Opportunity to encourage&facilitate 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 Born a fellow-citizen, I choose to join We the People of the United States and aid 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” establish and maintain responsible-human-independence to “ourselves and our 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

Opportunity to encourage&facilitate responsible-human-independence (RHI)

Three documents: Genesis 1:26-28, the uSA’s 1776 declaration of war for independence from England, and the 1787 U.S. Constitution suggest that female&male-human-being can&should independently provide order&fruitfulness to the living species and to the earth. So far, We the People of the United States has accommodated tyranny from Congress and the Supreme Court to impose Anglo-American civil religion on the people. Facing $28 trillion debt to its children, the people are failing the achievable better future. The 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” can&must reform to the humble-integrity required for RHI.

The principles in the three documents can be read and interpreted by anyone, and the civilization, culture, nation, or race that establishes the practice will be celebrated by the inhabitants of the earth.

News

“The Virtue of Chastity” (Mark Hendrickson) (https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-virtue-of-chastity_3919147.html)

 

Conserving Human Potential Rather Than Civil Religion

      So many conservative writers mimic religion. But perhaps religious doctrine after Abraham was doomed by 5,000 year-old, ineluctable-evidence based political-philosophy in Genesis 1:26-28. Yet it is reasonable to argue that Jesus is its metaphysical author. In other words, either Jesus was the mysterious author of Genesis 1 philosophy, or Genesis 1 expresses early recognition of the human individual’s power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos in their way of living. Jesus also reportedly said “Be perfect . . .”. Conservative scholars could . . . should write to preserve the principle that female&male-human-being can&must provide order to the living species and to the earth. Neither Jesus nor any other entity will usurp HIPEA.

Introduction

Self-described western-scholars miscommunicate what is made plain by human-necessity&justice. Their unarticulated motive is to persuade people in their time to subscribe to political philosophy proposed by the initially Puritan then deist John Locke, died 1704, versus religious impositions from, for example, John Calvin, died 1564, competing with Catholicism and other orthodoxies. This is 2021, and customers can travel into the traditional “heavens”. Civic fellow-citizens are better served by conserving “I don’t know” rather than constructing “we believe”. Thereby, they can maintain an open mind and an open heart to the-ineluctable-truth; “ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”.

Since the seventeenth century, humankind develops exponential-discovery and technology compared to research consequences during the preceding 47 centuries. Yet it seems undeniable that each next generation invents beneficial technology that refutes tradition; both physical and psychological traditions. Fear of falling off the edge of the earth repressed exploration for 10 centuries, and today, satellite videos encircling the earth prove it is neither flat nor a disc but like a globe.

For a glimpse of how scholarly attitudes changed since 1800, I tabulated the ngrams (Google scanned-book word-frequencies) and got the following normalized results for 2017 usage relative to “love” frequency in 1807 (please accommodate my omission of word-marks (“word”) hereafter). In 2017, love 90%, rights 49%, sex 22%, justice 20%, responsibility 18.5%, virtue 8%, necessity 7%, integrity 5.5%, chastity 5%, appreciation 4%, honesty 2%, fidelity 1.4%, self-interest 1%, promiscuity 0.2%, and adultery 0%, respectively. Rights, sex, and chastity each more than doubled from 1807 until 2017, chastity to only 5%; virtue, honesty, and fidelity declined by factors of 6, 2, and 5, respectively, while integrity increased by 50%; appreciation increased 20 fold to 4; and self-interest doubled to 1%. Monogamy straight lines at zero%, practically alongside promiscuity and adultery.

It seems that 2017 interest in love, rights, and sex repressed virtue, integrity, chastity, and appreciation; and there’s little writing about honesty, fidelity, and self-interest. I included each necessity, justice, and responsibility to consider my premise. Necessity and justice declined nearly 5 fold and 3 fold, respectively, to 7% and 20% in 2017. Responsibility increased 8 fold to 18.5%. The substantial declines in necessity and justice may reflect an increase in civil-dependency, the recent increase in responsibility is good, but hardly sufficient at 18.5% compared to 90% for love in 2017. It’s hard to imagine love without responsibility and appreciation.

I divide the practices into two groups, the first involving human connections; the second regarding individual self-discipline. Thus, love, rights, sex, virtue, chastity, honesty, promiscuity, and adultery involve at least 2 parties. For example, Jack says he’s in love with Jill, while Jill sincerely avoids Jack’s attention: they are not in a love-connection. And justice, responsibility, necessity, appreciation, and integrity are of self-interest to civic individuals. Jack appreciates Jill without imposition (taking responsibly). In the former practices, each individual shares control and is prudent if they self-discipline human-connections. With civic-citizens practicing necessity&justice, dissidents could observe self-interest to reform to responsible-human-independence.

Critically appreciating a recent conservative article

Mark Hendrickson, in “The Virtue of Chastity”, July 21, 2021, The Epoch Times (https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-virtue-of-chastity_3919147.html), claims Western-scholarly language, perhaps erroneous-Lockean-civil-Christianity, to encourage youth to develop what I view as civic-integrity in self-interest. Hendrickson means well, but civil-religion involves so much hypocrisy that it is not a practical approach beyond metaphysical comfort and hope to adult advocates. The adults are not necessarily practitioners, even if they are members of the clergy, and the youth know it. Also, regarding physics and its progeny --- strong and weak forces, the chemistries, biology, psychology, imagination, and fiction, religion is not a reliable representative. As human-discovery marches, physics corrects metaphysics. I think “Civic-Integrity in Human Intimacy” is more general: it includes dignity and opportunity to almost 400 ova the typical female generates in her fertile years. I hope conservative scholars will consider responsible-human-independence.

Hendrickson quotes Salon, died 560 B.C., who extolled beauty, grace, and peace as self-interests. Salon lived before humans constructed diverse Christian orthodoxies. However, he may have agreed with Jesus before Jesus was born. In a conversation about their father Abraham, the apostles reported that Jesus said, “Before Abraham was born I AM.” That implies that Jesus could have authored or influenced Genesis 1. That’s right:  For all we know, Jesus is the-God of Genesis 1.

The reference to promiscuity entrepreneur Hugh Haefner could have asserted that “self-interest is belittled”. Instead, Hendrickson asks, “What’s in it for you?” to introduce negative and positive consequences.

There’s avoiding pregnancy, STD, and preventing psychological violence. Divorce turns children into victims and lessens the spouses’ financial strength.

Self-interest entails comprehension&intention to behave . . . for the-good. Poor people and politicians share immediate intentions: satisfaction and re-election, respectively. That’s because neither is part of a culture that encourages&facilitates humble-integrity as a human being: instead, they participate in U.S.-unconstitutional “freedom-of-religion”. But the civic-citizen avoids liabilities from treating fellow-citizens as objects. They are unlikely to be gullible to advertisers who promote sexual promiscuity.

Trying to express self-interest as a virtue dilutes the power of human intentions. Females and males who develop intentions to monogamy for life have incentives for “wisdom, character, maturity, and patience”. They are developing “integrity, self-restraint, self-discipline, and self-control” . . . in self-interest as well as mutual trust and commitment.

Self-interest protects the individual from gullibility to self-enslaving practices, such as pornography, promiscuity, mind-changing drugs and alcohol, and gender-choice-enslavement to the entrepreneur’s business plan. The civic-citizen develops responsible-human-independence rather than egocentric freedom&liberty or “God-given rights”. The-God, whatever it may be, will not usurp independence to the human-being, whether civic-fellow citizen or dissident, such as criminal or tyrant.

I hope most religious conservatives will consider the humble-integrity that is needed to develop responsible-human-independence rather than promoting traditional pride: faith in mystery.

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Quora

https://www.quora.com/To-what-extent-do-you-attribute-the-role-of-integrity-to-ones-success-in-life? by Ernia Kraanzi

Kraanzi, this may be the most profound question I have attempted to consider. Two words make the question subjective to the individual’s intentions for their person’s life: success and integrity. For example, the criminal who intends civil-liberty must perfect integrity-to their dependent practices against fellow-man.

I have come to think (neither believe nor know) that the human-individual can&should perfect their unique person during life. I’m certainly not the first to suggest unique, personal perfection. The political philosophy reported in Genesis 1:26-28 suggests that the female&male-human-being can&must independently provide order&fruitfulness to the living species and to the earth: the-God will not usurp humankind’s responsibility. Jesus expressed Genesis-1 if he said “Be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect”. And Ralph Waldo Emerson suggested Jesus meant that the human-being can perfect their person before dying.

Consequently, I define success in life as perfecting your unique person before death. This does not imply that your person is the most perfect human-being to have lived. Perfecting a human-being is now unlikely: I do not know of a race, civilization, culture, or nation that inculcates in their youth the intention to perfect their unique person during life. Therefore, at this time in history, such perfection is rare if attained at all. I accommodate so many habitual practices, late in my eighth decade; I don’t dream of success yet am working on it; I doubt my integrity.

Integrity is a practice more than a characteristic. Integrity is developed by retaining typical human-infantile confidence “I don’t know” when that is so. Thus, integrity is a humble process that prevents gullibility. Integrity mimics the research process that emerged from responsible-human-independence (RHI).

The process starts when someone perceives ineluctable evidence; evidence ”not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”. The first research-purpose is to discover whether the perception is evidence or a mystery/mirage. If mirage, the record is preserved for future retrieval in repetition or for application of future invention of a new way to perceive the mystery. If the evidence is affirmed, research is redesigned, in order to repeat the conclusion. If the positive-conclusion holds, research is redesigned to discover how to responsibly employ the evidence. If so, the discovery is made available to benefit humankind, remaining alert for new instruments of perception that could alter the usage. Thus, the research product is an objective truth (if perception-unknowns persist); if not it is the-ineluctable-truth. For example, that the earth is not flat, an objective truth, has been displaced by the-ineluctable-truth: earth is like a globe. By humble-integrity a person may gage their personal-integrity and self-discipline to achieve RHI.

These principles may immediately seem sensible to the reader’s experience&observations yet farfetched in today’s world. However, I think a culture of humble-integrity was proffered by sequential documents: the 1776 uSA declaration of war for independence from England plus the 1787 U.S. Constitution. The first separates church from state and the second proposes five public-disciplines “in order to” develop necessity&justice from generation to generation; to develop the humble-integrity required for RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”. The five disciplines are integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, leaving religion/none as a private, adult choice. The Bloody Revolution in France, 1789, informed humankind that freedom&liberty is too often mistaken as license to kill&destroy and is a diversion from RHI. The U.S. Constitution is amendable by “ourselves and our Posterity”.

The potential for success by adopting humble-integrity may be enough to motivate the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” to establish the U.S. that is intended according to Genesis 1, the 1776 Declaration, and the 1787 Constitution. If so, the first necessity is to amend the First Amendment so as to encourage&facilitate civic-integrity instead of imposing civil-religion, thereby establishing RHI from Anglo-American tradition, at last. Applying this political philosophy is not restricted to the United States, and the world would celebrate any nation establishing humble-integrity for RHI.

Kraanzi, I express appreciation for your question on my appreciations post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.

https://www.quora.com/Who-deserves-to-run-the-world-in-the-21st-century-and-beyond? by Bruno Uzoka

The individuals and associations who take seriously the necessity&justice that is expressed in Genesis 1:26-28: female&male human being can&must independently provide order&furuitfulness to the living species and to the earth:  Neither the-God nor a government can usurp the human-individual’s power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos in their way of living.

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-difference-in-when-people-show-nationalism-versus-patriotism? by Richard Joseph Strachan

Mr. Strachan, I chose to answer your question so as to learn; thank you.

The study reversed my regard for Phil Beaver’s attitude. I think the entity We the People of the United States accommodates tyranny against the people and can&must reform “ourselves and our Posterity”). The key is for most fellow-citizens to accept first that we are human-beings rather than animals, plants, minerals, dependents, stars, or souls.

Merriam-Webster online, for “nationalism” has this: a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups. And for “patriotism” this: love for or devotion to one's country. The real Phil Beaver is more nationalist than patriot.

Regarding nationalism, I think the 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers a representative republic predicated on public discipline, “in order to” encourage&develop responsible-human-independence (RHI) “to ourselves and our Posterity”. The 1787 Constitution is neither theistic nor religious. However, the ratification process in 1788 and the First Congress under 11 states (1789) imposed civil religion to mimic “the mother country” rather than carry out the 1776 Declaration and 1787 Constitution for independence. When the U.S. restores its 1787 intentions, the world will enter the possibility for an achievable better future. The first action the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” can&must effect is the amendment of the First Amendment so as to encourage&facilitate the individual&collective humble-integrity that is necessary for RHI. Thus, I think the-intended U.S. would be exemplary to other nations: the U.S. would be a celebrated leader of nations.

However, I think, the Congress and the Court imposing civil-religion under “Anglo-American tradition” has aided the domestic and foreign chaos humankind now experiences. I want to reform the U.S. “good People” (1776 Declaration). I appreciate the U.S. representative republic predicated on disciplined people in their states, accepting human necessity&justice, and practicing trust-in and commitment-to “ourselves and our Posterity” to continually develop statutory justice rather than elite tyranny. I neither love nor am devoted to the U.S. without these reforms. Before love and devotion there must be fidelity to intentions: RHI to everyone who accepts being-human.

I think I am an aspiring nationalist and work to become a patriot.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-one-thing-that-is-likely-to-cause-peace-among-our-society? by Christopher Kennedy

I think when 2/3 of the world’s inhabitants live in cultures that encourage&facilitate acceptances that 1) the individual is a human-being rather than an animal, plant, mineral, or soul, 2) that the human-being can&should develop individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to seek the happiness they perceive as their life unfolds, and 3) that humble-integrity rather than a dependency is key to successful development of their person there will be statutory justice that approaches peace.

I think the 2/3 would practice responsible-human-independence and most dissidents would observe the self-interest to reform. However, like everything else in physics, there will always be willful persons who demand some form of dependency: gaming welfare, plying religion, crime, tyranny, drugs, sex, and other self-enslavements.   

https://www.quora.com/Are-foreigners-not-considered-human-beings-for-nationalists? by Guilherme Seleme

I can only express my experiences&observations. It seems to me nationalists consider a person they encounter a human being unless the person expresses otherwise.

As far as I know, the dominant human being is homo sapiens, and the last homo-mix died off maybe 10,000 years ago. However, some h. sapiens chose to behave as animals, plants, minerals, or souls. I try to avoid such persons, whether domestic or foreign.

H. sapiens has made great discoveries, and it would not surprise me if the next homo is already among us --- maybe h. humilitatem, h. integritas or h. fidem.

https://www.quora.com/If-you-could-change-the-human-world-from-its-current-state-to-a-totally-new-paradigm-what-would-be-your-plan-of-action? by Jacob Berman

I would reform every Education Department to end “training the workers we need” to encouraging&facilitating each person taking charge of their quarter-century transition from newborn baby to young adult with the comprehension&intention to live a complete life as a human-being rather than animal, vegetable, mineral, or soul.

Most persons would enter young adulthood continuing to develop human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA). Additionally, they would employ HIPEA to practice humble-integrity rather than egocentric infidelity. They would perceive the self-interest of responsible-human-independence (RHI). They would base necessity&justice on the laws of physics and its progeny rather than on metaphysical opinion. Their support to law enforcement and to research for statutory justice would intend to reform dissident fellow-citizens excepting the ones who, in statutory justice, invite punishment.

For the first 2 decades, Education Departments would encourage&facilitate RHI to adults as well as to youth.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-is-an-illustratory-difference-between-ideals-principles-values-and-ethics? by Chibueze Prince

The person who chooses to be a human-being has the opportunity to develop the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to choose humble-integrity in every life-choice: what to eat, drink, think, say, study, and do, and so on.

As human-cultures evolved, chances for an individual to discover HIPEA and humble-integrity are small: most civilizations inculcate their youth to seek a higher power --- the-God, a government, or an ideal, or other. The few who develop their person as a human-being develop appreciation, open-mindedness, and open-heartedness. Eventually, they intend to perfect their unique person. Then they die. Rarely does a god-facing-death (gFD) die young.

A gFD welcomes the next generation, and listens-to them; knows that youth are qualified to manage a future the gFD cannot imagine; yet knows the youth can benefit from comprehending gFD errors, to avoid repeating them. The youth who want to develop their person speak with the gFD, in order to perfect “ourselves and our Posterity”.

Now, to your question, Prince, I choose my impressions from Merriam-Webster online, with my intention to support persons who intend to aid “ourselves and our Posterity”. “Ideals” means standards that almost surpass achievability. “Principles” means the laws&facts of physics that demand human necessity&justice. “Values’ means “to rate or scale in usefulness, importance, or general worth” to self-interest for responsible happiness. “Ethics” means the discipline of human-necessity&justice.

Ideally, our children will succeed as human-beings better than I do, because their parents encouraged&facilitated them to establish ineluctable principles more than metaphysics, because they value civic human-connections, and because they practice human-necessity&justice.

 

https://www.quora.com/What-is-more-important-integrity-or-empathy? by Josh

Consulting Merriam-Webster online, I choose “integrity” as “an unimpaired condition [and] being complete [and] undivided” and “empathy” as “the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it”.

The first leaves the standard of performance with reality and the second is a matter of appearance. The human-being can neither cajole integrity nor impose another person’s status. The other person is intolerant of another’s opinion.

Only integrity is important to the responsible-individual. Integrity is a practice more than a status: which part of the-ineluctable-truth did they recently discover&accept?

https://www.quora.com/Are-there-legal-rights-that-violate-human-rights? by Ashanti Patongao

I think the only justifiable human right is the opportunity to develop&practice the-humble-integrity that is required for responsible-human-independence (RHI) respecting physics and its progeny. Elected&appointed local, state, and national officials have the right to humble-integrity.

I don’t think my 2021 art changes the political-philosophy that was expressed more than 5,000 years ago --- 1,200 years before Abraham was born. Hebrew scholars recorded their views in Genesis 1:26-28. Applying humankind’s discoveries until now, necessity&justice are sufficient to interpret the ancient literature better than I do, as follows: The entity female&male-human-being is independently responsible --- can&must --- originate&develop order&fruitfulness to the living species and to the earth. That is to say, neither the-God (cited in the literature) nor a government can usurp the individual human-being’s responsibility to constrain chaos in their life. Eventually, physics corrects bad choices, yet no one knows the source of physics.

The Abraham mystery emerged from human-adolescence involving ancient insistence on third-party sexual intimacy: spousal infidelity. The third-party fights for opportunity for their offspring. The consequence of female&male infidelity is reliable chaos: the courts banish the third party and child. The chaos unleased by the Abraham mystery divergently burdens fellow-citizens in 2021.

The self-interest of fidelity for life is well documented, yet perhaps 1 in 7 marriages is monogamous to the spouses, their children, and any grandchildren: family monogamy for life: “Only 17 percent of human cultures are strictly monogamous.”

Heretofore, spousal rights under “the-rule-of-[legal-opinion]” do not accept that their descendants are, according to necessity&justice, persons entitled to dignity and security. The descendants’ personhoods are determined by physics but denied by law. Legal-precedence exacerbates the comedy called “the rule of [legal] law”, making the development of statutory justice nearly impossible.

Spousal “rights” to lessen voluntary-obligations to their descendants is a legal construct that is violent to physics and its progeny --- e.g., chemistry, biology, psychology, obligations, and imagination. Justices who aspire to be civic-citizens have the privilege of lessening the harm of erroneous-legal-precedent as well as “originalism”, which binds the living fellow-citizens to obsolete dissidence.

Similarly a male opines he is female against his self-interest. If he acts on the opinion, he voluntarily enslaves himself to the gender-change entrepreneurs. Court opinions that encourage&facilitate the entrepreneurs defy physics, which invites the slave’s ruin. Everybody knows that eventually, physics corrects legal “rights”, yet some people choose to lie to themselves. Neither the-God nor government can usurp ruinous choices (Genesis 1). However, government can be a civic-citizen by initiating &developing humble-integrity: it has that right.

https://www.quora.com/Treat-someone-with-honor-and-integrity-what-does-with-integrity-actually-mean? by Ibrahim

Integrity is indeed difficult; unfortunately, some people honestly never encounter integrity.

I think there are two essentials. First, appreciate the other party as a human-being and fellow-citizen, as they are and where they are, in their journey toward humble-integrity. Consequently, let your yes be “yes”, your no be “no”. Accept and admit to yourself, “I don’t know” when that is so and say the phrase.

Second, neither initiate nor accommodate injury to-or-from another person or association, including self and family. Kindly (unless under physical attack) object to someone’s intentions to injure. A civic-citizen never lies, knowing that physics&progeny (every reality, including metaphysics) eventually unfold the truth, perhaps delivering loss and misery.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Poll-if-someone-persecutes-you-do-they-deserve-your-respect-at-that-point? by Soli Vanquinne

Merriam Webster online suggests you reference “to cause to suffer because of belief”. In my fourth quarter century, I do not nourish beliefs. I commit-to and trust-in the-ineluctable-truth, often accepting that I do not know what I do not know. I work to be open-minded and open-hearted and accept other people’s informed-rejection of my opinion or person.

Nearing the end of my second quarter century, self-promoting religious “authorities” called me a heretic to mom and dad’s religions (competitive Southern Baptist). I stayed away from the church for 4 weeks, brooding, and then I returned and confronted the accuser. He responded, “I don’t want to discuss it, but I strongly disagree with you.” I never saw him again. But no man understands the-God’s appeal to me better than me.

Another authority told me my Catholic children were doomed by not being baptized by emersion after accepting Christ. I responded that the Catholic way might be better: sprinkling, education, then confirmation. He responded, ignorantly, “Yes, but confirmation is not a Sacrament.” I checked and returned the next week to correct his mistake. I also have not seen him since then.

I have studied Agathon’s speech from Plato’s “Symposium” for over a quarter century. I interpret his message as follows:  The appreciative citizen neither initiates nor accommodates injury to-or-from any person, association, or property, including self and family. I think necessity&justice require an offended party to inform the suspected offender, either directly, or, if injury might ensue, by reporting to first responders. Thereby, mistaken impressions can be clarified, and if there was an offense, the offender has the chance to confess and make amends.

Similarly, if friends decide to take the liberty to kill or injure person(s), or destroy property, necessity&justice requires departure to report their intentions to first responders.

Law professors

https://muckrack.com/glenn-moots

I am an active writer with the intention to persuade the 2021 majority of "ourselves and our Posterity" to amend the First Amendment so as to encourage&facilitate civic humble-integrity rather than civil religious-belief. I would like to write an article for your forum. With humble-integrity, fellow-citizens can develop responsible-human-independence for the happiness they want rather than submit to the vision someone else has for them. The human-being will accept nothing less.

These principles are affirmed by Genesis 1:26-28, skipping to the 1776 declaration by loyal colonists for relief from English oppressions and on to the 1787 U.S. Constitution.

My opinions to-help explore the-ineluctable-truth are developed on my blogs, promotethepreamble.blogspot.com and cipbr.blogspot.com, best read from the latest posts.

PRB’s introduction to “social science” pseudo-language

Searching for the Backfire Effect: Measurement and Design Considerations (nih.gov) suggested by JTM at JT McQuitty | Facebook. 8/11/2021.

JT, I agree. I think the “social science” scholars turn their “backfire effect” into TMI. The reported-bias is sponsored by Hewlitt Packard, who will pass the cost on to customers.

In the first place, “social science” is not research and development to discover the laws of physics and its progeny. It is the use of statistics, an often ruinous research-tool, to prove the author’s premise. And the author is neither researcher nor civic servant but an advocate, perhaps paid by a sponsor, often the U.S. Congress.

In recent decades, "social scientists” teemed with the media under the metaphysics that public opinion controls public policy, poll design controls public opinion, and the media reports the opinion. Unfortunately, the press has fallen into the “social sciences” media-network. Quoting the article, “One major problem is that beyond the scientific literature, the media and online science blogs have often over-generalized backfire effects found in subgroups to the population as a whole and to all corrective information”. The vital concern is that social poll-taking belongs in nether research results nor “scientific literature”. And the human-being is too powerful to be fooled by metaphysics.

(In perhaps 7 million years since bipeds emerged, homo sapiens is only 300,000 years old, with the last mixed-species having died off 10,000 years ago. Perhaps the next mutation, maybe homo integritas is already advancing humankind such that “ourselves and our Posterity” will establish responsible-human-independence, at last.)

The left vs right competitive paragraph, for example “a fictitious scenario detailing that right-wing politicians generally misappropriate public funds more than left-wing politicians” directly uses the familiarity backfire effect by repeating misinformation. I perceive bias in the use of “individuals” in this quote: “Liberal individuals, whose worldview aligned with the correction, were able to successfully update their belief, whereas conservatives increased their belief in the misconception”; I read it as some liberals . . . all conservatives. Even the terms “liberals” and “conservatives” are misused. For example, I am a responsible-happiness liberal and economic conservative; I advocate neither “freedom&liberty” nor civil-beliefs, preferring responsible-human-independence.

Phil Beaver | Facebook , 8/14/2021

The U.S. and the world are ripe for individuals and associations who take seriously the necessity&justice that is expressed in Genesis 1:26-28: female&male human being can&must independently provide order&furuitfulness to the living species and to the earth: Neither the-God nor a government can usurp the human-individual’s power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos in their way of living. Humble-integrity is in the individual's best-self interest.

I name the female first, because her body produces the eggs that have the potential for HIPEA if fertlized, gestated, encouraged&facilitated, during a quarter-century working for comperehension and intention to live a complete human life.

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.