LinkedIn has changed over the past few years in that, social expression of the sorts found on Facebook are being placed here between business topics. Interestingly, LinkedIn human experience posts elicit hundreds of comments. A few arousing topics are hiring, firing, recruiting, workplace behaviors and robots replacing people. Nothing, however, prepares us to talk about a massacre. My post is about Parkland, Florida but more directly, the business of teaching. Teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are returning to a work life forever changed. A once-normal school must be put back together by a traumatized work force. Like each one of us, they return to their jobs - except nothing for them is the same as before.
Trauma is the reversal of an expected and intentionally planned-for outcome. The plan for February 14th was teaching students to develop knowledge; the outcome was death. I’m sure many reading this have worked with a co-worker experiencing trauma due to an unexpected incident in life. People DO come to work dealing with trauma. I wonder if teachers and school administrators in Florida will ever view their professions the way they did pre-February 14th. It's not just one  person but, the entire school system trying to function normally in an abnormal, unfamiliar new world.  
Teachers need their local community to encourage and support them, even on normal days. Their business touches all of our lives.
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From: The Prophetic Backbone, by R.P. Waters

*re-posting following the news of a Chinese scientist announcing the genetically changed embryos that created twin baby girls.

"Science" is becoming synonymous with science fiction largely due to media sources writing about  future humans, for better or for worse.  There's increasing science friction in all this; the concern that some tech company really will create  alter-humans. A genome editing technology like CRISPR has gained recognition as a leap discovery, taking genomics beyond just another iteration – and unless one is keeping up with Twist Bioscience, the NHGRI or the GA4GH, it’s admittedly hard medical science to understand. What do non-scientific medias resort to most often? Behaviors! The actions taken by each person in uncountable ways and situations; they are less complex to digest. Even tech media qualifies genetics as a science within behaviorism and report on researchers who are leading in the discovery of behavior-associated genes. No soul, no human will, no choice or conscience, no religious truths – just behavior genes driving behaviors. This is what happens when genetics gets tossed in with corporate narratives and “disruption” becomes their goal. 
​The NIH has a clear mission to research numerous diseases and their causes, establish labs, set up cohorts, test theories and advise on marketplace applications. Then, flip the coin and we see one House of Representative leader from North Carolina and the American Benefits Council promoting H.R.1313, a bill to override all employee protections where genetic data could be made available to a health management firm. The bill is in three committees and opposed by hundreds of organizations. The result most likely in corporate: bio-discrimination. Bio data will be just another form of business data. There's no CEO or HR professional who has a clue what a genome means much less what to do with it. Disruption? How about deception?

Here’s the friction in the science fiction: we have  technology developed to improve human health. As corporations merge with science entities, their branding  genetically altered behaviors or human beings is a friction we should fight against.

​robertpwaters.com
The Prophetic Backbone is forthcoming in 2019 as an eBook