My 11th book PUBLISHED and RELEASED, purchase paperback now at Amazon, other sites/retailers soon to follow...

My 11th book PUBLISHED and RELEASED, purchase paperback now at Amazon, other sites/retailers soon to follow, hardbound/ebook available within days. The follow-up to previous book thus entitled More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters...

   

Logically defined, Politics is the pursuit to influence and/or control political power, legal force, that is to say, the power thus force to manipulate and confiscate others' behavior and resource without their consent. The method to determine the use of power or force by democracy, oligarchy or tyranny matters not. The method to implement the use of power or force by communism, fascism or cronyism and their popular pacifier socialism matters not. For all are clashes between political prerogatives versus personal preferences, legal force versus human will, government taking liberties plural versus individuals exercising liberty singular.

Rather it is Ethics not Politics that desires freedom for oneself and all others thus a return to individual responsibility and risk. It is Ethics not Politics that seeks liberation from government's shackles and chains hung heavy upon everyone's person, preference, possession and property. And it is Ethics not Politics that insists the regard for one's own Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent on all matters, inseparably demands the respect for one's own Peculiar Human Ability to Reason on all matters. Politics is contrary even hostile to all such things.

NOTE:
Paragraphs taken from Proem & Poem No. 122 - Ethics versus Politics / 1st Reprise.

More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters

My 11th book PUBLISHED and RELEASED, purchase paperback now at Amazon, other sites/retailers soon to follow, hardbound/ebook available within days. The follow-up to previous book thus entitled More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters...

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My 11th book project, soon to be published sometime during the winter/spring of 2021, thus manuscript below temporarily available online in draft form. It is follow-up to my 10th book (or click here), consequently the cover already designed although slightly modified of the previous (click here for all books)... The following proems are short, topically introductory comments, followed by poems also short, 4-to-12 line complimentary verses....

More Proems & Poems
on the
Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON,        
                Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT
&
Other Neglected Matters

 

No. 101 - What Is Politics
No. 102 - What Is Politics / 1st Reprise
No. 103 - What Is Covetousness
No. 104 - What Is Covetousness / 1st Reprise
No. 105 - What Is Covetousness / 2nd Reprise
No. 106 - What Is Covetousness / 3rd Reprise
No. 107 - What Are Possessions
No. 108 - What Are Possessions / Reprise
No. 109 - Solomon's Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 1
No. 110 - Solomon's Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 2
No. 111 - Solomon's Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 3
No. 112 - Solomon's Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 4
No. 113 - Solomon's Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 5
No. 114 - What Is Politics / 2nd Reprise
No. 115 - What Is Politics / 3rd Reprise
No. 116 - What Is Politics / 4th Reprise
No. 117 - Burden of Responsibility and Risk
No. 118 - Burden of Responsibility and Risk / 1st Reprise
No. 119 - Burden of Responsibility and Risk / 2nd Reprise
No. 120 - Burden of Responsibility and Risk / 3rd Reprise
No. 121 - Ethics versus Politics
No. 122 - Ethics versus Politics / 1st Reprise
No. 123 - Burden of Responsibility and Risk / 4th Reprise
No. 124 - Matthew Twenty-Five / Part 1
No. 125 - Matthew Twenty-Five / Part 2
No. 126 - Matthew Twenty-Five / Part 3
No. 127 - Ethics versus Politics / 2nd Reprise
No. 128 - Ethics versus Politics / 3rd Reprise
No. 129 - Epicurus and John Locke
No. 130 - Incapable of Gray / Part 1
No. 131 - Incapable of Gray / Part 2
No. 132 - Incapable of Gray / Part 3
No. 132 - Incapable of Gray / Part 4

No. 134 - Pursuit of Happiness

No. 135 - Pursuit of Happiness / 1st Reprise
No. 136 - Pursuit of Happiness / 2nd Reprise

No. 137 - Fierce Regard, Fervent Respect

No. 138 - Pursuit of Happiness / 3rd Reprise

No. 139 - Bill of Right

No. 140 - Bill of Right / 1st Reprise
No. 141 - Bill of Right / 2nd Reprise
No. 142 - Individualistic
No. 143 - Individualistic / Reprise
No. 144 - Rights in the Plural
No. 145 - Pursuit of Happiness / 4th Reprise
No. 146 - Pursuit of Happiness / 5th Reprise
No. 147 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 1
No. 148 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 2
No. 149 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 3
No. 150 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 4
No. 151 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 5
No. 152 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 6
No. 153 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 7
No. 154 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 8
No. 155 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 9
No. 156 - Secrecy thus Conspiracy
No. 157 - Secrecy thus Conspiracy / 1st Reprise
No. 158 - Secrecy thus Conspiracy / 2nd Reprise
No. 159 - Jevons’ Laws of Thought
No. 160 - Jevons’ Laws of Thought / Reprise
No. 161 - Individually We Stand
No. 162 - Individually We Stand / 1st Reprise
No. 163 - Individually We Stand / 2nd Reprise
No. 164 - Constitutional Crisis
No. 165 - Constitutional Crisis / 1st Reprise
No. 166 - Constitutional Crisis / 2nd Reprise
No. 167 - The Rescissionist / Part 1
No. 168 - The Rescissionist / Part 2
No. 169 - The Rescissionist / Part 3
No. 170 - The Rescissionist / Part 4
No. 171 - The Rescissionist / Part 5
No. 172 - Religious Fidelity, Pious Morality
No. 173 - To Refuse Bowing, Submitting

No. 174 - The Rescissionist / Part 6
No. 175 - The Rescissionist / Part 7

No. 176 - The Rescissionist / Part 8

No. 177 - Break and Toss the Linear Scale

No. 178 - Secrecy thus Conspiracy / 3rd Reprise

No. 179 - The Rescissionist / Part 9

No. 180 - The Rescissionist / Part 10

No. 181 - The Rescissionist / Part 11

No. 182 - The Rescissionist / Part 12

No. 183 - The Rescissionist / Part 13

No. 184 - O America!

No. 185 - Soul of America

No. 186 - Violence Consistently Inconsistent

No. 187 - Kennedy Half-Right, Half-Wrong

No. 188 - The Rescissionist / Part 14

No. 189 - The Rescissionist / Part 15

No. 190 - A Reprobate Mind

No. 191 - A Reprobate Mind / 1st Reprise

No. 192 - A Reprobate Mind / 2nd Reprise

No. 193 - A Reprobate Mind / 3rd Reprise

No. 194 - A Reprobate Mind / 4th Reprise

No. 195 - A Reprobate Mind / 5th Reprise

No. 196 - My Life Matters!

No. 197 - My Life Matters! / 1st Reprise

No. 198 - My Life Matters! / 2nd Reprise

No. 199 - No Less, No More Clarity

No. 200 - What Is Democracy

No. 201 - What Is Democracy / 1st Reprise

No. 202 - What Is Democracy / 2nd Reprise

No. 203 - Rights in the Plural / Reprise

No. 204 - My Life Matters! / 3rd Reprise

No. 205 - The Year 2021 / Part 1

No. 206 - The Year 2021 / Part 2

No. 207 - The Year 2021 / Part 3

No. 208 - The Year 2021 / Part 4

No. 209 - One Last Appeal

No. 210 - One Last Appeal / Reprise

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

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        To my daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren, who I love more than they know. It is my hope they someday will read this book when aged enough by human experiences hence mildly or gravely despondent over the human yet quite inhumane experiments, that is, the political and social monstrosities called Government.

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        To the following (incomplete list of) influences, who in various decrees marginally or largely shifted my ideological thus moral paradigm(s), facilitating and fostering the conclusions in this book. Consequently in somewhat chronological order; the Taoist and Greek writers, the Apostles and their Gospels and Epistles, the Early Church writers, the theologians and economists of the School of Salamanca, Roger Williams (his book The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience), John Locke, Richard Cantillon, John Stuart Mill, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Jean-Baptiste Say, Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (of course the essay The Law as well his complete works), Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton (his article No. 84 only) thus the Federalist Papers, then the arguably preferred Anti-Federalist Papers therefore contributors, Patrick Henry (his fiery speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention), writers and orators like Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman) as well chiefs Red Jacket, Joseph, Luther Standing Bear, Seattle and others (as compiled by numerous historians), Henry David Thoreau, Lysander Spooner, Mark Twain (his short story/prose War Prayer) and the American Anti-Imperialist League, Carl Menger, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises (particularly his books Liberalism and Human Action), F.A. Hayek, Garet Garrett, Albert J. Nock (his book Our Enemy, The State), Frank Chodorov, John T. Flynn, C.S. Lewis (his book Mere Christianity), Leonard Read, Henry Hazlitt (his masterly book Foundations of Morality), Ayn Rand (her book Atlas Shrugged and television interviews), Murray N. Rothbard (his two volume historical work on Economic Thought), Martin Luther King Jr. (his speeches and sermons on nonviolence and peace), John Lennon, Milton Friedman, Francis Schaeffer (his book True Spirituality, most noteworthy the section on covetousness), as well the few (among many) contemporaries per their books, essays, articles, lectures, shows, podcasts, documentaries and interviews like Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist, Tom Woods, Walter Block, Hans-Herman Hoppe, Jesús Huerta de Soto, Walter E. Williams, Jeffrey Tucker, Rand Paul, Peter Schiff, Gerald Celente, Niall Ferguson, Hernando de Soto Polar, Thomas Sowell and of course Ron Paul (consistently a noninterventionist hence a man of peace).

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

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Copyright © 2021 by D.C. Quillan Stone

BILL of RIGHT (singular) by The RESCISSIONIST aka D.C. Quillan Stone

 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.

D.C. Quillan Stone
10 December 2019

Note:

The stated right is taken from PROEM & POEM No. 140 - Bill of Right (see link for draft version) of my forthcoming book More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters.

https://cafeperq.blogspot.com/2019/12/most-likely-to-be-published-later-this.html

Come let us Reason (Is 1:18). Peace is always a Choice (Mt 5:9).

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath (2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23).

This passion for bureaucracy is enough to drive one to despair...

"This passion for bureaucracy is enough to drive one to despair. It is as if in politics we were to deliberately to become men who need order and nothing but order, who become nervous and cowardly if for one moment this order wavers, and helpless if they are torn away from their total incorporation in it. That the world should know no men but these: it is in such an evolution that we are already caught up, and the great question is therefore not how we can promote and hasten it, but what can we oppose to this machinery in order to keep a portion of mankind free from this parceling-out of the soul, from this supreme mastery of the bureaucratic way of life."

Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (1864-1920)

As observed in his own country Germany of course, but throughout Europe as well United States, Canada and elsewhere, and as stated in his 1905 book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Personal note... When randomly falling upon such beautifully written as well quite observable truisms, often I will seek out a copy of the book. It will be interesting to read and consider Weber's greater context and argument within which this quote resides, a statement well confirming my running thesis regarding Individualism.

It is time to remove Mississippi's despot Tate Reeves

It is time to remove Mississippi's despot Tate Reeves and rescind into perpetuity all gubernatorial powers to presumptuously order and arbitrarily mandate.

Upon further rescission, restoring the state to a land of free individuals pledging allegiance NOT to flag, government, politician or bureaucrat but to one's person, people, preference, persuasion, purpose, profession, possession and property.

The Rescissionist (aka D.C. Quillan Stone)

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2020/07/11/covid-19-13-ms-counties-require-face-masks-public-monday/5401050002/

Regarding MASKS...

1. If you desire to Force me to wear a mask against my Dissent, that is Covetousness swelled into Presumption.

2. If you support/vote for a candidate and/or law to Force me to wear a mask against my Dissent, that is Arrogance festered into Violence.

3. If you are free to choose and wear a mask but remain discontented, annoyed, perturbed, agitated even angered until I am Forced to wear a mask against my Dissent, that is Perversion.

The above analysis is logically, consistently therefore ethically, applicably so for each and every matter private, public or political else quite arbitrary thus without principle ALL other considerations and determinations.

To importantly note, the burden of proof rests on anyone who disagrees. For to respect and regard others' dissent necessitates no further analysis to understand the ethic. It is an universal expectation since time immemorial. In contrast, to disrespect and disregard others' dissent necessitates some explanation and justification for the preceding covetousness and presumption. For to disrespect and disregard others' dissent by force, regardless the intent, is only possible upon first coveting others' freedom to prefer and behave, then presuming your preference and behavior supersede others' preference and behavior. If anyone suggests proof, then one must accept the same proof and argument for justifying every tyrannic or horrific act throughout history for preceding those atrocities too were covetousness and presumption.

The Rescissionist (aka D.C. Quillan Stone)

Come let us Reason (Is 1:18). Peace is always a Choice (Mt 5:9).

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath (2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23).

Unless each and every intended plank is RESCISSION...

Unless each and every intended plank is RESCISSION, a party's platform advocates nothing more than expanding the immoral imposition, enlarging the inhumane confiscation, thereby benefiting the consented upon injuring the dissented, and when electorally victorious celebrating even glorifying the satiated covetousness and gloated perversion. By this logically ethical assessment, all U.S. political parties stand so charged and condemned.

The Rescissionist (aka D.C. Quillan Stone)

Come let us Reason (Is 1:18). Peace is always a Choice (Mt 5:9).

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath (2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23).

The email as well letter I sent to my Mississippi state senator and house representative...

I urge you to initiate and/or support legislation to greatly restrict gubernatorial powers, particularly to prevent another economic shutdown and other such orders or mandates of similar statewide detriments.

It is my opinion, the governor should only sign, veto and/or sponsor legislation, therefore NO orders NOR mandates allowed, ONLY to advise, warn even bully-pulpit about pending legislation, ongoing issues as well threatening emergencies.

To elaborate further, any politician whether mayor, governor or president, well or ill intended, cannot be trusted with such unchecked, unilateral powers. No fault of a particular politician, of course, for we are all equally human thus all equally burdened with commonly unavoidable propensities for error and excess. The last few months should have exposed therefore substantiated the human propensities as consequentially injurious flaws when so endowed with power as exemplified in this state, other states and Washington DC.

It is not a case to determine whether powers were executed excessively, abusively, corruptly or not. Rather, it is a case about executive powers legally available, executive powers legally executed, hence necessitating immediate rescission, making such gubernatorial prerogatives legally unavailable!

BILL of RIGHT

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.

D.C. Quillan Stone
10 December 2019

Note:

The stated right is taken from PROEM & POEM No. 140 - Bill of Right (see link for draft version) of my forthcoming book More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters.

https://cafeperq.blogspot.com/2019/12/most-likely-to-be-published-later-this.html

Come let us Reason (Is 1:18). Peace is always a Choice (Mt 5:9).

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath (2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23).

On surface it may appear United States transformed overnight...

Lets be clear, Fascism is not Racism for its far worst per a top-down regulatory economy thus society, controlled largely till wholly by central government's elite few, thereby enslaving the entire population. Compared to Communism, that is, a bottom-up confiscatory economy thus society, controlled largely till wholly by central government's elite few, thereby enslaving the entire population. Both forms of tyranny may use Racism as well other means to such inhumane ends. With that said...

On surface it may appear sooner or late to some that United States transformed overnight into Fascistic-Socialistic governance, completely controlling the economy thus society by executive orders, solely caused by one or two catastrophic events... or so will go someday government's history books more or less. It is correct, United States have so transformed but not overnight, rather over the course of 100 years or more (I contend further back in US history).

John T. Flynn (1882-1964) in his book As We Go Marching (1944) suggested a comparison to 20th century United States per his survey of German history 100 years preceding the 1930s. See link for the free download of book (pdf/epub) else online retailers...

It is not too late to understand what is unfolding by rightly understanding history long unfolded, so to understand vicious cycles as repeated decisions of various ill sorts however cycles potentially broken if by rare and logical choices. The human specie's peculiar ability to reason allows for decisions of the greatest benefits as well of the gravest detriments. Thus, first important decision is to study, ponder as well labor till last breath.

https://mises.org/library/we-go-marching

Come let us Reason (Is 1:18). Peace is always a Choice (Mt 5:9).

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath (2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23).

Federal Reserve cuts interest rates to ZERO...

Federal Reserve cuts interest rates to ZERO amid an unofficial QE4 well underway for months, much accompanied by executive orders as well with more to come....

The long and purposeful struggle to smother and suffocate Capitalism is over. Going forward, partisan politics will be nothing more than variations of Fascistic Socialism, not in name of course but in practice well disguised by political rhetoric per promulgated social/economic necessity upon emergency. Both major political parties have equally contributed thus paved the way for decades, so to blame one over the other is fantasy.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

In God We Trust?

In God We Trust? For decades Americans of both political persuasions placed their trust even faith in man-made institutions thus honoring the instituted branches, offices, departments, agencies, bureaus, police and military as well supporting the instituted laws, regulations, policies, programs, orders, wars, fair taxes and expected duties, therefore revering the instituted symbols, memorials, statues, anthems and flags.

Oddly even blasphemously, Americans placed on currency "In God We Trust" although trusting far more government's crony-bankers at the Federal Reserve while monopolizing and regulating the value thereof hence scheming and thieving by monetary expansion.

Instead of acknowledging the obvious failures by these man-made institutions and instituted measures, thus logically questioning their misplaced trust, faith, honor, support and reverence, Americans willingly, anxiously and fearfully petition for larger institutions and broader measures upon every disaster actual or otherwise caused by the same. The current disaster(s) actual or otherwise are no exceptions. Interestingly and paradoxically, the Left hope to reform government institutions towards some perceived moral future while the Right hope to restore government institutions back to some perceived moral past, however both gravely misguided with unintended consequences as well intended impositions if successful.

Am I saying the government should do nothing?

I HAVE, I AM and I WILL continue to say so! For not only government should do nothing but much less by rescission, rescission and more rescission until whatever remains as unanimously agreeable or tolerable. So of course trust God our Creator, for by divinely breathing into each dusty form His Likeness ergo uniquely instilling the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason manifested solely by the Singular Human Right to Consent versus Dissent on all matters, he created You the Individual then and since, not You the Collective.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Quote by John Lock and My Commentary

"Every one is forward to complain of the prejudices that mislead other men or parties, as if he were free and had none of his own... This is the mote which every one sees in his brother's eye, but never regards the beam in his own." --- John Locke (1632-1704)

How then do I post such a quote while promoting even insisting so confidently, passionately even absolutely the sole ethic thus singular right to consent or dissent on all matters, as I critique with equal confidence, passion and absolute those who disagree? The answer should be self-evident yet often eludes. I do not covet unchecked enough thus do not intend to force upon their person, privacy, preference and/or possession by gun, knife, club, fist, office or vote. However, those who disagree do so for they do covet unchecked enough thus do intend to force upon my person, privacy, preference and/or possession by gun, knife, club, fist, office or vote.

As arrogant I may seem, I am equally, logically tempered, I pray humbled too, by what also should be self-evident yet often eludes. Whatever knowledge, experience, skill and wisdom I may have to manage my person, privacy, preference and property, are by no means sufficient to forcefully manage another's person, privacy, preference and property. With that said, many do speak and act as though they have such sufficiency, yet I am the arrogant one... :-)

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Quote by Prince Michael of Liechtenstein

"Governments’ excessive spending and oversized bureaucracies have created staggering public deficits. The unduly elevated role of public administration sucks talent away from the productive sectors of manufacturing and services into deadweight bureaucratic overhead. Lately, one can hardly avoid the impression that many regulations serve to justify public jobs rather than aid society. This amounts to a massive burden on the economy, especially in Europe, vastly contributing to the declining competitiveness on the continent." --- Prince Michael of Liechtenstein

https://www.gisreportsonline.com/opinion-harmful-attempts-to-plan-and-regulate-the-global-economy,economy,3101.html

Quote by Claudio Grass

"At the end of the day, what MMT (Modern Monetary Theory), the Green New Deal, QE, NIRP, Helicopter Money or any other sort of government promise or intervention have in common is that they are all collectivistic by definition, aimed against the individual and based on the crazy findings of the 'Economic School of Zimbabwe' – where everyone became a trillionaire." --- Claudio Grass

See link for entire article...
https://claudiograss.ch/2020/02/there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun/

Democracy and Mood Swings

If democracy is fundamentally imperative for a good and moral society as often implied even cited erroneously, then to be consistent, boundless mood swings must be regarded as fundamentally imperative for a good and moral person.

Democracy is not inherently noble, virtuous or principled, merely an amoral method among others for determining and making decisions within groups of any sort. On its own, democracy is susceptible to societal, political swings as irrationally extreme as unprincipled thus unbridled emotions or unchecked moods, knee-jerking to events, trends, fads, raves, rants as well contrivances. Occasional susceptibility soon turns to chronic vulnerability then terminal malignity.

As such, human instincts common among all other species are politically empowered hence covetously encouraged by the unconstrained vote, furthered gravely per human reasoning tainted and skewed upon selfishly ignored and/or legislatively mitigated responsibility and risk. At this juncture, democracy have made horizonlessly wide the path of least resistance towards cozening then confiscating any and all possessions and resources of others.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Mike Bloomberg's latest online advertising blitzkrieg

Among presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's latest online advertising blitzkrieg, he suggests young adults should drop the words "me" and "I" from their vocabulary. Not only do the negative characteristics selfishness, greed and covetousness begin with "me" or "I", so do the positive characteristics self-interest, responsibility and dignity. The solution is not the censoring of words, the denying of individuality, rather the private studying and pondering of histories, ideas and truths outside public institutions of propaganda. I find his suggestion not only preferentially disagreeable but morally appalling, observably as well ethically contrary to human nature therefore logically impossible.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Diversity per French cognac, Italian coffee and American chocolate...

Diversity per French cognac, Italian coffee and American chocolate :-), accompanying tonight's writing for my current book project, accordingly....

"Covetousness is never satiated, albeit seemingly yet temporarily subsiding upon each coveted objective’s alleged success and perceived benefit. Alleged and perceived for always tainted marginally else considerably the success and benefit by the disparity between the anticipative imagination versus the acquisitive realization, that is to say, the psychological, emotional digression from pursuit’s greater euphoria to possession’s lesser dysphoria.

The inevitable depths within this covetously vicious cycle is repeated disappointment as mentioned, displeasure to follow, if unchecked then festering to bitterness, resentment, rancor as well hate, rage onto violence towards others predictably and oneself paradoxically. Socially then soon politically, such digressions are oft disguised as something else; righteous anger, moral outrage, thereby personally, arbitrarily preferring then illogically, unethically justifying a form of “by any means necessary”, nonetheless narcissistically empowering by sententiously pontificating hate and violence."

See link for the book's progress...
http://dcquillanstone.blogspot.com/2018/11/more-proems-poems-on-peculiar-human.html

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

"United We Stand, Divided We Fall"; a politically convenient mantra...

"United We Stand, Divided We Fall"; a politically convenient mantra thus sentimentally useful propaganda, recited and sung unquestionably therefore mindlessly yet this poet rejects logically therefore passionately. For per history understood, I would be incline to prefer something more observably and notably accurate as "United We Presume, Intrude, Destruct then Erode till Last Desperate, Feeble Stand", although ethically, consistently and sustainably remedied by "Individually We Each Prefer, Consent, Dissent, Study, Ponder, Labor then Carry On till Last Responsible, Honorable Breath."

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

The contest of 1776 was less than an American Revolutionary War....

The contest of 1776 was less than an American Revolutionary War, gravely dividing colonials particularly in the early years, thus appropriately far more the First American Civil War. As such, presumptuous terms like "we the people" and "will of the people" should be criticized as whimsically fantastical than actually factual, even when characterizing this country's founding.

Groups large or small rhetorically refer to themselves as "we" of course, although logically never representing one will, one voice, one opinion, one preference, one motive, one objective, etc. For the "will of the people" is unquestionably illusory, consequently the  "will" determined quite individually hence expressed and exercised daily, hourly as well momentarily, therefore utterly erroneous to argue, suggest even hint something collective or universal other than for lyrically misguided sentiments if one must emotionally insist on the vagary.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.