Concept Series Preface
The purpose of this series of articles is to establish a cordon of doubt around firmly stated, but subjectively held, principles of truth and democratic belief, albeit used to govern our politics and personal beliefs. What are they who are freer today “to be themselves” free to become? Why are they who are pre-tensed in life spoiling upon the human mindset? Not even the human aspect is knowable, as we fawn upon a vacant incubation, and afterward feign a hatched reality.
Known in Statistics, larger samples tend to bring greater assurance of data and reliability of analysis. Personally, however, mass sampling and grappling for features do not bring assurance of righteous intent, behavioral direction, or even authoritative control. A current (vapid) legal thesis purports that what consenting adults elect to do when alone, or in the privacy of their own home, suffices to make it practicable and permissible. It’s as if ‘consensuality’ adds premium value and virtue to individual choice. Does this mean that the husband and his fly-by-night mistress have the right to have sex in-house when the wife is out? A bargaining of the resolution to this question might entail some controversy. An answer of “No” might be deemed morality-driven (a secular-religious sin), besides being discriminatory against what two people, declaratively alone in the house, have a will to do. A subjective reply of “Yes” would vainly reveal your heartlessness toward the feelings of the wife and possible loss of respect from their children. Any such relationship, even if consensually performed, carries with it automatic hurt for any third party pushed aside and defamed by this illicit arrangement or those caught in its generational crosshairs. Would not the same be true for homosexual couples (unionized or married) caught in unfaithfulness?
Mutual agreement does not justify sin. When conspirators consent to assassinate the President in the basement or bowels of someone’s home, does that justify the intentions? When masterminds and accomplices scheme to rob a bank, does the cooperative prep-work beforehand make legitimate the stolen income? When foreign agents acting in league with domestic insiders (traitors) wile their way into top secret laboratories to steal blueprints and plans, does that give patency to their product theft? Only perfect minds with perfect hearts acting in tandem with the laws of God and Man can give permissible, worthwhile consent. Perfection of mind implies thorough knowledge; while perfection of heart reflects responsible entrusted dedication.
Some consent has been weaved into the everyday textile of social vesture, presuming the participants have the wisdom to exercise it. Otherwise, how shall it ever be possible for individuals to consent to marriage, for winning candidates to ever swear faithfulness of duty to elected office, for investors, brokers, and exchange mediums to operate in public trust? The less perfect must always concede to the more perfect. Those who would serve a marriage or a public position or an investment proposition while in willful consent must be willing to subscribe to its associated ethics. They are like prophets submitting themselves in pledge to the oracles of God, which are in sufferance of death for either speaking or not speaking their fulfillment. Rarely does one ever “consent to the act”, as much as submit to the authority riding shotgun over it.
By higher authority, many things, including normally legal and technically permissible things, can be foreclosed (or not) according to their private appeasement. This is sometimes referred to as the “Dear John letter” phenomenon, whereby during World War II, a U.S. wartime law (only) prohibited a wife from filing for divorce of her own volition without the consent of her (overseas-in-uniform) husband (Costello, 1985). If conditions are prime for fires during a long dry season, officials will proclaim a ban on “open camp fires or backyard barbecues”, “no watering the grass or washing the cars”, etc. Local zoning laws may be quite restrictive about keeping the grass mowed within a certain height, keeping untagged junk cars out of sight, over-parking on the street, removing Christmas lights, statues, and even flags, whether that be American, the Confederate, the KKK, or an emblem of the Nazi cross. Complementary provisions against a private business would involve keeping restaurants immaculate and bug-free, and generally following the outlines and operating hours and specific prescriptions of the fire marshal and the county building inspectors. Special regulations might curtail smoking, drinking and the use of drugs on the premises, medical notices and other topical requirements (e.g., masks). A homeowner can’t keep loaded guns (out in the open) in the house, hunters can’t shoot off rifles too close to neighboring houses, can’t threaten burglars or attackers unless in defense of self and family.
A great irony confronts popular (populist) democracies — seeing it often happens that the more freedom people vote for themselves and the greater the will for compelling decency, the less freedom they end availing for themselves, especially on the scarred landscape of disputable justice. That’s because people often foolishly define ‘freedom’ as the ability to take or do whatever you want. Formerly-recognized aberrant factions of society, like homosexuals and queers, give lame rebuke to honest passion and concerned expression by declaring that ‘judging people’ would be … well … “judgmental” and hence presumptuous and wrong under any circumstances. Indicative more of “social justice” than freedom compliance, according to the legal proceedings of a court, a less-than-constitutional replica of a republic would intervene to bring injunction against sincere witness among equals. Ordinary people who are counselled to have ‘free will’ may be cancelled their freedom to use it. In at least one county in the suburbs of Washington, DC, the council passed a law forbidding citizens from starting their cars early on cold, frosty mornings and letting them idle unattended until adequately warm (Wilkins, 2018). The easy fix to government ineptitude and criminal wrongdoing is to take away the rights (making them criminally liable) of (therefore no longer) law-abiding citizens. Residential complaints were not to be acknowledged by groups seeking responsive action against car thieves; instead the government coughed up restrictions against mystified residents. No matter that there are ample police officers out there passing out parking violations continually and distributing numerous speeding tickets on trivial offenses. No, the cure for cold morning heists is to outlaw the actions of early morning risers. Extended, the cure for all theft is to outlaw the personal possession of all property. Synchronistically, the cure for shoplifting is to charge the storeowner with overt exposure of goods on shelves. A key to preventing all police brutality is to eliminate all methods of manual capture, ending all forcible detainment of criminals. The extenuating circumstance (escapement) for rape is to make all clothing optional or see-through and suspending the need for female concession. On the “way out” to the refuse site, the wolves decide what articles may be dumped and when.
No person has the right to fashion a nuclear reactor or facility in the privacy of his bedroom or home lot; to make hazardous chemicals in his garage; then, too, to spray his lawn or fruit trees potentially sickening or poisoning everyone around. No one should build a firing range ad hoc on his tiny lot, construct bombs, or set off large artillery. A home should not be turned into a safe-house for storing weapons or planning crimes. As with treason (above) or military conspiracies, just the will to commit wrong provides sufficient voucher for conviction of a wrongdoing.
Behind closed shades, a person should not use his home (parapet) as an observation post for spying on his neighbor. He cannot start a business of whatever his liking, like renting to undocumented aliens (in theory) without a license, or to poor people, or to the elderly under unsanitary conditions. He can’t distill moonshine or grow illegal drugs (in theory). Two consenting adults can’t agree to harbor a criminal or terrorist, or mutually agree to defy a court order. They can’t mishandle endangered animals or, in reverse, expose the public to potentially-dangerous creatures (in theory). It is worth noting, as an aside, that people who have already been marked or stigmatized with incompetent or improper treatment of animals (dogs) should, by implication, be automatically disqualified from raising children. They can’t set dangerous traps or even conceive a secure property arrangement or grounds-upkeep that poses a hazard to unwary visitors. Another imposing note, that property deemed yours can always be threatened with loss through divorce, quarantining, tax sale, or eminent domain.
By consent, a man might say he has the right in the privacy of his bedroom to have marital relations with numerous kept wives; or even have sex with his daughter, and the mother likewise with her son. Neither parent, if not already psychologically restrained, has the stability to make such an offering. Neither youth (boy or girl) has the capacity to understand what is being offered: emotional termination (which is a form of suicide). A gift is only a gift if it is accepted; accordingly, a right is only a right if the acceptor is cognizant of its scheduled meaning and corresponding responsibility.
The case that any act, sexual or otherwise, performed in the privacy of one’s own house is permissible is based on two obvious falsehoods. The first false assumption is that we are born gods, in the sense that we are not influenced by the things we do and by what goes on around us. Who knows what time has excised from aged thought, what lines were youthfully crossed, what harm was done in the hideousness of their secret performance. Light sin can lead to heavy darkness; and its carrying on in life a drudgery to sustain. These things, when exposed, may turn paragons inside out. The second false assumption is empiric in origin, that human beings rarely keep things hidden or isolated beyond condemnation. Wasn’t that the inevitable end-goal of gay liberation: coming out of the closet, being able to work with others handily and to cross-manage situations — eventually to hold dates in public, then kiss, parade around town nearly naked, inviting sex openly? All these things have been acquiesced to (foolishly) by a humiliated heterosexual community — until no adverse act of contrivance or personal portrayal (betrayal) of normalcy and sexual affront, short of actual violence or murder, becomes objectionable. Even raping a stranger or molesting a child is quickly becoming non-punishable behavior. Sodom, the city, finally reached a stage where the entire population spent much of their days roaming throughout the streets like cannibals seeking neighbors, strangers, and angelic visitors to prey upon. This infestation of social-aberrant behavior would be further advanced by the rise of socio-sexual diseases — bearing upon a once wholesome society, suspended in fully agonizing compromise.
Why am I so against you? Because you sit there in your professional chairs, breaching the everyday hopes of the American people — indeed all common decency — pimping the worst kinds of deviant and corrosive sexual behavior; but unless things get out of hand and these violent, nauseating people actually go on a cross-town rampage or a city-wide purge of innocents, unless they abuse women on camera, or video the snuffing out of babies in their cribs — unless there is actual and significant bloodshed, you (the authorities) will say nothing against them. “No harm done; they are mutually-consenting adults”. Those who stand by evil shall in time resemble his image and become indistinguishable from the Devil; towards which will follow the implication of another (this time heavenly) judgement of corresponding standby punishment.
Internationally, actions and practices once deemed noble and notable have in modern times been delimited. In Africa, the Maasai tribe in the past strongly encouraged boys of a certain age to go out to hunt and kill at least one lion in affirmation of their manhood (Ham, 2021). Thanks to new conservation measures and the relative scarcity of lions, these cultural intentions are rarely practiced. Only those lions which trespass or kill their livestock are now hunted. Up until the 1970s and the passage of the Marine Mammals Protection Act, hunters, whalers, and even the Eskimos killed many thousands of walruses in Alaska each year. Today the slaughter is strictly limited, and the Eskimos, aside from meeting subsistence needs, act more like park rangers in the reporting and the protecting of walruses (Lowry, 1985). Northwest tribes along the Pacific coast used to hollow out large logs of red cedar, some 60 feet long, in order to construct canoes or to make other important traditional items like totem poles, which are no longer deemed socially, naturally, or religiously incumbent upon their tribal substantiation (Rust, 2022).
What society declares for itself through popular voting (consensus), or taken as providential by cultural standing, is often overturned in time because of more critical thinking. Just because the Biden Administration, the medical charlatans, the media hypocrites, and the mutinous education departments swear by transgenderism, child mutilation, systemic racism, white supremacy, and numerous other acts of violent intrusiveness and natural defamation, that doesn’t make them admirable or desirable — as noticed in the elite majority itself, which doesn’t promote these abominations among their own (unkind) kind. As once they institutionalized the slavery of Black People, so now they enslave the White Americans of Christian principle and character, and the un-woke poor. So now they enslave children in the dungeons of their schoolroom masters, and incarcerate their political opponents without a fair trial.
Are you ‘awoke’ yet? Sufficient unto the day … also … is the vanity thereof; carrying forward as though a Truth were always found housed alone. Cursed, it befalls the pronouncement of innermost sanctuary — to find no solitude or safe house — having one’s own Evil already in local residence there.
References
Ham, A. (2021. September 14). Where people live in harmony with lions.
Retrieved from www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210913-where-people-live-in-harmony-with-lions
John Costello, Love Sex and War: Changing Values, 1939-45. William Collins, London, 1985.
Lowry, L. (1985, July-August). Pacific walrus – boom or bust?
Retrieved from www.adfg.alaska.gov.static/home/library/pdfs/wildlife/research_pdfs/pacific_walrus_boom_bust.pdf
Rust, O. (2022, June 22). The history of Native Americans in the Northwest.
Retrieved from www.thecollector.com/northwest-native-americans-history/
Wilkins, T. (2018, March 19). 37 cars stolen while warming up in Prince George’s County so far this month.
Retrieved from www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/37-cars-stolen-while-warming-up-in-prince-georges-county-so-far-this-month/155483/
