Miserere For The Land Of
The FreeBy
Paul Edwards
July 07, 2021 "Information
Clearing House" -
In science and mathematics, problems based
on faulty data or corrupt inputs yield
worthless results. Sound outcomes depend on
accurate foundational elements. With
physical substances and numbers exactitude
is possible. The means, that is, always
justify the end. Or not… Garbage in;
garbage out.
In social and political
constructs and, in fact, in all relating to
the tangled, confusing labyrinth of human
affairs, absolute precision can never be
attained. The best that can be said of them
is that the sounder the foundation on which
a social or political premise is based, the
more likely it is that forecast of its
evolution and prediction of its future
state may be possible.
Countries are, and have
always been, accidents. The myriad random
events and historic freaks and anomalies
that coalesce to form them in their
historically malleable plasticity are
uncountable, often lost in time, mysterious
or untraceable.
The modern custom is that
nations—forming or once formed—prepare a
constitution to express—to itself, its
people, and the world—the principles
according to which it proposes to function.
This is in the nature of a testament to the
virtue and integrity its founders intend to
inculcate and implement through it. It is
always based on an acknowledged dominant
collection of “laws”—natural, religious or
cultural—on which to establish its bona
fides as a viable, legal, and legitimate
country.
The United States
Constitution was based theoretically on
three fundamental, long established pillars
of European political, religious, and
economic thought. The political element was
a synthesis of the core ideals of the
Enlightenment, much of it in Locke’s “Second
Treatise of Government” and in his “A Letter
Concerning Toleration”. The religious
element derived from Protestant
Christianity, materially modified by Deist
thinking. The economic influence came
exclusively from classic Capitalism, then
beginning its period of dynamic worldwide
expansion. From
amalgamation of these three sources the
Constitution drew its theoretical potency
and vitality, and each of these doctrines
embodied in it took on, with time, the
character of holy writ. The men who crafted
it, with meticulous attention to their
private and personal interests, presented it
to the birthing nation as the summation of
the wisdom of the enlightened ages expressed
in as compact, practical form as humanly
possible. This it was not.
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Insofar as it was a gross
deception—which it was—this was not
intentional. The powerful men who produced
it had no dark, nefarious design to inflict
an oppressive, exploitative system on their
country and their people. They, to a man,
it seems, meant well by their lights in the
cultural context in which they matured. The
flaws, biases, and gross injustices so
obvious in it from a current perspective
were, in large measure, the prejudices of
all European ruling classes of the time and,
indeed, the consensus of the most acute,
discriminating philosophical minds of the
era.
Behind their sincere
conviction in the merit of their creation
was the inherent human incapacity to see
through and beyond their own zeitgeist; to
see past what amounts to a kind of
philosophic categorical imperative that
prevents men from conceiving ideas that are
not implicit in the moral conventions of
their time. It is what makes the egregious
ethical failures of past generations so
baldly obvious to us, while we remain
utterly blind to our own.
Once the Constitution was
ratified, a far more insidious and truly
damning set of behaviors came into play.
The exalted principles from which it was
synthesized left such latitude in their
generality that it was susceptible to great
abuses and perversions. For its religious,
political, and economic bases were never
sincerely pursued, rigorously practiced, or
honestly implemented. Once the dead words
of the document, themselves so bereft of
equity and justice, were given to ordinary
men to oversee, deform and exploit, the
little that was noble and just in it was
largely lost.
The myth postulating an
exalted American character was forged and
employed from earliest days as a cover for a
vicious, elitist program of murder, slavery,
and exploitation of man and nature, that has
led today to a nation so divided,
destabilized, and lost, that our
psychopathic monstrosity of a government is
no longer safe in its long, evil charade
behind its hubris, lies, and violence.
In the back of their minds,
in the dim unconscious of the mass of
people, there is a nagging sense of unease,
a foreboding of unavoidable disaster
gathering. They are not mistaken. Every
faction on the long spectrum of opinion and
belief is searching desperately for an
answer, hope, a renewal. There will be
none.
The reason a repulsive,
vulgar oaf such as Trump, or a corrupt,
addled nonentity like Biden can be elected
President is that all ethical standards that
might prevent it have been eroded by two
hundred years of dishonesty and calculated
betrayal by the privileged financial elite
that owned our nation and plunged it into
the dysfunction, disaster, and doom that is
now inevitable.
The American people have been
victimized, violated, and ruined by
psychotic criminals who deceived and
enslaved them and trained them to worship
their abusers, to embrace their serfdom.
When, for decades, centuries, a people is
subjected to endless indoctrination in
cruelty and dishonesty, awakening from that
propagandized state must be traumatic, if it
is even possible.
The mythic “democracy” we
were to have was subverted from the
beginning by the power of official
chicanery, and denied to the poor and
ignorant, foreigners, Indians, women, and
blacks. The Christianity solemnly endorsed
was always a pious, hollow fraud, chanted as
a mantra of the ruling class, never
practiced in the violent piracy and murder
of our imperial expansion. And the
sanctified economics of Capitalism has
always been based on extraction of profit
from the sweat and blood of pauperized labor
for the aggrandizement of conscienceless
plutocrat exploiters.
When a nation is poisoned for
its entire history by its ruling elite with
toxic propaganda that contradicts the moral,
ethical bases it was founded on, its only
end is implosion and dissolution.
The impending crash of the
American Empire is essential for the
survival and health of the natural and
political world. The tragedy is not in what
is coming; it is in the astonishing
possibility we had that was despised and
thrown away and will never be regained.
Paul Edwards is
a writer and film-maker in Montana. He can
be reached at: hgmnude@bresnan.net
