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Introduction

This book is an exposé about fine, clean cut, often highly intelligent, well charactered, cultured, down to earth people and the discrimination widely practiced against them. These people are often exceptional in one or more ways, not necessarily academically, though that may be, and they have the potential to make a wonderful contribution to life. Some academics have a problem with this, as if academically is the only way to be exceptional. Indeed, it is one of the most noble. But there are other ways. For example, a well known publication tells us of shy people: “Shyness in its milder forms is associated with traits such as greater empathy, more acute perceptiveness, canny intuition, and beneficent sensitivity. All qualities that are nothing to be shy about.” (U.S. News & World Report, Inc., June 21, 1999, P.57, New York, N.Y.) This is just one instance among many where a person can be exceptional in a manner that numerous academics are not, and it should be an accepted fact by them and others.

However, a considerable portion of the general population, in high places and low, for various reasons which are stated and illustrated by case stories in the book, discriminate against these fine exceptional people in ways that often amount to gross mental abuse. The practice, though widely exercised, has seldom been recognized for what it is: severe, often intentional damaging of human personhood and character, or attempts at such. This is a story of mental cruelty; of a long overlooked social problem and its effects on government, industry, commerce, education, and including, by no means least, many branches of the Christian church. It is also a story of often victorious living on the part of the victims, despite the abuse they have to, sometimes continuously, deal with.

Use is herein made of the vehicle of a fictional support group of fine people in a fictional setting, who are willing to share their problems of discrimination against them because of the kind of people they are. The book describes at length the actions of the abusers and the effects of it on the victims and on society as a whole. The many and varied, both subtle and not so subtle, twists and turns the mind-games and other actions of the abusers take are described in detail.

The subject matter of this writing is intentionally extensive and detailed in order to verify that the experiences of the afflicted characters are not isolated incidents in their lives, but rather an almost continuous and stress laden way of life that such people have to live. It is par for the course for fine people most everywhere, but more predominately so in some areas than in others.

The book is not meant to be simply quick and easy reading for entertainment. It purposely contains much detail, is meant to be informative, and seeks to fully expound, for the serious minded and concerned reader, a harmful social problem.

The author makes no claim to academic excellence; much less to what he sees as the over-sophistication of psychological theory. On the contrary, considering his background as a constantly assailed fine person he regards himself to be very fortunate indeed to have attained even one university level degree. Again, his prime purpose is to expose a serious problem in society. Clichés, colloquialisms, and slang are at times used because the writer believes they best describe some of the idiosyncrasies of the abusive people he is writing about and the satire of them in the everyday language of the people. Incidentally, many of these lower levels of speech are now beginning to appear in the latest dictionaries.

The book is written from the Christian perspective of the writer, in true to life narrative based on experiences and observations in several fields of life over a period of almost a lifetime. Places and people have been disguised for the usual reasons. Simple Latin names have been used for locations. Names of the fictitious characters of the book have been chosen for their meaning and coincide with their general character make-up. This was, more or less, a matter of convenience in finding suitable names, though it adds authenticity to the characters and the story. Some of the true to life stories have also been placed in either a fictional or a disguised setting.

The writer has no desire to harm any persons or organizations by this writing; only to bring to public awareness the gross abusiveness to fine, clean-cut, well charactered, often smart and exceptional people, by a very significant portion of society in all walks of life; to emphasize the magnitude and seriousness of the problem; to create awareness of how society generally is short-changed, crippled, made lame, by this strange phenomenon. In addition to establishing improved awareness to help curtail the problem, the writer also has a desire that ways be found to curb it legally, through litigation when necessary. Intentional infliction of emotional distress is illegal. So far, however, this law has generally been applied only to spousal and child abuse.

The fact is the victims of these abusive people presently have little or no way to protect themselves. It is hoped that public awareness, and where necessary and possible, a legal perspective on the matter, will expose the problem for what it is, a destruction, or attempt at such, of career, character, and personhood.

This book can be of interest to people in many occupations in life. Business, industry, government and education certainly can benefit from the understanding of how their organizations can be deeply affected, blocked and hindered, crippled, by the abusers and, as a result, have their better employees, customers or students damaged, stymied, or driven away. Hopefully too, the church will be motivated to take a much needed look within itself. Society generally, needs to be more aware of the problem.

Some traces and reflections of a previously written book, “THEY” Cripple Society Volume 1, will be found in this writing. Hopefully readers will be moved to read it as well. In the meantime this “THEY” Cripple Society Volume 2 covers what the writer believes to be the aspects of the problems that are the more damaging, and hopefully of serious interest to the North American scene.

Cleon E. Spencer