Since
Dr. Robert L. Humphrey's book - VALUES FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM
- edited by his personal student - Jack Hoban, was
very hard to find, I had decided to dedicate some
pages for allowing you to read about some of his stories
and cases.
His incredible work and research that he had accomplished
throughout his life will amaze you. His global cross-cultural
detective work to stop cross-cultural conflicts and
violence resolution are important lessons to be remembered.
These are taken from the book itself.
Please
click on image to visit Dr. Humphrey's OFFICIAL
website by Jack Hoban.
DR.
ROBERT L. HUMPHREY'S
www.LifeValues.com
He
is sorely missed.
If
the military role, properly lived-as that of a competent defender-is
that satisfying (and it is), why not now develop, at least
our Marines, to serve in that proper military role anywhere
in the world. Actually, the sooner that attitude is assumed,
the less likely anyone will have to die performing it at its
highest expression. (Strike has not been fully adopted as
yet in the USMC, but it has a chance.)
Please
make certain there is understanding of what is being said
here. The late Robert Heinlein, the great science-fiction
writer, and Naval Academy graduate, in a lecture to the Academy,
once described the nature of the military-calling in its most
meaningful terms. He told of a nameless stranger, a hobo,
in Heinlein's hometown, who happened upon and went to the
aid of a woman who had caught her foot in some railroad tracks
(at the switch crossing). A train was bearing down on them
from around a curve and was certain to kill them if the woman
did not break loose so they could jump to safety. But the
hobo could not pull her foot free. Still, he stuck with her;
kept trying without flinching until the train killed them
both. Heinlein concluded his account with these words:
This
is how a man dies... This is how a man ... lives.
I
would add: This is the way the future American military person
will choose to live and risk death anywhere in the world defending
the defenseless of any status or any color. For truly, this
is the essence of the military calling. It will, however,
require much better training and more enlightened (nonmaterialistic)
recruiting. That training must overcome all of the informal,
misguided, selfish training that is coming out of all of our
institutions including too many of our negative role-model
professional athletes, and out of our current culture's neurotic
admiration for wealth even if ill-gotten. Fortunately, our
young Americans still feel some need for the opposite-the
inspiring, self-giving roles in life. Why? Because those virtues
reside in their deepest, most satisfying, natural inclinations.
Above
from pages 138 - 139
Dr.
Robert L. Humphrey's
VALUES FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM
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Here
is another story, or real-life values-account of the type
you must use to activate the secular (earthly) moral-values.
Intellectual discussions and explanations will not do it.
Alone, they can make things worse by giving con-men and hypocrites
their necessary verbal tools for deception.
The
Hobo
Robert
Heinlein, the great science fiction writer, in a graduation
address to a class at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy,
told this true story from his childhood: One day while strolling
through the great park in Kansas City, he and his mother saw
a young woman get her foot caught in the tracks at a railroad
crossing. The husband desperately tried to free her as a train
came charging down on them from around a curve and far to
fast to stop before the crossing.
As
Heilein and his mother watched that terrifying tragedy, a
hobo suddenly appeared "walking the tracks." He
joined the husband's futile effort to pull the woman free.
But tug and twist as they did, they could not get her out.
The
train killed them all three.
Heinlein
observed in his description of the vagabond's effort that
he did not so much as look up to consider his own escape.
Clearly, it was his intention, either to save the woman or
to die trying.
Heinlein
concluded his account of the nameless hobo's action with this
comment:
"This is the way a man dies, " but he then added,
"and this is the way a man lives."
In
our Cold-War programs, both overseas and here in America,
we always asked our audiences: What did Heinlein mean, This
is the way a man lives? He died!
The
audiences could seldom fully explain their acknowledged appreciation
of Heinlein's words. But they always knew that it was not
a slip of the tongue. They always realized that the idea had
a solid meaning for all of our lives. Full discussions usually
spelled-out the conclusion that it is probably the happiest
formula for our lives if we live a generous, noble life (for
benefit of the human species) rather than to lead a selfish
one even though, in some cases, possibly a longer one.
Is
it in your permanent memory why the stories are needed? Recall
that moral/ethical values can be taught (activated) only with
emotional impact -- and not through mere intellectual understanding.
For
the emotional impact, they must be taught, (1) through all
those years of childhood experience in the family, or (2)
(our Cold-War finding) from materials that, (a) teach the
basic life- value (as the only ROOT-VALUE that really works
wonders), and (b) that delivers the emotional impact from
that life-or-death choice, vicariously felt.
