Every now and then, we change our personal “app” from those featuring the shambolic state of the Nation, or regular, mundane thoughts of family, and daily experience, to one featuring an introspective conversation with ourselves. Metaphysical subjects such as one’s extant place in the context of his temporally established expectations or perhaps, a retrospective inquiry as to whether our allotted and limited franchise of our life, has thus far been reduced in significance, analogous to a small and indistinct compartment of a bee’s expansive honeycomb or, to the contrary, demonstrative of a a singular and privileged scenario.
The temporally nuanced choices in such periodic examinations may conceivably vary with the nature of our extant emotion or degree of comfort at the time of the particular evaluation; notwithstanding the latter observation,, for individuals who have elected to live contemplative lives, many issues of eclectic nature are thereby understood and determined relative to an established and referable self-image. The empirical effect of the accumulated confirmation of thoughtful public perception of the appropriate nature of policies and actions is necessarily impactful to the dynamics of a National, democratically responsive polity.
Concerning such thematic, personal assessments of the inner, fundamentally established, view of ourselves and its consequence on a democratically representative polity, the following considerations would seem to merit the level of referable utilitarian and appropriate criteria, of meaningful utility to the Nation: (a) the origin and sincerity of held opinions as compared with facile, populist, possibly, demagogically inspired, “groupthink,” (b) The degree of assurance of perceived rectitude and appropriate ethical consideration exhibited by the subject point of view or resultant action, (c) The conceivable impact on the welfare or interests of others, (d) the precedential effect of the effectuation of any such thoughtfully derived and decisive conclusions and, (e) the flexible awareness of the existence and predictable results of available alternatives.
Too many individual points of view, in the political and social arena are derived from, or influenced by, self-interested outside parties, and resultant policies ultimately effectuated, consequential to citizens suffering from an insecure and disabling need for group acceptance, the lazy exercise of facile and reductive thought or the intentional disconnect from considerations of rectitude by a reductive emphasis on personalized self-interest, or, alternatively stated, the absence of empathy for the resultant plight of others is morally and experientially toxic and antithetical to a just, enduring and successful Democratic Republic and the derivative well-being of its citizenry.
For the democratic architecture and population of a Democratic Republic to beneficially endure, it must be understood to exist as an eternally vulnerable, nevertheless, morally admirable entity, and evidence the positive advancement of humankind. For its salubrious existence, it should be audited, periodically, and tirelessly nurtured by a dedicated and rationally directed population of freedom-loving citizens
Analogous to human health, sporadic “check-ups,” of the beneficial health of the democratic Nation, in our view, are dynamically and responsibly protective of a salubrious and appropriately citizen-guided direction, guided by an appropriate combination of empirical pragmatism, and rationally accepted moral principle.
Stated more succinctly, the continuing aspiration for the success and endurance of our Republican Democracy, is ultimately and existentially, dependent upon the quality and consequential nature and empirical impact of its population of rationally and morally guided citizens.
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