The Phoenix Sunrise

Throughout our lives, we are motivated by emotions. Those emotions, when evoked strongly enough will override any and all sense of reason. This is so apparent that the great philosophers who laid out the rules of logic, thousands of years ago, found that such an appeal to emotion was contradictory to those rules.

The very men who founded this country, and fought in our Revolutionary War, were “freedom fighters.” They were fighting to rid themselves of a system of government which did not, in their opinion, represent their interests in the way they thought a government should. They found that government to be unfair, tyrannical, oppressive. In fact, they found it so much so, that they were willing to take up arms against their brethren, and kill them or die themselves to achieve the necessary change… to get out from under the thumb of a king and an empire.

I have no doubt that in that time, the king of England found necessary to influence the men in uniform, fighting against American revolutionaries, to view them as subversives. They challenged the crown and mother England and, possibly even God. These men had to be vilified. If your enemy is human, you will show mercy and compassion. That would be unacceptable. That’s not how wars are fought and won. That’s not how those in power keep their power.

Those in power stay in power by creating an atmosphere of fear. We can recognize this throughout our own tiny American history. It has been employed by many powers around the world, and probably started when people started to socialize. In despotic totalitarian dictatorships, you have armed guards harassing people, killing people in public with little or no reason. In more “democratic” states, where the people do have some influence over government, the Hegelian Dialectic is often used, whereby a problem is created to induce a specific reaction and a solution is offered, making those offering the solution appear to be “saviors” of sorts. Imagine for a moment that to keep a people docile, you just needed to present the people with a problem. That problem would make them fear. You relieve them of that fear and they will revere you.

How difficult would it be to manufacture fear?

Terrorized by “War on Terror’

Have a look at this…

You know, people speculate as to why criminals break the law.  I have broken the law.  I am not a all ashamed or remorseful of having done so.  If “the law” runs in direct contradiction to my moral code, I will break the law to preserve that code if necessary.  Take that a step further.  If the law requires that I live in a state of tyranny, of martial law, I will resist.  If the law requires that I relinquish my arms, I will resist.  I will not bend those laws, or blur their lines, I will flat out shatter them.

 In all reality that is no different from who most people would call criminals.  They break the law because there is allowance for the breaking of laws in their moral code.  Be that selling drugs to feed their families, or stealing cars for the rush of adrenaline, the principal is similar.  All it takes is the right circumstance for us to become criminals ourselves.  We are no different.

 This is just a tiny little rant at the moment, I’m sure it will grow with time.

 Thanks,

LP

Hello and welcome to my new home on the internet.  Those of you who have been here through the oodles and oodles of reincarnations of TPS, welcome back.  To those of you who’ve not ever been here before, thanks for helping me reinvent myself, yet again.

Sit back and hold on, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!