The Need to Restore Real Democracy.
Those who excel under this system deny the decline of democracy. Those who don’t are embittered. Hence the decline of optimism. Hence the need to restore real democracy.
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Joel Bryant
How the Absurd Serves Our Imagination.
Consider the keepers of natural religion. Consider how its explanations rankle reason and insult sense. Therein flares reason’s folly because some things are inexplicable. They must be accepted instead, however absurd they seem.
We Do Not Begin at the Beginning, But Rather Where We Are.
Without beginnings, we experience voids and vapors whose odors enfeeble. Even so, we must begin if we are to overcome the blindness that confines us to circumstances and their circuits though others are offended. Better to offend than rescind our right to choose.
Society On The Precipice: Hypocrisy of Law As Morality.
Consider America’s most moral codes: the Constitution and the Declaration. Rightly read, they inspire a sense of morality that hallows liberty. When read solely for their legal value, we violate virtue and venerate vice because morality sustains liberty and strengthens democracy.
Mystics: Knowledge-Makers Daring to Bare Knowledge.
Without mystics and their material, we seek sublimity in the superficial. Religion formerly fed this need. Ever since Nietzsche, however, God has lost speed (and influence) with many. These are strangers to transcendence, and indifferent to mystics and their service. Thus, what parades perverts ...
Egonomics: the Primordial Pursuit.
Like any faculty, the ego is faulty unless fed. Only then can it transcend itself without betraying us or others.
The Key to Opening Humanity: Embrace the Broadcasts.
Division denies what we feel instinctively and yearn for deeply, though we resist it politically. Even so, we routinely sense our connection to something greater than ourselves. We experience it as separate only because of ignorance and circumstances.
The American Mind.
The American Mind readily invokes God as a sedative, but only when visited by national disaster. Otherwise, it claims diplomatic immunity from what God suggests and morality requires.
Building Beloved Community.
North Carolina’s struggle with #HB2 is merely one of many examples that hampers our ability to build a beloved community rooted in a humane morality.
And Yet, I Am an American: Witness to the Self-Seducing Psyche of Democracy.
Seldom does its lament of Black loss achieve the moral pitch as when innocent police officers are slain in retaliation. These retaliations are wrong, yet reveals America’s regard for democracy in principle though its practice violates the volition it claims to venerate.