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I was sent a story that I don’t remember who to credit. I thought it appropriate for this discussion.

The pig farmer story –

Years back - there was a pig farm, on this farm there were many, many pigs hundreds of them -big and strong, all fattened up, and every day, every morning, the pig farmer would come in to the pig stall area open the gate and drag a single pig out squealing like crazy. He would slaughter butcher it all within sight of the pigs remaining in the holding area. One pig per day this would happen. Every day the population of pigs would diminish. One day, one of the pigs had enough. He shouted to the other pigs, "IF WE ALL STAND TOGETHER, AND ATTACK THE FARMER TOGETHER, WHEN HE COMES FOR ONE OF US WE WILL PREVAIL, WE WILL ATTACK, BEAT HIM DOWN, AND KILL HIM. THEN WE CAN ALL RUN OUT THE GATE AND BE FREE!! WE HAVE WAY MORE THAN ENOUGH TO DO THE JOB!! WE CAN DO THIS IF WE ALL STAND TOGETHER ".

So, it was every day the pig yelled this and all he got was talk, No action. Every day in horror, the pigs would watch as the farmer came in and grabbed another, drug him off screaming and slaughtered him. Every day this pig would press the issue as the numbers got smaller and smaller. They were being picked of one by one. Finally, the pig gained some ground. The other pigs seeing their ranks decimated, began to agree and desiring to survive laid plans to retaliate. But each day their numbers continued to diminish by one. Then one day, the pig farmer got greedy and needed more money to pay the farm bills. So, he bought an automatic pig culler that would slaughter and dress five whole pigs a day and the pig farmer started coming in in the morning, at noon, and at night. This increased pressure to survive. The pig finally got all the remaining pigs to join in on the plan. They were to rush the farmer, kill him, and get out the open gate. The pigs were exhausted so they planned on doing this in the morning at first light when the farmer came and opened the gate. The lead pig woke up the next morning to the sound of the gate opening -it was the pig farmer, he was walking directly for the pig. The pig yelled to the rest of the pigs, “lets attack and get him all at once!!". It was at this point that the pigs realized that he was the only pig left!! The last remaining pigs were hauled off in the middle of the previous night.

The rest, as they say, is history. The moral of this story, the old man said, “your rights, your freedoms, and your lives are like that of the pigs. The pig farmer is the government or someone who would take that which is most precious from you and destroy you if they need to in the process. They show no quarter, nor do they show mercy. They are relentless. Any people divided, not united and willing to give up everything without a fight will end up without any liberty or freedom. If people don’t work together in concert to press for their rights. If they won’t fight for them they will forfeit all. Never overlook the fact that just like the pig farmer, once the government takes away rights, liberty’s, and freedoms, you will not get them back without a battle or a fight, and that fight may cost you everything. In the words of Arthur Eugene Waybourn, US army, "you have to earn something to fully appreciate it and maintain it”.

Taoism – An approach to living referred to as intuitive anarchy.

Confucianism – The belief that ruling by example through benevolence. It shared much of the same theories with Legalism except that it had a positive expectation of human potential.

Legalism - A Classical Chinese philosophy which emphasizes “the need for order above all other human concerns”. Legalism rose during 400 BCE. Legalists wanted to make governing as science. They realized that the only way that would be possible would be to remove all bastions of “tradition” and “humanity” from the culture. In their perception, all of the Legalist government’s actions to “improve the human condition” through education, ethics, and living conditions were completely dependent upon removing personal and cultural identity. By first weakening the individual, the government could then “rebuild the people to be “worth subjects” of the Nation. The key principle of Legalism was the “fact” that “humans are inherently evil and predisposed to criminal and selfish behavior”. Furthermore, they believed that “if humans are allowed to engage in their natural proclivities, the result will be conflict and social disorder”. The Kings of Legalist nations invented morality in order to enforce Legalism.

Trotskyism – An extreme left political ideology defined by Leon Trotsky in the 1920’s. The hallmark of Trotskyism is the theory of permanent revolution. It included elements of anarchism, syndicalism, and socialism.

Leon Trotsky - Founding member of the Soviet, having engineered the transfer of power to the Soviets. He was a Marxist revolutionary and theorist. He and Joseph Stalin had a fundamental difference in the early development of the Soviet ending in the exile and finally assassination of Trotsky by Stalin.

Syndicalism - A left political ideological theory of government based upon a form of socialism, intended to replace capitalism. Its foundation was based upon the idea that workers, industries, and organizations be organized into “orderly” blocks, into categories. The system would create syndicates of carpenters, laborers, doctors, steelworkers, etc., segregating the people into groups who would advocate, theoretically, for those people as a syndicate.

Ethics - A major branch of philosophy which encompasses right conduct and good living. "A set of concepts and principles that guide us in determining what behavior helps or harms sentient creatures" (Paul, Richard; Elder, Linda (2006). The Miniature Guide to Understanding the Foundations of Ethical Reasoning).

Morality – Morality does not exist in nature, ethics do. The traditional view of modern social scientists is that morality is a construct, and is thus culturally relative, although others argue that there is a science of morality.

Classical Liberalism – Classical Liberalism’s underpinnings were that of civil liberties, political freedom, economic freedom (also known as economic liberalism aka free market capitalism). Classical Liberals included John Locke, Thomas Jefferson among others. They believed that the way Individualism would succeed within a Classic Liberal framework was through a representative republic constrained by law (including the constitution).

Social Liberalism - Social Liberalism is a recent creation of the 19th century. It is a political ideology. At its core its functionaries believe that Social Liberalism and its individual liberties require a level of social justice. It believes that it is the role of government to “correct the ills of man” through governmental actions.

Progressivism – Immanuel Kant identified progress as being a movement away from barbarism towards civilization. But in the late 19th and early 20th centuries a political movement developed in the USA known as American Progressives.

Immanuel Kant – A German philosopher was a central figure in the development of what we know as “modern philosophy”. He argued that the world as it is, is independent of man’s concepts. The key points to his view were that reason is the source of morality, and that space and time are forms of our sensibility. Kant’s political leanings were toward Progressivism of the mid-16th century around the time of the American Revolution. He defined progress as being “a movement away from barbarism towards civilization”.

Liberty - The power to act and express oneself according to one’s will. It is generally related matters of the State.

Freedom - The power to decide one’s actions. It generally pertains to everything that one does.

The December 20, 2016 show featured

Defining What We Must Protect

What We Desire, What We Are

Every day people are inundated by “information” from new sources and others most of whom have little to no real knowledge or wisdom in the area of ethics, sociology, and forms of governments. My pet peeve is that these so called “investigative reporters” lack the two most effective tools required to thoroughly vette their stories; a solid base of knowledge and the understanding of how to perform a proper investigation. I found throughout my career as an investigator that the clear line between the majority of investigators who allowed the investigation to lead the evidence and those of us who strived to be impartial and allow the evidence to lead the investigation.

The failure of those purveying information to the masses to even grasp the most basic of precepts such as the meaning, not today’s meaning, or the internet meaning, but the actual established meaning of words. An example is the difference between Classical Liberalism and Social Liberalism. There are many other words and social theories that people really need to understand in order for them to protect their interests.

I would argue that some of the most important concepts that all people should “own” are:

The difference between Liberty and Freedom (see below): Freedom usually means to be free from something, whereas Liberty usually means to be free to do something. Jefferson applied those meanings almost every time. Click here for Definitions

The fact that when the people fear the government it is tyranny, when the government fears the people you have liberty.

Jefferson declared in the Declaration of Independence, “All men are created equal with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. The word Liberty is used specifically meaning that the government can do nothing to restrict Liberty.

Note:

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others." --Thomas Jefferson to I. Tiffany, 1819.

"All natural rights may be abridged or modified in their exercise by law." --Thomas Jefferson: Official Opinion, 1790.

"Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits." --Thomas Jefferson to I. McPherson, 1813.

A thoughtful treatise regarding Legalism, Syndicalism, Ethics, and Morality

You can see evidence of Legalism, Syndicalism, and Trotskyism throughout current governing methodologies and ideologies around the world today. The Soviet Union adopted a combination of all three theories and as history shows, after a brief period of progress in the end the Legalist theories were proven to be both basically correct and seriously flawed. I am not arguing in favor of Legalism by any means. Simply put, Legalists were correct in that without those impediments to undaunting advancement you cannot allow for culture, tradition, nor humanity. All of those things “get in the way of progress”. Such is the purpose of the creation of morality and the subsequent attempts to blur the meaning of morality with ethics.

Western values are founded on the precept of “Individualism”. Individualism an approach to life based upon the value of an ethical individual person. This ideology places supreme value upon the individual, independence and self-reliance above the interests of social groups or the state. The most benign example of Individualism was “Classical Liberalism”.

Again, we see the intentional dilution and attempt to redefine the meaning of words. The obvious intent is to misdirect the masses into submission. You have read the meaning of Classical Liberalism and then that of Social Liberalism. Social Liberalism begins with the precept that individual liberties require a level of social justice. It believes that it is the role of government to “correct the ills of man” through governmental actions. Those ills include but do not end at poverty, education, healthcare. As Legalists believed; “if humans are allowed to engage in their natural proclivities, the result will be conflict and social disorder”. Given the power to control and manipulate social liberals will never be satisfied by basic actions, they continue to desire to change and control more until the individual has lost definition and self-reliance.

Immanuel Kant; German philosopher from the 16th century, was one of the key figures in the development of modern philosophy. He believed that he had effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy. He believed in a constitutionally constrained republican government and international organization. He believed that universal democracy through constitutionally constrained republics, would lead to perpetual peace through international cooperation. Kant defined progress as being a movement away from barbarism towards civilization. The American Progressives promoted imperialism and rapid modernization. The modern or American progressives were all urbanists, with institutional degrees who believed in “linear-progress” and rejected the concept of cyclical history. Karl Marx believed in the main precepts of American Progressivism. Truman rejected the imperialistic component of Progressivism but in many ways simply buried it in social engineering and “reeducation programs”.

Progressivism has merged with Social Liberalism. Together those precepts have created the situation that we have been dealing with for quite some time in the USA. Those of us who believe in Individualism and self-determination are highly threatened by the trend of Social Liberalism and Progressivism.

We believe in the precepts of Classic Liberalism and the idea of liberty

Defining What We Must Protect

What We Desire, What We Are

December 20, 2016 Show

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