Saturday, September 10, 2016

8. August 9, 2016

Practice for August 9, 2016
  1. In three non-fiction writing courses, a refrain was, “Write for your audience.” Thank you for reading these monthly reports.
    • One friend tells me a civic culture may exist centuries from now. From this experience, I think iterative collaboration could make civic peace happen in very short time: Everyone wants civic safety and security.
  2. Reading Max Weber(1), who wrote about Protestant ethics and capitalism:
    • With Louisiana French-Catholic spouse and friends, diverse neighbors, and the people, I am loathe to either agree with Weber or expand to “Christian ethics” to explain the free-enterprise economic system.
    • Hence, I write, for collaborative thought, “god-power and capitalism” and ask:Can a civic culture accomplish the wholesome prosperity that neither god-power nor governments provide? By “wholesome” I mean dominantly shared economic and civic integrity. "God-power means "the power of a god" used for political power.
    • Would an overarching culture of real-no-harm private liberty with civic morality (RNH-PLwCM) empower most persons so that, approaching the end of a full life, he or she may have attained psychological maturity, or self-discovery? (2)
    • “The power of god” in a believer’s life is ubiquitously discussed, but controversy is evident with phrases like “Egyptian power of god.” When someone persuades people to use the power of a god for political dominance, (3) a new phrase seems needed, and “god-power” seems adequate. God-power is expected to empower domination rather than unity. "God-power" springs directly from church-based “black power.”
    • Crediting Protestantism with the free-enterprise economic system seems like 17th-18th century religious propaganda. Working hard & smart and investing brings financial security for living but only imagines favorable afterdeath. ACP keeps precious religious thoughts private so as to collaborate on civic issues without religious imposition or force.
    • A biased god-power seems to describe Jeremiah Wright’s political work, and I don’t think I would have had the above line of thought without hearing him speak. (4) He advocates god-power over government—I think anarchy. We work to establish ACP.
  3. Baton Rouge is tight-chested with pain over deaths, misery and losses resulting from criminal behavior, followed by evil, affecting eight police and two criminals and their loved ones.
    • An armed felon violently defied police duty and authority. Alinsky-Marxist organizers (AMO) tacitly claim some people have civic antinomianism—exemption from both civic morality and the law by a god-power they call “black power”. An activity has consequences, and the first consequence of AMO is violence, whether physical or psychological. ACP does not yield to brute force and never has.
    • We reported to our representatives and imagined conspiracy by visitors to Baton Rouge—the Nation of Islam, SCLC, and others (see below). A conspiracy was also indicated in the youth arrests during the last Earth Day event. (5) We imagine a law-suit cottage-industry.There are old posts about the buildup to the summer of 2016:
    • Mayor Kip Holden, under AMO orders to resign, tried nobly to lead a community perhaps he experienced not ever following him.
    • The media say Gov John Bel Edwards did a great job. I think he and others denied the civil rights, moreover civil responsibility and authority, of Howie Lake II and Blane Salamoni. I especially feel for them, their families, and their loved ones, who are denied the public sympathy extended to everyone else involved. We, the citizens, sent Lake and Salamoni to an unexpectedly arrogant, criminal event! Shame on everyone who convicted them without indictment.
    • Now, it seems the official and popular Louisiana response is to pray for god-power. However, god-power is diverse and unreliable--ruinous. For example, in President Obama's god-power, America's "original sin" is slavery; but ancient African chiefs traded their "commodity" for millennia, and 17th and 18th century foreign countries colonized this land using slave labor of all colors. Civic morality is delivered by ACP.
    • Consider a hypothetical “more erroneous religious belief” (6) that suggests in the USA red-skinned masters over slaves of all other skin-colors:
      • Since people are made in god-image, each person has a god-image. For example, red-god for a native person. (7)
      • Since the god-word, the Bible, (8) suggests slavery is a god-institution that benefits both slave and master, each person’s god-image represents the intended master, while other god-images reflect slaves. Therefore, masters must be decided on some other basis--not skin color.
      • Since non-red-skinned people are immigrants, perhaps the natives would emerge slave-masters in America.
      • If everyone alive descended from a woman who lived in Africa some 140,000 years ago, Africans, who existed during human evolution, might perceive that claims about god-image do not reference skin-color.
      • Regardless, a native's religion is precious for him or her, as anyone’s RNH beliefs are personally precious: It’s alright if a red person's god is red.
      • With an overarching civic culture (that’s RNH culture) each person’s images and hopes respecting their god is precious and is not a subject for civic collaboration.
    • The ACLU, Alinsky-Marxist organizers (AMO), and others need to know the Louisiana Constitution, Article I, Paragraph 7 respecting responsibility: “Every person may speak, write, and publish his sentiments on any subject, but is responsible for abuse of that freedom.” You can’t yell “fire,” in a crowded place, for example.
      • The First Amendment’s freedom of speech does not override this responsibility consideration.
    • I wrote anew to the Metro Council, asking them to
      • use iterative collaboration
      • not interfere with police management (e.g., residency)
      • create a protest-ordinance(9) that prevents free-roaming
      • The mayoral race looms large, and I perceive only competitive god-power candidates. Somebody scream!
    • Again, suffering each slain, injured and vulnerable officer remains unspeakable pain. Shame to the media and politicians, only one side of their story seems prominent and the civic duty seems suppressed by “antinomian lives matter,” for example, with a Rep. Edward C. “Ted” James II bias: WAFB’s show “Where do we go from here?” (10)
  4. Plans are underway for September 15. See the announcement at theadvocate.com/calendar/#/details/Third-Annual-Constitution-Day-Celebration/2531273/2016-09-15T19 .
    • I hope for gradual interest in reform for civic morality using the indisputable facts of reality rather than dominant opinion about reality (opinion yields to discovery to reform civic morality or law).
    • Yet, even seemingly positive conversations have no follow-up. One person said, “Civic morality sounds like a human idea: I want god-power (spoken “God Power” as though the speaker had civic supremacy). Anyone who would like to change the prevalent civil perception that American security is in the hands of god-power, please invite someone to the meeting and to enter the preamble-writing contest. Justice comes from people(11) rather than their gods.
    • With the United Nations announcing that Internet access is a human right, (12) bringing their list of rights well above 100, the preamble remains a civic agreement willing adults among 300 million people could cultivate so as to coordinate civic morality. The preamble’s simplicity seems essential to establishment of ACP.
    • We have room for 25, expect 0-1 but would like to move to Tiger Stadium, because of viral interest in RNH-personal-liberty with civic morality (in my dream). At current enthusiasm, I’ll never see ACP.
    • For people who are interested in the preamble-writing contest, there’s a scholarly review of the preamble. (13)
  5. Each person's RNH beliefs are precious to ACP. People seem reluctant to consider the ACP message:Civic safety and security are required for freedom of private thought (especially religious beliefs, or conscience). Please suggest softer words.
    • Please ask one someone to send an email to join the MailChimp list. The reason ACP is not widely known is that I only send messages to people who have, in conversation, agreed to be on the list, excepting the Metro Council members, whom I hope to keep informed.
    • I work to iteratively collaborate the theory rather than promote. Please understand that, and help expand interest if possible.
  6. Other discussions have led to
    • The essay titled, “Theory of ACP,” has controversial ideas, such as a hierarchy of fidelity starting with the indisputable(14) facts of reality, (15) as the guide to a life worth living. (16) Thus, it questions the administrative state’s opinion-based “dignity and equality.” Here’s a sentence that expresses ACP’s goal:by promoting the indisputable facts of reality ACP helps lessen “cognitive limitations and psychological biases that lead people to make choices that cause self-harm.” (17) It also suggests a new field of study for me: behavioral economics.
    • I met an LSU student, Zachary, who suggested “association” for one phrase below, completing an emerging statement of promising path for a person’s brief chance at life, from infancy until near-death, as follows:
      • Detachment from mom, 3-6 years old
      • Discovering personal autonomy, 8-12
      • Adopting collaborative association, 10-15
      • Choosing a vehicle for economic living, 16-22, career discovery
      • Appreciative bonding, perhaps marriage and perhaps family
      • Fidelity to fellow humans in civic prosperity
      • Self-discovery or psychological maturity
We feel the education system should coach children(18) to take charge of their progress in the above life stages rather than “train our workers,” (19) which seems ignoble and nationally self-defeating.
  • Priests and ministers interested in civic morality—safety and security for living rather than spiritual hopes, could become “civic practitioners,” now known as “social workers.” (20)
    • By substituting “civic” for “social” and sometimes “objective” for “subjective,” Max Weber’s definition of “sociology” helps(21) express the difference between “civic” and “social.”
  • Frequently on quora.com, I articulate that modern democracy is traditional mobocracy. Mobocracy conflicts with the indisputable facts of reality (TIFR). The 50% plus one vote dominates half the population for an election cycle. Dignity and equality is never attained for anyone: everyone is always in conflict.
    • Considering the recent evidence that democracy in Louisiana means government under diverse god-power--prayer by each camp to their deity, it occurs to me Louisiana might be better served by a republican form of government.
  • We continue to appeal to media and state help to promote the preamble-writing contest.
    • The Lt. Gov.’s office, so far, does not perceive a connection.
    • Department of Education just received our request.
    • Your help would be appreciated.
  • The demand for constituent respect expressed by elected officials should reform to their civic behavior that warrants appreciation.
  1. Posts on www.quora.com/ are instructive. Here’s a 8/3/16 comparison
Blog ACP Quora
First post Feb, 2014 April, 2016
Months 30 4
Number of posts 97 252
Views 6850 27,100
Followers 1 8
Upvotes 1 104
Views/month 206 6775
Posts/month 3.2 63
Views/post 70.6 107.5
View ratio 1 1.5

On ACP, I seek to collaborate. On Quora, people question me.
  1. I read few posts on the law blog www.libertylawsite.org/ yet had a second positive exchange. The other party brilliantly complained about my acronyms, yet talked. Find that one and other posts there by searching “Phil Beaver.”
  2. The online-resource suggestions ACP listed in the past are posted in one file at A Civic People of Baton Rouge .
    • Any suggestions to add to the list of online resources would be welcomed.
Note 1. Thanks to JT McQuitty, who suggested that August Comte’s “physics” might relate to our usage. It relates but is incomplete. Past writers had not stated that science is a study and understanding what emerges from physics is the object, where physics is energy, mass and space-time or equal.
2. Professor Orlando Patterson described psychological maturity as liberty from both external and internal constraints.

3. Adelle M. Banks, “John Lewis, ‘March’ team talk about faith and civil rights, August 2, 2016, RNS, online at http://religionnews.com/2016/08/02/john-lewis-march-team-talk-about-faith-and-civil-rights/

4. Jarvis DeBerry. “Jeremiah Wright tells a Southern University audience to put its faith in God, not government.” NOLA. February 21, 2015. Online: nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2015/02/jeremiah_wright_tells_a_southe.html .

6. South Carolina Declaration of Secession, online at http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp .
7. Vine Deloria Jr. God is Red: A Native View of Religion. 30th Anniv. Ed. 1973, 1992, 2003. Fulcrum Publishing. Golden, Colorado.
8. “Christianity and Slavery,” online at http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Religion/slavery.htm
11. Abraham Lincoln. First Inaugural Address. “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”
13. See www.shestokas.com/constitution-educational-series/understanding-the-us-constitutions-preamble-2/
14. Thanks to Gordon for the modifier “indisputable.”
15. Kate Gladstone suggested “the facts of reality” as more understandable than physics--energy, mass, and space-time—as the basis for civic morality.
17. Ted Gayer and W. Kip Viscsi,“Resisting Abuses of Benefit-Cost Analysis,” National Affairs, No. 27, Spring 2016, Page 60.
18. See the essay, “Child incentive program 7/12/16,” on the blog, promotethepremble.blogspot.com.
19. Barack Obama. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/01/21/transcript-president-obama-2013-inaugural-address/.
20. See http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_cb562958-4872-11e6-8b20-773e1328a95d.html . My friend Brij Mohan proposes “practitioner” and I suggested “civic.”
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