Taking advantage of responsible human independence

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 interpretation of its proposal as follows: “We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to practice 5 public disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity so as to encourage both living fellow citizens and future citizens to take advantage of responsible human independence.” I want to improve my interpretation by listening to other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and 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

Taking advantage of responsible human independence

After 2 decades writing, speaking, meeting, and LISTENING, I am approaching an interpretation of the U.S. Preamble I want to share so that fellow citizens may kindly improve it:  We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to practice 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to encourage both living fellow citizens and future citizens to take advantage of responsible human independence.

I think taking advantage of public discipline so as to empower responsible human independence is the American dream that emerged from the 1787 Constitutional Convention. This American dream was abstractly captured in 52 words by the Committee of Style working from September 8 until September 12, 1787. The preamble’s civic, civil, and legal power is a wonder, and every citizens should own his or her individual interpretation by which to order his or her civic life while privately pursuing the spiritual afterdeath each prefers.

Once a supermajority of citizens own a personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble, We the People of the United States will hold politicians accountable to their published interpretations.

News

Dissidence to equity under the literal truth (Sam Karlin) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/coronavirus/article_ec7691d8-7b5c-11ea-becd-132e7ab42c80.html)

While Jerome Adams, Surgeon General of the United States, is urging fellow citizens not to practice community habits he grew up with, because they invite serious illness if combined with COVID-19, Governor John Bel Edwards seems race-baiting again.

I bet the task force will overlook a key variable: frequency of Mardi Gras parade attendance in 2020.



Columns



Was this The Advocate’s last advertising under a religious column? (Christopher Simon) (https://issuu.com/richlandcentershoppingnews/docs/oo0726, Page 6)

Will the column “Love and Belonging” be the last The Advocate will publish? I hope not, because it provides a great opportunity to argue for responsible human independence rather than reliance on spiritual traditions.

The point is, a civic people require separation of church and state and cannot rely on either whatever-God-is or civil government to fulfill the need. Whatever-God-is assigns to humankind the responsibility for statutory justice---the perfection of written law and its enforcement---and government cannot usurp the individual citizen’s civic, civil, and legal opportunity to develop integrity.

Many citizens complain about “political correctness” and “identity politics” without appreciating the American challenge to overcome English traditions. It’s true that the U.S., in the revolutionary war, and with France adding Yorktown, 1781, to its ongoing war with England, established the N. American eastern seaboard physical independence as 13 free states. However, when it came time for the 13 free and independent states to form a nation, England’s constitutional church-state partnership was a dominant tradition.

Even though Benjamin Franklin’s motion to open each session of the secretive 1787 Constitutional Convention with prayer did not receive a second, and even though the preamble to the U.S. Constitution contains no goal or purpose for religion, the First Congress, like adolescent parents who can’t imagine that their children are humans who are owed dignity and equity, imposed the English tradition by hiring factional-American ministers as “Congressional Chaplains.”

We the People of the United States as defined in the preamble have suffered “the Christian thing to do” ever since. Even the Civil War was a slave-state, white-Protestant attack on free-state-white-Protestant abolitionists. See the sentence about religious opinion in the 1860 Declaration of Secession by South Carolina (and the CSA of February, 1861).

Maslow’s hierarchy as viewed from the U.S. Preamble’s proposition for public discipline of by and for the people so as to encourage each citizen to develop responsible human independence becomes a hierarchy of responsibilities: unity, justice, tranquility, defence, and welfare in order to secure the advantages of responsible human independence. Nowhere in the U.S. Preamble is religion or spirituality mentioned, so the proposition is to treat them as private pursuits for citizens who wish to develop other worldly expectations. Since the U.S. Preamble does not accommodate English tradition, the politically correct identity group of 1787-1791 imposed on the U.S. Preamble the false label “secular.” The preamble is neutral to religion as an individual citizen’s private pursuit.

The U.S. Preamble turns “Love and Belonging” to a doctrine into “Appreciating and Encouraging” responsible human independence. I will always be ready to consider opinions that are imposed by the free and irresponsible press but will not search for Simon’s misguided identity politics.

A writer expressing proprietary hubris in Western obsolescence (George Will) (https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/columnists/george-will-its-anchors-aweigh-for-tomorrows-marines/article_8d502ae2-fefb-5a55-9129-1aa1feb485af.html)

Will seems to support intelligent design by an “it”. Einstein might say "the it" is physics, the object of discovery.

Most readers don’t take the time to decode a writer’s bemusement, so the writer is obliged to avoid proprietary language. Ironically, the writer must write what he or she thinks in language the reader can understand, not knowing if the reader is steeped in, for example, Lockean proprietary language. If the writer avoids proprietary language, the reader has the best chance of getting the message. Alas, writers too often write for a proprietary audience. Western readers are accustomed to dismissively wondering “what does that mean?”

Englishman John Locke (d. 1704) is still influential. To him, “The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it": reason. That implies “nature’s God is reason.” Americans of 1774 composed the phrase “Nature and Nature’s God.” Albert Einstein, in 1941, suggested that physics and its progeny---chemistry, mathematics, biology, psychology, and fiction---are governed by the same laws. Humankind uses reason to comprehend discovery of physics-and-its-progeny. There is no ineluctable evidence that Physics’ God does not exist. I doubt Will made that point. I think Will respected whatever-God-is by not addressing that entity.

Will wrote, “When nature designed [a particular person] it had [fidelity] in mind.” He personified “nature” and credited it with intelligent design. Considering Einstein’s suggestion that everything emerges from physics, we can assume that God created physics and reserve the humility that whatever-God-is may not agree.

I beg Will to write with accuracy to his own message rather than cling to proprietary Western scholarship. I hope to continue learning from him. This experience has already reformed my tendency to not appreciate other people’s unique paths to responsible human independence, and I thank Will for his role in that personal improvement.

A writer who seems lost in his struggle to be a journalist (George Will) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/crises-and-the-collectivist-temptation/2020/04/02/751241b8-74fa-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html)

The function of U.S. journalism is to record first the achievements of We the People of the United States (defined in the U.S. Preamble). The preamble specifies the 5 public disciplines to encourage each citizen to accept the advantages of responsible human independence.

Twenty years ago, Will might have been my nominee for “journalist” if I had then owned my interpretation of the U.S. Preamble. Slowly, I began to see his use of big words as bemusement against the responsibility of “freedom of the press.” Today, I urge Will to retire from writing, because his reversal to support “a free and open society” opposes We the People of the United States, who are grounded in the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth.

In this column, Will contorts the opportunity to write for public encouragement rather than personal amusement. In my next paragraph, I interpret a message Will hid from himself with cute presence.

Pandemic-motivated physical distancing ironically increased civic, civil, and legal appreciation and may forever be recalled with cheerful alternatives to handshaking and more. It may increase appreciation of the personal responsibility that human individualism demands.

Will notes “the American idea: the pursuit of happiness as each defines it” without appreciating the U.S. Preamble’s proposition: civic, civil, and legal mutuality.

After citing too many issues against and for President Trump’s administrative excellence, Will expresses his dream for “a permanent basis for a free and open society.” He doesn’t seem to consider or accept that the U.S. Preamble proposes five disciplines of by and for the people---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage living citizens to take advantage of responsible human liberty.

I regret five decades of loyalty to the writer George Will, bemused by word searches. In this column, “public bullying and minatory government” required me to learn that “minatory” means “menacing.” I once thought I was expanding my vocabulary but now realize I was a victim of Will’s bemusements. During all that time, Will’s responsibility under the First Amendment was to encourage and coach me to establish my interpretation of the U.S. Preamble so as to order my civic, civil, and legal life while pursuing the spiritualisms Mom and Dad wanted me to have in competition with my innate attraction to responsible human independence.

Alas, journalism fails the First Amendment’s expectations by turning abstract writers into wealthy distractions. Like the three branches of federal government, the press requires limitations by the rule of law.

Posted at the above URL, perhaps accepted.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Does-a-government-owe-a-person-You-were-made-without-the-government?

This is a well stated principle: realize you are a human being in the world and among the fellow citizens of your locale. Choose to accept both humanity and citizenship without trying to consign your unique opportunity to live.

Having been born in the world rather than in space, what does it mean to be a human being, and do your accept that your species has the powerful combination of acute awareness and grammar? Have you even considered the human power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than tolerate infidelity let alone accepted HIPEA? Do you expect whatever-God-is or a government to fulfill what is obviously a civic, civil, and legal obligation humankind has developed in some 3 million years of physical, psychological, and cultural evolution? After some 10 trillion man years of development, do you expect humankind to approach statutory justice during your perhaps 80 man-years? What is the standard by which humankind develops? Is it mystery, or reason, or physics and its progeny? Do you hold your government accountable to ineluctable evidence?

Has your nation of people accepted the proposition human equity under statutory justice? Is justice determined by physics, which is discovered by comprehending ineluctable evidence rather than by repeating erroneous law? Do you own your interpretation of your nation’s compact for pursuing statutory justice? Does the person who assumes rights without responsibilities qualify as a fellow citizen? Should the nation encourage every fellow citizen to earn his or her interpretation of the citizens’ agreement so as to order his or her civic, civil, and legal life while pursuing whatever spirituality or none appeals to the individual?

If a U.S. citizen, is the preamble to the U.S. Constitution the fellow-citizens’ civic, civil, and legal compact? Should the U.S. citizen try to preserve English tradition or amend injustices against the U.S. Preamble’s proposition? Should each citizen share his or her interpretation of the U.S. Preamble so that fellow citizens may offer improvements?

My current interpretation is:  We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to practice 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to encourage both living fellow citizens and future citizens to take advantage of responsible human independence.

I think this people’s proposition offers an achievable better future both in the U.S. and in the world. The people who accept their opportunity to live in responsible human independence are known by appreciation from fellow citizens, whether locally or globally.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-power-How-does-the-concept-of-power-related-to-the-concept-of-volition?

Merriam-Webster online controversially says “volition” means “the power of choosing or determining.” A person can choose a God but cannot determine the character of whatever-God-is.

Every human being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to choose between either developing integrity to the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth or tolerating infidelities such as banality. Some people don’t accept being human let along having their unique HIPEA. And few understand that integrity is the process of admitting you don’t know until you comprehend discovered ineluctable evidence; in other words, the-objective-truth. Improved instruments of perception are employed to improve the-objective-truth perhaps to approach the-literal-truth.

Among the people who accept both being human and HIPEA, few practice integrity. People who practice integrity have various levels of power over persons who do not take the volition of developing their humanity, their HIPEA, and their integrity.

As an example, it seems Adam Schiff by his own volition seeded power to Patrick Philbin, who dispassionately stated facts.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Is-justice-a-political-or-legal-conception?

I think it derives from human individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to establish integrity rather than tolerate infidelity to the-literal-truth. Thus, it is human pursuit of mutual, comprehensive safety and security: neither political nor legal; maybe both.

A Greek suggested the human concept as I see it 2,400 years ago, and he was probably commenting on earlier thought: citizens my develop equity under statutory justice, where the ineluctable evidence is the standard for justice.

Statutory justice is the perfection of written law and its enforcement. When citizens live under statutory justice, each one receives according to publicly wanted achievements. Those who contribute more get more and those who are dissident to achievement get nothing. Those who are incapacitated are helped to become strong. Dissidents are encouraged to reform.

These principles are plain to most people. However, since no culture encourages or coaches its youth to accept their humanity, most citizens are in conflict with themselves for life. The few who accept their HIPEA are aware of the public deception, and only a dreamer would imagine reform.

https://www.quora.com/How-and-why-do-politics-impact-the-way-we-process-information-and-oftentimes-make-us-irrational?

The human individual is the most powerful of all the living entities. Also, humankind is exponentially progressing in physics and its progeny (mathematics, chemistry, biology, psychology, and fiction). However, progress in comprehension is lagging. Let me explain.

While the fold stands in an hour and sucks its mom’s teat in perhaps 3 hours, the human being must be helped to nourishment and stands in about a year. If the unique newborn infant discovers he or she may become a person, he or she takes charge of his or her acquisition of the comprehension and intention to live a complete human life. Perhaps he or she will discover human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to either develop integrity or tolerate infidelity to the-objective-truth (the discovered and understood ineluctable evidence).

However, most cultures inculcate their young to yearn for reliable higher power---whatever-God-is, government, or a church-government partnership. Thereby, the individual never discovers and accepts being human, having HIPEA, or the opportunity to develop integrity.

Human psychology is so powerful that the attachments built by age 3 can indoctrinate by age 7 and become a self-indoctrination by puberty. Therefore, sometime in the mid-teens, the individual must begin to establish self-reliance and respond to the evidence that whatever-God-is assigned to humans the responsibility for human independence; that is, the mutual pursuit of individual happiness with civic integrity. If the individual does not establish integrity as a self-interest, he or she will remain in conflict with the early inculcation imposed by care takers and community.

For this reason, departments of education must be reformed to departments to encourage responsible human independence.

These ideas are not mine alone. They are the consequence of public library meeting now in the 7^th year to encourage fellow citizens to own a personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble so as to order their civic, civil, and legal living while pursuing the spirituality/religion of their choice (or none).

I share my interpretation hoping someone will improve it, as in the past. Today, it is:   We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to practice 5 public disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity so as to encourage both living citizens and future citizens to take advantage of responsible human independence.

My interpretation of the U.S. Preamble is among my prized possessions, and I encourage every citizen to own theirs.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-will-it-help-and-ensure-the-poor-has-access-to-justice-as-the-equal-gender-with-equal-rights-and-respect-in-the-society-or-he-she-has-been-heard?

Every human person came from a unique ovum in a unique woman’s body and the ovum was fertilized by a unique spermatozoon from a unique man. The resulting conception follows a unique path so as to either accept or reject being human. If accepting, he or she may then accept or reject individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or appetites. Nourishing appetites leads to infidelity or an incomplete human person. Reform can happen anytime. None of these developments can possibly turn the unique human into an equal entity.

Every fellow citizen can be appreciated as a person who is subject to the constraints of physics and its progeny such as mathematics, chemistry, biology, psychology, and fiction. The civic citizens pursues equity under statutory justice, and by young adulthood is aware of his culture’s civic proposition.

In the U.S., this proposition is stated in the U.S. Preamble, an abstract 52-word sentence each citizen may interpret for self-interest or not. The citizen’s interpretation is precious property by which he or she may order civic, civil, and legal living while privately pursuing spirituality/religion, or not.

A citizen who owns an interpretation of the U.S. Preamble is due civic appreciation, and if the interpretation accommodates fellow citizens’ pursuit of individual happiness with civic integrity, he or she is due human respect.

I hope to witness of majority of fellow citizens developing these principles during 2020 and beyond.



https://www.quora.com/What-is-freedom-What-is-the-difference-between-positive-and-negative-freedom?

The search https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=positive+freedom yields 1473 documents. The second URL covers your topic under “liberty” but citing “freedom.”

I try to use the two words with the distinction “freedom-from” (oppression or internal constrain) and “liberty-to” (pursue individual happiness and civic integrity). Perhaps my first hyphenated phrase represents the negative and the second the positive. I do so to avoid Lockean use of freedom and liberty perhaps interchangeably to any non-proprietary reader.

After accepting that each the 1689 English Revolution, the 1774 American Revolution, and the 1789 French Revolution motivated the shedding of blood, I acquired a preference for “independence” rather than “liberty,” especially with the modifier “responsible human . . . “ wherein “liberty” seems to create an oxymoron, in particular when it is taken as license.

Applying all these thoughts, my interpretation of the U.S. Preamble is: U.S. citizens may develop 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength and prosperity---in order to encourage individual fellow citizens to take advantage of responsible human independence. This is a proposition for freedom-from public license so as to encourage independence-to oppose private excess.

What do you think the difference is?

https://www.quora.com/Is-one-country-smarter-than-the-world?

I think so. However, that nation of people has not yet emerged.

https://www.quora.com/What-do-engineers-fear?

Too many fellow citizens don’t develop appreciation-for and humility-toward whatever-God-is.

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-United-States-lacking-leadership?

Yes. However, Donald Trump may establish U.S. psychology after 232 years of repression.

The goals and purpose of the U.S. are stated in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution: five public disciplines---unity, justice tranquility, defense, and welfare---in order to encourage living citizens to take advantage of responsible human independence.

Every citizen is free to interpret the U.S. Preamble so as to order his or her civic, civil, and legal living while pursuing the motivation and inspiration of his or her individual choice.

While it is true that political regimes repress the U.S. Preamble’s civic, civil, and legal power, the civic citizen may discover that the preamble is not a secular sentence. And he or she cannot consign the personal self-interest in doing the work to interpret those abstract 52 words. Once a citizen owns his or her interpretation, it become precious personal property to be shared with fellow citizens to learn from them ways to improve personal civic life while developing appreciation-of and humility-toward whatever-God-is.

Neither whatever-God-is nor government leaders will usurp the citizen’s opportunity to take advantage of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition: responsible human independence.

https://www.quora.com/To-what-extent-do-you-agree-or-disagree-with-the-following-and-why-Learning-should-be-done-mostly-in-the-classroom?

Restricting learning to the classroom, especially if it is homeschooling, is a tyranny against the viable ova each woman produces. I am anxious to encourage students to take charge of their opportunity to develop integrity. (See my essay “Child Incentives Brief.”) Humans cannot be taught the experiences and observations they will have in the future.

In the first place, students are born to discover, develop, and practice responsible human independence, and the teacher has no idea the future the student faces. The teacher only struggles to understand what humankind has learned before the present and has no ability to predict the future. Also, under current political regimes it is unlikely that the teacher is aware of the U.S. Preamble’s proposal for responsible human independence. Negligence of the U.S. Preamble’s people’s proposition for discipline is especially dominant in European countries. Education departments need to be retitled and reformed to encourage students to comprehend, intend, and practice integrity. Integrity is not on the radar of the Education Department.

Education’s deficiency is evident in the half-century dominance of social-democracy professors at the college level. The consequence is an American faction that expects to be taken care of by either their God or their government and have never discovered the opportunity to develop responsible human independence. It seems self-evident that whatever-God-is assigned responsible human independence to humankind.

Students need to discover and accept that each person may be a human being. That is, a person with the awareness and grammar by which to develop human equity under statutory justice. It takes at least 2 to 3 decades for a newborn to acquire the comprehension and intention to live a complete human life. The human person has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) with which to choose between integrity to the-literal-truth (often admitting the-literal-truth is unknown) rather than infidelity. Consequently, the civic citizen reserves a humility toward whatever-God-is rather than civically, civilly, or legally imposing their personal God on fellow citizens. The Department of Human Encouragement coaches youth and adults to use HPEA to develop integrity rather than tolerate infidelity.

I encourage every human to consider the U.S. Preamble and interpret its proposition for public discipline so as to order his or her civic, civil, and legal life while pursuing the spirituality or religion he or she wants. The object, “ourselves and our Posterity” is the current generation.

I share my latest interpretation hoping a reader will either negatively or positively suggest an improvement. My interpretation, my precious property, is:  We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to practice 5 public disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity so as to encourage both living citizens and future fellow citizens to practice responsible human independence.

I hope to observe this or better reforms happening so as to facilitate an achievable better future.



https://www.quora.com/Should-freedom-of-speech-include-allowing-teens-to-share-their-opinions-in-school-newspapers?

I think so.

Opinion has to be earned, and there’s no better enricher than contemporary fellow citizens’ reactions. Furthermore, teens are exploring the-objective-truth before their bodies have completed the wisdom parts of their brains yet are in the prime of ability to retain experiences and observations.

Expressing an opinion for peer consideration is like a mirror: your assumptions and errors reflect as your words are expressed. And the verity or falsity of a peer’s response is immediately obvious to you. If falsity, it is the peer’s opportunity to earn better opinion if not the-objective-truth he or she opposed.

What do you think?

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-your-favorite-quote-from-the-leader-of-your-country?

After a negotiation:  “We’ll see how it turns out.”

https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-change-what-people-believe-aka-the-culture-especially-in-politics-voting?

I don’t know but think it is by writing what you think and appreciating any criticism you receive. I encounter stonewalling more than apathy.

I have been working for 2 decades to promote the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, which I call the U.S. Preamble.

Seven years ago, I started public meetings at libraries and soon realized that I needed to present my concern and a proposed remedy, then listen to the participants. It’s an iterative exchange to clarify each other’s views. As a consequence my “appreciations page” lists about 70 people who influenced my latest interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s civic, civil, and legal proposition: We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to practice 5 public disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity so as to encourage both living citizens and future fellow citizens to practice responsible human independence.

I oppose the license, anarchy, and bloodletting some people associate with liberty. I also oppose any claim that I am not humble to whatever-God-is. However, I do want to improve my interpretation of the U.S. Preamble.

I plan to host the 7th annual June 21 celebration of the 9-states’ ratification of the U.S. Preamble and the Articles that support it in 1788. Two of four dissident states joined the USA before operations began on March 4, 1789. Congress began to re-establish colonial-British American tradition. Congress repressed the U.S. Preamble by falsely labeling it “secular,” and it’s been that way ever since. This years celebration is called “Responsible Human Independence Day,” and that may be a permanent title.

The U.S. Preamble prudently assigns spirituality and religion to individual privacy rather than public discipline. Civic citizens reserve humility toward whatever-God-is regarding civic concerns even though believers trust their personal Gods to fulfill their vision for afterdeath.

Everyday, I hope someone will join my preamble-promoting team. No one does. My Baton Rouge and Louisiana political representatives don’t even care to listen to the story. I wish each of them owned their personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble and used it to guide their civic, civil, and legal votes. Perhaps they don’t like the public disciplines required to claim membership in We the People of the United States as proposed in their interpretations of the U.S. Preamble. By all means, some politicians like to pretend divinity through ceremonial prayer and then follow with unconstitutional votes.

It’s OK, though. My interpretation of the U.S. Preamble is precious personal property that has changed my past bemusement to well-grounded articulation of my life-style.

I now understand that the U.S. Preamble offers fellow citizens the opportunity to develop integrity rather than “freedom of religion,” and that articulation begs an audience.

https://www.quora.com/Can-equality-and-freedom-coexist/answer/Phil-Beaver-1

To Leland R. Beaumont:

I agree with your health-care concerns and think the education system needs reform before citizens can be held responsible for personal health.

Departments of Education can be renamed and reorganized to accept that this generation’s knowledge is obsolete for the next generation. Therefore, the student should be encouraged an coached in acceptances, perhaps including the following:

The human being is the only species with the awareness and grammar by which to develop integrity to the-literal-truth, most of which is unknown. Thus, the civic citizen’s position is often “I don’t know” but hope . . .

The human person has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity to the_literal-truth or infidelity. Integrity is in the person’s self-interest.

Integrity is the practice of accepting “I don’t know” until the ineluctable evidence is discovered, comprehended, and its best use is understood and practiced.

Each citizen has personal hopes and comforts and a reserve of humility toward whatever-God-is.

During the first 2 to 3 decades, the human has not the completed brain with which to accumulate wisdom, so responsible human independence may not be expected until the mid 30s or beyond. A career of service to fellow citizens in some capacity serves the person in developing civic integrity that may be shared in retirement.

I hope we begin to see such reforms in our lifetimes.



https://www.quora.com/In-the-era-of-economic-sociopolitical-and-cultural-globalization-what-does-community-mean-to-you-and-how-does-it-contribute-to-your-own-development-as-a-world-citizen?

I’ve lived in the same community in Baton Rouge, LA, USA for over 50 years. Meanwhile, I traveled the country and parts of Europe, living in Greece for 16 months.

It was humbling for an East Tennessee Southern Baptist boy to explore paths Paul, the author of many erroneous opinions, walked. It helped me eventually treasure my Louisiana-Catholic wife’s faith for her, our children’s faiths for themselves, and my faith in the-literal-truth, most of which is unknown. I would not dare try to master anyone’s religion.

My experiences and observations suggest that most people want human equity under statutory justice and almost no one would articulate that want. Those with that want accept that the world is conflicted by people who have not considered equity let alone justice. Many people think crime pays; and worse.

However, that does not restrict me from developing my person. I have discovered that developing integrity is in my self-interest: if I think my actions can bring harm, I retreat for review and perhaps change. By reading and interpreting according to my experiences and observations, I discover that old ideas have new applications. For example, Agathon’s opinion about Eros’ character can be interpreted like this:  A civic citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or association. After this interpretation, I started cautioning against racial slurs. In another example, Einstein’s claim that science and ethics come from the same place can be interpreted:  Psychology comes from physics.

I think citizens of the world have in common the need and desire for mutual, comprehensive safety and security (MCSS). That implies the opportunity to choose a career that pays enough for human living including saving 2/3 of income so as to accumulate the wealth to retire at 2/3 of the peak lifestyle, or the better statement an economist would make. Accommodating another citizen’s MCSS does not require me to disrespect the privacy of his or her life. I can develop integrity and let live.

Therefore, by work I earn the lifestyle I live and practice civic integrity. I expect other citizens to do the same and risk law enforcement if not. However, fellow citizens will not answer questions by me unless we agree to visit. I just love talking to people and appreciate each one no matter where they are on their unique paths to their psychological maturity. I do not need to know their customs.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-feel-about-a-system-where-power-goes-to-the-people?

I think this is the way it must be with one constraint: the people must be in agreement that citizens pursue equity under statutory justice according to the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth and hold their representative accountable to participation as a fellow citizen rather than as a dissident.

In my interpretation of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution the above proposition is offered fellow citizens. Each one is free to ignore/oppose the proposition and thereby risk subjugation to written law and its enforcement until statutory justice is discovered.

https://www.quora.com/Hey-political-junkies-on-Quora-what-ideas-do-you-hold-that-are-central-to-both-your-political-and-personal-views-about-life-To-what-degree-are-these-ideas-fixed-or-evolving?

I accept that I am a human being. Thus, I am among the individually unique beings with the awareness and grammar by which to develop integrity to the-literal-truth.

As a human, I have the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) by which to develop either integrity or infidelity. I choose integrity, low as I may be. Consequently, I pursue personal happiness with civic integrity rather than accept the conditions someone or an institution would impose.

I cannot consign my HIPEA yet reserve humility toward whatever-God-may be.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Whats-worth-fighting-for-as-a-society?

Every U.S. citizen should own a personal interpretation of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution and use it to order their civic integrity while pursing the spirituality or religion they choose. If so, they would consider their interpretation a precious personal property.

I share my interpretation so as to hear fellow citizens’ criticisms so as to improve my behavior if I agree.

Since 1787, political regimes have suppressed the U.S. Preamble’s proposition for public discipline so as to encourage responsible human liberty by labeling the preamble “secular.” The preamble is neutral to religion and thereby assigns it and spirituality to private discipline rather than fruitlessly attempt to consign them to public integrity.

A reserve of humility toward whatever-God-is may be appreciated by the individual.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Under-what-stipulations-is-it-required-to-consider-anothers-speech-as-legally-equal-How-is-legally-equivalent-speech-defined?

About 2,400 years ago Pericles suggested that humans may develop equity under statutory justice. Fellow citizens who mutually argue for their individual, equitable self-interests under written law and its enforcement are behaving as responsible human beings, each of which is unique.

It is in the two parties self-interest to behave equitably, so the “requirement” is self-imposed to citizens who are attracted to justice.

I doubt there is a legal system based on this principle, but the preamble to the U.S. Constitution offers the civic, civil, and legal proposition.

https://www.quora.com/Is-being-patriotic-a-necessary-part-of-our-core-values?

I think so.

A Greek, 2,400 years ago suggested that each human, although unique, may develop equity under statutory justice. A culture may encourage and coach such trust and commitment. If not, fellow citizens in that culture may lobby for an equal or better public agreement.

The U.S. offers such an agreement in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble).

Fellow citizens are able to interpret the U.S. Preamble for their personal use. I share my interpretation hoping for criticism by which I may improve my civic, civil, or legal behavior. My interpretation is:  We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to practice 5 public disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity so as to encourage both living citizens and future fellow citizens to practice responsible human independence.

I oppose license, anarchy, and bloodletting some people associate with liberty. I also oppose any claim that I am not humble to whatever-God-is.

I hope to improve the U.S. by persuading most citizens to practice the U.S. Preamble using the-objective-truth rather than dominant opinion. I’m fortunate to live in America, where fellow citizens can develop and encourage responsible human independence.

https://www.quora.com/When-did-you-lose-all-hope-in-your-country-s-leader?

In 2008 when Sen. Barack Obama would not reject Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s “flag-burning” speech.

https://www.quora.com/How-will-you-bring-about-cultural-social-and-political-change-in-society?

May I change some of the language to answer?

I work daily to encourage U.S. citizens to understand the civic, civil, and legal power of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble). Each citizen should earn by study his or her interpretation of the U.S. Preamble so as to guide his or her public life while privately pursuing any spirituality or religion he or she chooses. A personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble is precious, earned property.

I share my interpretation so as to learn from fellow citizens. Today, my interpretation is:  We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to practice 5 public disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity so as to encourage both living citizens and future fellow citizens to practice responsible human independence.

I oppose license, anarchy, and bloodletting some people associate with liberty. I also oppose any claim that I am not humble to whatever-God-is.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-liberal-administrators-and-students-no-longer-believe-in-freedom-of-speech-And-how-does-this-threaten-our-civil-rights?

Most human beings eventually understand that they are unique and would not want to be equal and that equity under statutory justice is in their self-interest. They develop responsible human independence. They accept that as a human being, they can pursue the happiness they want rather than submit to the happiness a fellow citizen or association would impose on them. Therefore, they observe written law and its enforcement and pay for the system of mutual safety and security.

Some fellow citizens have not psychologically matured enough to accept being human. The past 50 years’ public disruptions by Alinsky-Marxist organizations have unfortunately enslaved dependent, adolescent people, and some of them have become college professors. They abuse students by demanding allegiance for grades, friendship, and solidarity.

Consequently, many students never consider, much less accept, that they are human beings, a member of the most aware species due to the power of grammar. That power can be extinguished by not listening to fellow citizens.  A human may discover that he or she has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than belong to an AMO organization.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-we-not-let-money-define-us?

After completing formal education, whether that is high school or college, create a budget that pays all your bills and leaves 20% before tax for saving to invest for life.

Decide how diverse your investments should be by looking at various purchases---stock index funds, mutual funds, gold, silver, land, rental property, etc.---consider 25, 50 and 100 year periods and choose a distribution of your savings in your preferences. Learn how to manage your investments yourself. Do this in 5% of your free-time for life.

This is an old technique called “saving to invest.” It turns out 80% of your income will always be enough, and your growth in wealth will enable you to live freely for lifetime, and that’s all you need. Not caring what you can’t take with you is a good attitude.





https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-no-such-thing-as-a-classless-society?

I think human beings divide themselves on either acceptance or doubt of being human. A culture that encourages responsible human independence under the-literal-truth might gradually increase acceptance. Let me explain.

First, a newborn is not informed. First, he or she is a human being, the most aware and developed of the 55 million years’ evolutionary species called primates; https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9989-timeline-human-evolution/. Second, the child is unaware of the cultural dominance into which he or she was born; http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/history.html. Third, he or she is unaware of the family genes and memes represented by his or her four grandparents and that they were influenced by multiple cultures, perhaps not including the currently dominant culture.

A dominant consequence of cultural evolutions is that, so far, no civilization has encouraged and coached the human youth that he or she has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity to the-literal-truth, unknown as it may be, rather than tolerate infidelity.

Integrity is the practice of accepting ineluctable evidence so as to discover if a concern is grounded in the-literal-truth or not. Often, the evidence is only partially perceived and must be reviewed when better instruments are available. For example, from ground view the earth may seem flat, but from outer space it seems like a globe. With perseverance, discovery of the-objective-truth may comprehend the-literal-truth. It is in the individual’s self-interest to accept “I do not know,” when that is so.

For example, the question, “Is there an entity that controls all events in the universe?” it is prudent to accept “I do not know.” On the other hand, there is no harm in believing in an entity as long as there is a reserve of appreciation for whatever may be in control. Thus, “whatever-God-is” may accept acceptance more than human construct and doctrine.

Persons who accept being human often discover that they pursue equity under statutory justice. Statutory justice is the perfection of written law and its enforcement, and it may be more approachable than achievable. Equity takes into account that no two human ova are equal and next stages are contingent on care taken: neither conception, gestation, delivery, rearing, institutional education, nor acceptance of HIPEA reduces the uniqueness of the human person.

Lastly, humans divide themselves on acceptance or rejection of responsible human independence. The person who accepts being human observes that lifestyles are earned and responds by taking charge of his or her responsibilities. Importantly, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs may be re-thought as a hierarchy of responsibilities. The moment the individual senses developing dependence, he or she increases the effort to re-establish independence with civic integrity. By “civic integrity” I mean without decreasing a fellow citizen’s independence. On this principle, fellow citizens who think crime pays don’t recognize that they are dependent on weak fellow citizens. If most fellow citizens have the strength to resist crime, the criminal starves.

We live with an achievable better future any time a supermajority of fellow citizens, say 2/3, accept that responsible human independence is in their self-interest. As I view it, this is the purpose of the public disciplines that are listed in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

It is in every fellow citizen’s best interest to earn (by study) an individual interpretation of the preamble. Once done, he or she will consider it among his or her most prized properties. I frequently share my interpretation so as to learn from a fellow citizen who offers criticism. The version with cautionary public goals seems interesting: We the People of the United States avoid and discourage 5 public offenses so as to encourage responsible human independence. The 5 offenses are deceit, injustice, disruption, weakness, and poverty. Fellow citizens who purport to please “the founders” or “framers” or “signers” or “ratifiers” are deceiving themselves: the preamble’s object is “ourselves and our Posterity.”

Under the U.S. Preamble and the-literal-truth, citizens may establish a culture of civic citizens with some fellow citizens who don’t accept the culture’s goals and purpose. That culture might hope that super-majority participation would gradually approach 100%.

Law professors

https://lawliberty.org/the-state-of-originalism

I appreciate this review of a historic year and earlier times.

Re-evaluation of American precedents is much needed, and like any other the reform must be bold.

Not only should the talents of originalism be applied; the scope should be broadened in two ways that are called for in this nation’s stated disciplines and purpose: unity, justice, tranquility, defense, and welfare to encourage living citizens to take advantage of responsible human independence.

First. The controversial U.S. Preamble proposes psychological separation from both 1) global reform for the 13 free and independent states, established with England in the 1783 Treaty of Paris and 2) legal termination of the 1774 Confederation of States, formerly eastern-seaboard, British-American colonies. American precedents prior to September 17, 1787 ought to be reconsidered for conformity to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. That is, on September 17, 1787, the world’s first proposition for public discipline so as to hold a republic accountable to the law was recorded and is yet to be established.

Even the preamble’s word “liberty” is questionable in appreciation the integrity that is proposed therein. Liberty from an oppressor was key to the 1689 English Revolution, the 1774 American Revolution, and the 1789 French Revolution, all representing partial “equality”, solidarity, and license to shed blood. Threats and realities of domestic bloodletting in Shays’ rebellion urgently motivated formation of a nation of people. The passions of the declaration of independence from England became an urgent need for discipline of for and by the people of the U.S who would choose the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. Instead of Lockean self-governance and the common good, the preamble proposes public discipline to encourage responsible independence.

Second, the U.S. may appreciate the framers for setting aside the so-called “founders’” passions of the Declaration of Independence, especially the American-deists’ “Nature’s God” to compete with England’s reformed-Catholic God and “equality” for humans, each one of whom is unique. The U.S. Preamble reserves a prudent humility toward whatever-God-is by tacitly assigning spiritual considerations to the individual citizen. The fellow citizen who insists that whatever-God-is answers to his or her personal God is a dissident to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition; that is, he or she is not a member of We the People of the United States. While expressing spiritual hopes is innocent, the individual who prays to instruct whatever-God-is may discover that arrogance invites woe.

We know this from prayers during the Civil War. Neither the U.S. Constitution’s articles nor its preamble anticipated anything but the abolition of slavery by the next generation or whenever economic and political viability was evident. Abolition of slavery was an urgent topic, and Fredrick Douglass expressed confidence in the U.S. Preamble and its articles during 1852s July 4 celebration in Rochester, NY.

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine were 1775 members of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Massachusetts abolitionists founded 1856s Lawrence, Kansas to influence a free state. The reaction of slave-state “liberty” became Bleeding Kansas. R. E. Lee, in a letter to his wife claimed abolitionists were evil in defying his Christian God’s plan to redeem blacks. Mimicking Lee’s Christianity, the Confederate States of America, in their declaration of session, claimed politics in the north was unresolvable because “of more erroneous religious belief”. If Lee had been of We the People of the United States, his letter might have announced to his wife that they were going to sell everything and move to a non-slave state of her choice. Almost no one in the U.S. regards the Civil War as a white on white Christian battle, and European thinkers can’t imagine what the documents teach.

As a human being Lee had the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to hold Christianity accountable rather than lead his family and fellow citizens into misery and loss. With his un-consignable HIPEA, he could have interpreted the U.S. Preamble to guide his civic life (including vows to family) while privately pursuing everlasting life in his afterdeath.

Every citizen ought to establish his or her interpretation of the U.S. Preamble so as to accept their self-interests therein. The U.S. Preamble proposes individual happiness with civic integrity. By accepting the U.S. Preamble’s proposition, citizens may know they are acting for equity under statutory justice for themselves and their descendants.

I share my interpretation hoping someone will improve it:  We the People of the United States consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to practice 5 public disciplines: integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity so as to encourage both living citizens and future fellow citizens to take advantage of responsible human independence.

The U.S. needs to reform the First Amendment’s religion clauses so as to encourage integrity rather than attempt to constrain whatever-God-is to God. Never again should we witness the U.S. Senate members taking an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution for any reason beyond its existence. Never again should their sessions be opened with two prayers: one by a minister and the other in a coercive pledge. Instead, sessions should be opened with unison recitation of the U.S. Preamble verbatim with each senator mentally committed to his or her interpretation. These reforms are the tip of an iceberg, and they should get underway in 2020 with your acceleration.

I cannot imagine the reforms to 1) encourage citizens to accept America’s proposition for civic integrity stated in the U.S. Preamble and 2) to individually separate church from state by relying on the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth being accelerated by any group faster than the writers in this forum, especially those who would take originalism from physics rather than precedence. Social democrats cannot brook precedence, but they pay attention when their actions against physics or its progeny cause misery and loss.


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.