Greetings good citizen,
There were too many competing items for yesterday’s spot and I did what I do ‘best’ (because I do it so often!) I digressed.
So it’s back to our primer on the pillars of A Simple Plan.
The second pillar is Justice, as many of you know (more interestingly, many of you would be content if this single pillar was all there was.
But, and it may be my twisted mind that thinks this way, I don’t think Justice is possible without Equality. Part of the reason I rank Equality number one is everything starts with it.
Seems a bit priggish to talk about equality and justice in a society that has abandoned both but that sinking feeling in your gut is due to angst…
It’s your angst as you watch the society you live in sink into barbarism.
A Simple Plan lays out how to restore the kind of ‘equality’ necessary to get the economy functioning…‘normally’.
It also lays out how to restore the Justice system.
Put on your galoshes good citizen, it’s time to jump down the rabbit hole we call ‘Justice’.
Let’s start with a ‘blanket approach’ and theorize that most of us have an ‘inner sense’ of what justice is and when it is achieved.
Sadly, most of us confuse justice with revenge.
This is where our current justice system has been sabotaged. The jury is ignored and the judge decides guilt, innocence and punishment.
Why does nobody get prosecuted for ‘White Collar Crime’? Because the judge won’t issue a warrant or even an investigation.
Why won’t the judge do this? Because it’s not what they’re paid to do…by their capitalist benefactors that is.
Judgy plays the same game he sees/believes everybody else in his position plays, he does what’s ‘good’ for HIM.
If he fails to investigate (but ‘comes into’ a ‘lucky’ stock pick by turning a ‘blind eye) fair dinkum!
Under A Simple Plan there are no judges. (Besides being nothing to bribe them with, sort of a ‘redundant solution’…)
Does our ‘lack of judges’ automatically fix our justice system?
Of course not…we have the daunting task of redefining the term ‘criminal’ ahead of us.’
Understand good citizen crimes under capitalism are quite different that crime under A Simple Plan.
The capitalist didn’t give a fig for ‘human rights’ where we ‘humanists’ care about them more than we care about MONEY!
Which is to point out another major difference between capitalism and its alternatives. In capitalism almost all crime is money centered, under A Simple Plan most crime will be people centered.
Ironically, theft will remain a huge problem after cash becomes a historic relic.
Then there’s the issue of punishment.
We have witnessed, under capitalism, the escalation of punishment (mostly the elimination of due process and legal protections against torture, preformed ‘unilaterally’ by the One Percent…or as the founders liked to call them the ‘owners’ of the land!
Which is to belabor the obvious, anyone who ‘idolizes’ the ‘founding principles’ of this nation is an elitist pig!
As I have pointed out repeatedly in the past, the central pillar of the US government is this: Let those who OWN the land, RULE the land!
Since you and I weren’t here when these predators were dividing up the nation among themselves, we missed out on our chance to own a ‘voting share’.
Those shares were all gone shortly after the revolution ended. (And continued to be gobbled up by the same people who had helped themselves to the original ‘pie’ when new regions ‘joined’ the Union…)
But I digress.
Which is to point out that the History books tell us one thing while history itself tells us an entirely different story.
SO how do we become the just and humane society we hope to evolve into if we don’t adopt a ‘humane’ system of punishment?
Yes, good citizen Exile was developed as that ‘humane’ system. Often the most fitting punishment is to let the criminal who doesn’t appreciate the rules to live as they wish without those rules.
But we need not let these selfish people disrupt social cohesion with their blatant disregard for the most basic courtesy. Want to behave ‘like an animal’? Then go live with the animals!
Which, unfortunately for you, will be others just like you!
So what will get you exiled? Mostly theft and coercion…although theft is pretty stupid in a society where you can’t sell anything to anybody (because nobody has money they can give YOU…but that doesn’t mean they won’t try!)
The other thing that will get you ‘barred’ from society (and the gene pool) is treason.
Of course, treachery, which is commonplace today, will be illegal under A Simple Plan because treason will be ‘redefined’.
It is common today to ‘mis-represent’ things or situations only to later claim you were ‘mis-understood’.
While sometimes the ‘mis-understanding’ is genuine, other times the ‘fraud’ is intentional.
This willingness to harm others for personal gain is a nasty trait
Will your kids get exiled for YOUR crimes?
Only if they do as you did.
No one would be punished out of hand (or through ‘association’) under a ‘just society’…but if your tend to be ‘twisted’ a certain way then the odds start to tip against you.
Honestly, I think we are all the ‘product’ of the society we were raised in. Raise a child with tolerance and forbearance and you will produce a solid citizen who appreciates AND values the benefits of civil society, not just some of them but ALL of them.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
There were too many competing items for yesterday’s spot and I did what I do ‘best’ (because I do it so often!) I digressed.
So it’s back to our primer on the pillars of A Simple Plan.
The second pillar is Justice, as many of you know (more interestingly, many of you would be content if this single pillar was all there was.
But, and it may be my twisted mind that thinks this way, I don’t think Justice is possible without Equality. Part of the reason I rank Equality number one is everything starts with it.
Seems a bit priggish to talk about equality and justice in a society that has abandoned both but that sinking feeling in your gut is due to angst…
It’s your angst as you watch the society you live in sink into barbarism.
A Simple Plan lays out how to restore the kind of ‘equality’ necessary to get the economy functioning…‘normally’.
It also lays out how to restore the Justice system.
Put on your galoshes good citizen, it’s time to jump down the rabbit hole we call ‘Justice’.
Let’s start with a ‘blanket approach’ and theorize that most of us have an ‘inner sense’ of what justice is and when it is achieved.
Sadly, most of us confuse justice with revenge.
This is where our current justice system has been sabotaged. The jury is ignored and the judge decides guilt, innocence and punishment.
Why does nobody get prosecuted for ‘White Collar Crime’? Because the judge won’t issue a warrant or even an investigation.
Why won’t the judge do this? Because it’s not what they’re paid to do…by their capitalist benefactors that is.
Judgy plays the same game he sees/believes everybody else in his position plays, he does what’s ‘good’ for HIM.
If he fails to investigate (but ‘comes into’ a ‘lucky’ stock pick by turning a ‘blind eye) fair dinkum!
Under A Simple Plan there are no judges. (Besides being nothing to bribe them with, sort of a ‘redundant solution’…)
Does our ‘lack of judges’ automatically fix our justice system?
Of course not…we have the daunting task of redefining the term ‘criminal’ ahead of us.’
Understand good citizen crimes under capitalism are quite different that crime under A Simple Plan.
The capitalist didn’t give a fig for ‘human rights’ where we ‘humanists’ care about them more than we care about MONEY!
Which is to point out another major difference between capitalism and its alternatives. In capitalism almost all crime is money centered, under A Simple Plan most crime will be people centered.
Ironically, theft will remain a huge problem after cash becomes a historic relic.
Then there’s the issue of punishment.
We have witnessed, under capitalism, the escalation of punishment (mostly the elimination of due process and legal protections against torture, preformed ‘unilaterally’ by the One Percent…or as the founders liked to call them the ‘owners’ of the land!
Which is to belabor the obvious, anyone who ‘idolizes’ the ‘founding principles’ of this nation is an elitist pig!
As I have pointed out repeatedly in the past, the central pillar of the US government is this: Let those who OWN the land, RULE the land!
Since you and I weren’t here when these predators were dividing up the nation among themselves, we missed out on our chance to own a ‘voting share’.
Those shares were all gone shortly after the revolution ended. (And continued to be gobbled up by the same people who had helped themselves to the original ‘pie’ when new regions ‘joined’ the Union…)
But I digress.
Which is to point out that the History books tell us one thing while history itself tells us an entirely different story.
SO how do we become the just and humane society we hope to evolve into if we don’t adopt a ‘humane’ system of punishment?
Yes, good citizen Exile was developed as that ‘humane’ system. Often the most fitting punishment is to let the criminal who doesn’t appreciate the rules to live as they wish without those rules.
But we need not let these selfish people disrupt social cohesion with their blatant disregard for the most basic courtesy. Want to behave ‘like an animal’? Then go live with the animals!
Which, unfortunately for you, will be others just like you!
So what will get you exiled? Mostly theft and coercion…although theft is pretty stupid in a society where you can’t sell anything to anybody (because nobody has money they can give YOU…but that doesn’t mean they won’t try!)
The other thing that will get you ‘barred’ from society (and the gene pool) is treason.
Of course, treachery, which is commonplace today, will be illegal under A Simple Plan because treason will be ‘redefined’.
It is common today to ‘mis-represent’ things or situations only to later claim you were ‘mis-understood’.
While sometimes the ‘mis-understanding’ is genuine, other times the ‘fraud’ is intentional.
This willingness to harm others for personal gain is a nasty trait
Will your kids get exiled for YOUR crimes?
Only if they do as you did.
No one would be punished out of hand (or through ‘association’) under a ‘just society’…but if your tend to be ‘twisted’ a certain way then the odds start to tip against you.
Honestly, I think we are all the ‘product’ of the society we were raised in. Raise a child with tolerance and forbearance and you will produce a solid citizen who appreciates AND values the benefits of civil society, not just some of them but ALL of them.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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