Hopeless case

I'm supposed to working on my ranch stuff, but seems like I can't help myself.  I'm going to write about Big Picture stuff, so here goes...

It started off the way I said, but after thinking it over for awhile, I realized it's all about MONEY.  Funny how that word keeps popping up.  Even when you try to get away from it, you can't.  There it is, MONEY.  Money is the numero uno problemo, senor.  There's no getting around that.

Before too long, my cogitations took me back to the revelation that truth is being subsumed to the tribalist impulses.  If I am right about this, and I think I probably am right because nothing else I can think of can explain it, then there can be no integrity in the system and it must fail.  In order to have integrity, you have to have truth.  Truth and lack of integrity do not go together.  If you cannot accept those premises, the rest of this you will not accept.  Anyway, any system without integrity cannot endure for long.  Accept that or not, it is what it is, and your disapproval won't matter one way or another.

It doesn't take an Einstein to mentally confirm that proposition.  If you are building a bridge, and that bridge has a lot of inferior metal mixed in, it can be said to lack integrity, because there isn't a conformity to specifications.  The specs were devised in accordance with truth, obtained from scientific methods.  Those who designed the bridge were counting on the integrity of the suppliers to deliver metal according to these specs.  If those specs out of spec, the bridge fails---period.  If there is enough of this inferior metal, the failure is a certainty with mathematical precision that allows for no doubt whatsoever.

What holds for bridges will hold in the general case.  If you have a system that expects things to be in conformity with certain standards, which are based upon the truth inherent in its necessity, then that system can endure, otherwise it cannot.  If you cannot mentally confirm this, I suggest that you try really hard to do so, because if you cannot arrive at a reasonable outcome based upon the facts, you may be mentally handicapped in some way.  Like deranged maybe.  Now you may regard that as a gratuitous insult, but it is definitely true.  Notice how that word keeps coming up.  You see, if you cannot discern truth, then there's something wrong upstairs, kemosabe.  Best to attend to it for your own mental health.

Let's put it another way.  The only reason you can walk down the street without fear of being attacked is that people are civilized.  They are acting "in spec" because of the necessity of that behavior in a civilized society.  If that spec is threatened in some way, such as the failure to render justice because a jury cannot vote guilty  with respect to someone in their tribe regardless of the evidence of their guilt ( OJ Simpson anyone) , then you can no longer have a civilized society.  That society has broken down and become dysfunctional.  It can no longer exist as a civilized society, for what has replaced it is the law of the jungle.  The tribalist mentality belongs in the jungle, not in a civilized society.

We have the same thing in Ferguson.  Here we have a system of justice that requires people to tell the truth.  If the tribe becomes more important than the truth, what do you think is going to happen to that society if somebody lies and that lie doesn't matter anymore?  Somebody isn't telling the truth over there, or somebody doesn't care about what the truth actually is, or maybe a combination of both.  The tribalist mentality has taken over.  Now, I have already pointed out that certain people following this don't seem to care about what the truth actually is.  Looks to me like the tribe has its own idea about justice, and it may not have anything to do with what actually happened.  This is what I mean by tribe over truth.  The tribalists will want blood in exchange for blood.

Bill Clinton lied under oath.  If truth mattered to people, instead of the tribe mattering more, he would have been forced out of office.  If you think Bush did wrong, then why did you set that up and not gotten right with the standards with his predecessor?  If you are going to set up that behavior as the new norm, then why do expect anything different when Obama starts to misbehave?  To some people, Obama is not misbehaving at all, but isn't that a bit of tribalism there?  Why was he reelected when polls said that he didn't earn a second term?  Maybe because the tribe was more important than the fact that he was doing a shitty job?

Those who have been in power in France are responsible for what happened in Paris because they considered the immigrant vote to be more important than the truth---which is that the magazine had the right to do what they did even though it was offensive, than the tribe---that the Mohammedans feelings mattered more than the law.  They turn around and try to take up the mantle of providing for a secure and civilized society, but they won't admit error.  Not only that, they want to exclude those who wanted to do something about it and have been warning about this for years.  The tribe is more important than the truth to them.  The truth is that those in power were wrong and that they cannot be trusted to do the right thing because they don't value truth.  Their own well being trumps everything else, especially the truth.  If such be the case, how can their system stand?

So, this all brings me back to my problem, which is my own little ranch.  I need money, but what do you think is going to happen with a monetary system that has no integrity because those in power care more about themselves, their own tribe, than they do for the people in this country?  If it has all gone that far, what can bring it back, anything?

Unless there is accountability, there can be no integrity.  If there is no integrity, the system must fail.  Every. single. time.

We have no accountabililty because people care more about their tribe than they do about the truth.  They will not allow one of their own to go down no matter what the evidence is against them, nor will it matter at the voting booth either.  Tribalism trumps truth, and civilization comes crashing down.  All in a country near you soon.