the big question facing American civilization is the one answered rather poorly by the great English civilization, are we going to make the same blunders or, are we going to get it right this time, that is the question - the way how the "empire of liberty" works is people join our union of their own free will because they see the superior benefits of the liberal way - where people are oppressed by states our duty is to open our doors, and for people of goodwill everywhere to open their doors and defend the rights of humans to desert their state, doesn't the UN recognize the human right to move about the earth and change nationality?
Pan-Africans for example are determined to offer a right of repatriation to the oppressed blacks of India, which I deeply appreciate, of course, but this is broader and covers any oppressed person anywhere - we must ask China to let Liu Xiabao and his family leave if they so desire, this is the moral stand consistent with Liberty, we must keep our doors open for Liu Xiabao, Dr. Binayak, whoever it is tomorrow, indeed our orgs should correspond with them accordingly
if the people wish to join the American union and are being prevented by state coercion and violence, THEN we have a just cause to use force in their defense, then it is indeed a liberatory exercise because the will of the proto-american people to join the union is served, no imperial transfer of wealth results, no prolonged occupation of the land by the liberating army is needed - another state is added to the Union, simple!
under the consummately elegant federalism gifted by the founding fathers, all of the civilizations of the world would gravitate to the liberal way, driven by the common human desire for prosperity and peace, while retaining all of the uniqueness of their spiritual and cultural heritage consistent with liberal humanism - if you look into it you will find that no civilization presents a contradiction to liberal humanism, none, only imperial ideologies and tithing ecclesiasties do! isn't that the whole point established by King Solomon? isn't that why he is today a worldwide synonym for wisdom? what had caused King David's armed uprising in the first place?
the way I have hypothetically reconstructed the sequence of events based upon the simultaneous co-existence of anachronistic ways of life in my ancestral land of India is this: a spontaneous centering of social life took place around the wise and the spiritually evolved, as people began to achieve complex division of labor resulting in the pursuit of those refinements we speak of as civilization - at some point, quite possibly as a result of the experience of famine caused by natural causes or, government intervention as in Egypt, the people decided to create a "central bank" of food grains and possibly other economic essentials, the most logical place for locating this being the same spiritual centers where the people spontaneously organized their leisure time for the sake of companionship with the wise, as well as to enjoy the refinements of civilization like fine music and dance and poetry and drama and so on - this accumulation of superhuman wealth in a single location, especially one with no historical need for having a military defense, then became the first target of sufficient size to make the exercise of organized crime economically viable, for the capture of the "central bank" would immediately render into the hands of the criminals the power to effectively decide the destiny of the people whose reserve it was, provided they were able to maintain the threat of violence - this tragic struggle between civilization and state (that Marx so idiotically called "class struggle"!), and the African origin of the "free market" idea are the things I would really enjoy writing a book about when my other responsibilities permit
ReplyDeleteRastafari is my 'god' if you like, Dr. Ambedkar and Leonard Howell are my 'gurus' if you like, the Mahabharata and the KJV Bible are my most beloved books, Dr. Rao and Frank Kermode, Mises and Rothbard... the entire voice of the liberal humanist tradition, which is the voice of civilization in the english language... I say very little that is new, very, very little
prosperity and peace are the basic requirements for "the pursuit of happiness" - I don't believe there exists any equal constitutive or declarative idea put forward by any nation of the world as "the pursuit of happiness" - I would be happy to be relieved of my ignorance if that be the case
ReplyDeleteLudwig von Mises, an Austrian jew, came to these US of A, and learned english in mid-life to communicate to the world - what does that tell you? Rothbard, another jew, is SO New York I could not even begin to tell you... New York is a different planet, you know :)
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