Self-evident
It’s November 22, 2017, and the time has flown since my last writing. The
task, if it could be properly termed one, was described previously as
unplanned but certain. Certainty arises from words that are expressive of
truth that is not of my making, as that would be belief. The certainty to
which I refer is expressed in the words of the Declaration of Independence
where it states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” Self-evident, not
requiring the provision of any evidence, indeed, it is not permitting of any
demand for evidence of its truth. How they knew to say those words all those
years ago has to be assumed to have been an inspiration from some universal
source, named right after them “our Creator.” Those words provide the basis
for the entire development, the fundamentals of the new secular order that
they announced to the world.
Today, those words are greatly ignored in favor of the words that follow
them, which are “that all men are created equal.” This phrase has been
grossly mistaken for a statement of legal and worldly equality. They sprang,
instead, from the requirement to announce that from that time on there would
be not acknowledgment of the divine rights of kings, popes, or any other
human, such as had until then claimed for themselves. The king in Britain
was one such person claiming divine rights and placing himself and his
authority above all other mortals as a result. The Declaration dismisses this
claim of his with the words “all men are created equal,” even kings and
princes and popes not excepted. If they were not stated in it, the claimed
rights of the king of Britain would not have been summarily dismissed, yet
they do more than just put his authority out of reach in any former colonies,
which were then declared to be newly established independent, sovereign
states. They put the world on notice, for the first time in human history, that
the rights endowed by “our Creator” are beyond the scope and authority of
human alienation, infringement, or abridgement.
This was the beginning of an entirely new epoch in human history, one that
began supposedly with the caveman and the barbaric ruler ship by the
strongest man in the group. It progressed into tribalism, and then it
developed into kingdoms ruled by family heritance. The authority of the
caveman to rule over his family and clannish group was based entirely on
human acceptance for the sake of survival. It had no greater basis than
strength and the force of temperament of the leader to keep the clan out of
trouble. If he did not do so, he was replaced, and often it was his son who
took over from him by force. This practice resulted in kings being killed by
their sons, and as a result the followers were afraid to object. A small group
of men controlled the thoughts and beliefs of their kingdom’s subjects.
Thus, when ascending to the top of the preposterous assumption of the right
to dictate, the “divine right of kings,” they had made themselves an equal
with “our Creator,” but with no conscience and no consent given to their
assuming that station. Dictators all through history have used fear to control
and suppress dissent among those in their control, and when getting old or
no longer as effective, they go the way of the caveman whose son killed him
for being incompetent, whether he was or not.
This leads back to my former writing in which I outlined the reasons, as
described by David Hume in his A Treatise of Human Nature in Chapter 4,
for a small group of men to control the much larger number of other men. He
said the following words about the cause of this human condition:
“A master is such-a-one as by his situation, arising either from force
or agreement, has a power of directing in certain particulars the
actions of another, whom we call servant. . . . When a person is
possess'd of any power, there is no more required to convert it into
action, but the exertion of the will; and that in every case is considered
as possible, and in many as probable; especially in the case of
authority, where the obedience of the subject is a pleasure and
advantage to the superior.”i
Specifically stated by Hume were the characteristics that allowed the tyranny
of the few to survive, as it has. He wrote the following impression in another
of his writings previously cited in Chapter 4, titled, “On the First Principles
of Government.”
"Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human
affairs with a philosophical eye than the easiness with which the many
are governed by the few; and the implicit submission with which men
resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.
When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall
find, that, as FORCE is always on the side of the governed, the
governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore,
on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends
to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the
most free and most popular."ii
Returning to the Declaration’s statement that all men are created equal, such
was stated in direct defiance of the impressions that Hume had described as
based solely in public opinion. From the time of that declaration of selfevident
truth, public opinion shifted to an understanding that kings and
popes are men and die just as all mortals do. They are not above, nor the
providers of, any other human’s inalienable rights to life liberty and their
pursuit of happiness.
Thus, though the war that ensued as a result of that Declaration of
Independence has been thought to be correctly termed as the American
Revolution, and though it was not in the strict legal sense a revolution to take
over the government of Great Britain, but rather a war of secession, it was a
revolution against all forms of tyranny by kings, popes, presidents, judges,
legislators, and any other human assuming the right of dictatorship based
solely upon public opinion.
It was a revolution of the highest order, and public opinion has yet to
perceive the impression that it should have gotten from it as a result. That is
the reason for this new perception to be expressed here, that public
impressions, which create public opinions world wide, might become aware
of the new secular order that began in America in 1776. Though it was
applicable at the time to the new nation they were forming, the principles
defied the history of all nations that had any other form of governance.
Those who traveled to the new country, The United States of America as it
was named in the Articles of Confederation, did not understand this
difference sufficiently. They sensed a new form of freedom from serfdom,
kingly and dictatorial impositions, and religious restrictions upon their rights
of conscience. Yet they did not perceive the depth and breadth of the change
that had caused that new sense of freedom. They did not understand that the
new nation was not just one, but many nations joining together under the
principles stated in the original Declaration of Independence. Public opinion
has never been less informed than it is today. As a result, the ideas that they
arrived with to escape their own countries’ tyranny they brought with them
and assumed them to be still applicable in the USA.
It is due time for the curtain to be lifted on the world’s delusions about the
real basis for freedom for everyone everywhere. There is a new secular order
already in place that has been ignored for all those years. Those who want to
retain or gain more control over this free nation have used subversion and
deception to keep the awareness in their control. They have introduced the
idea that a new world order needs to be implemented, when in fact it has
already been announced and implemented to a limited degree. Thieves will
pretend to be friends, and when no one is looking take your most valued
possessions away while telling you they got misplaced somehow. The
freedom of the secular order that is now almost 250 years old defies their
plans to influence public opinion using the very terms that were originally
used, such as new secular order. If they can steal the essence and replace it
with false ideas that public opinion will not necessarily accept if they see the
truth, they will have taken the impression away using the words
nevertheless.
That is what has happened since about 100 years ago when the immigration
from Europe increased due to the prosperity and liberty to pursue your own
happiness having gotten well known. No one can blame them for wanting to
be part of it. But everyone who came with the idea of destroying the greatest
opportunities for all by taking control using false doctrines and deceptive
persuasions are not to be pardoned for such inhumanity. They are the
promoters of their own agendas and their own selfish control using public
opinion, just as the kings, popes, and presidents have done elsewhere
forever.
On the positive side of this apparently extreme difficulty, time will abide.
Progress is made on square wheels, and when the masses pull them up
finally onto one of their corners, the continuation of time’s ways will pull
them over onto the last part of the procession pulling below. That is how
things progress in time, and now the wheels are on their corners and ready to
fall on those at the rear of civilized progress least aware of the danger.
Those who think that the wheels are theirs to control, just as they believe
everything is, are not among the real leaders into the future for man. They
are just in the rear of the crowd using their whips and chains of utter
falsehood to urge the masses’ public opinions on to their own demise, and
they think it is all for the good of their planned takeover and dictatorship of
the world. When the wheels finally fall this time, their tribal consciousness
will be completely dismissed along with the divine right of kings. A clean
sweep will result, and principles will prevail once more.
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References:
i David Hume, A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE, Being An Attempt to
introduce the experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects,
BOOK 1: OF THE UNDERSTANDING, 1739-40, found at
<http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/hume/treatise1.html>
ii David Hume, On the First Principles of Government, found at
<http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/hume/firstpri.hme>
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