politics

The Flag Football Schism

THE FLAG FOOTBALL SCHISM

Deception – Division – Disaster

The great counterfeiter adapts deception to every time and culture – Billy Graham

The great counterfeiter’s kryptonite is division through slander – James MacDonald

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing or blessing a disaster – J. L. Seagull

Deception has both Origin and Offspring

There exists within the Homo sapiens1 core a prescient connection to purpose – eternally unbounded by time, space, or matter (spirit), and animated interests – that eternally liberates creativity from the internment of reason (soul). The entanglement of spirit and soul inspires engagement by temporal corporeal-synaptic agency (body). Many sense this multidimensional agency; few realize its genesis (origin) resides in the human spirit.

Note1: Sapiens is technically an adjective, but herein denotes both singular and plural forms.

While engagement is the progeny (offspring) of Sapiens intent, the confluence of spirit (morality) and soul (aspiration) is where intent gestates. Intent can be actualized in kinetic (active) states, e.g. standing and singing, and static (passive) states, e.g. kneeling in silence. Regardless of state, engagement reveals the nature of the spirit – truth or deception – that the soul sanctions, and it alone rewards with corporeal-synaptic agency.

Deception inspired spiritual agency (strategic deceit) has powerful capacity to influence the human soul. However, truth-inspired spiritual agency (divine purpose) also abides; it grants both the power to discern deception and to obtain revelation to the human soul. Yet, a soul that affirms deceit opens a portal by which deception begets fraudulent engagement, which engagement begets division, where after division begets disaster.

Deception purports a unifying Genesis but claims plausible denial of its divisive Progeny

Deception disavows Details and Facts – by any Words Necessary

A broadly disseminated narrative contends that police have disproportionate violent encounters with young African American men. This point was defended on a recent National Broadcast News Program by an African America trial lawyer who: used word symbols and slogans, but just one fact and no details to provide context to the narrative.

The following evening, the same News Program afforded an African American lawyer from the US Commission on Civil Rights the opportunity to respond to the trial lawyers assertions. The Commissioner used Department of Justice data and copious Commission studies to prove that the assertions pivoted on a word – disproportionate – not facts.

Deception religiously defuses Details and Facts with Symbols and Slogans

Deception seeks to sire Division – by any Means Necessary

The Commissioner also reported that the data confirms police kill black men (6 percent of the population) 2.5 times more frequently than whites (31 percent of the population), or disproportionately. However, computing the ratio of police killings by dividing group killings by the total male populations of that group is intellectually dishonest and yields a patiently deceptive outcome. A cogent examination of the data by universally vetted mathematical processes is revealing, compelling, and alarming:

In New York, young black men commit 35 times more robberies, 38 times more murders, and 51 times more firearm-related crimes – than do whites.

In 2015 police killed 36 unarmed black men, while other black men (mostly young) murdered nearly 6,000 other black Americans.

Young black males make up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade.

Perhaps the most sobering revelation is that of the 7,881 African Americans murdered in 2016 – the overwhelming majority were murdered by young African American males between the ages of 17 and 34, less than 1.5 percent of the total population.

Deception highjacks the power of language to deprive many of “an ear to see”

Division masterfully disorients Good Intentions

Many African American professional athletes – and others – are exercising their First Amendment right to protest what they see as disproportionate treatment of young black men by police. Not surprisingly, the young men on whom the protests focus fall within the same age range (25.5) as the protesters (NBA: 26.5 and NFL: 25.6); many hail from the same archetype communities. Undoubtedly many of these athletes, no matter their salaries, have unique insights regarding the plight and experiences of this group – and processes by which they can overcome their difficult and self-destructive challenges.

Who is better positioned and accomplished – to mentor this group – than these athletes?

Division is Organic and Infectious

The protesters infrequent articulation of details and facts that reveal the marrow of their cause – beyond talking points and slogans – organically accelerates division. It has led many to conclude that these athletes are unaware of the well-established data and facts that impair the potency and piety of their protests. The infectious kumbaya (feelings) between players and owners does not reflect a perfect union, given fierce fan base opposition (reality). Division always seeks to substitute feelings in place of reality.

Discounting POTUS Flag bluster is one thing – but Flags thrown by fans quite another

Division inspires Schism as a prelude to Disaster

First and foremost the Flag is not a symbol of a perfect union but of the sacrifice of life and limb by all members of the National Community to include African Americans (54th Mass. Infantry, Abolitionist, Tuskegee Airmen, and many Medal of Honor recipients). Various protesters seem unaware or unconcerned that casting the Flag in the shadow of wanton murder of private citizens by private citizens (a symbol pivot) is hugely divisive.

Division is an Accelerant – that unfurls Disastrous uncontainable Social Infernos

Disaster is the Love Child of Division

Contrary to popular convention, division is counter-intuitive to both those harboring noble and nefarious intent. Some choose: to destroy and disparage, oppose and oppress, disrupt and dispose, challenge and co-opt – yet others choose to collaborate and coordinate, plan and produce, share and sacrifice, encourage and enable. No analytics provide plausible incentive to embrace division over allied engagement. Both divisive and allied engagements are the progeny (offspring) of radically different geneses, which reveal which spirit – truth or deception – the soul has elected to sanction.

It’s no coincidence that the terms used to describe divisive engagement are the same as those impartial scribes use to critique military conquest, political retribution, economic calamity, and acts of terrorism; division – the progeny of deception – foments disaster. The terms used to describe allied engagement are often the same as those impartial scribes use to critique military forbearance, political discourse, economic propriety, and acts of selfless generosity; allegiance – the progeny of truth – empowers relationship.

Infused by Deception infected Division – the Internet supercharges virtual Disaster

Truth has its own Power and Authority

Once the human soul has elected to collaborate with the spirit of deception, the corporeal-synaptic-self engages as an enraged opponent of truth. An effective strategy for controverting truth is to supplant free speech and access (First Amendment Rights) by force and disparagement. Sources that expose deception are often attacked, and credible facts are bleached to oblivion by fake news and rebukes from celebrity scions.

Truth is eternal: it does not originate in the temporal corporeal-synaptic realm. Eternal truth is not reasoned conclusions fashioned from data, facts, circumstances, or season. Eternal truth cannot arise from nor survive on the basis of religious, cultural, or political ideologies. Ideologies are nevertheless the perfect companions to deception, cloaking deception in an opaque sea of familiarity. No matter the vigorous applause of agreeable constituencies, deception cannot survive the discerning and revelatory power of truth.

Truth is both an Eternal Quality and a Source of Eternal Power – only when it is shared!

Disrupting Deception: Natural vs. Transcendental Progression

Disrupting Deception: Natural vs. Transcendental Progression

 The great counterfeiter adapts deception to every time and culture – Billy Graham

The great counterfeiter’s kryptonite is division through slander – James MacDonald

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing or blessing a disaster – J. L. Seagull

  Sapiens: Spirit – Soul – Sentience

Genesis and genetics set forth the proposition that evolution and devolution derive from seeds; sapiens experiences of consequence involve one or both. However, moral momentum first gestates in the spirit, promulgates influence of the soul, and finally transforms conscious perspective and behavior. Both the nefarious and noble acts of men are: spirit-groomed, soul-sanctioned, and sentience-enabled. While we are infused by what we eat, we are only imbued by what we think and that with which we agree.

It is not unreasonable to be disconcerted by our failure to foresee the inconceivable in others. However, transcendental-progression – e.g. spirit-soul-sentience – telegraphs our personal inclination for the implausible. We are alerted by a sense of transformation as the seeds of potential impound our cognitive and kinetic energy to actualize their noble and nefarious destiny. Whether moon landings, mass shootings, cancer cures, financial fraud, good samaritism, terrorism, philanthropy, or maleficence under cloak of authority, each evidences transcendental-progression; timing remains the only unknown.

Deception: Unfaithful Allegiance – Fictitious Sufficiency

Deception exploits our predilection for psychological assessment of nefarious and noble acts. Whereas many believe the confluence of genetic and environmental triggers codify subconscious intent, deception requires a more amenable agency than transcendental- progression. Deception fully embraces natural-progression – e.g. genes-environment-sentience – that supports the illusion that the implausible and inconceivable can be predicted and controlled. Billions are being expended in search of a behavioral-genome having the potential to avert the next Boston, Paris, Brussels, Orlando, and Nice.

Despite a preponderance of experience and evidence to the contrary, many subscribe to the notion that natural-progression informed politics, economics, and social science can re-seed human inclination. Yet, human history confirms that privilege and disadvantage, intelligence and ineptness, affluence and poverty, aggression and complaisance, refinement and inelegance, cohabit both ascendant and subservient potential. Deception dismisses such powerful evidentiary continuity – supplanting light and accord with darkness and friction to wrest control of the human conscious.

Division: Disingenuous Relationship – encapsulated by – Fraudulent Purpose

Division is the first born of deception. It squanders no opportunity to divide: e.g. Jew and Gentile, Shia and Sunni, Hutu and Tutsi, Turk and Armenian, North and South, East and West, Red and Blue, Black and White, and Top from Bottom. Deception disavows coalescence in order to first kindle and then enrage division, no matter urgent protests and unassailable consensus. Division is a far more verbal than tactile proceeding; it burns from both ends of the tongue to inculcate destructive mischaracterizations.

Division is the mother’s milk of politics. It perpetrates a war of attrition predicated on salvos of improbable promises from principle-deficient political operatives. Their goals are: to obtain and retain constituent support while distracting attention from off-putting ideology, and to accumulate unmerited personal resources and power. Politics confirm that division is highly addictive for both operatives and constituents. No political constituency on the planet has managed to alleviate division-addiction for any sustained period. Division-addiction reveals politics as a two-division two-team blood sport – hustlers and the hustled versus hustlers and the hustled.

Division is the loyal mistress of economics. Artificial economic-division (American style) partitions the absolute value of wealth into multiple groups, defining those in the bottom groups as the poor, and those in the top groups as the rich. Such division is much more likely to deceive than to inform; e.g. the value of entitlements (food stamps, housing allowances, healthcare, childcare, et al) are excluded when assessing the quality of life available to those consigned to a bottom group – wherein many live on par or better than the global middle class. Division disparages economic differences without accounting for personal sacrifice, preference, or giftedness, and commutes personal prerogatives into human rights as it sees fit – absent probity or equity.

Supply-and-demand has long served as a reliable macro-economic barometer of stock market volatility and risk. Market apparatchiks and their math-quants have learned to exploit stock market volatility to abate proportionate investment risks. The staggering difference in presumptive wealth between those defined as rich and poor derives largely from the return on investment afforded these apparatchiks and their clients. Economic division is deception-infected; the shroud of inequity is cast over many more than the one tenth of one percent who actually garner such risk-redacted gains. However, economic-division is also self-seeking; the unaffected offer little sympathy when wild swings in market confidence sack the values of apparatchik stock portfolios.

Division maintains social science on retainer and first call. Principled social science seeks to better understand cause and effect, and in turn how to induce the beneficial and control the implausible. Deception-infected-division restricts the basis of social science to natural-progression, opening many paths by which to foment and justify group isolation and disruption. Social-division nourished by deception has achieved pandemic scale; no people, nation, or kingdom has evaded its pernicious disfigurement.

Disaster: People – Nations – Kingdoms

People

Morning: Of the eleven million people involuntarily extracted from West Africa, only two percent would be settled in the south of North America; many would endure well-documented atrocities at the hands of brutal masters. Today, direct descendants of this racial caste: comprise the 16th largest economy in the world; can boast of noted leaders of government and transnational business enterprise to numerous to mention; have achieved a level of formal education rivaled only by the majority national community; and are the most literate of all diasporas of color – so much from so little and so few.

Evening: Inexplicably, over the past thirty years a small cadre of young men from this remarkable community are irrefutably responsible for more than fifty percent of all domestic homicides. In 2015 this cadre would murder 6,000 members of their own community. Concurrently, many young members from this community would exercise their constitutional right to protest the use of lethal force by police in the deaths of 36 unarmed community members – never mind that at this rate of engagement Police would require over forty years to murder on par with this small cadre in one year alone.

Disaster: Regardless of the facts, deception enables politicians, journalist, and self-anointed spokespersons to dispossess this remarkable community of the pride, reputation, and self-confidence it’s accomplishments warrant. Further, agents-of-deception have cast this largely progressive and law abiding community as intractably dependent (entitlement addicted) and morally despicable (promiscuous and profane). This community largely rejects this deceptive script, yet some choose instead to audition.

Nations

Morning: Coalition, a first cousin of collaboration, has always been an essential element of human advancement. There are a number of well recognized coalitions – e.g. the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA), the European Union (EU), the Asia Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) – which ostensibly form larger trading blocks that are more competitive across global markets. There are also less formal constructs, e.g. alliances.

Evening: Generally where the more competitive, e.g. Maquiladoras, displace the lesser competitive, e.g. Trade Union – the impact is first and foremost personal. Forecasts of consumer savings provide coalitions political cover, yet many companies retain the lion’s share of increases in margin – as Boards of Directors expect, and Markets demand.

Disaster: No matter that efficiencies align and value accrues to all parties, deception lurks. China is exchanging infrastructure development in Africa for long-term access to natural resources. The EU constitution abetted cultural-division and ultimately defection (Brexit). NAFTA has pushed Americans both higher and lower in the middle class stack.

Kingdoms

Morning: While nations are but intellectual and geographic people progressions, kingdoms abide a different realm than do people or nations. Kingdoms operate only in accordance with transcendental (spirit-soul-conscious) not natural (genes-environment-conscious) progression. Science has confirmed that genes bare specific environmentally influenced instructions after which they enable specific biological construction – whereas spirit and soul cannot be confirmed or denied by scientific processes. Many of the intellectual elite insists that these progressions are complimentary like the double helix structure of DNA. Nevertheless after discovery of gene adaptation (regulate, replicate, and recombine), cogent consideration of spirit and soul was consummately disbarred.

Evening: Observation and reasoned exegesis pushed such epiphanies as the renaissance, reformation, scientific revolution, and enlightenment to challenge and better inform the next sure thing. No sequence of epiphanies has confirmed the capacity of natural progression to account for deception. No outcome employing repeatable scientific processes has demonstrated genetic adaption countervailing deception. It is rational to conclude that deception is the progeny of transcendental not natural progression.

Disaster: Judgment that rest upon the tenants of an immaterial progression portends catastrophe. Transcendental-progression is the only means by which that originating in spirit can be cross-examined, where after the soul adjudicates choice (not amino acids, proteins, and enzymes); all inspiration – light and darkness – arising in this realm have eternal consequences. While the influence of natural progression on psychological response is well established, it by no means accounts for the willing participation of hundreds of thousands in deception inspired misadventure. Yet many believe a genomic protocol capable of averting social (see below) catastrophes will be discovered:

                          45M killed by Moa Zedong                                            12M killed by Adolf Hitler

                          7M killed by Josef Stalin                                                5M killed by Hedeki Tojo

                          4.0M Syrians displaced (2011-2015)                           2.6M Afghani displaced (1979-2015)

                          2.4M Rwandans displaced (1994)                                1.4M Iraqis displaced (1991)

                          2,866 Islamic attacks (2015)                                         27,627 Islamic murders (2015)

                          11,774 worldwide attacks (2015)                                   28,328 worldwide deaths (2015)

                          Global Financial Collapse of 2008                               Dotcom Bubble of 2000

                          Junk Bond Crash of 1989                                               Stock Market Crash of 1987

A Time to Choose

Natural-progression can only exacerbate not disengage deception; darkness begets darkness. Only Transcendental-progression can ameliorate deception and its eternal consequences; light begets light. Each of us is required to choose and embrace but one of these points of reference.