The Advocate’s egregious Pulitizer Prize

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: ”Civic Citizens of the United States continually develop and practice 5 domestic disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---“in order to” encourage responsible human independence to U.S. youth and posterity.” 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

The Advocate’s egregious Pulitizer Prize

Give the press unconstrained power and they’ll take it! The Advocate seems to be trying to shoot themselves in any heart of integrity simply because they can: the First Amendment allows them to promote falsehoods.

The Advocate could be mature enough to be civic citizens and promote responsible human independence. No! Their business plan seems to paint civic citizens white and black fellow citizens dissident. It isn’t true.

Black fellow citizens accept that they are human beings. They are hungry for political leadership that promotes mutual, comprehensive safety and security rather than domestic vigilantism.

The Advocate could be part of that leadership and seem to be trying. They could help themselves by doing the work to publish their interpretation of the U.S. Preamble.

They could do it in a series, starting with analysis of the phrase “to ourselves and our Posterity,” for families living in 2020. First, The Advocate must find the humility to care about the citizen’s proposition that is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

News

Is Louisiana’s French influence overcoming U.S. 1789s’ Anglo-American Chapter XI Machiavellianism? (Youssef Rddad and Lea Skene) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/westside/article_8cdc7bb4-b0ce-11ea-8c41-d3b05fe45aca.html and https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_405df186-b02f-11ea-9aba-1bc83693bb0c.html)

In Plaquemine, “the [unanimous] decision came, as well as the unified vote spanning across racial, generational and political party lines.” Gender, too; http://ibervilleparish.com/departments/council.

Egregious police reform hides the harm of lenient judges (AP: Jill Colvin, Lisa Mascaro, and Zeke Miller) (https://apnews.com/b7cb4d191e8f8419be435c8a279e0eab)

The partnership of “journalism” schools and social “science” have ruined a couple generations of writers for the media, as expressed in this opinion-column feigning news: Three writers collaborated to produce profitable pseudo-news. The consequence is that writers for the media are directly increasing property loss, personal injury, and death to resist the civic citizens who fund safety and security by paying taxes for first-responders and subsequent justice.

Here are some egregious opinions I noticed. “National protests” attempts to falsify well-known vigilantism---property damage, looting, occupation, injury, death, and insurrection. “Police killings of black people” strains to falsify deaths of criminal-recorded-citizens who attempt vigilantism on first responders. “Trump . . . said . . . but” attempts to judge---negate---the President’s sincerity; the writers beg woe by having no shame to judge a fellow-citizen’s heart. “He characterized . . . ‘tiny’ number . . . ‘trustworthy’” suggests extensive police injustice---a lie. “[F]ailing to acknowledge systemic racial bias,” attempts to hide the writers’ bias toward criminals and vigilantism. The writers cite “many officers . . . long complaint histories” foolishly equating vigilante-resistance to authorized force to criminal conviction; that is, vigilantes complain about police officers to shield convicted criminals. Quoting Democrats is pure opinion-promotion. Noting Jeff Sessions curtailing Eric Holder’s court-approved consent decrees unintentionally draws attention to the Obama administrations’ vigilantism.

I also think the Trump administration could enrich the aid they are offering civic citizens by systematically killing some media business-plans with well-honed civic words and phrases. Writers fail the intended U.S. freedom for journalism to record development of statutory justice. Their bosses profit by exacerbating political correctness, identity politics, social-democracy and other deterrents against safety and security. Most of the press makes money by lying. The Trump administration is not adequately expressing that civic citizens perceive the media-mendacity that infects and weakens Democrats. For example, “law and order” could be expressed as the civic citizens’ agreement to secure individual happiness with civic integrity to U.S. youth. With consistent use, “civic integrity” could become and “individual happiness” could become nationally recognized phrases to combat lies. Also, media resistance to such phrases would indict them and ruin their business plan.

Driving for another egregious Pulitzer Prize (Brooks Kubena) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_b4f49be0-ac1e-11ea-8d84-231ce688f3db.html)

Give the press unconstrained power and they’ll take it! The Advocate seems to be trying to shoot themselves in any heart of integrity simply because they can: the First Amendment allows them to promote falsehoods.

Chaos is promoted by 1) the social-democracy intentions on college campuses 2) the Alinsky-Marxist (AMO) organizations that developed/emerged after December 11, 1967 (see W.F. Buckley’s unintended promotion at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfxnaFaHWI), and 3) more egregiously, the press’s failure to journal the civic-citizens’ path to the U.S. Preamble’s purpose: public discipline to encourage responsible human independence to living inhabitants.

Alinsky publically claimed he condones (present tense through students like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) violence when egocentric rights are at stake. Reminds me of the un-civic, uncivil, and illegal violence-slogan: “No justice no peace.”

Ironically, Kubena begins with far-fetched niggling about ancient flat-earth theory most associated with the Bible, the accepted reference for Abrahamic schools of thought that number in the thousands. A late-comer is Cornel West’s African American Christianity; https://www.wsj.com/.../dr-kings-radical-biblical-vision.... Flat-earthers of 2020 are likely to preserve the theory’s history so as to help lessen analogous mistakes today. After all, earth-observers of 3000 BC did not have the Internet.

Similarly, civic citizens appreciate the opportunity to read Huck Finn’s responsible human independence (resistance to religious inculcation) in concluding “All right then, I'll go to hell.” In 1884, Mark Twain had the evidence if not the firsthand knowledge of R.E. Lee’s regret for not reacting to Bleeding Kansas (1856) by selling all his and his wife’s property and moving to a non-slave state; see https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Letter_from_Robert_E.... Having suffered my religious folly, I am anxious to forgive General Lee.

Why would anyone ban the civic benefit of reading these classic observations so as not to have to experience them or an analog?

Castigating a student for using “nigger” in his youth is immoral entrapment by the multitude who use the word freely. Consider Page 65 of Ernst Gaines’ “A Lesson Before Dying” (1993); “Look at me. Where else could I have felt superior to so many but here? . . . He’ll make you the nigger you were born to be.” Did Gaines write to help brown people understand blacks? Is Gaines’ civic lesson for non-blacks more important than Twain’s fiction to help black Americans understand the Bible’s hostage-taking on the mind’s of anti-abolitionist whites?

This was another wasted opportunity for The Advocate to accept its First Amendment responsibility---journalism---to aid its readers in the acceptance of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition: developing public discipline so as to coach and encourage responsible human independence to living citizens or better interpretation. I hope The Advocate reforms.

Without a doubt, the First Amendment needs amendment so as to constrain the press much as the Congress, the courts, and the President have limited powers. Further, the religion clauses must be amended in order to protect the citizen's opportunity to develop integrity, leaving religious/spiritual hopes and comforts to his or her privacy.

I suspect that most members of the LSU Board of Supervisors can’t understand these comments; I have used social-work practitioners to help me accept human individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) and use it to develop integrity rather than brook infidelity to the-objective-truth. If not understanding, each member can choose to explore them by considering the U.S. Preamble’s phrase “ourselves and our Posterity” to answer/rebuke my claim that they are among the “ourselves” to the coming generation, “our Posterity.” To fulfill their obligations to their country, they need a personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s abstract, 52-word sentence so as to improve/correct the view: Civic citizens of the United States practice 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to coach and encourage responsible human independence to their youth. I admit I don’t know and seek to consider other citizens’ interpretations. [Incidentally, this is the very first time I wrote “to their youth” and sometimes "inhabitants" is preferred.]

LSU can be instrumental in preserving not only the disciplines integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity but restoring Louisiana treasures such as 9:3 majority verdicts for impartial trials. Unanimous verdicts promise criminal bias and disproportionally hurt black victims among fellow citizens.

[BTW: due to increased corona-virus reports, the EBRP library postponed my reservation for the 7th annual June 21 commemoration of the June 21, 1788 ratification by 9 states of the draft U.S. Constitution, establishing the USA as a global nation the dissident 4 traditional British-American states could join. Louisiana, then a French colony, where blacks could marry and be a family, joined the USA in 1812.)

To: Shannon Chapman

I hold neither you nor the Catholic Church responsible for the Apostle John's and other hate expressions.

However, it seems important for Christians to civically realize that non-Christians read the Bible with open minds and react negatively to its hate, especially in John 15:18-23 for this non-Christian.

I do not appreciate any hate passages that are attributed to Jesus, like Luke 14:26. I hate neither myself nor anyone and will not again attempt to consign my civic attitude to another entity. Nor do I accept a God who would send an angel to tell a father to sacrifice his son, whether Isaac or Ishmael. I regret the development of African-American Christianity, as it reminds me of R.E. Lee’s Christian folly.

I found affirmation of my concerns in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Divinity School Address,” 1838. Emerson seems to say that Jesus’ message was that each human being has the HIPEA to develop his or her unique person unto integrity, reaching his or her unique maturity before death. It took me two decades to perceive the Emerson-message I acquired, perhaps in error. I wish I could interview him and maybe do so in my continual reference to his essay and, more often, to the Bible.

However, I rely on HIPEA and honest pursuit of integrity.

Columns

The Advocate seems too adolescent for intestinal fortitude. (The Advocate) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_871dae38-ac40-11ea-97a6-330e176d1a33.html)

Kerrie Slaton wrote and The Advocate published, “Remember what you learned in kindergarten and continue to be a member of a proper society.”

Slaton’s phrase “intestinal fortitude,” in Google ngrams seemed to peak in 1945-1955. “Kindergarten” peaked in 1930 with competition from “pre-school” in 1975. “Civic culture” and “civic society” peaked in 2000 and swamped both “intestinal fortitude” and “proper society.” “Civic citizen” is a sometime thing but near zero compared to all the other phrases. “Social democracy” swamps them all and gets slammed by “democracy.”

It’s no wonder The Advocate editors and writers seem too adolescent in psychological maturity to uphold the republic under the rule of statutory law, perhaps the U.S. “proper society” in Slaton’s terms.

Is The Advocate condescending or adolescent in their journey toward mature journalism?  (The Advocate) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_d82466da-aff3-11ea-9e93-dffefaec0516.html)

In their willful ad for CNN, The Advocate concludes, “We look forward to hearing what Jenkins has to say. We look forward to listening, and learning.” That seems to acquiesce to Jenkins’ hope to be heard.

After 4 decades questioning 1) what does it mean to be a human being and 2) what then, does it mean to be a U.S. citizen? I took action. We (my collaborator-friend, my family, and I) initiated meetings at EBRP libraries (thank you) to promote civic citizenship: commitment-to, trust-in, and intentions for success under the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. With input from fellow citizens, we incorporated the work in Louisiana with the title A Civic People of the United States. “Civic citizenship refers to responsible human independence (RHI) more than support for the municipality or a dominant politics. RHI is confident serenity based on the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth rather than conflict for political dominance.

Through the process, we learned what we call iterative civic connection, and it is working not only in our 7^th year of library meetings (currently postponed due to the virus uptick) but through individual dialogues in the community, nationally online, and internationally, primarily through our blogs and quora.com. We publically express appreciation for over 70 contributors, but countless more help through creative questions and perhaps unintended suggestions.

In the process, Speaker A expresses a heartfelt civic concern, then well-grounded Reform A, completing Suggestion A. Participants listen and perhaps one emerges as Listener A. He or she starts with the work of clarifying Speaker A’s words, phrases, and assumptions so as to fairly comprehend Suggestion A. Speaker A connects to clarify, and this is the first of 2 iterative conversations. Listener A expresses either 1) agreement and the potential to advance Suggestion A or 2) becomes Speaker B, expressing possibly improved concern and/or reform, Suggestion B. Speaker A becomes Listener B in the second iterative process, now advanced to Suggestion B without losing the Suggestion A civic considerations. The process goes on until both parties perceived they civically connected, say at Suggestion D or more, say ending at Suggestion M.

This 2-staged iterative process continues beyond the meeting and may arrive at termination with the consequence that a civic solution, for example, Suggestion M, was judged as civic by both parties. At this point, the parties consider whether or not Suggestion M should be regarded as a private connection or promoted for consideration by the civic people of the United States. The latter choice should be taken if there is need for civil or legal considerations. In no case should civil or legal impositions be considered on egocentric, religious, or other human construct. In other words, only the-objective-truth as discovered from ineluctable evidence or it’s perception-free object, the-literal-truth, justify legislation of statutory justice. Laws founded on human reason, construct, or doctrine are subject to the discovery of statutory justice.

As Louisiana the state celebrates Ohio States’ Malcolm Jenkins’ successes let’s hope some of Louisiana-French heritage, joie de vivre, has influenced him to express concerns always with well-grounded solutions and a mind that is opened to listen for civic, human-American suggestions rather than either African-American or Anglo-American promotions. And let The Advocate reform to support iterative, civic-conversations with intentions to responsible human independence. Thereby, The Advocate editors and writers can themselves move past adolescent “freedom of the press” to responsibly journaling fellow-citizens’ paths to the 5 public disciplines expressed in the U.S. Preamble’s proposition or better according to civic intentions under the-literal-truth.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/What-has-capitalism-taught-you?

Capitalism has taught me so much it is difficult to comprehend let alone effectively express. I’ll try, reminding myself that I do not know.

By experiencing misery and loss, first, I learned to accept some actual-realities about my person, as follows:

1.    I am a human being.

2.    A typical human being takes more than a quarter century for possible achievements, in succession, 1) complete physical construction of his or her brain, 2) acquire the comprehension and intention to live a chronologically and psychologically complete human life, 3) to earn a living by which to experience and observe or not the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth, and 4) to study and contemplate his or her person’s choices and consequences so as to measure his or her life-success.

3.    Each human has individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to develop either integrity or infidelity to the-literal-truth; some have the resilience to re-start for success.

4.    Fellow inhabitants each have HIPEA, and integrity cannot be imposed. Therefore the civic citizens must encourage, exhort, coerce, and force dissidents to consider reform.

5.    Civic citizens neither initiate nor tolerate harm to or from any individual or civic/civil/legal institution.

6.    In a civic culture, at least 2/3 of a society’s members are civic citizens; that is, they aid individual happiness and statutory justice. Most people offer mutual, comprehensive safety and security.

Second, I learned that scholarship is less beneficial than journaling actually-real events and discoveries:

1.    Without credentials from the scholars---who construct the doctrine that is used to control and coerce students---a fellow citizen is excluded from proprietary debate. For example, some economists claim civic citizens cannot conduct self-interest because they don’t employ economists’ language. Therefore, the civic citizen who wants to influence an achievable better future must discover language that overcomes the scholars’ special codes. For example, the inhabitant who does not earn the way of living he or she demands is a tyrant. I consider the latter economics proprietary for citizens who want mutual, comprehensive safety and security.

2.    The civic citizen must find simple expressions that so obviously represent the-literal-truth that most citizens will accept them as bases for holding government officials accountable.

3.    The citizen who is passive, negligent, opposed or ignorant about the duty to aid civic integrity and statutory justice doubly burdens the civic citizens by allowing government officials to favor criminals, aliens, and traitors at the life expense of all inhabitants. Many inhabitants think they are so busy working to survive that he or she must try to consign civic, civil, and legal responsibility to a higher power. Higher powers successively fail them, and before long life ends and their children continue the subjugation.

4.    In a political system that involves voting to elect officials (perhaps who will appoint other officials), agreement to continue an established civic, civil, and legal obligation is required in order to develop a civic culture. In the USA, the necessary practice is proposed in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution together with the 1787 Articles. No one should be allowed to run for office, apply for a government appointment, or vote, if he or she cannot demonstrate past practice of the preamble’s proposition as he or she interprets it. Other civic, civil, and legal actors have alien goals and purposes or none.

5.    Government officials who cannot allow consumer to motivate entrepreneurs are often tyrants attempting to spoil capitalism.

https://www.quora.com/Do-the-benefits-of-being-a-part-of-a-society-outweigh-its-liabilities?

I cannot imagine not being a civic citizen. That is, to offer integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity with responsible human independence wherever I am.

However, I do not consider belonging to a society desirable, because I have not belonged to a society that encourages civic citizenship. Each one I belonged to had its coercion or force.

To me, it is more important to be a civic, civil, and legal member of the human race than to be in a society. I strive to be a civic citizen of the United States.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-things-that-tolerant-people-cannot-tolerate?

It’s obvious to others that a tolerant person is not open to other opinion. Someone who does not agree with the tolerant person cannot be in the tolerant person’s society.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-agree-or-disagree-that-we-are-making-and-erasing-history-at-the-same-time-Either-way-is-erasing-the-history-right-or-wrong-good-or-bad?

The history of Anglo-American Christian waste imposed on the U.S. by the First Congress, 1789-1793, is not erased. It remains obfuscated by racism, an English tradition that was imposed on this land and which the U.S. is in the process of ejecting.

My state, Louisiana, a former French colony, is leading the way without articulating the Anglo-American traditions of Chapter XI Machiavellianism that is constitutional in England. There, the 1215 Magna Carta granting of the king to legislative powers to the Church of England in partnership with the lords set into play subjugation of the commoners. The preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble) offers domestic disciplines (5) by which to encourage responsible human independence to U.S. youth (posterity). Perhaps whatever-God-is assigned such discipline to humankind, and attempts to consign the responsibility to a personal God are mere arrogance, intended or not.

Civic citizens may comprehend that the U.S. Civil war seems fought by white Christians whose personal God had a schedule to punish black people’s hereditary sins versus white Christians whose personal God assigned blacks human equity under statutory justice.

To consider my warring-Christian-perception, review the declaration of secession’s phrase “more erroneous religious belief,” the 1856 anti-abolitionist-sacking of Lawrence, Kansas, and a general’s letter to his wife lamenting abolitionist-evil rather than proposing to save her by selling everything and move to a non-slave state. See online at avalon.law.yale. edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp, en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Sacking_of_Lawrence, and encyclopediavirginia. org/Letter_from_Robert_E_Lee_to_Mary_Randolph_Custis_Lee_December_27_1856, respectively. The Civil War seems white people’s unheralded gift to the world:  To believe your personal/doctrinal God usurps whatever-God-is invites woe.

Add to these considerations Abraham Lincoln’s two inaugural addresses with attention to the above issues, adding the Fugitive Slave Act, which he erroneously attributes to the states rather than the President to resolve.

Now, add to this brief study consideration of the American revolutionary war. The Declaration of Independence pits “Nature’s God” and other deist higher ground to claim that England’s blessed Trinity would suffer defeat. Many Christians site the Declaration as superior to the U.S. Preamble, dubbing it “secular” whereas it is neutral to religion, race, and gender. In attributing that victory to their personal God, citizens overlook that the deciding battle, Yorktown, VA, 1781 was to the French an extension of their ongoing war with England. They supplied the strategy of entrapping Cornwallis there instead of Washington’s emotions to defeat them on Manhattan. Also, they supplied 30,000 military with America’s 10,000 to overwhelm the British/Hessian forces of 9,000. It seems military power won the American revolution. The treaty was signed near Paris and is called the Treaty of Paris, 1783.

Removing a R.E. Lee or other CSA monument anywhere does not diminish the obfuscated fact: freedom of religion needs to be replaced with freedom to develop integrity. I think that is happening and the press is too immature to notice. Freedom of the press needs to be replaced with freedom to journal the U.S. path to integrity.

Louisiana citizens are leading the way to civic freedom from religion and most mayors, Legislature, Governor, and Congressional representatives as yet haven’t a clue. See https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/westside/article_8cdc7bb4-b0ce-11ea-8c41-d3b05fe45aca.html. Is Louisiana’s French influence overcoming U.S.-1789s’ Anglo-American Chapter XI Machiavellianism?

If my response is too much, just ignore it. Nevertheless, statues and vigilantism pale before the importance of integrity regarding U.S. statutory justice.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-ethical-guidelines?

Humankind is on a journey to discover integrity to the-literal-truth. Failures are valuable discoveries, because they lessen the chances of repeating error.

The journal of the path to integrity is ethics. “Guidelines” that omit the errors seem inadequate.

I considered substituting “seems to be” for “is” ethics.

https://www.quora.com/If-you-could-choose-only-one-measure-to-try-and-bring-equality-to-society-as-a-whole-which-measure-would-you-implement?

The measure I’d choose is well-designed dialogue with which to effectively-approach each human being for iterative talk about the feasibility of human-equity under statutory justice. My hope is to learn.

Human equality is false---a utopia predicated on every individual taking responsible human independence in earning the lifestyle he or she perceives as happiness long before he or she has the psychological maturity to know his or her unique happiness. The problem is twofold: 1) each human being has individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) with which to discover and develop either integrity or infidelity to the-objective-truth when the-literal-truth is unknown (my name is Phil, and beyond that my knowledge may be suspect) and 2) humankind knows from experience and observation that the-objective-truth often evolves as they invent better instruments of perception. Therefore, it gradually approaches and sometimes achieves the-literal-truth. Discovery increases exponentially as humankind invents new perceptions.

The consequence is that the newborn faces two monumental tasks which his or her culture is not likely to appreciate: 1) the newborn requires a quarter century to acquire basic comprehension and intention to live a complete human life, and 2) the person, for life, faces exponential increases in humankind’s knowledge.

Education systems are erroneously controlled to impart the knowledge officials think government needs more than prepare the children for the future they face. Consequently, many adults live a life of confusion, loss, and misery. Furthermore, many adults interpret wealth and entertainment as happiness and unfortunately tolerate infidelity in all aspects of life. There’s widespread human loss and misery.

If I could, I would instill in every human being a thirst to understand the above principles. My self-interest is to learn how to improve my way of living.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-consider-it-critical-to-serve-others-and-to-contribute-actively-to-others-well-being-Why?

I do.

So many people have enriched my life that I could not begin to list them all. I’d start with my wife and our three children nearing 50 years. After that, I have trouble with priorities.

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-more-normative-or-prescriptive-perspectives-on-human-rights-than-sociological-and-empirical-perspectives?

Based on my U.S.-Preamble-studies, an un-articulated consequence of the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia was acceptance that the path to integrity had not been discovered, even though the world’s, at least western, political schemes had been reviewed before and during the debates.

By default, the 55 framers had experiential-grounding in British Chapter XI Machiavellianism---the Church of England partnering with the lords to dominate the commoners. The 36 signers did not specify Congress so as to compete with Parliament’s self-styled “divinity.”

The Committee of detail did not try to assess the 1787 debates in one sentence. For reasons I do not know, but fortunately for us, the Committee of style 1) modified the erroneous draft-preamble and 2) added a citizens’ proposition for discipline unto posterity. Again happily, the preamble survived the First Congress’ tyranny: imposing the religion clauses in the First Amendment and other egregious deeds.

The 12 or so generations between 1787 and today have left our generation the opportunity to restore U.S. potential: to establish practice of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition according to each civic citizen’s sincere interpretation so as to order his or her civic, civil, and legal living while pursuing the spiritual values he or she prefers. There will always be dissidents, and the civic citizens will encourage, by example, responsible human independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.”

Interestingly, the U.S. Preamble specifies standards for neither performance of the 5 public disciplines nor attainment of the purpose. Perhaps the standards are to be determined by posterity’s posterity. It’s not unlike the human child developing during life the psychological maturity to know what he or she wishes respecting his or her perfect person—-just before dying.

Of course, I wrote opinion because I do not know the-objective-truth.

https://www.quora.com/Are-democracy-freedom-and-conventional-wisdom-serious-obstacles-to-progress-in-American-society-today?

Yes, excluding the implied totality “American-society.” I think America will always be divided by individual choice---to be civic or dissident; to develop integrity or tolerate infidelity; to aid equity under statutory justice or conflict for dominance; to discover the-objective-truth or construct doctrinal reason.

The source of these problems is the First Congress’s 1789 unconstitutional imposition of the British-traditional Chapter XI Machiavellian tyranny. See  https://www.constitution.org/mac/prince11.htm. My American dream is to accept that civic citizens are putting the Anglo-American tyranny aside so as to establish pure American integrity, which is proposed in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

Every U.S. inhabitant owes it to self-interest to own a personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s abstract proposal. I regularly share my interpretation hoping someone will suggest an improvement in my way of living. My interpretation just now is: Civic citizens of the United States practice 5 disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to exemplify responsible human independence to U.S. youth.

Because of the Internet, this message can go viral, and we may see 2/3 of inhabitants at some stage of developing civic integrity according to their interpretation of the U.S. Preamble and the-objective-truth almost overnight, or at most in a few months.

Not long after that, we could witness the Congress amending the First Amendment so as to promote civic, civil, and legal integrity, leaving religion to privacy, as the preamble does and a return to the motto on the Presidential seal: E Pluribus Unum. A benefit perhaps proposed by the preamble is humility toward whatever-God-is rather than Anglo-American hubris in begging/claiming God’s favor.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-bring-real-social-justice?

I think “social justice” is a false notion coming from social-democracy, or chaos.

Among humankind, equity under statutory justice is practiced by individuals I refer to as civic citizens. When a culture/society has a supermajority who are civic, say 2/3 of the individuals, there can be civic justice. Dissident members are encouraged to reform, primarily by the egocentric benefits enjoyed and shared by the civic citizens, and also by exhortation and constraint to unjust persons.

In the U.S., a republic rather than a democracy, these principles are abstractly proposed in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

https://www.quora.com/What-defines-somebody-as-successful?

I don’t know and think only the individual can evaluate his or her somebody’s success. An achievable better future is possible.

I suggest that success/failure comes with the decision/choice at each opportunity to act. The person who usually acts such that there is no future regret builds a success that human error cannot erase.

The key rests in a nest of acceptances by the person. Unfortunately, I know of no culture that inculcates the acceptance I list below. Therefore, I did not enjoy early benefit from them but am glad to be able to articulate them now, so that I can develop my best person from now on. Here, in increasing importance is my list of acceptances. I will be brief, and any questions/suggestions would be welcomed. I will write it for me:

I am a human being, which means it takes about 3 decades to acquire the comprehension and intention to live a complete human life.

Human-life requires acceptance of integrity as a self-interest-practice.

Each human has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to accept integrity rather than tolerate infidelity.

The civic citizen aids civil development of equity and statutory justice by exemplifying responsible human independence.

The civic citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or society.

Knowing how to accomplish these principles arrives only after the young adult has served fellow citizens for perhaps 3 decades and has the time to reflect. The young person does not know what his or her psychologically mature individual will consider as success. Therefore, he or she must discover HIPEA and integrity as early as possible and take advantage of error so as not to repeat or worse, make it a habit.

Humankind also is on a path toward integrity but the time spans are in centuries and millennia rather than decades. Appearance of the world’s first nation that inculcates these principles and better to their youth will be a sign of an achievable, better future.

https://www.quora.com/Are-all-statements-about-morality-political-and-vice-versa?

I think so, and there is achievable relief.

Politics as we know it is about power.

Morality as we know it is preaching to persuade the listener to subjugate.

The individual who practices equity under statutory justice offers civic integrity if fellow citizens accept it.

https://www.quora.com/What-do-experienced-lawyers-know-about-human-beings-that-most-people-don-t?

I don’t know and think judges are skilled in the use of Machiavelli’s “The Prince.” If anything, judges view it irony that Nicolo skillfully penned for doubt to save una cabeza.

I am conversant about only one of the essays, Chapter XI and refer to the principle as Chapter XI Machiavellianism. See https://www.constitution.org/mac/prince11.htm. Also wonder with me why the sponsor posts it. Chapter XI Machiavellianism seems the sustaining principle behind the mixed-English culture of priests, lords, and commoners. The priest-lord partnership can live high on the hog and the commoners will neither rebel nor expatriate, because each individual is so busy trying to survive that he or she tries to consign his or her civic duty to his or her personal God. Not so obviously, each person’s God differs, and commoners are too busy to think about the consequence of worshipping a personal God without reserving sufficient humility toward whatever-God-is. The consequence is that commoners spend their lives in loss and misery to priests and lords, many of whom are judges, in the hope and comfort that their afterdeath will be favorable according to a doctrine they believe in their personal interpretation. Another irony is that the institutional doctrine is so flawed many commoners spend their waking hours trying to rebuke their human integrity in order to defend their personal God.

This tyranny was imposed on the USA when the First Congress hired chaplains perhaps to pretend that Congress is “divine” on par with Parliament. The First Amendment’s religion clauses are unconstitutional according to the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, which specifies 5 public disciplines, in my view, integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity in order to encourage responsible human independence. Not one word in the preamble suggests religious/spiritual discipline as a civic, civil, or legal purpose.

U.S. judges extol Magna Carta (1215), the agreement that priests and lords will rule instead of the king, leaving commoners as subjects. Further, they extol and refer to Blackstone, English common law. Most egregiously, they impose English precedents onto US law, lessening the independence the preamble proposes. A bemusing English phrase is “the people,” which preserves the perception that pursuit of justice is a struggle by the people against their government. That’s a false premise, according to the preamble.

The preamble, framed by a former English-American colonist majority, abstractly accepts that the human being undeniably has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity instead of tolerating infidelity. The preamble allows citizens to individually choose between civic, civil, and legal living or resistance/opposition to human justice, either way, leaving spiritual justice to whatever-God-is.

U.S. citizens, like commoners, are busy living and few consider the preamble deeply enough to recognize their obligation to their descendants to comprehend it and earn their personal interpretation by which to preserve its promises for future citizens: “ourselves and our Posterity” refers at any moment to the living families and their descendants. Thanks to Chapter XI Machiavellianism, living families have saddled next year’s infants with a growing $6.5 million public debt each. It could be lessened by paying it off.

What’s most egregious is that I don’t know of one priest or politician who understands the American dream of civic integrity enough to care for my interpretation of the preamble, but here it is:  Civic citizens of the United States maintain 5 domestic disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to exemplify responsible human independence to U.S. youth. Two words in that interpretation are new: “domestic” just now and “youth” as of yesterday.

I urge fellow citizens, especially priests, politicians, and appointed government officials to choose to develop their individual interpretation of the preamble. It is essential to their lifetime-opportunity to be a civic citizen of the U.S. and also privately develop comfort and hope for the afterdeath each prefers.

If my response seems to have wandered from the question, it only shows how effective Chapter XI Machiavellianism under British influence can be. It’s time for civic citizens of the United States to put it on the shelf of negative British-American history.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/How-do-you-value-honesty?

I think honesty is totally insufficient. What humans need is integrity, a practice more than an end. Please see http://promotethepreamble.blogspot.com/2014/10/glossary-for-december-15-discussion.html for more information.

There, the entry on integrity today is

“Integrity is a practice: confront a concern; do the work to confirm the concern is not a false impression; if there's discovery, extend comprehension to understand how to benefit; behave according-to or benefit-from the discovery; publicly express the reasons for the behavior and adopt any expressed improvements; and remain alert to new discovery that requires change. For example, Einstein's discovery of space-time modified Newton's discovery of gravity. Moreover, Einstein informed humans not to lie so as to minimize misery and loss more than to observe some arbitrary rule. Honesty may omit comprehension and thus fail integrity.”

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-society-is-losing-its-values?

No, but U.S. citizens may discover responsible human independence at last.
In America, I think the Chapter XI Machiavellian tyranny of English-American tradition is being challenged and the U.S. Preamble’s proposition may be restored. The U.S. First Amendment may be amended to promote integrity rather than religion, the press, and arrogant, individual expression.
The U.S. Preamble is an abstract sentence which fellow citizens may interpret, discuss, collaborate, and connect-with to encourage responsible human independence. My interpretation this morning was: Civic citizens of the United States practice 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to coach and encourage responsible human independence to their youth. I normally write “inhabitants” to be more inclusive, but it was an LSU forum I wrote for. Click on “comments” at After racist video, experts and activists ask if hate speech on campuses like LSU should be restricted.
I seek better interpretations than mine, but if the 1789 Congress had not repressed the preamble’s proposition, interpretations might have prolifically surfaced early, preventing the Christian-belief-driven Civil War, and, even more unbelievably, preventing the $26 trillion debt each of 4 million US newborns will face this year. That’s $6.5 million per infant, a worthy calculation because U.S. debt for adult satisfaction is growing; see Immigration to the United States - Wikipedia.

https://www.quora.com/How-has-the-threat-of-COVID-19-changed-your-thinking-about-what-you-do-or-will-do-Has-the-virus-altered-your-perspective-or-changed-your-thoughts-about-life-or-given-you-pause-for-thought?

I once was concerned about hosting a party and serving wine to friends. Now, I’m concerned about attending a friend’s party.

When I host a party, I still serve wine, and I’ll attend parties using CDC advice.

https://www.quora.com/What-example-comes-to-mind-for-the-more-you-think-about-it-the-less-sense-it-makes?

“God loves you.” Only whatever-God-is knows.

Mom said this, and I took it for granted before I was 4 years old. By the time I was 7, the conflict I observed made me ponder the claim. When I was 10, I read the last page of the Bible and the threats in the last 2 verses. I couldn’t articulate it then, but I recall feeling that a God so weak as to attempt to threaten me might not be whatever-God-is.

Mom and Dad were such good providers! Even though they seemed bitter Southern-Baptist enemies. It took me a quarter century as the father in a family of 5—6 if you count my wife’s grandmother. Olive was a memorable, perhaps essential part of our lives. She passed a quarter century ago, but her room is still “Ma’s room” and looks it. Thank goodness I learned to appreciate a Louisiana-French-Catholic family.

Otherwise, in my third quarter century, I might not appreciate my origins and journey, I hope toward integrity without judging my afterdeath, that vast, perhaps endless time after body, mind, and person stopped functioning.

https://www.quora.com/Dandemis-said-Do-not-condemn-the-judgement-of-another-because-it-differs-from-your-own-You-may-both-be-wrong-What-are-your-thoughts-on-this-quote-and-how-could-it-be-applied-today  from last week

Marcus Lester

I looked at your other article, too. I find it odd that in your construction, the fairly clear and specific elements of the Preamble are changed to personal discovery, appreciation, spiritual tranquility, and self-discipline. Frankly, I prefer union, justice, domestic tranquility, common defense, general welfare, and liberty. But I’m an old goof wandering in a high valley in a far corner of Oregon. I guess I got out of step somewhere along the line.

To: Mr. Lester, you have taken the first step toward civic connection with my work to promote the preamble: Engaging my concerns (not fears).
I don’t know the “other article” by which you assess that I want only “personal discovery and spiritual tranquility.” I respond that I write about 5 public disciplines including peace. I don’t like “union” because it’s too similar to “solidarity,” and I don’t like the idea that you ought to join my thinking. I think “strength” leaves it to more than fear to establish the need for defense. I think too many people take the license to practice liberties like smashing windows to loot, burning cars, occupying police headquarters, shooting people who seem different, and such. When the Alinsky-Marxist-organization’s mob practices violence, I want the independence to exit/oppose their solidarity for their liberty.
For example and for the record, this morning, in my usual work, I wrote a spontaneous view of the preamble’s proposition: Civic citizens of the United States practice 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to coach and encourage responsible human independence to their youth. My comments are available Online at After racist video, experts and activists ask if hate speech on campuses like LSU should be restricted, and you can see from the link that it is pertinent to the current chaos in this country. If you click on the link, you have to click on “comments” to find mine.
Thank you for the life-line to civic connection.
To Lester again:

Mr. Lester, it seems to me you addressed “A civic glossary.” I gave it a much needed update on the spot and need to review new entries that are listed elsewhere. Also, I need to go over your concern list one at a time to make certain I have considered the fact that you object. The one that is revised for your review is “spiritual tranquility.” Thank you.

Law professors

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/pursuing-meaning/

Rachael Lu begins her essay with falsehoods only a dreamer would rebuke. Always “a godly nation” segues, without mentioning “Nature’s God,” to granted “inalienable rights” beyond declaring war against England “at the Founding of our Republic.” Therein, I count at least 5 mendacities.

After 10,000 years’ with nations under the mystery of the Great Spirits, from September 17, 1787, the U.S. was a godless nation and had the chance to remain so until June 21, 1788. Then the 9^th required state’s representatives in convention ratified the draft U.S. Constitution with at least 2 states of the 9 requiring amendment in order to sustain their ratifications. Had 3 of the dissident states or the rebel (that sent no representatives to the 1787 convention) ratified, stipulating no amendment, the USA would have started up under the U.S. Proposition, which is neutral to theism/mystery, race, gender, and wealth. However, the First Congress unconstitutionally imposed “religious freedom” on citizens. Then comes the 1954 Knights of Columbus imposition “one nation under God.” Civic citizens nevertheless retain sufficient humility toward whatever-God-is rather than join the Catholic hubris. Can you believe I have addressed only the first paragraph? Let me skip, then to the last paragraph.

Alas, I find “. . . but it is still possible that America will again be united someday as one nation, under God.” One sentence has 3 if modifiers doubts. Humility toward whatever-God-is could solve the problem and save the Christian religions.

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https://lawliberty.org/a-tsunami-of-mea-culpas/

Professor Huffman’s essay informed me once and for all why I minimize my use of “society”:  It is often so restrictive as to be meaningless. I have no idea what society Huffman holds responsible for Floyd’s death. If Huffman refers to the U.S. Preamble’s seemingly totalitarian We the People of the United States, I must agree. However, I adamantly oppose the suggestion that the society offered by the U.S. Preamble killed Floyd: the preamble proposes fellow citizens’ disciplined behavior; in other words, responsible human independence.

Moreover, I adamantly oppose the libertylaw.org owners’ decision to ban my posts (although I admit posts by a chemical engineer can be annoying). Moreover they hid from view my nearly 200 past comments on the blog. By that amateur-proprietary censorship, people like Professor Huffman are less likely to comprehend that my civic appeal to established responsible human independence developed dominantly by my work/research to comment in this blog.

Two persistent U.S. offenders are scholars who develop 17^th to 19^th century European thought and 21^st century Anglo-American “originalists,” who fail to consider civic commentary by the likes of Albert Einstein (d. 1955) to address fellow citizens who choose to be U.S. civic-dissidents.

I promote individual-ownership of personal-interpretations of the U.S. Preamble’s abstract proposition. I routinely share mine, hoping for constructive criticism that could aid my development of civic integrity.

To take interest in the preamble’s proposition, fellow citizens may consider at least two acceptances: being a human being and being a U.S. citizen. Aliens can also take interest. Today, my interpretation is:  Civic citizens of the United States maintain 5 domestic disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to exemplify responsible human independence to U.S. youth. I’d be interested in Professor Huffman’s views. If totally uninterested, he might consider the owners of “ourselves and our Posterity.” I think ourselves is responsible for $26 trillion national debt to posterity.

I suggest that after considering his interpretation, Professor Huffman might regret two expressions I’m glad I did not write: 1) that Biden thought before uttering a statement and 2) that fellow citizens “must judge each other.”

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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.