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Anankelogy is the new social science for the understanding of our needs. Assumed to be too subjective for scientific inquiry, anankelogy demonstrates how a 'need' exists as an objective fact apart from subjective experience. Now we can get to the bottom of things like never before. Introducing Anankelogy Ananke is the classical Greek word for 'need'. Anankelogy is the disciplined study of need. A need is an objective fact. Anankelogy illustrates how a prioritized n eed exists as an objective phenomeno n. What until now we have delegated to divisive politics and adversarial justice can now be scrutinized with more precision and thoughtful discipline. Anankelogy illustrates how a natural need exists as objective phenomenon. As such, it can be impartially observed, predictably determined and empirically measured. We can understand needs much better than we ever could before. A prioritized need is also an objective fact. By focusing on our inflexible needs, anankelogy can get to the point of our different social sciences. Introducing anankelogy Anankelogy Foundation covers this new social science in three forms: academic, applied, and accessible. Ex plore each in more detail below. Accessible Anankelogy Steph Turner Applied Anankelogy Steph Turner Academic Anankelogy Steph Turner Check out nine ways anankelogy can create something of value for you. A nankelogy serves as a distinctive social science . Anankelogy shows how a natural need is an objective fact . Anankelogy starts with a nature-based paradigm . Anankelogy defines "need" for serious study . Anankelogy starts with familiar scientific methodology tools . Anankelogy appreciates your range of biases . Anankelogy sheds light on our cyclic experiences . Anankelogy democratizes science . Anankelogy replaces "disorder" with "defunction" & "refunction" . Check out nine ways anankelogy can create something of value for you. A nankelogy serves as a distinctive social science . Anankelogy shows how a natural need is an objective fact . Anankelogy starts with a nature-based paradigm . Anankelogy defines "need" for serious study . Anankelogy starts with familiar scientific methodology tools . Anankelogy appreciates your range of biases . Anankelogy sheds light on our cyclic experiences . Anankelogy democratizes science . Anankelogy invites your response to its need-responsiveness . Check out nine ways anankelogy can create something of value for you. A nankelogy serves as a distinctive social science . Anankelogy shows how a natural need is an objective fact . Anankelogy starts with a nature-based paradigm . Anankelogy defines "need" for serious study . Anankelogy starts with familiar scientific methodology tools . Anankelogy appreciates your range of biases . Anankelogy sheds light on our cyclic experiences . Anankelogy democratizes science . Anankelogy invites your response to its need-responsiveness . Anankelogy 101 - 106 Soon available in six introductory courses Anankelogy 101 Needs created A need exists as an objective fact, independent of human subjective experience. Such subjective experience follows in response to an objective requirement to function. go to Anankelogy 101: Need creation Anankelogy 102 Needs felt Emotions exist to personally convey needs. You don't even have to feel them for them to do their work. Emotions set your body in motion to respond to something it requires. Course to be available soon Anankelogy 103 Needs experien ced Each need begins with something falling out of balance. Emotions then prompt you to get the necessary resource to restore you to operational balance. Course to be available soon Anankelogy 104 Needs relieved You unfortanately cannot fully resolve every needs. Some needs resolve only partially. Some do not resolve at all. The less your needs resolve, the less you can function and the more you sufferin pain. Course to be available soon Anankelogy 105 To function Fully resolved needs enable you to function at your peak potential. Most of us only partially resolve our needs. Or suffer unmet needs. A few of suffer on the brink of ending it all. In troducing defunctions and refunctions . Course to be available soon Anankelogy 106 To know History demonstrates a swinging pendulum between one set of needs receiving full attention at the expense of a different set of needs. The swinging back the other way when those neglected needs gain wide support. Course to be available soon Welcome to anankelogy Learn some basics by reading these blog entries. Four levels of experiencing your needs Four levels and their nuance of functionality Four levels of human problems Four gradient types of pain Based on the book You NEED This See the book that first introduced this new social science to the world. Self-published in 2021, you can still find it on Amazon . Meticulously organized into numbered segments and filled with 130 diagrams and charts, this book can help you understand your needs like never before . Learn more about You NEED This Discuss in our Engagemen forum

Responsivism is the belief and practice of personally responding to the needs of others instead of enaging in hostile opposition. Responsive Wellness Responsivism answers the shortcomings of activism. Responsivism is the belief and practice that responding to the unchosen needs of others can produce more favorable results than defensive-provoking adversarial alternatives. Responsivism answers the shortcomings of legalism. ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT Preparing the way Responsivism serves as a precursor to a potential wellness campaign . Such a campaign demands collective effort. Before you can attract interest, you may need to start small, with a personal wellness initiative . The more responsive to the needs of others, the more responsive they'll likely be to you. Any individual can start a wellness initiative with any of these responsive tools. You download the tool yourself. You fill in the fields and see the relevant results. You engage others without having to first wait on others. You take charge to address your overlooked needs. Needs over laws Your every need exists as an objective fact . This truism inspires a different approach to conflicts, to problems, and toward those in positions of power. For starters, expecting others to change their minds as a trusted way to address your needs repeatedly fails. Now we can understand why. Now we have a fresh approach, to more effectively identify and address our needs. Responsivism answers the many limitations inherent in adversarial activism. Responsivism begins with you, on a personal level. Start asking what you can do for others. No quid pro quo. Just to stretch your potential to be more giving. Responsivism answers the many baked-in limits of legalistic activism. Here are just a few. Toxic legalism fails to solve your problems. tends to perpetuate pain and problems relies more on generalizations to evade uncomfortable nuance intent toward relieving own pain at other's expense typically provokes mutual defensiveness, provoking pain aims to ease needs, manage pain & cope with poor wellness Responsivism can solve more problems. potential to resolve problems and remove cause for pain faithfully engages nuance to address all relevant needs intent toward resolving all needs to remove cause for pain cultivates mutual understanding of each other's needs aims to resolve needs, remove pain, & restore wellness Replace activism with responsivism Responsive Wellness Tools 1 Personally Responsive Attract social capital To send to your friends and family members. Break the ice of your isolation with kind acts offered to others. Help others melt their alienation. Establish your reputation as more responsive to each other's overlooked needs. GO TO 2 Properly Responsive Grow social capital To send to your colleagues, coworkers, classmates, etc. Replace mindless obedience to laws and social norms with mutual responsiveness to needs. Expand your public profile as one more responsive to needs than impersonal authorities. GO TO 3 Professionally Respon. Incentivize wellness support To send to professionals you interact with frequently. Motivate professionals to respond better to your specific and oft-overlooked needs. Hold each other accountable by replacing nasty adversarialism with mutual supports. GO TO 4 Powerfully Responsive Speak truth to power To send to authority figures prone to giving you a cold shoulder. Stretch beyond impersonal authorities by demonstrating greater responsiveness to needs. Raise the standard of our behavior with the power of love to honor each other's needs. GO TO Responsivism 'wellness initiative' tools Personal ly Responsive Properly Responsive Professionally Responsive Powerfully Responsive Solve more problems with love Before you try to improve your relations with others, be sure you have adequately improved yourself. Use these tools to improve your 'easement orientation' and your 'conflict orientation'. Stretch your comfort zone to resolve more needs. And turn conflicts into opportunities of mutual support. Personally Responsive Professionally Responsive Properly Responsive Powerfully Responsive Personally Responsive Melt alienation with acts of kindness How well do you know what others need of you? How well do others know what you need of them? Replace disappointments with this proactive engagement of each other's unexpressed needs. Personally Responsive NOT YET READY Properly Responsive Melt alienation with kind acts How well do you know what others need of you? How well do others know what you need of them? Replace disappointments with this proactive engagement of each other's unexpressed needs. Properly Responsive Professionally Responsive Improve responsiveness of powerholders Professional relations can quickly turn transactional. "Toxic legalism " takes over. You easily concede respect for your needs to those in positions of power. Use this "exaction invoice" to incentivize improving their responsiveness to you. Professionally Responsive NOT YET READY Powerfully Responsive Earn legitimacy with honed impact data How well do you know what others need of you? How well do others know what you need of them? Replace disappointments with this proactive engagement of each other's unexpressed needs. exact Powerfully Responsive Acknowledging Receipt If receiving one of these responsive messages, please acknowledge yours here. In the space below, please state the type received. Below that, please leave your name. Optionally connect with Twitter or Google, but this works otherwise. 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Power is not really ‘power’ unless resulting in resolved needs. < Back F04 Authority Principle List of all principles Power is not really ‘power’ unless resulting in resolved needs. Image: Pixabay – kareni (click on meme to see source image) Summary Any authoritative power not resolving needs acts more like a coercive force. The more those in position of power serve their own interests at odds with the affected needs of the powerless, the less legitimate their influence. The power of the socially influential only exists because of the deeper power of nature shaping our objective needs. The more any social power invests their social influence to resolve nature-created needs, the more meaningful and legitimate its influence. Otherwise, it’s often guilty of coercive exploitations. Description Which do you think is more likely? We must respect those in positions of power over us to extrinsically maintain the social order. OR We must reserve “power” for what restores full wellness to intrinsically sustain the social order. Anankelogy The concept of influential power depends largely on the greater power of our underlying natural needs. Apart from needing another’s approval, for example, no one has any influential power over me. The deeper power of nature driving my need for another’s opinion of me fuels the existence of influential power. When indigenous people speak of power, they typically refer to this deeper power of nature driving our needs. Nonindigenous discourse tends to regard the “power” of social influence on par with the “Power” of nature. Without nature’s power to compel us to depend on others, there is no influential social power. The more we flow with the greater power of nature to resolve our needs, the less potent the “power”of social influence. The less our needs resolve, the more vulnerable we are to the influence of those we trust to hold things together. The more those in influential positions of power impede resolving our needs, their “power” presents more like a privileged weakness. Only when power leads you to resolve your needs can that power be respected in full. Social influence that manipulates us away from resolving needs, and coerces us to endure more suffering, lacks legitimacy . When forcing us to settle for less than our full functioning wellness, it is power in name only. Need-response The other social sciences generally accept the conventional definition of power. They see power as compelling social influence. Anankelogy’s nature-based paradigm requires a deeper view of power. Anankelogy and need-response recognize the deeper forces of nature shaping our needs. Apart from the greater power of nature driving our needs, there would be no lesser power of social influence. The more we try to control nature, the more we alienate ourselves from the power of nature to resolve needs. The more alienated we become from resolving our needs, the more drawn to social influence to cope with the resulting pain. The more we settle for the lesser power of social influence to manage the pain, the fewer of our needs can actually resolve. Pain is not the problem as much as the threats our pain exists to report . The more we allow social power to distract us from our pain and needs, the more that pain likely returns . There is no such thing as pain apart from unmet needs , but we generally prefer our familiar yet dull pain of unmet needs over the sharper pain of unknowns of fully resolving a need. In other words, social power easily robs us from enjoying natural power. Reactive Problem The less your needs resolve, the more your body persists in grabbing your attention with intensifying emotional pain. To cope with that pain to address needs beyond your control, you naturally seek some kind of relief from outside of yourself. Professional pain-relievers come along and offer you hope. You latch on. You’re soon pleased by gaining some relief. Any relief will do. Now you’re hooked. Your psychiatrist hooks you on reuptake inhibitors , so you never have to resolve the needs causing you depression. Your favorite news outlet hooks you on outrage porn , so you never have to resolve the needs driving the conflict. Your political leaders hook you on indulgent side-taking , so you never have to resolve your need for community cohesion or address your painful feelings of isolation. You give them “power” over your unresolved needs. Your unresolved needs persist to alarm you with ongoing pain. The longer you feel alienated from others, for example, the more you suffer loneliness and agonizing despair. So you return to your familiar source of pain relief. You socially give “powerholders” your permission to influence you. And for some reason we call this “power”. But such social influence is actually weakness. We have it tragically backwards. We resign to regarding such potent social influence as “power” when it would not even exist if we related better to nature’s power driving our needs. Settling for the “power” of social influence exposes us to manipulation, exploitation, coercion, and settling for alternatives to resolving needs . All in the name of power. Responsive Solution Let’s now get right to how this principle can solve that problem. . For now, this serves as placeholder text. When I find the time, I will post the full deal here. How does this speak to your experience of needs? Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . 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Self-righteousness is a weak savior. Arrogance is no savior at all. < Back E12 Conflict Principle List of all principles Self-righteousness is a weak savior. Arrogance is no savior at all. Image: Pixabay – Pexels (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more aggressively opposed by others, the easier to get self-righteous, to defend your beliefs or actions as just. The less this wins your arguments, the more inclined to become arrogant, to assert your rights and ignore their needs. The more you try to save yourself, the more you lose. The more you drop your guard and invite them in to see your vulnerable side, the closer you can save the day. Description Which do you think is more likely? There is no excuse to defend yourself with self-serving rationalizations. OR It is better to test how responsive they are to your needs with some defensive remarks you’re ready to drop as soon as they show themselves trustworthy to your vulnerabilities. Anankelogy The less we engage each other, the quicker we insist we’re right about something. Our inflexible needs refuse to fit their rebuttals. So we double down and insist we’re rationally right. Even in some of the most irrational ways. Self-righteousness easily shuts down dialogue. It closes down conversations. It avoids the stuff deep down that really matters. Author John Powell put it well in his book Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am? “To understand people, I must try to hear what they are not saying, what they perhaps will never be able to say.” The self-righteous become poor listeners. They burn bridges. They trigger distrust. They miss opportunities for deeper connections. Consider this response by Job (Job 6:24-26): “Teach me and I will be silent. And show me where I have erred. How painful are honest words. But what does your argument prove? Do you intend to dispute my words when the words of one in despair belongs to the wind?” We can either keep the conversation going, or shut it down by overdefensive reactions to even the slightest charge. Resolving needs requires an ongoing interaction of shared understandings. Need-response An accusation could be an awkward attempt to go deeper. Reacting to the first emotionally charged words could miss the point. They belong to the “wind” and not yet on point. They’re likely thrown out to test the waters, to check if it’s safe to disclose more. A self-righteous response warns it is not safe. Self-righteousness traps you into a shallow understanding. You get stuck with your blind spots. Others recognize your ignorance, your unresponsiveness. They’re less likely to share much with you in the future. By denying any merit in the speaker’s assertion, you lose their trust. They likely could go deeper and share something much more vulnerable and relevant. But your refusal to engage leaves them in the cold. No connection here. Reactive Problem Consider this exchange. “You misunderstood what I meant.” “No, I didn’t! I understand you fully.” The reaction is harshly self-righteous and defensive. “You’re wrong, I do understand!” No further exploration necessary. In short, “Shut the hell up!” See how that feel-reactive denial avoids deeper awareness? See how it tries to avoid anything uncomfortable? See how it effectively avoids addressing any affected needs? Such defensiveness rarely leads to resolving the needs behind the conflict. Especially when followed by the arrogance of might-makes-right. Trustworthiness is easily lost when imposing one’s interpretation . Responsive Solution Let’s revisit that exchange, but with a different response. “You misunderstood what I meant.” “Why do you say I misunderstood what you meant?” The response is neither self-righteous nor admitting the charge. “You may have something there. Let’s keep talking so we both share an understanding.” See how that need-responsive query invites deeper awareness? See how it faces the risk of something uncomfortable? See how it can help address any affected needs on both sides? Such mutual respect can resolve more needs than self-righteous defensiveness . Especially when both sides find it safe to explore all the affected needs. No one requires anyone’s permission to breathe . Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: Sometimes my first objection gets misinterpreted as self-righteousness. How can I challenge a hurtful accusation without being self-righteous? I prefer to ask what they’ve done than jump to an accusation. I think it works much better. Self-righteous denial could be a step in the grieving process, later admitted when ready. Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. Demonstrate need-responsiveness in your interactions here. Let’s respect each other. Engage supportive feedback from others on this platform. Let’s grow together. Together, let’s improve our need-responsiveness . Together, let’s spread some love . 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The Anankelogy Foundation exists to introduce this new social science for the disciplined understanding of our needs. About The Anankelogy Foundation exists to introduce this new social science fo r the disciplined understanding of our needs: anankelogy All the social sciences (psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, political science) exist to find answers for our many needs. Now we have a social science to study and better understand the needs themselves. Our mission AF's purpose The Anankelogy Foundation mission is to introduce and establish the new social science of anankelogy , the disciplined study of need, and its application in the new professional field of need-response . Anankelogy exists to complement all other social sciences seeking to find answers to our many needs, by scientifically understanding the needs themselves. It presents the potential to provide the elusive answers many painstakingly strive to find. Need-response exists to solve problems underserved by legalistic or rationalistic or other options, by recognizing, relating, and resolving each other’s specific needs in ways that removes pain and raises functioning. It presents the potential to enable us to reprioritize love in our lives. AF's vision & implementation The Anankelogy Foundation , with support from loving folks like you, will soon spark an organic need-responsive, love-spreading movement that will result in resolving more needs, removing more pain, and restoring more wellness. AF can accomplish this by first cultivating a community of 'need-responders ' who get skilled to respond more effectively to needs , replacing popular norms of 'feel-reactors ' who more often ease pain of unmet needs, who then perpetuate the pain of unmet needs, and who fail to reach their full functioning potential. Our overarching goal s The Anankelogy Foundation aims to enable you to resolve more of your needs . The Anankelogy Foundation aims to enable you to remove more of your pain . The Anankelogy Foundation aims to enable you to reach more of your potential . Our guiding strategy Introduce the world to anankelogy's revolutionary potential. Grow a comm unity o f credentialed need-respond ers . Together, build this new profession of need-response . Our get-us-there tactics How we aim to grow a community of need-responders with our development programs . Step 1 : Stretch each other’s capacity to endure discomforts of more fully resolving needs. Step 2 : Replace failed standard of mutual hostilities during conflict with mutual respect. Step 3 : Incentivize those in power to use our proactive conciliatory approach to conflicts. Step 4 : Transform social systems to enable us all to resolve more of one another’s needs. Our easy onboarding VISIT US here and follow our forum discussions . Find a topic of interest to you. JOIN US to engage these provocative discussions. Find a group of interest to you. CHALLENGE US to respect your needs. Try our first development program , it’s free! Our vision Which would you prefer? Continue life as a "feel-reactor " who habitually reacts to your feelings from painfully unmet needs? OR Become a "need-responder " who fully resolves needs, removes pai n, and reaches more of your potential. We are all feel-reactors at least some of the time. We sometimes fall into the trap of reacting to what we feel instead of carefully responding to what we or others need in the moment. We risk planting seeds of outrage or contagious hate. We are all need-responders at times. You smile at a discouraged stranger. You give a listening ear. You offer a helping hand. Now we’re going to develop your potential to do more of this need-responding all the time. Then we can grow and spread more love. Anankelogy on three levels Ananke is the classical Greek word for need . Adding 'logos' for the study of , anankelogy is simply the study of need . Scroll down below to the next section for Anglicized pronunciation . Anankelogy exists for you on three levels: academic anankelogy , applied anankelogy , and accessible anankelogy . Each with its specific focus for a specific area of need. Academic Anankelogy Steph Turner 9 min read 1. Academic anankelogy Academic anankelogy emphasizes thinking most critically about our human needs. As a basic science , it focuses on research using tools and methods already employed in the other social sciences. Check out nine ways anankelogy can create something of value for you. Anankelogy serves as a distinctive social science . Anankelogy shows how a natural need is an objective fact . Anankelogy starts with a nature-based paradigm . Anankelogy defines "need" for serious study . Anankelogy starts with familiar scientific methodology tools . Anankelogy appreciates your range of biases . Anankelogy sheds light on our cyclic experiences . Anankelogy democratizes science . Anankelogy replaces "disorder" with "defunction" and "refunction" . And more. Learn more about academic anankelogy here. Applied Anankelogy Steph Turner 8 min read 2. Applied ananke logy Applied anankelogy is an applied sci ence that recognizes the objective fact of natural needs . I t informs the new professional field called need-response , or NR for short. Explore some of its advantages. NR prioritizes the resolving of needs over the mere pain-relief . NR enables you to work through your pain to remove its causes . NR expands your potential to reach more of your functional capacity . NR offers a loving alternative to the divisiveness ripping us apart . NR holds authority accountable to its purpose to serve our needs . NR provides a disciplined conciliatory process to resolve all affected needs . NR restores our potential to be more loving toward each other . And much more. Learn more about applied anankelogy here. Accessible Anankelogy Steph Turner 12 min read 3. Accessible anankelogy You don't have to be tr ained in the social sciences to gain something from this . Anankelogy anticipates the need to keep this new social science acc essible to all. This new understanding comes packaged to you in these 9 easy-to-use ways. A ccessible anankelogy invites armchair social scientists . Accessible anankelogy improves you r awareness with “relational knowing” . Accessible anankelogy democratizes science . Accessible anankelogy lowers your risk of personal bias . Accessible anankelogy uses simpler-to-understand language . Accessible anankelogy debunks divisive experts . Accessible anankelogy holds us all accountable to mutual respect . Accessible anankelogy makes it easier to respect everyone’s needs . Accessible anankelogy equips you to cultivate more love . And more. Learn more about accessible anankelogy here. The Anankelogy Foundation seeks to make all three an everyday reality. Chere here for a glossary of anankelogy's vocabulary of new terms . Pronunciation Pronunciation guide anankelogy [n .] (ä'-nä-kĕ'-lŏ-jē): the study of need as a social science, and specifically the human experience of need. anankelogical [adj .] (ä'-nä-kĕ-lŏ'-jĭ'-kâl): of, relating to, or characteristic of anankelogy ; referring to the role of need in anything. anankelogist [n .] (ä'-nä-kĕ'-lŏ-jĭst): one who studies the phenomena of need using tools and methods of social science. anakelogic [adj .] (ä'-nä-kĕ-lŏ'-jĭk): same as anankelogical . anankelogically [adv .] (ä'-nä-kĕ-lŏ'-jĭ-kâ-lē'): referring to the role of need on some action. E.g., Political views tend to be less rationally deduced and more anankelogically produced. AF community Looking for some answers? Learn how anankelogy can... show how to decrease political polarization by distinguishing between each other's inflexible priority of inflexible needs; redirect media bias to attract and sustain an audience across the ideological spectrum; help reduce depression by identifying and resolving neglected personal needs; serve the wrongly convicted innocent passed over by innocence projects . Follow our discussions in the forum . Better yet, become a site member to contribute to the discussion. We can learn together to be more responsive to each other's needs. Together, let's grow a community of need-responders. Together let's demonstrate the love of prioritizing the resolution of each other's needs. Together, let's replace hopeless managed pain by removing pain to reach more of our lives' potential. You can start now by simply becoming a member of this website. Join our discussions on various need-responding topics. Add your thoughts about creating a platform for speaking truth to power with the power of love . Help create a movement replacing outrage culture with loving respect for each other's affected needs. Become a member today to start benefiting from this revolution toward love, BECOME A MEMBER Steph Turner Dash · Jun 09, 2023 Welcome to the Anankelogy Forum Steph Turner Dash · Jun 09, 2023 Introduce yourself Steph Turner Dash · Jun 09, 2023 Forum rules Our needs Until AF finds viable board members and can grow a supporting staff, its inspiring potential to help solve the pressing problems of today will remain in limbo. Meanwhile, this website remains under development. AF is a long way, at this point, from hiring a staff to keep this a going concern. If inspired by this vision to solve problems by resolving needs, consider how you can contribute to its mission. Join us ! Consider becoming a part of our visionary movement to spread more love. Consider applying your expertise to our volunteer needs. - website - accounting - other Click on the button above to express your interest. Thank you. Consider applying your expertise to our advisory needs. - website - accounting - other Click on the button above to express your interest. Thank you. Consider applying your expertise by joining the board. - website - accounting - other Click on the button above to express your interest. Thank you. Consider applying your expertise to an available staff position. - technical - development dir - other Click on the button above to express your interest. Thank you. volunteer roles advisory roles board member staff roles Welcome aboard! My name is Steph Turner, author of You NEED This I am the founder of anankelogy. Or more accurately, I am the conduit through which this otherwo rldly wisdom flows. I seek no fame nor fortun e from delivering such wisdom. I prefer to spark a revolution of more love for each other. The more we respect the needs of others as we would have others respect our own needs, the more problems we solve . There is no greater revolution than to revolve back to love. Learn more about me at Value Relating

This is for any wrongly convicted innocent underserved by the adversarial judicial system. When even innocence litigators cannot find merit in your innocence claim, now you can use this form to demonstrate the merits of your overlooked case. If litigators still resist, we move onto Responsive Innocence. About Introducing Anankelogy the book: You NEED This Anankelogy Principles Glossary Need-response Need help? Need-responders Pricing NR podcast NR Community Engagement Book Online Groups Development Estimated Innocence Form Still processing paper forms from countless pleas for help? Let us presort the claims for you You can then instantly know how to best serve each claimant. fresh approach - download Download the EIF Organization (acronym) First name Last name Email I accept terms & conditions I want to learn how to utilize this tool. I am open to receiving info about alternatives to the adversarial legal system. Download this free interactive tool Innocence claimants count on your as their last line of hope. But you receive more requests for legal assistance than you can accommodate. Need-response can smooth the process with this Estimated Innocence Form. Encourage innocence claimants to preprocess their claim with this interactive spreadsheet. This form automatically compares their claim with those already exonerated. Then calculates the degree that their claim of innocence can merit your attention. Innocence claimant? Click here to go to the page that's just for you. Sort claims by their quality. Instantly recognize the strength of each claim of actual innocence. Get a readout of how the innocence claim mirrors other exonerated cases. Process innocence claims more effectively and efficiently. Instantly recognize which claims you can properly serve. Promptly refer out those you cannot, based on presorted criteria. Get a jumpstart with each claim. Empower claimants and their supporters to do some of the investigative legwork. Boost the reputation of the legal profession by no longer keeping claimants in the dark. Avoid traumatizing claimants by not having to make them wait and be told you cannot serve their claim. Quickly identify where to improve your resources to process all these viable claims. Quickly identify your need to hire more staff. Use this data and its standardized narratives to attract more funding. Invite the claimant, or their supporter, to send you the summary Estimated Innocence Report. Check out a sample of the completed form. Send a paper form to an incarcerated claimant you represent. Download the form today to see what this estimated innocence can do for your processing of innocence claims. EIF-sample pages 01 EIF-sample pages 02 EIF-sample pages 03 EIF-sample pages 01 1/4 We appreciate how You routinely receive more requests than you can promptly process. Criminal courts routinely deny their own errors and typically are not incentivized to take responsibility for their costly mistakes. It takes the adversarial legal process a long time to review each case, forcing your clients to wait years to maybe find justice. When the claimant exhausts all legal options... Now t hey have an alternative to the slow, unresponsive legal process: Responsive Innocence . The EIF exists to serve at least a dozen aims. Consider how it can help you identify the immense scope of wrongful convictions. And then use this data to attract funders to expand your resources to process such viable claims. Join us in rapidly identifying and responding to viable innocence claims. EIF aim 01 EIF aim 02 EIF aim 12 EIF aim 01 1/12 Need-response regards all wrongly convicted innocents overlooked by the adversarial legal process as "unexonerated". The EIF could publicize their unexonerated cases. And draw attention to improve resources to clear these mounting viable claims. Join us in exploring more responsive ways to free the innocent. NOTE: This was orginally available on the ValueRelating.com website. That site will soon be phased out. If you previously downloaded the EIF there, find more support for it here. This continues to be a work in progress. Your constructive feedback to help improve it is appreciated. If you have a suggestion or a question, click here . One last thing... Any injustice in the name of justice is no justice at all . Currently requires MS Excel or reader to utilize. After you download the spreadsheet, it will open in PROTECTED VIEW. Click on Enable Editing to start using it. The form will not work until you do. Ready to download it now? Download the "estimated innocence form" interactive tool By using this tool, you agree with our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy . If these terms and this policy do not fit your need, you are not to use this tool. We welcome you to contact us to suggest how we can fit these to your particular needs.

Follow developments of this new service of need-response each Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts. Discover how this pioneering service can help you solve your stubborn problems. Need-Response podcast Spotify Amazon Castbox iHeart PlayerFM YouTube NR Clips RSS feed solving problems by resolving n eeds The Need-Response podcast introduces you to the budding professional service of ‘need-response ’. Steph and Gustavo address your underserved needs with this new service, beyond the limits of our current institutions of law and psychotherapy . Follow along to speak truth to power, incentivizing them with the power of love to listen to those they impact. Episodes drop each Wednesday morning, starting 30 April 2025. 2x09 Prove your innocence without lawyers Instead of filling out and sending paper forms that take forever, consider this better alternative. August 6, 2025 2x09 Prove your innocence without lawyers 00:00 / 26:10 Episode features Need-response introduces the "Estimated Innocence Form". It's still in its infancy, as an Excel spreadsheet prototype. It compares your case to those already exonerated. Then immediately gives you a score of your 'likely innocence'. 1x08 Responding to the unexonerated innocent How can we trust the adversarial legal system to fix what it keeps breaking? July 9, 2025 1x08 Responding to the unexonerated innocent 00:00 / 36:27 Episode features While grateful for the innocence movement, their innocence litigators remain trapped within the same limits that produces wrongful convictions. The adversarial legal process easily provokes defensiveness and alienation. Need-response dares to envison something completely different to address the problem. 1x07 Does innocence even matter? Steph opens up about the wrongful conviction still hampering their full potential. June 25, 2025 1x07 Does innocence even matter? 00:00 / 37:30 Episode features Now we zero in a problem that need-response should be better equipped to solve than the adversarial legal system. Only need-response seeks to better understand and resolve the inflexible needs of all involved in a conflict that leads to a wrongful conviction of one with no role in the reported crime whatsoever. 1x06 What is wrong with us? If you can start for free, why not try it? Especially if you can shift the costs to the powerful. June 4, 2025 1x06 What is wrong with us? 00:00 / 40:43 Episode features Instead of expensive retainer fees or having to qualify for healthcare insurance, need-response starts for free. And can remain relatively inexpensive by spreading the costs to others investing in your wellbeing and their own. 1x05 How well is your wellbeing? We define wellness as your ability to fully function. Not by relieving pain but removing cause for pain. May 28, 2025 1x05 How well is your wellbeing? 00:00 / 42:38 Episode features Need-response invites you to help build this service. And consider being one of its professional service providers. 1x04 What seems to be your problem? What kinds of problems does need-response address? How is different from other options? May 21, 2025 1x04 What seems to be your problem? 00:00 / 38:19 Episode features Need-response addresses problems on all levels. By resolving your neglected needs, you experience your problems naturally fade away. 1x03 Where does it hurt? Do you settle for options that merely ease your pain? Why not let us help remove its cause? May 14, 2025 1x03 Where does it hurt? 00:00 / 42:03 Episode features Only need-response understands how your pain can only exist from your unmet needs. Only need-response exhausts all means to resolve such needs. 1x02 What do you need? Do we really need another type of professional service? May 7, 2025 1x02 What do you need? 00:00 / 39:53 Episode features Only need-response affirms your core needs as objective fact. This sets us apart from any other option. 1x01 What is 'need-response'? What can this new service do we can’t get anywhere else? April 30, 2025 1x01 What is 'need-response'? 00:00 / 42:43 Episode features Get your first full introduction into what this new service of 'need-response' is truly about. Consider what it can do for you. 1x00 Introducing need-response Steph and Gustavo opens the door to invite you into this amazing world of need-response. April 16, 2025 1x00 Introducing need-response 00:00 / 05:14 Episode features Now we begin in earnest. Hear Gustavo and Steph set the tone for this new proposed service. Trailer Need-Response trailer Quick introduction to the new podcast by the Anankelogy Foundation January 30, 2025 Trailer Need-Response trailer 00:00 / 00:58 Episode features Start your need-responsive journey here. Discover this pioneering alternative to our failing institutions. 1 1 ... 1 ... 1 Leave us a review on Podchaser . Let others know why they should also listen. Or let us know how we can improve this for you and the world.

The more you generalize, the less of reality you realize. < Back C09 General Principle List of all principles The more you generalize, the less of reality you realize. Image: Pixabay – FelixMittermeier (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more you rely on simplifying reality, the more details of reality you likely overlook. We often keep it simple to avoid uncomfortable facts, or to hold together a coalition, often both. The more you courageously address each relevant detail, the more your needs can more fully resolve. The more you do, the more pushback from those relying on these oversimplifying generalizations. Description Which do you think is more likely? You have to go with generalizations to be decisive in life. OR You will get more out of life the more you replace your generalizations with relevant specifics. Anankelogy The more you feel overwhelmed from multiple sources of stimuli, the more likely your cognitive load finds some way to simplify life. You reduce complicated details into manageable general ideas. You dismiss what seems less relevant to your immediate aims. You generalize. To navigate life’s complexities, you likely adopt widely held views to help you comprehend what you cannot or do not have time to fully understand on your own. You generalize, in both senses of the word. 1) You apply your view as widely as possible; what fits you should universalize equally to others. 2) You evade messy details; you avoid bringing up details that could cost you social support. Until you process all the relevant details of a need, to fully resolve that need, too much generalizing can lead you astray. Your body then warns you this need is not resolving enough to restore your functioning. You experience this warning as some form of physical or emotional pain. To cope with the pain, you may revert back to comforting generalizations. You rely on what anankelogy calls relief-generalizing . That’s when you seek relief from the pain of your unmet needs with comforting generalizations. But relying too much on generalizing typically sidesteps the detail necessary to resolve the underlying need. So the pain inevitably recurs. You then risk slipping into dysfunction , of prioritizing the relief of your mounting pain. You can then afford less and less cognitive space to focus on what is necessary to resolve the need, to remove that pain. You increasingly latch onto beliefs that limit your appreciation of reality. All beliefs include some level of error . The more you cling to generalizing to cope, the less of reality you can faithfully process. Without some return to identifying and addressing the overlooked specifics shaping your needs, you risk slipping into a miserable rabbit hole of mounting despair. Need-response Need-response recognizes how legalistic and biopsychological responses to problems often fall short of addressing problems because they count on imperfect generalizations. You can find yourself pulled into generalizing by institutions built on such imperfect generalizations. The more grounded in a universal principle—like honoring others as your healthiest self would have them honor you—the more reliable the generalization. The more a generalization permits you to skip or ignore relevant facts, the more trouble you are bound to face. Some laws (like constitutional norms) are more grounded in universal principles than others. Most laws are kept intentionally vague to apply to as many situations as possible. And they tend to remain impersonal to avoid favoritism. Biopsychological responses to problems rely heavily on generalizations from the medical model . It tries to reduces detail-rich situations into internally changeable options. The more this model overlooks the socioenvironmental factors to wellness, the more its generalizing can lead you down a path of unwellness in the name of wellness. Need-response equips you to face the specifics of your needs and problems. The more of reality you realize, the less you habitually generalize. Reactive Problem Increasing alienation increases reliance on unreliable generalizations. Faulty assumptions fill in when not knowing other’s specific needs and experiences. Problems arise. Instead of taking a high stand to identify and resolve needs, avoidant adversarialism sets in to indulgently take sides . Problems then feed on themselves. Instead of affirming other’s unchosen needs they cannot change, you provoke their defensiveness. They provoke yours. You morally conflate what they could do to change with the natural needs they cannot change. They dig in their heels. What you reactively resist you reflexively reinforce . You then get more of what you ostensibly oppose, to ensure the conflict remains. You could possibly normalize this tension. You might indulge in the conflict porn of constantly trying to win over others. You play a complicit role in impeding resolution of needs. You come to depend on the familiarity of the tense situation. Responsive Solution Need-response provide the free Personally Responsive tool to melt alienation with deliberate acts of kindness. You replace the habits of avoidance and adversarialism with engagement and mutual understanding and support. To be better understood, you first understand others. To be more affirmed, you first affirm others. To receive appropriate support, you first appropriately support others. The tool helps you break the ice so you can incentivize others to be open to your service to them. You model how they can improve to understand and engage your needs. Along the way, you learn to let go of those fill-in assumptions. You drop your generalizations that no longer serve you. You gather more insight into all the dynamics shaping your life. You face more of reality and become a better person for it. The less you generalize, the more reality you finally realize. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: What counts as a generalization? How can I know when I have discovered enough specifics? I think too much concern about specifics can lead to overthinking some things. It doesn’t help being surrounded by others who constantly overgeneralize. Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Remember to keep the following in mind: Quote the principle you are responding to, and its identifier letter & number. Let’s be specific. Demonstrate need-responsiveness in your interactions here. Let’s respect each other. Engage supportive feedback from others on this platform. Let’s grow together. Together, let’s improve our need-responsiveness . Together, let’s spread some love . See other principles in this category - Foundational - Basic - General - Pain - Conflict - Authority - Law - Love - Previous Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link Next

Glossary O objective evil (n. ) Anankelogy recognizes pathologizing plus benefiting from it as equivalent to evil. harming others + benefiting from it = evil Anyone who can be empirically measured as gaining something of value from empirically hindering the objective needs of others (and potentially of oneself) can be counted as “objective” evil. This points to three observable elements that can be captured using the tools of social science. 1. The objective needs of others. 2. Any hindrance of resolving such needs. 3. Benefiting from such hindrance. The more one gains from their imposition on others, however ostensibly benign or obviously pernicious, the more they tend to deny its harm. Or they resort to motivated reasoning to rationalize that any negative impact was necessary for some claimed greater good. This tends to occur only in power relations, where a more socially influential person or entity imposes their self-serving will onto the vulnerably less influential. As the less powerful can adequately function as a consequence, the blind-sighted powerful may see this as proof of their superiority. Evil then becomes something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is generally easier to be self-righteous when no one is in place to hold one accountable. The most evil figures in history tend not to recognize themselves as evil. Nor would those currently acting as such, until now with these three measurable variables tested with the social science of anankelogy. See evil . objective sin (n. ) Measurably falling short of fully resolving need, which limits optimal functioning in an objective way, independent of emotion, belief or perception. Imperfection objectively limiting full wellness, whether from one's own limited actions or from other's imposing limitations, or both. objective wickedness (n. ) Measurably obstructing resolution of need, which objectively limits full functioning, independent of emotion, belief or perception. Often with good intent, such as offering relief from the pain of unresolved needs that risks perpetuating pain by ignoring the objective needs. The more you become attached to pain relief to the point of neglecting the underserved needs (which dutifully prompts pain to call attention to your diminished wellness), the more your resulting diminished capacity to function becomes normalized. You then risk protecting this more familiar pain to avoid the lesser known pain of processing the uncomfortable alarm of your unresolved need. The more you avoid this call to remove a threat to your capacity to function, the more this persisting threat prompts more pain for you to try to ignore. This occurs as objectively wicked in that your objective capacity to function measurably declines, independent of any emotion, belief or perception. oppo culture (n. ) - DEFUNCTION Short for "opposition culture", this refers to the set of written and unwritten norms that privileges or compels taking an antagonistic stance against others with whom one disagrees. It tends to displace the more noble potential for mutual regard . It functions in proximity with avoidance culture as key components to the power delusion . See adversarialism . organic pain (n. ) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z < back to glossary menu