Why do I sense you are a relatively young person? If you don't claim your angels, you are left only with your demons. Which constitute a half-truth of reality. Isn't it unwise to derogate the virtues that at one time were important enough to settlers and their progeny fleeing nations ruled by monarchies (authoritarians)to install them in the Constitution and Bill of Rights? Your protest holds important seeds for thought in it. It also is a testament to the fact some shreds of democracy still exist in the USA. I lived in Zaire (Congo) when Mobutu
was President. Were you to publish such a protest in kind in a visible publication, what do you suppose would happen to you, your family? So avoiding the "perfect", we are forced to face the gray area between the absolutes of all good and all bad. We live in between. As re science and rationality - it definitely distresses to witness the anti-intellectualism and replacement of rationality with emotionality that's in assent in a lot of quarters, especially the Trump world, a fact-free one. Isn't the integration of high values (freedom, justice, compassion, right-action, choice) whether in a macrocosm (a nation) or a microcosm (an individual) into functional governing structures (law) and (personal principles) a revolutionary process? Doesn't evolution always demand revolution? Choosing to let go of the old hollow illusions and opening to including what is missing? Your last sentence contains a critical insight. One that is at the base of our corruptability and corrupted institutions. Corporations worship one God: Materialism. Matter. Stuff. What happens when a corrupted species in Nature - like a tsunami of locusts - spreads over the earth? And after that happens, what happens next?
Why do I sense you are a relatively young person? If you don't claim your angels, you are left only with your demons. Which constitute a half-truth of reality. Isn't it unwise to derogate the virtues that at one time were important enough to settlers and their progeny fleeing nations ruled by monarchies (authoritarians)to install them in the Constitution and Bill of Rights? Your protest holds important seeds for thought in it. It also is a testament to the fact some shreds of democracy still exist in the USA. I lived in Zaire (Congo) when Mobutu
was President. Were you to publish such a protest in kind in a visible publication, what do you suppose would happen to you, your family? So avoiding the "perfect", we are forced to face the gray area between the absolutes of all good and all bad. We live in between. As re science and rationality - it definitely distresses to witness the anti-intellectualism and replacement of rationality with emotionality that's in assent in a lot of quarters, especially the Trump world, a fact-free one. Isn't the integration of high values (freedom, justice, compassion, right-action, choice) whether in a macrocosm (a nation) or a microcosm (an individual) into functional governing structures (law) and (personal principles) a revolutionary process? Doesn't evolution always demand revolution? Choosing to let go of the old hollow illusions and opening to including what is missing? Your last sentence contains a critical insight. One that is at the base of our corruptability and corrupted institutions. Corporations worship one God: Materialism. Matter. Stuff. What happens when a corrupted species in Nature - like a tsunami of locusts - spreads over the earth? And after that happens, what happens next?