Wednesday, July 8, 2026

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 245

Published in 2022 amid US Government's tyranny crescendo-ing to unprecedented magnitudes as done by many (if not all) presidential administrations and congressional classes, unchallenged by judicial benches, particularly those of 21st century (without exception), that is to say, my 12th book (3rd of trilogy thus 1st and 2nd, 3rd's TOC), entitled appropriately and exhaustively Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (May 2022)... 




PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 245

~ Inveterate Covetousness Theorem / Part 1 ~

Presumption then Arrogance without exception precedes the disrespect thus disregard for the Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent on all matters, as inseparably manifested by the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason. Covetousness also without exception precedes the same Presumption then Arrogance. So argued earlier observably, logically, consistently, ethically therefore consequently the three propositions as laws; the Law of Consensual Unity, the Law of Ethical Continuity and the Shaefferian Law of Anterior Covetousness (see Presumption, Problem & Poem Nos. 225-235). So must argue the following proposition logically albeit questionably thus declared not as a law rather presented as a theorem

To state, as much the Singular Human Right is in constant motion thus operation as determined in thought, as denoted by word, as demonstrated by action regardless the breadth and depth of respect then regard extended versus disrespect then disregard exacted, so Covetousness in constant motion thus operation as determined in thought, as denoted by word, as demonstrated by action regardless the breadth and depth of moderation then restriction self-imposed versus immoderation then facilitation self-roused.

It is true, one could argue whether Covetousness is ever present or not, with as much logic or evidence for either posture. However the debate would be moot if excepted the ever presence of Covetousness preceding each and every occurrence of Presumption then Arrogance followed by Disrespect thus Disregard, the constant and consistent antithesis to the Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent on all matters, as inseparably manifested by the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason. 

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Politicians’ cronies, the johns and whores as meant then schemed
As dreamt mid river’s stream, per golden shores’ yonder beams
Fonder the morphine in cold hands, for diseased veins and minds
Sickened the soul, non-quickened the heart o’er the bestial grind

Sublime conversely the mind amid Freedom’s uncontained plains
Confuse not as Eden’s lovely main, nor to feign as Utopia’s reign
Unsustainable as deranged, unmaintainable as estranged, so it goes
As the emperor oddly disrobes, to maniacally don his new clothes

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 254

Published in 2022 amid US Government's tyranny crescendo-ing to unprecedented magnitudes as done by many (if not all) presidential administrations and congressional classes, unchallenged by judicial benches, particularly those of 21st century (without exception), that is to say, my 12th book (3rd of trilogy thus 1st and 2nd, 3rd's TOC), entitled appropriately and exhaustively Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (May 2022)... 




PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 254

~ Individualism's Bill of Right / 2nd Reprise ~

Superficially educated by government’s schools and universities, stupidly conditioned by society’s fads, trends as well ever-changing norms and morals, the 21st century American mind gravely lacks the logically ethical character and imperatively self-reliant fortitude to critically thus properly distinguish between personal preference and individual right.

If the mere existence of debates regarding rights is not sufficient evidence, then surely the evidence is plain by the various arbitrary conclusions, various arbitrary enumerations, therefore various arbitrary preferences suspiciously sanctified as rights. Plainer still the evidence when products and services requiring others to laboriously produce and provide, are conveniently, covetously promulgated as basic human rights while belittling, slandering and demonizing anyone who questions, challenges or rejects.

Yet, against all observable evidences, all logical arguments by many noteworthy philosophers, economists, professors, lecturers, thinkers, and writers since antiquities till present day, the 21st century American mind doltishly misses, brutishly disses or foolishly dismisses, particularly of the two majorly partisan persuasions polarized hence intensified towards near lunacy.

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O Publius, the one gem deterred, not thy alter-whims
Consolidating schemes upon themes of federalist vim
Yet rightly dividing as unnecessary even dangerous
Rights enumerated, hence allowing purposes devious 

O the veneration of Statism by reverent “Thou art great!”
Referent the usual bait and titillation by prattle and prate
Such parades of pomposities upon asses among the masses
Flash o’er head, cash to shred, while raising empty glasses

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Monday, July 6, 2026

Presumption even arrogance abounded over the holiday weekend celebrating America's 250th anniversary...

Presumption even arrogance abounded over the holiday weekend celebrating America's 250th anniversary, commemorating of course "national" independence, not "personal" independence. Among the outspoken many Right or Left, Conservative or Liberal, Republican or Democrat, whether per online comments, newspaper or magazine articles, TV broadcasts too, many implied concurrences for their present editorial, narrative, and critique by referring to some preferred ideological ancestor(s) as "rolling in their graves." The implications suggest if alive today, their preferred ideological ancestor(s) would agree obviously with them thus equally appalled towards opposing views.

Let us attempt to be observant, logical, then consistent; the best we (humans alive today) can do is to cite past writers and thinkers therefore quote their writings per books, essays, pamphlets, articles, documents, letters, notes, etc., then voice our own concurrences, not assume their concurrences for something declared today. Again, if the latter, then presumption and arrogance abound.

To exemplify, often to make my arguments regarding the singular human right to consent or dissent, I will emphasize the word "harm" over the Lockean enumeration of rights; life, health, liberty, possessions...

"No one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."

John Locke (1632-1704)
Second Treatise on Government (1690)

It would be erroneous to go beyond my own "subjective" emphasis then to assume Locke emphasized similarly. I could assume Lock chose his words meticulously, yet my risk for error would be no less. I could also attempt to substantiate, that is to say, Locke relied on Epicurus' use of the same word "harm", as much as Jefferson admired too Epicurus' writings on rights, prerogatives, propensities, and moralities per moderations, ignoring of course translation preferences, yet I would still be presuming much...

"Justice is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed."

Epicurus (341-270 BC)

"I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing every thing rational in moral philosophy which Greece & Rome have left us."

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Letter to William Short (1819)

The most I may properly argue is to cite those writers and writings, then state my own emphasis of the word "harm", proceeding further with more observations, quotations, followed by deductions and inductions (ratiocinations), even algebraically Boolean demonstrations to articulate consistencies, then syllogistic propositions. I would grossly cross the reasonable line if by prattle or rant declare Epicurus and Locke would be "rolling in their graves" if anyone would disagree with me hence presumption and arrogance would abound.

I must confess; my own persisting arrogance (rooted in ever present covetousness) would not allow prolonged humbling of myself without the self-preserving moderation (haha) of exonerating myself within the same breath. Yet I defer...

"The climax of the Ten Commandments is the Tenth Commandment – 'Thou shat not covet' – Actually we break this last commandment, not to covet, before we break any of the others. Any time that we break one of the other commandments of God, it means that we have already broken this commandment, in coveting."

Francis August Schaeffer (1912-1984)
True Spirituality (1971)

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Is 1:18, Mt 5:9, 2 Tm 2:15, Cl 3:23

Sunday, July 5, 2026

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 253

Published in 2022 amid US Government's tyranny crescendo-ing to unprecedented magnitudes as done by many (if not all) presidential administrations and congressional classes, unchallenged by judicial benches, particularly those of 21st century (without exception), that is to say, my 12th book (3rd of trilogy thus 1st and 2nd, 3rd's TOC), entitled appropriately and exhaustively Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (May 2022)... 




PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 253

~ Individualism's Bill of Right / 1st Reprise ~

All other rights as billed or listed among various governmental constitutions, political documents and international declarations are either redundantly unnecessary, thus compound and complex the argument if enumerated, or more likely disrespect and disregard the Singular Human Right therefore violent towards the individual. To historically affirm, consider Federalist Paper No. 84, originally published during the summer of 1788 by The Independent Journal, New York Packet and The Daily Advertiser under the pseudonym Publius, otherwise known as Alexander Hamilton, hence the following excerpt…

I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why, for instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power; but it is evident that it would furnish, to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretense for claiming that power.

Generally this poet ideologically despises Alexander Hamilton, although his insight expressed in Federalist Paper No. 84 is not only noteworthy among other such papers but quite logically prophetic as well. History demonstrates time and time again the predicted abuse by the U.S. government as covetously, presumptuously, arrogantly thus violently continued to this day.

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Ten enumerations honored, revered, still circumvented
As the Founding Framers and Schemers perhaps intended
Syntax bended, parallax presented; a logical suspicion
Yet anagogical the promulgation for Statism’s veneration 

O Publius, the one gem deterred, not thy alter-whims
Consolidating schemes upon themes of federalist vim
Yet rightly dividing as unnecessary even dangerous
Rights enumerated, hence allowing purposes devious

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Saturday, July 4, 2026

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 252

Published in 2022 amid US Government's tyranny crescendo-ing to unprecedented magnitudes as done by many (if not all) presidential administrations and congressional classes, unchallenged by judicial benches, particularly those of 21st century (without exception), that is to say, my 12th book (3rd of trilogy thus 1st and 2nd, 3rd's TOC), entitled appropriately and exhaustively Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (May 2022)... 




PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 252

~ Individualism's Bill of Right ~

If such understanding forms and foments, then solely amid ceaseless study, ponder and labor, concluding first in part, later in whole, to logically respect then ethically regard, hence fervently declaring then firmly establishing in this manner.

The propensity, preference and persistence upon observable practice by Each and Every Individual since first reasoned the Specie Human and Peculiar above all other species, thus consistently inclining, constantly insisting the Singular Right to Consent or Dissent regarding Each and Every Matter, indeed without exception as exemplified per unwanted prevention, unacceptable prohibition, undesirable preemption, unwelcomed intervention, unwarranted retroaction by persons ever covetous as well parties ever contemptuous whether private, religious, philosophical, economical, social, political, governmental and more.

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Society crashes, lightning flashes exposing the behemoths
Although too few pursue the remnant toward the Zenith
Crumbs of bread buy gold bars, still old are the damn stories
Repetitive oratories of deceptive glories; vituperative, gory 

Ten enumerations honored, revered, still circumvented
As the Founding Framers and Schemers perhaps intended
Syntax bended, parallax presented; a logical suspicion
Yet anagogical the promulgation for Statism’s veneration

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Friday, July 3, 2026

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 251

Published in 2022 amid US Government's tyranny crescendo-ing to unprecedented magnitudes as done by many (if not all) presidential administrations and congressional classes, unchallenged by judicial benches, particularly those of 21st century (without exception), that is to say, my 12th book (3rd of trilogy thus 1st and 2nd, 3rd's TOC), entitled appropriately and exhaustively Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (May 2022)... 



PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 251

~ Individualism's Pledge of Allegiance ~

            Private property my country, family and friends my countrymen, consequently the sweaty, dirty, bloody, long worn shirt-off-back my flag for upon the rustic post at edge of field hangs that banner `neath my old hat, however tattered, patched, frayed, stained, worked thus ragged while individually, agreeably therefore mutually, consensually bought and bartered... I pledge allegiance to nothing else and to no other!

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            Pledges and allegiances to banners and flags, oaths and vows to empires and nations, to monarchies and governments, to parliaments and congresses, to kings, prime ministers and presidents serve only the interests of the aforementioned, and to be sure the subject and citizen, that is, the individual to fully bear the sacrifice of his/her life, health, liberty, privacy, property, possession, profession, pursuit, purpose, preference, prerogative even propensity as well family, friends, and anything or anyone else held personally dear. Any promises by kings, princes, politicians or bureaucrats to serve the subject or citizen’s wellbeing are Orwellian doublespeak for their intent to presumptuously, impatiently rule therefore expecting the people’s unquestionable obedience.

            Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.

            Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563)

            These despots along with crony advisors, experts, professors, doctors, journalists, commentators then priests, pastors, various community leaders even artists, musicians, actors like past sages, magicians, jesters, town criers and more, have so cleverly spun the concept of honor to equate to sacrifice as previously defined, yet in like manner sacrificially honor not the people. Is it not high time to reciprocally however rightfully honor not those holding public offices, thereby logically thus ethically undermining their presumption and arrogance, unofficially yet effectively rescinding their endowment and power, and in so doing to live free, to think, speak and act liberated fully bearing one’s own responsibility and risk (see Proem & Poem Nos. 117-120, 123).

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O the speck and splinter fester graver per critical eyes
Cynically “The ayes have it!” thus vied finically the guise
Mystically the ruse the racket per the excuse slightly tacit
Though logically flaccid, academically plain upon placid

Society crashes, lightning flashes exposing the behemoths
Although too few pursue the remnant toward the Zenith
Crumbs of bread buy gold bars, still old are the damn stories
Repetitive oratories of deceptive glories; vituperative, gory

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Thursday, July 2, 2026

12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 265

Published in 2022 amid US Government's tyranny crescendo-ing to unprecedented magnitudes as done by many (if not all) presidential administrations and congressional classes, unchallenged by judicial benches, particularly those of 21st century (without exception), that is to say, my 12th book (3rd of trilogy thus 1st and 2nd), entitled appropriately and exhaustively Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (May 2022)... 




PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 265

~ Definitions of Isms / 2nd Reprise ~

What is the justification (see Proem & Poem Nos. 3, 4) of any arrangement intimate, private, philosophical, spiritual/theological, public, social or political between two persons or more if not Consent expressed by each individual? To go further, what is the justification of any arrangement between two dozen, two hundred, two thousand, two million or more people if not Consent expressed initially and continuously by each individual?

Yet more often than not discussions and debates persist even insist on this or that formation of government per any-ocracy and/or any-ism as argued thusly fair, equal, just, humane as well socially good or religiously moral, and if pragmatic enough, perhaps economically sustainable, else sentimentally preferable, emotionally desirable. Similarly as often, those among discussions and debates are unaware of the innately covetable dynamic, the rot-at-root of the aforesaid without exception. For rarely (if ever) discussed and debated the consideration of consensual unity and ethical continuity (see Proposition, Problem & Poem Nos. 225-228), that is to say, unanimous consent initially as well continuously.

Rather, democracy widely hailed thus highly waved as most righteous of banners among those self-regarded as humanely sensitive even self-considered as morally superior. Yet among the same presumption, the same arrogance there exist not a consistent definition of democracy, nor any definition relying not on the solicitation of enough consenters so to exact political coercion, governmental force therefore execute majorly supported violence upon the remaining dissenters.

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Estranged and weaned from God, outgrown of such nuisances
Succumbed mystically nonetheless per clutched noctilucences
While thumb-screwing the dissent upon pretense o’er fabrication
“All is naught!” as arrogance ought, fraught with presumption 

Well sought per covetous infatuation, un-satiated the lust
Oh, what fuss the lost of time by respect, regard and trust
Disgusted by the patience, the reluctance to rightly negotiate
Prating instead, castrating o’er deathbed as disparities conflate

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.


Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone