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Shoppolis Islands Aspect

My name is Doctor Bill Shrader, and my job is to bring you the aspects of family and personal involvement on SI.  Shoppolis Islands medical community comprises experts of all types with affiliations and other bonds outside SI.  Our experts evaluate the mental, physical, psychological and social condition of our people periodically, and the results are interesting, particular in the realm of confidence and security.  The results of these assessments have varied over the years and are closely associated with conditions elsewhere in the world.  When isolated to SI, results show that the average SI person is relatively well-adjusted, confident, reasonably secure and finds life positive.  Some are negative. 

     The average SI person who has lived on SI all his/her life scores the highest in long-term security and confidence.  Those who have lived in the community of SI under five years do not score as high.  Those who have come to SI and lived for more than twenty-five years score higher than those at five, but no person who has come to SI scores as high as those who have not experienced the rest of the world first-hand.  Those who spend an appreciable amount of time off the islands, i.e., studying abroad, return at a lower rate of confidence and security.  Those whose confidence level and security levels jump upward and off the charts are those who have experienced traumatic off-island events, have recovered from them, and have convinced themselves that life on SI is the most-probable place to live happily. 

     One of the more interesting aspects of SI strategy, when considering the level of security in our citizens, is where our most-intense research and development takes place.  One would think this would happen under a department in social services or other "human" organizations, but on SI, this is not the case.  Threats of any kind are considered under our Defense Department.  The reason for this is the mind set required to address situations that are social, commercial and industrial, not necessarily political or military.  To SI scientists, a threat is a threat regardless of its source.

     There are two scientists of note who are integrally involved in subtle threats, and they are twins.  The only department with two people placed in the same position, is the Department of Defense Research and Development Lab.  Doctor Saydie Himmelmann Proust, married to DuPries Proust, and Doctor Horst Himmelmann, married to Doctor Lyla Chance, are twins.  Now, in their fifties, the two, who have never been more than a few miles from each other, hold the same Chairmanship position in the DODRDL.  Since the department is not political and is not looking for people or organizations to "blame," both Himmelmanns assess threat to SI citizens around the world in a manner in keeping with pure research based on probabilities and possibilities rather than firm fact.  The Lab deals in hypothetical situations known as "could-be's."  The objective is not to prove that these threats exist, but that they could exist already or could become fact in the future.  This visionary viewpoint has allowed SI citizens to not only deal with the realities of today, and the consequences of the past, but to know what to look for or expect in the future.  Subjects (issues) that have recently been researched include:

• Pharmaceutical firms creating future patients by creating maladies and upgrading existing conditions and syndromes to "disease" level in order to accomplish two goals, one, to upgrade a situation that warrants another product, and two, develop a resulting anxiety that is controlled or eliminated through further use of manufactured and marketed drugs.

• Medical professionals "nursing" existing maladies in a manner that ensures perpetuation of their jobs through possible in-line cooperation with pharmaceutical developers, in other words, becoming pawns of the manufacturers by having their cures limited to available drugs and services.

• Medical tools, cures and drugs that are inside spheres too introspective and introverted, which automatically eliminates all "alternative" practices.

• Financial institutions making loans available to those known to be too old to pay them off, thus rendering borrowers, through subsequent litigation and law suites, qualified for judgments against their estates when they can't pay for one reason or another.  This long-range strategy of encumbering estates ensures that those inheriting property can be responsible for paying what their lost relatives could not pay in their lifetimes.

• Commercial media targeting our youth in a manner that unduly influences what they request their parents to buy, which is often done automatically without sufficient analysis.  This "leapfrogging" of buying as a result of pressure from their children is called "dear pressure" by our Lab personnel.

• Psychological and Psychiatric use of prescribed drugs to alleviate or eliminate "boredom," use of those designed to ensure "moderated behavior," and those designed to "enhance" potential.  These "soma-solutions" are considered a massive threat to our children and effect the parenting that goes along with them.

• Parenting that allows a given society (or society within a society) to determine the norms for conduct and child-rearing rather than applying logical and long-established global or universal values and methodologies, i.e., where the mass media "adapts" its presentation in a manner that ensures defined success by using familiarity-for-acceptance methodologies.

A number of recent suggestions for consideration have resulted and are published occasionally for SI citizens.  The following have been accepted as "responsible guidelines" for SI citizens regardless of where they are in the world including SI.

• Shorten copyrights in proportion to the level of success of the individual or group.  This renders those of limited assets to have the longest benefit, where those with inordinate income from vast success have theirs shortened to no less than 25 years (the arbitrary length of one generation).  This allows those less talented to "benefit" from the success of others, so they can produce "offspring."  This possibility would also reduce the number of entertainers sacrificing their copyrights into the public domain to make a point, which skews statistics and takes away from those who must make some of their work public in order to advertise and promote their products.

• Corporate entities restricting the incomes and benefits of executives to a given multiple of the the lowest worker in the company to balance incomes and make them more realistic.

• Incomes for sports figures, entertainers and other "sole proprietors," predicated on an acceptable multiple of the lowest income subsistence level of the society in which they live and operate.

• Limited liability, proportionate to the situation, in all professions.

• Limited rewards, proportionate to the situation, to those who win lawsuits.

It is interesting to note that around the world, and on SI, these voluntary guidelines adopted by SI citizens, are called "Esseyes" and have become guidelines and even laws in some countries and societies.

List of Human Needs (not necessarily wants)

Dr. Grace Pretoosi of Trio Islands has given us something to think about with her list below.  It has what she thinks are the majority of human needs, not necessarily what humans want.  Once they realize what they need, they often add some of the to their list of wants.  Values like responsibility often evade the typical human until he/she realizes that the satisfaction that comes from it offsets many negatives.  It is quite nice to be responsible even if that responsibility is negative.  These tenets are hard to understand, but they can be felt severely when one has a need or a want and it can't be fulfilled.  Then, it is time to act and find a way to acquire what fulfills the need or want.  Dr. Pretoosi is not only a doctor of psychiatry and psychology, she also holds clinics that provide ways to find what you need, particularly through other humans.

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