Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)... This American government--what is it but a tradition... but each instant losing some of its integrity?

"This American government--what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity?"

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Hence my contention if to understand US history as it actually occurred. The "losing some of its integrity" commenced in 1787 (if not earlier), then reassured in 1792, and so incrementally declined upon every presidential administration thereafter. To suggest a return to some American orthodoxy of the recent or distant past, is to merely restart upon the same erroneous path, only to arrive again to the present dire juncture.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Ray Bradbury (author, 1920-2012)... I don't believe in government. I hate politics...

"I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall (election), we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be."

Ray Bradbury (author, 1920-2012)

Good quote by Ayn Rand (1905-1982)... observably, logically, consistently sound...

The Trilogy...

The Trilogy...

ONE:

100 Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (Aug 2018)

https://www.amazon.com/Peculiar-ABILITY-Singular-CONSENT-Neglected/dp/1532053665/ (Amazon link)

"It follows, when reason’s expression per individual consent as well dissent are honored in rhetoric and practice concerning all matters, only then can be found genuine fairness, equality, justice, freedom, that is to say, the sole ethic among non-omnipresent, non-omniscient and non-omnipotent thus quite finite mortals."

TWO:

More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (Feb 2021)

https://www.amazon.com/Peculiar-Ability-Singular-Consent-Neglected/dp/1663217599/ (Amazon link)

"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."

THREE:

Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters (Sometime 2022)

http://cafeperq.blogspot.com/2021/07/propositions-problems-poems-on-peculiar.html (draft/unedited version in progress)

"Law of Consensual Unity and Law of Ethical Continuity... The (1st) law, to logically propose, should articulate the simplest of conditions; if consensual among all then unity, else dissension among one or more then disunity. The syllogism could be constructed in sort of pseudo code (if you will) so to further emphasize…

 

.... if consensual then

........ unity

.... else not consensual then

........ not unity

.... done/exit

 

The law simply, concisely indicates two states or conditions; Consensual or Not Consensual therefore True or False, On or Off, One (1) or Zero (0), This or That, Be or Not Be. Hence respectfully invokes the third law of thought as explained by William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) in his book Elementary Lessons in Logic Deductive and Inductive published in 1870…"

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563)... RESOLVE TO SERVE NO MORE, and YOU ARE at once FREED...

"RESOLVE TO SERVE NO MORE, and YOU ARE at once FREED. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."

 

Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563)

Wonderful quote by an insightful young man while attending university. Taken from his essay Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, posthumously and clandestinely published in 1577, perhaps the original Pelican Brief if you will.

Free copy of La Boétie's essay, courtesy of Mises Institute...

https://mises.org/library/politics-obedience-discourse-voluntary-servitude

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath. 

Quotes by Leibniz, Boole and Shannon, then a comment on ethics...

It is true that as the empty voids and the dismal wilderness belong to zero, so the spirit of God and His light belong to the all-powerful One.

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)

Whence it is that the ultimate laws of Logic are mathematical in their form... It is not because we choose to assign to it such a mode of manifestation, but because the ultimate laws of thought render that mode possible.

George Boole (1815-1864)

Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability... Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Claude Elwood Shannon (1916-2001)

In preparation for my current book project, I have read and studied works on logic by these gentlemen among others. Regardless their unique dissertation and particular application, I have discovered the wonderfully deeper insight on the matter of ethics (or ethic singular) by determining, expressing the same logically, syllogistically, algebraically so to additionally determine, express then demonstrate CONSISTENCY in such ways.

For if ethic, morality are to be ethical, moral (to redundantly state), as much fact, science, truth are to be factual, scientific, truthful, then CONSISTENCY is the dynamic paramount to be discovered, understood, tested, demonstrated, determined then practiced while conducting further discovering, understanding, testing, demonstrating, determining, practicing and so on. Else, the proposition shown as inconsistent, arbitrary is NOT ethical, moral rather preferential, presumptuous, arrogant and if forced upon others then certainly unethical, immoral even violent, inhumane.

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

There is NO GRAY on this absolute issue...

The world as GRAY some often argue, is merely a world they COVET to manipulate and control politically therefore governmentally, bureaucratically even militarily (or by police) as well immorally, criminally, violently, ignoring even rejecting the logic and consistency, the self-evident ethic... 

The constant respect thus consistent regard for the Singular Human Right to CONSENT or DISSENT on ALL matters, as purposefully exercised thus perpetually evinced by the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason. 

Simply, inescapably, either one respect then accept the aforesaid else transgress while trample it. There is NO GRAY on this absolute issue.

Note:

For additional perspectives on the topic of "gray", see the below draft/unedited installments from my 11th book; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters, published February 2021.

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

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.