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Unlearning: the process that allows evolution to occur naturally by removing mental constructions that no longer serve human nature

EMINENT DOMAIN
The Property No State Can Touch

Americans' hands are up in the air again. They are flabbergasted, which is a state somewhere between incredulity and shock, over the Supreme Court's recent decision to expand the power of eminent domain used by the government against property owners. The internet is full of freedom lovers lamenting what is surely the "death blow" to the United States' most sacred document, the Constitution. I say burn it now, all the way, and throw in the American Flag while we're at it.

What is a constitution anyway? It is a contract made between people to whom all who participate agree to be bound to its rules and principles. But the contract itself is a piece of paper. It can espouse freedom in the most plain or sublime terms, but it is still a piece of paper. Burn it…see what happens…the paper and ink will go up in smoke. Will your freedom do the same?

Those who say we are no longer free because of the ludicrous actions of banker-bought men and women probably don't deserve to be free anyway. Freedom, and the rights which define them for us, are natural states of being. They had to be present first before any document could even begin to articulate them. If all that we say is good about America is actually true, then the freedom won't disappear when the Constitution does.

The way the "system" would have us believe, freedom was a "new thought" that slowly grew over time. It became secured with paper documents like the Magna Carta in 1215, the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the US Constitution in 1789 and its subsequent amendments down through the years. We also have the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen written by the French in 1789 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights written as a guiding document of the United Nations in 1948.

These documents have a few interesting things in common. They were all written by white people. They were all written under heavy Masonic influence (or their predecessor in the case of the Magna Carta). They were all written on paper. The societies which celebrate them remained firmly entrenched in a system of servitude.

Why white people feel the need to write down everything intrinsic to them is a peculiar question that should be explored elsewhere. Why Masonic game-players feel the need to create systems where people are told they are free has more to do with subversive intent than noble ones. Why the common man feels he needs a piece of paper to secure the blessings of liberty is truly the question for the unlearner.

The short and simple answer is that most humans on the planet do not desire freedom, but rather sensation. As long as people can feel a bit of pleasure (which definitions subjectively change over time) they are more than likely to put up with any system of control, oppressive or not. Mussolini remarked that Fascism "made the trains run on time." Nero knew that "bread and the circus" was a simple price to pay for the lavish abuses of his court. FDR knew (was told) that the robbery and pittance program we call Social Security would be enough to placate a whole generation painfully raped by the international bankers and bloodthirsty warmongers. So little it takes to mesmerize the crowd.

And that is what this latest magician's trick is all about, this 5 to 4 ruling that the state has the power to decide how property might best serve the "public benefit". That is why all the radio talk show hosts, conservative, liberal, and Khrestian-Patriot, are up in arms. It is the position of surrender and submission that they want you to assume.

Most people will comply. It is the only position they have ever known.

But while we are hearing more cries of woe and despair as the New World Order rearrange the global pieces to suit their remodeling tastes…

("No more United States? Let's try a North American zone. Does that go with an Aquarian Age? Maybe we should let Africa prosper this millennium. Whaddya think? The AIDS and famine really did a super job of cleaning the place up!")

Let's not forget that the force behind any of those paper contracts came from the living and breathing, flesh and blood persons who decided that this life is too precious of an opportunity to be wasted living under someone else's control. For the most part, these people have always gravitated to the frontier (inner and outer) because they knew it was silly to try and force people to be something they weren't. Best to just move away from them and leave them be.

But they would ante-up their own life in a heartbeat, facing the dangers of the unknown, because they also knew that the force of freedom and liberty they felt in their breasts came from beyond the flesh in which it was merely articulated (by word and action). Understanding that, the heroism and courage so gawked at and revered by the common man is merely second nature to them.

But there are no frontiers for the truly courageous today. Most spots on the globe are owned by transnationals and governments or claimed by one deity or another. The unlearner of today will have to make her stand right where she is.

Regardless of the consequences, he will succeed. For the treasure of the unlearned life is not appraised by others. It does not require a law to protect it or a piece of paper to prove it. It blooms daily like wildflowers on every part of this good earth, fertilized by the shit in which so many willfully continually to wallow.

Whose Life are You Living?

 

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