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

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

Reform the Department of Education to the Department of Human Encouragement.

It seems 2020 is a pivotal year for education in Louisiana, with two new superintendents needed and a governor bent on increases for adult satisfactions. Among the world’s educators, Louisiana ranks about 1100^th and seems proud of a single digit improvement over 20 years. Drastic reform from education by adults to effective encouragement of students is suggested.

News

An understandably unwanted opportunity for Louisiana, the 18^th state to join the USA (Will Sentell) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_6f6db510-37bc-11ea-a6b5-1bc14ac7b8c3.html)

It seems many events are coming together for a special time to reform Louisiana's Department of Education, for example, to the Department of Human Encouragement:  Adults cannot imagine children's future but can inform the children about integrity and fidelity to the-literal-truth. These changes would follow reform from the belief “that Louisiana students are just as capable as” America’s best to adult discipline that encourages students to accept responsible human liberty.

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.