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Betterment Idea of "Other" Law Senses Soul
Justice: The rich get richer as we, rich included, sell ourselves as slaves to “betterment”. Commonly measured economically, “growth” equals betterment. Growth of the “economy” is the goal that leads to betterment for everyone. A rising tide lifts all ships. Nobody argues about economic growth as the goal, we do argue endlessly about how to distribute the booty. We delude ourselves that the arguing is freedom. To me, life itself is freedom, a gift or random occurrence, the “inalienable” rights of life and thought. Liberty and pursuit of happiness live in the "other world" of human thought, in imagination, abstraction of nature. All governments can do is restrict behavior, up to and including extinguishing it. A dilemma I have is, “How can governments secure (protect) these rights by restricting my behavior? as Thomas much more elegantly said they can. ISTMRN justice is the idea that people need to held accountable for their actions, some even say, thoughts (i.e. hate crimes), as our president does when he kills a citizen when he, or his designee, think is a “immanent threat” to national security. WOW! License to assassinate (and we have assassinated “bad guys” ever since). What imperial power the presidency assumes, but “justice will be done”. Accountability is judged in many ways: courts, votes, mothers, and kings, and it leads to the glorious, glorious power to compel other people, a pleasure right up there with jacking-off. Soul: I too seek such vain pleasure, vainer perhaps because I target people not yet born who will “know my name” when I am no more. How silly is that? the Ecclesiastes teacher’s sin. Sometimes I think I just want “my truth” to be known and perhaps my name or some derivative will be but a memory moniker. Yeah, RIGHT! Well, that too, but Achilles desire yet haunts all corners of my soul. Yes, 3000 years later we still say Achilles name. Oral Tradition: About 2500-3000 years ago the stories passed from generation to generation orally were first written. We still revere these earliest writings, perhaps because since we can never “know” oral restrictions on memory. We now can “see” the words, processing them visually as well as hearing them and processing them orally. Our oral sense will never be the same for this gift, or is it an intrusion? C’est la vie. |