March 5, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by learning other people’s experiences and observations. The comment box below invites sharing facts, opinion, or concern.
Note:  I often connect words in a phrase with the dash in order to represent an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth without addressing possible error or attempting to balance the expression.

The Advocate:

Our Views. We appreciate The Advocate’s attention to a continuing anxiety and would like to turn the focus from adults to the children and thus to achievable promising-Louisiana-future.

It’s not only the economy. Louisiana ranks 50^th among states in a country that ranks perhaps 25^th in resident satisfaction. If I recall the math correctly, that equates statistically to 1250^th world ranking. I bet that’s an exaggerated yet directionally correct view.

We want Louisiana to squeeze the $30 billion/yr Gov. Edwards plans so as to spend $1 billion/yr making two statements to every 6-month old infant. First, you are a person of vital importance to the Great State of Louisiana. Second we want to coach and encourage you to take charge of your transition from feral infant to civic young adult with the understanding and intent to live a full life. That means perhaps 40 years collaborating for civic justice with people in this place for such time as your unique body and mind supports. Increase the coaching and incentives at major steps in the person’s successful journey.

A draft-proposal is available for your improvement. Please search using [phil beaver+child incentives brief] to read the draft, perhaps improve the proposal, and encourage your state representatives to develop the necessary, better legislation for a better future Louisiana.

With 1 million students in Louisiana, this proposal involves only $1,000/yr per student, a relatively small sum spent directly on the children as civic persons rather than the education system.

Today’s thought. Flannery O’Connor wrote, “St. Thomas called art ‘reason in making.’ The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees. For him, to be reasonable is to find [in something] the spirit which makes it itself. It is to intrude upon the timeless, and that is only done by the violence of a single minded respect for the truth.” (Mystery and Manners, Page 81).

I mimic O'Connor's idea: A civic person constrains personal passion so as to discover and utilize the-objective-truth.

 

James Gill column, “Did Saints find Jim Crow across the Atlantic?” Gill makes the case that London imagines predators on the prowl. Seems to me a case of when visiting London, know the customs. 

 

I was escorting a visitor to New Orleans and called about dress code. They did not mention that a lady at noon could not wear shorts. When we arrived but were not admitted, we just went to another great restaurant. If I wanted to return, my guest would wear a skirt.

Jeff Sadow column, “The regents dodge tough college issues.” Since the Legislature is obligated to the people, and the Regents show no appreciation lessening Regent-responsibilities seems in order.

Michael Gerson column, “The great American ideal will not be disrupted.” 

 

IMO Gerson and others miss the point. Thirteen self-styled states declared independence from the world in order to fulfill the people in each independent state. Those people later authorized a nation of states with aims and goals stated in the preamble to the constitution for the USA, the people retaining what they did not authoize. Those goals do not include conforming to the world. 

 

It seems and I hope President Trump has the vision the signers of the draft constitution had on September 17, 1787. They were only 2/3 of representatives for the states, and the 1/3 who were in dissent have morphed yet remain in about the same proportion.

George Will column, “New OMB chief tackles Rubik’s cube of federal budget.” Seems like Muvlaney needs to squeeze trillions out of billions, but I am glad someone is willing to try. I will never forget how hard the Democratic Party is making it for America’s republican government to function in this presidential election cycle. They are trying to keep my vote from counting.

School board (Page 1B). It’s really crazy to spar over imaginary new cities.

 

Embryos suit (Page 1B). Adult contracts regarding possible future persons seem immoral.

Lone democrat (Page 1A). Only the GOP could have engineered it.

Trump on wiretapping (Page 1A). Is this a case of fighting BS with BS . . . or is there really something there? We can’t learn the-objective-truth by reading the Associated Press.

Broome (Page 1A). Thank you for the reminder of nothing.

DOTD (Page 2A). Is input from the Water Institute of the Gulf, Louisiana Water Resources Institute, water suppliers such as Baton Rouge Water Co., and perhaps others being sought?

Police agencies (Page 7A). Police agencies are the people’s first responders and need all the support they can get.

Trump listening on Russia (Page 11A). The sooner the Democrats seat President Trump’s administration the sooner the people will be served. So far, it seems my vote for a person who has never served in elected capacity is paying off and career grandstanders are making their marks against the people, IMO.

Recusal (Page 11A). I happen to agree with the opinion, but this article is pseudo-news and belongs on an opinion page. This is one opportunity for the people to create federal legislation that holds the media responsible. Create stiff fines for articles that belong on opinion pages. There are lots of them.

GOP health push (Page 15A). The DNC should have the courage to jump in there and compete to be the forerunner in helping the people rather than special interest groups, but alas, they seem to be slaves to the past seven years.

Special by Mariano Hinojosa (Page 2D), “increasingly uncivil,” informs us that thought is often constrained by words. We think human beings are too psychologically powerful to accept the idea that another person’s civic impositions should be accepted, whether the other person is ancient or modern. The insistence on a specific civilization to socialize all peoples is false.

The statement, “And hope that eventually we will find our way back to a more civilized society,” or conformity to an ideology, has been the unintended quest of our work since June 21, 2014, the first annual ratification day at EBRP libraries. However, we seek Security, as described below.

 

We propose public-integrity rather than civilization and a civic culture rather than society. We want civic morality rather than either civil morality or social morality. So far, the civil/social response to our proposal is stonewalling.

 

I found Hinojosa is part of inspirelouisiana.com/about/ , a Christian media outlet. Christians seem among the most determined stone-wallers against public-integrity. Their resistance to public-integrity is erroneous---mistaken—a sin---factious. Other groups are also stubborn. Self-styled freethinkers seem stone-wallers.

 

Back to releasing thought by considering new word usage, “civic” refers to mutually acceptable connections and transactions by people living in this place. In a civic culture, persons iteratively collaborate for public-integrity, which is synonymous with private-liberty-with-civic-morality. 

 

Statutory law is determined by discovery and acceptance of the-objective-truth rather than imposition of dominant-opinion. The consequence is broadly-defined-civic-safety-and-security, hereafter Security, with private pursuits of personal hopes and dreams. It takes very little effort to understand these terms.

 

Establishing a civilization founded on Security seems impossible, based on this country’s failure of its aims and purpose, expressed in the preamble to the constitution for the USA for 230 years or bout twelve generations. They have left it to us to establish a civic culture rather than a “civilized society.”

 

Phil Beaver does not “know”. Phil trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. Phil Beaver is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, an education non-profit. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.