Integrators

7. Massively Parallel Roles & Tasks

Integrators focus on reaching out to those who feel alienated from and left behind by the larger society — people who have lost so much hope that they are falling victim to the various diseases of despair.  Especially worrying are those who have crossed the line into genuine nihilism where they are so resentful of the larger society that they want to do all they can attack and destroy it. (This, for example, is what drives many of the perpetrators of our ongoing epidemic of mass shootings). One integrator is blues musician Daryl Davis.  Davis, who is Black, has, over the course of 30 years, befriended members of the KKK, and has convinced 200 of them reject white supremacy and leave the Klan. Other examples are the many efforts to provide assistance to the homeless and the left behind. Some schools have programs to try to identify at-risk students and reach out to them to try to get them better integrated into the school community in healthy ways.  There remains a critical need to go beyond emergency assistance for left-behind and at-risk individuals and find ways to better integrate them into society and give them a stake in society's success.

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