More on Human ABILITY to REASON, Human RIGHT to CONSENT - Proem & Poem No. 106

Most likely to be published later this summer of 2019, my 11th book entitled appropriately; More 100 Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the previous....

PROEM & POEM No. 106 - What Is Covetousness / 3rd Reprise

      Commonly among religions, as well philosophies and teachings admonishing modest even charitable lifestyles, there is a general condemnation, at least disapproval or discouragement for excessive desires and obsessive pursuits. Particularly decried are those objects and objectives craved perhaps lusted to the neglect or detriment of family, friends and the general well being of other human beings. Hence the Biblical question who is my neighbour (Lk 10:29) appropriately answered then comprehensively defined by Christ’s well known parable and often told story the Good Samaritan (Lk 10:30-37).

      At risk of appearing to dismiss such worthy perspectives on the subject, there should be duly noted the obvious, unavoidable dilemma; who can rightly, and how exactly, quantify morally, absolutely, consistently the measurements like avarice, excess, greed, selfishness, or “too much” to simply state. The dilemma complicates further by annunciating the “who and how” presumptuously, often socially, politically therefore forcefully on behalf of a few, some, many or most others. Speculation is the logical extent of these kinds of deliberations, admirably perhaps necessarily for pursuing self-awareness therefore personal conduct privately, spiritually, religiously, philosophically albeit always voluntarily. In this way, one could set their own standards as high as individually preferred, determining and critiquing very minute gratifications and slightest comforts as excessive.

      Unfortunately public, social and/or political discussions on covetousness, often preferring the word greed, concludes to judging and condemning those possessing more than themselves, while conveniently ignoring the conclusions of those possessing less than themselves. Additionally, these discussions assume and associate criminal, illegal means to the successes of the wealthy, or propose criminalizing, illegalizing means quite proper and legal for obviously their riches are a matter of unrestrained greed, or so goes the argument. The poorly formed logic inevitably digresses then transgresses the only consistent definition of covetousness or greed acted out, as emphasize in the Bible’s Old Testament (see Nos. 103-104); forceful confiscation, in this case the possessions and resources of the wealthy. Consequently, the accusers proceed to legally, violently act in the open per observable, substantiated evidence, upon those accused per conjecturable, unsubstantiated presupposition.

      Worse still, misguided even destructive Isms have been conjured and developed to further the popularly embraced violence well rooted in unrecognized covetousness (thus greed) against the uniquely justifiable Individualism. For without exception, Socialism, Marxism, Communism, Fascism, American Cronyism (or Corporatism), even historical Despotism, Feudalism, Mercantilism and more, cannot be entertained in thought without firstly disregarding the individual’s Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent on all matters. As the primary if not sole expression thereof, disrespected is the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, the one distinction among all other species hence the individual completely dehumanized.

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O the Isms’ schisms by Statism’s well trumpeted chrisms
Despotism cloaked so to coax hence hoax the populism
Benevolence by violence along corpulence by fraudulence
Much opulent continuance, such malevolent vehemence

Gang-raping Individualism by all other pernicious Isms
Duplicitous schisms oft’ among them per covetous egoisms
As distorted prisms their promulgated moralities and polities
Two-penny fitly the colloquies for the two-dollar sodomies

Ah the Romanesque of it all, the arabesques by mesmerism
Burlesques of sorts, as one, two or more exhort the exorcism
Casting out self-determinism as demonic, to rid the cancer
Forbid the candor, fester the anger therein the neo-dancers

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

Copyright © 2018 by D.C. Quillan Stone