Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Putting My Radical Bona Fides Out There

Thought Criminal:
Reality is what's real, it's what's important. The Trump crash is happening a bit faster than I anticipated and the most mentally deficient president in our history isn't going to learn what tariffs are and who pays them. He'll NEVER, EVER admit that he didn't know what he was talking about, like any spoiled rich asshole baby man like himself, he'll insist that he was right and everyone else is wrong. You know, like Bruno Ganz acted out when he was told Steiner's attack wasn't going to happen. Republicans and the 30 or so percent of Americans who voted for Trump have put the big, fat, stupid despot into power for the next four years and they are going to crash everything like when they put Coolidge and Hover in office. I hope and pray there is real and deep Constitutional change this time when the country turns to democrats, perhaps Democrats to save them, yet again. Only hopes and prayers aren't enough. We tried to save democracy with keeping the Constitution after the Civil War and slavery was abolished in its de jure form, after the Great Depression, after Jim Crow was temporarily overturned and it has never worked. We need to dump the presidential system with fixed terms and we need, more than anything to level billionaires out of existence. We need a whole new thing and this time it has to be based on equality, not libertarian notions of liberty. "Nature an nature's god" doesn't automatically right things if you just let them sort themselves out. You need rational judgement to carry out moral imperatives and equality is one of those, do to others what you would have them do to you needs to be the basis of the law, the economy and society.
I don’t disagree with the conclusion; I would just carry it a step further. Rational judgment is not enough (for one thing, it’s never well enough defined). What I would propose is, IMHO, “rational judgment;” but few would agree with me.

Do unto others is a good plan, but it comes after you restructure society (culture, expectations, what really is “right and wrong”), with this truly radical idea: the first shall be last, and the last first. The first of all should be last and servant of all.

Imagine the competition to achieve that goal. 🥅 

And you could call it the basileia tou theou. Or, as some have called it: heaven on earth.

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