–128
See also education system
human healing, 103–104
human nature, 31–37, 79, 202–203, 244, 276
human race sustainability, 173–175
hunters, 64–77
ADHD children as, 57–58, 64–68, 72–73
disappearance of, 68–72
and Edison-gene persistence, 73–77
as natural state, 119–121
in old/new cultures, 78–81
hyperfocus, 66
hypnosis, 105–106
ice ages, 74–75
income disparity, 15
income taxes, 195
India, 60–61, 307
indigenous peoples, 17, 31–33, 37, 68–70
bilaterality in, 105, 108
“civilized” practices of, 110–111
corporate harm to, 257–258
dealing with bad behavior, 31–34
as democratic, 109
disappearance of, 68–70
in harmony with earth, 79–80
heightened consciousness of, 155–157
influence on the Founders, 17–18, 109–111, 237, 244
as peaceful and egalitarian, 237, 244, 248–249 See also Caral, Peru
Information Age, 145–146
information infrastructure, 46–47, 52
informed electorate, 39–52
access to education, 48–52
impact of deregulation on, 40–43
Information Age falling short, 145–146
media monopolies undermining, 43–47
preferring infotainment over news, 39–40
ingenuity, 199, 201
Ingersoll-Rand, 309, 310
inheritance tax, 90–94, 96–99
interconnectedness
God in nature, 84–85
Jesus on, 82–83
key to environmental crisis, 166, 190–191, 236
in older/younger cultures, 80–83, 86, 150–155, 166
people in community, 253–254
with trees, 182
international corporations, personhood rights, 286, 289
international sustainability efforts, 183–184, 186, 188, 191–194, 196
Internet access, 46–47
Internet scrubbing, 49
Inuit people, 167, 258
Iraq war, 99–102, 249
Iroquois Confederacy, 17–18, 174–175
Jaynes, Julian, 155–157
Jefferson, Thomas
advocate of public education, 9, 48, 50–51, 128
appreciation of indigenous peoples, 109–111, 237, 244
concern over excessive wealth, 21, 96, 255, 264
inspiration from, 4–5, 7–8
notion of happiness, 18
vision of the middle class, 22
as wealthy, 200
work to ban monopolies, 271–272, 282, 307
Jesus, 82–83, 85, 136, 199, 214
Johnson, Lyndon B., 100, 299
Judaism, 82–83
judicial system corruption, 288–289
Kaminer, Wendy, 198
Kennedy, Anthony, 277–279, 282
knowledge scarcity, 145–146
Kogi tribe, 79–80
Koppel, Ted, 42–43
Korten, David C., 306
La Coordinadora, 304
labor unions, 14–15, 315–316
Lakoff, George, 95
language, 156, 247–248
Larsen A and B ice shelves, 167–168
Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight (Hartmann), 3, 116–117, 198–199
laws, localizing, 253
Lay, Kenneth, 303
learning trance, 90–94
left brain dominance, 247–248
Limbaugh, Rush, 4, 42, 45
Lincoln, Abraham, 290
Lipfert, Gerhard, 221, 223–232, 234
literacy, 156, 247–248
livestock industry, 172–173, 178–180
lizard people, 123–125
local agriculture, 229, 252–253
Locke, John, 244
logging industry, 178
logical consequences, 140–141
Madison, James, 10, 307
male-dominated cultures, 246–247
Marshall, John, 282
Mbonga, James, 212, 214–218
McCain, John, 90–94, 276
McCain-Feingold Act (Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act), 275–276, 277, 284
McGuire, William W., 314
McKenna, Terence, 156–157
Mead, Margaret, 79, 119
meat production, 172–173, 178–180
media, 39–47
devolution of broadcast news, 40–43
as infotainment, 39–40, 42
monopolies in, 43–47, 52
Reagan’s impact on, 8–9
medical plant patents, 307–309