Sine ethicam: II

With the 4th coming up, alot of ideals and thoughts regarding the climate of the United States have been creeping up on me. A few things in particular have stood out to me. I do not believe that the U.S was founded on religious freedom. I believe that that idea was a part of the conception, but the constitution and founding principles that this country was created upon are more varying than one singular belief. What those principles all have in mind is a freedom from tyrannical control; free to create business, free to create in general, free to explore, free to believe in a diety of choice, free to express ideas. I also believe that the founders of our country, while living in a much less advanced time (obviously), had the brilliance to utilize ethics and values that should be timeless. There is a huge difference between adapting application to fit the modern circumstance, and re-interpreting the original meaning. I believe that in the attempt to understand and uphold a few of our founding constitutional rights, our country has regressed in helping us progress as human beings.
The right to create business and democracy has turned into a capitalist crisis; big buisness rules government and is rarely held accountable creating the most drastic class separation this country has seen since slavery. The dollar is paramount to the the corporations in this country that remain economically dominant and wealthy, yet on a global scale is approaching worthlessness.
The right to create has turned into mass media producing and recycling garbage. Reality tv runs rampant displaying a society that is the quintessential example of a narcissistic sociopath at best. Violence and sex are pushed to the extreme to satiate a thirst for stimulation in a culture lacking in imagination and creativity. Books and hand made arts are soon to be far too antiquated to be accepted in popular culture as anything other than historical. The right to explore has become the foundation for gluttonous destruction of natural earth. Finding virgin land and "product" does not equate to the chance for knowledge or serenity but for profit.
Freedom of belief has turned in to a war against "morality" and dieties. This god is wrong, your god is evil, you are a second class citizen for believing in your god. Religions are targets for attack instead of being a chosen social unit for individuals. Instead of being beacons representing the various beliefs in dieties, our culture has turned them into the proverbial snake head so many don't even believe in.
The right to express has turned in to a closing of minds. Instead of sharing talents, ideas, philosophies, knowledge etc; the individual opinion reigns supreme. The spewing of ones' own narrow minded paradigm has given way to negativity that is causing irreparable damage to the human spirit and American culture.
All of these things are interdependent and self-fulfilling. The fundamental issue is that the ethics and values that were meant to be a foundation for a great nation have been lost; used as an excuse to become an indulgent, lazy, degenerate nation consumed with the concept of self, inflicting on each other in an analagous way, the same tyrannies fled.
Be a kind person. Believe as you wish, but do not degrade or force feed those who choose another way. Make something of yourself. Better your society to the degree that you are able. Do not remain content with being stagnant. Defend humanity; do not idly stand by as people degenerate. Do not tolerate mediocrity and self-absorbtion. Share wealth and knowledge with those who are open to receive it. Value other beings and surroundings as much or more as you value yourself. Make a conscious effort to envoke serenity and positivity. Be a person of character. Remember and re-inforce the lost idea of goodness.

Sine ethicam: I

Why is it that human beings feel compelled to justify their own existence, and furthermore only validate and quantify anther's existence by using religious rhetoric as a criteria? Why is it so taboo to believe that the only criteria upon which one should base a fair and decent treatment of another is humanity itself? ( I do believe in a discretionary fair treatment of other living things, however that is another point to be made)
Understanding humanity on a molecular level may never be obtained. I feel that rather than accept that the human mind is, and most likely will always be striving to understand its own origins as well and the innumerable complexities of the human condition, humans create a perfect paradox of existence. Is it not easier to claim that a being with intelligence and capabilities far beyond our own created everything we see and understand? How lazy and convenient is it to claim a god that has a wide spectrum view of all things temporal and metaphysical gave us all and taketh away and that the human mind is too feeble and finite to understand how or why? Perhaps it is the recognition of the minds limitations that strikes a fear in someone. So much so in fact, that the imaginative side of our brains compensates for the rational breakdown and relieves our anguish in the form of a deity.
Regardless, why do the majority of humans subscribe to a mass organization of this type? It is a proven anthropological theory that people willingly cluster themselves in to groups. But, among the many hierarchies one could be a part of, none seem to cause as much controversy as a religious devotion.