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Dramas of human error are of value because they serve as learning examples. Maturity often evolves through painful errors and mistakes and is therefore accompanied by rueful irony and satire, as well as comedy.

Literature includes the presumed subjectivity and participation of the reader. Innate to all writings, including the current Harry Potter books, is the theme of implied or overtly stated ethics and morality, which is, in fact, the very core and key upon which the tension of the drama is dependent. This is subserved by nuance, subtlety, and selection of words in which meaningful shades of expression evidence uniqueness of style and elicit loyal reader response. The calibrations of literary output reflect the audience for which they are intended and are indicative of the level of interest of a writer’s readership.

Writers were not listed whose works are not really literary but merely extremes of political polemics, both far left and far right. They all calibrate far below 200, and some, although supposedly humorous or satirical, are even below calibration level 100. Their content is not only fallacious but also motivated by overt hatred and represents major excesses of narcissism.

Industries (United States)

 

Advertising
 
195
Aeronautics
 
215
Airline
 
204
Amtrak
 
205
Automobile
 
215
Banking
 
208
Breweries
 
200
Coal
 
205
Commercial Tobacco
 
160
Communications
 
210
Fishing
 
190
Gambling Casinos
 
160
Gun
 
202
Health
 
210
HMOs
 
170
Hollywood Film
 
180
  House Construction
 
205
Insurance
 
205
Internet Music Piracy
 
195
Liquor
 
165
Manufacturing
 
202
Petroleum
 
190
Pharmaceutical
 
205
Publishing, General
 
204
Publishing, Newspaper
 
200
Railroad
 
202
Shipping
 
202
Telemarketing
 
185
Telephone
 
200
Television, Cable
 
205
Television, Network
 
200
Trucking
 
206
Utilities
 
205
Vintners
 
300

In the world of business, profit is an obvious primary goal, and compromises are deemed necessary to subserve survival. Giant industries, such as petroleum, are international and have to deal with and survive in foreign cultures that operate according to different rules. Most businesses and their CEOs are under intense pressure to show a profit; thus, shortcuts are rationalized as ‘just human nature’ in order to survive.

The gun industry calibration at 202 was repeatedly confirmed since the popular view would expect it to be lower. However, guns calibrate as neutral at 200, and therefore it is the use to which they are put that gives different calibrations, e.g., similar to a tool such as a knife (cal. 200).

Of concern are the HMOs that please neither the medical profession nor the patients overall. The practice of medicine itself calibrates at 440, but its control by commercialization for profit preempts the tradition of humanitarian ethics. The role of the physician has been reduced to the business model of a ‘vendor’ or ‘provider of services’, surrounded by a plethora of rules, regulations, requirements, dire legal threats, and malpractice insurance rates. The risks are so high that physicians, especially obstetrician/gynecologists, have gone out of practice or are unavailable in twenty-three states, and the number is increasing yearly (Arizona Medical News, 2004). Medicine has become a high-risk profession and is practiced defensively.

Medical school applications submitted by native-born Americans have fallen sharply while those from foreign countries have risen progressively. What was once a highly motivated and rewarding profession has become contentious. Doctors now view patients as potential litigants, and HMOs are primarily profit motivated. The newspapers report that the officers of the HMOs have multimillion-dollar salaries yet refuse to pay for needed services. Provision for mental health services has collapsed to nearly zero. A severely suicidal patient is lucky to be admitted to a hospital even for just overnight, and the required paperwork and red tape are overwhelming, discouraging even consulting about a high-risk patient. The professional jeopardy of treating the mentally ill is so high that they are just abandoned to wander the streets. The jails have now replaced the mental hospitals that were fallaciously demonized in past decades by relativistic politicalization.

Television Commercials (not products)

 

Alka-Seltzer
 
245
Apple Computer
 
410
Bayer Aspirin
 
350
Cruise Lines
 
245
Diet Pills
 
120

‘Dumb’, ‘Boring’, ‘Confused’

 
135-140
eBay
 
410
Enzyte
 
455
Exercise Machines
 
150
Geico Insurance
 
345
Hair-restore Products
 
200
Imodium A-D
 
370
Kibbles ’n Bits H/S Dog Food
 
385
Lending Tree
 
385
Listerine
 
355
McDonalds
 
200
Off-road Vehicles
 
190
Orkin
 
305
Pedigree Dog Food
 
435
Planter’s Mr. Peanut
 
380
Puffs
 
400
St. Joseph Aspirin
 
250
Webex
 
365
Whiskas Cat Food
 
325
Viagra
 
215

The calibration of the advertising industry may reflect disparity between presentation and the reality of the product (Preston, 1996). Huge amounts of money are spent on advertisements and commercials that make people feel bad and go weak, thus creating an unconscious aversion to the product. There are also portions of ads that have a negative effect, whereas the rest of it may be neutral. Similarly, there are background sound tracks that produce negative psychological and physiological responses. Sixty-five percent of parents would also appreciate that certain advertisements be discretely aired later in the evening after family viewing time, rather than having to go into sexual details about side effects that warn, “after four hours, call a doctor.”

The calibration levels of television ads at the time of this writing currently range from a high of 455 (e.g., ‘Bob’ of Enzyte, and other companies) to as low as 100. A series of ads by one of America’s largest and most prestigious corporations calibrated at 145 and ran continuously with irritatingly frequent repetition. The overall cost must be in the multimillions of dollars. Other than a three-letter designation of the company’s logo, it is not even clear just what the company is trying to sell. In contrast, ads that have a ‘heart’, especially with animals or comic scenes of animal behavior, calibrate high, as do commercials that are humorous (e.g., e-Bay). Interestingly, broadcast-band commercials overall calibrate thirty points higher than cable television advertisements.

Another very major discovery is that everyone
unconsciously
knows when they are being lied to. Thus, substituting actors and actresses for testimonials cancels 50 percent of the benefit of that expensive advertising. A real-life sufferer who found true benefit from using the actual product itself has
twice
the convincing effect on the viewer as that of an actress or actor. The application of consciousness research techniques to advertising could increase the return on investment by 250 percent.

Energy Fields of Famous Industrialists

(Not Personal Calibrations)

 

Bell, Alexander Graham
 
495
Carnegie, Andrew
 
490
Edison, Thomas
 
430
Forbes “Top Ten” List (2004)
 
460
Forbes “Top 400” List
 
440
Ford, Henry
 
380
Morgan, J. P
 
420
Nobel, Alfred
 
410
Westinghouse, George
 
455

American society ambivalently encourages and lauds success, and, at the same time, it can turn on a dime to attack and vilify it. As a consequence, the ‘really rich’ often live in safe enclaves and are quite aware that they are the hated targets of envy. They therefore usually shun celebrities and the spotlight and communicate by inner subcultural subtleties of expression by which they recognize and acknowledge each other.

Industrial barons, however, reflect other creative strengths, such as inventive enterprise, fixity of purpose, and pursuit of goals with underlying effort. Almost all major industrialists tend to calibrate in the high 300s and 400s and therefore have well-developed intellects as well as intrinsic overall integrity. Because of this, the collapse of the Howard Hughes enterprise (initial calibration, 490; later, 180) was a shock to the public and viewed as a tragedy.

Philanthropic Foundations

 

Gates, Ford, Mellon, Carnegie
 
400
Kellogg, Pew, Duke, Walmart
 
400
Lilly, Rockefeller, F. W. Johnson
 
400
Templeton
 
500
Wheelchair Foundation (K. Behring)
 
520
Others
 
400

Not only did the inspired genius of industrialists and inventors create entire industries and multimillions of jobs worldwide but also products that accelerated America’s economic and financial ascendancy. In addition to these gifts to society, they established non-profit foundations into which are poured billions of dollars, and from which many billions of dollars more continue to pour forth, often with unheralded benefits to society in the form of libraries, humanities, education, health, and scientific research. Their overall output to society is prolific and continues for decades after the deaths of their founders.

From this we see that wealth, in and of itself, is not a morally suspect, superficial self-indulgence, but, on the contrary, for their producers and their subsequent stewards, wealth is a heavy burden and a moral responsibility. The holders of great wealth are acutely aware of social responsibility, ethics, and the most judicious use of monetary capital for the greatest good (e.g., the Gates Foundation alone has twenty-six billion dollars in assets). To this end, they employ the world’s best talents and academics to act as expert guides. Interestingly, the major philanthropic foundations and trusts all calibrate at 400, with the exception of the Templeton Foundation, which funds programs and research based on love, spirituality, and their positive therapeutic effects.

Corporations

 

American Spirit Tobacco Co.
 
285

American Spirit Tobacco (product)

 
205
Bayer (pharmaceuticals)
 
350
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
 
340
Bean, L. L.
 
330
Bloomingdale’s Dept. Store
 
255
Boeing Corp.
 
320
Campbell’s (soup)
 
280
Coca Cola
 
211
Costco
 
310
Dillard’s Dept. Store
 
350
Dow Chemical
 
325
FedEx
 
340
Ford Motor Co.
 
205
General Electric
 
205
General Motors
 
205
Gulf, Exxon
 
205
Harley Davidson
 
300
Heinz Co., H. J.
 
280
Homco
 
305
Home Depot
 
305
IBM
 
250
IKEA
 
210
Kellogg Co.
 
355
K-Mart
 
225
Lowe’s
 
300
Macy’s Dept. Store
 
270
McDonald’s
 
205
Microsoft Corp.
 
345
Nordstrom’s Dept. Store
 
260
Pepsi
 
209
Plizer
 
205

Sears, Roebuck (catalog era)

 
350
Singapore Airlines
 
275
Smuckers
 
340
Southwest Airlines
 
345
Starbucks
 
245
Viacom
 
240
Union Carbide Corp.
 
235
UPS (United Parcel Service)
 
216
Walmart
 
365
Wendy’s
 
245

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