Perhaps if we made a Religion of Common Sense — we could dodge US Government's mission to do bad things to us

© 2022 Peter Free

 

05 January 2022

 

 

Caveat

 

Today, I will offend almost everyone to make a simple point.

 

The United States prizes irrationality at societal commons sense's expense.

 

 

Premise One

 

American federal government is entirely about control, bleeding the sheep, and using whatever means are necessary to accomplish those goals.

 

That so, even when a pressure relief valve needs to be implemented — so as to afford tiny minorities some means of temporary and cross-culturally ineffectual means of escape.

 

 

Premise Two — a result of Premise One

 

America embraces Delusion as its first principle.

 

As a result of that, almost nothing that American Government does makes overt sense. Even according to its own stated reasoning.

 

 

Let's take COVID-19 vaccine mandates . . .

 

. . . as just one example of Reason denied.

 

Recall that, in the United States, religion gives people a constitution-based excuse not to do whatever a law or cultural practice mandates that everyone else do.

 

If you are perspicacious, you can see where this heads us as a society.

 

 

Consider the rather obvious cultural insanity . . .

 

. . . embodied in the following COVID-related report.

 

From Axios:

 

 

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday that prevented the Department of Defense from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccination requirement and punishing a group of 35 Navy Seals who refused to get vaccinated and sued the federal government over the mandate.

 

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor upheld the Navy Seals' lawsuit and filed the injunction on religious freedom grounds, saying the service members had a right to refuse the vaccine because of their beliefs.

 

© 2022 Axios, Judge blocks Pentagon from punishing Navy Seals who refused vaccine, axios.com (04 January 2022)

 

 

Leaving the Constitution aside . . .

 

. . . evaluate whether any of the issued stay makes well-reasoned societal sense.

 

To do this, pretend that you live in a country in which science, rationality and genuine (not pretend) evidence are sought out and valued.

 

On those grounds — and evaluated from an allegedly sane perspective — we see that:

 

 

'Them' SEALS get to believe some (supposedly religion-based) malarkey.

 

Yet, they can still join the US military.

 

Where everyone knows the Government's militarists literally own you.

 

And in spite of being owned, those same SEALS get to defy a command that is supposedly issued to benefit the Military Whole.

 

The SEALS' gross insubordination being based upon the previously mentioned — irrationally based and allegedly insubordination-commanding — bullshit — that 'them all' (purportedly fervently) believe — right down to the tiniest strands of their 'brainless' (by semantic definition) hearts.

 

 

Take this oddly derived situation — a societal step further

 

The SEALS' display of presumably religiously based insubordination is occurring, while millions of other folks:

 

 

who do not believe the same (ostensibly God-mandated) bunkum

 

unsuccessfully try to dodge COVID vaccinations

 

upon the eminently rational grounds

 

that those vaccines' medical worth and safety have not yet been proven

 

across all ages, demographics and medical situations

 

and not, especially,

 

among those who reasonably think themselves

 

to have become naturally immune

 

via previous SARS-CoV-2 infections.

 

 

With those contrasting two examples in mind . . .

 

. . . do you see how the United States embraces Delusion as a matter of national policy?

 

 

The moral? — It is no wonder that this country stumbles around doing harm, wherever it goes

 

We might as well have erected American Government upon a pillar of constitutionally mandated mental illness.

 

This self-destructive flaw is not peculiar to the United States. It seems to be an aspect of humanity being a mildly hairless species of ape-ish monkey.

 

Joining sapiens to Homo, therefore, exhibited the wildest of conceits.

 

So wild in fact, that the sapiens adjective does not — and evidently cannot — motivate our irrationality-swilling selves to do better.

 

Witness, for instance, the CDC's astonishing implicit refusal to conduct cluster randomized controlled trials — regarding the effectiveness (or not) of masks, distancing, vaccinations among children, closed businesses, lockdowns, and so on — regarding virtually every meaningful aspect of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

 

We might as well be living in an era of witch-hunting and burning.

 

Alas and alack.