More on Human ABILITY to REASON, Human RIGHT to CONSENT - Proem & Poem No. 163

Most likely to be published later this spring/summer of 2020, my 11th book entitled appropriately; More 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. 163 - Individually We Stand / 2nd Reprise

      During the U.S. presidential campaign of 2020, a Democrat candidate sponsored a blitzkrieg of advertisements, suggesting the time has arrived to drop the words "me" and "I" from the country’s vocabulary. The advertisement was of course advantageously utilizing the longstanding collectivistic morality even the religious belief millenniums old, sentimentally as well politically elevating community over individuality. Therefore each person denies his/her self so together all carry the collective cross (if you will) or burden. While such rhetoric well seduces the weaker emotional faculties, the stronger ability to reason should immediately (although rarely) rise and reject the absurdity (see Nos. 22-24, 33, 34).

      It is paramount to consider. Not only do the negative characteristics selfishness, greed and covetousness begin with "me" or "I", so do the positive as well quite individual characteristics self-interest, responsibility as well dignity, that is to say, respect. The latter are discernibly, historically and praxeologically the foundation for all things practical, beneficial even moral this side of heaven. Consequently, the solution is not the censoring or editing of words, the denying of individuality, rather the private studying and pondering of histories, ideas and truths outside public institutions of propaganda. Furthermore, the political suggestions or implications to remove the words “me” and “I”  are preferentially disagreeable, certainly but also morally appalling, contrary observably and ethically to human nature hence impossible logically.

      True, it would be remiss to overlook the human instinct also ever-present from womb to tomb, powerfully so however subjected only to and subjugated solely by the individual’s Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, inseparably the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent (see No. 23).

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Odd the human specie was, is and will be, reasonably
Consistently, persistently as seed to tree, salmon to sea
Else extinct, yet hoodwinked by polities’ socio-kinks
Thus individualism succinct, by presumptions in sync

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

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