PROEM & POEM No. 65 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism / 4th Reprise
To live by the violent blade, bullet, bomb, now the drone
Palms o’er bogarted hearts, thus the departed `low tombstones
To live by the politician’s violent pen, paper, equally the laws
Zen’ed by covetous souls, thus dire effects by desired cause
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Though perhaps redundant (to No. 64), it is worth referring to commonly esteemed at times popularly revered documents, books and essays as well some respected by this writer/poet. Consequently, to consider a select few among many historically; the Hammurabi or Gortyn codes, Ten Commandments, Taoist proverbs or any other socio-religious statutes, Magna Carta Libertatum or U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and preceding Articles of Confederation, as well Plato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Social Contract, Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, Marx/Engels’ pamphlet Communist Manifesto, Keynes’ Treatise on Money, Hitler’s Mein Kampf, Stalin’s Foundations of Leninism and some personally preferred like Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty, Hazlitt’s Foundation of Morality even Bastiat’s intriguing essay The Law and Mises’ insightful books Classical Liberalism or Human Action, and much more similarly on topics political, societal, economics; all are tolerable, agreeable, desirable therefore justifiable as far as unanimous consent accepts and allows to socially, politically implement for the ethical forming of societies of two, two-dozen, two-hundred, two-thousand, two-million or more.
Conversely, if imposed by the dictates of a despotic one/few, oligarchic minority or democratic majority, then the very same aforementioned arrangements must be judged as unethical hence rejected, else the disrespect and disregard of the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, inseparably the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent.
---Conversely, if imposed by the dictates of a despotic one/few, oligarchic minority or democratic majority, then the very same aforementioned arrangements must be judged as unethical hence rejected, else the disrespect and disregard of the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, inseparably the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent.
To live by the violent blade, bullet, bomb, now the drone
Palms o’er bogarted hearts, thus the departed `low tombstones
To live by the politician’s violent pen, paper, equally the laws
Zen’ed by covetous souls, thus dire effects by desired cause
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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Copyright © 2016-2017 by D.C. Quillan Stone
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