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Uncle Emanuel Watkins
12-23-2008, 11:29 AM
The Rules of Modern American Transcendentalism

Rule #21: While having more lawyers and more police will lead to more crime, having less lawyers and more police, and more lawyers and less police will likewise lead to more crime. So, the best way to lower the crime rate is to have less lawyers and less police. One acheives this by implementing less laws, regulations and statutes.

Rule #1. Never have too many rules.

Rule #2. Hate is un-American.

Rule #3. Never blame the people.

Rule #4. Never use the political spectrum as a playing field to bicker about politics.

Rule #5. Never give an interview with the media that isn't spontaneous, unedited and unrehearsed.

Rule #6. As Protestants worship the singular Civil-Purpose "of the Holy Word in the Bible" over the worshipping "of the legal precedent rituals established by the authority of the Pope and the Vatican," Civil-Purpose should likewise be consecrated by American citizens over any traditional legal precedence established by the authority of tyranny outside of the Constitution.

Rule #7. As law abiding American citizens, we should prefer imprisonment, torture, death and even the frangrance of an outhouse to that of legal tyranny.(Never smile in a courtroom. Always show up as late as possible while leaving as quickly as possible.)

Rule #8. As a winning political campaign is a victory for tyranny, establishing a bipartisan American Movement to consecrate Civil-Purpose is a victory for the people (The intention is never to establish a totalitarian single party, for this is disillusionment, but to reestablish an eroded two party system.)

Rule #9. False American Movements are Administrations which fail to implement fresh measures while they dig up obsolete legal precedents from the past to implement. (American Movements lead Americans back to the consecration of the Civil Purpose in the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, the formal documents of The Declaration of Independence and The U.S. Constitution, and to improvements in contentment in the lives of Americans while altering, tweaking, clarifying and ammending the Constitution, our lightning in a bottle so to speak, as little as possible. A false American Movement, on the other hand, just tells us what we want to hear).

Rule #10. The debt of the people should not be burdened with any legal counterfeit created by any foreign or domestic tyranny. (If THE PEOPLE must spend 20 trillion to fix a national dinner that tyranny spent 10 trillion to divide, so be it. The people must own the purse!)

Rule #11. As legal lobbying on the Federal level benefits the rule of tyranny, civil invention on the local level benefits the rule of the people (The local invention of a comfortable chair is created to make THE PEOPLE "happier." This is far greater in value than the Federal lobbying of tyranny that takes place by special interest groups who serve to divide up our national dinner table all in the name of "responsibility." We are not a nation of special interests but a nation of the people).

Rule #12. There are 3 kinds of people: those with feeble minds who persecute people, those with immature minds who laugh about persecution, and those with the kinds of sober minds that get persecuted. To be an American is always to be the latter.

Rule #14. Taxes are created with the intentions of benefitting some while cheating others. (Give 10% to the widows and orphans and be governed by the pure hearts of the widows and orphans)

Rule #15. Disillusioned is the idea that problems are solved with lots of change. The U.S. Constitution should be cherished as lightning in a bottle by its contents being altered, tweaked, clarified, and ammended as little as possible in order to improve the lives of American citizens. (The best change comes in small, precious packages)

Rule #16. While political partisanship divides us into rich and poor, the evil of tyranny actually victimizes the rich without power just as much as it does the poor.

Rule #17. When inquiring with the government, ask to speak to an American before asking to speak to an expert (while experts know what they are speaking about, far too few of them know what it is to be an American. Example: "Can I speak to an American please?" Oh, you are an American? Well, are you an expert then?").

Rule #18. The purpose of authority is not to bring responsibility but contentment. (Persecution: When the need for responsibility becomes greater than the need for contentment).

Rule #19. As change for the sake of change is no better than no change at all, responsibility for the sake of responsibility is no better than no responsibility at all. As the purpose of establishing authority is to tend to our contentment, we likewise behave responsibly for the purpose that doing so will make us happy. When we are bound and committed to the purpose of equality for the sole purpose of responsibility alone, then we should consider ourselves disillusioned or, worst yet, even UnAmerican.

Rule #20. When things get difficult, there is just one solution which is to survive and only one way to survive which is the good, right way.

Truth Warrior
12-23-2008, 11:34 AM
Rule 21, soon to be quickly followed by Catch 22, I assume. :D :p

heavenlyboy34
12-23-2008, 11:36 AM
Rule 21, soon to be quickly followed be Catch 22, I assume. :D :p

lol ;)

cheapseats
12-23-2008, 12:31 PM
The Rules of Modern American Transcendentalism

Rule #21: ...having less lawyers and more police...will likewise lead to more crime.

Not necessarily. I will suggest you derive this conclusion from our having a bunch of dodgy police departments/officers and a bunch of capricious laws that are inconsistently enforced. But that is THE PEOPLE'S FAULT for accepting S.N.A.F.U. as S.O.P.



So, the best way to lower the crime rate is to have less lawyers and less police.

Better, I think, to have fewer legal loopholes and honest police . . . which involves screening for nut-period-case-period types and PAYING LAW ENFORCEMENT BETTER THAN CRIMINALS ARE PAID.



One acheives this by implementing less laws, regulations and statutes.[/B]

I honestly believe we'd be better off to scrap every fucking law on our books and start from scratch than to continue to regulate our regulations. The legal labyrinth is all about billable hours --and getting moneyed parties off scot-free, natch.




Rule #1. Never have too many rules.

Agreed.



Rule #2. Hate is un-American.

Hate is an emotion universally recognized and experieced. It's got nuthin' to do with nationality.




Rule #3. Never blame the people.

How convenient. I will argue that a truly gross percentage of the American People are guilty as sin, and better wake the fuck up out of their self-absorbed complacency or they're goin' to hell.




Rule #4. Never use the political spectrum as a playing field to bicker about politics.

Where BUT on the political spectrum would one bicker about politics? The issue is bickering and the small, mean-mindedness born of insecurity and abuse.





Rule #5. Never give an interview with the media that isn't spontaneous, unedited and unrehearsed.

And certainly never give an interview just to be "human interest." Have an agenda, or keep your mouth shut and your face discreet.




Rule #6. As Protestants worship the singular Civil-Purpose "of the Holy Word in the Bible" over the worshipping "of the legal precedent rituals established by the authority of the Pope and the Vatican," Civil-Purpose should likewise be consecrated by American citizens over any traditional legal precedence established by the authority of tyranny outside of the Constitution.


Civil Purpose should be consecrated by American citizens over any traditional precedent established by tyranny AND over any subjective precedent established by religion.




Rule #7. As law abiding American citizens, we should prefer imprisonment, torture, death and even the frangrance of an outhouse to that of legal tyranny.

I quite agree, but then Rule 20 wants less ambiguity.




Rule #8. As a winning political campaign is a victory for tyranny, establishing a bipartisan American Movement to consecrate Civil-Purpose is a victory for the people (The intention is never to establish a totalitarian single party, for this is disillusionment, but to reestablish an eroded two party system.)

Bipartisanship by another name is Compromise. Don't leave home without it.





Rule #9. False American Movements are Administrations which fail to implement fresh measures while they dig up obsolete legal precedents from the past to implement.

I will argue that the objective of a stable society and prosperous economy is NOT to have "fresh measures" of governance with each Administration. Government is supposed to be a supporting actor, not a lead character.




Rule #10. The people must own the purse!

The People need to grow a set and quit giving their lunch money to the bully. I will add that a Bully is NEVER talked out of being a Bully. Someone moves away, or someone gets hurt, or the bullying continues.

A lot of this stuff we learned in our formative years.





Rule #11. As legal lobbying on the Federal level benefits the rule of tyranny, civil invention on the local level benefits the rule of the people (The local invention of a comfortable chair is created to make THE PEOPLE "happier." This is far greater in value than the Federal lobbying of tyranny that takes place by special interest groups who serve to divide up our national dinner table all in the name of "responsibility." We are not a nation of special interests but a nation of the people).

I am MONTHS in the composition of an essay entitled The Service Hoax. True, what you say above. At the same time, I will argue that People pay taxes so they don't HAVE to deal with all the bullshit that Public Servants and Bureaucrats get paid to handle. The People are working OTHER jobs, not least to pay the taxes that pay the Public Servants and Bureaucrats to handle the bullshit.

Government jobs are not meant to be high-profile, celebrity-type gigs.

Easier, swifter, more effective and more just would be to criminalize Lobbying.






Rule #12. There are 3 kinds of people: those with feeble minds who persecute people, those with immature minds who laugh about persecution, and those with the kinds of sober minds that get persecuted. To be an American is always to be the latter.


Denzel Washington in Man On Fire, "There are two kinds of athletes, trained and untrained."

Your breakdown is insufficiently nuanced, I think.

Persecution is not the only "tool" in the Bad Guy arsenal.

Among Category 2 sideliners, not all have immature minds. Unenlightened, to be sure, but many are the OPPOSITE of immature, rather, are set in their ways. (There's nothing we can do -- it's always been thus.") The cheerleaders of abuse are a minority, I think. The majority of the Silent Majority is busy and/or exhausted and/or self-absorbed and/or stupid and/or lazy and/or, and/or, and/or. MANY mature minds in the bunch.

Sober minds only? What a drag. Fresh ideas often come from kookier, more "out there" types, and are then distilled/reduced by the passage of time and the ministrations of "sober" minds until a nugget of value is produced. Not infrequently, it is harmless, kooky, creative types who are persecuted.




Rule #14. Taxes are created with the intentions of benefitting some


I'm with Thomas Paine, whereas taxes were originally levied to wage war, wars are now waged to levy taxes.

That said, I stridently hold that some taxation is required in Civilized Society.




Rule #15. Disillusioned is the idea that problems are solved with lots of change. The U.S. Constitution should be cherished as lightning in a bottle by its contents being altered, tweaked, clarified, and ammended as little as possible in order to improve the lives of American citizens. (The best change comes in small, precious packages)


See Rule 19 re: change for the sake of change is worse than no change at all. This is the genesis of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."




Rule #16. While political partisanship divides us into rich and poor, the evil of tyranny actually victimizes the rich without power just as much as it does the poor.


Baloney. Tyranny is bad across the board, but the heavy burdens of abuse and oppression NEVER fall in equal measure upon rich and poor.




Rule #17. When inquiring with the government, ask to speak to an American before asking to speak to an expert (while experts know what they are speaking about, far too few of them know what it is to be an American. Example: "Can I speak to an American please?" Oh, you are an American? Well, are you an expert then?").


I am going to ask this question of the very next "Customer Service Specialist" who, after I have been holding for 3 to 13 minutes, comes onto the line with an accent I am at pains to decipher.




Rule #18. The purpose of authority is not to bring responsibility but contentment.

The purpose of Authority is to bring Peace. Humans are NEVER content.





Rule #19. As change for the sake of change is no better than no change at all, responsibility for the sake of responsibility is no better than no responsibility at all. As the purpose of establishing authority is to tend to our contentment, we likewise behave responsibly for the purpose that doing so will make us happy. When we are bound and committed to the purpose of equality for the sole purpose of responsibility alone, then we should consider ourselves disillusioned or, worst yet, even UnAmerican.

I would add and add and add the reminder that People are not EQUAL. Equally beloved by God if you believe in God, equally entitled and protected under the Law in theory, equal inalienable rights -- also in theory.

But some people are smart and some are dumb. Some people are attractive and some people are homely. Some people were born with all their limbs and lights and some people were born missing pieces and minds.

Equality is a myth perpetrated by Do Gooders, so they can collect more taxes and live the a self-important high-flying lifestyle in the process. Oh, I'll grant that some Do Gooders actually believe their lofty rhetoric . . . but they are among the dummies.




Rule #20. When things get difficult, there is just one solution which is to survive and only one way to survive which is the good, right way.

See Rule 7.

If we are not willing to die in this fight, we lose the fight.

Survival on any terms -- survival for survival's sake -- is worse than no survival at all.

Peace.

Uncle Emanuel Watkins
12-23-2008, 12:50 PM
Not necessarily. I will suggest you derive this conclusion from our having a bunch of dodgy police departments/officers and a bunch of capricious laws that are inconsistently enforced. But that is THE PEOPLE'S FAULT for accepting S.N.A.F.U. as S.O.P.




Better, I think, to have fewer legal loopholes and honest police . . . which involves screening for nut-period-case-period types and PAYING LAW ENFORCEMENT BETTER THAN CRIMINALS ARE PAID.




I honestly believe we'd be better off to scrap every fucking law on our books and start from scratch than to continue to regulate our regulations. The legal labyrinth is all about billable hours --and getting moneyed parties off scot-free, natch.





Agreed.




Hate is an emotion universally recognized and experieced. It's got nuthin' to do with nationality.





How convenient. I will argue that a truly gross percentage of the American People are guilty as sin, and better wake the fuck up out of their self-absorbed complacency or they're goin' to hell.





Where BUT on the political spectrum would one bicker about politics? The issue is bickering and the small, mean-mindedness born of insecurity and abuse.






And certainly never give an interview just to be "human interest." Have an agenda, or keep your mouth shut and your face discreet.





Civil Purpose should be consecrated by American citizens over any traditional precedent established by tyranny AND over any subjective precedent established by religion.





I quite agree, but then Rule 20 wants less ambiguity.





Bipartisanship by another name is Compromise. Don't leave home without it.






I will argue that the objective of a stable society and prosperous economy is NOT to have "fresh measures" of governance with each Administration. Government is supposed to be a supporting actor, not a lead character.





The People need to grow a set and quit giving their lunch money to the bully. I will add that a Bully is NEVER talked out of being a Bully. Someone moves away, or someone gets hurt, or the bullying continues.

A lot of this stuff we learned in our formative years.






I am MONTHS in the composition of an essay entitled The Service Hoax. True, what you say above. At the same time, I will argue that People pay taxes so they don't HAVE to deal with all the bullshit that Public Servants and Bureaucrats get paid to handle. The People are working OTHER jobs, not least to pay the taxes that pay the Public Servants and Bureaucrats to handle the bullshit.

Government jobs are not meant to be high-profile, celebrity-type gigs.

Easier, swifter, more effective and more just would be to criminalize Lobbying.







Denzel Washington in Man On Fire, "There are two kinds of athletes, trained and untrained."

Your breakdown is insufficiently nuanced, I think.

Persecution is not the only "tool" in the Bad Guy arsenal.

Among Category 2 sideliners, not all have immature minds. Unenlightened, to be sure, but many are the OPPOSITE of immature, rather, are set in their ways. (There's nothing we can do -- it's always been thus.") The cheerleaders of abuse are a minority, I think. The majority of the Silent Majority is busy and/or exhausted and/or self-absorbed and/or stupid and/or lazy and/or, and/or, and/or. MANY mature minds in the bunch.

Sober minds only? What a drag. Fresh ideas often come from kookier, more "out there" types, and are then distilled/reduced by the passage of time and the ministrations of "sober" minds until a nugget of value is produced. Not infrequently, it is harmless, kooky, creative types who are persecuted.





I'm with Thomas Paine, whereas taxes were originally levied to wage war, wars are now waged to levy taxes.

That said, I stridently hold that some taxation is required in Civilized Society.





See Rule 19 re: change for the sake of change is worse than no change at all. This is the genesis of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."





Baloney. Tyranny is bad across the board, but the heavy burdens of abuse and oppression NEVER fall in equal measure upon rich and poor.





I am going to ask this question of the very next "Customer Service Specialist" who, after I have been holding for 3 to 13 minutes, comes onto the line with an accent I am at pains to decipher.





The purpose of Authority is to bring Peace. Humans are NEVER content.






I would add and add and add the reminder that People are not EQUAL. Equally beloved by God if you believe in God, equally entitled and protected under the Law in theory, equal inalienable rights -- also in theory.

But some people are smart and some are dumb. Some people are attractive and some people are homely. Some people were born with all their limbs and lights and some people were born missing pieces and minds.

Equality is a myth perpetrated by Do Gooders, so they can collect more taxes and live the a self-important high-flying lifestyle in the process. Oh, I'll grant that some Do Gooders actually believe their lofty rhetoric . . . but they are among the dummies.





See Rule 7.

If we are not willing to die in this fight, we lose the fight.

Survival on any terms -- survival for survival's sake -- is worse than no survival at all.

Peace.

Bipartisanship by another name is Compromise. Don't leave home without it.

That which is self-evident and unalienable is that which is common about all American citizens regardless. We should be careful never to trivialize such a meaning with such informal definitions as "bipartisanship" and "compromise."

Truth Warrior
12-23-2008, 01:18 PM
Bipartisanship by another name is Compromise. Don't leave home without it.

That which is self-evident and unalienable is that which is common about all American citizens regardless. We should be careful never to trivialize such a meaning with such informal definitions as "bipartisanship" and "compromise."

:p

Ya think, just maybe, that played some small part in going from 13 small states to global empire in ONLY 220 years? :rolleyes:

"Any compromise between good and evil, only works to the detriment of the good and to the benefit of the evil."

cheapseats
12-23-2008, 01:25 PM
Bipartisanship by another name is Compromise. Don't leave home without it.

That which is self-evident and unalienable is that which is common about all American citizens regardless. We should be careful never to trivialize such a meaning with such informal definitions as "bipartisanship" and "compromise."

Who could disagree?

However, comma, beyond that which is self-evident and inalienable lies the vast arena of Public Policy.

Libertarians are gonna have to concede that one man's total freedom will inevitably infringe upon another man's rights. From the moment that you recognize even one contract, say the one that permits you to gain access to your home from that private road some Libertarians imagine is a good thing, you have accepted curtailment of Absolute Liberty.

If there will be even one Law, there will be compromise.

What is bad about bipartisanship and compromise is not their existence, but their manipulation by Partisans and Politicos to enhance careers and coffers.

brandon
12-23-2008, 01:50 PM
"Rule #21: While having more lawyers and more police will lead to more crime, having less lawyers and more police, and more lawyers and less police will likewise lead to more crime. So, the best way to lower the crime rate is to have less lawyers and less police. One acheives this by implementing less laws, regulations and statutes."

How can you have both more and less of something?

Uncle Emanuel Watkins
12-23-2008, 01:50 PM
Who could disagree?

However, comma, beyond that which is self-evident and inalienable lies the vast arena of Public Policy.

Libertarians are gonna have to concede that one man's total freedom will inevitably infringe upon another man's rights. From the moment that you recognize even one contract, say the one that permits you to gain access to your home from that private road some Libertarians imagine is a good thing, you have accepted curtailment of Absolute Liberty.

If there will be even one Law, there will be compromise.

What is bad about bipartisanship and compromise is not their existence, but their manipulation by Partisans and Politicos to enhance careers and coffers.

While Form, that which is ideal, is solid and immovable, Informal, that which is the necessary evil, is elastic and dynamic. The formal document of The Declaration of Independence expresses the ideal why the people are justified in divorcing themselves out from under the rule of tyranny while the formal document of the U.S. Constitution devises a more perfect government, an informal and necessary evil, to dispense the contentment expressed as self-evidently true and unalienable. So, the purpose of government isn't to express informal legal-precedents, that is the necessary evil of tyranny, but formal Civil-Purpose.

pacelli
12-23-2008, 02:05 PM
Thank you for putting all the rules into 1 post!

Uncle Emanuel Watkins
12-24-2008, 01:49 AM
Thank you for putting all the rules into 1 post!

Some of these rules are written quite awkward. Please feel free to suggest a better sentence structure. Some of the rules may be able to be combined to reduce the overall number of them. The American way is to go fishing while talking about fishing or about pretty women and not about politics. Following these rules will hopefully help us gain political power without requiring us to give up our liberty to acheive the purpose.

Pauls' Revere
12-24-2008, 01:55 AM
Rule 21, soon to be quickly followed by Catch 22, I assume. :D :p

LOL

Funny...:D

mediahasyou
12-24-2008, 11:04 AM
and i thought libertarians didn't like so much rules.

Anti Federalist
12-24-2008, 11:21 AM
Self contradictory.

Rule 21 violates rule 1.

edit: Oh yeah, what TW said.

Uncle Emanuel Watkins
12-24-2008, 11:28 AM
and i thought libertarians didn't like so much rules.

Rules are different from laws. Laws are those endless things created by law makers who like to claim that we have too many of them. Rules allow people to gain power while obeying them also allow them the freedom to enjoy their liberty. Like talking about fishing when fishing rather than talking about politics like a stuffy old European.

Aratus
12-24-2008, 11:34 AM
UEW, gettin' the 21 rules online here is quite a fete!
UEW, gettin' your 21 rules tersely in a posting is neat!
UEW, livin' out the 21 rules is laid back, sweet & reet!