As I watch this new Congress, a Democratic majority Congress with yet another meaningless pledge of bipartisanship in a political reality that has metastasized in malevolent intent, one of making the other party look even more malevolent; I have to wonder, what can anyone do to improve conditions around the world as we together with the rest of the world face an ever more daunting future regardless of the cancerous plagues inherent to our political system in Washington D.C. and in every other capitol around the world, especially now as the same apparent disease is no less manifesting itself in the United Nations.
In The Great Dark in which we live, the pot calls the kettle, black!
All too obviously there is no political solution to any problem, and regardless of all the extemporaneous emphasis upon politics, human rights and human dignity, what we are about is not reflected in our political institutions any more than it is reflected in organized religion or our institutionalized educational systems. It is becoming increasingly clear, the organizations of humans always devolve consistently into the utter debasement of the ideals we wish them to express about our goals, our selves, and our moral aspirations. Where do they lead us? Straight to Hell. We stand today before the very Gates of a Hell wrought with our vain gullibility!
We must return to basics. And in our human existence, returning to the basics, means returning to the self. I ask you to consider Walter Cronkite, who was no saint, but who is some embodiment of the most trusted man in the U.S. It was not that Cronkite worked for a television station news organization that instilled this trust, as there were plenty of his peers who did not match Cronkite. It was not that we saw his face for so many years when we were younger, as again, we saw plenty of faces, some for much longer on the television screen. It was not that he was politically active, or a magnate in industry, because he simply was neither of these. It was that he shared what it was that he knew for the benefit of all.
With a President who inspires nothing of what Walter Cronkite inspired in us, and with the legacy he has given us, one we will not quickly overcome, and in spite of the clearly better nature of our better selves that provides to us our own self-assurance, we cannot let slip by the historic opportunity to make the world a better place in the future. Philosophically, we have made greater strides already in this new century than we have made in many of the previous millennium. The moral imperative of life is rising from the ashes of our great imperilment like the Phoenix of the soul of our humanity.
The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.
The moral imperative of life I was lucky enough to find for us all, gives us a new focus not on ourselves, but on the future. We can at last view the world through a clear and unselfish moral lens. It is the civilized world we see through that lens. It is not about us at all. We have already been the recipients of the greatest of gifts, the greatest bounty in the Universe, our human life. We cannot ask for more. And yet through luck we have been given more. We have been given to civilization for the first time in the 21st Century, for we now know, morality is measured by the future we will bequeath as our legacy. It is an inspiring measure of the nearly immeasurable worth of life.
Clearly, we do not want to leave a political future as our legacy for the future. Politics and politicians must be accorded no more importance in the future than any other service industry, lest we leave a legacy of what we have reaped through our own vile obsession with the political. Politicians can no longer claim any moral high ground, for they have failed us there. The great political quest is over, and we have succeeded in finding the answer. Politics must be given its service industry due, and nothing more.
Was it not a conscientious citizen philosopher who gave us the moral imperative of life? Yes, and I humbly note for you, I am no genius. I am nothing more than an old man well into his last chapter, one with no other accolades or accomplishments that can be listed prominently beside my name. It was merely my great fortune to realize the moral imperative of life. Erect no monuments in my name, say no prayers and call me nothing more than a simple philosopher. There are those who will honor me by calling me less. It is a great honor for which I need not strive to be worthy. Life alone is the only reward I cherish. I only hope to be worthy of mine.
Politicians should be accorded no more moral sense than an economist, a geographer or a road crew building a highway. Politicians simply cannot and should not be trusted with moral decisions any more than they can be trusted with decisions made about religion. History has proved well enough, they cannot be relied upon for moral guidance, or to plot a moral course of action for the future. We might just as well ask an undertaker, a notary public, or a butcher as we might ask the commissioner of the state lottery, or the Undersecretary of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for moral guidance. The morality of government is an utterly obscene farce. The latest of a long list of vile presidents has proved that forever, and the current Congress is already hiding for cover as they continue in their historically emblazoned ignominious way.
So, we, have, run morally aground with our era-long Rights of Man political intrigue. It has all been a wash, and worse, a washout. The world is no better, and actually is now much worse, despite millenium trying to secure our rights, our freedoms and, our liberties. The elusiveness of these goals seems ever insured as long as we entrust moral decisions to those in political office. Their interests are clear. They seek enough prosperity and growth that they may continue to stuff their pockets full to ensure their own rights as tyrants and despots, exactly what the futile focus upon the Rights of Man was meant to overcome.
Politicians have proved to us all too well, all are not created equal. The prosperity and growth every political gang of hooligans has always heralded as their government's legacy seems ever to come on the heels of even greater calamity, an even more perverse measurement, and an ever more audacious debasement of the very ideologies that keep them afloat in mid-air, as if like gods or, winged harpies? If you have ever visited any government official, you know it is more like the latter. You want to wash, but when you try, it seems not to wash off.
Hatred of politicians is becoming so thorough there is open talk of guillotines and political assassination among the commonest of our citizenry today. We face ruin out there upon the battlefield of the moral front. There will be no supreme recovery of the moral health of our political leaders. This is but implacable human nature we see everywhere when men are faced with the temptations of political power. These politicians have not been caught with just their hands in the pot, they have repeatedly been caught naked atop a bound, gagged, beaten, half-strangled, moaning, deflowered, ravaged and dying Lady Liberty. Her limbs are broken, bleeding, gouged, and one foot and an arm are twisted into wholly impossible positions. Half her teeth have been knocked out, and she shows every sign of an infliction of many social diseases from which she cannot and, wants not, to recover. The pole of Iraqi liberation has been liberally crammed so horribly into her, her rectum is torn into her vagina. Blood and mucous oozes from a hole in her face that is possibly her nose or an eye-socket, and both of her nipples have apparently been gnawed off. Lady Liberty's life has been taken from her in this latest of many rapes and brutally sadistic mutilations. She has lost all will to live, and we should respect her wishes. Would we prop her up again so she might be raped and beaten one more time before she finally succumbs from her horrible an inhuman ordeal? No.
The promise of this nation has become a crude and hideous lie, one now sold to illegal immigrants, if they will only work the hours under obscene conditions, for the wages that are offered, even if never paid, and if they'll send their sons and daughters off to fight in genocidal foreign wars for the oligarchy of oil. This is America? How long will it be before these illegals are asked to fight and subdue us here in our own country as well? How long? Forever long, if I have my way. And philosophers do get their way, if they are able philosophers. Philosophy is irresistible.
We must rely upon our own sense of moral right to accomplish anything in this world.
Joe McLaster, the New Jersey bookseller is probably right. I am dangerous. But I am dangerous, not as a man for I am no one, just a writer of philosophy. If I am dangerous, it is for the words write and for the truths I can only hint at. I speak not to embolden armies, nor to inspire a coup. I speak to all of you to awaken you before I leave this earth or after, that you may make of it a better more lasting place for the world in the future. We all have had enough of our fun, and now we must put ourselves to work making the world the better place it can be for all those who will follow us here. They deserve no less, and we owe nothing less to them either. The debt shall be paid in our effort or by our blood extracted to the last drop by the Great Dark that now just begins to consume us in earnest. The worth of our time will be measured by what we leave for the world of the future. How would you like to be remembered?
Cogito, ergo sum. Latin: "I think, therefore I am." This is a great philosophical statement of Ren� Descartes that rightly became the foundational element of all Western philosophy. It is indeed profound that our entire universe, as vast as it has been discovered to be since Descartes, as vast as it has always been, that it all individually exists for us only in our own minds. Is not life grand? Is not humanity grand? What bounty we have been so lucky to inherit from our generous past! What an amazing gift it has all been! Who among us has the moral right to end it for those who would come into this world after we are gone? Who among us has the moral right to shut that door, the door that opens to life? No one has that right. No one even has the moral right to debase the experience of it by one iota. No one even has the right to gamble it, if the wager is life in the future! It is the most vilest of immoralities our society tempts by what the politicians and the economists refer to as progress and growth. There is no progress, and there has been far too much growth.
That is the moral imperative of life. It is nothing more. It is nothing less. The philosophical barrier of the cogito has thus been broken, and build upon it we shall. It is now clear the only progress will be to tear down all we have built in the name of life, liberty and our pursuit of happiness, for it has become death, enslavement, and utter misery as the grim reaper now summons all humanity at once.
It has been 350 years since Descartes died. Philosophy has wallowed in self-pity, self-contempt and denial ever since. Some would have made of it a vile science, another religion, an animism of the animystics that believes science is guided by some kind and gentle hand from on high. Is it?
I ask you to look around. Has science been guided by any more kind and gentle hand than has any other religious belief? If we count our great luck thus far that science has not already killed, maimed and mutilated us all, we can say, yes, science is guided by Zeus, or Apollo, or some other god... But when we look at the now ever present dangers science has created, the threat of shutting the door to all humanity once and for all, we intuitively know better.
Science is nothing but a modern religion, one more like witchcraft, for it has not benefited the future of humankind. It has merely given to us all the shiny objects of profitable invention, endless piles of waste, and, technologies whose sole endeavors are to gamble the future of humanity for the vainglory of the scientific and the debasement of our humanity. Yes, science is full of wonder to our easily charmed minds. It is also as dangerous as any religion's devil too.
Science has become the thrilling, compelling and dangerous opiate of the masses. It is manifest in a great cathedral of horrific decadence.
Despite the broad incompetence of the politics of democracies, the emotions of the people and their better instincts are morally intact. We know not to trust science. We know not to trust our governments. And while we have sunk beneath the waves of perverted and sinister science and almost impossibly corrupt governments, we shall again arise above these angry waves in a new Age of Redemption.
If we do not, there is no other choice than to surrender to an enslavement to this inhuman and suicidal hideousness. Science shall not remain as it is, a means to gamble the future and enslave us. Science shall be harnessed and forged into a considerate methodological inspective approach for us to morally measure our impact upon the future, both positive and negative. Subservient to philosophy the politics of democracies shall become a service industry geared toward these moral ends for which it has always been intended, service for the moral free will of humanity.
It is life so bountiful that is at stake in the future if we do not act by speaking authoritatively, with firmness, sureness and with moral right to enforce what is being said here, and what will continue to be said in the future as our philosophic gain expands. Philosophy does not wage war. It conquers all without the need of war.
Riled and rightly infuriated by an illegal and immoral war, the American people voted for its end. The new Congress wheedles with lobby reforms, new chairmanships and subcommittee chairmanships to embellish their vile lies. The war shall end, and the Congress shall undertake to carry out the moral will of the people. They should not for one moment think they will stop with ending this war. Philosophy is not going to go away. It will continue to conquer. It is going to rule. Philosophy is here to stay. Philosophy is more powerful than any iron fist ruler. Philosophy is more powerful than any mechanized army or political organization of brown shirts or blue. The only way to stop philosophy is to destroy the world and end all humanity, and, barring that end which none but fools shall beckon, philosophy shall rule the world.
The Congress need do nothing, for it does that best. By this end, it may chose to dissolve itself, as the executive has dissolved itself, and as the judiciary has long since dissolved itself, all of them into irrelevance?
Perhaps it is best, so that able servants can replace these miscreants who like those in the executive are best given to indictment, prosecution and execution for their crimes. This seems the only just punishment for sending the young off to fight in an illegal and hideous war of genocide in a far away nation that threatens us not!
The American people are a diverse people. We have too many friends in every country around the world to allow any of them to be murdered, as are our friends in Iraq, without demanding prosecution for such a crime. This is what is morally important, not for those who have died, but so that the precedent is not given to the future to follow. This is what will be done. These mass murderers shall die exactly as did Saddam. And we will televise it for the world to see we are doing our moral duty.
And, philosophy will not stop there. Here in our own country, politicians have licensed, permitted and profited from industries that are running morally amuck.
The medical industry, that daily infects countless more worldwide with deadly diseases their immoral processes and practices have evolved, and, the medical industry that prescribes addictive, dangerous and suicidal drugs to even the youngest of our youth; the pharmaceutical industry, that daily profits from addictive drugs cast upon the licit and illicit markets of the world in a frenzy of addiction economy profiteering; the financial industry that daily further enslaves the poor, the middle class and the aspiring students of the world; the manufacturing industry, that pays its engineers to produce for market inferior products designed with engineered obsolescence and dangerously poisonous components and poisonously pollutant processes; the educational industry, that has intentionally confused education with enrollment, tuition and study for certification's sake with real education; the arms and aviation industries that pollutes our planet beyond habitation and endangers all life on the planet; and the soft drink manufacturers; the fast food manufacturers... Oh, the list goes on and on.
I need not go on. All of these and more will cease, be reorganized, and the culprits shall face prosecution and a quick summary execution. And as such are now televised by the precedent given to us by the execution of Hussein, we should follow that example meticulously to establish what happens to those who do not hold up their end of the moral bargain of life.
And the people themselves shall be given again unto their own lessons in morality. To begin to rid the planet of its excess human population that presses down upon the all life like so many excrementing dogs and rats, the people shall cease to have any more than one child per couple. Neither men or women shall have intimate relations with anyone other than their mate, and no one shall take any mate more than a few years younger or older than themselves so we can end the vicious cycle passing venereal disease from one generation to the next. HIV/AIDS and all the others will be nothing to cure with this approach, billions need not be spent upon it, and the dangerous and life-threatening technologies of the medical profession need not be expanded. And they will not be expanded but contracted to legitimate medicine that does not provide for us ever more disease. The people shall have to learn to be thankful as well as respectful of the life they have been given, and, they shall have to learn to live cautiously and die gracefully.
And, those Americans who are alive, prosperous and capable, they can expend their energies helping those in need of help around the world, those who need to know the importance of the moral imperative of life. They can teach them of the need for strict moral codes, for birth control to decrease the world's population, and for gracious acceptance of the great bounties of life without asking for more than the planet can provide.
And finally all science shall cease, except that, what has been learned shall be carefully categorized and stored in libraries for study, but neither experimentation nor implementation shall ensue until such time as there are those who can use this information with moral responsibility. No scientist today has a clear sense of the moral responsibility of science. They all claim in a vile deceit to be amoral! The storage of scientific knowledge therefore, may be for a relatively short time, and it may be forever. All this will depend upon the moral progress of humans, and how much better and more secure we can make life for those in the future.
The coinage and the printing of money too shall cease too, for it is the invention of money that caused the very first uncontrollable population explosion. Farmers shall plant their crops. And everyone will plant a Redemption Garden if they want to eat. All money shall cease to have value, just like the faces of the politicians printed and stamped upon money.
Now, you can all say it just like the bookseller. The American Philosopher is crazy. But philosophy is irresistible. But the American Philosopher is crazy! But philosophy is irresistible!
Count your blessings. For conquering philosophies do not pitch battle against the enemies of mankind. They let them dissolve themselves just as if they never existed at all, just like all these vile politicians will today. Just like Saddam who has now been dissolved will all these others too. Hanging them is merely the final instance of their much more sure dissolution that has already begun. It is moral and just, says the American Philosopher who has given the world the moral imperative of life. A good deal of hanging is just what is called for to help redeem the world. Hang them until no one ever again wants to see anyone be hanged, jerking in their death throes until they are still and dead. We should get it out of our systems soon enough.
It is my great honor to be now being universally seen as crazy by this insane world. Nothing is more befitting the American Philosopher who most joyously submits to the entire world the moral imperative of life so that the world may now be conquered by civilization and leaves all these political barbarisms in the past. The Great Dark is brightening. In coming to an end, and I have been greatly honored to play my small and insane part as a philosopher pointing the path toward truth.
Life, is good! All else only bears the illusion of goodness.
Don Robertson, The American Philosopher
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