tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post5929384396447471094..comments2024-02-27T15:47:47.923-05:00Comments on Principled Perspectives: The First Amendment Restricts Government, Not Private Citizensprincipled perspectiveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502754865268315342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5495065931245897039.post-34072137742770717462017-10-29T21:47:57.355-04:002017-10-29T21:47:57.355-04:00It is positively revolting that what you say, here...It is positively revolting that what you say, here, is considered news or controversy by so many people everywhere. After 50 years or more of hammering away at it to a world wide culture of brick heads, I've been tired of it for some time.<br /><br />But, I don't really think it's news or controversy to them. They understand it all, as they have for centuries, now. They reject it in cold blood. They see mysticism and altruism as the easy way out if they can get their meat hooks on power, or can curry the favor of those who do, 'morally' ignoring the very few who, unwittingly or not, set themselves up as the objects of the power. They take the reason and egoism of the very few, and the very few themselves, as limited, as instrumental to power, and to those who hold the power which was given to them by the very few, but the very few isn't supposed to notice that. The very few are supposed to believe, supposed to consider cause and effect to be limited in the face of the mystic nature of existence, which they are supposed to believe.<br /><br />In mysticism, the whole difference between subject and object, and between cause and effect, is obliterated to be reestablished by those holding power, with god or the collective human consciousness as object and power, and all else, down to and including, most crucially, the individual, as the subject. In mysticism, cause and effect works in 'mysterious' ways. It provides the easy way out for those who get their meat hooks on it, thus, not having to face hard rock reality, at the expense of the very few, who believe, as they are supposed to, even as they face hard rock reality.Mike Kevittnoreply@blogger.com