One of those most baffling aspects of the behavior of men and women in highly-responsible positions in some segments of our society, is their comparative lack of concern for—perhaps it is lack of awareness of—the factor of communication, as such, in the problems and situations in which they have to deal. It is communication that makes human society possible. While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk. Our own personal lives are in need of development just as much as our social lives. If privacy is eliminated, what happens to the interior World of each of us? What happen to meditation, introspection, self-study, to contact with oneself? These must not be lost in the patterns of growth and ever-increasing interinvolvment. Each of us must somehow find ways of developing one’s own life, gaining personal growth and depth, reaping advantages for oneself—while still cultivating a healthy, outgoing, cooperative, and caring relationship with other people. This is almost as difficult as running in two directions at the same time! However, the loss of privacy leaves one’s autonomy and sense of oneself as a person vulnerable, violating one’s human dignity and moral personality. The common conceptual thread linking diverse privacy cases prohibiting dissemination of confidential information, eavesdropping, surveillance, and wiretapping, to name a few, is the value of protection against injury to individual freedom and human dignity. #RandolphHarris 1 of 10

Intimacy and privacy are deeply related. On one account, privacy is valuable because intimacy would be impossible without it. Privacy is defined narrowly as control over information about oneself. Privacy has intrinsic value, and is necessarily related to and fundamental for one’s development as an individual with a moral and social personality able to form intimate relationships involving respect, love, friendship, and trust. . If a person’s assumptions about an individual are incorrect, they will continue to perceive that person in incorrect or incomplete ways. Through education, we are trying to bring about awareness of such problems. We become self-estranged from nature and society as a consequence of being when we cannot control our legal rights to secure our personal information, which is protected by law, which forces us to become a mechanistic part of a social class. This is the condition of which estranges a person from their humanity. Estrangement is rooted not only in the loss of the privacy of communication, but also in the loss of identity. Strained and broken relationships are also old as humankind itself. Ancient Cain was the first who allowed the cancer of bitterness and malice to canker his heart. He tilled the ground of his soul with envy and hatred and allowed these feelings to ripen until he did the unthinkable—murdering his own brother and becoming, in the process the father the adversary’s lies. #RandolphHarris 2 of 10

Since those first days, the spirit of envy and hatred has led to some of the most tragic stories in history.  A lack of personal concern and will ultimately leads to alienation and can cause an individual to look down upon people violating their personal information, until the point that they want nothing to do with people who behave like rogue savages. For communication to take place, the receiver must also be receptive. That means more than just having one’s ears clean. One must also want or need to get the message and be willing to decode and fit in into one’s existing pattern of ideas or associations. However, when as a community, you violate a person’s right to privacy, they may want absolutely nothing to do with anyone in the community because they feel betrayed. Individual responsibility is the key. If I get ahead at the expense of another individual—or whole groups of people—that inequality pollutes society of which both you and I are a part, and I cannot be surprised at the violence that results. It is, in fact, partly my fault. Some violence is created by mental and emotional disorders, for which successful treatment is sometimes available. However, society needs to create and improved climate of acceptance for these programs of help and therapy that are available. Every person on Earth has been affected in some way by the destructive spirit of contention, resentment, and revenge. Perhaps there are even times when we recognize this spirit in ourselves. #RandolphHarris 3 of 10

When we feel hurt, angry, or envious, it is quite easy to judge other people, often assigning dark motives to their actions in order to justify our own feelings of resentment. The stigma attached to mental illness must be eradicated, and so must be the feeling of shame or weakness that keeps many people from seeking available professional help when they need it. We still believe that people are really good at heart. We simply cannot build up our hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. We see the World around us gradually being turned into a wilderness. We think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. We all depend on the Savior; none of us can be saved without the Lord. The Atonement is infinite and eternal. Forgiveness for our sins comes with conditions. We must repent, and we must be willing to forgive others. We can so clearly see the harmful results that come when others judge and hold grudges. The problem of wars between nations is similar to, but different from that of person fighting person. Some of the same psychological principles that apply to interpersonal squabbling also fit international warfare, but of course the scale is fantastically enlarged. Humanity may not be terribly affected if you and I fight and hurt each other, but it is certainly harmed if huge groups go to war, especially in this nuclear age. #RandolphHarris 4 of 10

What is learned about human behavior and aggression needs to be effectively shared with those who shape the international policies of nations. In the past, psychologists have often been drafted into devising new and more effective ways of demoralizing and punishing others humans. However, they have seldom been asked to help nations promote peace and understanding instead. And that, in fact, could be their most effective use. When it comes to our own prejudices and grievances, we too often justify our anger as righteous and our judgment as reliable and only appropriate. Though we cannot look into another’s heart, we assume that we know a bad motive or even a bad person when we see one. We make exceptions when it comes to our own bitterness because we feel that, in our case, we have all the information we need to hold someone else in contempt and sentence them to life in prison without a jury trial. However, the moment we judge someone else, we condemn ourselves, for none with out sin. Sometimes, of all the people in the World, the one who is the hardest to forgive—as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness—is the person looking back at us in the mirror. Time’s up! When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it! It is that simple. #RandolphHarris 5 of 10

Racism, sexism, elitism—all of these are increasingly bring brought to our collective attention. This is the era of consciousness-raising, when we are seeking to awaken our community members to the abuses of technology, government resources, and when women are trying to draw the attention of other women and men to the problem of sexual harassment and stereotyping and discrimination. However, raising consciousness within the oppressed group is one thing, and raising consciousness among the oppressors is quite another. It is an essential characteristic of finite mind to produce things, to express itself in objects, to objectify itself in physical things, social institutions, and cultural products; and every objectification is, of necessity, and instance of alienation: the produced objects become alien to the producer. Influence through mass communication need not be blatant—it can be very subtle indeed. Even when communicators are not making a direct attempt to sell us something, they can succeed in influencing the way we look at the World. Many people are all up in the personal lives of others because they are afraid to look at themselves and see what is going on inside of them. When the community begins not only to take note of the complaints of the oppressed, they will also see they, too, can benefit by making equality a fact rather than simply a phrase. This allows for the development of self-knowledge, and the finite mind becomes self-aware and returns to oneself from one’s self-alienation. #RandolphHarris 6 of 10

In the process of violating another individual’s rights to privacy and legal protection, not only are you alienating them from the community, but you are also creating self-estrangement. Because when you are breaking the laws and speaking badly about others, people are not going to want to do business with you, they will not want to be your friend, nor will they want you in their community because they fear that you may hurt them, and they know how it feels to be ostracized. Many individuals can empathize with the people you are hurting for entertainment. This is a problem that faces not only psychologists, but every human being everywhere. We, as a society, need to demonstrate ways in which aggression can be controlled and eliminated, and replaced by cooperation. Communication is about being brave enough to speak up even if the other person may get upset, controlling one’s temper so that the other person is not always feeling intimidated, and staying sane, keeping the conversation moving forwards towards a mutually agreeable situation. Cooperation, respect, appreciation, mutual interaction, and selflessness are often taught ineffectively, irrelevantly, or too late! Too, talking peace is not enough. Much violence is spawned by frustration. Frustration will always be found where people’s basic needs go unsatisfied. It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act. #RandolphHarris 7 of 10

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. The most violent element in society is ignorance.  Alienation can be overcome only in the sense of being adequately known as a child of God. If love does no know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a person. Again, it is the vocation of the human as human to serve as the organon of the self-knowledge of the Absolute. To the extent that one does not perform this function, one does not fulfill one’s human essence and is merely a self-alienated individual. We become self-alienated from ourselves when we create and put ourselves above God, our Father in Heaven. People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. We are a part of Nature, not apart from Nature.  It is not about who is right it is about healing your wounds and becoming less sensitive to these feelings by choosing a different response. When our hearts are filled with the love of God, we become kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving. The virtue of the word of God has more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than anything else. Because we are all depend on the mercy of God, how can we deny to others any measure of the grace we so desperately desire for ourselves? My beloved brothers and sisters, and cousins, should we not forgive as we wish to be forgiven? #RandolphHarris 8 of 10

Just as every part of your body is interrelated with every other part, so each of us is interrelated and integrated into the larger human system, the society of which we are a part. And, by extension, each society is directly related to every other one, as nation is to nation, continent to continent. The entire planet can be seen ultimately as a gigantic network or web of interwoven parts. One thing you learn when you study your first spider web is that a slight pressure on any single strand of that web is felt everywhere on it. That is how the spider uses his or her web: when a bit of food lands there and becomes stuck in the sticky coatings, vibrations travel all along the network, and wherever the spider lies in watchful waiting, he or she pick up these vibrations and gets the message. So it is in the network of human experiences: pressure on any part of it affect the rest of the wend. This network ties each particle of humankind to every other particle. There are virtually no dark or hidden groups of life on the globe, except in the Congo Basin, located in Africa, which covers 700 square miles (25 percent of Earth’s rainforest). The forest is so dense that much of it remains uncharted and, in some parts, only 1 percent of the Sunlight reaches ground. Other than that, the web ff interrelatedness has advantages and disadvantages. However, when our hearts are filled with the love of God, something good and pure happens to us. #RandolphHarris 9 of 10

 When we keep God’s commandments: and his commandments are not grievous, nothing in us gets left out—it is all part of our relationship. This is more than possible when—through our work on ourselves—our relationship with God and humanity becomes both sanctuary and crucible, a place of deep healing, care, life-enhancing challenge, and a love that pervades all that we are. The deepest growth, healing, and awakening we will ever experience is in our relationship with God. Hence, we must wholeheartedly do whatever it takes to move into or to deepen our intimate relationship with God for whatsoever is born of God overcomes the World. The more we allow the love of God to govern our minds and emotions—the more we allow our love of our Heavenly Father to swell within our hearts—the easier it is to love others with the pure love of the Savior. As we open our hearts to the glowing dawn of the love of God, the darkness and cold of animosity and envy will eventually fade. When our hearts are filled with the love of God, we become kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving. The pure love of God can remove the scales of resentment and wrath from our eyes, allowing us to see others the way our Heavenly Father sees us. Because God loves us so much, we too must love and forgive each other. #RandolphHarris 10 of 10