Voluntary Civic People of Baton Rouge: January 2020

Saturday, January 25, 2020

“ourselves and our Posterity”

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 individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.

Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality: For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my proposal as follows: “Willing citizens collaborate, communicate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions—integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity—so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living people.” I want to collaborate with the other citizens on this paraphrase and theirs yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.

Selected theme from this week

“ourselves and our Posterity”

Most citizens in both the majority the minorities want mutual, comprehensive safety and security. Political regimes have, for 12 generations now, bemused fellow citizens from choosing integrity rather than infidelity. Consequently, few citizens can articulate their individual interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. As a consequence, few U.S. citizens accept the responsible human liberty that is proposed in the literal U.S. Preamble. The first consideration is that “Liberty to ourselves”: we are the 12^th generation of the 1787 “our Posterity.” Living citizens are responsible for mutual, comprehensive safety and security to ourselves and our posterity.

Columns

Sometimes The Advocate likes John Kennedy’s views (The Advocate) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_28f80a42-388c-11ea-b547-1f143e1389a0.html)

It’s embarrassing that The Advocate wishes “the impeachment trial is far too serious a matter for Senate leaders to be playing these sorts of games.” Out of the Democrats’ attack on We the People of the United States there will come an amendment of the First Amendment so as to hold the press responsible for ineluctably evident breach of statutory justice. The Louisiana constitution already holds people and the press responsible for expressions, and once again, the USA can mimic Louisiana.

I say “once again” to recall Louisiana’s 1880 statutory treasure, the non-unanimous criminal jury verdict rule, at 9:3 majority. England (in 1967) and many former British colonies adopted 10:2 verdicts in order to lessen organized crime’s influence on trials. The current U.S. Supreme Court Ramos v Louisiana may lead to legislative restoration of Louisiana’s 9:3 rule and more improvements for victims of crimes. Unanimous juries hurt blacks 700% disproportionately overall and 350% disproportionately among the poor.

Shame on The Advocate for their Pulitzer Prize for contributing to termination of Louisiana’s 10:2 verdicts. Be sure and read my comments on Walter Williams’ column today at http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams011520.php3, wherein I compute the above two percentages.

How many murders in what proportion? (Walter Williams) (http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams011520.php3)

Williams continues to disappoint me on claims without data.

I did not find the data for 2019, but for 2018 and at 90% there were 6,666 black on black murders or 47.2% of 14,123 US total and compared to 5480 white on white murders, https://www.statista.com/statistics/251877/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-race-ethnicity-and-gender/. (Compare Williams’ report of 212 police shootings of blacks or 3.2% relative to black on black murders.)

As of July 1, 2019, there were 250.3 million whites and 43.8 million blacks; https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/IPE120218.

Thus, black on black murder about 6666/43.8 times 250.3/5480 times 100% = 700 % disproportionately hurts blacks vs whites.

There were 25.3 million whites and 9.1 million blacks in poverty; https://www.povertyusa.org/facts. Black on black murder about 6666/9.1 times 25.3/5480 times 100% = 340 % disproportionately hurts poor blacks vs poor whites.

I wish Williams would improve on my attempt to proportionate the problem and to track the major statistic each year.

Posted at the above URL.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/What-is-intellectual-sportsmanship?

I don’t know. Is it a form of insincerity? Is it a sport for radical skeptics? Does it defy the constraints of physics, the object of study rather than the study?

I gave my first talk on “Faith in the objective truth” in 2006. A professor sincerely asked, “In what truth do you place your faith: God’s truth, ultimate truth, absolute truth, Phil’s truth?”

Now, I trust-in and am committed-to the-objective-truth as the reliable path to the-literal-truth. The-objective-truth is subject to improved instruments or methods of perception, and the last discovery brings humankind to the-literal-truth.

In both phrases, the hyphens invite the intellectual sport or radical skeptic to not separate the article so as to ply his or her skills. Most scholars ignore the invitation and respond with “objective truth” according to his or her opinion. Many scholars attempt to deny actual reality.

https://www.quora.com/When-minorities-try-to-form-identities-exclusive-to-that-minority-which-are-separate-from-the-majority-do-they-cause-more-harm-than-not?

Yes, and it works both ways: A politically motivated majority causes harm.

Civic dialogue so far is constrained by proprietary terms that bemuse citizens rather than solve problems.

While I have not met everyone, it seems evident that most humans who have freedom-from oppression enough to know and articulate their civic wishes want mutual, comprehensive safety and security (hereafter mutual security). That claim would be sufficient to divide humankind into 2 groups: those who practice and promote mutual, comprehensive safety and security and those who don’t. For your question, we’d need to know which group constitutes the majority.

If we assume that the majority of persons want mutual security, it becomes obvious that identity groups in opposition cause harm. My simplistic approach comes not from my opinion, but from ancient opinion about even older ideas.

For example, about 2,400 years ago, three Greek opinions were recorded, and I have interpreted them based on my opinion incorporating some propriety that emerged from the 17^th century forward. First, civic citizens pursue equity under statutory justice---perfect written law. Second, a civic citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or civic institution. Third, a civic citizen is humble toward whatever-God-is as fellow citizens mutually pursue discovery-of and benefit-from the-literal-truth.

A culture based on the above principles was ratified on June 21, 1788 as the preamble to the amendable U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble). Every citizen owes it to self to study and interpret the U.S. Preamble’s proposition so as to order his or her civic integrity with responsible pursuit of individual happiness rather than the dictates of other humans.

The object of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition is repressed by political regimes, and only the entity We the People of the United States can effect cultural reform. The U.S. Preamble’s object is responsible “Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” To the September 1787 authors of the U.S. Preamble we are perhaps the 12^th generation in their “Posterity.” Living families and individuals are the “ourselves” to “our Posterity.” Accepting this continuous responsibility is required to preserve the culture of liberty to living citizens.

My interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition for my life style is: We the People of the United States maintain 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. Thus, the culture is predicated on discipline that empowers liberty. I am anxious to learn other citizens’ interpretations so as to benefit from other viewpoints. However, I have no desire to further study 2020 expectations scholars can imagine from John Adams’, James Madison’s, or other framer’s views.

I think US citizens will ultimately establish this view of an American dream: at least 2/3 of citizens practicing and promoting discipline for responsible human liberty. Minority identity groups will then perceive that they oppose mutual security and may be motivated to reform. If not, they may face statutory law.

https://www.quora.com/What-do-all-people-need-to-know-and-understand-about-responsibility?

Responsible human liberty is available to fellow citizens who practice and maintain 5 public disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity. Dissident fellow citizens are constrained by gradually developing statutory justice and meanwhile may suffer un-just law.

The above ideas come from my personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble, the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Every U.S. citizen owes it to self to develop his or her interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. The phrase “Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” applies to us as the 10^th or 11^th generation since the ratification of the U.S. Preamble (and the amendable articles of the 1787 U.S. Constitution) on June 21, 1788. In other words, living families and individuals are the “ourselves” and our descendants and beyond are “our Posterity.”

Living in the USA without a personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble is worse than paying dues to an association you never heard of. Political regimes make civic ignorance commonplace.

Accepting the U.S. Preamble’s proposition is difficult, so there are few citizens who articulate that they are members of the U.S. Preamble’s entity We the People of the United States. We work to change that.

https://www.quora.com/Will-the-world-be-a-better-place-if-we-all-understand-each-other-s-perspective?

No. There are too many perspectives and a human lifetime is too short. However, there is an immediately available better future. What’s required is acceptance of some key suggestions from the past and individual pursuit of integrity rather than competition for higher opinion. Pursuit of integrity leads to discovery of the-objective-truth and work to understand how to benefit from the discovery. As new instruments are invented, objective modification of the understanding so as to approach the-literal-truth.

Three of the key acceptances are: 1) civic citizens pursue equity under statutory human justice, 2) a civic citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to any person or to whatever-God-is and 3) every human has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity even if he or she initially wanders into infidelity but reforms.

In the USA, accepting the U.S. Preamble’s proposition under the above considerations, as the individual interprets the preamble, divides citizens into two groups: those who develop civic citizenship and dissidents. My interpretation of the U.S. Preamble for my way of living is: We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to establish and maintain 5 public disciplines in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. The preamble offers no standard for the 5 disciplines. Perhaps the ultimate extent and quality of responsible human liberty among citizens is the standard.

Perhaps most humans want mutual, comprehensive safety and security. If so, each person may, under the above principles, develop individual happiness with civic integrity without evaluating each other’s perspectives with intent to understand more than safety and security. Strangers can be serene strangers; friends can be friends; mutual appreciators can be appreciative and that includes appreciation for serene confidence in public places; lovers can be lovers; and spouses can be faithful for life. Some dissidents may be encouraged by the civic culture to personally conform to the evident better future: responsible human liberty.

https://www.quora.com/What-form-of-government-best-suits-human-nature?

The U.S. Preamble, ratified by 9 of 13 eastern seaboard states on June 21, 1788, proposes 5 public disciplines to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens and their posterity. Each citizen is free to ignore the U.S. Preamble’s civic, civil, and legal proposition, but may consequentially yield liberty to statutory law enforcement. Standards are offered for neither the 5 disciplines nor responsible liberty. Perhaps the extent and quality of responsible human liberty among fellow citizens is the standard by which an achievable better future is measured.

Widespread acceptance of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition---discipline for responsible human liberty---is a shocking possibility!

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.

Saturday, January 18, 2020

Reform the Department of Education to Louisiana’s Department of Human Encouragement

Please postpone the search for a permanent superintendent until this reform is in place. The suggestion to reform to responsible human liberty came in the 6^th year of local library meetings to discover and promote the U.S. Preamble’s people’s proposition.

The Louisiana Legislature may accelerate the reform to the Department of Human Encouragement, and acceptance of the challenge would promote statewide if not national consideration of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

Certainly the 11 BESE members each have the duty to fellow citizens to interpret the 52-word U.S. Preamble and join its entity We the People of the United States. The BESE member, like all U.S. citizens, individually interprets the U.S. preamble to order his or her fellow citizenship in the USA.

Governor Edwards might readily accept the U.S. Preamble’s proposition: living families and individuals establish 5 public disciplines to assure liberty to grandchildren and beyond. By all means, business would benefit from a system that encourages students to acquire the understanding to enter young adulthood with the intent and skills to live a complete human life. Accepting the change from “education” to “encouragement” is timely for the EBRP School board, too.

Teachers and other public school professionals would be inspired by the professional relief from attempting to inform students for a future the teachers cannot imagine to encouraging students to accept human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than drift into infidelity to the-literal-truth.

The future LSU president might have vested interest in a 2031 majority freshman class with the comprehension and intention to live a complete human life developing civic integrity. The governor's new education policy advisor, Richard Hartley, might be instrumental in achievable Louisiana reform to student futures as adult satisfactions.

HIPEA may be accepted by every human person. So far, no culture encourages their young to discover HIPEA and use it to develop integrity rather than for crime or worse. Students who benefitted from encouragement to responsible human liberty would recall it as the greatest reform in American history. However, most adults have neither discovered nor accept HIPEA, and are in no psychology to encourage the young. Therefore, the Department of Human Encouragement would need to focus on adults, too, for a generation or more.

Right away, Louisiana would teach and promote some principles that have been around for more than 2400 years. In my views, 1) a civic person neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from anyone, 2) civic people connect to develop equity under statutory justice, and 3) a civic culture constrains dissident fellow citizens until they reform, incarcerates criminals, and terminates traitors. Of course, there is much more, and it is hard to take!

The essence of the above proposals have been around since September 12, 1787, when the U.S. Constitutional Convention’s Committee of Style revised the draft U.S. Preamble to propose 5 public disciplines in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens and their posterity. In the continuum since then, we are the “ourselves” and may choose to be of the entity We the People of the United States.

An achievable better future is imminent to Louisiana if the 2020 Legislature will reform to encourage responsible human liberty as proposed in the U.S. Preamble. Considering an achievable better future is not attractive to people who benefit from persuading the young to wait for government or whatever-God-is to establish responsible human liberty. It is time to accept that only civic adults can establish integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity so as to encourage responsible human liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

Columns

Self-contradiction seems to be a viable business plan (The Advocate) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_9ac9a6f6-3618-11ea-9348-db0129286190.html)

Yesterday, The Advocate complained LSU “academic programs languish” and cheered “Go Tigers” against “Geaux Tigers.”

Today, The Advocate online captions “Our Tigers are sensational and their university deserves our best.”

Why “their university” in The Advocate’s view? I graduated from the University of Tennessee, but as a Baton Rouge, Louisianan since 1967, I attended LSU for chemical engineering, writing, and Jack Hamilton’s philosophy course. Benefits of my Master-Card use go to the LSU alumni association.

But the egregious The Advocate view is that state revenue obfuscations (for example, TOPS vs direct support) rather than better management is good for “their university.” The Advocate seems to be a dissident or alien to We the People of the United States, especially U.S. citizens who live in Louisiana.

Does The Advocate understand the contradiction in “trim back tax breaks” and “the best we can give them”? Our “young people deserve” to enter young adulthood without debt to make “affluent” adults feel good. Currently, the national debt is at $23 trillion and increasing $1 trillion/year. At 4 million/year, newborns each face an increasing $7 million debt. Failing infrastructure adds to the debt, and increasing national, state, and local government budgets exacerbates the doom.

Over the last 6 years at EBRP public library meetings about 70 contributors have iteratively discussed the civic, civil, and legal proposition that is offered to citizens in the U.S. Preamble. The literal preamble invites 5 public disciplines to develop responsible human liberty. The object of the proposition is “Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” In the timeline since 1788, the “ourselves” is the continuum of individuals and families. For our generation, “our Posterity” includes ourselves’ future grandchildren.

Writers often claim “we, the people” are responsible for the decline in U.S. safety and security. However, since 1789, political regimes have falsely labeled the U.S. Preamble “secular” whereas it is neutral to religion. If the press had any journalists, one would have discovered and promoted the U.S. Preamble’s civic, civil, and legal proposition in less than 232 years. Now, this articulation is widely published worldwide in my four blogs and beyond, so "discovery" is no longer available.

Nevertheless, The Advocate could consider and promote Responsible Human Liberty Day in Baton Rouge, 2020. We will commemorate (for the 7th consecutive year) the June 21, 1788 ratification of the U.S. Preamble with its amendable articles that support the proposition. The U.S. Preamble proposes 5 public disciplines of by and for responsible human liberty to each living citizen.

Meanwhile, vote “no” on The Advocate’s tax proposals: Our posterity’s national debt is exacerbated by un-maintained infrastructure, state deficiencies, and local liabilities. We must unburden our posterity before their liberty is undone for our satisfactions.

To The Advocate: please consider joining We the People of the United States rather than promoting social democracy.

Second post:

The more I thought about it the more demeaning I found The Advocate’s view: “Hollering for a football team is good fun. Building lasting opportunity is hard work.”

Speaking for myself, Geaux Tigers and shame on The Advocate.

I work night and day to promote consideration of the U.S. Preamble; globally. I speculate that some citizens, American or not, have their interpretation and develop personal civic integrity according to their view.

To some citizens, the possibility that the U.S. Preamble proposes responsible human liberty encouraged by 5 public disciplines that exclude religion, race, ethnicity, and gender (or a more promising interpretation The Advocate could have discovered) is hard to take.

Shame on the press for helping political regimes hide the U.S. Preamble’s civic, civil, and legal power for 232 years!

Press-whining without proposing concrete solutions seems to be a viable business plan (The Advocate) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_07405502-326b-11ea-8096-4bc8eba23b97.html)

My hometown newspaper continually avoids responsible human liberty. The caption “LSU game offers respite from politics,” could have been accepted. But The Advocate can’t seem to get the clue that whining without proposing solutions is weak.

On the way to LSU “[Geaux] Tigers”, The Advocate poked the entity We the People of the United States with the editor’s concerns: 1) We the People of Louisiana funding football but not academics; 2) government officials’ egocentric perks taken from We the People of the United States; 3) unbelievable politics in foreign countries, unconstitutional impeachment by the Democrats, and 4 more years’ privation under John Bell Edwards; and 4) the editors’ dissatisfaction with public life beyond preferred sports venues.

I like to watch skateboarders. Theirs’s is a hobby of extreme, individual discipline. I hope to ride my board someday. From their example I came to realize that Abraham Lincoln missed correcting the European oppressive “consent of the governed” when Lincoln, perhaps misinterpreting the U.S. Preamble said “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Perhaps discipline did not occur to Lincoln. Skateboarders suggest “discipline of by and for the skateboarder.”

The U.S. Preamble states a proposition, created by the September 1787 Committee of Style, perhaps to reflect the debates in the Philadelphia convention. In my view, We the People of the United States voluntarily consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to establish and maintain 5 public disciplines—integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity—in order to exemplify and encourage responsible human liberty to individual living citizens.

I have never read The Advocate’s interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition but would like to. Also, I would like to see The Advocate, Mayor Broome, and Governor Ewards promote Responsible Human Liberty Day each June 21, commemorating nine states ratifying the 1787 U.S. Constitution. The 9 of 13 states established the USA as a global nation with 4 dissident free and independent global states eligible to join. Two joined before operations began on March 4, 1789.

I contend that The Advocate has yet to join We the People of the United States as specified in the U.S. Preamble and interpreted by The Advocate.

Anyone who decides to consider the U.S. Preamble does well to start with the timeline of history and the preamble’s object “ourselves and our Posterity.” After 12 generations, our living families constitute the current “ourselves” and future grandchildren are among “our Posterity.” We owe them an increasing $23 trillion.

Geaux Tigers.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-integrity-and-probity

I think probity is mastery of and fidelity to a doctrine or civilization or such. For example, it is believed that mastery of The Holy Bible as interpreted under Church Doctrine grants the Pope infallibility.

Integrity is the practice of accepting a personal concern, doing the work to discover it is not a mirage, learning how to benefit from the discovery, behaving for the benefit, sharing the practice with fellow citizens and collaborating on any improvements they notice, and remaining open-minded to new discovery that demands reform of the behavior. For example, a person may honestly hope his or her theism is worthy yet remain humble to whatever-God-is.

If so, he or she may be practicing both religious probity and civic integrity; in other words, practicing responsible human liberty.

https://www.quora.com/What-would-it-take-for-you-to-admit-that-your-political-opinions-are-wrong?

Ineluctable evidence.

https://www.quora.com/Is-equality-a-principle?

I think human equality is a false premise.

Every human ovum is unique, and its singularity is not reduced by either insemination or gestation.

Each newborn is in a unique community, especially if in his or her biological family.

Very few if any humans spend their first two to three decades with encouragement and coaching to accept the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than drift into infidelity to the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth.

Most humans essentially waste their HIPEA. Discovering and accepting HIPEA is critical to living a complete human life.

https://www.quora.com/Is-being-tolerant-a-good-thing?

While intolerance is useful, I doubt tolerance in any practice I considered. The human who observes harm to another human ought to object to the offender and report the incident to the proper authority. If attack is involved, the attacked ought to have and use enough strength (perhaps psychological rather than physical) to stop the intended offense.

When I was a Christian, I perceived that non-Christians were tolerating my bid to “share” Jesus or “Jesus’ love.” It did not take me long to appreciate their civic honesty, and later I recognized that integrity required them to speak. One good friend did so: He said, “Are you certain?”

When a good friend invited me to a silent retreat to expose me to the one true religion, I noticed that some regular retreatants tolerated talk.

When a good friend invited me to participate in a Unitarian function with public invitees, I eventually presented a play about the importance of not tolerating tolerance, even though one of the four flags out front featured “Tolerance.”

The problem with being tolerant is that you must establish to the other party that you own the-literal-truth. Most fellow citizens recognize that claim is normally false and always false regarding unknowns. Yes, the earth is like a globe and not flat. But almost everybody holds that to be the-objective-truth, which, although unlikely in this case, could change with new discovery.

Most fellow citizens understand that the mystery of whatever-God-is may be known by whatever-God-is, and neither a human nor a human institution has the higher opinion about what-God-may-be. Every human can be intolerant of religious tolerance and require civic integrity rather than honesty.

https://www.quora.com/Is-freedom-of-thought-the-ultimate-form-of-liberation?

To the extent that a person has the freedom-from both external and internal constraints so as to have the liberty-to think open-mindedly, I can see freedom of thought as the ultimate form of liberation. Here are a few more thoughts:

Freedom from the-literal-truth is accomplished by acceptance. For example, a person is not free to think the earth is flat.

Freedom from the-objective-truth is accomplished by awareness. For example, a person is neither an atheist nor a theist.

Freedom from appetite or coercion is accomplished by self-discipline.

Freedom from force is accomplished by either strength against injustice or compliance to justice.

https://www.quora.com/In-a-moral-civilized-humane-society-shouldn-t-public-welfare-be-increased-by-redistributing-surplus-until-all-needs-deficits-are-eliminated-Nobody-the-needless-deserves-more-than-they-need-while-there-exists-need?

Consider a culture where the young learned Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as responsibilities. Some people would develop civic integrity—responsible human liberty. Some would not be able to develop should receive assistance. Other people would prefer irresponsibility and ought to live with their preference. Among the irresponsible citizens, the ones who harm fellow citizens should be constrained until they actually reform.

To Carl Leitz:

You have quite a list of assertions. Thank you. Let me express my view of a few.

“We are a failure as a species as are all living organisms.” The ultimate human being has not yet evolved. However, the species is unique in awareness and development of grammar. We have no idea how far responsible human liberty may take humanity.

“Humans are a mere millions years old,” and the leading-edge faction pursues the-objective-truth unless the-literal-truth is evident. The mystery “whatever-God-is” has not been solved.

“You mention responsibility yet are inevitably irresponsible like all organisms when unaware.” Integrity is a practice. The human accepts a concern and does the research to discover whether or not the concern is a mirage. If not, he or she does the work to understand how to benefit from the discovery. He or she behaves according to the understanding and shares the discovery with concerned fellow citizens, listening for improvements on the understanding. Further, he or she remains open-minded to new discovery that requires a behavioral change and then shares the new understanding with concerned citizens. The human can neither research a concern he or she has not had nor be liable for the lack of concern. For example, a new born does not fear his or her origins. However, care givers can inculcate fears that the care giver holds. If the new born accepts the fear, he or she may never suspect the care taker. The new born cannot be held liable for never suspecting the care taker’s error or tyranny. The fear of God is inculcated in this erroneous process.

“We humans deny one another the ability to avoid irresponsibility.” Each human has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity (the practice described above). The person who allows another to dissuade HIPEA never accepted his or her humanity. It is important for each person to realize: I am a human being; with that thought, he or she may discover HIPEA. If these principles were promoted, leading-edge human performance might increase exponentially.

“Economics is destructive (consumption) while nature is constructive (production).” The obsolete European dichotomy nature vs reason obfuscates physics, the study of the ineluctable evidence.

Physics is best expressed, perhaps, as E=mCsquared; energy and mass are interchangeable. However, the natural exchange is from energy to mass is downhill. That is, reversal requires energy, and the expenditure of energy is work. The expended energy is a loss (consumption) for the sake of changing the unfettered/downhill processes of physics.

Economics is the study of feasible work. A person must eat for the energy to work. If the work is not productive, he or she cannot sustain the work.

With these principles it seems evident that the earth cannot sustain the work that is being spent. But that does not infer that more work would restore the earth. It seems to me the options are to either repress human progress or colonize a new planet. I think we are working on the latter option, not because people are selfish, but that they want to live.

Viable living or economic discipline is part of responsible human liberty.

To Carl Leitz again:

Carl, I appreciate the kind words about my ability to read your ideas. Moreover, I appreciate the ideas and don’t yet know their impact on my work. I perceive quoting “In essence we humans are no different than a microorganism with a few nano seconds life span,” perhaps in paraphrase and with reference to Carl Leitz.

I also like “Hard to take, huh?” It reminds me of the 5 uses of “shocking” in my email yesterday to my U.S. Senator John Kennedy requesting a meeting for him to hear my proposal that the U.S. Senate begin each session with recitation of the U.S. Preamble verbatim but with each Senator’s interpretation in his or her mind. The literal meaning of the U.S. Preamble is shocking!

I host public library meetings to promote the civic, civil, and legal proposition that is offered in the U.S. Preamble. In the past few months, my decade-old, continually-improved interpretation as a result of listening to fellow citizens is, today: We the People of the United States voluntarily consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to establish and maintain 5 public disciplines—integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity—in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens.

In the past few weeks I have discovered that this interpretation (and perhaps the literal U.S. Preamble) offers standards for neither the disciplines nor the liberty. Perhaps the frequency and depth of both individual and collective responsible human liberty is the standard by which progress can be measured.

I think every citizen, whether American or not, owes it to self to consider the U.S. Preamble and interpret its proposition so as to guide the individual’s development of civic integrity if not integrity itself. I’d love to read your interpretation, both today and a decade from now.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-so-hard-to-dialogue-with-people-on-the-left-side-of-the-politics-spectrum?

Is your “political right” Christian? Judeo-Christian? African-American Christian? Other theist?

When I was a Christian, I found it hard to dialogue with Christians. For example, my Sunday school teacher, after 30 minutes discussing Psalm 51 said, “The poet was truly a Christian.” (I had been musing that the poet was earnestly trying to consign his responsibility to the Lord then bargain a whole bull---an ancient quid pro quo.)

I asked the teacher, “How, then, do you define a Christian?”

He responded, “A Christian is anyone who truly seeks God.”

I think that was my last Sunday school class, at age 52 or so. I had been struggling for 4 decades to squeeze my person into Mom’s Southern-Baptist faction that competed with Dad’s Southern Baptism.

I often tell my Louisiana-French Catholic wife of 50 years that she missed the homily about wives submitting themselves to husbands. She wryly responds, “There was no such homily.”

If two non-Christians overheard two Christians in sincere doctrinal dialogue the non-Christians might find it difficult to take the two Christian Gods seriously.

It seems the Christian has trouble accepting the human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to accept and develop responsible human liberty.

I think people are better off appreciating whatever-God-is and accepting the personal conviction, “I don’t know what I don’t know.”

Is your “political right” practicing responsible human liberty? If so, irresponsible people will be reluctant to talk.

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.