Member-only story

If They’re In Authority: You Can’t Trust Them

Dealing with the failure of higher ed and US political leaders to face down Zionism

Amy Sterling Casil
7 min readApr 20, 2024
“See No Evil, Hear No Evil” by StudioStoks, licensed from Adobe Stock

I’ve always been the kind of person who’s wanted to do a good job and earn an honest living. In school, I wanted to get my own grades, pass or fail, on my own work and merits. It’s not that I never thought of cheating, it’s that I recognized without being taught or enforced, if I cheated, the person I was really harming was myself.

Years later, I not only reinforced this concept in our college classrooms, I designed assignments and class work to support and reward student work and achievement and without stress or trouble, discourage and downgrade plagiarism and cheating.

About That Lying Thing

I find it physically painful to deceive others. Although I primarily have traits of a physical empath due to my nature and upbringing, I may be a little on the autism spectrum. I say this because it’s true that most women are seldom-diagnosed. I also have an IQ that puts me in the range of people who are often considered socially awkward and who find it challenging to relate to “normies.” Please don’t take what I just said to mean I am bragging about my so-called IQ: I don’t believe in those tests. I’m just talking about the demographics of this…

--

--

Amy Sterling Casil
Amy Sterling Casil

Written by Amy Sterling Casil

Over 500 million views and 5 million published words, top writer in health and social media. Author of 50 books, former exec, Nebula nominee.

Responses (2)