From Society to Civilization
From: Bodhisattvacat (drr0cket_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/02/04
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Date: 2 Jul 2004 11:17:27 -0700
America's greatest contribution to the history of mankind has been
that of applying to the federal government the morality and the checks
and balances that governments previously forced upon the individual.
The government in America is prohibited from tyrannizing the people;
an advancement that most of the Western civilization has since adopted
with America's guidance. The blindness of libertarianism and anarchism
in America is that, in its single-minded attack on the government as
representing oppression, it shifts power from the balanced-and-checked
American government to unofficial organs of power that evolve
spontaneously in the society, which organs of power do not possess the
same constitutional ideals or checks and balances that inform
Washington. This, in turn, takes power away from benign, noble organs
of power in America and gives it to inferior usurpers; to people who
have none of the advanced ideals informing American constitutional
order, who grossly mistreat people in their communities, and who if
left to their own devices would perform far worse abuses against
American citizens than any that the federal government has ever
perpetrated.
The existence of such entities in America – spontaneous organs of
power that are not subject to constitutional checks-and-balances -
necessitates the existence of the social ombudsman, who exercises the
checks of reason and ethics on the bottom-up entities and individuals
who have taken upon themselves to speak for society. It is the role of
one who stands up to those in the community who seek to find people to
demonize and bludgeon, and prevents them from violating their rights.
It is the role that, should America live by its stated ideals, needs
to be taken up by as many people as possible; a role that is dangerous
and ungrateful, but that gives one the satisfaction of having done
much to preserve human and civil rights in a land that has been
designated at its founding as the last best hope for humanity.
If the ideal of the baby boom generation was the individual, the ideal
of Generation X was society. The psychology of the two generations had
utterly different flavors, with the first aiming at self-actualization
and existential development and the second aiming at bringing about
social adjustment at any cost. The latter resulted in gross abuses of
people's rights. When the ideal of a civilization becomes nothing more
than smooth functioning as a society, it becomes immoral and
atavistic; shorn of organizing objectives or noble principles; a lynch
mob, a vicious prosecuting force that is not mindful of human or civil
rights, or legitimate parameters of its own role in the interaction
between the seeds and the pomegranate, or existence of any entities
other than itself. In prosecution of sociopaths, was excused the most
cruel and ignorant possible action against people who could be
maliciously portrayed as being sociopaths – namely, anybody who did
not fit in or had few social skills or had an original thought in his
head. In prosecution of date rape and sexual harassment, were
committed false accusations resulting in spurious destruction of
careers and imprisonment, which false accusations, as National
Confederation of Free Men study has shown, were more numerous than
true accusations – and which, due to the media-fanned social climate
of fear, resulted in false conviction, imprisonment, loss of careers,
and repeated buggery and battery in prison of innocent men. In
attacking anything that could offend anyone, was stifled all
meaningful discourse – all thought that was in any respect
controversial, hence all thought that had meaning and relevance to
people's lives.
When society is the ideal, then anything that is original, different
or pioneering comes under attack for its distinctness in character
from the historical accident that is the social norm of the times, and
the best ideas that lead to creative solutions, artistic output and
innovation are demolished. As is anyone, indeed, who has an idea in
his or her mind that's different from the mindset of the social
hysteria. When the crust of the pomegranate becomes omnipotent, the
reality of the seeds, like that of the air and the sun, is forgotten –
and in a nation that has forbidden official tyranny, an unofficial
tyranny grows up and destroys the lives of thousands of innocent
people. The social norm becomes omnipotent, which it has no right to
be, and destroys all potential pioneer seeds. And in this is stifled
all potential for human improvement.
Yes, I am talking about the prosecution of personality disorders. I am
talking about the phenomenon in which the worst of the sinners –
people with no compassion or love or forbearance – deigned to define
which people were fit to live, posing as protectors of public sanity
and pretending as though the public as well as themselves did not
possess these or related sins. With sociopathic cruelty, narcissistic
lack of compassion, borderline manipulation and histrionic
hysteria-mongering, the prosecutors of personality disorders abused,
slandered and maligned people whom they could portray as possessing a
personality disorder. They portrayed them as, essentially, wrongly
made – which means that in effect they were playing God, accusing a
subset of the population of being wrong by design and pretending as
though in so labeling them and bringing on them a vicious treatment
they and the ones that believed them were not committing a graver sin
than the accused.
Needless to say, that is not consistent with the principles that
founded America. That is not remotely consistent with the spirit of
courage, innovation and liberty that have made this country great. The
people who claim to speak for society did not create the individual,
nor did they create planet Earth and the Sun. And yet they claim the
right to define people as legitimate or not legitimate. As the
government minded its principles of laissez-faire, the most vicious
hysteria swept the country, leaving behind spuriously destroyed
careers, people spuriously jailed and innocent people consigned to
hells of confusion, self-abuse and despair. While the government
minded its business, an unofficial tyranny grew up in the nation – a
tyranny that deigned to define for itself what people had right and
had no right to live, to love, to be successful and to consider
themselves worthy of existence.
As the government in America applies to itself moral standards and
subjects itself to checks-and-balances that prevent it from
tyrannizing the population, so must the society of America likewise be
subjected to checks-and-balances that prevent it from orchestrating an
unofficial tyranny in the name of feminism or psychology. Rather than
seeing itself as an end in and of itself, with power to define which
citizen has right to live and to love, society must be seen instead as
a tool – as a part in a greater, more noble and more inspired entity
that is the civilization, an entity that understands and quantifies
both the natural and the uniquely human quality of humanity, an entity
that, in deference to this dual human nature, applies to the society
as well as to its members an inspired moral standard of beautiful
living, fair interaction, integrative synergistic collaboration
between entities bottom-up and top-down, and artistic bounty and
scientific progress that enhances the quality of the world in which we
live and the lives of its members. From the degrading status of social
animal whose sole purpose is to adjust in the artificial social
universe regardless of moral quality of its influences, man must be
elevated philosophically into a being both natural and supernatural, a
being capable of exercising the human prerogative – the prerogative to
use the uniquely human quality that is inspiration and will to make
the best of himself and of his environment; to ennoble life. The crust
of the pomegranate must be checked lest it destroy the seeds – and the
entire fruit must be seen as a whole, as an entity combining the
individual and society, as an entity that needs to be the best
possible in itself and makes the most of its members while affording
them, through a wise combination of their own efforts, the best
possible existence.
Through seeing society as a tool toward making possible a civilization
– an entity that makes the most of both individual and society, with
individual and society united in balanced dynamic equilibrium, through
interlocking patterns of competition and cooperation, toward making
the best of each component and of the whole – is achieved the best of
the social universe. Society stops being omnipotent and is checked to
its legitimate parameters. Noble principles and ideals inform people's
behavior and make the most of people, elevating their interaction from
paranoid nitpicking toward shared pursuit of the pareto-optimal world
– a world that minds and honors both the natural and the supernatural;
both the self-interested and the altruistic; both the artistic and the
scientific; both the animal and the soul; both the competitive and the
cooperative; and through the mechanism of high-minded synergistic
interaction arrives at the best possible outcome for the individual
and for mankind.
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