Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth,
which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.
Note 1: I often dash
words in 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. Note 2: It is important to note "civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for the people more than for the city.
A personal paraphrase of the June 21, 1788 preamble: We the civic citizens of nine of the thirteen United
States commit-to and trust-in the purpose and goals stated herein ---
integrity, justice, collaboration, defense, prosperity, liberty, and perpetuity
--- and to cultivate limited services by the USA. Composing their own
paraphrase, citizens may consider the actual preamble and perceive whether they
are willing or dissident toward its principles.
Our Views, Dec 16 (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_41faa140-d861-11e7-9ec8-83e329aeda19.html)
To
Matthew White:
Here's the view
I've had all along: the world is a conflicted place. (Then) even my birth
family and friends don't know how to deal with it. Therefore, my opportunity
for freedom is my responsibility. I never decided I knew enough to relinquish
the quest to learn.
Fortunately or
not, my mom and dad were excellent, middle-class providers---so good that it
took me five decades to overcome the conflicting memes (packets of information)
they and theirs' shared. Civic loved ones and friends influenced me.
"Civic" means collaborating for private liberty with public morality
in human connections and beyond.
I just finished
the book "The Discovery of Freedom," by Rose Wilder Lane, 1943. I
consider it among the notes from the American underground. Like all others in
my random path of reading, I perceive it came just in time.
I put it on the
sparse shelf for re-reading with General George Washington's June 8, 1783
farewell address,
loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/peace/circular.html;
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Divinity School Address," 1838, archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/dsa.html;
William Faulkner's "Barn Burning,"
wchs-wcusd-ca.schoolloop.com/file/1241325285002/1240666211355/6581091789892073599.pdf;
and Anton Chekov's "Rothschild's Fiddle," online-literature.com/anton_chekhov/1272/
.
I've moved on
to a book about how natives to this continent influence my psychology if not
physics. The Inuits alone are amazing!
Our Views (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_f5ae0ffc-caeb-11e7-ab5c-4b4a9ac0e7e3.html)
I don’t fault
Loren Scott for expressing a widespread concern among a class of economists: What will the world’s long term response to
President Trump be like? Scott is, after all an economist who specializes in
Louisiana data. For Scott’s work legacy all Louisiana citizens may be grateful.
However, by
now, liberal democrats, who seem to control The Advocate, ought to be cautious
about Donald Trump’s success and therefore cautious about predicting (hoping
for?) USA failure. In fact, The Advocate is obligated to be responsible to both
their readers and the people of Louisiana. I think The Advocate is failing that
duty for reasons perhaps they understand. I doubt it is that either Hillary
Clinton or Bernie Sanders was a better choice.
Trade
unfairness rather than isolation is Trump’s target; it’s much
like ending NATO free-loading by European members. Look at it like the
otherwise happily employed person who wants a co-worker to succeed but cannot
risk employment under abuse.
The Advocate
should know and report that the US has an $800 duty-free limit, whereas Canada’s
is $20. Quoting the White House, “The goal of the Trump study is to
quantify exactly how much of the U.S. global trade deficit is due to supposedly
unfair practices, and seek remedies for the imbalance.” See theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/freeland-says-us-has-trade-surplus-with-canada/article34533311/
. This article re-assures good will between Canada and the US, but also does
not report the $800 vs $20 imbalance favoring Canada.
The biggest offender in the White House’s study list
is China. China routinely steals US inventions, music, movies, popular toy
designs, etc. Why doesn’t The Advocate write to protect US citizens including
Louisiana citizens? What’s The Advocate’s motive? Do they want to replace Trump
and Pence with the likes of whoever has the DNC label? I think The Advocate
begs woe.
The Advocate promotes Scott’s (erroneous) scare
statement recalling the Great Depression of 1930. It’s the typical liberal
democrat approach to freedom of the press: irresponsibility.
Today’s thought,
G.E. Dean (Matthew 24:9-11 CJB)
“At that time you will be arrested and handed over to be
punished and put to death, and all peoples will hate you because of me. At
that time many will be trapped into betraying and hating each other, many
false prophets will appear and fool many people.”
Dean says, “Christians should not be surprised when
persecution comes. Jesus said it was a possibility.”
When daily living brings us into contact with other people,
we can readily tell whether they collaborate for civic justice or are dissident
to mutual, comprehensive safety and security. For example, if we want to buy a special
cake, we ask, and if one baker says they don’t make such cakes, we ask other
bakers. Say we want a German-chocolate cake and the baker responds, “We don’t
make them,” we may ask, “Do you know of a baker who does?” Often we get a
referral. Such public connections are typical of civic people. Dissidents quarrel
for reasons they may or may not understand. Sometimes, dissidents change from
quarreling to violence. A civic people collaborate for just, statutory laws and
just statutory law enforcement so that dissidents may reform or be constrained.
The need for civic peace is made plain by the misery and
loss that is imposed on the people by dissidents. However, 6000 years of
cultural evolution has introduced a consideration that spoils the utility of
personal reactions to day-to-day difference of agreement: Most people are reared in a culture that inculcates
an authority to which all citizens are either coerced or forced to conform.
Machiavelli reviewed the types of coercion or force in “The Prince,” 1513. Dean
promotes Chapter XI Machiavellianism.
The variety of methods of establishing authority is evident
by a short review of the world’s 200 governments. The list of types at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies
is amazing. Republicanism is not directly listed, but is suggested on the right
as “Monarchy vs republic.” It seems the American republic is not well
understood. I think that is because the preamble to the constitution for the
USA leaves it to the people to develop justice, and in 229 years they have
resisted jusice.
On September 17, 1787, 1/3 of delegates to the
constitutional convention in Philadelphia expressed dissidence to the results
of the convention by not signing the draft constitution. The 2/3 who signed created
an opportunity that had never existed in the world. On June 21, 1788, 2/3 of
delegates to 2/3 of the state constitutions advanced the opportunity by
establishing the USA. The USA hoped the dissident four free and independent
states would either reform or relent and join. A divided country did not make
sense. However, operations began on March 4, 1789, with only ten of thirteen
states having joined the USA; dissidence continued.
The opportunity that was created on September 17, 1787 and
established on June 21, 1788 is the opportunity for each person to take the authority
that each human being is entitled to take. Each newborn has the opportunity to
discover and develop responsibility for justice in his or her connections
during, both with other people and with all things. Humans discover justice by
collaborating on the-objective-truth, or actual-reality. For example, no one
comes to a 2017 civic meeting on traffic control with the message, “First we
must agree that the world is flat.” Civic citizens do not lie to each other,
because they want to communicate, so as to reduce personal misery and loss; they
can observe pain in each other’s faces and speak the-objective-truth in order
to discover the cause of pain. Dissidents lie for reasons they may or may not
understand, but civic citizens cannot allow lies to prevail in the work to
discover justice. Likewise, no one comes to a civic meeting on traffic control
with the message, “First, we must agree that my God controls everything,” yet
Dean tacitly makes that claim daily.
In 2017, we may observe that living beings deserve and need
freedom in order to fulfill their innate functions. Of all the species, only
one---the human being---has the physical and psychological power to develop freedom.
The newborn has the opportunity to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth or
actual-reality. It is a comprehensive fidelity that spawns fidelity to self,
fidelity to immediate family, fidelity to extended family and friends, fidelity
to the people or the nation, fidelity to the world and fidelity to the universe,
both respectively and collectively.
Religion may serve the believer, for example, inspire and
motivate, provide comfort in a confusing world, or offer hope for a favorable
afterdeath. However, the list of world religions is amazing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions.
The original spirit on this continent is a sky spirit: see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_deity#Americas.
A brief study draws attention to native-Americans’ cheerful pursuit of survival
(is that justice?) based on the-objective-truth or actual-reality. The Inuit
are among the Arctic people: nsidc.org/cryosphere/arctic-meteorology/arctic-people.html.
Try to survive in the arctic without the Inuit technology they freely share.
I am fed up with dissidents who insist on imposing their God
on all people. The USA offers not a return to the coercion and force
Christianity thrives on, but the responsibility to establish freedom: private
liberty with civic morality.
Letters
Defending gun carriers (Shultz) (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_da37b2e6-db8f-11e7-82f7-bb5fda561944.html)
Writers may
realize that a civic people never lie or endorse falsities. Integrity requires
a person to discover and eliminate honest privation (error or misunderstanding).
On any account, Shultz doe not make me comfortable with carriers in our midst.
(BTW, in the fifty years I have lived here, I always regarded Livingston Parish
as the most dangerous parish I knew of.
onlyinyourstate.com/louisiana/dangerous-places-la/)
One exaggeration
of facts makes the reader doubt the entire letter. In this case, about Australia,
“A person who
possesses or uses a firearm must have a firearm
licence. Licence holders
must demonstrate a "genuine reason" for holding a firearm licence and
must not be a "prohibited person". All firearms in Australia must be
registered by serial number to the owner, who also holds a firearms licence.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation
Whether or not
the license system has improved life in Australia is controversial, but the law
has not been changed in two decades. Some studies indicate reductions in
suicides more than other crime reductions. Perhaps the licensing is helping,
and therefore the people allow it continue.
I own guns and
shoot but do not want to carry for self-defense.
Human beings
have physical and psychological power that may develop personal responsibility for
public freedom. However, cultural evolution developed the majority attitude
that a higher power carries the authority. Government or God or a partnership
of the two shields us from responsibility. Thereby, we have repressed into a dystopia,
where a civic people are threatened by dissidents.
We cannot
restore the ineluctable path toward civic peace until most citizens recognize
that we need a civic culture, wherein all voluntary associations are aware that
human, comprehensive safety and security is required for freedom and at least
2/3 of volunteers collaborate for justice. Considering the threats in this
repressed state, justice does not look too different from survival.
In 2017, only
229 years after the USA was established by 2/3 of the people’s representatives
in 2/3 of the then thirteen free and independent states, it is time to put
aside both religious institutions and government institutions as well as their
partnerships as the founders of civic peace and look to a civic people. With a
confident, resolved, and collaborative super-majority, the dissidents for whatever
reasons may perceive incentives for reform, and the nation (the people) may
gradually approach We the People of the United States---total trust and commitment
to the preamble.
Priests conflict with civic morality (Kammer)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_0131dbd6-db8d-11e7-8012-87ef034a92e1.html)
The
Catholic canon is an immoral document. It protects child molesters and other
sexual predators. It condones existing slavery (what will the final outcome
be?). It expresses hate rather than appreciation for civic peace.
Pride in
priestly wisdom distracts the Church from its own immorality. See for example, theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_1b40d10c-e2be-11e7-aef2-2776cc1ff73e.html
and theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/courts/article_36b30190-844e-11e7-8deb-13a7db139041.html.
Even the pope
behaves unseemly:
theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/18/donald-trump-pope-francis-christian-wall-mexico-border.
Self-proclaimed authority for the hereafter may collaborate for civic
morality---justice for non-believers and believers for life.
Civic immorality (Cantin)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_5e0f01cc-db91-11e7-a15e-0b4f17134da6.html)
"Who
cares?"
You erroneously care.
Sensible trash schedules (Sammonds)
(theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_4e0ce28e-db92-11e7-9745-f3ebc3abb59f.html)
I agree in
principle and would need to see the facts to agree in whole.
Columns. (The
fiction/non-fiction comments gallery for readers)
Cuba markets (Mike Strain)
(theadvocate.com/new_orleans/opinion/article_00883fdc-e0fa-11e7-ab56-175f1479e6d6.html)
I do not condone
the boondoggle vacations to Cuba Louisiana-official entourages take and don’t
want to read about any more of them.
I admit I do
not trust Louisiana officials, and that disappoints me. In this article I read “sell
up to $302 million to Cuba each year . . . new revenue [against] $1 billion
shortfall.” Strain mixes commodity revenue with taxes.
If Louisiana
revenue is 8% of sales, that’s $0.026 billion/year. That 2.4% of the shortfall
and 0.09% of the Louisiana budget.
Criminal poverty (Kevin McGill)
theadvertiser.com/story/news/2017/12/17/analysis-when-poverty-treated-like-crime/959948001/
Civic citizens ought to pay attention to McGill’s concerns. Adolescents
are being turned into criminals.
The Louisiana prison release
program does not touch the civically immoral courts and judges. Their behavior
tends to turn relatively innocent dissidents to civic morality in to criminals
and worse. See Arthur Riser’s article on judges keeping arrested people in jail
at judicial discretion: nationalaffairs.com/authors/detail/arthur-l-rizer-iii
or rstreet.org/policy-study/the-conservative-case-for-jail-reform/.
Alabama (George Will) washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-moore-endorsement-sunk-the-presidency-to-unplumbed-depths/2017/12/13/3c245482-e036-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html?utm_term=.c4262c91f383
If America is to have a civic culture, “The self-described
“values voters” and “evangelicals” of pious vanity . . . henceforth . . . reaction
to their “witness” should be resounding guffaws.”
As someone who voted for Donald Trump twice, I saw him as
having the potential to reform America’s 228 year subjugation to legislative
theism, or Chapter XI Machiavellianism. You’d think Will would be smart enough
to perceive the possibility, but then, Will has always been fascinated by his
writing. Hubris about writing can keep a person from thinking.
Will’s misguided reference to George Washington is sad.
Washington’s Four Pillars necessary for a nation to survive (June 8, 1783)
totally accommodated both Darwin and Einstein.
It is doubly sad that at this late stage Will erroneously
bets on failure of the USA. We are at the nadir of five decades of liberal
democracy attempting to upset the American republic.
Will could go to coffee with Cal Thomas and learn what Will
is missing with his mind in the gutter; baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-1216-thomas-trump-20171215-story.html.
Industrial tax exemptions (theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_5333b8fc-cb23-11e7-8b31-37b36a5b0b1d.html)
“So far,
each Louisiana job created by Cameron LNG is costing taxpayers roughly $13.7
million in lost revenue.”
Other forums
Thank you Fara, for the opportunity
to clarify.
First, I wrote “the-objective-truth”
to invite you, the reader, not to separate the three words. By writing
“objective truth,” you write of a different subject, and that act allowed you
to relate it to “responsibility.”
The-objective-truth exists and
humans can only discover it. Once discovered, the human being is obliged to
conform to it. For example, jumping off a high cliff almost always causes death
die to the force of gravity, so humans observe gravity (that’s physics).
Similarly, lying may be discovered, and ruin the liar's reliability in
communication, so civic citizens do not lie (that’s psychology).
Evolution informs us that every
species either adapts to its changing environment or perishes. However one
species, the human species, has the physical and psychological power to change
his environment.
The species we know as human—-the
group that is able to develop language and grammar—-has developed cultures that
foster war. The individual persons are acclimated to an authority that has the
power to wage war.
But individuals who publicly connect
to trade do so in mutual satisfaction. A person wants a product or service and
he or she shops around for a vendor and negotiates a mutually satisfactory
price. The product or service is delivered in good quality, the payment is
made, and both parties are happy. Or there is a mistake and it is reported and
satisfactorily resolved. In another example, concert attendees queue to present
their tickets without dispute. In other words, it is well known that
individuals can live in civic peace.
The human individual has the power
to establish mutual freedom, and therefore he or she has the responsibility to
so behave. If not, he or she is a dissident to civic justice.
With a majority of individuals
collaborating for civic justice, a civic culture may emerge. The civic culture
would include many arbitrary associations, such as religions, fine arts,
vocations, avocations, sports, etc., all collaborating in responsibility for
freedom in the presence of dissidence.
The-objective-truth is the standard
against which dissidence is observed: jumping off a cliff invites death and
lying invites exclusion from civic collaboration.
These ideas come from my experiences
and observations after seventy-four years’ determination to discover—-by
living, reading, writing, and communicating—-why, in such as wonderful world
with so many wonderful individuals, there is so much misery and loss.
At this time, I think the answer is:
During the past 6000 years, cultures evolved that influence individuals to seek
an authority rather than to personally take the responsibility to establish
freedom. Freedom requires justice; that is, fidelity to the-objective-truth
rather than opinion.
No two ova are equal. Fertilization
of the two ova could produce two persons, who also would not be equal. Further,
each person may either produce ova or spermatozoon. Each person is unique. To
speculate that they are equal requires precise explanation of the basis. The
only basis that makes sense to me is that they have equal opportunity to
develop fidelity to the-objective-truth.
I may modify this post and am happy
to receive comments or questions.
Phil Beaver does not “know”
the-indisputable-facts, or actual-reality. 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.
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