[Peace-discuss] A lot of truth, and one last sentence of inspiration

[Karen Aram]

Bruce Fein<https://www.facebook.com/bruce.fein.7?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf>
1 min<https://www.facebook.com/bruce.fein.7/posts/1698653493483050> · Washington<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Washington-District-of-Columbia/110184922344060> ·
Few things are more apodictically wrong than that public opinion is generally right. Indeed, what the vast majority of what the species believes is false and delusional. Take one of infinite examples. Thomas Paine, the voice of the American Revolution, teaches that a patriot saves his country from its government; and, that here the rule of law is King, the King is not law. But today to assail the President for flouting the Declare War and Due Process Clauses of the Constitution--whose meanings are clearer than the word is--by fighting endless presidential wars that kill and maim the innocent on an industrial scale and turn children into orphans and wives into widows faster than politician's tear dries, and assassinating American citizens without accusation or trial based on untested secret evidence, is to make you in the eyes of the government and the masses unpatriotic and disloyal. This fierce public adherence to wrongs and falsehoods is not new. The masses cheered the auto-de-fes that earmarked the Spanish Inquisition, and cheered louder when the Pope condemned proponents of the heliocentric theory of the universe. The cornerstone principle of democratic theory that the common woman or man cherishes liberty and the freedom of inquiry is false, which is why it cannot be discussed-- like sex among nuns or choir boys. This understanding should not lead to despair. Wisdom discovered by the unwearied search for truth without ulterior motives is the only way to escape from the gutters and sewers of hormonal existence even if the numbers who will greet you at your enlightened perch you can count on one hand with fingers left over.
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