Pursue reliable responsibility, in order to reform life on earth

 A response to Principles Are the Antidote to Politics | The Epoch Times

The civic faction of We the People of the United States may and can reform to reliable responsibility to goodness “to ourselves and our Posterity”.

1.       So far, adults seem to have resolved their pursuit of higher power by looking to the U.S. presidency. Competitive-church yielded to state.

a.       No longer is the constitutional republic (order) dominant over liberal democracy (chaos)

b.       Competitive theism ignores The God – whatever constrains human choice. I speculate that it is ultimately the laws of physics and temporarily whatever “ourselves and our Posterity” eventually achieves.

c.       C. S. Lewis might opine “to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice”.

                                                               i.      [Good] politics is necessary to [constrain badness and eradicate evil].

1.       Politics uses coercion and force to pursue order.

2.       The utopia of goodness is a ruinous goal, because badness will always exist and evil may never be eradicated.

                                                             ii.      Accommodating badness or tolerating evil ruins goodness

                                                           iii.      Politics may and can accommodate necessary goodness

1.       Ralph Waldo Emerson, in “Experience”, wrote that politicians’ promises are [no substitute for civil order that fosters civic integrity].

a.       [“Civic” means reliable responsibility to necessary goodness].

b.       [“Civil” means comporting to rules/laws/doctrine.]

2.       Milton Friedman, in “Capitalism and Freedom,” wrote that [force strains civic integrity]; [compromise strains collaboration]; [civility limits criticality].

a.       Brownstein projects onto Friedman that competitive values can only be settled in bloody conflict.

b.       Friedman’s remedy is the no-harm, self-interest market; [it breaks no person/soul if I prefer Yeshua’s civic influence to either Jesus’s miracles or Christ’s blood yet accept the mystery].

                                                                                                                                       i.      By identifying choices that do not require agreement, [both church and state may promote public safety and security to facilitate necessary goodness, constraining badness and lessening evil.]

                                                                                                                                     ii.      [Civic citizens who prefer The Trinity’s blood pose no problem to others who prefer Yeshua’s influence, independence from Bible interpretation, or other motivation/inspiration.]

                                                                                                                                   iii.      [Civic citizens share loyalty to necessary goodness and the laws of physics and progeny.]

3.       Thomas Jefferson, in his 1^st Inaugural Address, claimed duty to founding principles

a.       The principles are enumerated in the religion-free United States Constitution.

b.       The Constitution’s intentions are stated in the preamble’s intentions sentence, ending with “to ourselves and our Posterity”.

c.       The principles yield to the laws of physics rather than to the will to reason, including theism.

d.       In my view, Brownstein’s best does not lift Jefferson’s errors to goodness.

4.       Emerson, in “Self-Reliance”, cautioned against emotions about events.

a.       Only principles facilitate peace.

b.       The principles may and can accommodate the laws of physics.

c.       The resulting practices may and can accommodate civic citizens.

2.       A civic people may pursue civic integrity, in order to constrain chaos on earth.

a.       Government seems ineluctably required to aid the needed, apply coercion against the bad, constrain criminals, and eliminate evil.

b.       At the recent edge of, sequentially, 200,000 years dominance by Homo sapiens, 10,000 years with collaboration using grammar, and 5500 years’ improvement of Sumerian law codes, it seems obvious that necessary goodness accommodates if not comports to the laws of physics.

                                                               i.      No longer is it moral to will to rationalization/reason in choosing goodness

                                                             ii.      When divinity does not conform to Homo sapiens’ experiences, observations, and accomplishments, the religious doctrine may and can be examined.

                                                           iii.      Nevertheless, church and state have the duty to assure each citizen the opportunity to discover self-interest in accepting reliable responsibility to necessary-goodness or actual-reality.

3.       I write opinion, because I do not know the ineluctable truth.

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