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What Persons Worthy of Free-
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Politics, Culture, Economy,
Technology, and Religion
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What Persons Worthy of Free-
dom Must Accept About
Politics, Culture, Economy,
Technology, and Religion

by

Douglas Morris

Quotes on pages 2, 3, 5, 17, 18,

19–20, 21–22.

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Bring the doctrine of reconciliation to
the touchstone of nature, and then tell
me….
—Thomas Paine, Common Sense
(1776)
Whatever your religious beliefs, any
all-powerful God is responsible for
our constraint to natural law. Like it
or not, we mortals are subject to the
law of conservation in all its physical
forms. The available resources are
limited and commanded by the most
powerful users of resources. In this
world, might makes right. There is
virtue in it.
Existence of the law of conserva-
tion requires all forms of natural life
to advance as judged by the laws of
nature or to otherwise perish. Every
mode and make of life faces retire-
ment through failed competition with
other life or by the natural expiration
of suitable habitat. Habitable earth is
a necessarily transitory condition due
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to natural causes alone: ice age
freeze, departure of the moon, engulf-
ment by the sun. The universe is
churning. Natural progress is man-
datory.
what country before ever existed a century
& half without a rebellion? & what
country can preserve it's liberties if their
rulers are not warned from time to time
that their people preserve the spirit of
resistance? let them take arms. the remedy
is to set them right as to facts, pardon &
pacify them. what signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? the tree of liberty
must be refreshed from time to time with
the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it's
natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, letter to William
Smith, dated 13 November 1787, not
long after Shays' Rebellion.
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Culture is the aggregation of personal

values across a people. If you can
judge a tree by its fruits, you can
judge a people and their culture by
their civilization. Though individual
results may vary greatly, a societal
population is a sample size large
enough to cancel out infrequent
individual exceptions and expose any
general rule. In other words, the
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results of a societal population are
stable with respect to a single,
unifying culture.
Societal results may vary greatly
because of external pressures, as
with the division into nation pairs
between Western capitalism and
easterly communism of Germany and
Korea. Nevertheless, if a society is
consistently imposed upon, that is a
consistent result indicating perilous
weakness.
The consistent results of a people
are the results of a culture. The value
of cultural results attests to the value
of the culture itself. Some differences
are mere style, but cultures have
ranking. Cultures are generally
unequal in merit. The social and
economic results seen around the
world prove it.
Riches that need not be economized are
the common good that members of a
society share. All members of a crew may
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share standing in the ship without
conflict, but not the bunks. Material
things that need not be economized can
be expected to advance with technology.
Most roads in advanced nations are freely
accessible, for example, but material
resources are not typical of the common
good.
The common good is generally
political. The expectation between
citizens to share and not subvert a largely
political common good is morality. A
referential level of cultural sophistication
defines right and wrong. Different
cultures have different moral standards.
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Technology grows exponentially, as does
the means. The accelerating means are
equally suitable to corruption, tyranny,
improvement, and freedom. Though
Western economies have grown
exponentially, the purchasing powers of
their at currencies like the U.S. dollar
have lost value.
Exponential gains of technology have
disproportionately accrued to the corrupt,
especially the corrupt rich. Losses of
money supply expansion have been pro-
portionately shared. The house always
wins. Democrats they win; Republicans
we lose. They are banksters and friends.
We the people should be the house.

A specific number of dollars is a

certain nominal value, whereas how
much that many dollars will buy is
real value. If Americans truly owned
their own money, the real value of
each dollar would grow exponentially
like the economy does.
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Real deation (increasing wealth
supply) is popular prosperity.
Apparent ination (increasing money
supply) is legalized extraction
through dishonest money of
centralized ownership. You may not
physically consume your own money
by law. You are merely a licensee of
their money, terms and conditions
subject to change.
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Slavery is involuntary labor extraction.

People get more than they deserve by
taking the labor of others. Slavery is
civilized, natural, and takes many forms.
Ants are known to enslave ants.
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Domestication differs from slavery in the
potential of the exploited for independent
existence. Civilized freedom is more
difficult to achieve than oppression, so
freedom is more the anomaly than is
slavery. Slavery in the United States has
evolved from chattel slavery (antebellum
America) to wage slavery (the Gilded
Age) to slavery economics (abandonment
of the gold standard under Nixon).
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As technology increases, the natural

standard individuals of a free society
must meet also increases. The
sophistication of a free culture will grow
exponentially, or freedom shall expire.
Cultures are generally unequal in civilized
sophistication, and so in capacity for
affluence and freedom. Civilized freedom
requires teamwork. Elimination of inept
team members is necessary for the
health of the team. Ineptitude, however
diverse, is socially destructive. For
freedom to ourish, cultures must grow or
die.
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The most free and afuent
civilizations have had one culture,
one language, and freedom of
religion. The Roman Republic had
Roman culture, Latin language, and
a multitude of paganisms. The
British Empire had British culture,
English language, and dogged
Christian differences. The United
States has had British-American
culture (once defining a melting pot),
Americanized English language, and
agreeably disagreeing Christianities.
Mexico at its beginning used the
U.S. Constitution as a template but
added orthodox Catholicism. For the
rst 160 years or so, until 1992,
Catholicism was singularly permitted
and prohibited in Mexico as
expedient for political control. So
much for independent thought.
Indicative of the results: Don't drink
the water.
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Some have not feared to assert that a
people can never outstep the boundaries of
justice and reason in those affairs which
are peculiarly its own; and that
consequently full power may be given to
the majority by which it is represented.
But this is the language of a slave.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, De la
démocratie en Amérique, Vol. 1 (1835), as
subsequently trans. by Henry Reeve
and Francis Bowen, chapter 15, re
unlimited power, vide ‘Tyranny Of The
Majority’
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Incapable people express freedom as
feral freedom and the dissolution of
civilized freedom. Morality is strategically
civilized reciprocity. Morality between
individuals representative of alien
cultures permits sophistication no greater
than the common denominator of those
alien cultures.
If American Christians will not
acknowledge what Christianity was until
modernized by the Reformation and
Abolition, a dangerous number of
Americans will continue to characterize
all religions as benign. To deny the
Christian retirement of chattel slavery,
serfdom, and the burning of heretics is to
court our peril.

That the people, in that solemn

compact which is declared to be the
supreme law of the land, have not
constituted the state legislatures
the judges of the acts or measures
of the federal government, but have
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conded to them the power of
proposing such amendments of the
Constitution as shall appear to
them necessary to the interests, or
conformable to the wishes, of the
people whom they represent.
—Massachusetts State Legislature,
resolution of circa 13 February
1799 in response to the Virginia
Resolutions of 1798, Elliot's
Debates, 2nd ed. (1836), vol. 4,
p. 534.

The greatest threat to our freedom is our

citizenry. The electoral college does not
protect a capable minority from tyranny
of the majority. Only scrupulous
federalism does that. A truly federal
government is the government of a
federation. It is no coincidence that the
meaning of federalism has been
perverted in the United States since the
current U.S. constitution was pending
ratification by the States. If the rights of
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the people are lumped together by
federal government, the majority may
subjugate itself and the able minority to
the bureaucrats of government. If a
country is a hodgepodge of very diverse
political positions, there is no
government policy permissive of
republican representation. If citizens do
not politically reap as they sow, they
shun the responsibility of their own
freedom for the privilege of ill-gotten
gains.
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Because people always want more,

globalization is a force of nature. The
economic phase of globalization
kicked off by the Portuguese and
Spanish some 500 years ago is now
over. The globalization of government
has begun, but for the continuity of
civilized freedom, known only to
Western and Westernized nations, it
must be made a false start. To keep
substantial freedom and peace
among today's diverse Americans, we
must agree to functionally disagree,
to have leave to reap as we sow, and
to refuse the expedience of distant
masters.
The objective student of history
already knows what premises will
again fail and what will prove
indispensable. Let nature judge.
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Modern technology requires free
people to expand the use of free
markets to politics. Freedom in the
21st century will correspond to the
regulation of government with free-
market forces. Let government at all
levels compete for our business!
To maintain American exceptional-
ism and the American Dream, we
must seek social quality over social
quantity and put our fortunes where
are mouths are. We must close the
gap between civilized sophistication
and technological ability or become
serfs of a second dark ages. We will
value our States' rights over our
federal rights and choose the
substance of our political heritage
over its semantics, or British-
American freedom will perish and a
despotic new world order will rule. In
the name of peace, let us agree
together or disagree apart.
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