12th Book on Ability to Reason, Right to Consent; Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 258... To live by another’s leave, forced to cleave, later to bereave. Assailing agitprop as prevailing backdrop so cleverly weaved...

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. 258 (see Nos. 36, 37, 38, 39)

~ Vox Humana Vox Dei Non / 3rd Reprise ~

Vox populi vox Dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.

Edmund Sears Morgan (1916-2013)

Furthermore, neither vox rex vox Dei nor vox imperium vox Dei, rather intus unumquemque vox Dei, that is to say, God speaks directly, uniquely to each and every individual (as this poet contends) whether by meditation, prayer, writ, sermon ergo sola scriptura theologically, as well studying, pondering, laboring (till last breath, if you will). For no person is divinely or intellectually worthy to presume then exact authority thus force upon another without the latter's universally rightful consent. In this way, the populist or democratist is as erroneous even inhumane as the theocratist, monarchist, royalist, elitist, oligarchist for all these species per the genus Kratocratist hence the resultantly monstrous war-cry "Might makes Right!"

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To live by another’s leave, forced to cleave, later to bereave
Assailing agitprop as prevailing backdrop so cleverly weaved
To breathe the toxicity `tween the complicity and duplicity
Inflating the whimsy as fancied infinity till end of the elasticity

Crucifixes tarnished, thrown to white walls and bloody floors
For unstudied the lore of yore, therefore quite ignored the gore
Exiguous the rightful dissented, still abhorred by the plenteous
Pneumatically thrilled the latter by demagogues vainglorious

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

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