tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post6419395452551125537..comments2023-06-21T10:26:47.525-05:00Comments on ("RAM").........Red Alert Moderates: The New MarketplaceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-74451511075558694452012-02-18T09:01:12.159-06:002012-02-18T09:01:12.159-06:00Well, conscience pertains nearly to the opposite o...Well, conscience pertains nearly to the opposite of undertaking to force everyone to do as one thinks one knows best. Conscience pertains to empathetic toleration of the freedom of others to express themselves in their own words and work, so long as they don't threaten the social framework. If you ask what's needed to work towards that purpose, you tend to arrive at a different set of answers than will a Lib. So Libs redefine and twist the concept. For them, conscience becomes akin to declining to resist their insistent redistributing of means and opportunities in order to allow everyone to blow his or her mind every which way but loose. To accomplish that, everyone must be harnessed to the same social-corporate-union-collectivist yoke. Lib conscience: Take the yoke so you can get freedom to toke. This is how "bright" Libs "win" debates: by redefining foundational words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-38556139076518942692012-02-18T07:59:08.124-06:002012-02-18T07:59:08.124-06:00Nowadays, we tend to remember our Constitution mor...Nowadays, we tend to remember our Constitution more as a beginning point or touchstone than as a repository of objective meaning. In our fast paced world, practicality leads us to become more concerned with the poses and clothes of legitimacy. A conscious sense of responsibility (conscience) tends to be retained and respected only until such time as one enters into the domain of a perceived superior authority. Then, ordinary people tend to yield to those who wear the white coats. So, leaders compete to dress up and pose in white coats that are chosen to stun the sense of responsibility of lesser people and to help exude airs of moral legitimacy. The whiff of authority is what most are now conditioned to look to, not principles or constitutions. Not only are we thus conditoned, we are also thus divided. This experience of being divided and dis-assimilated teaches us not to rock the boat and to go along with perceived legitimate authority. No constitution, by itself, can save us from this condition. What is needed is respect for That from which a viable constitution derives its perceived legitimacy, so as to accord assimilated respect for such a constitution. What is needed is assimilated respect for the Source. Alas, perhaps a majority now believe such a Source is not only nonexistent, but that respect for IT leads us more to evil than to good. In other words, we are come to the point where many, for their sense of what is good, think they need to believe that there is no source of good. Figure that one out! If we were to begin in good faith to look for what is needed to sustain decent, empathetic society, I suspect we would better assimilate towards viable solutions that would help us decentralize authority out of the centralizing hands of cronies, bureaucrats, cynics, and secular utopians. That is the viable meaning of freedom, and that, in main, is the Spirit behind what our Founders intended with our Constitution. And that is what we have misplaced.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com