THE 12 STRATEGIES TO FREEDOM

FREEDOM: WHERE DO WE BEGIN THIS ADVENTURE OF THOUGHT?

A LIFE GUIDED BY REASON FREE OF MYSTICISM AND FAIRY TALES?

BECOME A LEADER, AN INNOVATOR, A THINKER.

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An integration of The Symptoms, The Roots, and
The Types of people ruining America
"We are confronting an epic problem … the country that is the birthplace of the sanctity of the individual … is under threat … in our time … we may be the only surviors on the planet with that glimmer of hope alive within us  … where human liberty is possible …and is under threat of being swept under the rug … of Totaltarisism . We must come forth with some way to wake up the sleeping mind:
The mind of the evasive- irrational- the mind of our neighbors and leaders and say loud and clear":

“ …I am not going to let this happen to me …”

"… The Fundamental Problem: Remains that our assumptions are so deeply embedded in our consciousness that we do not know that they are there…"

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Educational Foundation, Inc interview 10/7/96

robert r. lackney, architect

" ... Abstractions without experience will change nothing and
become illusions or worse delusions in the real world

resulting in diasters.

Without a framework of generalizations, details are aimless fairy tales.
Without the knowledge of the details
generalizations become meaningless platitudes ..."

1997 Lecture notes: College of Architecture and Planning
Ball State University

Robert. R Lackney, professor of architecture

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal,
well-meaning, but without understanding."
Unknown

I offer the following notes to help frame the Problem, Cause, and Solution(s)
THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM
Remains that our intellectual assumption and biases are so deeply embedded in our consciousness that we do not know what they are and the impact they have on
our gradual loss of Individual Rights, Freedom, and Individualism.
THE EMOTIONAL DISEASE
( a proposal from an old person working alone in his studio)
Man has been infected with an “emotional disease” that has resulted in
the suppression of rational thought that has become an epidemic.
By defining the “suppression of rational thought as an epidemic”,
we might look at the "irrational thinking and behaviors of individual"
 in terms of an illness and identify the fundamental “symptoms”.
The individual’s disorder’s are expressed in the society as
symptoms, political reactions, and perhaps with the principle of politics in general.
This then would hold true, however, only if the basic principle of politics namely,
the thirst for power and where special prerogatives were carried over into all spheres of life.
And, where we as individuals are placed in a situation to
protect ourselves from the people we have placed in positions of power
as they become corrupted by the "politick" itself.
(Note1: This includes professions that seek personal accomplishment by deceit and intrigue, or the infections that have made American Institutions sick, or personal transactions based fraud and trickery, etc.
Sadly, it is not surprising that truthfulness, straight-forwardness,objectivity, and integrity are disappearing.
(Note2: These are the highest forms of human behavior and rare in human transactions. The individual infected by the universal Epidemic( the suppression rational thought) is characterized by the “contradiction” of the intense desire for Life and the inability to achieve a corresponding fulfillment of life.
OUR POLITICAL SCENE
Our current political irrationalism (Utopia Building) is clearly characterized by this contradiction.
With this logic of a compulsion our best intentions lead to destructive ends
(Note3: The use of force, gangsterism, thief, statism, Fascism, Mysticism,
indoctrination, standardization of behaviors, and the like).
The process to which has released an emerging government intimidation and control: today our politicians are discussing higher taxes, nationalized health care, controls over oil, tobacco, financial, auto, the media, the Internet, and drug companies, the elimination of home schooling, massive new powers for the Federal Reserve to provide central planning as needed to eliminate the ups and downs of the business cycle, controls over anything that might negatively impact the weather including the type of light bulbs we use and the cars we drive and subservience to a world government with the United Nations at its center.
Only the Good
robert
PS: After this past few months and my review of all the posts we have contributed I might add a note of my own "puzzlement"that the cause, extent, and
threat of this relentless expansion of Government Secured Rights and the diminished Individual Rights is largely unknown and may be unknowable
... this is a difficult position for me to post
 when I really hope that there is a solution without a full blown revolution and dismal of the leadership of our institutions who are driven by political correctness and power and control.

A ::: CURIOSITY + CREATIVITY + THINKING

'What Creative idea will you place within your mind?

Will it have the power to invigorate an awakening of the indivdual mind and the strength to spark something clean, beautiful, and good?"

2004 Interview,EDRA

robert r. lackney,architect

When asked:

What is the best way to prove your case, create a rule, solve a problem, justify an idea, invent a hypothesis, or evaluate an argument presented?

How do we know things?

How do we decide relevance or recognize bias?
What is the best way to think?

How do we make sense out of our world of ideas and experiences?
We all must think in order to live in this world and we need to develop effective reasoning in our pursuit of reliable beliefs and useful knowledge.
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There seems to be 8 fundamental thinking tools that can be used to effective thought:
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Memory + Associations + Pattern Associations + Reason
+ Experience + Invention + Experimentation + Intuition
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“ There is not just one tool for effective thought:

there is magic as we mix and blend the use of the tools of Thinking.
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There is one clear thing that we learn when we

focus on the 8 tools of thinking:

“The more we think

the more things we think about

and we think of.”

Freedom and Responsibility Inc.

Robert R. Lackney, architect/ moderator

B ::: The MIND: THINKING the THOUGHT

Each viewer is invited offer their thoughts on the "New Intellectual"

INDIVIDUALISM: Is the  "Inner Voice" that motivates
the Creative, the Thinker, the Innovator.

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Philosophy of Life: Happiness, Productivity and Reason the moral meaning of the ideal mind.
What man can be and ought to be :

What makes the INDIVIDUAL IDEAL MIND possible?

The professional intellectual must provide leadership:

studies of man as an institution.

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With the birth of capitalism, the system that permits man to make a living with the mind

… our intellectual leadership has collapsed and vanishing …

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Individual Mind has the power to know the facts of reality.

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Extentialism, Buddhism, religion has abandon reality for illusion

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… and returned to Mysticism and rejected the Creative Imagination …

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Ever since Emanuel Kant who undercut the value of reason

… Physchology has become the sister of religion and the cousion of the Progressive …

When we awoke from our deep sleep we were confronted with illusion or worse delussion:

Fairy Tales

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We are called to see things as they are and use our

Creative Imagination

to make things real.

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Only Good Stuff

Freedom and Responsibility Inc.

Robert R. Lackney, architect, moderator

A REFLECTION

As I gaze upon this Great Country in decline, I wonder still of the mission  and
our quest for an understanding of the Root(s) to this condition.
Clearly, the situation is being brought about by the way man is dealing with his life, the decisions being made by each person, and the aggregate affect that comes with trends.

It occurs to me that the Root of "Fear" is an obvious basis from which many are now operating.
Noticing the turn to superstition, hope in a central authority, and a sense of desperation I am compelled to believe that, more specifically, our species is suffering from a Fear of the Unknown.

When we Fear that which we do not know or understand, we can tend to latch onto the familiar, the temporally satisfying, the re-assuring, and those things that have been the stop-gap to the unknown to date.

It is indeed disconcerting that as mankind faces an otherwise glorious period of so much accumulated knowledge he might "chuck it all" in deference to mysticism, tribalism, and cannibalism.

Will there be another chance to seize knowledge, reason, and confidence from which to advance the human experience or will there be a return to the cave, bigotry, fighting, and another great epoch cycle that tests the mettle of reason against ignorant evasion?

That is for each of us to decide it seems - if there are enough of "Us

C :: THE PATIENT SEARCH

A POST: WHAT IS THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM THAT IS CAUSING SUCH A HUGE CONCESSION TO THE DETERIORATION OF OUR FREEDOMS?

From the ranks of our society we find a spectrum of individualist producers to welfare takers.
In the vast chasm between those who make things and those who steal what the producers make: The hordes.
Therein is the ocean of SO SO very many who are not motivated to make productivity of their personal ambitions a focused reality.
They really have none.
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Hence, the perceived Root of true personal happiness is evaded by the vast majority.
By way of example, most people are content with simply filling a slot in a job as defined by someone else - that someone being a producer/business owner/ entrepreneur. Power-crazed politicians are always creating more and more havoc to solve as a justification for their position of power.

In the wake of their mess we have the institutions of governmental departments and the broad expanse of bureaus and jobs related. Statistically, I am sure that more than 50% of the populous is now in some way employed under government cash flows.
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That psychology which allows for individuals to be satisfied working within the structure of something that is not a part of their personal individual self-fulfilling productivity (a job for someone else) is now slotted into a system that is inherently a producer of nothing (the government).
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People content with this fit do not question the "sustainability" of the system within which they work - they just go to work and return home to eat, sleep, and return to work. They may have a hobby, but the bulk of their life hours are committed to someone else's vision in action. In the case of government-related jobs, those workers are part of a vision based in extortion of the citizenry.
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( Note: Not to mention that within a few years the cost to fund entitlements in America , namely, Medicaid, Medicare,and Social Security will exceed the yearly revenues gleaned from the tax base of a diminishing work force ... the question we ask: Will there ever be enough money the politician and the government? When will corruption this stop?)
(comments by: r.r.lackney, architect)
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Hence, we are faced not only with a Numbness Phenomenon that really doesn't care about the viability of the nature of the organization for whom they work BUT compoundedly, we are faced with that same mentality actually being compelled to "believe in / support" that entity for the simple reason of needing their provider to "stay in business".
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·( NOTE: We now have the "zero-liability voters" :
They are they are a rapidly expanding segment of voters that are made of all races, ethnicities, and sexes.
They are voters that want to use the government to fund all the social programs, welfare, and etc.
They are now pushing a National health care program.
These are also the people that do not contribute to the system that funds these programs.
They either get what money they do get taken out of their checks back plus some from the government at tax time or are just flat out receivers of the system.)

( Note: The " zero-liability voters" are not liable for debt they are a receiver of the system as is and depend on it's continuation.)
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Therefore, as we look forward to solving the problems of Numbness, Evasion, Mysticism, Fear, etc. (all of our Roots) we are going to face the irrational resistance of the majority - the majority that does not think beyond their weekly pay check and are going to be damn resistant to anything that would seem to threaten their "insurance".
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I dare say, that a great part of what is wrong with the Free World has to do with the fact that the majority of society lives in contradiction to the fundamentals of the free and independent thinker.
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That majority does NOT dedicate its talents and energy toward a productive life that is focused on that individual's personal aspirations for their individual self-realization.
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( Note: To convince them that they are off the mark will require a true process of personal education and transformation: how did Jefferson, Adams, and Ben Franklin with "nudging" from their mutual friend Priestly overcome the irrationality of the Calvinistic world view of their time and give birth to America.)
(comments by:r.r.lackney,architect)
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In short, our Solutions will have to be of an heroic caliber. Nothing less will work.

1 :: ACTIONS DESTROYING AMERICA

AA :: FREEDOM and RESPONSIBILITY INC.
Robert R. Lackney, architect /moderator

A… ROOT: PARTITION AND STANDARDIZATION OF RESPONSIBILITIES
Division of Responsibilities within: The Health Care System, The Judicial System, The Penal System, The Economic system, The Political System, The Technological System(s), The Educational System, The Marriage System, The Religious systems and spiritual systems.

B … ROOT: STANDARDIZATION OF BEHAVIOR(s)
The survival of corporations, business, institutions, and profit seeking enterprises have morphed into “mindless systems and standardized services” that have and continue to destroy individual freedoms:. The individual is "processed by an expert - handed off to another expert, then to another, and to another". No one in the process or outside of the process knows or will ever know what is going on. No one can predict the intended outcomes that are being implimentated.

C … ROOT: COLLECTIVE BELIEFS
Environmentalism and Religious, and Anthropological points of view that promote /determine beliefs to people, culture, politics.

D … ROOT: CREDIT EXPANSION
Government actions to bring wealth forward, at the cost of enslaving the unborn “credit expansion”.

E … The Fundamental ROOT: FREEDOM and RESPONSIBILITY
Freedom is the negative characteristic of the whole experience of what has happened in American culture. The other more positive aspect is “responsibleness”. Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

F … ROOT: LOSS OF THE OWNERSHIP OF PRIVATE PROPERTY
Government by Consensus: Public officials have been persuaded to: pass and implement environmental laws restricting the development of all existing lands both within the small towns and cities as well as the countryside. Statism at its best.

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G … ROOT: UTOPIA BUILDING
And, I asked my friend, the Idealist, if he wanted to abolish the rich?

No! He said: “I want to abolish the “poor”, those that suffer from disease and want.And, it is “our” responsibility- all of us are accountable - to help everyone realize their potential to the fullest.”

The Idealist is passing laws against cruelty, human need, and death based upon the welfare of the community and the desire for unity, togetherness, and oneness: The Global Community.
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At last, the Idealist beleives in his power to create "international partnerships" between the wealthiest and poorest countries designed to share or provide doctors, nurses, medicine, technologies, security systems and the like with all countries especially, the underdeveloped nations to insure human rights, elimination of wars, and freedom from oppression.

‘ … 200 years ago the world problem was slavery, 100 years ago: child education and the right to vote, 50 years ago: the right to social security and welfare, And, in contemporary time there are pressures of sexual preference, race discrimination, and persecutions that have been the focus of world systems to change the world
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Note: Never mind that Fascism, Communism, Apartheid, Socialism and the like have tried and failed. Yet, our government leaders of the "Free World"continue to pursue this irrationl agenda in the present time ... now.
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H … ROOT: " POP Culture: THE REJECTION OF REALITY & REASON
“Charismatic- Leadership”: Young adults, unable to read, cynical of history, science, and mathematics many becoming victims of the classroom teacher, media celebrity, political leader and the alluring illusions and delusions of the mass media of what is and what can be. The Pop Culture in the process of creating an “Emotional Plague” based on Fear+ Anxiety + Self Hate … disguised as Creative Imagination,

I … ROOT: EDUCATION ACCEPTANCE OF PROPAGANDA AS EDUCATION
There is a serious flaw within current educational processes where a the “one size fits all” approach to teaching and learning. In this concept, conformity is the rule of law, creativity is sacrificed for teaching to the test, teaching without regarding teacher individuality and uniqueness.
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We are witnessing the Death of Education and The Dawn of Learning.

2 ::: IDEAS that BANKRUPT AMERICA

Prepared by: AA:: Freedom and Responsibility Inc.
Robert R. lackney, architect/ moderator

We are at a crisis point, because we can not bring forward any more wealth.
In a few decades, just the interest payments on the National Debt will be greater than the earning capacity of the living.
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A ::: GOVERNMENT: GOVERANCE
· Constitutional authority: the process of undermining the Constitution by the Congress and Courts
· The government’s growth of power
· The government controls the message and uses deceit to manipulate the public trust
· Government actions to bring wealth forward, at the cost of enslaving the unborn.
· Symptom: Credit Expansion: cost of enslaving the unborn
· The government can perform illegal actions and bring the income potential of the unborn forward of satisfy our selfish greed today.
· The death tax: life is the means to the ends since before you even existed, Contractually indebted against your will at the day of birth for the purpose of bringing wealth forward.
· Obama: political agenda is the strategic thrust of the communistic.
· Government: "takes" from the public trough as if it were manna from heaven.
· System Standardization: Survival of corporations, business, and profit seeking enterprises regardless of the system you are operating in: Health Care System, Judicial System, Penal System, economic system, political system, technological systems, or religious or spiritual systems.
· Ms. Rand understood then, in 1957, an emerging trend toward more government influence, where “somebody’s need is a claim against our wealth.”·
The continue of Corruption in voting, cross finds, graft and the like of leadership in Congress.
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B ::: GOVERNMENT: POLICY
· The Entitlement Taxation: Costs of Health Care Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security will in 10 years exceed the yearly tax revenues for America. The Middle Class Contract has been looted by political system.
· Ideologies that are eating away at American Core values (Ann Rand).
· America is not doing enough for the war against its enemies(Ann Rand).
· Administration’s refuse make self defense its ruling principle and support it true ally in the mid-east Israel (Ann Rand)
· War against CEO’s is designed to strangle American business.
· Positions on Environmentalism , Culturalism, Political Correctness
· Government by Consensus: The New Government: less and less verifiable data
· In welfare system in America, Fascisms, Communism, Christianity, we are noble …we are moral we are creating a society to control the individual selfishness… Socialism undermines life.· STATISM: “The last 50 years have been an orgy of placing need above wealth creation, above personal pursuit of happiness,” Mr. Brook says. “I think we are seeing the consequences of that today.”

3 ::: IDEAS to COUNTER AMERICA'S EVILS

Our challenge is to reason with those who

have given up on reason.

Based upon the belief that

all symptoms are due to the

abandonment of reality and reason.

AA :: FREEDOM and RESPONSIBILITY

Robert R. Lackney, architect, moderator

A :: THE RE-DESIGN OF GOVERNMEMT
The redesign of entitlements so that middle class choices are in terms of work, family, and health care will promote more productivity, efficiency, and wealth, rather than the shrinking of the labor force and the growth of government.

B:: THE RE-DESIGN OF EDUCATION
The creation of an educational approach that prepares our brilliant students and teachers to contribute, create, and provide the solutions and engages the uncertainties, problems, and opportunities facing the local and global community.

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Children can do extraordinary things.

Children are reaching out into everything and forming a new recipes , namely

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META LEVEL LEARNING:

children thinking about their personal learning-a community base learning process-the internet is at the center but now they are assembling ideas/concepts/solutions from multiple resources:

the internet of course and from people from all over the world.

'The One glimmer of optimism'- children and learners are changing their institutions and then the institutions changing policies.

The learners are already on the train- they have left the station and well on their way.

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We are a wittness to the Death of Education and the Dawn of Learning

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more to come

AA :: Fredom Responsibility Inc.

Robert R. Lackney, architect, moderator