|
From: Rin****@cs.com Return to Your Letters
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 05:17:10 EDT
Subject: Knowledje without wisdom is dangerous
Beating a dead horse, Knowledge without Wisdom
This
composition is redundant but was taken out some text that I have written and extracted from other resources. The resources are mentioned later within the text. These excerpts do not reflect any biases
toward any one party or entity but are my opinions concerning our country as it relates to the state of political, judicial and social character.
As we go forward nearing one hundred years
from the great depression and W.W.II this countries ethics are changing. I believe our legislatures are making decisions for our country that at the least, very suspicious and irrational decisions. These
bad judgments are destroying the very foundations of this country. These type of political agendas have an even deeper concern in respect to historical reference. Herein is some analysis by Philip
Atkinson Author of A Study Of Our Decline.
Click here: Civilization defined and explained in plain English
"In a declining community any citizen who retains respect for the truth must
become alienated from the majority of his fellow citizens because they hate the truth. Inevitably I could only ever be a social outcast, but being freed from the need to win social approval also meant
being freed from social prejudices, and being able to see my community more clearly; a detachment that is essential for any student of society."
I believe our legislatures here in Tennessee
and the judgment of the courts and the governing bodies of this country have lost part of that ability and they are slipping into a declining state of affairs concerning "moral perception". Why
is it our country's legislatures and judiciaries can write, cite and bring into fruition laws that provide monetary grants for the purpose of scientific research in the realm of incurable diseases or
disease in general terms. Even any important living organism gets these research grants, then our lawmakers turn around and denie a living human being the right to those cures. Why have we found these
answers to former incurable diseases and "now" that we are able to treat most of these diseases "now" with ease by medications and physicians knowledge and "now" we are not
going to treat the people we were finding the cures for. My analogy is that no one is immunized from incurable or terminal diseases. Our whole society sees those diseases as a threat in a personal
way.
The majority of Americans have good general health and an adequate job that supplies them with the resources for health care and medications to treat their health problems. It is the small voice of the minority of the underprivileged and uninsurable left to gain the attention of our lawmakers. This minority of Americans are being duped out of their rightful legacy of their taxpaying ancestors. The folks who are disabled who were at one time, tax paying citizens who maid monetary contributions to the United States Government and it's States tax have no fair representation. (Taxation without representation.) I don't believe these issues are fairly adjudicated and the search for the truth is not rendered concerning health care as a basic human right here in the United States. This is my appeal. Our legislatures and our judges say it's constitutional to deny this minority health care. I disagree and say it is absolutely unconstitutional and furthermore a crime against humanity to bar people from health care since the United States have taken money out of our pocket for the research and now has the method for the cure. So in essence I and my ancestors have paid the dues and only the ones at the top get the benefits, and the ones at the top are making the laws. I have been denied my rights!
The author Philip Atkinson continues
Democracy In Action
The rise of the Nazis was a legitimate democratic process that confirmed Edmund Burke's (1729-1797) fears and forecast. This
immoral demented regime which carried out wholesale murder was unrestrained by any sense of shame and no single individual felt responsible for the crimes it committed; all those involved felt they were
doing their duty, and this included Hitler. The Fuehrer's anti-Semitism was an integral and crucial part of his appeal to the electorate, and to do anything but carry out his declared policies would have
been a breach of a political promise as well as a failure of his democratic duty. Indeed, any attempt by Adolf Hitler to halt the ongoing pogrom (organized massacre) could easily have seen his popularity
falter and his authority jeopardized.
The Rise Of Nazis Party is Still Not Understood
Fest's words make it clear that by the late 1930s reason was a vanishing quality in Europe. The
subsequent judgment at Nuremberg by the victorious allies, which placed the blame for the Holocaust upon the shoulders of a few bad men in Germany, and has never been contradicted, is proof that
comprehension has continued its sad decline. Our public inability to recognize that Germany had gone mad, and that nations do become gripped by lunacy, reveals significant shortcomings in existing
communal awareness; we just can't grasp what really happened, for apart from a few unusual individuals, we have lost the ability to understand reality.
A simple explanation of the social decay
which realized the rise of Hitler and the appearance of Nazis (National Socialism) in Germany, 1933-1945.
Weakness Of National Character Exposed
When any individual abandons disciplined
thinking they immediately become subject to two forces, fear and fancy. From 1918 to 1939, under the pressure of social upheaval inflicted by losing World War I and subsequent economic recession, an
overwhelming majority of Germans revealed a fatal weakness in character. The German nation no longer possessed the strength of character necessary for clear thinking and succumbed to delusion. They
indulged their paranoia by believing that all their woes were the result of a secret wicked world conspiracy by the Jews; And they indulged their vanity by embracing the notion that they were the Master
Race and the natural rulers of the world. Ideas which they repeated to each other in conversation until they became inspirations for German institutions - the National Socialist regime (1933-1945). The
insensible consequence being the Holocaust and World War II.
My analysis
I believe that many of our lawmakers are truly out of touch with blue collar America. Sense most of our politicians and
justices have never been truly exposed (lived it) to glean a true perspective derived from living below poverty or near poverty lives. There is not much hope they will ever understand the fear and anger
within the heart of the elderly, disabled, impoverished and unfortunate of our communities. Furthermore many of the "healthy" working class people of America are out of touch with this
unfortunate minority and therefore have no real connection to the impending doom they face.
There is no outcry from most of our populace. If it were why would our lawmakers be inclined to make
such decisions with consequences that are so detrimental to our sick and afflicted? Sense our politicians now mostly cater to the shallow whims of the public outcry and our illustrious special interest
many of our politicians have no real convictions or ideologies concerning the value of life and live in their own a self made bubble. They have been insulated from this living experience by the silver
spoon. Since the greater majority of Americans are so-called healthy have and can afford so many" taken for granted" luxuries our legislatures and judicial body have digressed to the more
prevalent outcry of the publics preoccupation with finances and their own popularity and public positions.
Here in Tennessee and in America, health care concerns have become second fiddle to the
interest of the able body working class and to the foreboding lobbyist who kiss our legislatures feet and present them with shady deals that compromise the foundations of our country's ethics.
Point and case is the declining interest concerning the life threatening situations and the proposed denial of health care her in Tennessee that inevitably present short and long term irreversible health problems and in many cases leads to slow premature death.
If the sources of the documentary 323,000 are true then I believe many legislatures here in the State of Tennessee was hiding the facts behind a political agenda. Basically I believe they are
drafting the sick, afflicted and uninsurable to make a political point. Some folks will not only suffer but give their lives to make this political statement. Whether it is for the good of all or not I
believe the life of one person should never be compromised to make that statement, unless it is self sacrifice that is the petitioner. The non-insured in Tennessee have been chosen to play the fall guy
for some greater cause. I also believe some of our lawmakers and politicians have committed perjury, and the courts decision should be nullified concerning the TennCare cuts.
Most of our
politicians have in their lifetime a living experience far removed from most of our states populace who are that minority of impoverished people who are unable to get or afford health insurance. Coming
in a close second is the healthy working class of our society who is uninformed and cares less about the situation this minority now faces. Have we forgotten the value and respect for life, and in its
place embraced being prosperous and running the finances of the country above all else? It's is an insult to the moral responsibility we as Americans should possess. I believe we are becoming "sick
in mind" as a nation because of this shallow interpretation of values.
Where is the detachment from the popularity of the "people's choice" and where is the basic moral
responsibility that should be intrinsic in our governing bodies? We are becoming indifferent and unresponsive to the needs of our elderly, disabled and underprivileged in this country. I believe we are
being corrupted and the admiration and true regard for personal life has gone by and by along with neighborly love and the not so long ago barn raising days. We have become a people who put too much
stock in intellectual abilities and not enough stock in common sense. We are accepting political strategies, judicial and legislative conduct along with laws that containing less and less moral and
humanitarian perspective.
I was once one of the so-called "healthy working class" people who did not respect life and humanity as I do now. I thought I did, but I had not yet
experienced the devastation of illness and disability and I had not yet become an individual who was at the mercy of this rich society.
I had no concerns for "those" people and have heard and participated in discussions that contained sentiments of "trashing the trash" of our country. It seems now even more insensitivity exists because our legislatures and judges are still grinding the ax. Now as I experience some of these horrible scenarios I am shamed by that ideology. Now I know different and I am a different man for it. I have exchanged that life for a deeper understanding of the value of any mans rights and his rights to life.
I have come to conclusion there should be a prerequisite in place for our legislatures and judges to have been impoverished or have had living experience within the lower classes environment to
the point of recognizing the true value of living and life. It is without a doubt just that perspective living experience that has opened my eyes and understanding just how fortunate I was living a
healthy meager life. I had been taken life for granted as I was ignorant of the facts.
It is and should ever remain a privilege to be in a position to be a humble servant to "all"
people of America including the "undesirables" who live across the tracks. Our lawmakers should possess the wisdom from the perspective that accumulates from that deep personal living
experience that signifies humility and evokes the desire to promote equities to any mans life no matter his material, physical and mental condition..
I know that our forefathers' former experience
is the reason this country's original declaration was drawn up the way it was. This country's forefathers were not so far removed from inequities and the tyrannical laws that Europe had imposed upon
them. I believe we here in America are facing some of these same problems and these pork belly provisions have been guised as constitutionally right and morally OK as the underprivileged continue to
suffer.
Our constitution continues to be amended to this point and interpreted in such a skewed view. Being insulated from poverty and not having that full living experience as a sounding
board for a contrasting view our law makers and our own decisions are defective. We continue to believe and elect and appoint these kinds of people to fill those cherished positions. We are fooled into
believing in these intellectual folks who are void in the living concept of humanitarian values. They believe because of their education they possess the ability to make rational decisions about these
issues. In reality they themselves are fooled and blind to that deeper interpretation of humanity and even more so after many years in office our re-elected officials become comfortable and desensitized
to many of the issues concerning inequities or blinded by the politically correctness ushered in hush hush environment of or legislation, also no so far the past.
RE:'Winning the Cultural War'
> Charlton Heston's Speech to the Harvard Law School Forum
> Feb 16, 1999
We believe these people are what are needed or we conclude we have no choice but to elect them, which is somewhat
true in the short term. Most don't vote at all feeling powerless or comfortable enough with the way things are going. Our Politicians are now "good looking" public figures whose lives are
driven by the desire to be elected and re-elected with more time and emphasis spent on the science of politics. Out of this comes educated guessing, politically driven legislation and
basic moral insensitivity that fall far below law and justice for "all". These educated jesters will never surpass personal experience and will never be exceeded by any amount of education.
Even as painful as the experience and as harsh as this new life has been for me it has opened my eyes to a new love for the origins of the American culture and the conceptions of humanity and
moral responsibility. It is from this living event my appraisal of life has changed. It has become this principal value I can not and will not trade. I have gone through that time in my life never to
return the same. I have awakened to a new perspective that I will forever stand up and fight for the rest of my renewed life. Making an effort to help someone is the essence of an altruistic life. God
help us all.
One of "We The People"
R*** Rin***
White Bluff. Tn 37187
<tel # removed> Return to Your Letters
|
