Manfred Davidmann

Manfred Davidmann is an internationally well-known and respected scientist and consultant, and author of a number of books and reports which have had and are having considerable impact. His work usually breaks new ground and opens up new understanding and is written in meaningful and easily understood language. Outstanding is that his work is generally accepted as factual, objective and unbiased.

More than 6 million copies of his reports have been downloaded from the Solhaam website so far and have changed the way in which people live, think and behave.

The Fifteen Most Popular Downloads

• Style of Management and Leadership

• Family, Sex and the Individual; Women's Liberation, Feminism and Community

• How the Human Brain Developed and the Human Mind Works

• ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY and JUDAISM

• MOTIVATION: Summary

• Meaning and Significance of the Names of God in Genesis

• Co-operatives and Co-operation: Causes of Failure, Guidelines for Success

• The Will to Work: What People Struggle to Achieve

• Directing and Managing Change

• Using Words to Communicate Effectively

• Inflation, Balance of Payments and Currency Exchange Rates
  Including: How Base (General) Interest Rates determine Share Prices and Pensions

• Organising

• Multinational Operations: Transfer Pricing and Taxation

• The Meaning of Genesis: Creation, Evolution and the Origin of Evil

• COMMUNITY ECONOMICS: Ownership and Limited Liability

Books by Manfred Davidmann

• ISLAM: Basis - Past - Present - Future
  
  
• God and People: The Social Laws and Social System
  Underlying Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Democracy
  
  
• THE HUMAN MIND AND HOW IT WORKS:
  Group Minds in Action: How the Human Group Mind
  Shapes the Quality of Our Life and Living
  
  
• COOPERATIVES AND COOPERATION:
  Causes of Failure, Guidelines for Success
  
  
• Management and Leadership:
  Local, National, Multinational (Global),
  Principles and Practice
  
  
• The Real World in Which We Live:
  The Social Rules and Social System under Which We Suffer, Struggle, Survive and Prosper
  
  
• Messianic Struggle: The Worldwide Struggle for a Good and Secure Life for All, Here and Now
  
  

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Theme of the Week (Current Events, Current Problems)

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• 'The Social Costs of Unemployment'
  
  
• 'Bureaucracy and The Meaning of Democracy'
  
  

Theme:

'Men and Women, Family and Children; Dominance, Oppression and Exploitation'

We are here dealing with the root causes of our major social problems, showing how to resolve the problems by dealing with their basic causes.

Family and Children

200 million years of evolution are behind us, from reptilian beast through mammalian animal to human being. Human beings are mammals and we are unique in that our children need protecting and bringing up in a humane, emotionally and mentally stimulating environment for between 18 and 25 years, to enable them to mature into socially responsible adults. Men and women co-operate with each other and look after each other and their children, within the family, to achieve this.

The family looks after the interests of all its members, as individuals as well as collectively. Members of a family stand by, support and help each other in times of need.

This gives great strength to each member of the family in the struggle for daily bread, security and happiness. Hence human beings work primarily for their family and the family is the basic unit of society.

Men and Women

Co-operation between men and women, within the family and as equals, would seem to be essential when bringing up their children under modern conditions of rapid change at an accelerating rate of change.

It is women who generally look after the young and other family members as people. This is the key role within the family and it occupies women full-time for some years if it is to be done well, and for more years on an at least part-time basis.

But we live much longer and the time spent full-time at home looking after the family places women at a disadvantage when returning to work outside the family after the children have been brought up. So women need to be supported when returning to work.

The family compensates women for the life-long effects of their contribution towards the upbringing of the children. It is the role of the spouse, of the husband, to continue to provide for the family. A life-long contribution from him which means she does not lose out for the rest of her life because she stayed at home to look after the children, the husband's input into the family balancing her input of bringing up the children and looking after the family's members.

Women, after children have grown up and with the family's backing, can choose work outside the family to fulfil themselves as pay is less important for a second income.

It is largely women who, caring for the welfare of the community, are generally the prime movers in self-help, support, protest and pressure groups, pushing forward also with other social and welfare issues.

Such work and public demonstrations and protests on such issues, are now an essential survival mechanism under beginning-of-twentyfirst-century conditions.

A key characteristic which distinguishes human beings from animals is that we can control the sex urge. Sex is habit-forming and addictive but can be controlled when the will is there, when the individual is motivated to control it.

In the USA steps are being taken to halt and reverse the increasing corruption of their communities by teaching the young the gains to be achieved by abstaining from sexual activity outside marriage.

There are ways of teaching social responsibility, of teaching the young how to take responsibility for others, how to care for, work with and look after other people. Social responsibility, the caring, giving and sharing with others, the taking on of responsibility for others including conflict management, can be and is being taught.

Dominance, Oppression and Exploitation

When one member of a family dominates others, then competition, conflict and struggle replace co-operation and teamwork. Dominance weakens all the family's members, robbing them of emotional and economic support, and so makes it easier to exploit them through their needs. All the family's members suffer as a result.

In the working environment we see a world-wide struggle to achieve a humane way of life, each family, person or community struggling to advance at their own level of development, struggling against those who wish to dominate, exploit, oppress. A struggle whose successful outcome depends on trustful co-operation, companionship and teamwork.

We know that dominating does not work in normal circumstances. Authoritarian organisations are much less effective than participative ones. In authoritarian organisations morale is low, people cease to care and tend to work against each other instead of co-operating with each other for the benefit of the organisation. Which applies equally well to a family.

Strength to resist oppression and exploitation comes from men and women co-operating with each other and so men and women struggle together to achieve a better life, a humane way of living and of government, and social security.

Human rights are based on controlling primitive dominating behaviour, on concern, care and affection for our young and our families, for people and for our communities. Human rights express themselves in co-operation and teamwork between men and women to achieve a good life of high quality.

It is in democracies that a high standard of living has been achieved. In democracies people can struggle openly for a better life but we see that what has been gained has to be defended and extended.

Sources

See report

Family, Sex and the Individual; Women's Liberation, Feminism and Community

from which this theme's information was extracted.

Also see

Democracy, Socialism and Communism:
The Worldwide Struggle for a Better Life

and

Style of Management and Leadership,

and

How the Human Brain Developed and How the Human Mind Works

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