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Fairness Intro

Fairness is one of the most important and fundamental ideas involved in social interaction of any kind and unfairness is at the source of anti-social behavior. Most people assume that they have a general sense of what fairness is. At the same time actually trying to pin it down and apply consistent criteria to complex situations can be very difficult. Most cultures on every continent, even the original cultures, have some version of this concept. Often the idea of fairness sounds a lot like the golden rule. Considering the timing of original continental migrations, the sense of fairness has been around for tens of thousands of years. Fairness must be an absolute necessity for any sustainable socio-cultural propagation. It seems to have emerged with human culture and societies. There have been some individuals who work harder to 'beat the system' than to maintain it for as long as there has been culture.

What I call the 'Fairness Ensemble' is an integrated (interdependent) system of concepts evolved in particular cultures or subcultures to minimize conflict and facilitate cooperation. There are many other very old concepts that are somewhat universal in many cultures around the world that have included themselves in the thinking about fairness many millennia before I started calling them an ensemble. Responsibility, truth, trust, cooperation, teamwork, respect, trade, and sharing, are just a few interdependent social concepts that support and enhance the value of each other. The few that I have chosen to mention gives an hint at the variety of directions that fairness propagates and enables social interaction in all cultures.

The idea of Temenos includes the intention to consolidate and integrate the most socially functional and universally benevolent insights into the idea of fairness. Using these patterns as open and flexible starting points we will continuously question and refine them through real world use. The total accretion of insight and methodologies at any given time will be the essence of 'Temenos.'

Cultures can be very anti-social and still survive for centuries using power as their main support. For thousands of years these 'Civilizations' were tyrannies and often they were what we would now call terrorists. Tyrannies grossly and tenaciously distort all of fairness ensemble ideas, substituting and enforcing use of an 'unfairness ensemble', manipulating distortions to their advantage, yet tyranny cannot avoid being dependent on fairness for it's existence. It is often called corruption. Temenos Nexus, LLC also sponsors efforts to sort out the mental tools from the mental traps and propagate knowledge of 'clues' that help to recognize each. There are generally unrecognized leverages at work and systems of leverage are reversible. . The existing degree of freedom influences the changes that are possible.

The tyranny/corruption spectrum is dependent on some uncorrupted fairness to sustain the society. This is one of several chinks in their armor. Another major weakness is the necessity of using what I call "The Tools of Greed" to control others against their will. What I call the tools of greed are force, intimidation, fraud, and cultural mental impairment. (FIFCMI) Cultural Mental impairment needs an intro of its own, but one other new idea needs an introduction first. Explore the "Functional Intelligence Intro."

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