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 appreciation: 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 proffer &
practice 5 public disciplines —- integrity, justice, safety, strength, and
prosperity, “in order to” encourage & facilitate
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 two weeks
Dependency
For the past 6,000 years, civilizations have inculcated in
their youth pursuit of a higher power to assure safety& security to “ourselves
and our Posterity”. Civil elites persuade civic-citizens to depend upon a higher power to
provide personal safety& security. Dependencies include religious beliefs,
indolence, crime, tyranny, and evil.
It takes a quarter century for an infant to transition to
young adult in pursuit of the happiness they may or may not perceive. Existing
Education Departments turn children with good intentions into fierce competitors and cheats.
Typically, a person’s middle 2 quarter centuries are spent trying to gain
advantage over fellow citizens. As a consequence, most civic-citizens struggle
for survival while elites enjoy lifestyles on par with most Congresspersons and
federal administrators.
The U.S. propaganda pattern was expressed in the 1960s in Bob Dylan’s
song “With God on Our Side”. God will be on our side when we accept the
suggestion in Genesis 1:28: humankind can& may independently pursue
safety& security to life on earth. That humankind can fullfill Dylan's hope, "stop the next war".
The chaos the U.S. is experiencing under the Biden
administration is offering “ourselves” a scarcely perceived, partisan well-being, by dooming “our
Posterity”s future. We, the civic-citizens, that is We the People of the United
States can stop the tyranny.
Quora
quora.com/What-societal-problem-would-you-like-to-solve?
by Andres
I received the question: “If you could fix just one problem in society,
what would it be?” I appreciate Andres’ creativity.
I would establish a culture that constrains dependency.
I’d do it by reforming Education Departments to aid each child and adult to
develop their unique human-being.
So far, humankind has evolved into accommodating elites who
continually construct new ways to persuade most people to accept dependency
instead of collaborating for responsible-human-independence (RHI).
Diabolically, the elites keep moving the political philosophy so as to entrap
most people. When 2/3 of inhabitants stop participating, an achievable better
future will emerge.
RHI was suggested by the succession of Sumerian kings, elites
who reigned in part of Mesopotamia about 5500 years ago. They thought their
Gods ruled the unseen but not the earth, so the kings devised politics in order
to manage collaborative slaves, workers, artisans, and administrators. The
civic collaborators constrained the dependents, practicing the worlds’ first
law codes. Dependencies included indolence, crime, and evil. The human duty was
order and prosperity on earth.
Once monotheism dominated political philosophy, chaos ensued
and became divergent. For example, today there are about 45,000 Christian
sects.
Humankind has exponentially researched physics and its
progeny such as biology and psychology, and in 2022, a person can be equipped
with a technological arm they can operate with their mind, even when it is
detached; thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/perth-kinross/1116107/feature-i-could-see-my-arm-detached-from-my-body-recalls-military-amputee-and-cateran-yomp-2020-ambassador-andy-garthwaite/.
Yet no elite has had the motivation to reform Education Departments
in-order-to aid each person’s quarter-century transition from feral infant to
young adult, with the comprehension and intention to live a complete human
lifetime. By “complete” I mean not only reaching chronological maturity but
attaining psychological maturity – independence from both internal and external
constraints.
In a RHI culture, from age about 3-7, the
individual behaves with civic-integrity yet responsibly pursues the happiness
they perceive in every decade of their lives. Maturity is achieved when they
never repeat an error, where error entails either cause or accommodation of
harm to-or-from another individual.
Dependency occurs when the person lives in habitual error,
never accepting the self-interest of the civic-integrity that is needed for RHI.
quora.com/Is-society-rejecting-postmodernism?
by Nobody
“Postmodernism is a movement that focuses on the reality of
the individual, denies statements that claim to be true for all people and is
often expressed in a pared-down style in arts, literature and culture. An
example of a thought of postmodernism is the idea that not all people would see
stealing as negative.”
I think postmodernism is
losing to civic-integrity. Totalitarianism and utopia are losing to
appreciation of unique opportunity to develop a human-being: one’s person.
Most considerate people perceive that responsible-human-independence (RHI) is
in their self-interest. And many are overcoming civil-fear, in order to
transparently practice, facilitate, and encourage republicanism instead of
democracy: the-rule-of-statutory-justice instead of social-chaos.
As soon as 2/3 of inhabitants
are participating in a RHI-culture, an achievable better future can& may
emerge.
quora.com/unanswered/What-is-the-history-of-the-idea-of-self-reliance?
by anonymous
I don’t know.
It’s best to search with the hyphen: “self-reliance”. There
are similar thoughts: self-assurance, self-knowledge, and self-respect, for
examples.
Searching “self-reliance” at plato.stanford.edu yields 1673
documents. The 11th one is the “Ralph Waldo Emerson” article, citing
1841 publication.
The Google ngram-viewer shows occasional usages in 1500 to
1800 with a “self-respect” spike in 1585. Both “self-respect” and
“self-reliance” have similar usage from 1820 until now.
Adding “trust” and “faith” to the ngram drives both
“self-reliance” and “self-respect” to zero relative frequency. “Faith” peaks in
1631, drops 10 fold by 1725 and competes with “trust” to about half the
1725-frequency today.
I read Emerson’s essay as a boy and it helped me ever since.
Unfortunately my self-reliance was suppressed by fear derived from listening
for approval from others. My life improved when I started listening to my wife
yet maintaining personal self-reliance.
quora.com/Does-the-US-need-an-equal-rights-amendment/answer/Phil-Beaver-1?
Reply to Eric
Consider the original
compound sentence:
We
the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,
promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves
and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United
States of America.
The
grammar conveys subject, intention, action, and object. The citizens who agree
to six intentions — form, establish, insure, provide-for, promote, and secure,
“ordain and establish” the Constitution.
On
acceptance/denial of both 1) the preamble’s 6 disciplines and 2) aiding the
Constitution, inhabitants divide themselves. Civic-citizens maintain statutory
justice and constrain dissidents.
Notice
that the religion is excluded from the disciplines. That’s because to be
civilly religious is a private rather than public choice. Legislation addresses
the disciplines, leaving religious accommodation to the individual. That is,
the individual cannot employ religion to avoid, change, or resist the law.
Note
also, that there are no standards for the 6 disciplines. The current generation
can& may amend the Constitution so as to develop statutory justice that
might be constrained by legal tradition.
For
example, the religion clauses in the First Amendment unconstitutionally grants
Congress freedom of religion at the expense of civic-citizens. A 75% majority
can& should amend the First Amendment to: Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or [promoting] the free exercise
thereof.
This
would eliminate Congress’s freedom to impose, for example, Catholic doctrine on
statutory justice. Congress itself can& may effect this reform. The impact
on U.S. citizens would be far reaching. For example, fellow citizen and Justice
Samuel Alito’s Roe v Wade victory for the Catholic Church could be reversed
with alacrity.
quora.com/How-is-equal-opportunity-measured?
by Samuel Waltner
The person who takes responsibility for their way of living
claims the opportunity they are due. The laws of physics and its progeny as
well as violence by a person or institution can deny success.
The viable ovum has shockingly low chance of encountering a
virile spermatozoon.
The fertilized ovum has low chance of attachment to the
womb. She/he is fortunate of their unique chromosome pairing promises viable
development.
The delivered baby has its innate limitations and is further
constrained by the distinct ignorance’s of her/his caretakers and community.
The child is constrained by the Education Departments that
oversee the psychology they would impose on the child and by the happiness-images
the media impose on the public.
The young adult is constrained by the jobs the global market
and their nation choose to impose on the current workforce.
Rare is the person whose early experiences& observations
instructed them that they live in a confused& conflicted world and that if
they don’t take charge to responsibly develop their person’s self-interest,
they will live and die an adolescent rather than achieve their person’s
psychological maturity – independence from both internal and external
constraints. I call this condition responsible-human-independence (RHI) with
civic-integrity. That is, mutual RHI among civic-citizens.
Not every child will discover& accept RHI and develop civic-integrity. Some
chose dependency, such as arrogant-religion, indolence, crime, tyranny, and
evil. The civic-citizens can& may establish statutory-justice, in order to
constrain dependent fellow-citizens.
This is not a new political philosophy. It is expressed
abstractly in Genesis 1:26-28, wherein Hebrew scholars interpret the political
philosophy suggested by the Sumerian civilization. Sumer developed between
10,000 years ago and 4,000 years ago. Their kingdoms were polytheistic and
perceived that their Gods either couldn’t or wouldn’t provide order&
prosperity on earth so Sumerians must.
Monotheism ushered in, and David imagined modifying the
Genesis-RHI suggestion to Judah’s God in Psalm 8. The Christian churches
canonized various Father, Son, and Holy Ghost mysteries in order to compete.
They were so competitive they created opposing monotheisms.
These 2 thousand years later, experiencing divergent-chaos,
civic-citizens can& may decide to accept the mysteries they are accustomed
to or none. Those who believe in salvation of the soul can accept its mystery,
in order to pursue safety& security on earth and into space. It seems
ineluctably evident that neither God nor government can usurp the human
responsibility for safety& security.
Each individual is alone, unless they perceive the
self-interest of civic-integrity, in order to develop RHI. With
civic-integrity, each unique person may responsibly develop the happiness they
perceive rather than submit to the life others would impose on them.
quora.com/Do-you-exist-for-the-sake-of-society-or-does-society-exist-because-of-you?
by Lawrence
The individual& society are mutually independent.
Individuals divide into groups based on either appreciation-to or arrogance
toward civic-integrity. “Civic” refers to reliable human connections&
transactions more than to civility or legality. Society has two major groups:
civic-citizens and dependents.
Society survives, because most individuals responsibly
pursue the happiness they want and aid each fellow-citizens’ opportunity to
civically pursue their different perceptions.
However, some citizens, for reasons they may-or-may-not
know, prefer dependency rather than civic-integrity. Dependencies include
religious beliefs, indolence, crime, tyranny, and evil.
To constrain the divided society, civic-citizens earn not
only to fund their lifestyle but to pay for infrastructure, including
development& maintenance of statutory-justice, which requires law
enforcement. The purpose of law enforcement is to notify dependent
fellow-citizens, constrain the harm they cause, facilitate reform, and
encourage success.
As long as most individuals are civic-citizens, most
dependents will reform, and society will survive.
Society seems in divergent chaos. Too many people think they
are too busy surviving to take time to hold government accountable to
civic-integrity. Perceiving no rule of law, government has grown itself. I
speculate that 2022 is a pivotal year, when most fellow citizens will take
self-interest in voting for candidates who continuously demonstrate civic-integrity
more than civil-power-grabbing.
Government develops itself independently. Citizens in
unnecessary government jobs can& may perceive opportunity to change to a
non-government career to assure opportunity to pursue the personal happiness
they want rather than to support government largess. Entrepreneurs who count on
government funding can& may transition to independence. Fellow citizens
can& may vote corrupt politicians out of office.
Facebook
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52/ August
2, 2022
I think postmodernism is losing to
civic-integrity. Totalitarianism and utopia are losing as individuals
increasingly appreciate their unique opportunity to develop a human-being:
one’s person. Humankind is the winner.
Most considerate people perceive that
responsible-human-independence (RHI) is in their self-interest. And many are
overcoming civil-fear, in order to transparently practice, facilitate, and
encourage republicanism instead of democracy: the-rule-of-statutory-justice
instead of social-chaos.
As soon as 2/3 of inhabitants are
participating in a RHI-culture, an achievable better future can& may
emerge.
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.
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