With reference to the four (4) reported indictments (to date), issued against our miscreant, former President, most media mavens seem to be in principled accord that, as included among the four charged offenses, Trump’s attempts at subversion of the American vote, constitutes the most fundamental and egregious crime of all, because it portends an act against the institution of Democracy, itself. While we positively, affirm the seriousness of its toxic and palpable, potential to destroy our Nation’s invaluable Democracy, we would accord that grave crime the status of “penultimate.” In our view, the “ultimate,” peril posed by Trump, is the danger imposed to the bedrock, foundational existence of human society, itself, by his assault on the existential and institutional, standard of, the “truth.” The latter virtue, in fact, is among those rarified few, accorded the status of “transcendental,” by the classic Eastern and Asian, philosophers.
It is intended and hoped, that this informal essay will be read in the context of a fifth (5th) “speaking indictment,” issued against that power-hungry, immoral, “would be,” autocrat.
Over the many eons following Homo sapiens’ evolutionary appearance on Earth, (his) survival, and successive advancement have been, existentially, dependent upon the vital premise and implicit assumption of truthful interaction with others of the species. Truthful and accurate information, regarding, warnings of danger, location of water and food sources and available shelter, taught skills, hunting and gathering, later on, agriculture, trade and commerce, law, legal and civic principles, were, ultimately, and ubiquitously, dependent upon the mandatorily, truthful, interactive exchange of experiential, fact. The natural necessity of the assumption of veracity, in our view, provided the foundational basis, and dynamics, in the creation, coherence and advancement of human society to date.
In advance of further expressing the contextual purpose of this writing, it might be useful to briefly, discuss our observations regarding the dynamics, underlying the individual’s choice of making truthful or untruthful statements; the latter of the two choices, notably, for reasons of personal, subjective interest.
The normally socialized individual, after having sufficient experience, empirically, develops a personalized, sense of himself, or, “self-image,” which referentially, in most cases, is determinative of his reality perception, choices of action, and nuanced, responses to the variety of presenting, stimuli. In our view, optional choices, in times of stress, are generally made, after sufficient inner reflection, consistent with one’s said experience- developed, self-image, or individually perceived persona. By illustration, an individual who sees himself, as upright and morally responsible, will be inclined to be truthful, even when “it hurts.” Stated otherwise, the natural, or, reflective inclination to speak the truth, when tested in instances where it is against one’s interest, would predictably, vary with the degree of one’s perception of himself, as, morally, responsible, or, contrastingly, self-interested. In instances of individuals whose self-interested persona far exceeds considerations of morality and rectitude, the degree of veracity, is, at best, questionable. Notably, the prevaricator may indeed, privately, enjoy a perverse, self-delusional, feeling of superiority, being the exclusive possessor of the truthful facts.
Donald J. Trump, upon being elevated to America’s Oval Office, (having early on, demonstrated to the entire sentient world, his skill, as a maestro of the dark, private art of serial mendacity), instituted an autocratic program of derogation of the metaphysical existence of “truth.” Said Malefactor-in-Chief was the creator and ubiquitous disseminator of the widespread, anti-societal conceit and ubiquitous program of, “alternate facts,” (N.B.: the latter, on reflection, qualifies as an oxymoronic phrase). Such egregious process of the corruption of reality, could, be tactically, utilized, when deemed, necessary, to support his false and preposterous, assertions and to deny his ubiquitous acts of self-dealing, criminality and incompetence. Trump’s, inculcated religion of “alternate facts,” spread, like the “Dark Ages,” Bubonic Plague, unremittingly, throughout his large populist cult. Matters, simply alleged and reliably, false or non-existent, including, sub-Rosa governmental, or ethnic, conspiracies which, pathologically qualify as instances of paranoid ideation, were faithfully, accepted and disseminated, by the panoply of Trump acolytes and populist cultists. Not the least of which, was Trump’s autocratic, “Big Lie,” about the purportedly, manipulated results of the certified-as-true, election, regarding which, in truth, he was the loser. The chaos that proximately, ensued, included a violent and deadly, insurrection, by thousands of Trump cultists against Washington, succeeded by a continuing and pervasive, anti-democratic sentiment, posing a latent and continuing, existential threat to the existence of our Democratic Republic.
INDICTMENT–
Pursuant to the unanimous vote of the legally, convened, and specially, authorized, Grand Jury, (consisting of traditionally, loyal, mainstream, of American citizenry), we hereby, authorize and direct, the immediate issuance of an indictment, charging defendant, Donald J. Trump, with the felonious, act of intentionally seeking to undermine and destroy our Democratic Republic, and as a proximate consequence, all of societal humankind, by his perverse and intentional maintenance of a criminal program, directly purposed to the societal destruction of the existential virtue of empirical truth.
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