Fidelity to the-objective-truth

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for responsible freedom 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 to us by the USA. I want to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet would always preserve the original, 1787, text.   

   

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quora.com/According-to-nowadays-societies-and-without-considering-any-type-of-standards-what-is-the-current-definition-of-morality

I cannot address a current definition of civic morality, but can express my views. They are counter to the customary inculcation of “higher power.” For the developed, balanced, human being, the only higher power is the-objective-truth, whatever it’s elements may be.

The moral human accepts individual authority to behave with fidelity to the-objective-truth. Conformance to the-objective-truth is good for the individual and conflict with the-objective-truth is bad for the individual. Thus, the good and bad is an individual determination that collectively impacts humankind.

Individual authority is a unique characteristic of the human being, but it is not innate: the person may develop fidelity to the-objective-truth, and a few do so. The fidelity cannot be taught and can only be learned by experience and observation.

However, a young person with intent for fidelity may be encouraged and coached. The human being is so potentially powerful it takes two to three decades to equip him or her with the basic knowledge, understanding, and intent to develop his or her individual authority during a lifetime of some eighty years.

The-objective-truth exists and humankind works to discovery its elements. Its elements do not respond to any human construct: reason, revelation, research, majority opinion, compassion, empathy, fear, coercion, force. Human action may change the course of events, but the consequences conform to the-objective-truth. Unknowns exist, and some apparent discoveries are lessened by unknown-objective-truths: future discoveries will correct them. However, humankind’s understanding of the inter-connectedness of the-discovered-objective-truths increases with time.

The fidelity is comprehensive. It extends from the-objective-truth to self, to immediate family, to extended family and friends, to the people (the nation), to all people (the world), and to the universe, both respectively and collectively. The mature individual has the commitment: in every thought, every word, and every action, I will neither initiate nor tolerate harm. Anyone who establishes violence of thought, word or action, has breached this commitment.

In a culture wherein most individuals are pursuing comprehensive fidelity, there are two socio-political groups: civic citizens and dissidents. The civic citizens expect the dissidents to reform as they perceive, by example, a better way of living. The civic culture develops statutory justice based on the-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion. When a dissident, also possessing individual authority, causes actual harm, statutory justice may be required: the criminal dissident may face compulsory counselling, fines, physical constraint, or death. Since statutory justice is based on the-objective-truth, dissidents reform more readily than when dominant opinion has established injustice.

I hope these ideas help and offer them for collaboration rather than to pretend to represent uncommon knowledge of the-objective-truth.

Paul Bergevin, “Mark Zuckerber Is No James Madison”, Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2018, page A17, wsj.com/articles/mark-zuckerberg-is-no-james-madison-1521585114.

Bergevin expresses wealthy-elite opinions about Madison. For example, the preamble to the constitution for the USA offers “a large aggregation of citizens organized on the principle of self-government.” However, in 2018, there is not the “general prosperity” George Washington urged in 1783.

Individual reform is needed. Civic people neglect the individual authority the preamble’s agreement invokes. “Civic” refers to people who collaborate to live in the same time and country with mutual, comprehensive safety and security (Security). The culture of Security would empower private liberty with civic morality---pursuit of private happiness rather than the dictates of elites. However, the people elite dissidents to civic morality govern the government.

In the 2016 presidential election, as in others, citizens did not have self-government choices. It was elites for social democracy or worse versus elites for parochial American republicanism. In the Madison-designed government of, by, and for the people, the faction of civic citizens has waned as regimes ply the clergy-politician partnership that has maintained legislative divinity for 229 years. Financial elites have the power to terminate Chapter XI Machiavellianism anytime they deem it would serve the wealthy people.

However, a civic people could replace governance under god and government with governance under the people by requiring statutory justice rather than arbitrary opinion made dominant by the elites. Statuary justice is discovered by collaborating for the-objective-truth rather than conflicting for dominant opinion.

Not only should information sharing be free, equitable distribution of the Gross National Product should be free; that is, not constrained by laws that favor the elites. A civic people may accept rather than demand the human authority to require government that adheres to the purpose and goals that are offered in the preamble and set up in the 1787 Constitution that follows it. In other words, citizens may behave responsibly. Amendments and Congressional acts that weaken the preamble’s agreement may be reformed. The wealthy-elite system that made Mark Zuckerberg a young billionaire may be reformed. Likewise, the wealthy-elite system that promotes high-income entertainers, sports stars, and other adult satisfactions may be reformed for “general prosperity”.

This WSJ on March 22, 2018, informs us that 133 people last year shared $1.54 billion in pay. But child poverty affects 30 million children: “43% of children live in low-income families.” See nccp.org/publications/pub_1194.html. James Madison has taken us far from George Washington’s four pillars, listed on June 8, 1783. See loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/peace/circular.html. Instead of “mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity,” many Americans see poor children and think, “There but for the grace of God go I.”

Otherwise civic people pretend higher power overrules their individual authority to collaborate for civic justice. Thanks to Madison, the American fake higher powers are government and god, lower-case because it’s Madison’s god. Bergevin quotes Madison on government: “first enable the government to . . . control itself.” We know that has not happened in 230 years. Madison also specified god above government: “It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.” People who follow Madison’s lead and claim the people are civically controlled by god are false: Every individual controls his or her energy during every moment of life.

In civic morality, the power to which the people must comport is the-objective-truth. I’m not talking about any of humankind’s constructed powers like scientific studies, religious revelations, or political theories. Those are the fake powers each human being must juggle with individual authority in order to make the most if his or her brief, perhaps 90 years, of life.

Two false higher powers have bemused the people for 230 years. The nadir we may be experiencing presents an opportunity for citizens to consider individual authority, the preamble, and the-objective-truth. The reform from 133 cosmopolitan citizens with 30 million poor children to “general prosperity” is possible by using the-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion to discover civic justice.

Elite wealth is out of control, and it can last as long as a civic people deny individual authority and responsibility. For civic justice, there is no higher power than the collective individuals.

quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-life-and-society

In the context of “society” life may refer to human kind, representing, so far, perhaps eight trillion years of past life. I answer respecting the life of an individual human being in 2018. Each individual may develop fidelity.

Before the individual’s mother was conceived, there was nothing. The mother, during her fertile years produced viable ova. One was fertilized, producing a single-cell zygote. The cell repeatedly divided over eight or so days, becoming a multi-celled blastocyst, which fortunately attached to the mother’s womb. If not, the potential person would pass, pin-head-sized, out of her body probably unnoticed. During gestation, many biological events may be interrupted, causing spontaneous termination of the pregnancy—-natural abortion. If delivery occurs, there is a chance the baby will die within the first month. Otherwise, what the mother delivers is a feral, human infant—-a mind, body, and person with the potential to develop into a human being.

The human being is so powerful that it takes two to three decades for typical development. Building wisdom may start above age thirty if at all. Psychological maturity may be attained beyond age sixty, but normally does not happen. The future can be better.

He or she does not know it, but each human individual has the authority to develop his or her person during every moment of personal life, hopefully more than eighty years. He or she may advance the leading edge of civic morality that has been discovered during the past eight trillion years of human life.

Each human being has the opportunity to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth rather than conformity to social opinion. Private fidelity is essential to the individual but barely impacts society. The smallest infidelity begs woe, and with crime or evil woe comes brutally. However, if most individuals accept personal authority to develop fidelity, a civic culture may develop, and infidelity could lessen.

Fidelity to the-objective-truth is comprehensive. That is, it extends to self, immediate family, extended family and friends, the people (nation), the world’s inhabitants, and the universe, both respectively and collectively. Thus, it is a civic practice, where “civic” implies two individuals collaborating to empower each other’s lives more than cooperating-with, subjugating-to, or suffering civilization or socialization (coercion), tradition (stagnation), or legalization (force). A civic culture offers mutual, comprehensive safety and security; private liberty with civic morality; human justice.

In a civic culture, dissidents are inspired to reform, because they observe and experience a better way of living. Just as the civic citizen has authority over his or her person and develops fidelity, the criminal has individual authority but believes crime or worse pays. However, statutory justice, is developed by discovering the-objective-truth rather than tolerating dominant opinion. Statutory justice is more motivating than arbitrary law to the criminal who suffers law enforcement. That is, the criminal is more accepting toward statutory justice.

Society does not foster the above ideas. Unfortunately, society fosters the idea that the human individual has not the authority to behave so as to benefit from the-objective-truth. Society bemuses the individual to seek power from religion and from government or the partnership of the two. Particular religions and particular governments are morally weak and their partnerships are tyrants. The person who does not accept the authority to live his or her life according to personal, beneficial preferences, loses private life to unjust society.

Each individual may pursue personal happiness rather than the dictates of society and help reverse human misery and loss humankind takes for granted. Each person may accept individual authority to develop personal fidelity.

Thank you for the question, and I hope this helps.

 Phil Beaver does not “know” the actual-reality. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.