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1: Blueprint: 2016-2020
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Current historians may love him, yet history will not be kind to the man it will label as the "Lance Armstrong of Presidents."
We the People who did not elect him, yet were burdened with his 8 years of lawlessness, have much ground to cover in restoring Reagan's America and the freedoms our forefathers took for granted.
We've published over 60 issues and some 190 articles since September 2013! In our contrarian fashion, we are ending at the beginning: This January 2016, Perspectives will be retired with Issue 19 of Volume III, what you're reading now; to be redesigned, retooled and relaunched as a subscription-fee journal in mid-to-late 2016.
While our focus at STI Press remains developing and delivering resources to foster business intimacy, we are announcing a 40-month blueprint available by request, after a very productive Skype video conference with a UK film producer of commercials for global brands.
Whitecaps of the Waves
- Arlésienne: The story of L'Arlésienne concerns a woman who drives a man insane. Because the title character never appears in the play, Francophiles use Arlésienne to describe a person who is prominently absent from a place or a situation where they would be expected to show up.
For decades now, our country's prior disciplined success has allowed our current leaders to "phone in their speeches" rather than show up to do the hard work of parenting the country's next generation.
- Bear Baiting: George Will writes that we outlawed bear baiting not because it hurt the bear, but because it coarsened the human spirit. For the bodies social, civil and cultural to blossom most fruitfully, its vital that we speak with the voice of servant leaders. UN platitudes are at their core elitest - because they set up an unaccountable organization as an arbiter for things of which only its member states' citizens, not the states nor the UN itself, have capacity to deliver virtue.
The objective truths about the inherent dignity and worth of the human person cannot be altered (for good or ill), by a charter from an organization with such a checquered history as the UN. The concept of global governance is to be rejected out-of-hand without further consideration, because it begs the question Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who guards the guardians?).
No self-appointed elite can supersede those rights which the US Constitution – and all those around the world modeled on it – proclaim are endowed by Our Creator. National Sovereignty is equally important for tiny island states like Malta and superpowers like the United States. The idea of global governance is as equally mistaken as the idea that neutrality is equivalent to secularism.
For a specific court case that relates generally to the structural flaws of UN documents, see Lautsi v. Italy, as rendered by the EU Grand Chamber for Human Rights: http://time.eelhost.com/2011/09/grand-chamber-hits-a-home-run-for-families/ Most specifically Judge Ann Powers calls out how the lower court "confused secularism with neutrality."
Reading through many UN documents, there seems to be twin assumptions of secularism and atheism, which the European community most soundly rejected in their constitution vetting and in Lautsi v Italy. Here in the US, we had a unanimous (9-0) decision in favor of Hosana Tabor Congregation, mirroring the European Grand Chamber's upholding children's rights.
We are hard-wired for community and that community cannot violate the laws of physics (such as the sun rising in the East) anymore than it can violate the natural law of who we are as persons, created to serve and share in unity not imposed by a tyrant, but of a freely constituted body politic.
The UN fails the test of all three dimensions:
- It subverts the natural order of the family,
- It appropriates to an unaccountable, unelected body (itself), those rights which arise spontaneously from natural law (the laws of physics). To sum this up in a memorable phrase:
When culture encounters physics, physics wins.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness are not abrogated because this or that organization has decided that this mineral is good or bad, or this resource extraction is good or bad.
- The progressive policies most commonly advanced have yet to be shown to work in any culture, in any age, anywhere on this planet, without exception. Do the research: claims are not data!
The US national embarrassment that is the folly of healthcare.gov is all the evidence that any thinking person should need that repeating a myth (or in this case, an outright series of lies, driven by a political calculus), is no match for actually gathering field data and letting the answers fall where they may.
Compassionate Capitalism brooks no quarter with those wicked souls who grow rich off the slave labour of others. Two wildly different examples suffice to frame the discussion:
- ✠ Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations outlined the basics of a sound economy more than two centuries ago.
- ✠ The International Olympic Committee definitively established gender differences, irrespective of appearance when they mandated genetic testing of East German athletes to prove they were in fact female, because their regime had manipulated their bodies into a freakish example that just because we can do something doesn't validate that we should do something.
- Loss of the Sublime: We run into problems when we substitute the profane for the sublime. Not just political problems, not just social problems, not just economic problems, those are all symptoms, not causes.
- An example of applying common sense: In the near future, People can be 'air travel certified' like they get a drivers license, so the air travel community no longer does the inane safety instruction before each flight. An approach that expects air travelers to exercise common sense and drastically shames them when they do not, is the rule, mindset and milemarker of the industry. (See the original meaning | purpose of ostracism and the classic article by Rabbi Daniel Lapin, "In Praise of Shame", National Review, Vol XLVIII, No. 17, 25 Sept 1995, p. 87.)
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