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TIPS, Volume 20, No. 4, 5 & 6, and Volume 21, No. 1, 2000/2001

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• Reading the Signs of the Times

• The Culture of Modernism as a "Great Disruption"

• The Materialism of Mammon

• Individualism

• Sensualism/Hedonism

• The Youth Cult as a Form of Hedonism

• Here-and-Now-ism & Time Illiteracy

• Externalism

• Externalism: General

• Externalism: The "Please, Please, Please Look at Me" Phenomenon

• Externalism: Celebrititis

• Segmentation & Divisioning

• Mundality

• Combinations of Elements of Modernism

• Miscellaneous Other Peculiar Events & Developments of Our Time

• Computerization

• Miscellaneous Noteworthy, Strange or Bizarre Computer or Net Phenomena

• Computer Ubiquitization

• Replacement of "Real Reality" With "Virtual Reality"

• Computer Technology Aggrandizement, & Even Idolatry

• Doing Low-Tech Things Hi-Tech

• Net Addiction

• The Human Becoming Part of, or Utterly Dependent on, the Computerized Communications Net

• Cyberromance

• Cyberporn

• Other Documented or Asserted Negative Effects or Drawbacks of Computerization

• Hackery, Virusery, & Other Net Sabotage

• Problems of Technologization & Scientific Arrogance Not Directly Related to Computers

• The "Media" in Modernistic Society, & Their Mind Controlling Impact

• Ubiquitization of Western Media & Media Images

• People's Environments Filling Up With Media Gadgets

• People Imitating Unworthy Things Glimpsed From the Entertainment Media

• People's Minds Becoming Dominated, Controlled or Possessed by the Media

• Image Replacing Substance & Even Reality On, or Because of, the Media

• Miscellaneous Destructive Elements & Impacts of the Entertainment & Related Media

• The Creep From Computer & Media Mind Control to Surveillance & Tyranny

• Reading the Signs of the Times in Its Art

• Music

• Representative & Miscellaneous Arts

• Concluding Comment on the Signs of the Times

• Miscellaneous Human Service News

• Other News
TIPS, Volume 21, No. 2, 3, 4 & 5, 2001/2002

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• September 11, 2001, and the New Era it Ushered in: Introduction

• The Signs of the Times

• The Role of Western Modernistic Hubris in the Disaster

• The Motives of the Islamic Terrorists

• The Issue of "The Sins of the Nation"

• The Anthrax Scare, & Issues of Bio-Chemical Attacks Generally

• Introduction

• Background to Biological Warfare & Terrorism

• The Recent Anthrax Scare More Specifically

• Potential Future Terrorism

• The PPP & Economic Dimensions of the September Disasters

• The Economic Impact of the Disasters: Larger Considerations

• The Economic Impact of the Disasters: A Golden Moment of Opportunity for Shrinkery

• The Economic Impact of the Disasters: Other Beneficiaries

• Responses by Various Parties to the September Disasters

• Hysterical or Symbolic Responses

• The Fortification of Society

• Godly Blood Lust

• The War in Afghanistan

• Imperial Management of "The Events" & Information

• The Blood & Charities Scam

• The Mobilization & Channeling of Craziness by the September Disasters

• The Abandonment of Dependent People

• Miscellaneous Responses

• Other Impacts & Aftermaths

• Miscellaneous Other Impacts on Human Services

• Miscellaneous Observations

• The War of the Civilizations, The Role of Political Correctness in Facilitating Terrorism, & the Bankruptcy of Political Correctness Revealed by the Islamic Terrorism

• Introduction

• PC Lies About the Nature & History of Islam

• The Incompatibility of True Islam With Civil Liberty & Western Liberal Democracy

• Unpreparedness For the Predicted Unthinkable

• The West's Unpreparedness & Naiveté in Hosting a Non-Native Islam, & the Mideastern & Arab Cultures

• The US Problem of Open Borders, PC Anti-Assimilation Policies, & Hostile Guests

• The PC Sanitation of the 11 September Attacks and Related Phenomena

• Other Political Correctnesses Pertaining to "The Events" & to the Reactions to Them

• Further Thoughts on the Failure of Political Correctness

• Religion in Society

• The Interface of Religion & Human Services

• News of the Year-End Season

• Social Advocacy & Radical Rights Issues

• Human Service News
TIPS, Volume 21, No. 6, and Volume 22, No. 1 & 2, 2002

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• Service Quality & Quality Assessment Issues

• Theoretical Issues

• Model Coherency Issues

• Service Assessment Tools or Methods

• Primitive Notions About Service Quality, or About Fixing It

• The Mostly Dismal Service Quality Realities in Human Services

• Miscellaneous Other Quality Issues

• News From Absurdistan & Its Human Service Deserts

• Ideologies Impacting on Human Service Practices & Research

• Human Service Laws, Regulations, Funding, Administrative or Bureaucratic Policies

• Human Service-Related Research

• Mind News

• Health, Health Care, or Medical Practices News

• Shrink-Related News

• The Relation of Medicine & Shrinkery

• News About the Elderly & Their Services, Including Nursing Homes

• Other Institution-Related News

• Community Residential News

• News About Families of Handicapped People

• News About the Blind & Deaf

• Education-Related News

• Work- and Job-Related Human Service News

• Virtual Service

• Miscellaneous Human Service News

• Finding or Giving "The Answer"

• Peculiar Human Service Practices or Lingo

• Making Fun of the Human Service Culture or Human Afflictions

• Human Functioning

• "The Events" of 9/01

• We Told You So!

• Ways in Which We All Are and/or Will be Unpleasantly Affected For a Long Time by the Threat of Terrorism

• More on the Anthrax & Other Bioterrorism Scares

• More on Copycatting "The Events"

• Other Future Terrorism

• More on the Fortification of Society, & Security Measures Real and Phony

• More on the New Economics Due to "The Events"

• More on Human Service Funding Cutbacks Due to "The Events"

• More on People's Responses to 9/01

• More on Godly Bloodlust

• Further News About the Fate of Impaired People in 9/01

• More on the Charities For the Victims of 9/01

• Further News About Parties Taking Criminal or Immoral Advantage of the 9/01 Disasters

• More on the War in Afghanistan

• Crazy or Untruthful Governmental Responses to Terrorism

• Miscellaneous Other Additional Observations on "The Events"

• Miscellaneous News
TIPS, Volume 22, No. 3, 4, 5 & 6, 2002/2003

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• National Poverties & Famines

• Personal Poverty & Attempted Remedies

• The Gulf Between the Haves & Have-Nots

• Transfer of Wealth

• Homelessness

• Crime

• Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice News

• Punishment

• Imprisonment

• Judicial Killing

• Slavery

• The Family

• The Current State of the Family

• Marriage: Finding a Mate

• Marriage: Getting Ready for the Big Day

• Marriage: Help is (or Claims to be) on Its Way When Your Marriage Starts to Founder

• Marriage: Divorce & Re-re-re-re-re-marriage

• Pregnancy & Child-Bearing: Resentment, Delay, & Even Hatred Thereof (Kinderfeindlichkeit)

• The Effect on Children of New Ideas About Marriage, Family & Parenting

• Attacks on the Family by the Media Specifically

• Attacks on the Family From the UN

• Attacks on the Family by/From Other Sectors

• Efforts to Strengthen/Uphold Marriage

• Miscellaneous Other Items on the Family

• Children

• Child Development News

• Child Health & Survival

• The Vanishing of Children

• Children Not Getting Parental Presence, Time & Attention

• Children Swimming in Corruptive Wealth

• Farming Out the Care of Children

• Foster & Adoptive Care

• Child-Junking Via Sex Education & Maniage Preparation Programs

• Teen Pregnancies

• The Vanishing of Childhood: The Sexualization of Youth

• Abuse of Children, in General

• Abuse (a Lot of It Sexual) of Children by Families, Guardians & Sitters

• Abuse (Mostly Sexual) of Children by Other Trusted Figures

• Sexual Abuse of Children by Other Children

• Media Influence on, & Messages to, Children

• Children: Dangerousness of Schools

• Children Killing Children

• Other Child-Junking

• Miscellaneous Other Items on Children

• Religion in Society

• Idolatrous Claims

• The Incoherence of Contemporary People About Religion--as About so Many Other Things

• What People Do Believe, More or Less

• The Spiritual Hunger of Homo Religiosus

• Contemporary Judaism

• The Warfare About "The Naked Public Square"

• Persecution of Religious Belief and Believers

• The Sex Scandals Involving the Catholic Priesthood

• Miscellaneous Religion News

• Religion in Human Services

• News of the Season

• The Social Advocacies

• The Need for Advocacy

• Issues--Mostly Perversions-Associated With Self-Determination

• "Empowerment" Issues

• Issues--Mostly Perversions-Associated With Rights

• Miscellaneous News About Social Advocacy

• War & Its Toll

• Further Coverage of the Role of Insane Political Correctness in the Genesis of, & Response to, Islamic "Terrorism" & Societal Breakdown

• World War VI & Its Impact on the Economy

• Facing Up to the Realities of a Recalcitrant But Rather Admirable Islam: Continuation

• The Holy Land Situation & Its Links to the Clash of Civilizations

• Miscellaneous Other Items on Political Correctness, Diversity, & Multiculturalism as it Relates to (Mostly Islamic) "Terrorism"

• Sporadic But Belated Retreats From Political Correctness

• The Inadequacies of Liberal Democracies in the Face of Non-Western Fanaticism

• The Increasing Militarization of Society

• Miscellaneous
TIPS, Volume 23, No. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, 2003/2004

Wolf P. Wolfensberger

• The Family

• Heterosexual Sex Outside Marriage

• Finding a Mate

• Marriage is Forever--Sort of

• Changes in Family Life

• The Self-Centered Mind-Set in Modernistic Marriage

• Marriage/Family & Money

• The Issue of Legalizing Some Form of Union Between Homosexuals

• Children

• Hostility Toward Children

• Abandonment/Neglect of Children by Their Parents, & Its Legitimization by the Intelligentsia

• Children Swimming In, & Being Junked by, Material Goods & Indulgences

• Child Health & Attacks Thereon

• Child Junking--Inducing Children Into Early Sexuality, Sexual Immorality, or Seductiveness

• Real & Purported Child Abuse, Including Sex Abuse

• Failure of Child Welfare or Protective Services to Protect Children

• Miscellaneous Child Junking

• Other Just Plain Stupidities of Adults & Parents About Children & Child-Rearing

• Childhood & Youth Violence

• School Safety & Violence

• Miscellaneous Child News

• Poverty

• Begging

• The Gap Between the Rich & Poor

• The Gap Between Rich & Poor Nations

• The Peculiar Forms of Modernistic Poverty

• The Transfer of Wealth Upward

• Homelessness

• Hobo, Poverty, Beggary, or Jailhouse Songs, Poetry, or Jokes

• Crime-Related Issues

• Crime Statistics

• Some Ideological Issues Around Crime

• The Validity of Evidence in Criminal Cases

• Sex Offenses

• Patterns Among the Poor Related to Crime

• Shoplifting or Its Equivalent

• Identity Theft & Creation

• Some Unusual--Perhaps One of a Kind?--Crimes

• Women's Peculiar Attraction to Criminal & Imprisoned Men

• Miscellaneous Crime News

• Police Issues

• Rates or Amount of Imprisonment

• Conditions in Prisons

• Peculiarities of Prison, & Their Chicanery

• More on "Serving” by Prisoners

• Work & Other Valued Roles, Some of Them Problematic, for Prisoners

• Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make, Nor Keep a Prisoner From Staying in Touch

• Prisoners' PC & Other Rights

• Miscellaneous Items on Prisons

• Problematic Fits of Punishment With Crime

• News of the Season, & Other Seasons As Well, & People’s Relationship to Time

• Human Nature

• Religion in Society

• The Incoherency of Modernistic People's Beliefs

• Religious Symbolism in Our Day, & In Irreligious Contexts

• Implicit/Unacknowledged Religions

• Superstitions

• Newly Contrived Explicit Religions

• The New Nature & Goddess Religions

• The Exaltation of Religious "Diversity"

• Contemporary Judaism

• Islam

• Contemporary Catholicism

• Contemporary Philosophy

• Religious Persecution in Our Day

• The Priestly Sex Scandal, Continued

• Miscellaneous Religion News

• Religion in Human Services

• Morality

• (Im)morality in Academia, Including a Lot of Lying

• (Im)morality in Government

• (Im)morality in Business

• Perspectives on the Enron Scandal

• Personal Lying

• Other (Im)morality in Society

• The Collapse of Societal Institutions, Glues, & Even Entire Societies

• Societal Collapses in Africa

• Societal Collapse in Central & South America

• Societal Collapse in Europe

• Societal Collapse in the Soviet Union & Russia

• The United States: The Decline of Public Participation & Volunteerism

• The Hilariously Frightening Gubernatorial Recall Election in California

• The United States: Judicial Usurpation of Governance

• The United States: Fiscal (Ir)responsibility by Government

• The Collapse of Social Glues, & Some of the Results Thereof

• Miscellaneous Signs of Societal Collapse

• Conclusion to Societal Collapse

• The World War Between Radical Islam & the Rest of the World, & the Terrorist Threat

• Travel, Migration & Immigration: A Warning

• Imperial Surveillance & Control, the Civil Liberties Roll-Back, & the Creep Toward a Police State

• The Economic Situation, & the Impact of Terrorism Threats & Security Scares

• Some 9/11 Aftermaths

• The Fears Unleashed by 9/11, & Efforts to Cope With It

• More on Post-9/11 "Security"

• Parasitism

• Miscellaneous 9/11 Aftermaths

• The War in Iraq

• Militarism, War, & Its Toll

• The Social Advocacies

• Need For Clarity on the Nature of Advocacy

• Conflicts of the Interests of Different Parties

• The Devastating Impact of an Entitlement & Litigiousness Culture on Advocacy & Society

• Issues of Rights

• The Contemporary Advocacy Craze of "Choice"

• Perversions in & of Advocacy

• Other Things That Give Advocacy a Bad Image

• Miscellaneous Advocacy Items

• Human Service-Related News

• Health-Related News

• Social Role Valorization News

• News About Nature & the Environment