Civil rights in the United States are in decline. The rich of Yale affiliation and other elite institutions are part of the cause of that. Rich corporations and media lackeys serving them transgress civil rights boundaries whenever they can through innumerable high tech means including Big Data/mining trampling over the 1st and 4th amendments as if they were valid only for-themselves.
In
my opinion organized civil rights violations by the rich comprise terrorism or
at least sedition. Civil rights in the United States are fundamentally
properties of boundaries for individuals that secure the individuals’ right to
go about his or her life without interference, hindrance or sabotage
economically and personally. In a nation based on self-help free enterprise the
freedom to act in the market without one’s equal rights being subverted is
essential if individuals are to have any sort of humane life style.
Anyone
can violate civil rights of course, it is just that the rich have an easier
time of it organizing themselves to exploit their fellow citizens to gain that
felony edge- the advantage over others that is too sweet for the corrupt to
resist. They may even develop an economic philosophy that disingenuously claims
what they are doing is necessary in order for capitalism to survive and that
resistance is leftist and socialist.
There
are millions of Americans that have no regard for civil rights nor
understanding of what those are. They are happy living in ad hoc collective
social behavior milieus. For them civil rights may mean race rights or
specialclass rights of empowerment yet
nothing like what they are; boundaries delimiting social behavior for every
citizen and resident that stop anyone from victimizing them, including the
state, with the exception of criminals.
In
the context of temporal life civil rights are easily violated and the
violations travel down the stream of history forgotten or unnoticed to
commonly, by the people of the day caught up in their own concerns. It is
important though to secure civil rights boundaries against gross violation by
the rich and privileged that can use information to exploit Americans and make
life more difficult for them, because they can.
My late father was a four year vet of the Second World War. I was on active duty in combat arms when the Soviets withdrew a quarter million soldiers from East Germany. That was a Velvet era revolution and there isn't anything wrong with peace and prosperity. Participation in a free market should be supported for all Americans including veterans. The principles of free speech and free business participation a prosperous green free market with regulations shaping development toward green peace should never be impinged. No one should be excluded from the participating in the free market because a load of wise-guys with wealth amuse themselves poisoning the well.
Millionaires
and billionaires often want to tilt the economic field to their advantage. They
can become like a black hole warping space time so all economic profit and
political power flows their way. Exploiting information is one of the methods
they can use. Information is power. It can be censored, data-mined or
marginalized with equal opportunity to repress civil rights to go about one’s
economic affairs without interference by the rich corporate world. When one has
achieved wealth- millions or billions, one should watch one’s mouth and
violations of the civil rights of the poor and middle class that aren’t cinched
and actually need to improve or at least sustain basic economic vital
interests. There may be sports millionaires that are barely literate of course,
yet they are an exception and are showpieces to provide cover for the more
calculating rich. Entertainment rich comprise just 5% of the top 1% of income
earners in the United States, and they can be swells for-themselves working
against the interests of the 99% promoting a wealth of unedifying trash.
Top-down places are nodes complex constructions strung together clutters to cancel culture first would be last the last first following each clever, historical jumble of lettered streets rumbling boom boxed buildings exhausted constraints those straight and narrow lanes fettered Heraclitan refrains coursing unsustainable rivers of cars passed each moment beneath the stars like that World War Two brawl D-Day like today never called tomorrow or yesterday’s impressionist compresence changed around the edge resembling degrees of difference
new and old life temporized so bold drivers pause at the ledge of the past waiting in idle mode, fast connected interstate dendrites oiled autos break an eco-brain’s gray matter transitioning to necropsistic tunnel vision encroaching evolution painless shelf networks synaptic Warholian dream dreams sign the times in one place a self-determined human race designing undesigned incomplete entropic chaos pipes flow with creditopia gas leaks in the dendrites cluttered eco-brain decay reflect beautiful sunrises and sets burning the eco-brain green flames.
James Lovelock created the Gaia hypothesis that the ecosphere of the planet is semi-sentient at least so far as to comprise S/R (stimulus-response) loops. Could human society be the brain of the planet with cities acting like neurons and freeways and roads as dendrites and axons? If humanity is stupid and poisons the gray matter of the ecobrain killing off the ecosphere and running clutter through it, can intelligence be improved so the brain is smarter keeping the ecosphere healthy?
Some say that reality is an illusion. If that were so then illusion could be considered to be reality. Reality does seem to be a secondary quality or product of the conversion of energy into mass when particles of the 2-dimensional universe encounter the Higgs field, slow down from light speed and acquire a third dimension in that process. Subatomic particles acquire the extra-dimension and let energy exist as mass in this Universe. Philosophy's task is to discover truth and wisdom rather than to destroy things. One may surpass illusions sometimes with better knowledge. It is popular these days because of the discovery of evolution to attack Christianity as if it were in contradiction, yet that isn't too wise, for the Bible as the eternal word of God and reality in that regard is contingent being. Evolution is just a way particles are ordered in the mass of this Universe and cosmology is not in some sort of plain contradiction to the idea that God created this Universe. The mind of God would contain any possible Multiverse structure that may or may not exist, and there is a wealth of philosophical, theological and scientific ideas that can be developed regarding the nature of God, the creator of any possible Universe etc. People just want to act pre-emptively, dismissively so they can be trendy and go about life without any necessary moral duties.
Particulate desert sand drifts a synaesthetic society’s plastic sawhorses infinite Warholian cans flit that planetary filling cruller crowd dissolving sandstone washing out sculptured sheds -Cervantes’ captive years hating tragic bird-kills of windpower
Hot solar wind on lifeless souls photovoltaic cell captures wearing thin sheets of ad hoc leftist clan plans desert rams without life formed theoretical wealthevolutions revolving doors of employees libbing poverty with cold frost terminator line for night and day
Medium dot orgs Norse code dash dot and dash across empty space places where life once was living millions of species shrouded out to death masking silence of red hues, blue mournings
Buckets of dreams listing to a side Schrodinger wave functions collapsing steady state of mass confusion bouncing over the rolling sea of inevitability resigned to fate fate subducted in destiny compacting today and tomorrows with rye senseless humor of experience too few seemingly with faith in the Lord empanel the day provide for the winter of nights constructing life in the sand.
When the Pope
expressed the opinion that homosexual civil unions are o.k. he did not avoid
giving the appearance of acquiescence in support of sin. Homosexuality is
plainly condemned in the Bible in quite strong language so the statement seems
an expression of apostasy.As a member
of the Jesuit order he may have been using a little duplicity to accomplish
some organizational goal of increasing membership in the secular world. The
E.U. and the United States each have homosexual marriage or civil union already
so he may have been trying to follow what he believes is the leading political
line.
The Catholic
Church has something of an imperial history, or quasi-imperial in association
with actual political royals, and a swinish society where people rely on
imperial authority instead of civil law isn’t uncommon. That may be the
developing trend around the world today actually. A fellow that had returned
from Australia felt a certain pride in that Australians tended to just fight
among themselves and didn’t use lawyers too much, unaware that Australia has a
magisterial rather than an adversarial legal system. In societies with a royal,
imperial history magisterial legal systems tend to exist still, and the Judge
has a role closer to that of a rep of royalty listening to pleas of the
commoners rather than as an impartial judge of the commoners. The Pope said he
was not one to Judge on the issue of homo marriage in the year before the Obama
administration made a full court press to get homo marriage the law of the
land; he was just swinging along with the times and will of Wall Street.
The Catholic
Church for the first thousand years more or less was o.k. and brought a unity
to savage pagan lands. Europe in Christendom was able to survive pagan and
Muslim attacks from the east and south. Some people were actually saved for
Christ yet as apostasy shows many professing to be Christian may actually be
rather duplicitous about that. Papal infallibility was a reasonable claim when
a standard doctrine was required amidst a wealth of heresy and schismatic
hermeneutics. Keeping a standard doctrine amid mostly illiterate savages of
Europe and the rest of the world wasn’t so easy; the pope was a kind of Supreme
Court of Himself back in the day getting the last word on doctrinal disputes.
Of course sometimes schisms did arise by powerful groups that could afford to
split off and hence the Orthodox Church arose as later did the Church of
England. A former Pope relinquished a Papal claim to infallability maybe a half
century ago –sometime after they ended The Index (the last bit of the
Inquisition) about 1960 something.
There are
numerous apostate Christian sects these days. Darwinism weakened the Church a lot;
scientists and bad theologians advocating pre-tribulationism have taken
theological thought away from the truth and moved it toward either atheist
science or secularism entirely or end times apocalyptic movies and books. The
Bible seems to indicate for many though that the apocalypse was in the first
century from the crucifixion of the Lord for the next 40 years culminating in
the destruction of Jerusalem with a million dead. Jesus Christ said all of the
things he said concerning end times would occur before the end of that living
generation and they did. Those were the most accurate prophecies by one
individual in the Bible and most Christians throw out that idea altogether.
What was to follow those end times was the establishment of the kingdom of God
on Earth in the hearts and minds of believers for an unspecified period of time
that continues to the present day even though some seem to be falling away or
supporting false doctrine to a certain extent.
The
Protestant reformation of the 15th century showed that the Church
structure needed a lot of change and reform to return to the gospel expressed
in the Bible. It was not right for an amalgam of syncretistic or unbiblical
correct practices to be associated with or to become Church doctrine.
Independent, non-papal Church leadership developed. Salvation was thought to be
between and individual soul and Jesus Christ directly without mediators in the
clergy. The Pope’s recent apparent expression of support for homosexual
relationships formalized in law could be regarded as a reason why direct
relationships between believers and God through the Lord is a good idea;
relying upon sinful, fallen mankind for salvation or official help with that or
making doctrine from the Bible as if with divine authority just won’t work very
well.
Of course the
Pope may have just been somewhat clumsy with his words and meant something
instead like ‘civil law concerns civil authorities, I am just concerned with
Godly and Biblical things myself’. If that were the case he might have simply
commented on what the Bible says about homosexuality (homosexuals and drunkards
won’t be going to heaven although they could change) and noted that civil laws are
for civil authorities. That is he should have disambiguated his viewpoint as
leader of the Catholic Church from sin and secular practices regarded as
permissible in civil law. I believe he might have done so if he actually belied
what the Apostle Paul wrote in the book of Romans and if he had no interest in
trying to make his imperial, modestly in decline, religious imperial empire
mirror the evolution of civil law in the west.
People today
have so many wrong ideas concerning philosophy and religion as well as
inferences to be made from evolution concerning spiritual matters (as well as
in interpreting the Bible) that Erasmus’ book title ‘In Praise of Folly’ seems
appropriate for the era. It really is remarkable and the present Pope just
seems to go along with that trend. Christians should probably move toward a
priesthood of believers’ church structure as Luther seemed to wish. The trouble
with that is the clergy want job security and don’t really want to step aside.
In an era of near universal illiteracy t more rigid clergy was requisite for
keeping the gospel message intact and universal. In an era of universal
literacy that church structure is anachronistic and fails to make the faithful
direct ministers participating in church themselves. There are numerous ways
Christian worship services perhaps in smaller groups could be made more spiritual,
egalitarian and yet remain with standard Biblically correct doctrine.
Why so many
people of so many religions and scientists to have wrong ideas concerning the
Church of Jesus Christ is a little difficult to understand-just a little
though. Most misunderstand why the economic structure of the Earth is causing
mass species extinctions too. At least I understand why there are so many
traffic accidents in crowded urban areas. One there is a lot of traffic and
two- everyone is looking for an advantage to help themselves a little where
they can to get ahead.
Christianity
need only be consistent with the Bible and the Lord to be Christianity. It
shouldn’t at all be concerned with trying to get the approval of the worldly.
Pre-tribulationist pastors have a wrong eschatology that
leads them toward an inherent pessimism concerning the fate of the world and of
human destiny in the world. They have an incorrect interpretation of the Bible,
and share that wrong interpretation with Muslims who got that from Mohammed the
creator of Mohammadanism. Muslims and pre-trib Christian have a naïve and
literalist understanding of the Revelation of John. Martin Luther said the book
has a lot of straw in it, meaning that it wasn’t a simple recounting of the
works of Jesus by a disciple or apostle. The book was written by a captive
disciple who needed to guard his words carefully during a persecution by the
Emperor Nero. The inverted numbers 666 referred to Nero for example, yet
pre-tribbers miss that and the basic context of the tribulation occurring in
the first century rather than sometime out in the future.
With the wrong belief that the world is soon to be destroyed
by the war known as Armageddon important political issues like environmentalism
and global warming seem of little consequence to pre-tribbers. Pre-trib
political issues by pastors that simply aren’t political philosophers nor
accurate theologians tend to support the concentration of wealth and
destruction of the world ecosphere to natural resource predators and neither is
a meaningful or good Christian value. Christian should tend to support
egalitarianism economically and especially free health care for the poor. They
should be concerned about the health of the environment for the people that
need to live in it and are part of it and not help bring it to an end.
U.S. politics should be about good ideas rather than cults
of immoralists, wrong eschatologists, environmental predators and so on. The
fundamental issues meaningful to all citizens are fairly easy to discern and
they are perennial American values such as the pursuit of happiness, a good
environment for everyone including wildlife, a healthy well-educated populace,
national security and so forth. Political philosophy need adapt to the
complexity of the modern world, political economy and demographics and should
not be misunderstood as a battle between dysfunction 18th and 19th
century economics of Adam Smith and Karl Marx that are a very shallow and
obsolete way to view the world.
The present national election of 2020 is a good example of
what happens when candidates are selected not for the good ideas they have, but
for the organizations or structures they rise in. Church pastors would better
serve the public by innovating a priesthood of believers structure instead of
profiting themselves and the comfortable and advocating for good ideas instead
of siding with the least objectionable bottom feeders running for office. They should
look for good ideas if they must enter the field of politics without much
competence of understanding, and not promote simple the least hateable ideas
presented. Creating new economic and ecclesiastical structural reforms requires
much more than negativity and criticism of offensive political activity. One
should not simple bunt every election the bad pitches of whoever is running for
office.
The Democrat party leadership
has threatened to corrupt the U.S. Supreme Court by adding more members to it
that will decide cases favorable for Democrats. It wasn’t a good idea when Franklin
Roosevelt sought it and was slapped down by a friendly congress that knew
better. Democrats since the Obama administration have taken to a policy of
lunatic extremism to have their way using whatever force they can get away
with, and that is malodorous when applied to the top guns of legal justice that
is the U.S. Supreme Court. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in
spite of the Chief Justice so heavily invested in Wall Street and the Obama
appointees is still respectable enough. Nine justices are well able to make
sound decisions. Adding another six judges would do nothing more than degrade
the prestige of the Court, create a new layer of sinecured, high-paying
personnel and staff, and make most decisions of the court partisan. The Court
would become another divided entity like the Congress with votes along party
lines the rule rather than the exception.
A house divided, or a court
divided, isn’t likely to stand.
Houses with inefficient
heating and cooling drive up costs for everyone.
In the future courts will hear more
environmental economic issues and packed courts full of high-energy consumption
judges are less likely that nine efficient judges to vote in favor cases
concerning environmental economic progress.
In warm climates prosperous
people that use 70,000 B.T.U.’s or more for cooling most of the year need to
earn more to pay high energy bills. They seek higher wages and pay packages and
inflate costs for others in society including those that are energy efficient
with low annual B.T.U. (British Thermal Unit) consumption. With high energy
bills and inflated prices for goods, people on fixed incomes suffer, and those
rationally seeking to lower human thermal emissions to the atmosphere cannot
afford to install natural ground heating and cooling systems that use virtually
no electricity except maybe a little solar energy for circulation. The hacienda
owners with high energy consumption seek illegal alien workers to perform work
at low cost and live cheaply buying used stuff while the enfeofed, comfortable
class of energy consuming Americans with high incomes live comfortably affording
inflated prices-they buy $5 Starbucks coffee with whip crème special frills
instead of instant coffee from a Salvation Army thermos.
An environmentally
progressive court may appear one day to rectify environmental practices with
economics suitable for democracy. A court that is packed with high energy
consuming judges may take the world of unsustainably high personal energy consumption
as normal and bias decisions to support their irresponsible lifestyles.
Sometimes the composition of court personnel need be considered as much as
issues like constructionism.
Regard the N.F.L. changes at
the quarterback position of recent years. Drop-back immobile pocket
quarterbacks have fallen into disfavor though some remain around and
successfully so. Hybrid runner-with-an-option to pass Q.B.s have entered the
game, like Michael Vick and maybe Lamar Jackson. They are a running step ahead
of good passing quarterbacks that are mobile who will run well if they need to
yet prefer to pass or hand off the ball to runners. Seattle and K.C. have such
Q.B.s presently in a John Elway mode of performance. One hasn’t occurred at the
quarterback position is the appearance of the pure runner- a Marshawn Lynch
sort of quarterback, who just runs or hands off the ball to two other runners
in the backfield, with one or both of those halfback and fullback positions
having Vick-Jackson runner-with-option to pass capable guys. Environmental
economics progress benefits from mobile political leadership and honest Supreme
Court Justices that understand the differences between pragmatic applied Earth
adaptation and theoretical lazy faire business-as-usual interially high energy
consuming sloponomic policies when they reach them for a verdict. It is
possible to align a pure passer in a Victory passing wedge of course if the
personnel support that sort of approach where wings of the wedge are offensive
ends and wide-out receivers. If the wedge need move forward like a Roman
infantry turtle for some reason that’s just the way it is. The court would need
to decide if a pass was thrown prior to crossing the line of scrimmage. With
the House choosing to flake up rules to advance legislation these days
including that of court packing potentially, mobile adaptive quarterbacks and
judges need to keep an eye on the goal line of environmentally sustainable
economics with liberty, justice and egalitarian economics for all.
A discussion at breakfast concerning the lost scroll of Clod
D’Gjap that was not finished resumed the investigation of the roll of the
middle finger of fate in sentencing a god of the gaps to interstellar voids and
dark spaces where science had yet to shed light and establish pagan-per-view.
The last sc’roll establishing being and time for the moment was misplaced, or
alternatively displaced leaving a state of inadequate instruction pour la
scienzia (aka 4 the science) of semi-official business management of thought
that users need. Therefore new coding for the creation of apps referred to as
the god of the apps code was hastily advanced through particle accelerators
sending scintillations cascading about. Scintillations in two dimensions were
nothing more than energetic ideas wherefore encountering the Higgs Field and
general relativity slow down to sub-light speed in three dimensions making
curved three-dimensional waves with thermal heat radiating. These atomized apps
of three dimensions with coerced fields tying complexities together present
standardized forms.
Heated breakfast scrolls that are honey sweet going down
bring a semblance of bitterness to the condition of the apps determined to be
self-determining while undeterministic for-themselves leaving a sense of
jake-breaking flatulence persisting in memory.
Coffee is complimentary to the creation of newer meaning that would
synergize; energize, the ensemble of everything with market value and greater
understanding even though apps lacking authority in regard to the creation of anything
not already existing in some form run on like clear water over angelic falls.
Great apes of evolution send god to the feminine court of
the gaps with the middle finger of scientific fate- the knowledge of which
counts for wisdom in the food court of m’academia. Clod D’Gjap’s scroll
documenting that evolution of secular takeover of scientific apps across the
former terrain of nobles, clergy and sociological stalagtites of sundry forms
is a necessary top-heavy log-rolling flip-flopping gradual adjustment in the
basic advancing knowledge of the apps of the simulation to reality although
reaching the erroneous working conclusion that thinking for themselves crowns
themselves as the center of sentient universality with precocious prima facia
mirth. Adjustments were required concerning their understanding of ancient code
in relation to the new code they possessed especially in regard to logic
inferences both necessary and strict; God is free-standing and not limited to
gaps, apps or dark unborn Universes such as are commonly aborted a priori in
simulations.
There was a post-script to the scroll apparently written in coffee-
I don't know of many that prefer to 'wallow' in suffering. Suffering for a good cause may be an excuse, and then it may be known as courage or fortitude. Toynbee wrote about challenge and response to civilizations and noted that those without challenges tend to be the least productive and too much of a challenge created an arrested civilization that can't develop. Hence stimulus and response loops (S/R) are meaningful and make changes that build a history of patterns of response (character), yet one doesn't want to go out and seek them without thinking about them first. People may seek challenges; yet they tend to choose comfortable ones that won't overcome them or with a high probability of doing so. None would choose to be the first to moon the Earth from the Moon because of the likelihood of freezing one's butt off. Suffering that others dump on others because they are sadistic louts or whatever is wrong obviously. The Apostle Paul in Corinthians mentions numerous sufferings that are overcome by the Lord- that is a different paradigm than the worldly view of course.
It makes little sense to package the election of a federal President and
Vice-President on state ballots so locals or any of innumerable organized ad
hoc crime syndicates can have a chance to make it difficult to vote. Each U.S.
citizen over the age of 18 could be issued one Presidential vote swipe card in
some way when they sign up to vote. The card could be punched and swiped over a
period of a couple of days at the start of each election year. It would be a good
idea to avoid the entire packaging with state ballots and all of the junk
processes about state voter registration that mobile Americans may find as
inconvenient as Obamacare residency requirements.
Credit card companies and even federal programs have no trouble with card
transactions that require valid I.D. Issuing non-counterfeitable voter I.D.
swipe cards that allow registered citizens to choose a candidate (or write one
in on the signature line) while keeping voter identity secret regarding choice
should be easy. The United States used to be a somewhat smart country making
steady progress.
Why bunk things up with silly state absentee ballot requirements with
weird dates? Why not make things simple for any American so they can vote at
any convenience store or check out self-service line for President?
Some Americans of the Democrat Party want the nation to be made of
immoral or amoral imperial stooges free to help concentrate wealth while
cutting taxes like President Trump, Obama and Trump and slopping the pigs with
affordable corporate health care; that doesn’t mean the nation need be stupid
and anachronistic regarding voting booths and crowds as if they were Soviet
proles in line for bread. If there was an easy to get Presidential swipe card I
would run it through the card scanner in November when I buy a loaf of bread
and gruel- If just to write-in the name of the best American clergyman who is
post-millennialist or the most competent ecological economist.
Some conservative me-first and only Republicans fail to understand that a
society advances generally in relation to how well off the most poor of society
are. Like military units that make certain that privates have good health, food
and equipment, civil society too functions better with few people structurally
repressed with dysfunctional social economic positions. The federal government should
at least streamline its federal election method so everyone can easily vote.
Voters
are supposed to take Presidential elections seriously. Even the New England
Medical Association (or was that the A.M.A.?) broke against President Trump’s
re-election. I however find it challenging to take the candidates of either
partner seriously this year, for I vote for candidates with the best ideas,
least number of wrong ones, and find the offerings this year rotten.
I
like Kamala Harris like most guys I would think- she won the debate with VP
Pence by a large margin (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8819119/Kamala-Harris-wins-instant-poll-vice-presidential-debate-Mike-Pence.html)
not just for being cute. Her ideas concerning Russia are dead wrong though. Let
me explain why…
Politicians
must lead sometimes and not simply be sycophants. President Reagan was the only
one in his White House for complete nuclear disarmament and that process led to
the end of the cold war. As a reservist in that era ending the Cold War and the
threat of global nuclear holocaust was my sole priority. When that mission was
accomplished through peace, it needed to be aggressively defended. Democrats
have everything to turn back the clock with Russia and fail to comprehend
Russian history concerning the Crimea and Ukraine.
Flying
into Salt Lake City recently the pollution index was 100. I believe that was
smoke from fires someplace west. I was a little alarmed envisioning a normal
future of global thermal warming caused by mankind’s industrial and automotive
choices. Watching Alita Battle Angel for a diversion on the aircraft while the smog over the
Rockies, Wasatch and Salt Flats was so thick, I noticed the garbage society
they lived in. Politicians need to lead to peaceful relations and ecospheric
economics rather than functions as sycophants of Wall Street. Salt Lake is the ideal city for solar power generation, and has mountains for wind power- I wonder what percent of it and the flats are actually equipped so.
My
concern for the Biden administration if elected is that it will be four more
years of the usual promotion of Democrat cronies and flooding the nation with
cheap labor while getting union support. Reforming society, Wall Street and government requires a stable, informed citizenry without millions of illegals usurping the political agenda. Rationality is not required for union
work- keeping one’s head down and eschewing intelligent and independent thought
is good enough. The government should create and Ecosphere Corps to help poor nations transition to ecological economics (including Mexico). That would help reduce organized crime on both sides of the border.
Progressive
taxes on capital, income and inheritance need to be restored or implemented
while Wall Street is given incentives to transition to sustainable ecological
economic principles through regulation and incentives. Even greenhouse gassing can
be down with incentives instead of trillions of dollars of pork distributed to
advantaged corporations.
