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 …”
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
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
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.
"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.
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