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- Nelson Hyde Chick
- San Francisco, CA
- United States
This conversation is closed.
Preventing those that would be bad parents from becoming parents
Take a survey of our thousand most successful people about the parenting they received as children; then compare those experiences with the parenting received from our thousand worst criminals. The successful people will tell stories mostly of decent to great parenting, while the criminals will be telling stories about abandonment, abuse and neglect. Also, all those stories we read about people that were about to overcome the obstacles of poverty to go on to do great thing, they all had some good parenting in their past. Society's worst problem is bad parenting.
Mitch SMith
Jul 18 2013: Nelson.
- +3
This is Eugenics with a capital E.
It is the ideology that fuelled the worst kneejerk political action in the 20'th century including the Nazi Holocaust.
I suggest you do some research and gain some true understanding.
You may begin with the works of Malthus.
Malthus was an apologist for the rich just like the Marquis De Sade and Crowley.
While it is true that early childhood parenting is essential in the formation of a human, it is nowhere as simple as you would like to think.
Awareness of parenting skills is not dependent on money or legal status - which you will find to be accidents of fashion .. not virtues.
On the other hand, you can make a career out of disinformation and upper-class self congratulation just as Hitler did.
But I won't be buying your book.
If you are worried about poverty and crime, may I suggest you look at wealth justice and discriminatory laws before you take the lazy way out by blaming the parents.
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Jul 18 2013: Oh, I think it comes through loud and clear.
Jul 18 2013: Very difficult to get out of the amygdala when faced with such an obvious threat ;)
Shall we say: good practice?
(I've certainly not perfected it)Jul 18 2013: Hey TF,
The eugenics meme is impossible to kill.
The best we can do is recognise it as a sign of an immature world-view.
I do think it's a gate through which any serious examination of sociology must pass.
But the allure of the quick fix is dangerous in the extreme, and will continue to serve as a blockage to true wisdom.
Mitch SMith
Jul 18 2013: Better to get the bloodied nose here online than in a pub somewhere.
- +2
I think Nelson is getting off easy.
If there's one thing I know about humans: they will fight to the death for reproductive rights.
I think that is one aspect of humanity that should not be tinkered with.Jul 18 2013: The worst part of it is that I was raised by a Eugenics fan.
It was part of my own unquestioned world view until life put it squarely in my face and I had to decide as an adult - and try to actually do something about it.
The answer on the other side of escaping the eugenics meme is to realise that healing is the answer.
Doing the damage of sterilisation does not heal the damage of abuse. Healing heals the damage. Nothing else.
Learn healing, unlearn damage .. that's the only way.Jul 18 2013: thanks for the point about "allowing".
That's important.
At the moment we are undergoing an epidemic of intolerance. It's not the first time, won't be the last, but that too requires healing.
This theme of tolerance goes into almost every aspect of our lives .. it's no small thing.Jul 18 2013: Maybe you are the one that needs to read the dictionary definition for the word eugenics. If you did it would tell you that eugenics is making better humans by breeding desirable genetic traits, and preventing those with undesirable traits from procreating. There is a big difference between taking someone's reproductive rights away from them because they are short and taking them away because they like to have sex with children. Now you should look up the word euthenics, which is better humanity through a better environment; for instance, we are taller and live longer than we did a hundred years ago and this is because we have better nutrition and medical care, and that is euthenics. Don't mix up means with motivation.
Jul 18 2013: Nelson,
You are engaging in mythology.
I will oppose you - your myth is destructive, and I question your motives.
At the very least you are in the thrall of a seductive meme.
When you gain further maturity and experience you will understand this.
For now, you would be advised to let go of the interests you have vested in this destructive promotion.
You can do better - let yourself.
Jul 18 2013: About decade ago a woman was given life imprisonment for child endangerment; she had put on a show for her friends of having her Rottweiler sodomize her preteen son. It did not surprise me that someone could do such a heinous act to a child, what amazed me was that she was allowed to have another child after her first two had been taken from her by the state because she had been convicted of felony child for what she had done to them. Imagine the demons that boy will take into adulthood? If I had it my way she would have had one felony conviction for child abuse and that would have been the end of her reproductive days, and thus two less tortured souls walking the Earth.
I am sorry that your cognitive skills are so lacking that you can't even comprehend a dictionary definition between the words eugenics and euthenics. Go ahead and call me a promoter of euthenics, but if you use the word eugenics than you are just showing that you can't even comprehend a simple dictionary definition, and you don't want to advertise to the TED community your limited intellectual capacity.Jul 18 2013: You personally knew this woman?
If you base your thinking on what the media tells you, you will be motivated by the agendas of others.
I don't need the media because I have personal experience of people from all walks of life and had an opportunity to actually track and trace the dynamics of childhood harm through communities and generations.
You are not qualified to make any statement on this subject.
I applaud the question, but you should show some willingness to move on to better understanding.
Perhaps if you got a job in sociology it would help.Jul 18 2013: Look, here's the thing:
I thought exactly the same as you do for a long while.
In the end, I had to deal with it face-to-face .. we are all aware of the damage childhood abuse causes.
But sterilizing people is not the answer.
When you see the abuse in person, you are saddened, then moved to compassion. Then you start really thinking about what to do.
In my case, I chose to help with the healing and nurture of the abused child.
When you undertake that path, the reaction to sterilise, punish and control the parent is just about revenge, it's not about fixing the problem.
When I went through the long hard process of learning how to help the healing, all my old assumptions shattered.
It was not an easy time, and was painful. The worst of the pain is realising how wrong the Eugenic approach is .. how lazy it is, and how the very idea of it got injected into our community by psychopaths. I felt like a dupe and an absolute fool. I would hope you get through easier than I did.
Harming does not do healing.Jul 18 2013: Re: " If you did it would tell you that eugenics is making better humans by ... preventing those with undesirable traits from procreating."
Can you read your own words? Isn't this exactly what you propose?
Jul 18 2013: I had hoped to skip over that one ;)
Right now I'm fighting up through my amygdala response to realise that Nelson and I have some value for each other .. and how we can both get it.
Let me tell you - this subject holds intense pain for me .. it's amazing how fresh it all becomes when triggered. But there is a way forward so long as the details of conflict don't keep it bogged down.
There's actually a lot to be had from this thread. if we can get on to type 2 thinking.Jul 16 2013: How?
Two words: Zombie Apocalypse.
On a serious note, I suggest schools should teach parenting to the students. Every school all over the world. A strict regulation that every teenager is taught parenting should be enforced. This will not only ensure a person learns parenting at a young age and will be able to take care of a child in case of the highly infamous teenage pregnancies; but it will also usher teens like me to add more to what we learnt about parenting as the years go by and by the time, we become parents, we would be highly educated on the subject on parenting.
BINGO!!! wut-wut?
Jul 16 2013: Pne can lead a horse to water, but if the horse refuses to drink? Yjere are people no many chances you give them they will fail because that is just who they are. How do we prevent someone who refuses to learn from handing that mind set down to their children?
Jul 16 2013: Teenagers are taught so many things and sexual things is one of the most interesting things.
Teens/Youths can have classes on parenting. I don't mean teaching 13yr old's, I'm talking about classes on parenting to high school seniors and above.
We all learn so much in our high school, most of which we forget the preceding year and hardly use it in our life. Parenting classes should help.
Its not teaching on practically raising a child. Its about teaching the values of parenting and how to be a good parent. Should take hardly a few classes.
Jul 16 2013: Horse to water? There are those among us that you can't teach anything. Teching is not the solution no matter how much you want it to be.Jul 16 2013: What makes you say so that we can't do it?
Can't we even try?
Jul 16 2013: That is what I have been asking all along, but nobody wants to answer the following question: What would be wrong in taking the reproductive rights away from someone who has been convicted of a felony that victimized a child, say molestation?Jul 16 2013: Its not only molestors and law breakers that are not good parents.
There are many people that don't know parenting because either they were not raised well by their own parents or because they just don't know anything about it.
Teaching it in high schools or colleges will benefit everyone. It will help everyone in the long run.
Jul 16 2013: I am sorry, Simon, but just education is not the answer because there are people who refuse to learn, and you would be surprised at the number of people this applies to. But could you answer the following question: That is what I have been asking all along, but nobody wants to answer the following question: What would be wrong in taking the reproductive rights away from someone who has been convicted of a felony that victimized a child, say molestation?
Lawren Jones
Jul 14 2013: In the United States (and most other western countries), procreation is recognized as one of the fundamental freedoms. 'Preventing' someone from becoming a parent is not the answer.
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Jul 15 2013: Sure it is the answer, if say they have a felony conviction that victomized a child.
Jul 15 2013: Which part of 'procreation is a fundamental right' are you failing to understand? No law or court can stop anyone who wishes to from becoming a parent. no matter what their past.
Jul 15 2013: And I am saying maybe a child should have a right not to be born to someone who has proven themselves to be shit fot a parent!Jul 15 2013: Here is a possible solution, Lawren: A man is convicted of a felony, and the conviction is thrown out because he agrees to get a vasectomy. This would reduce the people currently in prison, and thus save us money now, while helping reduce future prison populations, and saving us money down the road. We could give the felon the option of freezing some of his swimmers, and then if he turns his life around he can start a family; this would reduce unplanned pregnancies, lower abortion operations and lower welfare customers. Theoretically it could even produce healthier children: As we age we are bombarded by radiation, and this is why the children conceived from the sperm of a twenty year old man is going to be healthier than the sperm from that same man when he is forty. A man in his twenties commits a felony, is convicted, and he gets a pass because he got a vasectomy. He turns his life around and decides he wants to have a child when he is forty, but he uses his sperm frozen when he was twenty, the child more likely than not will be healthier than if he had just used his forty year old sperm.Jul 18 2013: Perhaps if you could understand a dictionary definition?
Daniel Early
Jul 17 2013: I'm sorry if this a personal question so don't feel compelled to answer it, Nelson Hyde Chick, but I don't have the time to read through what seems to have been a very vigorous and lengthy debate. My question is, did you have bad parents or good parents?
- +1
Jul 17 2013: Good question. Should angry people be allowed to procreate?
Jul 17 2013: I'm sorry. My question was simply meant to establish if the person who introduced this idea for a topic had good parents or bad parents. If he himself had bad parents then he has an obvious bias. Whether his parents were actually good or bad, would he really still insist that people who might turn out to be bad parents shouldn't be allowed to be bad parents, if it were his own parents in question, meaning they couldn't have him.
It takes a village to raise a child and (this is an oversimplification) a lot of bad parents are just bad children grown-up, and in this sense the concept of bad parenting is representative of the society and its poor value system which leads to so many individuals getting together and doing a rotten job raising their kids.
Angry people, for better or worse, have as much right to procreate as a Zen Buddhist monk. It's not my place to say they can't. I can treat them with loving-kindness. And maybe learn about my own anger.Jul 15 2013: The cause is not new ... the question has always been ... who makes the decision. In Hitler's Germany would it have been only the Master Race survives ... in old USSR non party members not allowed to reproduce ... in China it was a one child rule ... the pattern here is that the decision was made via politics.
I worked in a prison and they come from all walks of life ....
You are by far the most frequent commenter on this conversation and make a emotional argument. You do not wish to discuss ... you wish to have everyone agree with you.
I agree with Pat Gilbert ... lets agree to disagree.
adesh saxena
Jul 15 2013: To remove poverty we do not remove the poor.
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Nobody can take away the right of any body from becoming parents.
Society needs to recognise and help such individuals.
Jul 15 2013: wow. big brothers are watching me!
Lots of bad parenting came from things like drug or alchohol abuse, etc. and other problems larger than the person bent under themJul 17 2013: Abesh, why should someone be able to retain their reproductive rights after sday they have been convicted for felony child abuse?
Jul 17 2013: Such a person should definitely be punished and kept away from the society for the duration the judge decides.
This is a specfic case (child abuse) , what about other crimes?
Do you believe in concept of rehablitation ? Do have faith that people can change?
In some specific cases like child abuse, laws first need to be enacted.
Jul 17 2013: I think having children is only part of one's life, but being born is all of one's life. We should be more concerned for the plight of a child being born to somone who is likely to be bad parent than whether someone can have a child. A whole life outweights just part of a life.Jul 15 2013: Who would be the judge of who might be the good parent, and who might be the not so good parent?
Jul 15 2013: Your posing this obvious question, Colleen, reminded me of the several members of the TED community who might not be alive had this policy been in force. It also reminded me of the stories many here have told of abusers whose public face would never have suggested what they were doing at home.
Millions upon millions of fine people have overcome questionable parenting to live good lives and contribute to the larger community. They may not share their stories in public, so people do not know.
This CDC study reports that about 60% of Americans indicate that they had troubled childhoods. 20% , for example, indicate they had a depressive parent. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/yourlife/parenting-family/2010-12-17-adult-majority-troubled-childhood_N.htm
Jul 15 2013: If we had listened to the experts that were warning us about overpopulation in the sixties, and now we were approaching four billion instead of eight billion people, Global Warming would be a distant blip on our radar, the Gulf spill would not have happened and the term Anthropocene would not have been coined. Other than there are just too many people, so what if one person out of a thousand from crappy parents makes it, what about those other 999 that end up in our prison and fill our welfare rolls and live lives of anguish? Also, people that make it from bad parenting don't do it because of the bad parenting but despite it, and just think how much more these people would have achieved if only they had quality parenting in their lives! Being a parent is the greatest responsibility one can have in their lives, but we allow the most irresponsible among to have the greatest number of children; your average American has a fertility rate of 2.1 children while your average American felon has a fertility rate of 2.6 children. Just because what did in the past was wrong does not mean we should continue doing it that way.
Jul 15 2013: Yes, people can undoubtedly benefit from better parenting, but these particular people born into troubled families would not have been born to different sets of parents. The researchers in the CDC study drew the conclusion that various forms of support to improve children's living situations and to assist parents to be better parents are productive pathways to pursue.Jul 16 2013: Fritzie and Nelson,
You both make some very good points! We certainly would like to see happier, healthier children, and I agree that education could help.
That being said, I still wonder about who would choose, and enforce the idea of "Preventing those that would be bad parents from becoming parents".
Nelson, you write..."They pick themselves by commiting felonies that victomize children." Are you suggesting that everyone who commits a felony, not be allowed to have children? Again, I ask...who would monitor that, and how would it be enforced?
Jul 17 2013: No, felonies that victomize children. Bank fraud, no. child molestation, yes.Jul 15 2013: They pick themselves by commiting felonies that victomize children.Jul 19 2013: What I proposed would only work in places with a reasonably well working rule of law, and that is not the Middle East. But here is what I will say, being a parent is only part of one's life, and many people are fine not becoming parents at all. But being born is one's entire life, and being born to parents that neglect, abuse or abandon you can make your life a living hell. For the aforementioned is why if we error it should be on the side of the child. You see the greatest factor to determine the quality of life for future generations will be how many of them are not born; the UN has a low, medium and high projection of peak human population with 8 billion being low projection and 10 being the high projection, and an Earth of eight billion humans will be a much better place than one of nine billion and infinitely better than one of ten billion. We can, and probably already have, forsaken our children's future by having too many of them.Jul 18 2013: Here is one solution, Colin: A man is convicted of a felony, and the conviction is thrown out because he agrees to get a vasectomy. This would reduce the people currently in prison, and thus save us money now, while helping reduce future prison populations, and saving us money down the road. We could give the felon the option of freezing some of his swimmers, and then if he turns his life around he can start a family; this would reduce unplanned pregnancies, lower abortion operations and lower welfare customers. Theoretically it could even produce healthier children: As we age we are bombarded by radiation, and this is why the children conceived from the sperm of a twenty year old man is going to be healthier than the sperm from that same man when he is forty. A man in his twenties commits a felony, is convicted, and he gets a pass because he got a vasectomy. He turns his life around and decides he wants to have a child when he is forty, but he uses his sperm frozen when he was twenty, the child more likely than not will be healthier than if he had just used his forty year old sperm.Jul 18 2013: Yes, but if you are born to abusive parents what kind of life is that? Sure there are people that are born to abusive parents that come out all right, but they are one in a thousand, and we should be trying to prevent the pain of the other 999. I have a brother that is sitting in a jail cell in Folsom Sate Penitentiary who has fathered six children by five different women. One child ran away from his alcoholic mother and was killed in Oakland; another was arrested for prostitution in Los Angeles; and the last that he fathered between his second and third strike was born to a meth freak and was born severely retarded; none of the other three even finished high school. Would you want to trade places with any of those six? Also, my brother had plenty of chances to get educated, and proof of this is one of my brothers is a Stanford grad and I did my time at Berkeley. There are people who are too irresponsible to be entrusted with the greatest responsibility one can have in their life, which is being a parent.
Jul 18 2013: I actually kinda like this idea. Not really the way it is presented, but it is definitely something to consider as our world population swells to even higher, unsustainable sizes.
Just saying. Didn't say I agree, but the idea itself I find highly thought provoking.
-CJul 18 2013: Goodbye, Mitch.
Jul 18 2013: Goodbye Nelson.
Hope you get through .. it's a hard road.
Get help where you can.Jul 18 2013: Still rambling, but I can respect your point of view.Jul 18 2013: Mitch, now you are off topic and just rambling.Jul 18 2013: You asked, "What have you personally done to help heal the poor child whose mother made him sodomize a dog?" I don't know him, but if I did I would do for him what I could. But what I am doing is working to ensure that other boys like him will not have to go through the anguish he must be living with each day of his life.
English is not your native language, correct?
Jul 18 2013: I guarantee, there is someone you know who has suffered abuse .. maybe more, maybe less than the dog thing. But no less damaging.
Start there. It's worthwhile.
It might even be yourself.
You can't be a spectator any more.
This is what you have asked.Jul 18 2013: Beating a child and then being convicted of child abuse is not a trait but a behavior. A trait is being short, having sex wityh children is a bahavior. A trait can't be helped, it is your genes. But the bahavior of molesting a child is something you decide to do. I would never advocate taking someone's reproductive rights away for a genetic trait. But child molestation is a behavior, something one has a choice not to do, and if you are convicted af a felony that victomized a child your procreation days should end.
Jul 18 2013: Hi Nelson,
We are engaged in this . you from the start of the process, and me from having that process a long time into my past. You are sort of like me 30 years ago.
So what does one do about that?
We can't just stand on the side-lines and shout to the team on this one .. we have to get on the field.
I'd be doing you a great disservice to just flip you off, when I know that your motive is your compassion.
So let's start with that and stop just being male gladiators.
So lets begin with this:
What have you personally done to help heal the poor child whose mother made him sodomise a dog?
What did you do?Jul 18 2013: eu·gen·ics
[yoo-jen-iks] Show IPA
noun ( used with a singular verb )
the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)
What about the definition above has anything to do with taking somone's reprodcutive rights away because they have a felony conviction for child abuse? Below is the correct definition because not being born to crap for parents would improve anybody's environment;
[yoo-then-iks] Show IPA
noun ( used with a singular verb )
a science concerned with bettering the condition of human beings through the improvement of their environment.
Jul 18 2013: Nelson,
You have to stop hiding behind props and get out here in the flesh - everyone's watching now - and that defence is no longer working.
I'm not actually your enemy .. but since you are still pretending to be a winner .. all the lumps from here on up are self-inflicted.Jul 18 2013: Mitch, you have real problems understanding a dictionary definition. What I propose has nothing to do with genetics. We will disagree, you can call what I propose evil euthenics, but it is not eugenics. Learn to understand a dictionary definition, it will help you a lot in life. Goodbye.
Jul 18 2013: My only problem at this point is to get you across the line.
You put your hand up for this, and we will get you what you asked to get.
That's not nothing.
I applaud your courage in this.Jul 18 2013: I don't need to know the woman. All I need to be able to do is be able to read and understand a nespapre story to know this woman should not been allowed to have children after a felony conviction for child abuse.
Jul 18 2013: Unfortunately, that's just you lying to yourself.
In the face of reality you are falling back on a mythological media politics.
I was there - you were not.
The more you say, the deeper you bury yourself.
I would rather you didn't do that. I would rather you got through it.
Personally, I have little need for victims, and a great need of fellows.
I'd rather you stepped up .. I think that your compassion qualifies you .. but your pride forbids.
We all have that. But .. right from here - me .. and everyone watching, would prefer to see you win over your pride and win the game .. we all know that an improved man will step out the other side.
And that's beyond price .. worth cheering for.Jul 17 2013: Here is one solution, Arkady: A man is convicted of a felony, and the conviction is thrown out because he agrees to get a vasectomy. This would reduce the people currently in prison, and thus save us money now, while helping reduce future prison populations, and saving us money down the road. We could give the felon the option of freezing some of his swimmers, and then if he turns his life around he can start a family; this would reduce unplanned pregnancies, lower abortion operations and lower welfare customers. Theoretically it could even produce healthier children: As we age we are bombarded by radiation, and this is why the children conceived from the sperm of a twenty year old man is going to be healthier than the sperm from that same man when he is forty. A man in his twenties commits a felony, is convicted, and he gets a pass because he got a vasectomy. He turns his life around and decides he wants to have a child when he is forty, but he uses his sperm frozen when he was twenty, the child more likely than not will be healthier than if he had just used his forty year old sperm.
Jul 18 2013: Vasectomy does nothing to the sex drive. A child molester with vasectomy can happily go on molesting children and raping women without concern to get them pregnant. Google "does vasectomy reduce libido" and you will get dozens of links all saying the same thing.
Killing sick people will lower welfare costs and significantly improve the overall health of society.
But I'm wasting time. I totally agree with Mitch - it's Eugenics with capital "E" and is not far from the idea of genocide. Not vasectomy or sterilization per se - the forced ones. The rationale for racial profiling and genocide is exactly the same.
Nothing personal, Nelson. As you mention yourself, this idea comes from anger. Anger is a bad adviser. Set the anger aside and reflect on what most people say here.
Jul 18 2013: You should read all the remarks, because if you had you would see a lot that agree with me. You and Mitch are the minority, and that is because you two cannot even understand a simple dictionary definition.Jul 17 2013: My motives are to prevent the irresponsible among us from becoming parents because being a parent is the greatest responsibility any of us will have in our lives.
Jul 18 2013: Hi Nelson,
You seem to be advocating eugenics or euthenics, as you yourself formulate it. Here are two links:
Just take a look.
My question is - how will your thoughts or plans stop this? Will they? Isin't is violence and abuse, parental or not, that are the real issues? Examples you used in this conversation are actually exceptions, what is presented in the links above happens on a massive, global scale.
When it comes to eugenics - the world has already "tried" that, think of Zeitgeist in the 1930's and before. Both Hitler and Roosevelt were into sterilisation, Roosevelt actually had an ambitious plan to sterilise the unemployed to stop their genes from spreading and stop bad parenting. Do you tolerate the thought of getting a vasectomy when threatened with losing your job?
I agree that having a good parental figure is beneficial but a child's life expands beyond the family. Because of that I cannot agree that society's worst problem is bad parenting.
Please read all comments in your conversation carefully and take a minute to reflect.
Jul 18 2013: Nothing I propse has anything to do with genetics, so it is not eugenics, but it is euthenics. And euthenics is why you are taller and live longer today than your for fathers.Jul 18 2013: Also, what I am propsing would lessen violence against women by preventing the next generation of rapists from being born.


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Tomb reliefs magically repeated the rituals required to transport the deceased to the afterlife and maintain him or her once there. The wealthier the individual, the more elaborate the decoration of the tomb. Nespeqashuty was a vizier, the highest ranking government official.
The decoration of Nespeqashuty's tomb was never completed, allowing a rare glimpse into the artist's working process. The three steps of relief carving are clearly visible here. First, each scene was drawn in color with attention paid to every detail. Next, the outline of each figure was carved and the background cut away. Finally, another carving of the figures softened the contour lines and sculpted the internal details.
The graffiti on the relief were written in both Demotic and Coptic, the two latest stages of the Egyptian language, as well as in Greek, during a thousand-year period after the tomb was prepared for Nespeqashuty. Writing graffiti in the tomb was a pious act, not vandalism.
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- Dates: ca. 664-610 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: XXVI Dynasty
- Period: Late Period
- Dimensions: 16 x 10 in. (40.6 x 25.4 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Temples and Tombs, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
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- Accession Number: 52.131.24
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
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LG OLED: The future of television?
Every year display technology tags an extra medal to its trophy. Since HD went mainstream we've seen 3D, faster refresh rates and a variety of display technologies that have added to the upward curve of what's possible in the home.
For 2012 it looks as though OLED is making its first major break, or at least certainly having a bash at it. Both LG and Samsung showed off OLED televisions at the Consumer Electronics Show back in January and, we should add, got a lot of praise and attention for it.
Organic Light Emitting Diode, to give its acronym name the full dues, offers distinct advantages over its LCD cousins: a better contrast ratio, faster refresh rates, wider angles of view, lower power consumption and brighter colours. As OLED doesn't require backlighting, unlike LCD or LED displays, the overall thickness of the screen can also be squeezed down to new levels of tininess.
Sounds like nobody can lose, right? Well, with an earmarked price tag of £9,000 upon launch the 55-inch LG 55EM9600 OLED TV is way out of most people's price range. LG knows it just as well as anyone else. And it's a big hurdle that most won't get past – at least not for the next three years or so when the development costs decline.
So is OLED worth such a premium? Having spent more time with the 55-inch LG OLED 55EM9600 screen we can't deny it is impressive.
It's the black levels that are particularly stand out. Presented in a dimly-lit room the blacks were real deeeep; deep like the Mariana Trench. LG's chosen venue, the Salle des Etoiles in Monaco, had its own tricks too: the huge mechanical roof opened up and even in daylight – and we're not talking a predictable display room here, this is out in the open and exposed to the Mediterranian sun kind of stuff – the sets on display still looked awesome. £9,000 awesome? Well that depends on how much of a home cinema geek you are.
The design, too, means the 55EM9600 ought to look ace mounted on a wall. The screen's 4mm thickness should be less obtrusive than a (huge) picture frame. The use of carbon fibre reinforced plastics also means the 55-inch screen is a mere 10kgs in weight. All sounds rather show-off, yet the understated design isn't pulling any punches – it's a functional, small-bezel, unfussy set that lets the screen do the talking.
The viewing angle is also significant: we're talking almost any degree of horizontal or vertical view and the picture, right down to the black levels and colour vibrancy, looks just the same as front-on viewing. That's one area where OLED really does shine. Though, from a practical point of view, that may be irrelevant to many who won't stand side-on to watch their TV.
That's not to say it doesn't pose one or two concerns: the showreel that LG has adopted is all about vivid, bright colours that look hyper-real. It's all just a bit too much at times. Without further footage available to take a look at, it's difficult to assess how OLED's colour accuracy and vibrancy will be for movie playback and the like.
LG claims its WRGB technology – which adds a white subpixel layer to the existing red, green and blue array – will "perfect the colour output" and, in combination with the Colour Refiner technology, is said to enhance the image to be the most "vibrant, natural and comfortable to the human eye".
However, Pocket-lint's own TV guru, Mr Ian Morris, still has some concerns:
"Seeing these TVs with manufacturer-chosen demo material is all well and good, but until I see an episode of Neighbours on the thing, it's impossible to tell if it's actually producing a good picture, or just one that numbs the brain with bright colours."
And as LG won't release product to the press until availability later in the year (Q4) we'll just have to wait and see. Of course the 55EM9600 will come with all manner of picture adjustment tools to cater for all types of media, so we hope it can output a more muted, natural palette too.
Gamers have plenty to be excited about too. The 0.02s response time is said to be "100 times faster" than the current best LCD TVs. And judging from the showreel's dancer twirling around on the screen there's no doubt it is super smooth. Still, without faster panning or subjects flying by at pace there's no way to yet assess just how impressive the overall experience will be. The same goes for 3D.
Despite all this good stuff, we have to ask: does anyone really care? Screen tech, certainly at the current top end, is already at an impressive level.
As much as OLED sets out to improve on current standards there's still the old argument that a decent plasma screen may deliver all that's necessary for an avid home cinema fan. The price of the long-since abandoned Pioneer Kuro range on eBay is part testament to that.
LG has its own ideas. The 55-inch sets out to impress, and it's knowledgeable, high-end users that will be most keen. But there's more around the corner for a broader audience too: larger screens and a "full range" will follow in the next couple of years.
George Mead, LG's Head of Consumer Marketing: Home Entertainment, says that OLED technology is, "without a doubt the future", adding that it had taken the company "six years to perfect".
And with the likes of Panasonic suffering financial woes in its televisual department for 2011-2012 and Sony all but ceasing its OLED telly line, it's looking like a Korean OLED race.
Samsung is LG's only main OLED competitor, though Mead adds that LG is "more than confident with the WRGB technology to give the very best picture".
From what we've seen we can't say he's wrong either – the LG 55EM9600 delivers great picture and motion and will, despite its hefty price, light up the eyes of those in the market for a high-end set.
For the rest of us on more slender budgets, or for those who can't tell the difference between LCD and our ABCs, the OLED movement might have less to no significant impact.
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The novel opens with 15-year-old Alex and his gang members (known as "droogs") Pete, Georgie and Dim, who roam the streets at night, committing crimes that include rape (the "old in out, in out"), shoplifting, and violence (ultra-violence) for fun. In contrast to Alex's love for wrong-doing and cruelty, he also has a passion for classical music, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony being his favourite piece.
Essentially, the first part of the novel is a character study of the protagonist. We learn that Alex and his "droogs" (Russian for friend), have their own dialect known as nadsat, and their own hierarchy, in which Alex is the leader. Although they are all "droogs", Alex seriously resents Dim for his stupidity and constantly picks on him. There is a general disregard for the law and for older generations — creating an image of a youth movement that is taking control of this fictional future.
Part 1 involves Alex reflecting on his illegal activity. After drinking narcotic-laden milk at the Korova Milk Bar, Alex and his droogs ridicule and beat an old man, tearing up his books. They then rob a sweet shop, beating up the owner and his wife and then proceeding to the 'Duke of New York' pub, where they bribe a group of elderly alcoholic women into vouching for them by buying them food and drinks with their ill-gotten gains. After leaving, Alex and his droogs ridicule and beat an old drunken vagrant, and come across a rival gang lead by Billy Boy at a deserted power station. A fight between the two gangs ensues, with Alex and his droogs emerging victorious and leaving before the police arrive. They then steal a Durango '95 sports car for a reckless drive into the countryside and finally end up at HOME. That is, the name of the home that belongs to a reclusive writer named F. Alexander. The gang use their cunning and force to invade the house, savagely beating the writer, tearing up his written work (entitled "A Clockwork Orange"), and brutally raping his wife. Afterward, back at the Korova, there is a moment of tension among the four when Alex strikes Dim for ridiculing a woman as she sings a classical piece that moved Alex. The other droogs, Pete and Georgie, manage to keep the peace between them. Thus the group heads home. Alex returns to his home at a tower block, where his mother and father have factory jobs, and climaxes the evening by listening to classical music on his expensive stereo.
The following morning, after giving his mother an excuse for a need to miss school, Alex is visited by P.R. Deltoid, the social worker assigned to his case, who has heard word about Alex's doings the previous night. Deltoid warns Alex that if he gets in trouble again, he'll be sent to prison. Alex assures Deltoid he won't. While skipping school, Alex picks up two girls in a record shop, takes them home, and has sex with them both by getting them intoxicated. Sitting down at dinner, Alex's father asks his son about his "night job". Alex gives him a weak excuse, and then a generous portion of his "salary" to compensate. The earlier tension within Alex's gang deepens however, as Alex finds his droogs waiting for him outside his house. Alex learns that his droogs, particularly Georgie and Dim, are no longer fully satisfied with him as their leader, suggesting a "new way", and that they should drink "moloko plus" before they discuss it. Although he is slightly threatened, he deals with the problem by fighting and beating the two, slashing Dim's wrist and demonstrating his leadership and unwillingness to be overthrown. That night, the gang perpetrates another home invasion. When confronted by the owner, an elderly woman, Alex strikes her with a medium sized art sculpture, apparently rendering her unconscious. He soon hears police sirens, and attempts to flee. His droogs seize their opportunity to betray Alex, however, and Dim lashes him across the face with a chain (which Dim uses as a weapon), leaving his vision temporarily impaired and unable to escape from the police who arive shortly thereafter. Soon after his interrogation, Alex learns that the woman he struck with the statue died as a result of her injuries. Alex is convicted for her murder and sentenced to fourteen years in prison.
After helping to kill (although accidentally) a fellow prisoner in his cell, Alex is selected to become the subject in the first full-scale trial of the Ludovico Technique. The technique itself is a form of aversion therapy, in which Alex is given a drug that induces extreme nausea while being forced to watch graphically violent films for two weeks. Strapped into a seat, his head clamped and his eyes held open with specula, Alex has no choice but to watch the films. One of the films has a soundtrack of Alex's beloved Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and though he pleads with them to remove the music, they refuse, saying that it is for his own good and that the music may be the "punishment element".
A few weeks later, he is presented to prison and government officials as a successfully rehabilitated member of society and released. The treatment has left him unable to perform, or even think about, any kind of violent action without becoming severely ill. He soon learns just how well it worked when he finds he cannot even defend himself against an attacker when necessary. The clinicians demonstrate the treatment's effectiveness in front of an audience, including the prison chaplain who was opposed to Alex's "treatment": a man taunts and abuses Alex who is rendered helpless to defend himself, as each time he tries he becomes nauseated. Then a beautiful, naked woman is shown to him, but Alex is unable to think of touching her without feeling ill.
Alex falls into the hands of Mr. Alexander, the husband of the woman he raped at the beginning of part one. Mr. Alexander was apparently crippled in the initial assault and is now confined to a wheelchair, and his wife is now deceased, due to an illness he blames on the rape. Since Alex was wearing a mask during the earlier assault, Alexander does not recognise him as the attacker. Recognising Alex's photo from the newspaper, Mr. Alexander's political activist friends decide to use him as a weapon against the government by turning him into a poster child for the victims of fascism; they play classical music in the room beside his, triggering the maddening effect of the Ludovico treatment. Driven to insanity by the music, Alex jumps from his bedroom window in an attempt to end his life.
Alex wakes up in a hospital, where he learns that the government, trying to reverse the bad publicity it incurred in the wake of Alex's suicide attempt, has reversed the effects of the Ludovico treatment and have offered him a well paying civil service job. His parents take him back in, and Alex happily ponders returning to his life of ultra-violence.
In the final chapter, Alex finds himself half-heartedly preparing for yet another night of crime with a new trio of droogs. After watching them beat an innocent stranger walking home with a newspaper, he begins to feel bored with his life of violence. He abandons the gang then has a chance encounter with Pete, an old droog who has reformed and married. Alex begins contemplating giving up crime himself to become a productive member of society and start a family of his own, while reflecting on the notion that his own children will be just as destructive-- if not more so-- than he himself.
The book is divided into three parts, each containing seven chapters. Burgess has stated that the total of 21 chapters was an intentional nod to the age of 21 being recognised as a milestone in human maturation. The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States until 1986. The film adaptation, which was directed by Stanley Kubrick, was based on an early American edition of the book and ends prior to the events of the 21st chapter. Kubrick claimed that he had not read the original version until he had virtually finished the screenplay, but that he certainly never gave any serious consideration to using it.
Burgess wrote in introduction to the 1986 edition, titled A Clockwork Orange Resucked, that a creature who can only perform good or evil is "a clockwork orange — meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice, but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil; or the almighty state."
In his essay "Clockwork Oranges"², Burgess asserts that "this title would be appropriate for a story about the application of Pavlovian, or mechanical, laws to an organism which, like a fruit, was capable of colour and sweetness". This title alludes to the protagonist's positively conditioned responses to feelings of evil which prevent the exercise of his free will.
In the first edition of the book, no key was provided, and the reader was left to interpret the meaning from the context.
Droogism refers to the commission of a crime for the sole sake of committing a crime, without material gain or benefit; robbery and kidnapping with the intent to demand ransom, for example, do not qualify as droogisms, as they are committed with the intention of some sort of material benefit for the perpetrator.
The term "Ultraviolence", referring to excessive and/or unjustified violence, was coined by Burgess in the book, which includes the phrase "do the ultra-violent." The term's association with aesthetic violence has led to its use in the media.
Excerpts from the first two chapters of the novel were dramatised and broadcast on BBC TV's programme Tonight, 1962 (now lost, believed wiped).
After Kubrick's film was released, Burgess wrote a Clockwork Orange stage play. In it, Dr. Branom defects from the psychiatric clinic when she grasps that the aversion treatment has destroyed Alex's ability to enjoy music. The play restores the novel's original ending. One of Alex's early victims, a bearded trumpeter who plays "Singin' in the Rain" at the Korova milkbar, is modeled on Kubrick.
In 1990, a second play, titled A Clockwork Orange 2004, was written for the Royal Shakespeare Company. It makes no references to the film version, yet does away with the novel's ending. The performance was scored by Bono and The Edge of U2. In 2001, UNI Theatre (Mississauga, Ontario) presented the Canadian premiere of the play under the direction of Terry Costa. In 2002, Godlight Theatre Company presented the New York Premiere adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 'A Clockwork Orange' at Manhattan Theatre Source. The production went on to play at the SoHo Playhouse (2002), Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004), 59E59 Theaters (2005) and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2005). While at Edinburgh, the production received rave reviews from the press while playing to sold-out audiences. The production was directed by Godlight's Artistic Director, Joe Tantalo.


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Disaster struck UFC 171's main card Friday afternoon, as a visibly drained Hendricks missed weight by 1.5 pounds ahead of his championship fight against Robbie Lawler.
Hendricks, who weighed in gaunt and shaking on his first attempt, has two hours to meet required welterweight limit of 170 pounds.
Lawler successfully weighed-in at 170 pounds.
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Johny Hendricks (171.5) vs. Robbie Lawler (170)
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