Going Forward, It’s the
Only Way!
Mr. Tillerson is the recent
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Exxon, the world's 6th largest company
by revenue, and is now the United States of America’s Secretary of State. At a recent talk to employees at the State Department Tillerson
said, "I think it is really important that all of us understand the
difference between policy and values. Our values around freedom,
human dignity, the way people are treated—those are our values. Those are
not our policies…. In some circumstances, if you condition our national
security efforts on someone adopting our values, we probably can't achieve our
national security goals…. If we condition too heavily that others just adopt
this value we have come to over a long history of our own, it really creates obstacles
to our ability to advance on our national security
interests our economic interests."
Sophistry, “reasoning that seems plausible on a
superficial level but is actually unsound, or reasoning that is used to
deceive” Merriam-Webster
has always been a tool of the forces of Retrogression. It was, for example, very
instrumental, starting with the, murder by law, death of Socrates, in ending
the Golden Age of Greece, and has been a major staple in many, many of the individuals
who have over the centuries risen to positions of power in our struggle to
evolve.
Sophistry, after failing miserably in the world wars which
were generated by the version of sophistry called fascism, became somewhat
subdued. Since then sophistry has had a resurrection with the advent
of Ronald Reagan--a stark contrast to the strident and fanatic version presented
by the Nazi Superman, Hitler--and has been growing ever since, within countless
Senators and Congress persons, and all manner of Government Personas. It has
been sprouting “think tanks” such as the American Enterprise Institute,
academic fortresses such as the Chicago school of economics, the Hoover
Institution, Bankers such as Jamie Dimon, and now apparently, Oil barons such
as Mr. Tillerson.
Tillerson’s background of obviously great finesse in becoming
the CEO of the world’s 6th largest Company in one of the most
cutthroat areas of competitive business explains the illogical and unprincipled
disconnect in the above statement that he sees as perfect sense. How he separates “values” from “policy”
is a basic aspect to the “art of the deal” world where values are measured in
how successful they are in the accumulation of wealth and power.
The issue is, of course, that his version of what
constitutes our national security and economic interests is light years away
from the basic premises of the Constitution upon which the Nation was founded
and is trying to stay based. His position requires that for appearances sake [Creating
a pleasing appearance of a thing regardless of its actuality is a highly-honed
skill which lies at the heart of the art of the deal] he pays lip service to
the values which underpin our Democracy and our image in the World. However, the
“values” he lists really have no place, and in fact, are seen as simply stupid
hindrances (Why Trump wants to "shut down" the Government) to the policies he would employ in gaining his vision of what
constitutes our “national security interests” which, by the way, he con-fuses
with “our economic interests."
This is only to be expected from an individual who is
skilled enough in the ways of the jungle of corporate competition to become the
CEO of the sixth largest Corporation in the World. The bottom lines
of Capitalistic Competition do not even recognize the existence of weak
human values, “freedom, human dignity, the way people
are treated”. Their chief and only concerns are, “Can we control this
market? How much profit am I making? Let
the buyer beware”.
For example, without the tiniest concern for the Common Good,
let alone “freedom, human dignity, the way people are treated” Big Tobacco made
billions of dollars in profits while making hundreds of millions, if not
billions, of patients with lung disease and various cancers for their
co-conspirators, the other drug industry, Big Pharma, and the Insurance
Industry. Big Tobacco was not even remotely concerned with their victim’s lives, let alone freedom. In fact, they consciously engaged in a years long
conspiracy of criminal lies and fake science to thwart any kind of ameliorating
efforts by the People’s government. And
now they are making candy with nicotine in it to get more of the unwary buyers
hooked.
It would be easy to present similar acts of criminal
conspiracy in many sectors of Big Business to continue a profit-making system
that is causing millions of individuals to lose their freedom in the form of
decent living conditions and bodily harm from ceasing or changing systems that
would even slightly interfere with their bottom line profit. Think of the
recent collapse of the crooked mortgage markets, the refusal of auto
manufacturers to eliminate smog causing exhaust systems, of water companies
with lead pipes, of coal companies which poison the drinking water of millions,
of the continuing sugar poisoning through the selling of “soft drinks” which
generate diabetes, and other chronic illness in the hundreds of millions of
children. It would be a very long list.
This is what we get when the Supermen are left to run the
show. This is Ayn Rand kind of stuff. I bet she sat up in her coffin and
clapped when Tillerson was made the Secretary of State. As her hero in Atlas Shrugged, states “The political system we will build is
contained in a single moral premise: no man may obtain any values from others
by resorting to physical force [this
means that no one can be forced to pay taxes for the support of the weak fools]
no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality—to
think, to work and to keep the results—which means: the right of
property". John Gualt,
Atlas Shrugged.
So, it seems that while everyone was decrying the Ayn Rand
inclinations of Paul Ryan, Donald Trump shrugged his way into the President’s
office and has brought a lot of his most ardent followers with him.
We must not be stupid now. The agenda of these folks is to
re-establish the control of human life by the Supermen, the Chosen Few who are
heartless and care not a fig the “self evident truths that all men are created
equal and are endowed….” These individuals are the dinosaurs of the modern
time. Their day is rapidly coming to what will be a somewhat rapid and not that
spectacular end.
What is important today is for everyone who thinks to pay attention, focus
on the actions that serve the Common Good. We have enormous power when we focus
it through the heart and consciously direct it toward specific areas of need,
the environment, the health and financial systems, politics, who gets elected
and so on. Just thinking positively about these areas empowers them, so does
supporting them with money and other kinds of participation.
Evolution wont come from wishful dreaming. We are the cavalry that has to make the charge into the valley of death to secure our future from the treacherous grasp retrogresors. It is a matter of individuals exercising their free will to chose the way that leads into the light of inclusive Liberty and Freedom for all. It is something that we can and must do.
Major is the inner joy and certainty that we carry
in our hearts and minds. We, and our free choice to solve them are the solution
to our problems. Every conscious effort we make to lift, to free, to make
beautiful attracts the power of Cosmic energies. Evolution will happen. It is
unavoidable. How? When? We are the answers to those questions.
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