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“If it’s not true, don’t say it. If it’s not right, don’t do it.” –Marcus Aurelius
Story by Chuck Woolery, (not the TV guy)
A new book by Steven Brill is out, titled “Death of Truth.” It blames our bad media diets for the current state of the world. This may not be true, but this book attempts to answer the January 2017 Time magazine cover page story as Trump was inaugurated, “Is Truth Dead?”.
Precisely 50 years earlier, TIME used exactly the same unique cover page with the words “Is God Dead? In white, on an entirely black page thinly boarded in red. After the Fact-checkers exposed all the lies, misinformation, and pure poppycock spewing from mostly one candidate in the recent Presidential contest, it’s truthful to say that if Trump is elected, the truth will definitely be on life support. And a sustainable remedy is urgently needed.
Suppose we aim to achieve each of the seven intentions in our Constitution. In that case, we must amend it to codify this fundamental truth
If we intend to achieve each of the seven intentions in our Constitution, then we must amend it to codify this fundamental truth
In much of the world, Americans fail to grasp the ‘one-sidedness’ of truth. Neil deGrasse Tyson wisely and correctly asserted that our minds can possess three kinds of truth. The first is our personal truth. What God do we believe in or not? We all know this truth has many sides and will never agree on which one is correct. Then there are our political truths. And again, there is no limit to the number of these increasingly polarizing sides.
The globally accepted ‘one-sided truth’ is determined by objective analysis. This truth has provided humanity with profoundly beneficial technologies for any application. Communication, transportation, medicine, banking, life-prolonging preventive health measures, and unfortunately, unprecedentedly robust weapon systems that can enable any disgruntled robust weapon systems enable any disgruntled nation or leader to end all life globally as we know it.
Because:
“Everything is connected, Everything is interdependent, so Everything is vulnerable… And that’s why this has to be a more than whole of government, a more than whole nation [effort]. It has to be a global effort….” Jen Easterly. CISA director. Oct. 29, 2021.
[The Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency is our nation’s newest federal agency, established by the Trump Administration in 2018.] And our environment is our most fundamental and essential infrastructure!
So, this Fourth of July, instead of celebrating our mental delusion of independence, we should think deeply about the profound words starting the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, “WE hold these truths to be self-evident.” Meanwhile, many Americans and others worldwide blessed with abundance have managed to redefine happiness. Too many believe it’s about ‘feeling good”.
But humanity will never be able to truly achieve the lasting happiness intended back when that word was written. Then, it meant contentment with finding, creating, and applying one’s talents and using them to serve those they loved and others in their community to protect their freedom, security, prosperity, and posterity.
Today, our global community allows wars, genocides, violent extremism, extremely lethal weather events, hunger, starvation, and the global spread of pandemics and other lethal and debilitating infectious diseases. Nearly all of these are affordably preventable. Yet our existing global governance system was never given the power to do this.
Humanity once achieved global success in cooperating to eradicate Smallpox. That saved more lives in the last century than all the lives lost in all the wars, revolutions, and genocides combined during the same century. Because Everything is connected, interdependent, and vulnerable, such a global effort is increasingly and urgently needed to address all the global threats we each face today.
It’s inevitable that Americans will not be celebrating our commitment to prevention this Fourth of July. Or our achieving any of the seven intentions in our Constitution’s preamble. And we will remain intentionally ignorant of the most profound set of laws offered in the first sentence of our Declaration of Independence related to keeping everyone’s alienable rights.
The most basic rights being based on “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.”
We ignore this profound truth that we must take care of nature and each other if we intend to preserve our freedoms and security or achieve any of the intentions in the preamble of our Constitution.
“Most Americans and many religious believers appear oblivious to the fact that every major religion in the world is founded on the ideal of the Golden Rule.”
Abraham Lincoln once wrote that our Declaration of Independence is our “Apple of Gold,” and our Constitution is its “Frame of Silver.” With our Constitution based on the illusion of independence that exists nowhere in the known universe, we can only expect increasing chaos because we exist in an entirely interdependent reality. And until we accept this fundamental truth, nothing is safe, secure, or sustainable. And our lack of virtue is what’s killing us. Benjamin Franklin said, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.“
“We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.“ — John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President Source: Oct. 11, 1798; Address to the military
“Our Constitution is in operation; everything appears to promise it will last, but in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” — Benjamin Franklin
Our national and global governance systems, based on the illusion of independence, were created 400 years ago. It’s way past time we created a global governance system that is true to our reality of interdependence and keep our flag pledge of “liberty and Justice for all.”
If we are truly committed to realizing the seven intentions in our Constitution, we must take proactive steps to amend it. We need to codify the fundamental truth that ‘Everything is connected, interdependent, and vulnerable. And a global effort is needed.‘ This is not just a matter of making America Great Again, but of preventing our republic from meeting the same fate as Rome. It’s time for ‘We, the people’ to do more than react to this truth. It’s time to act, or be prepared for the consequences.