Looking to America’s past to
consider the present one may regard the ancient Missouri civilization of
Cohokia that flourished for a couple of hundred years circa 1500. The
civilization at East St. Louis had pyramids and a great sports field whereat
athletes would throw a spear through a donut flung far down the sand-sprinkled
clay court. Back in the day before machines made manyphysical work tasks obsolete the
ability to throw spears for war was more than a symbolic pursuit; it also
symbolized sexual prowess. The way the Cohokians changed leadership regimes is
of interest.
When the ruling chief died or
was deposed a complete house-cleaning followed. All of the Chief and his
relatives including women and children were brought to the great sports court
at the foot of the great pyramid and a great festive purge was held. Around the
perimeter of the sports court a great trench was dug and the family of the dead
or soon to be dead chief were assembled before it. A matching team of fell
clubbers lined up in back of the former leader’s family and they, along with
servants of the former chief were clubber on the head, fell into the trench and
were swiftly buried as the trench was filled in directly with the good Missouri
soil.
In some respects the Cohokian
regime change practices were forward thinking in comparison to that of the
present United States. The Clintons for example, lingered around the
term-limited office for decades seeking a way to get back in and thereby
cluttering up and degrading the Democrat party. The Kennedy clan is another
notable entry, and the Trump clan may actualize the same sort of phenomena in
time. If the Cohokian method were used instead of the present system of media
re-presentation of former leaders ad
nauseum (adapted peacefully of course perhaps with banning of Presidential
relatives running for office for a century) the United States would probably be
better off.
President Trump during the
2016 election got support from Bible based Christians in spite of serious
allegations of rape that emerged during the campaign. They had little choice
with Hillary Clinton as the alternative. Mr. Trump promised to appoint
conservative judges to the High Court and he did so. In that respect he served a
purpose that now no longer exists. Christians may need to rethink re-electing a
confirmed arrogant lout billionaire Tuesday.
It isn’t likely that a single
vacancy on the Supreme Court will arise the next four years. President Trump
has lately been destroying environmental protections as if it was a fire sale.
Given another term he would have a chance to rape the ecosystem of the United
States for the benefit of billionaires without conscience or restraint. Re-electing one of the top alleged serial rapists in Presidential history should give Christians pause for thinking.
America can probably survive
four years of a Democrat administration. President Trump has said the election
is between capitalism and socialism, but that would have required Bernie
Sanders to be running and that still would have been a wrong description. It is
more like the contest between Spanish fascists and Republicans; between the Greatest
inferior blonde-in-chief and normal souls. It is an election that requires anti-scientific
followers who admire their boss like plantation niggers to keep the President
in office, for the followers of President Trump may be regarded by his sort of
people as niggers if they are not blue-eyed, blond or red-heads. If they are
then that is simply tribal and a kind of informal referendum upon them. There
is a confluence of purely worldly avarist support for President Donald Trump.
First Epistle of John 2,
16-18
“15 Love not the world, neither the things
that are in the
world. If any man love the
world, the love of the Father is
not in him.
16 For all that is in the
world, the lust of the flesh, and
the lust of the eyes, and the
pride of life, is not of the
Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth
away, and the lust thereof:
but he that doeth the will of
God abideth for ever.”
President Trump’s kind of
people simple focus on wealth, power and greased back hair as if material
wealth and political power are the only things worth getting in life. Everyone
else can burn in their outlook. It isn’t a socially cooperative attitude
seeking after the well being of all citizens and residents of the United
States. Even if President Trump’s campaign gave a free gift of a negro dish
washing tool with an afro-haircut scrubbing head to every likely or undecided
voter it isn’t likely that he could make the electorate entirely forget about
his problems with women that stimulated the me-too movement and years of
hatred.
If the new Democrat
administration turns out bad the nation will survive. The Court is able to
dampen the worst excesses of Democrat self-destruction until a true President
emerges someday to fix the ecosystem, make the economy sustainable and assure
that all citizens have health care and basic incomes within an egalitarian social
environment with liberty and justice for all.
Presidents running for
re-election traditionally time an economic bounce near the election to motivate
citizens to vote for them. When they fail to do that they tend to lose.
President Jimmy Carter was a case in point; he mistimed the bounce and lost to Ronald
Reagan. President Trump’s bounce was announced today just a few days before the
election, and the news was positive for him with gross domestic product returning to just
three points less than that before Covid 19 hit. That means billionaires were getting stuffed during the Covid 19 death watch; good news for billionaires. That explains why the
President ignored advice about safety from mass Covid 19 infection generally
and encouraged the nation to go about economics normally; he thought it
necessary for him to win re-election in November. He should instead have
learned to walk and chew gum simultaneously containing Covid and enabling
economics to function in a dangerous viral ecosphere.
There are serious concerns
such as ‘is the 83 year old Pope trying to suicide via union with the lethal “lady”
Covid 19 by not wearing a mask because he knowd he dun wrong in saying in a
speech last year recently revealed that 'homosexual civil unions are
o.k.',
Every American entering the polls Tuesday should ask
themselves who they like better; the comedic Daffy Duck or the frumpish environment-killing
Donald Duck. In your heart you know Daffy is right.
Building the President Trump’s Economic Bouncing Ball of Death economy on a
foundation of 230,000 dead bodies was wrong. Sure it was possible to cull
Americans by the hundreds of thousands with shoddy, incompetent health
management (a tradition of the U.S. Government where policies by both major
parties have led to the complete exclusion of the poorest old Americans from
Medicare Part B coverage) and let business act more or less normally in an
abnormal pandemic circumstance, and it was also wicked. Intelligent leadership
less inclined to act like Hitler accelerating the German economy would have
sought innovative ways to keep business open and virus spread minimized. I
wrote numerous times about leadership in making a full face mask covering head
and eyes to let people go about life in crowded urban areas more or less
normally and zero federal leadership ever developed along that line. Halloween
masks could have been converted at factories to support Covid 19 defense as I
suggested numerous times. Instead the needless increasing count of American
Covid 19 deaths continues to rise because the President is more concerned with
his re-election.
President Trump is attacking
the environment’s health aggressively as well. Alaska’s Tongass National
Forest, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Bristol Bay salmon fishery have
all been thrown to the ravenous wild creatures of Wall Street. Ending wild
natural spaces is just wrong and disgusting evil perpetrated by a global
billionaire predator as ruthless as the Texan that clear cut California Redwood
forests. Alaskan fisheries and wilderness areas need increased protection to
recover; not increased exploitation to perish. Building up Wall Street big bank
cash deposits while emptying the ecosphere of health is as evil as building the
economy with dead bodies from Covid 19. The full potential of the U.S. economy
cannot be reached with anachronistic, unsustainable anti-environmental economic
policies that are simply stupid.
There may be more reasons for
the apparent indifference of President Trump to the great numbers of American
Covid 19 deaths. Many of those dying of Covid 19 are the weak and vulnerable,
black, old and previously ill; culling them would save insurance corporations a
great amount of money in the long run, especially with many signed on to
Obamacare,as they would save years or
decades of paying for expensive health coverage. Wall Street as well as the
Communist Chinese Party fairly may be included in the pool of persons of
interests in the ongoing saga of who potentially benefits from loosing a
pandemic upon the world.
The Second World War with
Adolph Hitler’s leadership scythed the lives of about a quarter of a million
Americans over four years. That rate of death of U.S. soldiers at war was
somewhat over 60-70 thousand per year. In just one year under President Trump’s
leadership the Covid 19 death toll of Americans has nearly equaled that of the
entirety of the Second World War.
President Trump’s leadership
during the Covid 19 era was lackadaisical; he seemed entirely incapable of walking
and chewing gum at the same time with a skill that could have reduced the
infection rate and kept the economy open together. Therefore he may not be a
mass murderer as great as Hitler, simply a Chamberlain sort of enabler of the
encroachment of evil. Antifah as Covid era riot leaders helped the spread of
Covid as did the Black Lives Matter movement.
The President made much noise
concerning the riots yet did not act decisively as would have Abraham Lincoln
to close the riots down declaring martial laws and sending in the 101st
Airborne. (as did L.B.J. and Ike use the 101st to quell scoflaws. When riots and looting occurred over night in Philadelphia and
Wal-Mart was being sacked the looters were not maintaining safe social
distancing requisite to control the spread. Presently about 80,000 Americans
are infected each day and the death rate is somewhere around 1 or 2%.
Resident Trump’s desire to
plunder the natural resources of the nation is greater than his will to stop
the Covid 19 scythe- the former requires nothing intellectually challenging to
accomplish and enriches select global financial interests. Christians might
wish to consider too much support for the leader managing the virus that may
take more than 300,000 American lives when a more intelligent policy might have
held the total to 50,000 or fewer. The Italian Dictator Mussolini might have
found a few thousand avoidable deaths nothing more than a bump in the road on
his race to power and prosperity. In some respects President Trump has shown a
similar callousness concerning Covid 19 deaths in his half-hearted leadership.
The election next week is a
Hobson’s choice between the Democrat’s leader with dubious financial conflicts
of interest with Ukraine that stimulated the rise of renewed cold war with
Russia, commercial advantage with China and lawlessness in Mexico, a Democrat
Party with an agenda of immoral policies, and an arrogant billionaire with a
belief he can make America great- perhaps by raising the greatest (Muhammad
Ali) from the dead, cutting taxes on the rich, gutting the ecosystem for
short-term proplits. The President’s draft and tax evasion, marginally legal,
and problems with women equal to that of Bill Clinton if not greater, were
somewhat eclipsed by the four years of false narrative by Democrats concerning
his secret support from Russia that did not at any rate seem greater than the
Clinton’s foundational relationships with Russian oligarchs.
If Vice President Biden wins
the election and serves four years before very likely retiring and not seeking
re-election and Republicans keep control of the Senate that may be the
best-case scenario for muddling through the next four years. The 2024 election
would then be the main pivot to determine the nation’s future status concerning
secure borders, international relations, health care for all Americans
including those too poor to afford Medicare Part B in old age and conservation
of the integrity of the government of the United States.
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.
