by Seamus » Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:58 pm
I was with him, mostly, until he started praying to the impostor Jehovah. Not that Jehovah isn't one with all of us. He is, but he is being very persistently stubborn about elevating himself above his fellow-beings at this time.
It wasn't just who he was praying to that bothered me, however. It was the deeply Religious (read: tritely self-righteous) way in which he prayed.
Then it hit me: he's talking about wresting back every man's sovereignty from the Fiction and then turning that same hard-won sovereignty over to a properly-elected group of representatives. I know full well that every man who trusts in man is cursed, so ultimately any attempt at a hardcore Republic will be destined to fail, no matter how well-meaning the founders may be. Under divine Law (the only law which has substance) each man is responsible for his own experience. It is a lie to say that I will, or am able to, dispatch the duties that only belong to you. Freedom without vigilance will ever be short-lived. We are meant to wake up in this dream, and foisting our individual responsibility upon a group of elected officials is both lazy and dishonest.
Other than that it was great! It will get people thinking, and that is needed even more than having the right framework.
"Who is it that never let you down? Who is it that gave you back your crown?" -Björk