Rob Kall: Being a Positive AND Tough Progressive

Second Law:
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

Third Law:
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

These laws should apply to any human creation, and the rules should be applied to any humans who operate any human invention. And the corporation is perhaps the most dangerous threat to humanity and the planet earth than any human invention ever created. But that's another essay, which will soon follow this one.

Bottom line, I will continue to hold positive visions of America's future-- but they will be visions that right wing extremists, and Republican spinmeisters in particular will attack as negative.

Bottom line, it is consistent with a positive view of the world and an intention to be positive to fight, to want to kill off toxic pathogens that attack democracy, that attack our freedoms that threaten our constitution, the environment, humanity and the planet, Gaia, herself.

I've been struggling with this dilemma for some time. I've looked at my op-eds and many of them really are nasty, negative attacks on right wingers. I could fairly easily put together a collection, into a book, and I worried I might come off like an Anne Coulter type. That conflicts with my image of my self as a person who has spent over two decades pioneering and championing positive psychology. This op-ed has been a useful exercise in working this through. Now I'm ready to take my gloves off-- to fight the disease, and to paint the big picture of a positive future. I, we can do both.

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progressive, rightwing, spin, talking points, robotics, asimov, corporatism, fascism

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