Voluntary Civic People of Baton Rouge: 9. September 9, 2016

Practice for September 9, 2016

Starting on June 21, 2014, our purpose was to persuade most citizens to use the literal, civic preamble to the constitution for the USA rather than either falsely label it “secular” or lamely refer to “we, the people.” In iterative collaboration in the meetings participants added physics-based ethics rather than dominant opinion for establishing civic morality. “The-indisputable-facts-of-reality,” helps offset the thought-gap from physics to morality. Many of you recognize that a great deal of this effort is reducing my ignorance so as to unlock the goal, recently stated with five words: private-liberty-with-civic-morality.
- Evidence for the human-physics or brain-physics links to trustworthiness has been talked about since July, 2011: please spend twenty minutes to listen to Paul Zak. (Note 1) It’s his theory and he emphasizes “love.”

In civic connections, I prefer “appreciation” rather than “love,” which often must be mutual. (Comments would be appreciated.)

I wrote an essay to explain private-liberty-with-civic-morality, focusing on the phrase “private liberty.” The study and posting the essay motivated the title, “Private integrity.” Perhaps private integrity, understood in this context, is sufficient to express private-liberty-with-civic-morality.
- Now, I am studying “privacy.” I will post an essay, and then study “private integrity,” so as to understand other usage.
- Collaboration in such studies would be appreciated.
If you have not read the text that accompanies the text-logo each month, please read it this month, so that in the future you can occasionally detect the revisions.
BFsF, Hector and Mari Presedo, with Cynthia’s cheer, convinced me that “god-power” and “ineluctable” are mind closers rather than openers, so, drug by the heels with head knocking the pot holes, I am purging those and several other phrases and words from essays.

Colin Kaepernick’s struggle with reaction to civic performance of “The Star Spangled Banner,” is complicated. The performance by all means should be by willing participants, much like this work. A dissident should be granted the appreciation, “Hey, what concerns you, my friend?”
- Particularly this person is,
  - Biracial and adopted. (Note 2)
  - Perhaps conflicted by unjust civilization versus private integrity.
  - He’s not the first to object to racism. For example, Thomas Paine objected. (Note 3) Every 2016 person could consider Paine’s courageous letter and ask their mirror---their person, “How might I acquire clear thinking within my conflicted civilization?”
  - I recall Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Note 4), born Chris Jackson in 1969, who seems to have chosen private integrity despite his civilization’s coercion. He expressed welcomed talent on other shores. Perhaps beyond race his case involved religious choice---a privacy unjustly made a public issue by the civilization.
- Generally, America’s national anthem stands for first principles, but what are the principles? Perhaps:
  - Past recognition by formerly loyal, colonial subjects, that they had discovered private liberty they never could have imagined had they not become colonials, and therefore, they must revolt and become independent states.
  - Acceptance that the people in their independent states must authorize a limited yet permanent national government rather than a weak confederation of states.
  - Celebration two generations later that national freedom can be maintained if there is courageous military vigilance.
  - Commitment to end the woe slavery wrought. “Key was considered a decent master, and publicly criticized slavery's cruelties . . . he often volunteered to defend the downtrodden sons and daughters of Africa.” (Note 5)
    1. Perhaps in sympathy without remorse, Key’s poetry draws attention to mercenary slaves hoping to kill masters: “No refuge could save the hireling and slave.”
    2. But, were “hireling” and “slave” the same? Or were the “hirelings” Germans, as in the Revolutionary War?
    3. Expressing reality does not reflect bias.
  - Expression of humility and appreciation in the religious words the poet chose, the objective truth remaining universal.
September 15 is nearly here. See the announcement. (Note 6)
- Perhaps preamble-writing will emerge.
- Phil was accepted into a civic-service program with training session 9/15 night. Others will lead the Constitution Day celebration and discussion.
If I accepted that both government and religion will keep a civic people from emerging, I would simply stop this work. However, I think now is the time, Baton Rouge is the place, and the civic people of Baton Rouge know themselves.
- Therefore, I have reformed from writing emails to the Metro Council members only and also post the messages on cipbr.blogspot.com so that there is public transparency in promoting iterative collaboration.
- In conjunction with this dream, I now see Baton Rouge as the place to start our child-incentives program, and I am searching for a way to fund perhaps $100 million/year.
  - Any ideas would be appreciated.
  - Soon, I will post on cipbr.blogspot.com an existing, brief description of the program with objectives and methods.
I think our comments for a libertylaw post (Note 7) express our work more explicitly than anything written so far. Also, find the history of posts there by searching with “Phil Beaver.”