Shifting StanceA Story by DM2088An enunciation of my prevailing political views. A construct of process, not a construct of edifice.
The appearance is first made in a splice of time; Now. A position
situated in the present; a present which is relative to the plane of eternity - Time. From a terrestrial viewpoint, the world He finds himself in is separated into vast conglomerations called nations. Nations occupy most of the habitable land on Earth, asundered into a myriad of geographical locations. Nations have a kind of conflated self-interest, ofttimes in direction proportion to their corresponding physical land mass. They are led by an oligarchy of individuals, usually of despotic nature. Hoi polloi is led by this hegemony of the few. Those who lead are 'Leaders' and those who follow 'Followers'. There are however also a disparate group of individuals who neither lead nor follow; they are anarchical and they believe the route to truth - to veracity in life must be wrought with mortal hands. The task of guidance is an individual responsibility. This three perspective forms the triune into which all can be categorized, and He adopts this latter stance. Nations construct armies, gargantuas of concentrated naked power. These monstrosities protect their nation-masters from the conflicting and encroaching interests of other nations. The nations call their interests sovereignty. He thinks sovereignty is just convenient rhetoric, a nifty sugarcoat to conceal committed atrocities. Sovereignty, He would elaborate is a construct - an euphemism - an alibi for those who cling to power to maintain the status quo. The status quo promises their continual existence. Without it, they lose their Raison d'être. He thinks this ideology propagated by nations pure moonshine and seeks in his lifetime to find an argument to refute it. The sovereignty of nations is a legal concept but He finds it illegitimate in lieu of the Absolute or God as the religious sees it. The concept of sovereignty is decided De Jure not De Facto and therefore cannot make such grand claims to divinity. The concept does not align itself with the Absolute and therefore can be and should be subjected to revision. By Absolute necessity, everything is given and presented to us in reality. However because everything in nature-reality is permissible, the onus is upon all to decide universally (to the extent it is humanly possible) accepted conventions and principles to guide our lives. He thinks that value judgments must be arrived by moral discretion and the two-pronged forces of intelligence and love. Decisions must be forged through a tenuous journey of dialogue. Those decisions which have escaped the scrutiny of this funnel achieved at best a momentary happiness which crumbles under the yield of pressure. Decisions relying upon impatience also tend to lead to violence. The world however hungers for progress and when approaching problems are very so often, not cautious enough. The quality of problems issued by reality are usually volatile and intricate, and requires patience and the delicate approach of their practitioners. Greed - the insatiable lust for progress thus becomes counter-intuitive. Problems exacerbate and lead to more pressing problems. Also, He finds himself and the others impeded by other limits humans are subjected to. Reality is infinite and to grapple with it, He and the others are only adorned with a finite mind. The vantage point he finds himself on also presents another disadvantage. As components of a larger reality, He and the others find themselves solving problems from within the womb of reality. Truth - the holistic picture is accessible to the Absolute, but trapped in Absolute's antechamber, He and the others find themselves only entitled to a partial and limited truth. At best, He and the others must be contented to derive only at an approximation of the actual sum. © 2011 DM2088 |
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