By: Silence DoGood
Introduction
The purpose of this book will be to identify and describe a particular philosophy group that merges secular, pro science views, with classical liberal social and economic policies.
It is to describe and motivate a generation of young idealists who have a hopeful view of the future, and who reject the State as the solution for societies ills.
In an age where the man of reason has firmly established that there exists no Gods, one must ask, how should we now be governed?
Societies in the past have been based upon laws created from flawed ecclesiastical dictum. Knowing now that laws based on the false premise of a divine overseer are mostly useless, the time is at hand to begin a new age of reason. If America is to prosper, she should fashion laws that most adequately integrate in with human nature so as to alleviate the most amount of suffering, and extend the mobility, happiness, and freedom of the most amount of individuals as possible.
Almost all tyrants, past and present, use religion as a tool to manipulate, and impoverish their people for their own selfish desires. None are so insidious as those from the current Neo-Conservative and Islamic fundamentalist movements, who rationalize oppression of minorities, and homosexuals through morality based policies and fatwa’s. These luckily draw attention away from substantive issues the people they oppress might be interested in.
It is extremely effective to galvanize voters to action on particular issues if they believe they have a moral reason for doing so. Of course the mostly useless holy books that exist can be called upon for reasoning any ill deed that a bureaucratic charlatan cares to enact. It takes only for an unenlightened public to support the deed in the name of whichever deity they were indoctrinated with, to make the matter discussed law. Thus we restrain the freedoms and happiness of a certain group of people who do not fall in line with the god-fearing groups notions of right and wrong, and we as a nation participate in the injustice through our inaction.
If we wish to evolve as a species, we would do well to leave behind a notion that a creator exists who shapes our wills, so as to better understand and define the motivations behind our actions. Being free of the shackles of morality based upon superstitions and fairy tales, the Neo-Libertarian seeks a new way to legislate, adjudicate, and execute the policies of advanced civilizations such as our own.
It is sad to think of how much good could be done in the United States, if Congress, the Courts, and the Executive were truly interested in promoting the general welfare of their own people. Instead we see what we have always seen throughout history where usurpers continue dictatorships through obvious nepotism, greed, murder, and lies. Industry in the digital age could be glorious if not for the rabid socialism that has gripped most of the world.
Indeed, Islamic radicals have poured into countries like Sweden and leeched their free resources. A colleague of mine told me his family fled that country for these reasons, and expressed that his father was. The Iraq tragedy has harmed more families than just Americans and Iraqi’s.
The splendid freedoms, of which America was prized for, have been slowly eroded over a course of time longer than one human life. This deliberate usurpation of power, liberty, and wealth, is normally slow in its creep, but can also make large gains from time to time via disturbing events such as 9/11. Naomi Klein asserts in the “Shock Doctrine” that such events usually serve as catalysts to enact legislation and changes that would have been difficult to pursue if the public were not vulnerable to exploitation from their enhanced emotional state as a direct result of said event.
It is interesting that most non-believers in the public forum tend to be leftists. They have been deemed Secular Progressives, as if the socialized policies they champion are actually considered progress. Of course, Socialism is tyranny, and as our favorite Texas Libertarian has said, “Tyranny is an old idea, Liberty is a young idea.”
As such it has been relatively simple to disengage generations of people from the political process that is critical to asserting the checks and balances of a functioning republic. A people who are cowed into submission via oppressive taxation, police state tactics, and who have no knowledge of how to take recourse, and are too weak and placated to participate in revolution, are slowly driven into serfdom as they have been in ages past. One need only study the current regime under Robert Mugabe in Africa to see a need for a citizens revolution to depose this dictator.
Only an educated, and courageous electorate that is free from mystical ideas, and who use logic, and the guides left to us from the Founders, who refuse to be victims, shall prevail in reasserting their rights guaranteed to them via the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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