It's weird you had that dream because I was just explaining this concept to my husband less than a week ago. How, if you get on the wrong side of the wrong person, they can and will find a law you break and just lie in wait for you to break it. Its completely absurd.
As to your second point, when people trust experts too much based on a piece of paper they may or may NOT have earned properly, I question those people's ability to think critically. Example: How many people have been misdiagnosed? How many people have died in hospital mistakes? How many people still have no diagnosis? I had to help do a research paper for a medical publication in assisting someone in getting their doctorate. I know the answer to that 2nd question. (Do yourself a favor and don't look) With that being said, every single one of the people involved in all 3 circumstances above are "experts" Enough said.
"Code law, by contrast, is 200 tons of feces dumped onto a beautiful meadow."
A few days ago I was just thinking about the impossibility of saving any of our modern Western states as it partly boils down to the ever expanding maze of bureaucracy, rules and laws. It's impossibly vast by design and realistically can't grow infinitely and survive. And because it's overly complicated, it's overly laborious to unwind or simplify or reform (that being said, I recently read about the state of Ohio reforming civil codes and regulations through sunset clauses expiring every five years, but they can do this because the laws and regulations of each agency are "only" a few hundred pages each).
My point being, if reform is impossible, maybe it's easier to hex the system by simply cheering it on into overdrive.
In either case, if anyone survives in 50 years time and writes about this era, I hope their analysis includes our unnecessarily complicated rules, regulations, laws, bureaucracy and the time we waste dealing with it.
That said, I do not want reform. Reform is temporary. Milei, even if he succeeds beyond anyone's wildest dreams, will be gone one day. And in a stupid "democracy," a socialist, statist, or jackass can just come right back in and undo it all.
So yes, I think overdrive and collapse are desirable at this point. But we must be ready with something better.
Your logic in the argument that ignorance of the law is justifiable seems quite sound to me and the best argument for a reduction of legislation across the board. You are absolutely correct in that we inevitably violate multiple laws on any given day most of which are long outdated but still punishable by law. But it’s always been about control and not freedoms!
To think that Congress has our best interests at heart is delusional at best. The vast majority of the members of the Both Houses of Congress are worth in excess of 5 million dollars putting them in the top 1%. They continually vilify themselves and promise to make the 1% pay their fair share yet always make sure to give themselves tax loopholes.
I have wondered why a lawyer has never tried what my dream-lawyer did. But doing so would call the whole validity of the system into question, so they're probably afraid of doing so and then waking up with a horse head in their bed the next day.
Precisely and it’s all based on precedent so by doing so would unravel all they have done to control us. Remember that the laws are proposed by lawyers, this legislation is argued over and passed by lawyers. If you are found in violation of said legislation you will be charged by a lawyer and have to hire a lawyer to defend yourself. It will be decided by a judge who is also a lawyer. They don’t want to send the real criminals to jail either because it keeps them all employed.
So True and pertinent Christopher! Many if not most laws should be in the garbage.
You always had Courage and I believe it often worked against you in this rotten system, but occasionally saved you and others, and surely propelled you forward to where you are today (on the cutting edge)!
"They", those in power do hate us as their actions prove. Not everyone but most.
I know a lot of good policemen but I have seen many videos when they obviously are totally ignorant of the law and arrest, often harshly, people for breaking non-existing laws and violate some of or all of 1st-2nd-3rd-4th-5th amendment rights which they seem entirely ignorant of.
We fought Exxon about a property we owned and the Law Governing our case was: THE SPILL ACT, Written by Exxon after the Exxon Valdez Disaster in Alaska! So the gross perpetrator wrote the law which made for NO JURY TRIAL and many other things in their favor! The Judge was Judge, Jury and Executioner. What an uphill battle. We were 1 of only 165 properties in NJ to get to trail. The rest died, went bankrupt, etc. Took decades and tons of $$$ but we "won". If that was winning I can't imagine losing.
So true. Officers are required to take an oath to support the constitution yet obviously don't have the slightest idea what it says in many cases. Failure by them to comply with their sworn oath should be cause for immediate dismissal, or at least thorough retraining without pay, but I've never seen it happen. Therefore it is rendered meaningless. The winning party should not be required to pay the costs of a prosecution that has proved to be incorrect and it should fall on the complaining party. Not only would there be a lot less questionable cases overloading the courts, but much more fair and just to the falsely accused.
So True Hat. I have found that the system is set-up to squeeze the most emotional energy (I believe the monsters utilize and "drink" this energy {Vampires}) and money out of as many of those involved as possible. This world is set up that way too.
Several decades ago, when i was a Poli-Sci major in junior college, i saw this. I understood this. There was SO MUCH i was wrong about with the political world. But i got this right "We need to stop making laws. We should re-evaluate the ones we have, keep the good ones, throw out the bad, no more new crap"
I also got it right to understand that it's ALL about money and compromise. That's one reason i never finished the degree. But my "minor degree" actually came to the fore - Keg Party. I was a bit wild back then.
If our government did not hate us they would be back to three month legislation sessions (or less.) They wouldn't tax a quarter to half of our income. They would not devalue our currency by ninety-nine percent in one century. They would not subject us to two world wars that same century (the twentieth) or to constant wars for eighty years since the second world war. They would not subject us to only idiot presidents or to world ridicule. I can't think of anything they do that doesn't prove that they hate us. Same with Hollywood. Same with media, including social media.
I sort of don't mind that the state of New Jersey thinks I'm too stupid to pump my own gas.. I also love the signage on every gas pump reminding us that it's unlawful and dangerous to do it
Oh I was always terrified to pump my own gas whenever I left the state, thought it was very unsafe and a huge fire hazard!
This society is law stacked upon law. I can obtain a multi state compact nursing license, but the scope of practice varies widely from state to state. I would have to know and follow each nursing practice act, as well as state and federal laws too. I could easily work in 2 nearby states, but no thanks. Again this is a great article, we really need to ask ourselves why we have so many laws.
Yes, I also forgot about that. Full-service gas stations.
I consider those make-work jobs for fathers and men saving for a wife & kids and much better use of money then the tax money wasted on bloated [women filled] make-work government jobs, no white men need apply, toxic drama and delusional psycho filled problem causing jobs.
As a 14-year-old I spent a summer in PA pumping gas. It was my first 'legal' employment, and yes, I started paying FICA at 14 and take my SS for a Cry to Heaven sin and pray to God not to pour burning fire over this Hell as is Just .. and being big for my age back then I worked with construction crews in the two summers before that - such a blessing, working with skilled men with a clear competency hierarchy and solid work ethic - sanity and productivity and no BS or punch in mouth virtues and values - goodness that I think died two generations ago with the secrete baby-killers Matriarchal switchover.
In both PA and South Jersey back then you could not by beer and wine at local gas-station, or markets, so when I move to Vermont, I did not believe my sister on returning from a shopping trip that they sell beer and wine, so I had to go find out - with a "you're not in Kansas anymore" feeling I saw my sister was correct.
Now I would consider it needlessly abusive and repressive to live is some liberty-reducing lawfare State again.
About so many laws - a study reported that each of us daily break an average of 3 federal laws without knowing it. The enforcement of those laws become the source of tyrannical targeted abuse and injustice, at the whim of the State.
This concept was recently described in a Traditional Catholic Seminary course;
"Qui tacet consentire videtur" ("He who is silent seems to consent")
That when authority refuses to enforce a rule or law for a long enough period, it is reasonable and justifiable to assume the law is void and no longer important to the State. And example might be the speed limit of a stretch of road is posted as 50 mph and yet all traffic routinely travels at 60-65 mph, (and following the posted speed would be dangerous) so because the State allows this and does not regularly and often enforce the posted speed, the acceptable speed in the 60 mph or faster.
This article is about bad governance, and to that point I went on a research web tangent that started with a paper "Enlightened Tribalism" which I thought could be combined with Dunbar's Number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number) to structure a society government based on something like the Catholic Church hierarchy where each priest's congregation would not be larger than perhaps 100 souls, leaving the priest remaining Dunbar Number limit of 50 for horizontal relations with other priests and their Bishop and perhaps up through to the top, the Pope, and he like the monarch, the Bishops under him, like the Master of his region, and our Priest as the village judge and administrator.
That paper referenced Aristotle's writing, Politics book 5, about that: Tyrants prefer the company of outsiders over citizens, which reflected what I seem to see in much of our Fed. Gov, and my Modernist Sickened Catholic Church, in Tyrant Pope Francis that he rejects my Traditional Catholic internal Church Tribe, and favors instead the Pagan, Protestant, different Abrahamic Sects, and others, all are welcome he states but not the Traditionalist - we that lovingly try to correct his heresies, imprudence, and scandals, and struggle for Popes desire for repentance and public denouncement of Vatican II and all reforms and changes, pray for the conversion of the Pope back to the Traditional Catholic Chruch and confess, penitence, and then receive, and Become Pope in all aspects.
And Aristotle Book 5 grabbed my interest and when in sec. about the 2nd method a Tyrant may hold and stay in power is by 'Pretending' to be Kingly, and by pretending to many virtues and avoiding vices, and it seemed to me the Aristotle has laid a trap for Tyrants and would-bes, to convert Tyrants into virtuous Kings, the more and harder they pretend, the quicker and deeper they change - which also is the prescription for transforming ourselves into better Catholics, better men.
Aristotle also discussed that the less power over nation a king has, the longer he and his power will last. In my suggested hierarchy, the Bishops would effectively be empowered more than the king, in his exercise of support of the priests responsible for their regions, and each priest - in the principle of Subsidiarity ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity_(Catholicism) )
Such a King with Traditional Catholic values with a Judicial religious counsel in the form of 3 each of Orthodox Catholics sects, Orthodox Muslim sects, Orthodox Jewish sects, and these would advise the King when requested, and if not, they are expected to critically review and Ruling of the King for his edification if needed.
That Judicial form of 9 Judges, and the maintenance and betterment in all creation of region, would be repeated in that hierarchy to Region, Nation, and local - if demanded. Their roll is to evaluate all secular gov laws, and pass Judgement of conflicts between the law, and their client's laws, all based on 10 Commandments, and on moral and theological health.
The full vested citizens of a nation to have access to an international policy, law, business, liberty .., and culture critical debate, review, introduction, report of violations by gov, and general world-wide communication and influence system that any and all ideas may be considered, rated, and possibly advance through readers and evaluators considered votes to prioritized, and advance possibly to the King, to the top Court and King's advisors.
Citizens become fully vested after recognized virtue earned with 4 or more years of public Service to region, nation, or after 2 years international successful performance. Full vestiture gains many privileges, including voting ability in the international communication and influence system, ability to work in government, run for government positions, work in positions of power over others, full contract rights, full legal testimony rating, and similar.
All citizen of the world would have access rights to the international communication and influence system, to make suggestions and all other rights but not in voting for change in priority status on system.
In this system any new law or change in law would be reviewed by the regional 9 Abrahamic Judges system court to become law in trial stage, and be listed as such for review and comments, and after 6 months (or reasonable period of test time) of enforcement without significant issues or court rulings against, the law is fully established.
—Yes to Dunbar's number, and to forming units of organization that are small and manageable in this regard.
One of the great things about the Saxon system of hundreds and shires was that a hundred court was a court for a very small unit of people. Everyone knows each other, and has actual human relationships with them.
—I admire anyone who thinks things through to this depth, and who looks for new solutions, rather than just assuming that the way things are now is the way they must be.
That being said, I am a panarchist/anarchist/voluntaryist. In other words, I do not believe that there should be any involuntary governance whatsoever.
Thus, I believe that if you want to set up a system like the one your describe, you should be free to do so. You should be free to offer membership, on mutually agreeable terms, to anyone you choose. People should be free to join as members, and leave if they change their mind. And no government should interfere with you, or with the sovereignty of your nation, in any way.
As long as it is all voluntary—as long as no one is forced to participate and prevented from refusing to participate—I support you!
"But if you create a legislature and give legislators the power to invent laws, then that is exactly what they will do. Which is one of the reasons why legislatures are bad too."
Don't know, nor does it matter if your dream was literally license. I do however remember and know that when I left NYC for Alaska in 1964 that the laws passed by the NY legislature in the preceding year alone filled a shelf over five feet long.
I happened to check and found all of Alaska's laws passed and in affect at that time, all, fitted on a five foot shelf.
That was some sixty years ago and I shan't bother to check today though I do remember and know that the water regulations alone (Something which was of particular interest to me.) were less than 12 pages and that the last time I checked such regs stacked over 4 inches high.
So!
Hence any rational person must allow that Ignorantia juris excusat.
-Which reminds me of a 400 level course, Legal Environment for Mangers and Engineers, I took at the University of Alaska, taught by a magnificent shyster from Miami with whom I shared many delightful conversations in a local bar after classes and my takeaway from class and such conversations; that there is absolutely no room for an honest person in a court pf law, no matter if he be a judge, juror, plaintiff, defendant or advocate!
I live in NY state now. (Thankfully not in the city.) The legislature in Albany churns out bills and laws like a field full of cattle churns out cowflops. It's disgusting.
More laws need to be made because the last batch were nothing but a crock of mule piss. Trust the experts? Not blindly. At least do some research before handing your future over to an "expert". As we have seen for many years now so many presumed and self-appointed experts are continually baffled about this or that. What does it take to become an expert? Perhaps it boils down to real life practical experiences.
I respect the *way* in which Sam Harris writes--at this point, I think most famous intellectuals are better at writing than thinking, and it's a testament to our somnambulist society that someone who can string together a coherent sentence earns worship--so I'm probably discrediting myself through that admission, hahaha.
However (!), to redeem myself, I think that second point would be related to the 'guilt by association' fallacy.
I met my wife in LA. While we were still living there, we took a drive up to Portland for a wedding. While in or near Shasta, we stopped at a fast-food place. We struck up a conversation with the gal working as a cashier, who told us she was getting married the next day.
She was 21, with colored hair and a nose ring. And I thought to myself, and subsequently said to my wife as we continued our drive north, "That same person, in Los Angeles, would not be getting married at 21, or 31, or probably 41 or maybe even ever. She'll live alone, have a series of hookups or monogamous relationships for a while, and her most important relationships would be with her cats."
Los Angeles is not a normal place. Thank god that young women lived in a normal place and was getting married, like normal people do.
So yeah, envy surely must have something to do with it.
Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
"The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to white collar criminals,” state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance."
It's weird you had that dream because I was just explaining this concept to my husband less than a week ago. How, if you get on the wrong side of the wrong person, they can and will find a law you break and just lie in wait for you to break it. Its completely absurd.
As to your second point, when people trust experts too much based on a piece of paper they may or may NOT have earned properly, I question those people's ability to think critically. Example: How many people have been misdiagnosed? How many people have died in hospital mistakes? How many people still have no diagnosis? I had to help do a research paper for a medical publication in assisting someone in getting their doctorate. I know the answer to that 2nd question. (Do yourself a favor and don't look) With that being said, every single one of the people involved in all 3 circumstances above are "experts" Enough said.
Both of these realities you describe are terrifying.
> I am not sure what the opposite of that is called, or even if it exists as an official fallacy, but whatever it is, I confess that I committed it.
I'm OK with calling it the Douchebag Scientist NPR fallacy 🤣
🤣🤣
"Code law, by contrast, is 200 tons of feces dumped onto a beautiful meadow."
A few days ago I was just thinking about the impossibility of saving any of our modern Western states as it partly boils down to the ever expanding maze of bureaucracy, rules and laws. It's impossibly vast by design and realistically can't grow infinitely and survive. And because it's overly complicated, it's overly laborious to unwind or simplify or reform (that being said, I recently read about the state of Ohio reforming civil codes and regulations through sunset clauses expiring every five years, but they can do this because the laws and regulations of each agency are "only" a few hundred pages each).
My point being, if reform is impossible, maybe it's easier to hex the system by simply cheering it on into overdrive.
In either case, if anyone survives in 50 years time and writes about this era, I hope their analysis includes our unnecessarily complicated rules, regulations, laws, bureaucracy and the time we waste dealing with it.
Milei may be pulling it off: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8NLzc9kobDk
That said, I do not want reform. Reform is temporary. Milei, even if he succeeds beyond anyone's wildest dreams, will be gone one day. And in a stupid "democracy," a socialist, statist, or jackass can just come right back in and undo it all.
So yes, I think overdrive and collapse are desirable at this point. But we must be ready with something better.
Your logic in the argument that ignorance of the law is justifiable seems quite sound to me and the best argument for a reduction of legislation across the board. You are absolutely correct in that we inevitably violate multiple laws on any given day most of which are long outdated but still punishable by law. But it’s always been about control and not freedoms!
To think that Congress has our best interests at heart is delusional at best. The vast majority of the members of the Both Houses of Congress are worth in excess of 5 million dollars putting them in the top 1%. They continually vilify themselves and promise to make the 1% pay their fair share yet always make sure to give themselves tax loopholes.
It’s all smoke and mirrors
Well and rightly said.
I have wondered why a lawyer has never tried what my dream-lawyer did. But doing so would call the whole validity of the system into question, so they're probably afraid of doing so and then waking up with a horse head in their bed the next day.
Precisely and it’s all based on precedent so by doing so would unravel all they have done to control us. Remember that the laws are proposed by lawyers, this legislation is argued over and passed by lawyers. If you are found in violation of said legislation you will be charged by a lawyer and have to hire a lawyer to defend yourself. It will be decided by a judge who is also a lawyer. They don’t want to send the real criminals to jail either because it keeps them all employed.
Their time, and their tyranny, will not last forever.
So True and pertinent Christopher! Many if not most laws should be in the garbage.
You always had Courage and I believe it often worked against you in this rotten system, but occasionally saved you and others, and surely propelled you forward to where you are today (on the cutting edge)!
"They", those in power do hate us as their actions prove. Not everyone but most.
I know a lot of good policemen but I have seen many videos when they obviously are totally ignorant of the law and arrest, often harshly, people for breaking non-existing laws and violate some of or all of 1st-2nd-3rd-4th-5th amendment rights which they seem entirely ignorant of.
We fought Exxon about a property we owned and the Law Governing our case was: THE SPILL ACT, Written by Exxon after the Exxon Valdez Disaster in Alaska! So the gross perpetrator wrote the law which made for NO JURY TRIAL and many other things in their favor! The Judge was Judge, Jury and Executioner. What an uphill battle. We were 1 of only 165 properties in NJ to get to trail. The rest died, went bankrupt, etc. Took decades and tons of $$$ but we "won". If that was winning I can't imagine losing.
So true. Officers are required to take an oath to support the constitution yet obviously don't have the slightest idea what it says in many cases. Failure by them to comply with their sworn oath should be cause for immediate dismissal, or at least thorough retraining without pay, but I've never seen it happen. Therefore it is rendered meaningless. The winning party should not be required to pay the costs of a prosecution that has proved to be incorrect and it should fall on the complaining party. Not only would there be a lot less questionable cases overloading the courts, but much more fair and just to the falsely accused.
So True Hat. I have found that the system is set-up to squeeze the most emotional energy (I believe the monsters utilize and "drink" this energy {Vampires}) and money out of as many of those involved as possible. This world is set up that way too.
all the assholes who need to read this are the ones who want congress to do more whenever they are in session.
"There oughta be a law…"
Barf.
Several decades ago, when i was a Poli-Sci major in junior college, i saw this. I understood this. There was SO MUCH i was wrong about with the political world. But i got this right "We need to stop making laws. We should re-evaluate the ones we have, keep the good ones, throw out the bad, no more new crap"
I also got it right to understand that it's ALL about money and compromise. That's one reason i never finished the degree. But my "minor degree" actually came to the fore - Keg Party. I was a bit wild back then.
Yep, right on.
And from what little I know, I can definitely imagine you as a partier!
I was. I am not proud of it. But i was legend back in tha day.
If our government did not hate us they would be back to three month legislation sessions (or less.) They wouldn't tax a quarter to half of our income. They would not devalue our currency by ninety-nine percent in one century. They would not subject us to two world wars that same century (the twentieth) or to constant wars for eighty years since the second world war. They would not subject us to only idiot presidents or to world ridicule. I can't think of anything they do that doesn't prove that they hate us. Same with Hollywood. Same with media, including social media.
Yeppers. They hate us. We are cattle to them.
I sort of don't mind that the state of New Jersey thinks I'm too stupid to pump my own gas.. I also love the signage on every gas pump reminding us that it's unlawful and dangerous to do it
Imagine if I believed them?
Excellent piece Chris.
Thank you.
I had forgotten about full-service New Jersey. Ludicrous.
And I am sure some people do believe them.
Oh I was always terrified to pump my own gas whenever I left the state, thought it was very unsafe and a huge fire hazard!
This society is law stacked upon law. I can obtain a multi state compact nursing license, but the scope of practice varies widely from state to state. I would have to know and follow each nursing practice act, as well as state and federal laws too. I could easily work in 2 nearby states, but no thanks. Again this is a great article, we really need to ask ourselves why we have so many laws.
"why we have so many laws."
—Because government.
That is the answer.
The End. 🙌🏼
Yup. And the beginning of the hard work we must undertake, now that we are fully armed with the truth!
Yes, I also forgot about that. Full-service gas stations.
I consider those make-work jobs for fathers and men saving for a wife & kids and much better use of money then the tax money wasted on bloated [women filled] make-work government jobs, no white men need apply, toxic drama and delusional psycho filled problem causing jobs.
As a 14-year-old I spent a summer in PA pumping gas. It was my first 'legal' employment, and yes, I started paying FICA at 14 and take my SS for a Cry to Heaven sin and pray to God not to pour burning fire over this Hell as is Just .. and being big for my age back then I worked with construction crews in the two summers before that - such a blessing, working with skilled men with a clear competency hierarchy and solid work ethic - sanity and productivity and no BS or punch in mouth virtues and values - goodness that I think died two generations ago with the secrete baby-killers Matriarchal switchover.
In both PA and South Jersey back then you could not by beer and wine at local gas-station, or markets, so when I move to Vermont, I did not believe my sister on returning from a shopping trip that they sell beer and wine, so I had to go find out - with a "you're not in Kansas anymore" feeling I saw my sister was correct.
Now I would consider it needlessly abusive and repressive to live is some liberty-reducing lawfare State again.
God Bless., Steve
Vermont is pretty nice Steven and God Bless.
About so many laws - a study reported that each of us daily break an average of 3 federal laws without knowing it. The enforcement of those laws become the source of tyrannical targeted abuse and injustice, at the whim of the State.
This concept was recently described in a Traditional Catholic Seminary course;
"Qui tacet consentire videtur" ("He who is silent seems to consent")
That when authority refuses to enforce a rule or law for a long enough period, it is reasonable and justifiable to assume the law is void and no longer important to the State. And example might be the speed limit of a stretch of road is posted as 50 mph and yet all traffic routinely travels at 60-65 mph, (and following the posted speed would be dangerous) so because the State allows this and does not regularly and often enforce the posted speed, the acceptable speed in the 60 mph or faster.
This article is about bad governance, and to that point I went on a research web tangent that started with a paper "Enlightened Tribalism" which I thought could be combined with Dunbar's Number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number) to structure a society government based on something like the Catholic Church hierarchy where each priest's congregation would not be larger than perhaps 100 souls, leaving the priest remaining Dunbar Number limit of 50 for horizontal relations with other priests and their Bishop and perhaps up through to the top, the Pope, and he like the monarch, the Bishops under him, like the Master of his region, and our Priest as the village judge and administrator.
That paper referenced Aristotle's writing, Politics book 5, about that: Tyrants prefer the company of outsiders over citizens, which reflected what I seem to see in much of our Fed. Gov, and my Modernist Sickened Catholic Church, in Tyrant Pope Francis that he rejects my Traditional Catholic internal Church Tribe, and favors instead the Pagan, Protestant, different Abrahamic Sects, and others, all are welcome he states but not the Traditionalist - we that lovingly try to correct his heresies, imprudence, and scandals, and struggle for Popes desire for repentance and public denouncement of Vatican II and all reforms and changes, pray for the conversion of the Pope back to the Traditional Catholic Chruch and confess, penitence, and then receive, and Become Pope in all aspects.
And Aristotle Book 5 grabbed my interest and when in sec. about the 2nd method a Tyrant may hold and stay in power is by 'Pretending' to be Kingly, and by pretending to many virtues and avoiding vices, and it seemed to me the Aristotle has laid a trap for Tyrants and would-bes, to convert Tyrants into virtuous Kings, the more and harder they pretend, the quicker and deeper they change - which also is the prescription for transforming ourselves into better Catholics, better men.
Aristotle also discussed that the less power over nation a king has, the longer he and his power will last. In my suggested hierarchy, the Bishops would effectively be empowered more than the king, in his exercise of support of the priests responsible for their regions, and each priest - in the principle of Subsidiarity ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity_(Catholicism) )
Such a King with Traditional Catholic values with a Judicial religious counsel in the form of 3 each of Orthodox Catholics sects, Orthodox Muslim sects, Orthodox Jewish sects, and these would advise the King when requested, and if not, they are expected to critically review and Ruling of the King for his edification if needed.
That Judicial form of 9 Judges, and the maintenance and betterment in all creation of region, would be repeated in that hierarchy to Region, Nation, and local - if demanded. Their roll is to evaluate all secular gov laws, and pass Judgement of conflicts between the law, and their client's laws, all based on 10 Commandments, and on moral and theological health.
The full vested citizens of a nation to have access to an international policy, law, business, liberty .., and culture critical debate, review, introduction, report of violations by gov, and general world-wide communication and influence system that any and all ideas may be considered, rated, and possibly advance through readers and evaluators considered votes to prioritized, and advance possibly to the King, to the top Court and King's advisors.
Citizens become fully vested after recognized virtue earned with 4 or more years of public Service to region, nation, or after 2 years international successful performance. Full vestiture gains many privileges, including voting ability in the international communication and influence system, ability to work in government, run for government positions, work in positions of power over others, full contract rights, full legal testimony rating, and similar.
All citizen of the world would have access rights to the international communication and influence system, to make suggestions and all other rights but not in voting for change in priority status on system.
In this system any new law or change in law would be reviewed by the regional 9 Abrahamic Judges system court to become law in trial stage, and be listed as such for review and comments, and after 6 months (or reasonable period of test time) of enforcement without significant issues or court rulings against, the law is fully established.
A sunset period for each law is a good addition.
Suggestions or comments?
God Bless., Steve
"Dunbar's Number"
—Yes to Dunbar's number, and to forming units of organization that are small and manageable in this regard.
One of the great things about the Saxon system of hundreds and shires was that a hundred court was a court for a very small unit of people. Everyone knows each other, and has actual human relationships with them.
https://christophercook.substack.com/p/almost-no-one-sees-you-as-fully-human
https://christophercook.substack.com/p/houses-crews-claves-clans-hundreds-distributed-nation
"Suggestions or comments?"
—I admire anyone who thinks things through to this depth, and who looks for new solutions, rather than just assuming that the way things are now is the way they must be.
That being said, I am a panarchist/anarchist/voluntaryist. In other words, I do not believe that there should be any involuntary governance whatsoever.
Thus, I believe that if you want to set up a system like the one your describe, you should be free to do so. You should be free to offer membership, on mutually agreeable terms, to anyone you choose. People should be free to join as members, and leave if they change their mind. And no government should interfere with you, or with the sovereignty of your nation, in any way.
As long as it is all voluntary—as long as no one is forced to participate and prevented from refusing to participate—I support you!
"But if you create a legislature and give legislators the power to invent laws, then that is exactly what they will do. Which is one of the reasons why legislatures are bad too."
Don't know, nor does it matter if your dream was literally license. I do however remember and know that when I left NYC for Alaska in 1964 that the laws passed by the NY legislature in the preceding year alone filled a shelf over five feet long.
I happened to check and found all of Alaska's laws passed and in affect at that time, all, fitted on a five foot shelf.
That was some sixty years ago and I shan't bother to check today though I do remember and know that the water regulations alone (Something which was of particular interest to me.) were less than 12 pages and that the last time I checked such regs stacked over 4 inches high.
So!
Hence any rational person must allow that Ignorantia juris excusat.
-Which reminds me of a 400 level course, Legal Environment for Mangers and Engineers, I took at the University of Alaska, taught by a magnificent shyster from Miami with whom I shared many delightful conversations in a local bar after classes and my takeaway from class and such conversations; that there is absolutely no room for an honest person in a court pf law, no matter if he be a judge, juror, plaintiff, defendant or advocate!
I live in NY state now. (Thankfully not in the city.) The legislature in Albany churns out bills and laws like a field full of cattle churns out cowflops. It's disgusting.
More laws need to be made because the last batch were nothing but a crock of mule piss. Trust the experts? Not blindly. At least do some research before handing your future over to an "expert". As we have seen for many years now so many presumed and self-appointed experts are continually baffled about this or that. What does it take to become an expert? Perhaps it boils down to real life practical experiences.
Maybe we can sum it up even more simply:
No more masters.
I respect the *way* in which Sam Harris writes--at this point, I think most famous intellectuals are better at writing than thinking, and it's a testament to our somnambulist society that someone who can string together a coherent sentence earns worship--so I'm probably discrediting myself through that admission, hahaha.
However (!), to redeem myself, I think that second point would be related to the 'guilt by association' fallacy.
The guilt-by-association fallacy. Yeah, that is the closest. Thanks.
And yes, it is easy to weave a mist around people's minds with good writing. I might have even done it on a couple of college papers…🤣
That weaving mist and lies-by-omission or by perspective-distortion or by censoring or ..
It's now done by AI, ChatGPT has me - a white man - nearly back to self-loathing punching my own testicles to pay for all my commie-imagined wrongs ..
Yes!! Yes! Yes, I admit it, I kidnapped the Linburg baby! or at least the mind-raping AI told me I did, helped me to remember.
I do not feel the least bit guilty about anything the left/mainstream tell me I should feel guilty about.
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i totally love that query gave you the result! 😂
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Hollywood is full of imbeciles who hate us because they envy us.
I met my wife in LA. While we were still living there, we took a drive up to Portland for a wedding. While in or near Shasta, we stopped at a fast-food place. We struck up a conversation with the gal working as a cashier, who told us she was getting married the next day.
She was 21, with colored hair and a nose ring. And I thought to myself, and subsequently said to my wife as we continued our drive north, "That same person, in Los Angeles, would not be getting married at 21, or 31, or probably 41 or maybe even ever. She'll live alone, have a series of hookups or monogamous relationships for a while, and her most important relationships would be with her cats."
Los Angeles is not a normal place. Thank god that young women lived in a normal place and was getting married, like normal people do.
So yeah, envy surely must have something to do with it.
Interesting first meeting there.
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent-ebook/dp/B00505UZ4G/ref=sr_1_1?crid=L1H7NWFG3YS1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.mqfdRYv6paqroWvTl0WQlR-Hl8WNt-Gqt4rp4EVeUJI.1-qXtAU7FCkX9yh-XigKsXELRnamTX8ZimIIiEM1J8Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=three+felonies+a+day+by+harvey+a.+silverglate&qid=1736458789&sprefix=three+felo%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1
Apropos.
Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
"The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to white collar criminals,” state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance."