THE ULTIMATE IRONY!
I have conquered inner space and created, for the first time at last, a viable future for the human race; a future replete with enough specific that it could be accurately stated that I have broken the trail and created a road map for my race to peace and prosperity.
But it may be a journey that only a few can take because of the consummate irony of human existence.
In 1976, after witnessing too many examples of man’s humanity to man, I felt that in good conscience I had no choice but to dedicate my life to creating an ideology that would create for the wretched of this earth the possibility of happiness.
And I have done it, I have identified the major determinant of the nature of human societies, coercion; I have developed the hypothesis that relying on force determined that the dominant social roles would be territorial predator and prey, that the ethos of human societies would be competition, that the human story would be redolent with conflict; that the human story would be perennially and interminably a tragedy.
I have resolved the philosophical conundrum of whether man was determined or was he free; I postulated that the destiny of the human race has been determined by the fact that the human story began in a ‘state of nature’ making it inevitable that human beings would adopt the model of social interaction to which they had become habituated in that crucible of despair and that the laming, debilitating effects of relying on coercion would fashion powerful shackles of determinism that humanity has thus far been unable to break.
I have exposed the fundamental negative consequence of relying on coercion and analyzed how it shaped those powerful shackles of determinism; I have hypothesized that reliance on coercion ensured that humans beings would experience intense fear and guilt and develop a mechanism, repression, that would allow them to continue to apply sufficient force to produce societal function and progress without suffering debilitating pangs of conscience.
I have described the origins and development of ethics and how these moral principles were able to coexist with Absolutism; that this was facilitated by repression, precipitating an ever widening gap between concept and precept, how values came to be paid lip service and became the window dressing that obscured and concealed the mindless and insensate brutality of Absolutism.
If that were not enough I have specified the means that would allow any human being to overcome repression without reference to another human being; that telling the truth would overcome and cleanse the higher mental processes of the laming effects produced by coercion based culture and permit human beings to develop the objectivity and rationality to create ideas adequate to the existing reality with regards to social and political problems the necessary prerequisite to creating workable solutions.
But more I have demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt; the mental acuity and the level of civility the practice of this ideology would produce, and the positive impact this could have on human existence.
Repression has consistently resulted in the application of solutions to the urgent, massive and exponentially growing problems confronting humanity to be too little, too late; again and again I have demonstrated that I can process facts in a timely fashion and that I have overcome the intellectual disability embedded in human culture, and have seen my prescriptions I have developed, ignored.
For example, I knew that the existence of weapons of mass destruction were entirely an illusion engendered by the over heated, over taxed sensibilities of members of the Bush Administration; indeed, I saw through all the ‘evidence’ contrived to support the attack on Iraq, the act of naked aggression against the people of Iraq and published that conclusion and finding on the World Wide Web even as that attack was being initiated; it was also clear to me then that the occupation would fail miserably.
I know that genius is ninety nine per cent perspiration and one per cent inspiration so the comparison I will make would not be valid – if I were to measure my intellectual accomplishments against those of President George Daddy’s Boy Bush; born in the lap of luxury and power, he has never been galvanized to the effort that would result in the development of wisdom in the conduct of human affairs, so I will measure my intellectual prowess against the members of the Congress who supported this unjustified attack, Senator John Kerry et al.
I am not claiming innate genius as the reason why I consistently prophetic, accurately prophetic in my assessments of the conduct and direction of the war on terrorism; what I am claiming is that I applied a superior approach to information, a more objective and rational method, the mental approach applied to problems in the physical environment, and therefore achieved far superior results.
The question arises, why are these findings that have been proven accurate still being ignored; even though I have done my best using the media of electronic mail to have these considered?
There will, I am advised, by electronic mail originating from Senator Kerry himself that he will attempt to force a vote in the Senate mandating that military forces be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year; the justification being that Allied Forces cannot change the reality of the power balance in Iraq that in fact the Sunnis are militarily more powerful than the Shias, an unalterable and palpably obvious fact that was the cause that produced the effect of the long enduring dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, a reality I have been trying to have considered for several years.
It is obvious that Senator Kerry is getting through to me, but I am not getting through to him, or is it that in this national debate fact or merit does not resonate; that the debate is only window dressing to obscure the mindless, insensate march of a governmental bureaucracy that is completely incapable of coming up with workable solutions?
I have often referred to this enterprise in which I am engaged as a journey of discovery; it has been a learning process, many things I initially knew intuitively, devolved into issues that I had a much deeper and detailed intellectual appreciation of.
For example, I knew that I should never create authority for these ideas by performing miracles; I knew that it was illogical and contradictory to galvanize human beings to be rational and realistic by engaging in acts that were supernatural.
I knew that I must always enlist the cooperation of other human beings and never impose these ideas on anyone; that I must resist the temptation to use my command of rhetoric to convince anyone of the validity of these ideas.
Nor, should I create authority by claiming to fulfill prophesy, for example, by claiming to be the Other Comforter, even the Spirit of Truth.
I had, by practicing the discipline of truth, to create facts so clearly the basis for function that they would be undeniably and unalterably persuasive.
Undeniably persuasive even to those who controlled the levers of power, I always knew that it is those who sought power, who lusted after it, who did everything to accumulate it, who would have to preside over the dissolution of that power.
I am limited and made eminently predictable by the means used to create these ideational structures, I will always tell the truth and do the right thing, as much as is humanly possible.
In any competition those who have no moral scruples must emerge victorious; so this can never be a dialectic but must be something completely new, human beings, powerful human beings must be persuaded by the logic of the arguments and facts I present to renounce the past and embrace the future.
The ultimate paradox and consummate irony of human experience is that coercion based culture created a mechanism, repression, that underpinned and perpetuated it; this chain of circumstance has produced another paradox of similar magnitude, that those who are the inheritors and major beneficiaries of this system, are the ones, the only ones, with the power to destroy it.
Is there an unholy cabal composed of those who lead and control the military industrial complex in this country who hold the reins of real power as President Eisenhower warned; if this exists it is they who will ultimately decide whether this nation conceived in liberty, will ever enjoy liberty in precept, or whether this will forever remain a concept, window dressing to obscure the operations and depredations of modern enduring forms of Absolutism?
This is a realization that I have come to quite recently, that I cannot destroy the evil in the world, I cannot destroy the primitive ways of thinking and patterns of behavior that so powerfully persist from the ‘state of nature,’ I can only resist these in myself, and that I have accomplished.
Last week, after enduring an extended period of eating one meal a day, and several days when I ate nothing at all, I confronted temptation in the parking area that has become the place where I sleep, most nights.
I realized that the trees that provided shade, the forest that was so aesthetically pleasing to me, harbored and concealed a group of perverts. I witnessed scenes in this location, and was encouraged to participate in acts more obscene, more depraved than I had ever observed in all of my life.
Despite my hunger and the growing wholly depressing realization that my life is an exercise in futility; despite my growing awareness that the values and ideals I have dedicated my life to promoting is beyond the intellectual and moral reach of the vast majority of human beings, I was not the least inclined to succumb to temptation I only felt compassion and regret at the depths of depravity that human beings could plumb, I retain my integrity.
Whether humanity clings to the brutal, insensate and mindless traditions of the past, those created and perpetuated by reliance on coercion to motivate human behavior; or, whether the human race is capable of the radical and fundamental transformation to relying on positive reinforcements and creates a future, a prosperous and peaceable future for the race, is not, in the final analysis, up to me; limited as I am, and, as I should be by the constraints of morality and the fact that this world view if it is to endure can never be imposed on anyone.
It is a choice and alternative that I can only present for consideration, as cogently as I can, to each and every human being, and, very ironically, it is a choice which confronts most meaningfully those who have accumulated the most social and economic power.
In the final analysis, the verdict is theirs, not mine.
William E. Virtue
Memphis, TN
Copyright Retained
But it may be a journey that only a few can take because of the consummate irony of human existence.
In 1976, after witnessing too many examples of man’s humanity to man, I felt that in good conscience I had no choice but to dedicate my life to creating an ideology that would create for the wretched of this earth the possibility of happiness.
And I have done it, I have identified the major determinant of the nature of human societies, coercion; I have developed the hypothesis that relying on force determined that the dominant social roles would be territorial predator and prey, that the ethos of human societies would be competition, that the human story would be redolent with conflict; that the human story would be perennially and interminably a tragedy.
I have resolved the philosophical conundrum of whether man was determined or was he free; I postulated that the destiny of the human race has been determined by the fact that the human story began in a ‘state of nature’ making it inevitable that human beings would adopt the model of social interaction to which they had become habituated in that crucible of despair and that the laming, debilitating effects of relying on coercion would fashion powerful shackles of determinism that humanity has thus far been unable to break.
I have exposed the fundamental negative consequence of relying on coercion and analyzed how it shaped those powerful shackles of determinism; I have hypothesized that reliance on coercion ensured that humans beings would experience intense fear and guilt and develop a mechanism, repression, that would allow them to continue to apply sufficient force to produce societal function and progress without suffering debilitating pangs of conscience.
I have described the origins and development of ethics and how these moral principles were able to coexist with Absolutism; that this was facilitated by repression, precipitating an ever widening gap between concept and precept, how values came to be paid lip service and became the window dressing that obscured and concealed the mindless and insensate brutality of Absolutism.
If that were not enough I have specified the means that would allow any human being to overcome repression without reference to another human being; that telling the truth would overcome and cleanse the higher mental processes of the laming effects produced by coercion based culture and permit human beings to develop the objectivity and rationality to create ideas adequate to the existing reality with regards to social and political problems the necessary prerequisite to creating workable solutions.
But more I have demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt; the mental acuity and the level of civility the practice of this ideology would produce, and the positive impact this could have on human existence.
Repression has consistently resulted in the application of solutions to the urgent, massive and exponentially growing problems confronting humanity to be too little, too late; again and again I have demonstrated that I can process facts in a timely fashion and that I have overcome the intellectual disability embedded in human culture, and have seen my prescriptions I have developed, ignored.
For example, I knew that the existence of weapons of mass destruction were entirely an illusion engendered by the over heated, over taxed sensibilities of members of the Bush Administration; indeed, I saw through all the ‘evidence’ contrived to support the attack on Iraq, the act of naked aggression against the people of Iraq and published that conclusion and finding on the World Wide Web even as that attack was being initiated; it was also clear to me then that the occupation would fail miserably.
I know that genius is ninety nine per cent perspiration and one per cent inspiration so the comparison I will make would not be valid – if I were to measure my intellectual accomplishments against those of President George Daddy’s Boy Bush; born in the lap of luxury and power, he has never been galvanized to the effort that would result in the development of wisdom in the conduct of human affairs, so I will measure my intellectual prowess against the members of the Congress who supported this unjustified attack, Senator John Kerry et al.
I am not claiming innate genius as the reason why I consistently prophetic, accurately prophetic in my assessments of the conduct and direction of the war on terrorism; what I am claiming is that I applied a superior approach to information, a more objective and rational method, the mental approach applied to problems in the physical environment, and therefore achieved far superior results.
The question arises, why are these findings that have been proven accurate still being ignored; even though I have done my best using the media of electronic mail to have these considered?
There will, I am advised, by electronic mail originating from Senator Kerry himself that he will attempt to force a vote in the Senate mandating that military forces be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year; the justification being that Allied Forces cannot change the reality of the power balance in Iraq that in fact the Sunnis are militarily more powerful than the Shias, an unalterable and palpably obvious fact that was the cause that produced the effect of the long enduring dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, a reality I have been trying to have considered for several years.
It is obvious that Senator Kerry is getting through to me, but I am not getting through to him, or is it that in this national debate fact or merit does not resonate; that the debate is only window dressing to obscure the mindless, insensate march of a governmental bureaucracy that is completely incapable of coming up with workable solutions?
I have often referred to this enterprise in which I am engaged as a journey of discovery; it has been a learning process, many things I initially knew intuitively, devolved into issues that I had a much deeper and detailed intellectual appreciation of.
For example, I knew that I should never create authority for these ideas by performing miracles; I knew that it was illogical and contradictory to galvanize human beings to be rational and realistic by engaging in acts that were supernatural.
I knew that I must always enlist the cooperation of other human beings and never impose these ideas on anyone; that I must resist the temptation to use my command of rhetoric to convince anyone of the validity of these ideas.
Nor, should I create authority by claiming to fulfill prophesy, for example, by claiming to be the Other Comforter, even the Spirit of Truth.
I had, by practicing the discipline of truth, to create facts so clearly the basis for function that they would be undeniably and unalterably persuasive.
Undeniably persuasive even to those who controlled the levers of power, I always knew that it is those who sought power, who lusted after it, who did everything to accumulate it, who would have to preside over the dissolution of that power.
I am limited and made eminently predictable by the means used to create these ideational structures, I will always tell the truth and do the right thing, as much as is humanly possible.
In any competition those who have no moral scruples must emerge victorious; so this can never be a dialectic but must be something completely new, human beings, powerful human beings must be persuaded by the logic of the arguments and facts I present to renounce the past and embrace the future.
The ultimate paradox and consummate irony of human experience is that coercion based culture created a mechanism, repression, that underpinned and perpetuated it; this chain of circumstance has produced another paradox of similar magnitude, that those who are the inheritors and major beneficiaries of this system, are the ones, the only ones, with the power to destroy it.
Is there an unholy cabal composed of those who lead and control the military industrial complex in this country who hold the reins of real power as President Eisenhower warned; if this exists it is they who will ultimately decide whether this nation conceived in liberty, will ever enjoy liberty in precept, or whether this will forever remain a concept, window dressing to obscure the operations and depredations of modern enduring forms of Absolutism?
This is a realization that I have come to quite recently, that I cannot destroy the evil in the world, I cannot destroy the primitive ways of thinking and patterns of behavior that so powerfully persist from the ‘state of nature,’ I can only resist these in myself, and that I have accomplished.
Last week, after enduring an extended period of eating one meal a day, and several days when I ate nothing at all, I confronted temptation in the parking area that has become the place where I sleep, most nights.
I realized that the trees that provided shade, the forest that was so aesthetically pleasing to me, harbored and concealed a group of perverts. I witnessed scenes in this location, and was encouraged to participate in acts more obscene, more depraved than I had ever observed in all of my life.
Despite my hunger and the growing wholly depressing realization that my life is an exercise in futility; despite my growing awareness that the values and ideals I have dedicated my life to promoting is beyond the intellectual and moral reach of the vast majority of human beings, I was not the least inclined to succumb to temptation I only felt compassion and regret at the depths of depravity that human beings could plumb, I retain my integrity.
Whether humanity clings to the brutal, insensate and mindless traditions of the past, those created and perpetuated by reliance on coercion to motivate human behavior; or, whether the human race is capable of the radical and fundamental transformation to relying on positive reinforcements and creates a future, a prosperous and peaceable future for the race, is not, in the final analysis, up to me; limited as I am, and, as I should be by the constraints of morality and the fact that this world view if it is to endure can never be imposed on anyone.
It is a choice and alternative that I can only present for consideration, as cogently as I can, to each and every human being, and, very ironically, it is a choice which confronts most meaningfully those who have accumulated the most social and economic power.
In the final analysis, the verdict is theirs, not mine.
William E. Virtue
Memphis, TN
Copyright Retained
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