May 26, 2017

Phil Beaver works to establish opinion when the-objective-truth has not been discovered. He seeks to refine his opinion by listening when people share experiences and observations. The comment box below invites readers to express facts, opinion, or concern, perhaps to share with people who may follow the blog.

Note 1:  I often dash words in a phrases in order to express and preserve an idea. For example, frank-objectivity represents the idea of candidly expressing the-objective-truth despite possible error. In other words, a person expresses his “belief,” knowing he or she could be in error. People may collaboratively approach the-objective-truth.
 Note 2: It is important to note "civic" as in citizens for the people more than for the city.

 The Advocate:  See online at theadvocate.com/baton_rouge.

  

Our Views (the people should be outraged). My hometown newspaper, The Advocate, mindlessly divides us as “taxpayers” vs . . . whatever comes to the reader’s mind.

Maybe the opposing reader supports a coordinated Alinsky-Marxist organizer (AMO), perhaps Together Baton Rouge; or maybe a minister’s coalition; or is someone receiving tax-redistribution they never contributed to covering their sales taxes multiple times; I don’t know how someone classes themselves as a dissident toward taxpayers. But it's a defeating notion: In Louisiana, the people are No. 1 and safety & security is essential to everyone.

I commend The Advocate to stop using the divisive term “taxpayer.” The religion-politician-partnership and other factions that ruin Louisiana are not only hurting taxpayers, they are enslaving the non-taxpayers---everybody is hurt. The Congressional Black Caucus and other divisive groups enslave followers. Mimicking James Poulos (see reference below, but page 77), the civic person has not the liberty-to live if freedom-from oppression fails. Ultimate justice may emerge from a civic people, but it will never emerge from religion-politician-partnership.

A civic people of Baton Rouge may reform from 230 years of stonewalling each other. “Civic” refers to citizens of humankind who collaborate for broadly-defined-public-safety-&-security so that each person may pursue personal preferences throughout their brief lifetime---more than cooperate with what the municipality or a faction thereof wants to do with the person’s life; they want to sacrifice your life for their cause. We can stop abusing ourselves through silo silence.

   

Elizabeth Corey’s “Diversity Rightly Understood,” National Affairs, No. 31, Spring 2017, Page 115, helped me understand why Christianity perplexed me so for my first five decades. What I thought was integrity was merely honest rejection of any opportunity to collaborate to learn the-objective-truth. From them to me it was always tolerance; then I humbly decided I could no longer be gullible to tolerance: Tolerance feels good going out but not so good coming in.

The religious stonewalling extends to public-integrity: Integrity honestly cannot be achieved with divisive words such as “taxpayer.” The divisive attitude pervades public discussion such that the civic people cannot identify each other because they are bemused by conflict between the silo factions. Prof. Corey says it correctly, but not as candidly, IMO.

Come on, The Advocate: Promote the preamble to the constitution for the USA rather than domestic division. Promote voluntary public-integrity rather than dominant-opinion. Promote civics for humanity more than civics for the city; promote collaboration to discover the-objective-truth. (These ideas evolved from public meeting at EBRP libraries and other discussions.)

  

Our Views (the people should be outraged). I was out of town yesterday and when I read this late I thought, I agree with The Advocate but wish they had not ended with coercion toward the Senate.

Today, I’m thinking, “I told you so.”

  

Thank you Rep. Foil and Rep. James. Don’t give up.

  

Today’s thought (1 Peter 3:18). Even 2000 years ago, Peter could see that women mature faster than men, and today, there’s evidence their brains seem constructed for faster thinking. See cbc.ca/news/health/men-women-brains-difference-1.3473154 , for example. Anyhow, Peter gives a male’s attempt at subjugation of women. It won’t work around me.

Anyway, he weaves a mystery of God in control vs personal behavior to win God’s favor then presents the case that behavior does not matter since Jesus paid for bad behavior. Verse 15 may be one source of the perhaps erroneous notion that fear comes from grace.

Despite “God’s grace” Dean judges “our sins which are many.” But I don’t fear Dean’s advice:  I do not accept it.

Today’s thought, May 26 (1 Peter 3:15). My mission is to appreciate other citizens who collaborate for broadly-defined-domestic-safety-&-security. I appreciate their privacy, motivation, and inspiration and would not change anything they treasure.

I think Dean’s will to impose his “joy and mission” is egocentric but also think other people respond to him as they wish: none of my business in domestic-safety-&-security.

  

Letters

Coastal law suits (Barry). There’s nothing new: Barry does not accept that a civic people want their lives improved but do not want to make lawyers and judges super rich.

School health (Washington). As in all public health services, the demand for school health is high because adults do not behave with fidelity to the-objective-truth. The barbarity toward children is appalling.

I write for relief from 2017 momentum toward adults behaving as though life is intended for appetite-satisfaction rather than for personal discovery and both the perfection that your unique abilities my achieve with human relationships that appreciate you.

Democrats changed since Civil War (Gibbons). Democrats have changed to the injustice “equal rights and voting rights.” 

The American dream is freedom-from oppression so that each person may work to achieve the liberty-to pursue the happiness they perceive more than the society specified by a faction of the people or the municipality. Such a way of living is available under the preamble to the constitution for the USA, a civic agreement for citizens of humankind more than of the municipality.

  

With the movement for welfare for the poor, illegal immigration, and voting rights, the Democrats strive to increase the vote for their party for the sake of political power and national chaos---conflict for the sake of conflict.

I think the nation has reached decline that approaches the nadir and hope to live to see the ascent. It will come from voluntary public-integrity, which is not available from history professors. What they want is a free lunch so they can describe their next Alinsky-Marxist organized (AMO) strategy or to enlist you in their instruction. It least that’s been my experience.
 

However, I commend Prof. Gibbens for a brief foray out of his white tower to hob nob with people who are not counting on him for a grade. Out here, he's just another citizen, if that is so. Also, Longmire and Calvert showed that "history professor" does not impress history students for personal interest.

Media personalities (Cal Thomas). It is fitting that Thomas accuses the media-left of “envy, greed and entitlement.”

  

 President Trump is generating a lot of media business, but the lack of integrity in Mass Communications is at the forefront of the news.

It is rare these days for a writer to excite the reader think of journalism, but Thomas came close in this column.

  

Leaks (Ceppos). When you are part of the problem you can’t see it. Journalism is a dead profession.

The public can see it in the white house press conferences. Writers imagine something, ask a question that could indicate their mirage is the-objective-truth. When the answer is no, “They rephrase the question, perhaps one to several times, until they lose their opportunity. All they can do is mope.

However, in private, writers can needle an official until they get a response they can “honestly” express as confirming their mirage. Then they write that someone who must remain anonymous confirmed a mirage. Most of the articles produced today by the Associate Press, the New York Times, the Washington Post, contain elements of mirage-building.

These writers are being ginned out by Mass Communications Schools that teach:  Public policy is determined by public opinion and mass media determines public opinion. Past writers read Abraham Lincoln’s thought: ultimate justice emerges from people who collaborate for freedom-from oppression so that each person may work to achieve the liberty-to live.

Supreme Court folly (George Will). What could have been an informative column about erroneous Supreme Court opinion turned into a cute take on a web-metaphor.

Marxist or Nazi wit (James Gill, May 25). This column was cute but futile freedom of the press to throw obsolete daggers.

The Marx side of the Alinsky-Marxist organizer (AMO) has more to do with the oppressor-victim relationship than economics. The AMO objective is conflict for chaos. And the Alinsky side of it posits that egocentric definition of right-to-equality justifies violence (negating the vote). Let me repeat that: With AMO power, no need to vote. Thus, AMO may be expressed as Nazi-Marxist organized, and that is fair assessment of Landrieu’s brown-city-popular-movement.

During the Mitch Landrieu imposed ordeal over the very expensive proposal to change the character of New Orleans so as to represent the egocentric “victims,” I have suggested that the oppressor is the Bible that was canonized by the Catholic Church and the Church’s use of their Bible for colonizing the Americas using African slaves. Thus the Church is the oppressor and we are all the victims:  Together.

I do not want an apology from the Church. However, I do want the people to learn to talk to each other rather than stonewall each other. Landrieu is clueless to the potential for: after Jackson’s equestrian statue, remove St. Louis Cathedral, St. Paul’s and all the rest---all to save Landrieu’s hypocrisy. Replace them with more inhumanity rather than people who secretly feel sorry for each other.

People may get acquainted with the reality by viewing James Baldwin who proudly feels sorry for white people in debate with William F. Buckley, man who is gullible unto himself, in Gill’s home territory I think. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeoS41xe7w .

BREC (Page 1B). Skating (boards and shoes) and trick-biking are dangerous sports and graffiti in the bowl is a distraction. Also, workers in there to clean graffiti pose a hazard, so the scheduled shut-down is common sense.

I hope they install surveillance cameras so that the next vandals may be caught to pay for cleanup by BREC.

If the municipality ran as well as BREC, Baton Rouge would seem like the home of civic citizens---ones who collaborate for safety & security rather than compete for dominant-opinion in dialogues on racism and church. Civic help from the governor and legislature would not be unwelcome.

Baton Rouge Mayor (Page 1A). To Bob White: Special committees on dialogues on racism and church are not serving the mayor well. Even LSU’s apparent wish to be a liberal-democrat power does seem helpful.

Police are agents of a civic people who are assigned first-responder-responsibility to protect the public from criminals. The system, including civil service, is there to protect the public’s police from both criminals and incompetent or rogue elected officials.

Constructing a story on which to carry out campaign-promised undoing of Carl Dabadie’s public service may not go well for the mayor. Also, her failure to find an administrative assistant may continue indefinitely.

Eventually, the mayor may lose the opportunity she has. That’s my hope, based on enough evidence. I don’t always get what I want.

Baton Rouge Zoo (Page 1A). I hope the focus is on educating extant children at reasonable expense to families and the people who support families rather than world-class facility.

With increasing ability for virtual experiences, the need for every city, even region, to have an outstanding zoo declines.

If world-class gets the nod, I hope it is done on a pay-as-you go basis: Accommodate animals now cared for in the new facility and expand in the future.

Education misspent $6 Billion (Page 3A). Shut down the federal DOE and their tax budget and push these responsibilities onto the states---closer to the people.

TOPS standards (Page 5A). Congratulations again to Rep. Foil for compromising on his wishes for 3.0 gpa and congratulations to Rep. Ted James for his support by reporting what students think.

Don’t give up. Appeal to the Senate and Gov. Edwards to collaborate for a celebration of bipartisan success for students at the state level.

I thought it was civic of Rep. Foil to support the study group for long term plans, but James’ report that students approve a higher future target is all we need to know.

The legacy of the philanthropist who started the program should not override the interest of students.

Other forums.

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After a comment on my essay, “Heresy,” July 4, 2016 at promotethepremble.blogspot. com

To Carson Coronodo: I appreciate your comments and your concerns. I will try to learn more from you.

About moral decline, I am encouraged by recent interests that seem parallel to mine. The latest issue of National Affairs---No. 31, Spring 2017---has some great articles that use language different from mine but I think pointed in the same direction.

  

For example, Elizabeth Corey, in "Diversity Rightly Understood," uses "objective knowledge" to express something close to what I call the-objective-truth. I may try to contact her to collaborate or may post a commentary on her article.

  

The second major entry is James Paulos' "Infrastructural Thinking." On page 75, he has a subtitle "The Technology of Freedom" and every word thereafter is precious to me after one reading. Paulos confuses me, though by using "liberty" and "freedom" in the same paragraph. I find this confusion with many writers, and use the dash to express my ideas. For example, most people want freedom-from oppression so that they may work to achieve liberty-to live according to personal preferences more than for a common good. Addressing your concern, Paulos writes, " . . . the case for human freedom cannot succeed if the case for being human fails." Every person should read and consider that thought.

I see that your church is Roman Catholic. I was reared Southern Baptist in Knoxville, Tennessee. I fell in love with a Louisiana French Catholic woman and her comprehensive fidelity helped me discover that from my beginning, perhaps age 10, I trusted-in and committed-to the-objective-truth of which most is undiscovered and some is understood. My beliefs keep me from being either a theist or an atheist: I know I do not know the-objective-truth and won't pretend again in my lifetime. My wife is still L.F.Catholic, yet my dialogue with her is fantastically parallel. Beside every great woman there is someone trying to be an authentic man.

  

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