| 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 15 |
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 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 |
mbitious/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 |
| BACK TALK/TALK BACK PAGE |
