I am not opposed to art. I am not opposed to music. I am not opposed to words. I am not opposed to institutions.
But if you decide that all races are equal because you like African art, I am opposed to that. If you decide your daughter should marry a black because some blacks are good singers, I am opposed to that.
None of this is hard to understand. But when I say that institutions are bad when they are substituted for racial loyalty, I am opposed to it, people get very confused. One commenter said that “the People of the United States ordained and established a constitution,” so I should not object to institutions.
What I LIKE about this statement is that it is blog statement, no frills, no fancy stuff, no attempt to cite endless histories to make it look like the writer is thinking Deep Thoughts. It is right or it is wrong.
And that precious word:
Period.
This is a PLAIN statement of a confusion that a lot of people have about Wordism. Just because you have an institution does not mean you have Wordism. Wordism is the fatal disease that every institution gets, and will get until we are fully aware that it IS a disease and what its symptoms are.
I am not opposed to art. I am not opposed to music. I am opposed to words. I am not opposed to institutions. But in the case of the Preamble to the United States Constitution I am reaffirming that the PURPOSE of the institution: to provide the blessings of liberty for OURSELVES and OUR descendants. I certainly do not object to an institution that does THAT.
But what is the Constitution today? The Constitution is the document used by judges when they OVERRIDE the peoples? interests. When it was decided by California voters that they did not want to provide welfare for people who were NOT “We the people of the United States” the Supreme Court overruled them in the name of the Constitution.
Due to Wordism, the Constitution is doing exactly what it was set up toe avoid doing. Courts have picked out the words they want and made our Constitution into an institution which is an enemy of we the people and our posterity. This happens to all institutions eventually.
Whales gather barnacles. That does not make me anti-whale. People get diseases. That does not make me anti-people. Institutions get Wordism. That does not make me anti-institution.
#1 by mderpelding on 04/06/2008 - 12:07 am
“I am not opposed to art. I am not opposed to music. I am opposed to words. ”
Beautiful rhetoric.
Of course, we can expand upon this and also be not opposed/opposed to poverty,war injustice,oppression, slavery, racism, sexism, genderism, catholicism,science, reason, and all other externals ad infinitum.
Obviously, for one to support or oppose one of these concepts they must be assigned a moral value. You know, good or evil.
Such as poverty=bad. Diversity=good. This is the essence of collectivism and demonstrates why collectivism is anti-human.
Collectivism reduces man to the status of an animal dependent on external systems for moral guidance. External systems created by other men.
But we do know that good and evil, right and wrong reside within the make-up of each of us as individuals.
Systems are not moral. Only men can be moral.
That was the core belief of those individuals named as the “Founding Fathers”.
When those individuals talked of “us and our posterity” they weren’t thinking collectively of “white people” or Europeans or men or Catholics or any group. What these men desired to implement was a system of government that would allow them as individuals to live for themselves and their loved ones to the best of their individual abilities.
George Washington was yes our first president, general of the Continental Army, surveyor, farmer, plantation owner, land speculator, soldier,accomplished dancer and “Father of Our Country”.
Do you think that George Washington considered himself to be the total of all of those “hats” he had to wear throughout his life or was he just George Washington?
We have become the means to an end.
Our ancestors viewed themselves and their kin as an end.
Worthy of any and all means.