Existentialism Philosophy

The Philosophy of BREAKING ALL THE RULES

"Breaking All The Rules" is a state of mind. In order to understand its meaning, the correct essence of human nature must be known and admitted. If you fantasize that Voltaire's Candide is attainable, you are doomed to a plight of continuous confusion. Mankind is flawed at best, favors an immoral inclination and affirms a corrupt demeanor by his deeds. Perfection is reserved for the deity, while righteousness is the province of saints. The predominance of the human race is disposed towards self-centered expediency, abandoning any norm of moral virtue. Confirmed by the annals of history, the incontestable record of inhumanity and depravity is the actual legacy of social behavior.

Society is an abstract, while government is a tyrant. The State exists to survive and control. It operates on designs of dominance and its edicts are enforced by coercion. Arbitrary standards are the norm, while a pretense of lawful order is maintained. Disguised as public service, the preferable results for the favored and submissive, are the artificial rewards for compliance. Independent thinking is dangerous, dissent becomes the ultimate transgression and disobedience to the dictates of the State are the supreme sin.

The fraud of democracy conceals the curse of equalitarianism. Altruism is put forth as noble, while fairness is used as an excuse to demand conformity. Intrinsic, inherent and basic human rights are violated as the deceit of the "common good" is adopted to insure the regimentation of individuals. All the time, elites foster the rules of men, as they transgress the laws given to man, by God. Social Darwinism promotes the insanity of progress through the practice of collectivism. Secular relativism is the faith that makes possible the commands of totalitarian despots. The mob demands a more inclusive "free lunch" which invites further pretexts from charlatan politicians to consolidate their control.

Resisting depraved authority is the purpose behind the philosophy of Breaking All The Rules. Liberty entails responsibility. Because man is condemned to be free, society is damned to an eternal struggle against the partisans of enslavement. Our duty is not to any State, but resides within the advocacy and defense of principles for sensible moral human conduct. Accountability is essential. Social justice is a core ingredient of traditional values. Since each person is endowed with universal dignity, it behooves citizens to respect and protect, not only the less fortunate; but also ourselves.

Sincere genuine self interest is premised upon the reality of the human condition. Natural inborn rights of free association and property are fundamental. Authorities are obligated to attain consent of the citizen, in order to institute social policies that may conflict with individual rights. Withholding that permission is prudent, when those programs are harmful. When enactments, regulations and mandates are imposed against the will of objectors, the government violates any semblance of legitimacy.

There is no moral charge to engage or support in treating dissimilar and divergent persons as coequal, especially when they avow and retain their differences. The meaning of equal resides in the ability to accept separation. Countries succumb to national suicide when they destroy the rudimentary quality of their civilization and heritage.

When an artificial society deviates and diverts from exemplary standards, the equitable solution is to dissolve the theoretical relationship. Justification for disintegration is in the best mutual interest of clashing communities. Governments never have the rightful authority to compel coerced cohabitation. This assertion holds true for all ideologies, cultures and nations.

The multiculturalist lunacy that underpins the social disenfranchisement of the technocrat age, inevitably produces perpetual animosity. The pragmatic and ethical alternative is agreed disunion and detachment. The horrors of internationalism are a direct result of abandoning the right of individuals to disconnect themselves from unwanted social relationships. The same applies for nations and countries. The will of the world community is synonymous to a rule by elites. Attempts to foster equivalency through free trade is a scheme that diminishes independence for the innovators and creators of substance.

Demagogues preach inclusion, when the peoples of the planet want disengagement from merging into an all powerful and omnipresent New World Order. America First is the continuation of the 1776 Revolution. The prohibition from public office of rational leadership, prevents the implementation of a restoration to a true Republic. Sound traditional principles are denigrated by neocons. These counterfeit conservatives are the latest version of quisling infiltrators. Delusional progressives espouse that government can provide solutions, and refuse to accept that the State IS the primary problem.

When the Articles of Confederation were discarded, States Rights were destroyed. A vile central goverment began its uninterrupted march to usurp civil liberites and relegate the populist into bondage. The U.S. Constitution failed because it allowed the codification of systemic undeniable treason. The ascendancy of unrepresentative legislators, the arrogance of presential despots and the final arbitration by black robe lawyers sealed our fate.

The BATR message is consistent, clear and filled with common sense. Free enterprise is the basis for all wealth creation. State/Capitalism is a guarantee for economic servitude. Limited government is the key to establish the exclusive conditions where liberty can flourish. The individual is the peremptory authority, while the government’s only purpose is to serve the people. Unbridled freedom is often destructive, self restraint is judicious and vital to achive social harmony. Belief in God allows for faith to replace fear.

Fundamental principles overcome secular relativism. Our Existential approach to understanding offers hope. Albert Camus was right - A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world and integrity has no need of rules. When you learn to live by the former the the later permits you to understand the reason why - BREAKING ALL THE RULES - is constitutive and necessary.

SARTRE - Publisher of BATR

posted by SARTRE ! at 1/24/2004 |

Paul Tillich: the 'Apostle to the Intellectuals'

During this modern age few theologians have had more influence than Paul Tillich. His approach to cosmic questions dealt with the method of correlation found in science and the meaning of faith. In terms of his theological method Tillich's basic presupposition is that 'faith need not be unacceptable to contemporary culture and contemporary culture need not be unacceptable to faith' (Ford p. 88). Thus he sought to develop what has been termed a 'theology of culture' using the method of correlation. His appeal can be seen in his remarks: “Theology must be "answering theology"; it must adapt the Christian message to the modern mind while maintaining its essential truth and unique character” (Grenz/Olson p.117)

According to John Haught, in his book God After Darwin, Tillich’s central argument “offers a way of taking Darwinian evolution up into one's ultimate concern without claiming that God has any causal relation to evolution. God provides no historical telos for evolution, but rather a "depth teleology" that springs from the manner in which God, as the depth of the structure of finite being, is the object of Christian faith.”

The culture that adores science often wants to conclude that God is unnecessary. Tillich’s contribution is that he bridged the gap that offered hope for a generation that sought answers to the meaning of life. Ardent secularist rest their reliance on a flawed faith of progress, created through science. What Tillich demonstrated is that an understanding of God is entirely consistent with the proven facts of the physical universe. What the atheist scientist see as a deficiency in the current stage of understanding, Tillich sees as an opportunity to reach out and incorporate the non empirical spirit, into the equation that explains life.

If the secularist is the genesis of the future, how do they account for the despair that marked the age? Paul Lee asserts that “In The Courage To Be”, Tillich mentions how people in the Great Depression thought they had ceased to exist because they were unemployed. Existentialism, according to Tillich, is the outcry against such inhumanity, a protest against industrial society, substituting machines for human beings and turning them into cogs in the wheels of production and consumption, on daylight saving time, on the assembly line, or worse yet, turning them out into homelessness.

If technology was the answer, what accounts for the discontent and calamity that permeated his generation? The missing ingredient that is needed to compliment an understanding of physical cosmology resides within the spirit. D. Mackenzie Brown sees the missing link accordingly. “Tillich reflects Kierkegaard in stressing the need for each individual to confront his existence alone, in the inwardness of his soul. Man’s fulfillment must be found through his own inner courage and vision. The fundamental question of human existence — "What am I?" — can only be answered by one who asks the question.”

Intellect allows for a knowledge into the working of the physical universe and the complexities of macrocosm systems. Before one can master the techniques, the consciousness of the observer needs to know his place in the scheme of things. “However to understand his concept of reason we must understand something of his fundamental ontology which he expressed using the terms 'essence', 'existence' and 'essentialisation'. (definitions provided) In fact, for him the only way God can be fully understood is in the light of non-being. Thus existential ontology raises the question of being/non-being that theology is particularly suited to answer.”

What Tillich injected into society was a way to merge timeless truths with a culture that seems to disregard all previous historic consistency. The dread of a lost purpose prevailed during an era of uppermost cruelty. Tillich was able to reinvent a lost equilibrium and had the gift to explain it with flare and vigor. For him the key can be found in the soul. “It is not life itself; it is without creative power. But the Spirit is power as well as reason, uniting and transcending them. It is creative life. Neither power alone, nor reason alone, creates the works of art and poetry, of philosophy and politics; the Spirit creates them individually and universally, powerful and full of reason at the same time. In every great human work we admire the inexhaustible depth of its individual and incomparable character, the power of something which happens but once and cannot be repeated and that, nevertheless, is visible to century after century, universal and accessible in every period.”

Theology can be human and harmonious with seeking God. The distance between faith and culture should narrow in order for mankind to resist the temptation that the physicist is the high priest of civilization. The significance of the Tillich message lies in a reminder to heartfelt seekers of a lost spiritual element. The emptiness of a tech world cannot be fulfilled without an admission that we need the essentiality of a spiritual nature. Faith reinforces that the order found in scientific discoveries is not an accident. Tillich inspires, where the non-believer fosters desperation. The existential model endures the test of scrutiny and unites the lacking component. His popular attraction is the result of a public urgency. HOPE exists, if you know where to find it . . .

SARTRE - January 13, 2004

posted by SARTRE ! at 1/12/2004 |