I was dating a young woman, and, not for the first time in my life among people, I expressed an opinion she didn’t like. She replied, “You know, until now I thought a lot of you.”
My reply was, quite sincerely, “If your good opinion is that easily lost, I’d rather not be burdened with it.” She changed her tune abruptly, but I was not using this as a debate point. As usual, my best debate point is expressing the exact truth in a way that shows how silly the other person is being.
That is one of the reasons I watch out for Wordism. A person whose morality is in a book may read another book, suddenly decide he has misinterpreted the one he already worships, as Bob Jones IV declared when he abandoned the Confederate flag at just the right time financially.
Remember, this person has no loyalty to you or yours whatsoever. To anything but his words, be they a set of books or Mommy Professor or a single book, he is a psychopath. Like a sociopath, his word means nothing.
The Word is everything, HIS word is nothing.
The Constitution was once a contract. With a contract, you either go by the original intent of the wording or you change the wording. But in our terms we have gone from a constitution to a Constitution, from something which means what it says to something that means what someone is assigned to interpret.
So what is the Constitution? Does it guarantee us anything, the way we use the term? No, it is now Wordist.
Hitler and Stalin both simply interpreted their respective Constitutions. Hitler invoked the Emergency Clause in the Weimar Constitution. He simply said he emergency was permanent. That is what Franklin Roosevelt did when he ran for a third term. Like Hitler, he said that it was up to him to decide when the emergency ends, and it didn’t end until he was buried.
As for Stalin, I keep repeating that the Soviet Constitution of 1936 made that written at Philadelphia look like totalitarianism. Very few people really knew what was in it. Among other things, the Soviet Constitution of 1936 gave every Republic the right to secede peacefully.
If you can imagine Stalin’s reaction if the Ukraine tried to seceded in 1937, you realize that he put a somewhat different INTERPRETATION on that clause.
But when republics began to secede, practically nobody realized that that right was included in the Soviet Constitution that was still in effect. Cartoons made fun of independence movements in the Republics, showing Estonians singing “Dixie” and wearing Confederate uniforms, making fun of the whole thing.
Then they ALL seceded.
This shows the essential difference between a constitution as a contract and Constitution as a matter of “interpretation.” Under Wordism, all that matters is who has power. When Stalin ruled, we all know what his perfect Constitution meant. When the Republics got the upper hand they “interpreted” it for themselves.
That is how Wordism works. That is how good the word of a Wordist is.
A constitution is a contract between honest people. A Constitution is five of nine people in dresses and a president willing to follow orders.
We have a Constitution. The constitution has long since been repealed.
#1 by backbaygrouch4 on 06/01/2010 - 7:54 am
The contract known as the constitution, agreed to by the Founding Fathers was based on a European Christian ethos refined by Lockian political philosophy. This was the heritage of the British population of the newly independent nation. They were bound to each other by history and blood. It was the way they thought. It was an understanding. It was an idea that startled the world: Liberty.
America’s demographics have changed. This is most pronounced among a legal and economic elite that is virulently hostile to the racial stock that created a society that was so attractive that others left the shetls of Eastern Europe to cross the Atlantic to change and destroy that which so alluringly beckoned them. Wordism is the tool. But the fundamental difference is race.
You cannot make Americans, that is, European Christians, out of Jews, Negroes, Chinese or any other human variant. We are unique; they are each unique. Their background, genetic and cultural, makes it impossible for them to reach into and participate in the meeting of minds, which is what a contract is, that resulted in the constitution. All that is left is a verbal twistification of the document, aka Wordism, or what the media calls the Constitution.
The contract, the constitution, the meeting of minds, died when the ruling population became different. If the Mantra can create the racial solidarity necessary to reinstall Americans, still a majority, as masters of their destiny then the Constitution will again become a constitution, an organic understanding, a reflection of our race and its special devotion to its beloved child, Liberty.
#2 by BGLass on 06/01/2010 - 10:56 am
Well, a lot of people think racialism is another kind of wordism, as they can’t perceive outside that framework of books. Many can’t APPREHEND (the idea of) a constitution (intended to facilitate something s/a a Society), either. I asked a (college educated) black girl once: when all the citizens were white, and all the voters were white, what do you think people voted FOR? She couldn’t think of an answer. Outside allocations of race-based reparitions monies, she had no vision for voting at all. What would “voting” BE?
I told an older Jewish lady that most people SAY they want freedom FROM things. That’s what they’re really saying. Like, she wanted freedom from Hitler, (and that was part of her job, in a way), and blacks SAY they want freedom, but they mean FROM white slave holders years ago, which usually they saw in a movie. I asked what Generational Whites in America wanted freedom FROM when they made the founding contractual documents, and the Jewish woman had no idea. They wanted freedom “OF” religion; she’d heard that. But nothing about FROM.
Lawlessness precedes contracts. The jungle is basic. But most people are too unsophisticated, too cowed, to even envision the contractual AND racial Society that existed. Now People are working hard to regain a jungle, which is all they knew from wherever they all came from, and therefore mostly what they can envision. B/c the jungle is real FOR THEM, they believe it is THEE REALITY, and people who harken back to contracts seem stupid, (why can’t they SEE the reality of the jungle which is everywhere, in the eyes of a fresh-off-the-boat fellow who just got his free ride to the Ivy League and is in government now?).
The Old Testament is about this, imo. God keeps saying, “Here’s a contract.” But the Israelites keep doing actions that create blowback. They “want what they want.” From God’s perspective, they can’t “get it.” They are “adulterers,” and “whores,” and “stubborn,” from his point-of-view. Why can’t they do a “convenant?”
Anyway, with Power, you can feel like a Big-Shot. You can “Give Away Money Until it Runs Out And Feed a Couple More People,” or “Be Liked by The Half of the People you didn’t take that Money FROM.” But for some, this would not be much to aspire to.
#3 by Gator61 on 06/01/2010 - 12:30 pm
Reminds me of one of my favorite movies, “Evil Roy Slade”
The particular scene I’m thinking of. Slade is playing cards with his gang.
Gang member: I have kings and an ace.
Slade: I threes and a gun.
Whole gang: You win boss.
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#4 by Gator61 on 06/01/2010 - 5:56 pm
ooops looks like I didn’t put the Evil Roy Slade link in correctly. I’ll give it another try.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYNR_CvUJBA
Evil Roy Slade is a funny movie and it has a lot that can be related to the way Wordist and Liberals in general think. Here is another that you may enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NsNSkt1xU
#5 by Epiphany on 06/01/2010 - 8:44 pm
Marcion! I wonder what you think of him?
#6 by Epiphany on 06/04/2010 - 7:49 pm
It is really interesting: Constitutions are usually interpreted, or rather misinterpreted, anyway that the experts wish it to be. That is the sad thing about all of that.
I am glad that I have a chance to write all of this out, too!