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Science Epistemology
In searching for truth I explore the mind and the universe for the laws or lack of laws that govern or fail to govern the observations we as humans can detect, the forces that compel matter and energy to react when they inhabit the same infinitely small point in space and time. Political Musings Human Rights (Freedom and Security) Most of the familiar revolution of the past have occurred when the laws of the state became more restrictive than the social laws, which are extremely influential in governing our lives. Today the social laws are dominant in restricting behavior. The laws of the state are merely reflecting the images of those behaviors considered best by the society by restricting those behavoirs that are a threat to social order; order being defined on a moral scale of positions each clearly identifiable including absence of disruption. But we often hear the word “revolution” applied to many activities. That seems to indicate that the seeds of a true revolution are mounting. Unfortunately those sprouts can turn against the political order rather than the social order, apparently seeking to change thought by political dictate rather than social assimilation. If this happens the revolution cannot succeed under the terms it poses upon itself, but revolution can occur. It promises a utopian world in which chains of restriction can be removed, but it is only smashing at the reflections of those chains, the political order, having untouched the actual restrictions. If those chains could be removed, then any political system that followed would be utopian, and there would be no need for political revolution. To remove those chains in the other way is the direction the revolution could take. But even here success is extremely doubtful, though possible, for not only those ideas as reflected in our law, but also ideas, ideas thousands of years old, some even perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands of years old, that engender discontent through a concept of good and bad. Such concepts of good and evil, right and wrong, better and worse must be eliminated if success is to be achieved. I believe most of our discontent derives from these older ideas which are too firmly entrenched to be overcome by cries of “Power to the People”. |