Month: June 2025

Upon his morning awakening and arousal, Man’s predictable terpsichorean performance commences with parting the bedroom curtains to sleepily peer at the day’s weather and then mindlessly clicking on the radio for the day’s weather forecast and the latest news. There is no similar activity, conceivably, to ascertain the current state or forecast of the current state of democracy, such as ” mostly constitutional, but with a 23% chance of MAGA.”

Democracy is not an impersonal, natural dynamic that evinces itself upon anecdotal reference, but rather, the positive consequence of an informed community dynamically dedicated to its beneficial endurance. It is not a matter of the positive occurrence of fortuitous events, but rather the successful end product of diligent and dedicated curation. The gradual metastasizing of our Democratic Republic to a disgraceful and nightmarish autocracy, presided over by the present Trump Administration and its loyal menagerie of lieutenants, cheered on by its MAGA base of America’s underbelly, is not, like meteorology, a dynamic product of forces outside of human intention.

The seemingly limitless and endless foul atmosphere, presently hovering over our precious democracy, and its previous temporally improving history of ongoing advancement toward the goal of a perfect union of free and fully equal citizens, is not the effect of unseen and uncontrollable forces beyond the control of the ultimately determinative American citizen. Unlike a response to the prevailing weather, it mandates no accommodation, relevant adjustment, or abject resignation. A positive and confident rejection is the most cogent and appropriate elixir for the recuperation of our precious Democratic Republic and the confident assurance of the American salubrious and aspirational way of life.

We have often quoted the wise and lyrical words of the late Elie Wiesel, who declared, “The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.” In a similar dynamic, we would take the liberty of respectfully altering such sage words to affirmatively state: “Despotic governance is not improperly accommodated but adamantly and appropriately rejected by a democratically dedicated citizenry.”

Our intended theme amounts to a remonstrance to all mainstream, democracy-loving Americans, as to the cogent avoidance of feelings of helplessness, resignation, or accommodation to Trump’s aspiration to monarchical autocracy, as the same would ultimately prove to be democratically suicidal. By contrast, the maintenance of articulated outrage and an adamant confidence in the soon-to-be restored traditions of our Democratic Republic, rationally and tactically, would inarguably be more fruitful and effective.

The rational response to the quotidian weather forecast is acceptance, and where relevant, accommodation. By marked contrast, the existentially appropriate response to the venal Trump Administration is one of loyal citizen resistance and the concomitant maintenance of the continued aspiration for the enduring future of our profoundly cherished democracy.

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The mathematical discipline of Euclidean Geometry involves deducing the logical basis for previously accepted general principles (theorems) by progressive deduction from serially presented mathematical truisms (“axioms”). The successive progression of accepted principles logically leads to the contextually presented principle (“QED”). It may be enlightening and helpful to analogize the reductive basis of immigration to the express rationality of geometry.. The bias of xenophobia, which notably occupies a fixed and rancorous place in society, unfortunately, of such prominence in society as to be reflective of its nuanced social and political character.

In this writing, we attempt to examine the metaphysical cause of its analogously fixed, geometric “given,” viz., xenophobia, a pervasive prejudice that, in our view, warrants fundamental metaphysical examination. An analogous “time out,” an inquiry into its ubiquitous motivation, may prove enlightening and beneficial to its understanding, and, hopefully, be of assistance in its amelioration. Our focus is on its domestic dynamic, for understandable reasons. pragmatic and didactic.

Prejudice against immigrants (xenophobia), simply put, is a species of bigotry based on the perception that immigrants are “different,” “strange,” or somehow upsetting to the existing order. This appears to constitute an empirically false delusional ideation, when one considers that the United States is, and has been, populated by immigrants and their progeny, and whose welcome has been officially and prominently articulated by the Nation’s iconic Statue of Liberty.

We would inquire as to the existence of any supporting principles or rational basis for the assertion of “difference.” Certainly not an empirically based concern relating to a shortage of jobs or to a dearth of residential venues. It is notable , relative to this contested subject is the fact that the High Priest of Xenophobia, the orange Monarch, himself, has been married three times, each to a foreign immigrant.

Returning to our conceived and contrasting analogy with Euclidean geometry, the egregiously neurotic and immutable basic, “given,” (xenophobia), i.e., the adamantly asserted hatred of foreign immigrants, is not deducible or rationally resolvable by any rationally logical process of deduction from erstablished antecedent premises; nor otherwise supported by empirically rational argument. Contrary to the propagandic defamation by Trump, immigrants prove to have a lower crime rate than the average American citizen, are generally known to be hard-working, family people who pay taxes and serve in the military. As to the category of individuals, termed “illegal” immigrants, the “illegality” refers merely to their lack of required registration and not to moral turpitude; notably, one can have great difficulty in observing the critical difference, by their harsh treatment by Trump’s face- masked private Gestapo, “ICE.”

Simply stated, “Immigration” is the chosen action to move permanently to another country; in this case, to the United States. In this American Nation, historically populated by immigrants and their progeny, it is sadly ironic, but empirically inarguable, that extensive prejudice and discrimination exist against immigrants in business, criminal justice, the economy, housing, health care, and politics. If immigration simply connotes the desire to live better in America, what is the reasonable justification for the eternally roiling dispute dominating the news media?

Unlike the logical dynamics of the contextual discipline of geometry, there exists no rational principle underlying the irrational, undeserved, a priori concept (the “given”) of xenophobic prejudice, the latter by bright contrast with the rationally logical discipline of Euclean Geometry, evincing no supporting process of axiomatic support toward its reductively irrational conclusion.

The undemocratic and unethical bias can be seen and rejected as atavistic and existing despite an entire lack of logical or empirical support.

Unlike the rational underpinning of geometry, xenophobia is clearly not generated by the exercise of reason; its reductively unsupported existence should be appropriately reconsidered where relevant, and beneficially rejected as based upon a primitive and eternally perpetuated delusion.

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As evidenced by the historically significant “Silk Road,” which facilitated commerce between Europe and the Orient, trade in goods has been a notable feature of human historical behavior. The cultural style of commercial activity has evolved in form and practice pragmatically, in sync with the evolution of society. Man’s current technical progress has facilitated public absentee sales solicitation and acceptance by a mass market through the utilization of electronic and digital facilities. Inarguably, the most common transactions numerically take place through the dynamics of mass-market television sales; the latter, light years in difference from the ancient camel-donkey transportation of rugs and spices for sale on the ancient Silk Road.

The facility and universal reach of television have enabled the phenomenon of mass sales transactions which have evolved in such a vast number and proliferation, that nuanced personal observations can permissibly be ascribed to the respective, distinct classes of purchasers (“the relevant market”) to determine the nature and content of the best relevant sales pitch, in the perception of the televised merchant’s perception, as of the temporal demand for the relevant consumer category.

We would make contextual reference to two specific categories of consumers: those who programmatically purchase cosmetics and those who are consumers of advertised medicine.

FERVID COSMETIC USERS:

In treating this category, we would choose to assert two preliminary principles: The first being the observation that the greatest users of enhancing cosmetology are women, and the second that the context of the following remarks is not intended to be inapplicable to the routine, daily ritual of dressing for the day.

The intended subjects of our remarks in this category are consumers who needfully seek to disguise their age, in the desired effort to appear younger; presumably, as a felt means of making themselves acceptably attractive. Catering to this popular aberration provides a tactical and highly profitable advertising motivation and a profitable tool in the effort to sell make-up. products; it is also, more fundamentally, an indication of the numerical prominence of a ubiquitous, jejune and immature persona, addicted by the thematic failure of mature perception.

To aspire to remain youthful throughout the entirety of the evolving life cycle is, arguably, clinical neurosis. The unrealistic attempt to prolong the appearance of eternal youth is characterologically immature; nevertheless, is a perverse boon to advertisers.

Life is appropriately and acceptably lived in the setting of its various stages, and the succeeding criteria for beauty, beneficially change with life’s natural seasons. To be transfixed by the myth of eternal youth is not only falacious, but ultimately defeated.. The standards of authentic beauty should relate to rational aesthetic criteria, appropriate to each respective stage of life. As an illustrative example, our favorite actress has always been Ms. Sophia Loren, appropriately beautiful at ages 21, 41, 6i, and in her eighties,

ADVERTISED MEDICINE:

This category of popular television advertisement is not only foolhardy but potentially dangerous to human health and life. As a passing observation, the most numerous ads appear to be for the sale of medication indicated for eczema, depression (including bi-polar), HIV, weight loss, diabetes, and the alleged promotion of sexual and mental potency.

The represented benefits of such advertised medications are, in their presented dynamics, similar to the tactical sales methods of advertised cosmetics, but, notably, are potentially dangerous to life and health.

It is an empirical fact that individuals empirically possess nuanced chemistry and physiological singularity. The daily, generalized, and ethically irresponsible solicitation to a universal television audience of potentially inappropriate and harmful medicine may result in hazardous reactions and even mortality.

The responsible taking of a new patient’s medical history by a treating physician may be the most cogent part of his curative services. The gattling-gun speed, or indiscernible small type of the accompanying reservations or warning afforded by the advertiser (especially to the layman consumer), is ineffective and a caricature of the appropriate. exercise of ethical caution and judgment warranted.

It has been our considered view that, similar to the banning of cigarette ads, based upon their demonstrated harm to health, medicinal recommendations should be responsibly limited to treating physicians, with knowledge of the patient’possibly nuanced hazard of negative medical responses as opposed to the crass and commercial irresponsibility of, being hawked on public television.

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The apocryphal account of the insane Roman Emperor, Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burned, may be situationally analogized to a contemporaneous phenomenon, relative to the ongoing existence of our Planet’s existential danger, which contemporaneously, appears to be a matter of remote concern, consequential to the existence of its extant roiling and preoccupying political contention.

Stated in terms of intrinsic priority, the serious concern recently posed by the politically disturbing threat to our precious and, apparently, vulnerable, Democratic Republic, and by extension, general world democracy, has apparently captured Man’s complete attention and concern. It has materially deflected the existing and more fundamentally existential peril to the Planet and its inhabitants; the latter, contextually and situationally, unrelated to the ongoing, and temporally appropriate dispute over political doctrine. Stated otherwise, and more specifically, the extant issue of just governance, however appropriate and relevant, has, in its dynamic effect, obscured or overshadowed the more fundamental existential danger to the planetary existence of humanity; one notably impacting earthlings of every conceivable political stripe. posed by the ever-increasing level of hazardous global warming.

The undeniably, demonstrated effects of climate change brought about by global warming, brought about and exacerbated by Man’s eternal burning of fossil fuel, and industrial, and agricultural activities, has already evinced an undeniable impact on ther entire Planet, It has brought about observably unseasonable weather [the current month of June is evincing the typical meteorology of a mid-August], great floods, enormous storms, forest fires, serious drought, sea level rise, deforestation, enlargement of desert area. coral extinction, melting Arctic glaciers, unpredictable storms and cyclones, plus a host of other abnormalities, ominously progressing and metastasizing while Man, like Emperor Nero, is focused elsewhere.

It may be empirically (conceivable that the (proper and rational) concentration on Donald Trump’s egregious threat to American democracy, will, by such ardent preocupation, result in greater existential danger by its singular preoccupation with the pivotal issue of appropriate National governance and the endurance of right principle; the same, resulting in a hazardous diversion, analogous to Nero’s insane preoccupation with fiddle playing, from the more fundamental concern for the salubrious function of the Planet and the consequent endurance of the (bi-partisan) Homo Sapiens.

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As a prefatory explanation, for those who may desire it, the recently approved, half-humorous designation representing the state of “confusion or obfuscation is the noun “discombobulation” derived from the radical verb, to “discombobulate.”

Any regularly breathing American citizen is presumably cognizant that the contextual word is uniquely descriptive of the unprecedented, confused, and bizarre state of the contemporary Nation, catalyzed by its unprecedented election to the Oval Office of a singularly mindless and brash caricature of egocentric autocracy.

The Nation, irrespective of the normally predictable existence of a modicum of reasonably acceptable rationality, has twice elected this singularly incapable, former low-brow game show host and real estate “gonif”(“grifter”), whose mental acumen has been overtly disclosedsed to be reductively limited to his neurotic need to be adjudged a”winner” (as opposed to the personally unbearable disaster of being perceived as a “loser”) has eternally sported “horse blinders” singularly and universally focusing on his neurotically skewed percept\ion, to the consequential detriment of the Nation and the latter’s historic standing in the world of nations.

We wonder at the nature and qualitative ethos of an avowed American) goal of a “Representative Nation” that elects such an amoral persona ( multiple indictments, 34 felony convictions, adjudicated sex abuser, tax fraud, defamer, and demonstrated virtuoso of amorality) to the highest office on the planet, We wonder at the bona fides of a Congress that has exercised its constitutional duty of scrutiny by approving his menagerie of Cabinet Secrretaries, inclusive of an inexperienced, alcohol;lic, womanizing Secretary of Defense, proudling bearing prominently body tatoos demonstrating adamant support for the unAmerican, Christian White Movement, As security Chief with amiable ties to foreign enemy tyrants, a totally manageable Secrtetary of State, a National Attorney General willingly compliant with Trump’s fascistic intentions to seek “retribution” against his political olppolnents, including the prosecutors who dutifully filed criminal charges against him, and, as well, his political opponents who\, himself orchestrated and supported a violent public insurrection against his government, to protest his election loss to Bkiden, later as Presidernt, pardoning the extremists who participated in the deadly and violent insurrection, nevertheless employing his masked, Gestapo style private army (ICE) to arrest, imprison and banish hispanic American immigrants on the spurious and unproven charges of “Enemy Insurfrection,” and who, with the aid of his billionaire, autistic imp-like assistant, destroyed the Nation’s utilitarian Civil Serrvice, (created and under the legal authority of Congress) on the faux and unproven neea to eliminating governmental monetary “fraud and deceit,” including agencies which render humanistic support to needful American citizens and needy Nations; while simultanouusly accepting a jumbo airplane, worth many millions of dollArs as a bribe from a Middle Eastern autocracy and hubristically, celebrating his birthday with a military parade costing upwards of forty-three million dollars.

Trump’s monarchial delusions were obcenely extended to his unitary waging of war against Iran, in his continuing, obdurate disregard of the relative provisions of the constitution, by ignoring its express mandate as to the prior approval of Congress.

When a popularly elected American President empirically emulates the likes of the historically detestable Ivan the 4th (“Ivan the Terrible”), Caligula, and King Leopold of Belgium, who wouldn’t be discombobulated?

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In bright contrast to the challenging physical and mental qualities, uniquely requisite for travel to “Outer Space,” travel to “Innerspace,” conceivably, to its most far-flung territories, requires merely, an elder traveler, evincing somef degree of age-related ambulatory impairment, together with an active, healthy and contemplative mind; and for the innerspace travel vehicle, a comfortable (reclining) chair and optionally, a beverage of personal choice.

The most successful and fulfilling voyages are made by such elder travelers, in possession of a healthy memory and mature, analytic perception, the same, empirically developed during their lifetime. There is no prerequisite, specialized training, no independent physical and mental testing, technical equipment, or specifically needed supplies such as a breathing apparatus, pressurized outer garment, or concentrated food; nevertheless, the optional inclusion of a personally elected beverage is not principally discouraged.

Reprised memories allow for a temporal review of significant events, previously perceived as impactful, which, on this later contemplation, in the intimate context of innerspace, are now deemed relatively inconsequential. A retroactive reprise renders [perceptive value to the elemental understanding of the dynamics of the inner space traveler’s lifetime of personal development of independent self-realization and, with the exercise of leasurely hindsight, a more analytical understanding of past experience; sometimes with a comfortable recollection of its temporal dynamics, at other times, with judgmental criticism or remorse. To have determinative value, the evaluation of past behavior and feelings through of inner space travel must equitably consider the totality of relevant facts, inclusive of an objective consideration of empirically impactful, temporal inexperience. Kindness, understanding, and occasionally, a relevantly sincere and mature effort at self-forgiveness are appropriate as equitable ingredients in such retrospective ventures.

Easy chair voyages to innerspace are beneficially revealing and enlightening in the reprised contemplation of events, public and personal, rationally accompanied by temporally detached analysis. The ultimate empirical devolution of significant events, political as well as personal, as compared with one’s earlier anticipation, offers great value regarding the voyager’s perspective and depth of self-knowledge.

Innerspace travel can also be joyful and entertaining, or saddening and remorseful, but universally reliant, utilitarian, and personally informative. Unresolved dilemmas are empirically solved, individual persona and previously existing sub rosa intentions of others are revealed, and the inner-space traveller with, adequate analytical capability is, at long last, provided with the (often subjective) satisfying answer.

We have often declared the proposition that “old age is not a disease” the latter fact, having universal reference to the inherent potential for the elder, thoughtful individual to recollect and objectively consider a lifetime of empirical thought and experience by his later observation or ultimateconclusion, relative to his personal performance in life and, girded about, or, alternatively, gratified, by such beneficial understanding and the resultant acquisition of a rationally, more objectivised perspective of his younger life experience.

Re-entry after the successful conclusion of the typical inner space mission, or “splashdown,” is remarkably simple; one returns his reclining seat to upright, clicks off the soft light of the reading lamp, and, contentedly, places his empty beverage glass in the dishwasher.

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In various earlier writings, we sought to convey the exotic, 1940s Ashkenazi immigrant ambience and singular ethnic milieu of Brooklyn’s East New York; the redolence of soup emanating from the ancient brick apartment buildings, the passing street vendors, some still using horses to pull their wagons, the young boys playing at marbles in the vacant lots, the shaky trolley cars, noisily moving on iron embedded tracks emitting large, noisy sparks from their overhead power lines, and of newly arrived USSR immigrants speaking exotic versions of the English language,

In this writing, we would recount a true and ultimately, telling event that took place in the 1960s, following our graduation from Law School, in the months following passage of the Bar Exam, during the period necessary to be officially admitted by the State as a New York Attorney.

It may be that the childhood ethnic stress imposed by family on the importance of being a good student motivated our subsequent success, viz., college, Phi Beta Kappa, and Law School Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. At any rate, our recorded scholastic success presumably was the motivating basis for an unexpected solicitation from the Pentagon, shortly after graduation, regarding a position as Federal Attorney for the New York Office of the United States Corps of Engineers. The offer was immediately accepted for practical, notably finance-related reasons.

Pending the completion of the routine administrative process of our official registration as a New York Attorney, we were designated the temporary title of “Legal Assistant” and assigned tasks appropriate to such status. One such, ultimately eye-opening, assignment ultimately provided the theme and intended message of this writing.

A legal claim for substantial damages had been asserted against the U.S. Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, by the Hunter Machine Company, North Adams, Massachusetts, for asserted, extensive damages to their factory, allegedly caused by the constructed flood control facilities, installed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. We, a civil engineer and a photographer, were assigned as an investigating team to evaluate the bona fides of the claim. [As an unrelated observation, this occasion was our first experience of traveling by airplane.]

To summarize the results of two days of work, the engineer noted the century-old construction and the obviously deteriorated structural wear of the building, a machine factory and most relevant, its ancient and defective dry sandstone foundation, and empirically determined that the undermining of the factory which was (the basis of the damage claim) was factually unrelated to the nearby flood control construction. The photographer took copious black and white illustrative photographs of such evident and non-disputable indications of the natural deterioration of the building, in visual confirmation of the engineer’s conclusion that the claim against the Army Corps of Engineers was indisputably contrived.

To put icing on the revelatory cake, we undertook to do some local research and excitedly, found an Official “Hold Harmless Agreement” between the City of North Adams, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the U.S. Corps of Engineers, providing that in consideration of the beneficial construction of the locally needed flood control project, the Federal agency would be held entirely harmless from any claims relating to the relevant flood control facilities.

After returning to the office [by rail], we prepared a detailed report on the findings, including the engineering data, diagrams, pertinent photographs, and, most importantly, the official exculpating Agreement. Our determinative report was filed in the New York District Office of the U.S. Corps of Engineers, and a replica was sent to Washington, D.C.

At such time, we were obliged to leave regarding our six-month obligation of active duty in the Army, according to our participation in the RFA, a program of six years of National Guard Service, including such active duty period; the latter statutory procedure representing an permissible alternative to the then four-year draft.

Following the completion of our active service obligation, we returned (for a relatively short period) to our salaried federal position, as” Federal Attorney” (before entering the universe of private law practice). We thereupon learned to our shock and utter dismay that, notwithstanding the filed report, factually and conclusively demonstrating the spurious nature of the contrived claim, had been paid in full.

On later reflection, we evaluated the memorable experience as a utilitarian, principled lesson that rectitude and ultimate justice are empirically exotic and vulnerable phenomena.

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• Title borrowed from the Charles Dickens novel

The wise and prescient Founders of our Nation, mindful of the ubiquitous historic abuses of the “Established Church” throughout European history, took especial pains to definitively omit any reference to religion in the langauge of the Constitution; an examination of which will disclose no reference to a Deity but, rather a mandatory admonition against legislation relative to religious choice or belief. In the words of the prescient Founders, ” To include a Deity, would be to ‘exclude Man.”

In an earlier writing, # M.265, “CLEAN WINDOWS..,” we declared our empirically acquired understanding that mankind’s aspiration toward wisdom and self-realization is enhanced by his learning from empirical experience, notably, without prior conceptions or bias. Lest we appear radical, we would recite the affirmation of such view by such notable thinkers as Locke, Kant, Diderot, Mozart, Bacon, Voltaire, Priestley, Franklin, Hume, and Rousseau.

The American Nation, at various times, has failed to heed the wise admonition of the Founding Fathers, nor sufficiently render homage to the enlightened principle of objectivized learning. Religious belief, early on, based upon ignorance and fear of the seasonal changes and the environment’s presenting phenomena such as volcanoes, storms and loud thunder, reductively ascribed such phenomena to causative deities, who, existentially, had to be appeased. Religious belief developed, over time, to be less relevant to natural phenomena and generally, more comprehensive; nevertheless, has continued to be exclusively grounded upon fear and “faith; ” as opposed to Lockean objective empiricism. In a previous writing, we urged the beneficial facility of seeing through a clear lens or window, unsmudged (by bias or preconception), as the ultimate route to humanity’s acquisition of justice, peace, and mature and utilitarian perception.

Disappointingly, our Nation, has been less than beneficially consistent in its anecdotal compliance with the mandate of secular governmental as inscribed in its Constitution’s relevant “Establishment Clause,” and has, at times, afforded homage to interests promoting self-righteous faith, albeit, inconsistent with such relevant and salubrious proscription contained in the contextual Constitutional mandate.

It is conceivable that those whose emotional ties to their familiarly inherited religious dogma feel an overriding responsibl\ity to exalt their socially imbued religious faith above considerations of citizen equality and pragmatically rational governmental rule, Nevertheleess, despite such empathetic recognition, the pragmatically just and foundational ethics of our polity, such acquired assumptions, in pragmatic effect, are hubristically paternalistic and irrefutably undemocratic.

One instructional example is discerned in the existence of the Nation’s criminal “Sunday Blue Laws,” now generally obsolete. The first Bible Chapter, “Genesis,” recites that God created the Heavens and the Earth, together with its flora and fauna, in six days and then rested on the “seventh” (by extremely good fortune), Sunday, the established Christian Sabbath. It would be outside the scope of the intended context of this writing to question why a Deity ubiquitously attributed in the “Good Book,” as “Omnipotent,” would need to rest after six days of work, or to recite that recent science has dated Planet Earth as being 4,543 billion years old; “Faith” and empirical fact are, by consistent experience, concededly inapposite.

The relevant point is the reality of philosophical and unconstitutional legislation, contrary to the express mandate of the “Establishment Clause” of the Constitution, forbidding government legislation in the area of religious belief. The egregious trespass of this basic ingredient of our Democratic Republic has been overt and morally and legally disgraceful; in many instances, reductive belief in “faith”has bested liberty, often with disastrous results, accompanied by human tragedy. It is remarkable to observe that there persists, in many instances, an emotionally fearful reluctance to substitute empirically enlightened knowledge for atavistic faith in the existence of supernatural powers is ubiquitously prevalent, ranging from the simple neighborhood grocer to the exalted eminence of a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, such as John Scalia.

Since the Supreme Court’s unprecedented acceptance and determination of a “politically based case,” Bush v. Gore (2000), compounded with its disgracefully undemocratic decision in the “Citizens Taxpayer’s” case, the latter, removing all statutory and principled limits of corporations, SCOTUS has suffered a steep decline in its previous unassailable and venerated impartiality and reputational standing. Justices like Alito and Thomas have shockingly been discovered to be recipients of bribes from political lobbies, including, contextually, the religious lobby.

A concomitant and bizarre feature of religious adhesion is the apparent inability to objectivize reality. Despite the societal admonitions against official proselytization or support for religion, plainly set forth in the mandatory language of the Constitution, believers will, nevertheless, arrogate to themselves the right to publicly display the Ten Commandments or other Christian religious symbols at public schools. If the religious sect of Zoroasterians did the same regarding their religious beliefs, those self-same Christian zealots would avail themselves of the relevant provisions of the Constitution to seek to remove them. History demonstrates that militant, evangelical belief in New Testament Christianity has historically led to war and human tragedy. It appears that “true believers” have historically been driven by the felt, doctrinaire necessity to convert others to their personal beliefs, if required, by force of arms.

Among the wide panorama of humanistic disgrace, sanctimoniously dispensed by religious zealots, is the inhumane prosecution of the Nation’s societally challenged population of citizens who are gay, or born with such an array of genes and chromosomes as result in the inconclusive determination of gender. Such inherited phenomena have resulted in hurtful and ego-damaging results. For reasons, divorced from plain reason, such inherited conditions are a target for reductive bigots, and, contextually, Evangelical Christianity. The unprecedented and undemocratic incursion into the judiciary’s decisions is light-years distant from propriety.

Ineluctably, the most flagrant and dehumanizing, religious-based judicial decision is seen in the recent, autocratic criminalization of a woman’s private and personal right to abortion; bizarrely and inappropriately confirmed by the less than objective majority of Trump appointees to SCOTUS. The flagrantly abusive incursion into the private affairs of pregnant mothers is empirically attributable to religious autocracy. and productive of much suffering and mortal tragedy.

While personal and private cultural and ethnic beliefs have their beneficial place, the affirmation of empirically based enlightenment is the existential route to human advancement and, contextually, to a just, democratic, and rationally “sane” Democratic Republic.

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The traditional (“mainstream”) American citizen may be forgiven for his present feelings of confusion, betrayal, fear, and even anger regarding the contemporary dystopian and historically unprecedented empirical travesty of the Trump Administration. He and the world have witnessed an American presidential administration like none other; one that has blatantly put aside the Constitution, the rule of law, and the traditionally accepted principles of propriety, both governmental and societal. It is disheartening to observe the shocking and dystopic statements, policies, and autocratic actions of the Trump Administration, which have been responsible for a perceived decline in the status and dignity of America’s highest office, and by extension, of the Nation itself. It is frustratingly to contemplate that this dystopian polity has more than three and a half years until the end of its nightmarish term.

We, would, notwithstanding, emphatically declare, as a matter of logic and metaphysical dynamics, that the violation or abnegation of good principle does not alter, minimize, or eliminate the existence or proper applicability of relevant principle; rather, it is empirically limited to a demonstration of the perverse persona, or immoral character, of the violator.

We have been witnesses to understandable and justified lamentations and statements of frustration and sheer disappointment concerning the unprecedented, miscreant statements and actions of President Trump. The most common and ubiquitous statements of such sentiments seem to be, ” This is no longer America! “We have become a fascist State!” “This is not my America!” and the like, in response to the currently presiding, dystopian government,; resulting from the singular, egocentrism, unprincipled and despotic policy of the sitting Chief Executive and his menagerie of incapable, but Trump-loyal Cabinet Secretaries. President Trump has undeniably shown himself to be far more interested in his own purported sense of grandeur than the good and welfare of the Nation, and whose policies, accordingly, are not relevantly applicable to the responsible consideration of law, morality, or human decency.

As articulated in our previous declaration concerning the metaphysical existence of good principle, the Trump Administration’s irreverence for law and tradition is particularly shocking and discordant without any responsible fiduciary concern for the Nation, are his personally aberrant acts do not relevantly affect the established and enduring standards of right action.

Indeed, the traditional and historically principled America still exists; however, Trump has ineluctably proven himself to be morally unfit and neurotically incapable of its appropriate stewardship. The good principles of the Founding Fathers are, nonetheless, intact and enduringly existent.

The extant state of dystopia may be clinically analogized to a flu virus that attacks and sickens Man’s physical body. Like the temporal limitation of the malady on the human body, the American body politic will, predictably, soon recover from Trump’s toxic dystopia, and the salubrious dynamics of our traditional democratic polity will be restored.

Rather than feelings of abject resignation or despair, affirmative support in whatever manner is personally feasible, predictably followed by an expected election of an appropriate head of State, will clinically indicate the complete recovery and beneficial restoration of our enduring and unique Republican Democracy.

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We have defined the happy life as one that is dedicated to the understanding of the self and one’s present environment, characterized by an empirically derived, acceptably enduring self-image fully capable of the development of mature and rational perception. We have often opined that a successful life is not calibrated upon an arithmetic audit of physical assets, but rather, on the ultimate personal determination of a fulfilled life. The latter gold medal is achieved through personal growth, the mature understanding and acceptance of oneself, together with his human and physical environment.

John Locke and numerous other prominent thinkers declared that man is born with a “tabula rasa” (a clean slate) and that his knowledge is exclusively acquired, by empirical experience; it would then rationally follow that such knowledge, acquired by experience or obtained by contemplative reading, be objective, accurate and not subject to the limitations or bias of previous conception. As stated in our contextual title, seen through the view from a “clean” and unsoiled window, i.e., objectively and without the distorting impediment of preconception or bias.

To equip oneself for the acquisition of usefully objective information, one has to have developed a secure and confident self-image, developed, ultimately, from the accumulation of experienced interactive communication with other members of society. Experiential knowledge is also derivatively acquired by reading good literature (books and enlightening essays) with no fixed preconceptions. Good literature, aside from the pleasure of its reading, is enlightening in that it portrays classically eternal human experiences in the lives of its literary characters; a demonstrated extension or comparison with personally analogous experiences.

The non-contemplative individual is haplessly limited by his facile selection of reductive and limited experience of his own life, resulting in the limited extent of his capacity for perception. He is vulnerable to the influence of the stridently articulated views of Trump-like, snake oil demagogues, regardless of the degree of subjectivity or patent falsity of their overconfidently expressed views. He neither consults an objectively reflective mirror nor any other reliable source of information; thus, is fertile ground for the implanting and husbandry of abundant propagandic messages and conspiracy ideations.

By beneficial contrast, the objective and contemplative individual is not easily distracted by demagoguery or snake oil representations; he maintains a confident and rational perception grounded in his personal, and unsmudged (unbiased) mirror reflection of perceived, empirical reality. In addition, reading good literature lends notable sustenance to the contemplative reader and results in the abolition of feelings of utter despair, relevant in times of great political stress, such as exists contemporaneously due to the present governmental quagmire. Mature perception, notably, would have predictably averted such a quagmire.

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