Why can't we learn?

 

Why can't we learn?

A species that can't learn faces either stagnation or extinction.  Is humanity such a species?

A house divided cannot stand.  The human house is divided.  On one side we have the majority for whom empathy is an integral part of their being.  They relate to other living things and recognize the diversity and equality common to all.  They live and let live.  They freely share the gift of life.

On the other side we have the minority for whom empathy is a missing part of their being.  They only relate to other living things that also lack empathy.  They do not recognize the diversity and equality common to all.  They live and let die.  They do not share the gift of life.  Instead, they trade it like a commodity and horde it for themselves.

The empathetic humans I call People, and the non-empathetic humans I call Sociopaths.  People pursue liberty and freedom for all, while Sociopaths pursue power and control over People.

Slavery and genocide are wrong.  To those with empathy, these are self-evident truths.  A spokesman for the People even said as much in a famous declaration:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776

To those without empathy, slavery and genocide are their life's goal, the ultimate expression of power and control.  A spokesman for the Sociopaths even said as much in a little-known document:

It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i.e., slavery and genocide.

This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a writing must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise, it might be recognized as a technically formal declaration of domestic war.

-- Unknown, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, 1979

If a house divided cannot stand, then stagnation is not the fate of humanity.  Extinction is.  Survival lies in a United People.  Sociopaths must be exposed and dis-empowered.  If the People fail to do this, all of humanity, both the People and the Sociopaths, will join countless other extinct species in the pages of history.

We know where we end if we do not unite.  Who, what, when, where, and how do we begin?

 

Treason

 

The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held behind closed doors.  Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had transpired.  As Benjamin Franklin was leaving for the day, a Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"  With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution specifically prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures of Americans and their property except upon specific and warranted probable cause.  It reads:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

When the United States government spies on all Americans indiscriminately by secretly collecting all of their general communications, it knowingly violates the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land.

As an alleged Constitutional scholar, the president of the United States is well aware of the treasonous nature of his and prior administrations, though he will deny it.  The Supreme Court is also well versed in Constitutional law, and it too is complicit in high crimes against the American people by ignoring the law it is charged to uphold.  And finally Congress, by its consistent inaction and feigned ignorance, has deliberately given its tacit approval to this abomination against the American people.

By violating the Constitution in such a clear, egregious, and undeniable manner, the government of the United States is guilty of high treason against the American people.  It is not only the right of the American people to alter or abolish such a criminal government, it is their sacred duty.  If the American people fail to act, the great experiment in freedom and justice that so many Americans fought and died for since 1776 will be an abject failure, a complete waste of time and effort, and one of the most monumental defeats in the battle of good versus evil to ever visit the face of the Earth.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." -- Benjamin Franklin

Is that what we need, more masters?