Yves Smith - Superperson

When I was a kid, in the 50's, we would run around the backyard holding a blanket or towel at our shoulders.

Look....up in the sky... is it a bird...is it a plane...Truth, Justice and the American Way.....

Superman was the hero of the day.  The Lone Ranger too when I had my gun in my holster.  Now we have the Marvel heroes.  I admit, I watch them too but they are removed from the simply display of heroism to do the right thing, protecting those in need of protection against the unjust, the criminal intent.

Yves Smith is a Superperson real life hero.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/white-americas-toxic-ignorance-abigail-fisher-antonin-scalia-and-the-real-privilege-that-goes-unspoken.html

The default public social attitude is unjust and contrary to the founding principals of our country.  Maybe the default stance that we all strive to recognize and correct based on personal beliefs we have in common as citizens and beliefs beyond that.  A setting of law to the default side that perpetuates an unjust social environment bias norm held and expressed intentionally or by default at a lower level of citizen population is wrong.

Justice demands intentional correction of an unjust situation.

That is what my heroes do.  In real life there are many.  Yves, Tom Englehardt, Bill Moyers, Bill Black, Bernie and so many more.  I put their cape on my shoulders when I fly around the internet on this blog pretending to have some of their power as well as the super hero associates that Yves and Tom especially bring to the party through their linkage and endorsement like a Band of Brothers Super Entity each with a Special Agent power.

Super Heroes slay dragons and gore oxes:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/how-managerialsm-generic-management-damaged-the-american-red-cross.html

Up, up and away!

Superheroes of my youth were few and individual.  Today they work more in closely or associated groups like the Marvel Franchise.  Each having special powers.  Combined to be invincible but perhaps with individual flaws in spite of super qualities.  Makes them human.  Perhaps it is a function of our social media that enables networked cooperation in a team manner.

Tell it like it is Yves:

"So the debate is not over whether or not to have social engineering. We have plenty. But most is by default. Affirmative action programs make social engineering explicit and put parameters around it to try to make better tradeoffs. But that is now depicted as worse than the state of nature of inevitable, often unconscious bias. I’m not saying that there aren’t types of social engineering that are poorly thought out and need to be overhauled. But the backlash against the very premise seems to rely on hidden assumptions that don’t hold up well to scrutiny."