Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 38 Editor's Choice: 2
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Hysteria is the key
[Read the article: Rev. Jeremiah Wright isn't the problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Wright isn't the problem. Stupid patriotism is the problem."
Wrong. Belief is the problem. Belief in the Culture that makes faith in God, faith in Government, and faith in the American Way a conviction that lies in the face of history.
Every faith is an emotional attachment to some form of slavery. Every belief is an irrational yielding of self-identity to the will of another. Every belief isolates the individual with the promise of strength and freedom. Every belief requires a free mind to be bound by a system that feels superior to another.
Obama and Wright fell under the spell of the American Myth, the cultural belief that America was superior because it was a God fearing nation. God, in His infinite mercy, ordained slavery in all monotheistic religions. He required absolute obedience and sacrifice. We believed that this was a shortcut to paradise. It only took total submission, not responsibility, to gain the moral high ground.
Where is racial freedom? in the genes, not in legal definitions. Where is bias, hatred, and prejudice? In the beliefs of men who find authority for dominion in baseless convictions amd myths.
The great speech of Obama was a perpetuation of the self desception that led him and all oppressed peoples, the poor, the ignorant the disenfranchised, to believe that a separate culture would create a just world. They faied to understand that a separate culture is another culture in which dominance may be established.
Stupidity is not the problem, Emotional insecurity that relies on class distinctions for identity is the cause of inequity.
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Obama Difference
[Read the article: The Obama difference]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Unlike most presidential Dems in recent memory, the Illinois senator is at ease with himself -- even while bowling gutter balls in Pennsylvania."
Would it be unracial or ungenderlike of me to remind Mr.S. that George W. Bush has been at ease with himself -- even while throwing gutter balls in Pennsylvania Avenue?
We need a president, an administrator, a public servant who will direct the policies of all the American people. We do nor need a special interest representative, least of all one who is at ease with a personal conviction of morality and ethics which will color all judgments.
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Can Barack and Michelle change their victim mentality?
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The reason that Barack Obama will fail as a President if he doesen't fail as a candidate, is because he is a professional African-American who assumes that he must use politics to gain equality among other professional groups, professional Catholics, Christian, white, Hispanic, trickle-downers, and any organized beliefs that promote equality as a legitimate status.
This country was established by Amateurs, knowing their limitations and the frailties of humankind, set about to limit the powers of government and recognise the authority of all the people, of each person, not the power of the few.
Equality is inherent to each of us. Anyone who must believe in the equality of gender, race, creed, or national origin denies the equality of all.
What experience does Obama bring to the candidacy for president? He has been a victim of prejudice.
He has responded by becoming a victim of belief. He believes in the American Myth of race, He reacts as a believer in a cultural acceptance of that myth. Don Quixote had a better sense of realty and a clearer identity of his enemies as an individual on a quest for good, than a self-avowed victim on a quest for equality.
To believe is to be trapped in segregation. No belief exists that does not require absolute obedience. No belief exists that does not require separation from all other beliefs and the demand for defense from any and all contradictory beliefs. It is the nature of belief to be better than any other.
We have the lesson of the George W. Bush administration as the latest example.
We do not need another faith healer.
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Nonsense words do not a science make.
[Read the article: You are the river: An interview with Ken Wilber]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In simple terms, the self is a learned concept. It identifies a conviction of self by identifying anything not confirmed emotionally as self to be other. This is the presumption of ego. Humans are not fully evolved. We are Homo credibilis, not Homo sapiens. We are Believing man. not Wise man. We have an imagination, an unlimited associative ability that is far beyond our capacity to understand within the meager perceptions on which base our reason. We rely on emotional attachments to pain and pleasure experiences to get us from one moment to another.
Our preconscious senses respond to more environment than our consciousness can accept and respond to. Decisions are made by analyses and comparisons with similar experiences, and actions are instituted milliseconds before we are aware of our decisions.
Any pseudoscience that attributes reason to rationalization does not understand the biological imperative of human thought processes.
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Mythology Ain't The Answer
[Read the article: Wright's theology not "new or radical"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It takes a theologian to confuse belief with ethics.
The idea that liberty and equality has a religious foundation is nonsense. Organized religion is a legalization process. Rules of behavior that are acceptable to one group are foisted upon another. The history of beliefs is a history of paranoia and xenophobia, of separation by religion, race, gender into regulated laws.
Slavery, the ownership of humans as chattel, has been an accepted practice for millennia.
The modern industrialized society , since the rejection of rule by autocrats and Church, has changed the rules of slavery from ownership of body to ownership by economic dependency.
Marxism, communism, capitolism, fascism and theocracy have been reactions to the new slavery.
The few States that have working constitutional guarantees of civil rights and separation of church and state, and limitation of powers of government acknowledge the distrust of political influence. That handful of nations continues to evolve under the pressures of global economic threats to the environment and the distribution of limited resources.
The misunderstood 'survival of the fittest' was never meant to apply to the strongest nation, the strongest religion, or the most populous or the wealthiest group. Such nineteenth century models are obsolete. So is Wright. So is Obama, and all who are unable to understand that freedom is not license, resources are not free, and populatin is not sustainable.