AT MY USIDHR GRADUATION SPEECH:

Diplomacy and International Respect

Authored and read by Mayasonette Lambkiss

1/20/2024

Episode #11 of the show SPACESUIT MADE OF FLESH

An Academic Voicecast Publication of

The Institute of Universal Human Rights - Hawaii

What is diplomacy? Diplomats are authorized and highly trained communication mediators in sensitive international and domestic affairs between individuals, organizations and government. Literally, anyone involved in public life in a state level, federal, or international arena will need to be skilled at strategic communication styles. Diplomats are professional relationship specialists using skills as advisors of political decision makers, writers and strategy creators of treaties, negotiators, and alliance builders. In a nutshell they face interhuman diversities and they are in the frontlines to negotiate and mediate potential misunderstandings, troubleshoot, remedy unfavorable conditions.

Diplomacy is firmly required to respect a diverse set of values and often categorically different from what the diplomat holds true for themselves. As the public face of international relationships, a prominent level of self-examination and self-control are vital qualities. Ethics and etiquettes of diplomatic protocols are taught and need learning to help bridge communication between radically diverse cultures and produce mutually beneficial results between nations, and on all levels of government. These high-level communication skills need time and relevant long-term exposure to acquire them, nobody is born with them.

The attitude of open mindedness and actualized diplomatic skills are not enough to combine collectivist and individualist cultures. The truth is that one without the other is catastrophically dysfunctional. In a healthy society everyone is using both philosophies, placing themselves on a scale between the extremes in a healthy zone. The more individualist you want to be the more you need to seek unusual opportunities but there is no need to do that at the expense of communitarianism. How can you stand out if there is no one around you who doesn't? How can you lead if none is following? Pay your taxes, don't commit a crime, and everyone will leave you alone. And if you can afford to be alone, you don't even have to work and compromise your uniqueness. My best friend always emphasizes how unique, eccentric, and unusual he is. It frightens him to realize everyone is just as unique, true to their own self, and an extraordinary person as he is, because it would make him the same as everyone else: special. We all need community, we depend on each other, and our shared natural resources, infrastructure, education, and greater variety of food than the pots can grow in the window. We need each other, but it should not interfere with our uniqueness, our hearts' concerns. Martin Luther King was courageous in fighting for his own individual equal rights, only we all do that in our own ways. But he was unique for doing that for the masses, he led his aching community. It is the tiny freedoms of his youthful formation as an individual that raised him as a leader. but without the community, he would have influenced nobody's life. Martin Luther King is an excellent example of how individualism enriches, even makes communal life fundamentally better. Without his soar as an individual, an entire community would have missed a revolution.

The Foundation for Economic Education published on July 2nd 2022, in their article: Individualism, a Deeply American Philosophy:

"It would take many decades before the laws recognized that women and blacks were just as equal as anyone else. However, with the overthrow of caste...

What is the Role of Government in Amercian Society?

Written and read by Mayasonette Lambkiss

for the podcast show of

The Institute of Universal Human Rights - Hawaii

SPACESUIT MADE OF FLESH

1/18/2024

The role of government in American society is a matter of balance between what the members of society expect the government to do, and what they do not want the government to have the right to do.

First, we need to distinguish between federal, state, and local governments.

As citizens we established, we have rights and responsibilities towards our society. We all have the unalienable right to life, but we have the responsibility to register our identity with the DMV. We all have the same legal human rights, but different individuals will understand, interpret, and consent differently. Degrees of compliance will result in different behaviors, and often interfere with other people's rights, may even violate them as such. It is the government's job to regulate the different individual's behavior and distinguish acceptable from not acceptable behavior. It is also the government's job to balance individual freedom with the common good and public welfare and take this exact same context to the level of organizations, business entities, communities. It is the government's job to face and manage challenges that stand in the way of safe and healthy living of people, like environmental, economic, national safety challenges.

While a capitalist free market economy and the society created by it does not leave a ceiling on wealth creation and revenue access to preserve freedom, redistribution of wealth and revenue must be regulated to protect the exact same freedom. It is the job of the government to balance the scales of redistribution with equal access. By equal access we mean to find ways to create opportunities like education for the disadvantaged individuals to elevate their predisposition, benefits like welfare to see them through tough times, and resources like taking a hike in your favorite national park, use of libraries and facilities, microloans for business startups. But it is not the Government's job to decide if someone is too rich, take their wealth and redistribute money to the poor people.

It is the government's job to educate its citizens about their rights and responsibilities, the functions of democracy and republic and how they work together and protect their rights and democratic voice within that society. It is also the responsibility of the government to keep its citizens informed of formal democratic process participation opportunities like voting dates. It is the government's purpose to apply the democratic, administrative, and legal decisions the collective has made to daily life. Therefore, the government is a secondary decision maker and manager of the running of life of society. The government is created to regulate society and not to interfere in the life of the individual if the citizen has not violated any laws. The same principle applies to organizational and business entities as incorporated members of society.

Having all that said, the "If the right to live and be free is natural, then the government are doing wrong when they are protecting your rights, and doing wrong when they violate your rights. As much possible then, the government should create rights that are compatible with and don't contradict your natural rights." (Prof. Aeon Skolbe, Bridgewater University, Libertarianism Explained: What Are Rights? Learn Liberty, YouTube, 2011 (3:46). Consequently, reasoning can lead us to understand the above statement, that the government can only do right by controlling as little as possible....