Human habilitation and the deadly Cortez environment for developmentally deprived adults.
Today I began to ask myself a specific question that I expect to be working to answer in the coming months. But the needs won't wait for a couple of months so some initial thoughts.
Habilitation is usually in the context of someone considered disabled. But I suppose an infant is disabled relative to being able to meet life head on. I use the word in that way.
Most of us would pretty easily agree on the environmental requirements, including caregivers, to make it likely that an infant becomes a healthy joyful human adult.
What if a child doesn't receive that? And somehow they survive until their 20s or 30s. Do they magically not need what they should have received in their first 20 years?
Another question is, what if someone did receive the requirements to grow to adulthood healthy, and then the environment becomes traumatic, inhospitable?
Cannot all but the most damaged of we housed in cortez, face the fact that hostile environments could make even you and me degenerate in terms of our human health, physical and more importantly emotional, mental, social and intellectual? The answer is certainly yes. We might Comfort ourselves that we rise to challenges, but only to a point If we're honest with ourselves, and we rarely are.
I'm not unhappy with the relevance and accuracy of the picture here in black white green yellow red and gray. It will evolve over the coming months as time and research is poured into it by me. But I don't expect it will change much.
Details will emerge. Useful examples across the country will emerge. But the basic shape is likely to remain the same. There's no rocket science here. For me there's a lifetime of studying such issues, but all, almost all of us that have not been developmentally deprived, have done similarly if not to the same degree.
A question that that leaves is, if this is remotely correct, that our current environment is certain to destroy Health among our neediest adults, do we in Cortez care?
I can answer that with certainty for myself, I do, more than just about anything in the world. Why? Because demonstrably caring about this is where the joy is. For me certainly. But pretty much all studies of human happiness point to this, though they might not use these words.
But james, we in Cortez are in a recessionary environment quite possibly headed toward depression. Yes.
And all the more so the place where we can find joy is in the direction of addicting ourselves to helping the neediest among us.
George Bush pointed to this not long ago when he pointed to Albert Camus, The Plague.
Oh, obviously, until we Rectify this in the environment, the only thing we are achieving with all the money we're spending on habilitation in the courts, police the library, the agencies, the rehab Industrial complex, is feed those employed in the system.
Is that enough? Aren't we better than that? I mean what we're doing now is pretty cruel, pretty ugly, isn't it? Aren't we better than that?
Without question, if the agencies, city, churches, Cortez adult citizens at large wanted to, we could fix much of this Within months, and all of it within a year or two. What could be more joyful than to commit ourselves to this?
Nothing.
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