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1st Principle: The Codification of principle is the antithesis
of principle.
Socrates was right. We don't know anything. Knowledge is an illusion.
Facts are an illusion. Power is an illusion. A fact is only true
because we say it is. It is power that defines our facts for us.
Society is built not upon facts but upon power. Power in the strength
of ideas over facts. Ideas which lead to other ideas. Ideas that
can be changed if they conflict with a better idea. An open mind
is an intelligent mind because it assumes everything it knows
is fallible. This is how we learn new ideas by accepting the fact
that facts are meant to be broken. For better or worse, they are
collective assumptions. Just like us.
We are a collection of assumptions. We make decisions not upon
perfect knowledge but estimations of knowledge. Estimations of
truth which seem right to us at the time according to what we
know. Right because they support our assumptions. If our assumptions
change then our actions change. All of us are exactly alike in
this manner. I don't believe anybody is inherently good or evil.
Asking if evil is inherent is a lie. We are vessels whose assumptions
are given to us by our community. Asking if man is inherently
evil is like asking if stars are inherently evil. They are not
and neither is Man because good and evil do not apply to them.
There is no such thing as an evil man. If you want to find evil
look at the system which tells us we are evil. This is the lie
perpetuated by a political system which wants to convince us we
can not be trusted. Each of us is trapped within a web of lies
that revolves around this nucleus of fear. That we are not worthy
of self rule.
The system tells us that it has all the facts. It owns the facts
and can copyright and patent them and make a buck off them. As
if information is a solitary event like any other piece of dirt
or drop of oil. The system perpetuates itself by making us believe
in facts and science and rules and systems to govern our derelict
conscience. The system is a process which puts into place leaders
beholden to this lie. This is why we get the same no choices every
four years. All of our politicians are beholden to the system.
A system which represents only its self. If you are not with the
system then you are against it. If you do not buy the lie then
you are considered evil by the system and those who pretend to
know what evil is.
The joke is that it is those who play games with evil and fear
that suffer the most by it. It IS lonely at the top. That is because
to be on top is to be alone. This is the opposite of a good system.
Politicians are the most woe begotten creatures on the planet.
I feel sorry for them. They don't deserve to be alone just like
none of us deserve to be alone. But that is what the system forces
down our throats. Conflict and tensions between each other so
as to detract us from the real problem which is the matrix. That's
right, the matrix. The matrix was a movie which dramatizes this
situation. Neo is the individual. Mr. Smith is the system. And
the rest are dupes. In real life, the matrix exists inside our
minds. In our set of assumptions about ourselves. None can fathom
the idea that we don't need politicians or leaders. We are all
dupes of the system until we all collectively wake up and demand
justice for all.
Politicians make excuses for their existence that revolve around
fear uncertainty and doubt of the individual. This is the basis
of our collective misery. When I say collective I mean everybody
on the planet is under the heel of disrepresentation. Even the
Swiss who have the ability to question their politicians via initiative
and referendum are caught within the larger international web
of treaties and unchecked capitalism which threaten to overwhelm
us. The Swiss are ahead of everybody else and they know it yet
they are too small to fend off the interests of fascist corporatism.
In my opinion, America must be the catalyst for this evolution.
I believe America has the unique responsibility to follow through
on its manifest destiny to liberate the world from tyranny. The
American dream has made this moment possible. The American dream
has elevated the world to the point where distance is no longer
a factor in communication. The only step left is to finish the
job. This means direct democracy that starts with national initiative
and referendum and spreads to the world by manifest destiny.
Manifest destiny = Unite and conquer. The US is the only super
power left. We became a super power not because of politicians
but despite them. We are a nation of immigrants from everywhere.
This should tell us something. People are the same everywhere.
Our fear uncertainty and doubt of foreigners is a lie. We became
a super power because our politicians were at least elected and
not imposed by some authoritarian mechanism. I do not hold politicians
responsible as individuals but as tools of a system which we are
all trapped within from day one. America can unite the world by
simply inviting it in. Instead of relying on corporations and
politicians to write the rules of engagement in international
politics why don't we simply practice what we preach and demand
equal representation for all under a US Constitution that gives
initiative and referendum to all. We preach peace and yet sit
back and allow corporations to buy their way into power where
there is a vacuum of power. This true inside and outside our borders.
The 3rd world is a mess because of this. They are a mess because
they do not nor have they ever had the freedoms we grow up with.
It is from their political situation that their economic disparity
flows. And from their political and economic disparity arises
desperate attempts at rebellion.
The US can eliminate all anxiety in the world towards it if we
held out the welcome mat. Instead our politicians are doing the
exact opposite. Encouraging us to fear foreigners and the third
world as potential terrorists for which we must suspend all our
rights and liberties in order to defend against. This is pure
bs. This argument plays right into the system's hand of denying
the individual his voice. They are using terror to consolidate
their power against us. They are the terrorists. They are the
threat to world peace. Saddam Hussein is a bogey man. Osama bin
Laden is a bogey man meant to scare us into bed with our beloved
leadership. It's a scam. It's a scam on a scale that is hard to
recognize at first because of the media's insistence on dramatization.
We see ourselves as constantly behaving like animals and are told
we can not be trusted because of these examples. What you are
not told is that these examples of depravity by the individual
is a reaction to an unjust system. The system wants you to blame
the individual. It uses all instances of crime, corruption and
terrorism to encourage its authority over the individual.
I am proposing a peaceful way out of the mess. Nonviolent, democratic
and revolutionary. Revolutionary in the sense that it turns our
system upside down by turning ourselves right side up.
My philosophy is very simple. I accept that I don't know what's
best for everybody. I believe only everybody knows what best for
everybody. I am not opposed to anything which is decided upon
collectively and fairly. Unfortunately our system does not provide
this legitimacy. All systems which concentrate power into the
hands of the few are illegitimate. We don't need any more leaders
tearing us apart with their inflated egos and pet interests. How
many times do we have to hear about some ridiculous scandal involving
an elected official abusing their power? Here's an assumption
I think we would all agree on. For every scandal we hear about
there are thousands that never see the light of day. The US federal
budget is $1,000,000,000/year. This money is spent by a consensus
of mostly white middle aged lawyers. Hello? We are being fleeced.
The world is being fleeced. The time to stand up is now.
It's very simple. It is not as complicated as politicians want
to make it. They want you to believe in them and create elaborate
justifications for their authority. This is the bs that I wish
to confront. The king has no clothes. And our elected leaders
are always illegitimate. To elect a leader is to abdicate our
responsibility for ourselves. It is demoralizing to the human
spirit to live under rules which we have no say on. It is demoralizing
to live in a system of rules which confine us to a very narrow
mentality of our selves as simple rule abiders. It is the cause
of depression and tension and conflict. The problem does not lie
with the individual. The problem lies with the system which denies
the individual their liberty. This is not complicated psychology.
Psychologists simply make a buck off the symptoms of the system.
If they were truly interested in helping they would demand equal
representation for everybody. They would realize that we are subject
to the whims of a self motivated system that uses us for its own
self perpetuation. No wonder we are running to the pharmacist
for prozac or the corner drug dealer. They both provide pain relief
from the system. Our self loathing is a misdirection of our anxiety.
We loath ourselves because we are told we are not worthy. That
we must abide stupid rules for the sake of the stupid rules.
Does anybody ever wonder why we have so many rules? I have a
suggestion. It is because we have rulers. Rulers exist to find
ways of making new rules to restrict us by. To make us feel beholden
to their majesty. Not only do these rulers elevate themselves
at our expense but they make themselves rich by manipulating the
rules in their favor and then charging the rest of us to defend
ourselves from them. It is a huge scam being perpetuated upon
the entire planet. Rules are for prisons. The more rules we have,
the more bars we have on our prison cells.
As an American I feel particularly disgusted with our leaders
who continue to behave as though the individual were enemy #1.
In their inability to see the difference between an individual
and and a terrorist we all end up in the cross hair. They can
not tell the difference because there is no difference. We are
all potential weapons of mass destruction. We are all illegal
under our own rules. Who can say we are not a nation of terrorists?
Terrorists are individuals struggling against the system. How
would you feel if you lived in the third world? The third world
is a farce of politics. The Middle East is the result of American
and British politicians royally shafting the people in the name
of $. Africa is the result of same. China, ditto. Cuba is a hold
out. Castro is a hero if you look at him as a leader unwilling
to sell his country out to corporate fascism. Better communism
than rule by corporations. Not that corporations are bad or evil.
But they are machines. They are not people. They are beasts, meant
to be tools of humanity not the other way around. I am not anti-capitalism.
Capitalism needs to be a tool under the authority of the individual.
Until that day comes we will be nothing more than employees of
the state.
I believe that at the heart of my self and my universe lies an
assumption. That assumption of course is that I exist. In order
for anything else to exist, I must exist. If I do not exist what
else could possibly matter to me? So to me everything is really
just a belief. Everything I know is really just my best judgment
at work. Is my best judgment infallible? It is to me. How can
it not be? It is the best that I have at that moment. To me it
is pointless to argue with the past. The past is divine. It can
not be changed. In my opinion we can either choose to argue with
the past or choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
And what I have chosen to learn is this. It is the whole of humanity
that is divine. Everybody is in the same boat as me. We are all
using our best judgment to define ourselves. How can I argue with
another's best judgment? I believe that truth lies in the whole
and the establishment of the individual as the whole's best representative.
I do not pretend to know what is best for another or for the whole.
Be gay if it makes you happy. Be straight if it makes you happy.
Be both if it makes you happy. Do whatever it takes to make yourself
happy. Some people will argue that that is a recipe for destruction.
That is only true if we are not given our freedom to be. Because
whether I like it or not you are going to make yourself happy.
When I stand in between another and their happiness I am asking
for conflict. Where is the merit in that? From this belief in
the whole of humanity arises the belief that it is the whole of
humanity that is responsible for humanity. I have decided that
in order to maximize myself I must maximize the whole. My interest
is purely selfish. I believe I am a product of the whole. And
if the whole is fractured it is my responsibility to fix it. When
I examine the past through this lens I see history as the story
of the birth of Man. If I follow history along this track it seems
to me that Man is ready to be born. In fact Man is in the chute
right now and the stress we see around us is the world contracting
as Man issues forth.
The key is universal respect. Universal respect begins with individual
respect. Individual respect begins with respect under the law.
Respect under the law begins with democracy. Absolute respect
under law begins with absolute democracy. What we have now is
anarchy. What we have now is mob rule. A system that sells the
rules to highest bidder is directionless, chaotic and self destructive.
Winner take all is mob rule. We are blinded by our proximity to
the system to see the system properly. As long as it is left to
fend for itself we will be at its mercy. The key to bringing the
system under control is in each of our pockets. Collectively we
can bring the system to our bidding by making each of us full
members of the ruling class. This is the Way, the Truth and the
Light at the end of the tunnel.
Back to the 1st principle. If all I know is simply a piece of
the truth rather than the whole truth, where might the whole truth
lie? Allow me to present to you a metaphor. The whole truth lies
in pi.
Or go straight to the esoterica.
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