Here I intend to take a closer look at the terms; province, state, estate, real estate and property. The core of the project is to determine the etymology and the genesis of these terms in relation to the rights written about property. The conclusion shall illustrate the need to understand property and to gain a new respect for property.
The term "property" came about in the 13th century as a noun to describe someones land of special character. Special in that it wasn't owned directly by the crown, but by an individual citizen. The word "province" came about around the 14th century in very much the same way to denote land ruled by a higher power and means that there is a central power that rules the province. "State", as a polity, means to stand alone and comes from the root word "estate" which is a collective of properties held by an individual. "Real estate" is simply property that cannot be moved.
The period between the 12th and 14th centuries brought these terms into our lexicon and they all pertain to ownership of things with intrinsic value. The reason property was known as land of special character is that it was owned by an individual and not a government. This tells us that there was a sea change that shows how we view ownership of land. The 12th century is the outset of the high middle ages and is known as the beginning of the renaissance. The terms that defined our ownership of land stem from the age of enlightenment.
We need a new renaissance to reiterate the lands of special character.
It seems to me that we've allowed the term "property" to become archaic. This isn't a new tactic as we see anti-gun advocates question the terms used in the Constitution as antiquated and archaic. I needed to weave all of the terms describing land ownership together, to show that we are taking this word for granted. It's a land of special character because you own it, it is no longer public. It becomes your private property and is protected from confiscation without compensation. The Bill of Rights was written into the very beginning of the Constitution to denote their importance to stand the test of time and to never become antiquated.
I was inspired to write this over some trivial act. The other day, I was getting ready to pull out of my driveway and I had to wait for a slow, meandering cellphone zombie walking her dog. As she cleared my driveway she walked her dog right into my front yard. I rolled my window down and told her to not let her dog do its business on my lawn. She replied with the most ignorant retort; "I have bags and will pick it up!" I didn't ask you to pick up your dog's business. I told you to not let it do its business on MY property. I pointed to all of the public lands around us and told her to take her dog there.
I shouldn't have to tell anyone how important property rights are, but when I have to tell people to stop trespassing on and disrespecting my property, we have a real problem in this country.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Black Swan
black swan
/blak/ /swän/
The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight
Many young voters today in the U.S. were too young at the time of the attacks on this country in the dawning of the 21st century, to have reasonable opinions of their own about those attacks. As a member of a generation that was just taking the helm of this country from the previous generation, I find it hard to reason the attacks, myself. The generation before us spent their time battling the march of communism from Korea to Vietnam and then comes religious extremists from a minority religion to attack us.
We could call these events, "black swan events" and they define the delineation between the generations. My generation was taught to respect the symbols of our country such as the flag and the servicemen who fight for our ideals. On the same token we were given a revisionist history of the events that occurred in our recent past, namely the Vietnam War. We had to hate the war but not our countrymen who fought against socialism.
We have these labels of generations; "The Greatest Generation", "The Babyboomers", "Generation X", "Generation Y", "Millennials", each defined by how they interpret past events that the previous generation lived. This is the "black swan theory".
We cannot define this theory by broadly painted events. The Great War was not a black swan event, however the assassination of Ferdinand was the event. World War II was not the event, the attack at Pearl Harbor was the event.
To find a commonality in all of these events, each generation will come up with a different theory. To boil it down with reason and objectivity, aren't all of these events connected by imperialism?
All major powers seek empire and many have held empires. Let us agree, if for only a moment, that the major wars of the past century were fought against empire. Even Muslims fighting against the United States empire.
What is the result of global empire? Well, if it's based on the ideology that you hold dear, it's a great world of unison. If it is based on an ideology anathema to yours, then it is an oppressive world of division. You're always going to have thesis and antithesis. Every clash between two ideologies leads to an event that we retroflect upon in order to make sense of it, or to bring the event into some form of synthesis.
Before I lose you, everything has its antithesis. Hot has cold, light has dark. In the middle, is the grey area, the commonality, the compromise, the synthesis. "Black swan" theory suggests that we are always looking for that compromise to lessen the blow of some catastrophic event.
The terrorist attacks using fully fueled aircraft to destroy human lives as well as infrastructure, was a black swan event in that it lead to a reactive resolve of war against muslim extremists. Yes, we heard it over and over "the resolve of the American people". However, a generation came up hearing that it was our empire-building that was the reason for war in Iraq, never mind the hunt for Bin Laden, they focused on Iraq. Their only rationalization was that the US was truly evil and probably deserved to be attacked. This thought, essentially, became a paradigm overnight and was exacerbated by the election of the socialist Obama. Here we were a few years after a major attack on our soil, against our freedoms, and we elected a man who made it his goal to have the government take control of, not just the means of production, but everything about American life.
The irrational thought of the last decade paints our country as the source of evil in the world. This thought wasn't just contained within our own borders, it was widely held by many, if not all, up and coming socialist countries.
Nikita Khrushchev, debated with, then secretary of state, Nixon in what has become known as the "Kitchen Debate". It was an open clash between communism and capitalism while touring a model home of the future. Khrushchev speaks of the future as a world embracing communism as an inevitability. Since that meeting, the world has seen the collapse of socialist republics at the behest of the United States.
We were the killers of socialism on a global scale. It has only been in recent years that many of the citizens of this country have renounced that label, vehemently admonishing capitalism. The rest of the world seems to be going in the other direction and throwing off socialism with BRIEXIT and the hyperinflation collapses that are plaguing socialist countries.
This, short, turnaround to being anti-capitalist leaves this country alone in a world that is embracing capitalism. We are a capitalist system, so it isn't going to hurt the country to fully embrace it once again. This, is the newest black swan event.
The 2016 elections saw a huge group of conservative presidential candidates get wiped out by a pure capitalist business man and the socialists are blaming Russia. This statement about 2016 shouldn't need any further explanation into what happened with the election. This was a black swan event perpetrated by foreign powers to stop the march of socialism in this country.
So, the return of this country to its rightful position as socialist-killer is going to be muddied by the irrational thought of a rigged election that, ironically, killed socialism.
So, we need all of the information to make a rational conclusion of recent events. We are not getting this information. The media has become a government mouthpiece, an activist tool. The commentary is designed to push your thought in a particular direction. After all, they wouldn't like to go the way of viewer attrition as is the way of free market capitalism. No, they want government control, to take money from you to prop them up and to continue the narrative. That, my friends, is yellow journalism, an effective tool of the socialists from Marx to Castro. You see, if one can paint a perfect yet fictitious world, people will want to by it, consume it and make it a reality against every odd. That's the sacrifice of the proletariat.
The greatest capitalist president since George Washington, sits in the White House as we speak and is making America Great Again by returning us to the socialist-killing country we once were. This is our Black Swan Event.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
The Road
Finding memories in the songs we hear is pretty powerful. I'm sitting here listening to an eighties rock album "Adrenalize" and it reminds me of high school. Then it leads me to the road I've traveled since then.
I know what you're thinking; "Oh no, another memory lane flashback", but it's not. It's just in that music from the past inspired me today. Well, it's not completely the music. I'm now working out with a bicycle to lose weight and get back into shape. I want to live longer and this is what I have to do. The memories brought on by music and that old road of life, inspire me.
Def Leppard is road trip music and I was just on the road today to find a cycling route for my workout. I used to run to get into shape, but I have too many doctors, orthopedic surgeons, podiatrists, and such telling me to never run or even walk again to burn calories. I'm not exaggerating, my podiatrist even went so far as to say he wishes he could tell everyone that running and jogging is the worst thing you can do for your feet, knees and back.
On the road this morning, it felt good. I have a long journey ahead of me, but it feels good. It gets me thinking about where I want to go and that destination is, of course, my goal. When I listen to music that takes me back to the eighties, I ask myself if where I am currently was my goal back then. I have answer that question with"No".
That's the thing about our lives. We love music, we set goals, we live, but we never really know where we'll end up. I'm happy where I've ended up even though it's been one rough road. I think we hit an age where we eventually see the road smooth out, but that rough old road is always there and we just need to be reminded of that road.
My goal won't fulfill itself identically as I have envisioned, but I will achieve results that will make me happy. When I was in basic training for the Navy, our company commander had a great philosophy about goals. I'll be paraphrasing, but he said that goals don't mean anything, they are just plans and aren't real so make them unrealistic. Set your goals outrageously high. Set them so high that no one can even think they are achievable. That way, as you go down the road towards your goal, where ever your stopping point may be, it will be great.
I know what you're thinking; "Oh no, another memory lane flashback", but it's not. It's just in that music from the past inspired me today. Well, it's not completely the music. I'm now working out with a bicycle to lose weight and get back into shape. I want to live longer and this is what I have to do. The memories brought on by music and that old road of life, inspire me.
Def Leppard is road trip music and I was just on the road today to find a cycling route for my workout. I used to run to get into shape, but I have too many doctors, orthopedic surgeons, podiatrists, and such telling me to never run or even walk again to burn calories. I'm not exaggerating, my podiatrist even went so far as to say he wishes he could tell everyone that running and jogging is the worst thing you can do for your feet, knees and back.
On the road this morning, it felt good. I have a long journey ahead of me, but it feels good. It gets me thinking about where I want to go and that destination is, of course, my goal. When I listen to music that takes me back to the eighties, I ask myself if where I am currently was my goal back then. I have answer that question with"No".
That's the thing about our lives. We love music, we set goals, we live, but we never really know where we'll end up. I'm happy where I've ended up even though it's been one rough road. I think we hit an age where we eventually see the road smooth out, but that rough old road is always there and we just need to be reminded of that road.
My goal won't fulfill itself identically as I have envisioned, but I will achieve results that will make me happy. When I was in basic training for the Navy, our company commander had a great philosophy about goals. I'll be paraphrasing, but he said that goals don't mean anything, they are just plans and aren't real so make them unrealistic. Set your goals outrageously high. Set them so high that no one can even think they are achievable. That way, as you go down the road towards your goal, where ever your stopping point may be, it will be great.
Monday, July 16, 2018
Life Change
So, fuck cancer. That's the creed muttered by cancer patients worldwide. We go on social media and spell it out in one word led with a hashtag. We wear t-shirts with the words emblazoned on the front and back. "Fuck Cancer" is our mantra.
When adenocarcinoma struck me, I was in the middle of accelerating my life; a wife, new job and moving up in the world. The call came while I was at my step-son's home, loading a moving van with the last of our stuff to move to Missoula Montana. The call that changed my life.
The summer of 2015 was a great summer. I took my, then girlfriend, to Conner Montana for her birthday. The East Fork of the Bitterroot river is a spectacular area and it just so happens a good friend of mine has a place up there and we stayed there for my, now, wife's birthday. I woke up the next morning with a hacking cough.
A month later, Memorial Day, I was engaged to the love of my life. July 24th, 2015 I married that wonderful gal. The cough persisted.
Life changes led to jobs and a new home in Missoula Montana. It was March 2016 and we were in Helena picking up the last of our stuff to take to Missoula. I had just undergone numerous tests with the VA for the cough. I remember I was struggling with some heavy boxes when my phone rang. It was a doctor. The images of my lungs, showed a mass. My mind raced and I don't remember much as my whole world changed. Within a week I was undergoing surgery and setting up appointments for chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
Now, those changes just prior to being diagnosed with cancer were an important chapter in my life and not just on the surface; new job, new home, new wife, but these were important building blocks to be in place for the 6 months of my treatments. The cancer center that saved my life was literally down the street from our new home. My wife is so amazingly strong and cared for me through the entire process. It all happened for a reason and that reason was for me to survive cancer.
I can say "Fuck Cancer" because I had a network of people who made me a survivor. The changes, however, didn't stop after treatment.
I was determined to make the summer of 2017 the best ever as a way to make up for the summer of 2016. That didn't work, because just as the activities began, wildfires broke out around the state. My lungs went through a lot during treatment and the smoke from wildfires was just intolerable.
With the summer of 2017, the first year of recovery, a bust my wife and I spent Thanksgiving in Southern Utah. It was this journey that I asked my wife what she thought about moving to Utah. It was a surprisingly quick answer of "sure". I feel it was easy to make the decision because there were negative issues piling up in Montana. For me, the biggest factor was the weather and I just have to have warm, hot, weather.
The residual effects of surviving cancer manifest themselves in other health issues. I mean, after all, they poisoned me for six months, killing all of my cells in hopes that only the good cells would grow back. I do have kidney issues and breathing issues. One would think that my health would get a huge boost from all the water I drink now instead of pop, but one would be wrong. Yes, it is healthier, but my metabolism is so slow now. During chemo I had a huge craving for carbs that just hasn't gone away. With the kidney issues, I also have to watch my protein intake and this screws with my weight too.
This blog sounds like a journal entry, and it really is an entry onto a blog directly from my thoughts. I've had a lot of changes in the last six years since I used Blogger and the last three are head spinning changes. I'm a married home owning cancer survivor in a completely new environment. It was a huge risk to pick up and leave Montana, but it has worked out and I'm finding that life changes, no matter how radical, have just as good a chance as being bad or good. Quite frankly, life changes are both good and bad, it just depends on which you dwell upon.
I'm happy, my wife is happy and life is adjusting just fine to the change. The next step will be taking back control of my overall health. I'm starting a diet and workout regimen that should have me back to a healthy weight by the end of the year. As I stated above, the wildfires of 2017 affected my recovery and that means recovery now begins in this new home. I'm glad I took the risk of change, in every action I've made. It has saved my life and I feel it will continue to serve me well. Embrace change.
When adenocarcinoma struck me, I was in the middle of accelerating my life; a wife, new job and moving up in the world. The call came while I was at my step-son's home, loading a moving van with the last of our stuff to move to Missoula Montana. The call that changed my life.
The summer of 2015 was a great summer. I took my, then girlfriend, to Conner Montana for her birthday. The East Fork of the Bitterroot river is a spectacular area and it just so happens a good friend of mine has a place up there and we stayed there for my, now, wife's birthday. I woke up the next morning with a hacking cough.
A month later, Memorial Day, I was engaged to the love of my life. July 24th, 2015 I married that wonderful gal. The cough persisted.
Life changes led to jobs and a new home in Missoula Montana. It was March 2016 and we were in Helena picking up the last of our stuff to take to Missoula. I had just undergone numerous tests with the VA for the cough. I remember I was struggling with some heavy boxes when my phone rang. It was a doctor. The images of my lungs, showed a mass. My mind raced and I don't remember much as my whole world changed. Within a week I was undergoing surgery and setting up appointments for chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
Now, those changes just prior to being diagnosed with cancer were an important chapter in my life and not just on the surface; new job, new home, new wife, but these were important building blocks to be in place for the 6 months of my treatments. The cancer center that saved my life was literally down the street from our new home. My wife is so amazingly strong and cared for me through the entire process. It all happened for a reason and that reason was for me to survive cancer.
I can say "Fuck Cancer" because I had a network of people who made me a survivor. The changes, however, didn't stop after treatment.
I was determined to make the summer of 2017 the best ever as a way to make up for the summer of 2016. That didn't work, because just as the activities began, wildfires broke out around the state. My lungs went through a lot during treatment and the smoke from wildfires was just intolerable.
With the summer of 2017, the first year of recovery, a bust my wife and I spent Thanksgiving in Southern Utah. It was this journey that I asked my wife what she thought about moving to Utah. It was a surprisingly quick answer of "sure". I feel it was easy to make the decision because there were negative issues piling up in Montana. For me, the biggest factor was the weather and I just have to have warm, hot, weather.
The residual effects of surviving cancer manifest themselves in other health issues. I mean, after all, they poisoned me for six months, killing all of my cells in hopes that only the good cells would grow back. I do have kidney issues and breathing issues. One would think that my health would get a huge boost from all the water I drink now instead of pop, but one would be wrong. Yes, it is healthier, but my metabolism is so slow now. During chemo I had a huge craving for carbs that just hasn't gone away. With the kidney issues, I also have to watch my protein intake and this screws with my weight too.
This blog sounds like a journal entry, and it really is an entry onto a blog directly from my thoughts. I've had a lot of changes in the last six years since I used Blogger and the last three are head spinning changes. I'm a married home owning cancer survivor in a completely new environment. It was a huge risk to pick up and leave Montana, but it has worked out and I'm finding that life changes, no matter how radical, have just as good a chance as being bad or good. Quite frankly, life changes are both good and bad, it just depends on which you dwell upon.
I'm happy, my wife is happy and life is adjusting just fine to the change. The next step will be taking back control of my overall health. I'm starting a diet and workout regimen that should have me back to a healthy weight by the end of the year. As I stated above, the wildfires of 2017 affected my recovery and that means recovery now begins in this new home. I'm glad I took the risk of change, in every action I've made. It has saved my life and I feel it will continue to serve me well. Embrace change.
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Six Years.
The indefinite continued progress of existence and events. But six years? Isn't that a definite bloc of time?
My last blog was six years ago and it is defined by the time in which it was written, the Germans have a word for it; "zeitgeist". Time Spirit or the spirit of the time. It is fascinating how this continued march of existence is indefinite, yet certain blocks of it can be defined by the events and through those who existed in that time.
Six years ago I was just a college graduate with my sights set on going big in the world. The leadership in the country was still shaky after terrible attacks a decade earlier. I didn't necessarily make it big, but I did make a series of good choices. The old adage "Only time will tell" is true in this progressive line of events. Many of my choices seemed to be guided by divinity, I'm not saying I'm divine, but some of the choices were made and the results were surprising. My choice to put myself on the dating website led me to meeting my wife. My choice to move to a city just to effect change in my life, put me within walking distance of the cancer center that would, in time, save my life. Even my choice of schooling led me to meeting, working for and be helped by my veteran's representative and she is the one who helped my with my disabilities.
The choices I made were guided by the zeitgeist, spirit of the time. My mother died and I went to college. I found the most awesome veteran's representative while attending college. My degree led me to a job in the city where I met my wife. I wanted a better city for my wife, so we moved to the city where I eventually needed to go anyway after the diagnosis of cancer.
Six years of events that have now defined a major period, or era, of my story. Six years that have led me to where I am today, far from where I was a mere, well, six years ago.
With this new era comes all of the good that happened in the last six years. To move forward I left all the bad in the last era. That's right, I left all the bad stuffed into the past and brought with me all the good things to continue this indefinite continued progress of events. Some of the things that I had to leave behind actually surprised me and, yet, they will stay in the past. Some of the things that I am bringing with me into the new era are simply amazing; my wife, our new house, my second year of remission.
Some will tell you that you should repair the bad things in your past before moving on. To this I say, rubbish, literally, trash it. and leave it behind. There's no point in holding on to broken things from your past in hopes of fixing them one day. Remember, this is a continuous progression, defined by the things you do in those moments. Don't define your past with failed repairs. Accept the bad and move on, carrying the good with you.
I'm back on Blogger.com
My last blog was six years ago and it is defined by the time in which it was written, the Germans have a word for it; "zeitgeist". Time Spirit or the spirit of the time. It is fascinating how this continued march of existence is indefinite, yet certain blocks of it can be defined by the events and through those who existed in that time.
Six years ago I was just a college graduate with my sights set on going big in the world. The leadership in the country was still shaky after terrible attacks a decade earlier. I didn't necessarily make it big, but I did make a series of good choices. The old adage "Only time will tell" is true in this progressive line of events. Many of my choices seemed to be guided by divinity, I'm not saying I'm divine, but some of the choices were made and the results were surprising. My choice to put myself on the dating website led me to meeting my wife. My choice to move to a city just to effect change in my life, put me within walking distance of the cancer center that would, in time, save my life. Even my choice of schooling led me to meeting, working for and be helped by my veteran's representative and she is the one who helped my with my disabilities.
The choices I made were guided by the zeitgeist, spirit of the time. My mother died and I went to college. I found the most awesome veteran's representative while attending college. My degree led me to a job in the city where I met my wife. I wanted a better city for my wife, so we moved to the city where I eventually needed to go anyway after the diagnosis of cancer.
Six years of events that have now defined a major period, or era, of my story. Six years that have led me to where I am today, far from where I was a mere, well, six years ago.
With this new era comes all of the good that happened in the last six years. To move forward I left all the bad in the last era. That's right, I left all the bad stuffed into the past and brought with me all the good things to continue this indefinite continued progress of events. Some of the things that I had to leave behind actually surprised me and, yet, they will stay in the past. Some of the things that I am bringing with me into the new era are simply amazing; my wife, our new house, my second year of remission.
Some will tell you that you should repair the bad things in your past before moving on. To this I say, rubbish, literally, trash it. and leave it behind. There's no point in holding on to broken things from your past in hopes of fixing them one day. Remember, this is a continuous progression, defined by the things you do in those moments. Don't define your past with failed repairs. Accept the bad and move on, carrying the good with you.
I'm back on Blogger.com
Monday, October 8, 2012
Rational Thinking
In the Pacific Northwest there is a developing situation where thousands of people are finding themselves floating ten feet off the ground. New cases of flying humans are being reported by the hour. More on this situation as it develops.
This, of course, is pure fiction and no one would ever believe it is truly happening, or at least no rational human being could believe it to be true. What is the key rationalization in this story? It's easy to see that it defies the laws of physics. Therefore rational thought based in these laws and norms dictates that the situation is irrational and untrue.
This is a simple example of how rational thought works. The trivium is a more in depth method for rationalization. The three parts of the trivium dictate the path of rational thought. You must know the language or grammar, and this is the first step in the trivium. The second step is interpretation of that language or the symbols of language. Imagine interpreting sign language and how it is used to communicate. This is the rhetoric. The final step in the trivium is "logic" and the knowledge of the language and the interpretation, or rhetoric, of communication. The key in all three steps of the trivium is to have knowledge. Friedrick Douglass, an American slave, learned this lesson from the wife of his owner. Douglass pursued his desire to read and write. The mistress of the household was willing to aide him in his pursuit of higher education, but the master of the household scolded her for this act. It is from Douglass' story that we get the mantra; "Knowledge is Power". To expand this line of thought we need to look at art, music and geometry, as these being added to the trivium become the quadrivium which is a higher level of thought that leads to enlightenment. An example is a painting that depicts an entire thought. We've all heard the phrase; "A picture is worth a thousand words" and this is part of the quadrivium and can be thought of as symbology or symbolism. The freemasons are well known for their symbolism that are intended to be interpreted by the members of their society. This is esoteric communication. Most non-masons know that the "square and compass" symbol is the sign of the Freemasons, but that's about as far as their knowledge of masonic symbology goes. In this respect, non-masons are oppressed in knowing the way of the mason, just as Douglass was oppressed in the way of white society through illiteracy. The difference being, we don't feel it necessary to know more about the masons and if we do feel it necessary we can become a mason. This is the reason they are known as a secret society. So let's link this right now to the term "rational thinking" because it is rationed by your level of knowledge. Not everyone can, or will be, a mason and its esoteric language is therefore rationed.
Going back to the fictional story of floating people, knowledge of physics tells us that this story is fictional. People could be led to believe this is true, because they have no rational thought, they haven't the knowledge in physics required to make a rational decision. Other's may even think they have rational thought and try to contemplate why people would be floating. This group is where I'd like to concentrate the rest of this essay.
Some people believe what they are told and believe they are knowledgeable and rational enough to believe what they are told. They would believe the "floating people" story and use their limited knowledge to rationalize the story. Perhaps they know something about gas/blood diseases such as the bends or nitrogen in the blood and try to rationalize helium in the blood. Or they may know something about geomagnetic physics and rationalize too much metabolized iron acting upon a quirky magnetosphere. There is a great term that I'd like everyone to keep in mind; "He/She has just enough knowledge to be dangerous".
The idea of helium or even excessive amounts of iron in the blood are completely ridiculous, but what about a less ridiculous situation, one that is not fiction. A man with no atmospheric chemistry and physics (ACP) background who manipulates the entire population of the planet through ACP. This man had grown up on a tobacco and cattle farm, went off to school to major in government and had a penchant for science and math although he did very poorly in those subjects during his education. Where this man's rational thought became corrupted is when he felt, through his passion for science theory and math theory, that he had become knowledgeable in science and math when in reality he had a passion for theory and not fact. Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" shouldn't be taken as a truth, but a theory. When the theory is put into the scientific method of rationalizing its possibilities, there are far more scientists that disagree that anthropogenic global warming is occurring. It sounds possible, but is not probable, because the earth is warming, but there is no way miniscule amounts of carbon dioxide attributed to the human race are causing it. When scientists, believing humans were to blame, failed to actually place global warming on human activity, they changed the nomenclature to "climate change". It is easier to prove that we affect changes in the atmosphere, just as it is easy to say that a volcanic eruption can change the weather. However, they are still trying to rationalize that we are causing adverse effects in our weather. This is irrational, because it still gravitates around carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which is less than 1% of its heterogeneous mixture of gases. In chemistry there are stable elements and unstable elements, depending on the number of electrons in orbit around the nucleus of atoms or weak bonds and strong bonds. The reason for such low levels of CO2 in the atmosphere is attributed to weak bonds or an unstable molecule. This is why plants exist and why we, as a result of plant propagation, exist. Plants can easily strip the oxygen from the carbon for us in their metabolic processes. I could go on about ice core data from the Cretaceous period that suggests that extremely high levels of CO2 led to vast amounts of vegetation and the largest animals to ever walk the earth, but people would get bored with the rationalization that human activities have no real affect upon the earth's climate, but a tobacco farmer with a degree in government and a passion for scientific theory would like you to believe otherwise. As a skeptic, it is easy to rationalize the known, but difficult to overcome the unknown and leads to questions like "Why would Al Gore want to promote that anthropogenic CO2 is detrimental to life on earth?" This is where speculation or theories come in to corrupt rational thinking and limited knowledge makes the skeptic dangerous. We can look at Carbon Taxes and rationalize that this is just a money-making scheme. We can also look at increased regulation of energy, which everyone needs, and see this theory as a form of human-control. Somewhere in there, we can almost find the answers, but they are still irrational due to the esoteric language of those involved who are not rationing knowledge to us and therefore remain secretive. By nature of the trivium, skeptics are dangerous, but they are not irrational. It is a paradox that cannot be broken. A skeptic will tell you that people were not floating above the ground in the Northwest, but they cannot prove themselves against the words of others who say that people were floating because one can not prove a negative. The pursuit to prove a negative is how people become dangerous.
Bigotry is the reason I've written this essay, or more precisely the act of labeling people as "racists" in political discourse. It is an irrational thought to label someone a bigot in any debate, because it forces the person being labeled to attempt to prove a negative. Any attack upon a person's character always leads to this irrational situation. The normal response that is often used is one that attempts to only qualify them as not being a bigot such as "I'm a minority. How can I be racist?" which can never be objective when you feel you are a minority. This is the paradox; if you are still thinking of the human race in terms of minority and majority, you still see sexes, races, creeds and so forth. When you see the human race in those terms, you see superior and inferior aspects ("minority" and "majority" are analogous to "superior" and "inferior") and therefore are, by definition, bigoted.
The case in point is the governmental office that is dominated by caucasian presidents. The majority of U.S. presidents are white. When there are no other criteria, when examining our past presidents, to categorize them as majority or minority,,,,there is no majority nor minority. An African-American now sits in the office of the President. Now there are two categories for U.S. Presidents, in the eyes of those that still see individual races, hence a majority and a minority. Our nation's populace is basing these presidents on the color of their skin and Barack Obama is now a minority. Think for a moment that, in biological terms, there are nearly as many men as there are women in this world. If there are 4 billion women and 4 billion and one men, women would be labeled a minority. One man neither makes a minority nor a majority, yet this is how we view the office of the president. John F. Kennedy must have been a minority in his time for he was the first Catholic president to ever be elected in this country. But was he a minority? Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush must have been minorities, for they were both pariahs of the office of president when most others were venerated and are honored. The more criteria to base our thoughts of these men on, the more we can see their individuality, but this does not make them superior or inferior to other presidents for the power of the presidency is finite and regulated by the congress and the People. When the People become upset with how the president acts on their behalf, the People express their grievances and tend to move into debate with those who agree with the actions of the president. The highest form of rational debate would be the use of our customs and our constitutional form of government. The lowest form of debate would be the use of ethnicity as a foundation for thought and is irrational. Yet, this is what we see in this country in the debate for electing our president. The level of irrational thought has forced rational people to try and prove the negative and this has completely wrecked the process of election.
I have witnessed this phenomena over and over again. I have a passion for studying the zeitgeist, not to be trendy, but to get a better view of this nation and where it may be heading. Currently, racial division is tearing the country apart. Political division; Left versus Right, is tearing this country apart. A battle between supposed inferior and superior ideologies is tearing this country apart. The lack of rational thinking and debate on all of these fronts is killing this nation. An example that has me completely confounded is a simple debate I had with a person on Twitter. I find Twitter to be an amazing resource when studying the zeitgeist, or the "spirit" of the culture, and its dynamic flow. I follow many people whom I don't even know, to see how they view things and how their views all contrast one another. I even see how all of these individuals also align themselves too. One Tweeter in particular left me completely aghast at the level of irrational thought in this country.
Known to the Twitterverse only as LiberalJaxx, this person seemed to show some rational thought and is quite knowledgeable in history. LiberalJaxx also has many followers, so following her led to a wealth of information. One day she started tweeting that all conservatives are racists and that everyone should support Obama. There are many staunch supporters for Obama, but this one tweet of her's rubbed me the wrong way, so I entered the fray of Twitter Debate:
Jaxx: Pat Buchanan calls Obama "a drug dealer of welfare." I guess that would make Pat a crystal meth lab of racism."
Me: the ignorance of crying racism is sad.
Jaxx: I am an Obamanoid sick of you klansmen, and?
Me: Let me ask you, Jaxx, are U defending Obama's race when you attack those who criticize him?
Right here is where I wanted to see some rational thought in the response. I wanted to know what she was defending. After all, this was a debate about welfare programs and not race. Here's where she threw rationality out the window:
Jaxx: if you must know. In your ignorance of blowing off Obama's plight, I am of mixed race just as he is and am offended daily by (tweet ended due to character-count restrictions. Continues in next tweet)
Jaxx: bigoted small minded fucks like yourself. Diff between POTUS and myself is he handles the hate with more grace than I do.
At this point, I failed to steer the debate because there is no steering ignorance. I was simply going to end with an aphorism.
Me: Racism: The shield behind which liberals cower from honest debate.
Oh, but it doesn't end, but sheds a rather interesting light on her thought process. (very probable that it is a continuation of posts due to character-count restrictions)
Jaxx: and I have taught my children all about ppl like you just like every other minority parent. In 50 yrs or so, YOUR kind=minority
Jaxx: and I block racist bigots like yourself. Can't have trash polluting and pissing in my twitter stream.
This person has a huge following on Twitter (4717 currently) and she weeds out people who don't view things the way she does. She injected so much "race" into a political issue that she simply does not realize that she was the racist in the whole thing. She even so much as predicts that my "kind" will be a minority in 50 years. What esoteric knowledge does she possess that led her to such a conclusion? She is, after all, still thinking of the human race in terms of minority and majority. That is expected in a culture where that paradigm is so heavily strengthened by history, but should a rational person use it to win a debate, to become superior in an argument over bigotry? Of course not, for that is bigotry in and of itself. This is the paradox. Shall we call it the paradox of irrational thought due to dogmatic knowledge? Irrational thought has become a religion unto itself. Do as Jaxx does and shut out anything that may tear down your beliefs and surround yourself with like-minded believers while avoiding honest debate with ignoratio elenchi. Logical fallacy is the order of the day in this country, it is the new religion where hope hinges on ignorance and the fallacy of superiority or majority. But this leads to the other paradox in rational thought, we know what is, but we don't know why. We don't have enough information to rationally think "Why?", because there is no longer any honest debate to gather that knowledge. She is of "mixed race". She taught her children all about people like me. There's a fallacy right there, she doesn't know me. She is offended, daily, by bigots. Could it be that her beliefs are what makes others offensive? She is seeking commonality in those she associates with and that number seems to be 4717 people that are like-minded.
With all of the information, a picture is formed. That esoteric symbolism of plight, of struggle. An introvert would surely think they are worthy of equality no matter what their character is. I often wish she hadn't blocked me before I could tell her that I, too, am of mixed race, Metis, but would that have made any difference? Of course not, because I would have fallen into the paradox of irrational thought. That is not enlightening. To be truly enlightened is to break away from that completely and realize that we are both of the human race where there are no minorities.
This is the current zeitgeist in this country; everything is boiled down to ethnic groups. Division springs from these groups. Unity is but a dream, derision is the order of the day. To further analyze this, is to go down a much deeper rabbit hole where the esoteric meets rational thought. A place where the derision has formed blockades to knowledge.
There is little or no argument that Jaxx has just enough knowledge to be dangerous. She feels rational, yet she is subjective and has little use for the trivium. Her struggle is indicative of a divide between her beliefs and the beliefs of others. There are many divides in this country, but her struggle is rooted in race. Over one hundred years ago there was a war in this country over secession; another derision. There was a struggle to maintain slavery in one half of the country while the other half was struggling to end it. It doesn't take a history major to KNOW how that turned out, but it does take some deeper knowledge to realize that not all slaves were black. In fact many indentured servants were white. Immigrants, regardless of race, were obligated, or indebted, to servitude in order to become citizens. Again, the struggle was universal back then and still is today. All of the middle and lower class in this country struggle everyday for a better life. The privileged few are the only ones struggling to maintain their better life against the rest of the population. The best tactic for them is to maintain the divide of the populace. That divide is based on race, creed, wealth and so on.
Racial division works so well in this country, for the privileged, that it has become a perpetual struggle with no end, ever. I should also mention that it is the most irrational of struggles as well. As Jaxx alludes to, being a parent is difficult. She also alludes that being "POTUS" is difficult too. However, race has nothing to do with that difficulty, unless you believe there is a grand conspiracy to prevent someone of a different race to become president or a parent. Obama proves that an African-American can become president and Jaxx proves that someone of "mixed race" can become a parent. It is irrational to think that our culture conspires for the opposite.
There is racial division in the U.S. and there are people actually promoting it. Here is where "knowledge" sheds light on the "why?".
To begin, we need to look at the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of this continent, long before European explorers. Of particular interest are The Seven Caves of Chicomoztoc in Aztlan. It is the legend of a paradise for Aztecs. Today, we see native Americans from Mexico claiming that Aztlan is in the area of the U.S. and struggle to have it returned to them. The legend of the Azteca who left in search of Aztlan is nearly lost in the archaeological record and some are even suggesting that the Anasazi of the Southwest were descendants of the Azteca, who had changed their name to Mexica. The importance of this is the struggle to regain that "paradise" of legend and lore without any real knowledge of its existence. La Raza and the Brown Berets are two well-known movements attempting to retake most of the U.S. Southwest for Mexico. Aztlan is used as the reason why, but is this really why? Here is the paradox within skepticism; it can be rationally thought out that they are not seeking Aztlan, as there is no religious organization in Mexico that believes in Aztlan as it is merely a legend that is not well known, but there are groups wishing to retake this land.
Mexico, is struggling against drug cartels and a complicit and corrupt government. It is a horrible place to live. The "paradise" is north of the border, as they see it. It is logical to see that they want a better life, but why reabsorb it into their country? It isn't for the resources, because Mexico has as many, if not more, resources than the U.S. Taking back land does not bring our government with it. We conclude that they just want the land, but when one listens to the Brown Berets protesting in the U.S. Southwest you can hear them telling all Europeans to return to Europe. They want all of North America back for their people. The motto of La Raza is "For Family; Everything. For Everyone Else; Nothing." La Raza, of course, translated means The Race. Our situation is not near dire as theirs, but because we do struggle, we sympathize and support their plight. The key is the commonality of struggle. Just recently the Lakota Sioux seceded from this nation as an answer to their struggle. Native Americans are also struggling in Canada where it has recently come to light that there are eugenics programs geared to eradicate native bloodlines. This was uncovered during the investigations into thousands of missing indigenous women in Canada. What is happening in Canada is true racism. Two borders and three governments, all contentious elements in the struggle.
What we can rationally come up with is that we are all struggling on different levels and blaming each other for our struggle, when all we have to do is look at our governments as the source of our struggle. Once we find solidarity as humans and not as races, we will truly find our Aztlan.
The civil rights movement of the 1960s masked a more nefarious movement into communism. Solidarity between the communists of the SDS or Weathermen and groups such as the Black Panthers was shaky to say the least, but it was a desire of Bill Ayers to consolidate their struggles. Many leaders of the Panthers attended conferences in Moscow under the advisement of the Weathermen. The collusion stems from SDS' manifesto which sought to use the plight of minorities as a springboard for communism. This was not a new idea and goes as far back as 1929 when Jozsef Pogany penned a book titled "American Negro Problem" under the name John Pepper which spoke of the struggles of the "black colony" and communism in the U.S. This was followed by a book written by Black Panther member, James W. Ford, titled "The Negroes in Soviet America" where he also made heavy use of the term "black colony". The SDS Manifesto, "You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows", also makes use of this term. Aside from the race struggle and communism, there is a new movement called "Occupy Wall Street" which now connects the class struggle to communism. Here, again, I remind you of Friedrick Douglass and the phrase "Knowledge is Power"; knowledge for rational thought. Is the rise of race division in this country the symbolism of the rise or struggle of communism?
Ever since Barack Obama took office, we've been living under the banner of socialism when Newsweek announced, with their cover story, "We Are All Socialists Now". The "why?" becomes easier to answer when we look at how grievances and ensuing debates are handled, as evident in LiberalJaxx's tweets. She is far from the only one doing this, but she provided a great example of this. It takes a big government willing to support communism. It takes time to build a big communist government when all of the elements are finally in place to build it.
It takes the derision of racism to distract from, and quash all debate from, the rise of Communism.
For anyone who might actually read this, have I laid out enough evidence and knowledge for rational thought on this subject? I would like to think that I've built a strong enough case so as that last line doesn't become an aphorism, but rather an objective and sound statement of truth. I could write a book that puts all of my knowledge on this subject into a nice concise presentation with a huge bibliography, but I'd like to be able to condense that properly as I have attempted here.
This, of course, is pure fiction and no one would ever believe it is truly happening, or at least no rational human being could believe it to be true. What is the key rationalization in this story? It's easy to see that it defies the laws of physics. Therefore rational thought based in these laws and norms dictates that the situation is irrational and untrue.
This is a simple example of how rational thought works. The trivium is a more in depth method for rationalization. The three parts of the trivium dictate the path of rational thought. You must know the language or grammar, and this is the first step in the trivium. The second step is interpretation of that language or the symbols of language. Imagine interpreting sign language and how it is used to communicate. This is the rhetoric. The final step in the trivium is "logic" and the knowledge of the language and the interpretation, or rhetoric, of communication. The key in all three steps of the trivium is to have knowledge. Friedrick Douglass, an American slave, learned this lesson from the wife of his owner. Douglass pursued his desire to read and write. The mistress of the household was willing to aide him in his pursuit of higher education, but the master of the household scolded her for this act. It is from Douglass' story that we get the mantra; "Knowledge is Power". To expand this line of thought we need to look at art, music and geometry, as these being added to the trivium become the quadrivium which is a higher level of thought that leads to enlightenment. An example is a painting that depicts an entire thought. We've all heard the phrase; "A picture is worth a thousand words" and this is part of the quadrivium and can be thought of as symbology or symbolism. The freemasons are well known for their symbolism that are intended to be interpreted by the members of their society. This is esoteric communication. Most non-masons know that the "square and compass" symbol is the sign of the Freemasons, but that's about as far as their knowledge of masonic symbology goes. In this respect, non-masons are oppressed in knowing the way of the mason, just as Douglass was oppressed in the way of white society through illiteracy. The difference being, we don't feel it necessary to know more about the masons and if we do feel it necessary we can become a mason. This is the reason they are known as a secret society. So let's link this right now to the term "rational thinking" because it is rationed by your level of knowledge. Not everyone can, or will be, a mason and its esoteric language is therefore rationed.
Going back to the fictional story of floating people, knowledge of physics tells us that this story is fictional. People could be led to believe this is true, because they have no rational thought, they haven't the knowledge in physics required to make a rational decision. Other's may even think they have rational thought and try to contemplate why people would be floating. This group is where I'd like to concentrate the rest of this essay.
Some people believe what they are told and believe they are knowledgeable and rational enough to believe what they are told. They would believe the "floating people" story and use their limited knowledge to rationalize the story. Perhaps they know something about gas/blood diseases such as the bends or nitrogen in the blood and try to rationalize helium in the blood. Or they may know something about geomagnetic physics and rationalize too much metabolized iron acting upon a quirky magnetosphere. There is a great term that I'd like everyone to keep in mind; "He/She has just enough knowledge to be dangerous".
The idea of helium or even excessive amounts of iron in the blood are completely ridiculous, but what about a less ridiculous situation, one that is not fiction. A man with no atmospheric chemistry and physics (ACP) background who manipulates the entire population of the planet through ACP. This man had grown up on a tobacco and cattle farm, went off to school to major in government and had a penchant for science and math although he did very poorly in those subjects during his education. Where this man's rational thought became corrupted is when he felt, through his passion for science theory and math theory, that he had become knowledgeable in science and math when in reality he had a passion for theory and not fact. Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" shouldn't be taken as a truth, but a theory. When the theory is put into the scientific method of rationalizing its possibilities, there are far more scientists that disagree that anthropogenic global warming is occurring. It sounds possible, but is not probable, because the earth is warming, but there is no way miniscule amounts of carbon dioxide attributed to the human race are causing it. When scientists, believing humans were to blame, failed to actually place global warming on human activity, they changed the nomenclature to "climate change". It is easier to prove that we affect changes in the atmosphere, just as it is easy to say that a volcanic eruption can change the weather. However, they are still trying to rationalize that we are causing adverse effects in our weather. This is irrational, because it still gravitates around carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which is less than 1% of its heterogeneous mixture of gases. In chemistry there are stable elements and unstable elements, depending on the number of electrons in orbit around the nucleus of atoms or weak bonds and strong bonds. The reason for such low levels of CO2 in the atmosphere is attributed to weak bonds or an unstable molecule. This is why plants exist and why we, as a result of plant propagation, exist. Plants can easily strip the oxygen from the carbon for us in their metabolic processes. I could go on about ice core data from the Cretaceous period that suggests that extremely high levels of CO2 led to vast amounts of vegetation and the largest animals to ever walk the earth, but people would get bored with the rationalization that human activities have no real affect upon the earth's climate, but a tobacco farmer with a degree in government and a passion for scientific theory would like you to believe otherwise. As a skeptic, it is easy to rationalize the known, but difficult to overcome the unknown and leads to questions like "Why would Al Gore want to promote that anthropogenic CO2 is detrimental to life on earth?" This is where speculation or theories come in to corrupt rational thinking and limited knowledge makes the skeptic dangerous. We can look at Carbon Taxes and rationalize that this is just a money-making scheme. We can also look at increased regulation of energy, which everyone needs, and see this theory as a form of human-control. Somewhere in there, we can almost find the answers, but they are still irrational due to the esoteric language of those involved who are not rationing knowledge to us and therefore remain secretive. By nature of the trivium, skeptics are dangerous, but they are not irrational. It is a paradox that cannot be broken. A skeptic will tell you that people were not floating above the ground in the Northwest, but they cannot prove themselves against the words of others who say that people were floating because one can not prove a negative. The pursuit to prove a negative is how people become dangerous.
Bigotry is the reason I've written this essay, or more precisely the act of labeling people as "racists" in political discourse. It is an irrational thought to label someone a bigot in any debate, because it forces the person being labeled to attempt to prove a negative. Any attack upon a person's character always leads to this irrational situation. The normal response that is often used is one that attempts to only qualify them as not being a bigot such as "I'm a minority. How can I be racist?" which can never be objective when you feel you are a minority. This is the paradox; if you are still thinking of the human race in terms of minority and majority, you still see sexes, races, creeds and so forth. When you see the human race in those terms, you see superior and inferior aspects ("minority" and "majority" are analogous to "superior" and "inferior") and therefore are, by definition, bigoted.
The case in point is the governmental office that is dominated by caucasian presidents. The majority of U.S. presidents are white. When there are no other criteria, when examining our past presidents, to categorize them as majority or minority,,,,there is no majority nor minority. An African-American now sits in the office of the President. Now there are two categories for U.S. Presidents, in the eyes of those that still see individual races, hence a majority and a minority. Our nation's populace is basing these presidents on the color of their skin and Barack Obama is now a minority. Think for a moment that, in biological terms, there are nearly as many men as there are women in this world. If there are 4 billion women and 4 billion and one men, women would be labeled a minority. One man neither makes a minority nor a majority, yet this is how we view the office of the president. John F. Kennedy must have been a minority in his time for he was the first Catholic president to ever be elected in this country. But was he a minority? Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush must have been minorities, for they were both pariahs of the office of president when most others were venerated and are honored. The more criteria to base our thoughts of these men on, the more we can see their individuality, but this does not make them superior or inferior to other presidents for the power of the presidency is finite and regulated by the congress and the People. When the People become upset with how the president acts on their behalf, the People express their grievances and tend to move into debate with those who agree with the actions of the president. The highest form of rational debate would be the use of our customs and our constitutional form of government. The lowest form of debate would be the use of ethnicity as a foundation for thought and is irrational. Yet, this is what we see in this country in the debate for electing our president. The level of irrational thought has forced rational people to try and prove the negative and this has completely wrecked the process of election.
I have witnessed this phenomena over and over again. I have a passion for studying the zeitgeist, not to be trendy, but to get a better view of this nation and where it may be heading. Currently, racial division is tearing the country apart. Political division; Left versus Right, is tearing this country apart. A battle between supposed inferior and superior ideologies is tearing this country apart. The lack of rational thinking and debate on all of these fronts is killing this nation. An example that has me completely confounded is a simple debate I had with a person on Twitter. I find Twitter to be an amazing resource when studying the zeitgeist, or the "spirit" of the culture, and its dynamic flow. I follow many people whom I don't even know, to see how they view things and how their views all contrast one another. I even see how all of these individuals also align themselves too. One Tweeter in particular left me completely aghast at the level of irrational thought in this country.
Known to the Twitterverse only as LiberalJaxx, this person seemed to show some rational thought and is quite knowledgeable in history. LiberalJaxx also has many followers, so following her led to a wealth of information. One day she started tweeting that all conservatives are racists and that everyone should support Obama. There are many staunch supporters for Obama, but this one tweet of her's rubbed me the wrong way, so I entered the fray of Twitter Debate:
Jaxx: Pat Buchanan calls Obama "a drug dealer of welfare." I guess that would make Pat a crystal meth lab of racism."
Me: the ignorance of crying racism is sad.
Jaxx: I am an Obamanoid sick of you klansmen, and?
Me: Let me ask you, Jaxx, are U defending Obama's race when you attack those who criticize him?
Right here is where I wanted to see some rational thought in the response. I wanted to know what she was defending. After all, this was a debate about welfare programs and not race. Here's where she threw rationality out the window:
Jaxx: if you must know. In your ignorance of blowing off Obama's plight, I am of mixed race just as he is and am offended daily by (tweet ended due to character-count restrictions. Continues in next tweet)
Jaxx: bigoted small minded fucks like yourself. Diff between POTUS and myself is he handles the hate with more grace than I do.
At this point, I failed to steer the debate because there is no steering ignorance. I was simply going to end with an aphorism.
Me: Racism: The shield behind which liberals cower from honest debate.
Oh, but it doesn't end, but sheds a rather interesting light on her thought process. (very probable that it is a continuation of posts due to character-count restrictions)
Jaxx: and I have taught my children all about ppl like you just like every other minority parent. In 50 yrs or so, YOUR kind=minority
Jaxx: and I block racist bigots like yourself. Can't have trash polluting and pissing in my twitter stream.
This person has a huge following on Twitter (4717 currently) and she weeds out people who don't view things the way she does. She injected so much "race" into a political issue that she simply does not realize that she was the racist in the whole thing. She even so much as predicts that my "kind" will be a minority in 50 years. What esoteric knowledge does she possess that led her to such a conclusion? She is, after all, still thinking of the human race in terms of minority and majority. That is expected in a culture where that paradigm is so heavily strengthened by history, but should a rational person use it to win a debate, to become superior in an argument over bigotry? Of course not, for that is bigotry in and of itself. This is the paradox. Shall we call it the paradox of irrational thought due to dogmatic knowledge? Irrational thought has become a religion unto itself. Do as Jaxx does and shut out anything that may tear down your beliefs and surround yourself with like-minded believers while avoiding honest debate with ignoratio elenchi. Logical fallacy is the order of the day in this country, it is the new religion where hope hinges on ignorance and the fallacy of superiority or majority. But this leads to the other paradox in rational thought, we know what is, but we don't know why. We don't have enough information to rationally think "Why?", because there is no longer any honest debate to gather that knowledge. She is of "mixed race". She taught her children all about people like me. There's a fallacy right there, she doesn't know me. She is offended, daily, by bigots. Could it be that her beliefs are what makes others offensive? She is seeking commonality in those she associates with and that number seems to be 4717 people that are like-minded.
With all of the information, a picture is formed. That esoteric symbolism of plight, of struggle. An introvert would surely think they are worthy of equality no matter what their character is. I often wish she hadn't blocked me before I could tell her that I, too, am of mixed race, Metis, but would that have made any difference? Of course not, because I would have fallen into the paradox of irrational thought. That is not enlightening. To be truly enlightened is to break away from that completely and realize that we are both of the human race where there are no minorities.
This is the current zeitgeist in this country; everything is boiled down to ethnic groups. Division springs from these groups. Unity is but a dream, derision is the order of the day. To further analyze this, is to go down a much deeper rabbit hole where the esoteric meets rational thought. A place where the derision has formed blockades to knowledge.
There is little or no argument that Jaxx has just enough knowledge to be dangerous. She feels rational, yet she is subjective and has little use for the trivium. Her struggle is indicative of a divide between her beliefs and the beliefs of others. There are many divides in this country, but her struggle is rooted in race. Over one hundred years ago there was a war in this country over secession; another derision. There was a struggle to maintain slavery in one half of the country while the other half was struggling to end it. It doesn't take a history major to KNOW how that turned out, but it does take some deeper knowledge to realize that not all slaves were black. In fact many indentured servants were white. Immigrants, regardless of race, were obligated, or indebted, to servitude in order to become citizens. Again, the struggle was universal back then and still is today. All of the middle and lower class in this country struggle everyday for a better life. The privileged few are the only ones struggling to maintain their better life against the rest of the population. The best tactic for them is to maintain the divide of the populace. That divide is based on race, creed, wealth and so on.
Racial division works so well in this country, for the privileged, that it has become a perpetual struggle with no end, ever. I should also mention that it is the most irrational of struggles as well. As Jaxx alludes to, being a parent is difficult. She also alludes that being "POTUS" is difficult too. However, race has nothing to do with that difficulty, unless you believe there is a grand conspiracy to prevent someone of a different race to become president or a parent. Obama proves that an African-American can become president and Jaxx proves that someone of "mixed race" can become a parent. It is irrational to think that our culture conspires for the opposite.
There is racial division in the U.S. and there are people actually promoting it. Here is where "knowledge" sheds light on the "why?".
To begin, we need to look at the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of this continent, long before European explorers. Of particular interest are The Seven Caves of Chicomoztoc in Aztlan. It is the legend of a paradise for Aztecs. Today, we see native Americans from Mexico claiming that Aztlan is in the area of the U.S. and struggle to have it returned to them. The legend of the Azteca who left in search of Aztlan is nearly lost in the archaeological record and some are even suggesting that the Anasazi of the Southwest were descendants of the Azteca, who had changed their name to Mexica. The importance of this is the struggle to regain that "paradise" of legend and lore without any real knowledge of its existence. La Raza and the Brown Berets are two well-known movements attempting to retake most of the U.S. Southwest for Mexico. Aztlan is used as the reason why, but is this really why? Here is the paradox within skepticism; it can be rationally thought out that they are not seeking Aztlan, as there is no religious organization in Mexico that believes in Aztlan as it is merely a legend that is not well known, but there are groups wishing to retake this land.
Mexico, is struggling against drug cartels and a complicit and corrupt government. It is a horrible place to live. The "paradise" is north of the border, as they see it. It is logical to see that they want a better life, but why reabsorb it into their country? It isn't for the resources, because Mexico has as many, if not more, resources than the U.S. Taking back land does not bring our government with it. We conclude that they just want the land, but when one listens to the Brown Berets protesting in the U.S. Southwest you can hear them telling all Europeans to return to Europe. They want all of North America back for their people. The motto of La Raza is "For Family; Everything. For Everyone Else; Nothing." La Raza, of course, translated means The Race. Our situation is not near dire as theirs, but because we do struggle, we sympathize and support their plight. The key is the commonality of struggle. Just recently the Lakota Sioux seceded from this nation as an answer to their struggle. Native Americans are also struggling in Canada where it has recently come to light that there are eugenics programs geared to eradicate native bloodlines. This was uncovered during the investigations into thousands of missing indigenous women in Canada. What is happening in Canada is true racism. Two borders and three governments, all contentious elements in the struggle.
What we can rationally come up with is that we are all struggling on different levels and blaming each other for our struggle, when all we have to do is look at our governments as the source of our struggle. Once we find solidarity as humans and not as races, we will truly find our Aztlan.
The civil rights movement of the 1960s masked a more nefarious movement into communism. Solidarity between the communists of the SDS or Weathermen and groups such as the Black Panthers was shaky to say the least, but it was a desire of Bill Ayers to consolidate their struggles. Many leaders of the Panthers attended conferences in Moscow under the advisement of the Weathermen. The collusion stems from SDS' manifesto which sought to use the plight of minorities as a springboard for communism. This was not a new idea and goes as far back as 1929 when Jozsef Pogany penned a book titled "American Negro Problem" under the name John Pepper which spoke of the struggles of the "black colony" and communism in the U.S. This was followed by a book written by Black Panther member, James W. Ford, titled "The Negroes in Soviet America" where he also made heavy use of the term "black colony". The SDS Manifesto, "You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows", also makes use of this term. Aside from the race struggle and communism, there is a new movement called "Occupy Wall Street" which now connects the class struggle to communism. Here, again, I remind you of Friedrick Douglass and the phrase "Knowledge is Power"; knowledge for rational thought. Is the rise of race division in this country the symbolism of the rise or struggle of communism?
Ever since Barack Obama took office, we've been living under the banner of socialism when Newsweek announced, with their cover story, "We Are All Socialists Now". The "why?" becomes easier to answer when we look at how grievances and ensuing debates are handled, as evident in LiberalJaxx's tweets. She is far from the only one doing this, but she provided a great example of this. It takes a big government willing to support communism. It takes time to build a big communist government when all of the elements are finally in place to build it.
It takes the derision of racism to distract from, and quash all debate from, the rise of Communism.
For anyone who might actually read this, have I laid out enough evidence and knowledge for rational thought on this subject? I would like to think that I've built a strong enough case so as that last line doesn't become an aphorism, but rather an objective and sound statement of truth. I could write a book that puts all of my knowledge on this subject into a nice concise presentation with a huge bibliography, but I'd like to be able to condense that properly as I have attempted here.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Known but to God
There is a tomb in Washington D.C. with the inscription: "Here Rests In Honored Glory An American Soldier Known But to God" an epitaph inspired by patriarchs in the waning years of the Great War of 1912, World War One. [please listen to Adagio for Brass and think of our servicemen while reading]
As a nation we honor our war dead, those who died serving to protect the law, the constitution, of These United States.
In an age where wars are fought out of frustration. Where nations are invaded due to a single act of terror that was precisely directed at major institutions of U.S. strength and power, we persevere in the hearts of the free. The problem lays in those that do not understand what sacrifice means. Terrorists sacrifice themselves in the light of day to bring focus to their plight. Their sacrifice killed many innocent U.S. citizens. Men and women who went to work on that September day with diligence in their hearts. If they weren't diligent, they survived because they weren't at work. Flight crews, military personnel, financial managers...one and all. They went to work. Flight crews ferried passengers across a nation, for business and pleasure. Financial managers went to work, building a nation. Military personnel reported to work to protect a nation. All, on one day, fell victim to an attack against this nation. Those responsible for killing our national protectors and our national People were put into the sights of our powerful military. Those that wished that a blow to finance and defense would drop a nation to its knees were found cowering in caves in a foreign land. Found nationless, found desperate, these terrorists were routed out.
The events of 9/11/2001 are not unique to superpowers. Global dissension comes from a culture that is not accustomed to usury and power. Islam despises capitalism for its usury, for its prosperity. This nation revolted against taxation. This nation revolted against oppression. This nation saw Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. This nation set itself against monarchy and tyrannical rule. This nation is a bastion of freedom and liberty. No other nation can see the true freedom that the People of the U.S. enjoy via a constitution that lawfully lays out the rights of man, the law of freedom.
This constitution is, currently, under attack from without and from within. Men have fought to protect the constitution's implications to this nation. Men and women, currently fight to uphold their OATH to the constitution. Honor them, honor those that rush in to the battlefield while others continue their lives. Honor those that leave their homes and pick up arms to fight foreign entities that would wish harm to those that simply stay at home and go to work for the betterment of their homeland. Honor goes to those that pick up arms and protect you from those who wish you harm. Honor goes to those unknown men and women who protect and serve the constitution that founded your way of life. HONOR goes to those that die on the battlefield for you and your freedoms,,,only to come home in a box. Sometimes that box contains the remains of a soldier, fighting for you, that cannot be identified. Sometimes that soldier died unknown to many but fighting for all. That soldier may only be Known but to God. ~The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier~
Remember your neighbor, remember your countrymen, remember those that serve to protect this Constitutional Republic this Veterans Day.
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