Posted by
The Elemental Chronicler on Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:02:38 AM
7-30-06 (11:11pm) On Tolerance…
"Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding Liberty of Conscience, and the other of granting it."
-Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
Is this an Incomplete Aphorism?
Nay, with it…a claim to the Elemental Seeds of Peace do I lay claim…in the name of an incomplete History do I sing!
Oh, Democrats of (the) rabble!
In times of war, do we not seek peace? Is this not a truism? For is not the bloodshed of our pledged soldiers painful in our sight? But to what do we appeal a cessation of violence?
In summa Diplomacia - Tolerance must win out. This Toleration of Intolerance ends war, according to our elected officials and educated elite. Is this not the lesson of history? Or is this but sophistry? Consider the concept in terms of that revolution which allowed the framers to sit in Congress over our Bill of Rights…Consider it in terms of the Rights of Man.
And, indeed, who among the rabble can lay claim to an education on the history of men? Where exists he with an education on the complete history of human thought and deed? Simpler yet, who has read all of the Torah, The Old Testament, The New Testament, all of the rejected scrolls of the desert, to the Koran, to the Hadith, the Nichomachean Ethics, The Republic, Common Sense, The Wealth of Nations, The Rights of Man, The Constitution of the United States, The Communist Manifesto, Daybreak, The Rebel, The Fountainhead, Mein Kampf, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal… Who among you can lay claim to even this tiny treasure trove of history?
I sing it thus, that no man is (as) educated as he should be or can be in this age of communication. We, all of us at the end of the day, are judged lacking in Omniscience. So why do we struggle - does not the reality of our Toleration of Ignorance show us to be lazy in all considerations? To what then do we appeal or append our claim on peace, when we live in an age in which our educations give our souls over to the jaws of conflict and trumpets of war so casually?
I am a young man. I have sought, my entire life, to improve my mind; and though I have pushed for information, I have yet to begin my struggle - much less to reign in the engine of my ministry. Yet, I am wise enough to know that I have not had time enough to compile in my mind all of the lessons of history. Indeed, I am wise enough to admit that I will die a mortal death before I complete the task, for History is ever forming, as is its nature. And it is to this wisdom and to this lack of perfected knowledge that I wrest claim to Leadership from the abusers who have failed Mankind in her struggle towards peace…from the abusers that leave Her Blind!
Allow me, a Professor of Elemental Truths, to direct your study.
Allow me to focus your eye; for what is important in the History of Peace is not what you have been taught or anything that you have derived through experience… What is primary in the history of Peace is (precisely) the failure of all education in the arena of TOLERANCE!
In the arena of Tolerance, your leaders and teachers leave you Blind.
Blind Tolerance is the root of all human failure in peace, in law, in democracy, in freedom, in rights.
Blind Tolerance is the result of a failure to teach History as a study in Ethics. In full, it is the failure of all parents (the world over throughout time) to love the lives of their children less than their immediate satisfaction or their ticking security.
Blind Tolerance is not a substitution for education.
War is the cyclical result of education held hostage by teachers and leaders that were never taught to consider for themselves the value of Ethics in terms of History; and were, in essence, instructed in the prudence of a self-evident faith in Blind Tolerance (in the name of Love or God).
Blind Tolerance is the door through which Terror struts. Blind Tolerance is the door through which the Pirate lays siege to Freedom or Booty. Blind Tolerance is the acceptance of failure in solvable problems, such as our Border Policy Failure, in favor of Lawlessness.
Blindly Tolerant men sacrifice the right to pronounce the judgment "Thou Shalt Not!" That is to say, they capitulate the right to make laws in the face of evil or conflict. What’s more?
Blindly Tolerant men bless evil, sanctifying it in the payment of alms - bribing the devil to leave his due for another day. That is to say, these appeasers of Intolerance capitulate the Right and Duty of the Offices and Posts they Hold, which hold monopoly over the enforcement of law and order.
In times of war, in times of upheaval, in times of invasion, in times of insurgency, in times of Existential Crises…Blind Tolerance is never a Virtue! In times such as these, Blind Tolerance is a cloak of cowardice warn by those destined to dismiss the idea of Victory over an enemy in favor of appeasement through Omission, in favor of reparations out of a quasi-guilt, and in favor of a temporary stay of possible execution in hopes of bribery and corruption...
The Virtue of Tolerance, itself, is achieved as the result of reasoned debate amongst the educated in ethical history on both sides of the Isle. Tolerance, itself, is the only human idea of conflict properly measured in degrees. Tolerance, itself - in the light of cooperative reason, is the measure of justice, the measure of law…and is but one measure of Peace, once Victory has been achieved and once duty has been fulfilled. For in Reasoned Tolerance lies the measure and resolve of REJECTION!
The Measure and Resolve of Rejection is the Elemental Struggle of Good Versus Evil. And I sing it, that I Will not and You, American Citizens, should not Grant our elected officials leave to shirk this first duty of a Lawful society, this Elemental Tool and First Step in the Construction of Right Law.
Men of the Mind, the world over, must Awaken to this light…to this alarm!
Let not Blind Tolerance guide you to the Vice of Cowardice! The road is dark. The path is dangerous, short. The path will lead to the rise of Insurgent Gangs within our borders. The path will lead to the rise of Pirates on every shore. The path will lead, eventually, to the fall of the market, a fall into Isolationism, and eventually to the downfall of this Great Nation at the blighted hands of Divisiveness and Insurgency Within our Ranks.
In the seed of Blind Tolerance lies the failure of men to REJECT Evil in a united democratic order, in a unified democratic voice! From this seed grow the banyan trees of division and betrayal.
If you would be free…seek not Blind Tolerance; rather, measure rejection that you might find what is worthy of acceptance. In this way lies the path of the judge…the thinking man, the Free Man-Liberty. For accepting Blind Tolerance leads to the wholehearted omission of reason and dismantling of democracy as a means to Peace, as is demonstrable throughout the entirety of history’s greatest civilizations. Strive not for Dependence on Intolerance’s visible face of prejudice to act. Independence from Intolerance, can only be attained by those willing to cast off the timidity and weakness of this blindness and failure to Reject Wrong and Evil-the most elemental failing of self-esteem, the most elemental of failings to claim the right to enforce Law and insure Order by Singing Thou Shalt Not...
If you would gain a lasting peace in times of naked aggression, the bully and the pirate, the dictator and the tyrant, must each be exposed as emboldened Extortion and embodied Evil-that men of reason might identify and reject! Blind Tolerance is not an answer…it is never a solution…it is the dismissal of the possibility of a solution.
In full, Blind Tolerance leads to the Acceptance of the primacy of Secondary Definitions and guarantees the submission of First Definitions to a constant barrage of Word Attacks in Ethics and Propaganda in both Media and Politics…
Tolerance is a tool of Rejection, utilized by the Hero when staving off Evil!
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"A press or a book is not true because it is revolutionary. It has a chance of being revolutionary only if it tries to tell the truth. We have a right to think that truth with a capital letter is relative. But facts are facts. And whoever says that the sky is blue when it is gray is prostituting words and preparing the way for tyranny."
-Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death