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Saturday 31 December 2016

We need to understand why we have rules that govern human and social interaction. Without rules, man sees only force meeting force and strength resisting strength.  Men would be in a constant state of war; civil war and strife. It would only be the war of the biggest but more importantly a war of the wealthiest since wealth can afford to buy more bullets.  But, if it is not about bullets then it is only muscle vs. muscle. In either case, there is no peace. Thomas Hobbes alluded to this most amazing realization when Europe but certainly England in his experience suffered tremendous pains in civil war as occasioned by the technological tower of Babel that presented itself in the personal power afforded by the personal armory of a musket.  The magna carta is evidence of essentially the  same rationale on peace and no voluminous treaty by another son of Israel should have been necessary but Hobbes was called upon to right again; not that anyone would seek to run him right through with a sword if it was not an assize time but because someone may think of blowing him away with a musket.   It would only take one bullet or one musket fire.  The reason why have rules is to save us from our less human selves.  This could be seen most often possibly in the Troglodyte brain that does not want to understand anything but it could also be the phenomena of the mob as the majority of the graduating class that aims to leave High School half-disabled with a D average and who does not endeavor to leave free schooling with as much education as possible; that they might have a choice on what to do with their energies and free choices after High School. Ask Sonny; the mob boss who coached a few black kids in English football.  He said get two educations.  Now, if Bill Gates was trading with IBM without a university education and you aspired to be the best you can be anywhere, including in the army(right?), how much free education do you think you should take if you were told to believe in yourself in grade 8 and that, as you were told,  you should see that you can do anything if you put your mind to it?

By Warren Augustine Lyon.

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