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(June 1938 – DC Comics)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blog 13 – July 2021<\/strong> M.Hines<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Superman\u2019s motto extolls the virtues of our nation when he\u2019s first introduced on the radio June, 1938.  The Historic records of that precarious year reflect the battles of goodness and evil; chaos and civility: Hitler marched into Austria, the Munich Pact was made between Britain, France and Italy; Orson Welles broadcasted his adaptation of H.G. Wells\u2019 War of the Worlds, creating a nationwide panic as listeners believed aliens had actually landed in New Jersey; the  Fair Labor Standards Act established a minimum wage;  Franklin D. Roosevelt was President and John N. Garner his VP;   Federal spending was $6.84 billion, and the cost of a first class stamp was 3 cents (https:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/year\/1938<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u201cCan Do\u201d Generation exemplified \u201cthe better angels of our nature\u201d during the 1938 darker period of Nationalism, War, Genocide, Economic Depression, and world despair. But like other countries, America is not immune to a complex and contradictory path of history.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This unique compilation of people, voices, beliefs, dreams and nightmares, somehow survived to become America.   Glued together with the accepted rule of law \u2013 whether satisfied with a specific legal decision or not \u2013 evolving and progressing through the ying and yang of debate and despair, goodness and evil. Our Democracy keeps expanding and growing, sometimes despite itself, but always aiming for the basic, indisputable, accepted truths the forefather’s words established in the beginning: \u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal\u2026\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We the People have a say to a degree unlike any other country, yet freedoms and equality are still not realized in an \u2018equitable\u2019 way.  Our assumed \u2018inalienable right\u2019 to cast our opinion cannot be taken for granted.  We the People are the gatekeepers, the thermostat of our Democracy. Left, Middle, Right; each is important to the function of the whole. Each pulls and pushes responding to the constant changes; adjusting and aligning our temperature, finding the balance,  and accommodating the needs and values in the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As any Veteran will attest, \u2018Freedom isn\u2019t free\u2019. The Self-Governance America has accepted, the responsibility we\u2019ve all taken on – like a simmering pot- is not something to be left unwatched or unattended.  We can\u2019t put it on autopilot and assume it will work. We can\u2019t be complacent and so involved in our daily grind, we ignore or delegate our responsibility; our contribution.  We are an exception; this place with so many contradicting voices, opinions, and beliefs makes us so. This is a country unique in its capacity to form a consensus despite the kaleidoscopic views, despite the disagreements.   And, we have always been able to unite for the important stuff; trauma or victory. Our unity is maintained and strengthened with the knowledge that we can do better; we\u2019re just not \u2018there\u2019<\/em> yet.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, in the spirit of Superman, ‘Truth, Justice and the American Way\u2019, I went in search of answers to that infamous question: \u201cWhat is Truth\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Human Systems Dynamics Institute divides \u2018truth\u2019 into four types:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFOUR TRUTHS\u201d (https:\/\/www.hsdinstitute.ort\/resources\/four-truths.html)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. SUBJECTIVE: How an individual sees or experiences the world<\/em>
    1. \u201cToday is a good day for me.\u201d<\/em><\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      [Or: I say it\u2019s too hot to work, but my boss say\u2019s the weather\u2019s perfect]<\/p>\n\n\n\n