Principles and Concepts

Some of this, ( or in Hank Kimble speak, all of this) may seem like a sermon of sorts, but it isn't. It would actually make a good sermon, and the sermon might actually do some good if people took it to heart, but I wouldn't bet the ranch on it. All the same, here goes nothing...

The inspiration for this post should be given credit, as it isn't all my idea. There was a post in Instapundit, in which was described a certain scam involving the government there. Read about some of the background in that post, if you wish. It might help in seeing where I am coming from.

A further inspiration cannot be credited as I am depending entirely on memory of what I once read in a book regarding entrepreneurship. In that book it said to think in terms of concepts. Also, you can find something similar in self-help books, which say to think in terms of principles. This is thinking as opposed to merely reciting by rote information that you may have picked up hither or yon.

Basically, we should seek to think on a higher plane than just rote memory. You can also say it involves a bit of critical thinking. You shouldn't be a robot. Robots just do exactly what they told---nothing more, nothing less. Don't listen to Fauci just because he is said to be an expert and he actually is believe by many to have something worth listening to...

The government in the Alabama town near Birmingham decided to enhance its revenues. It did that by becoming DISHONEST. They gave out fake tickets and expected the fines to be paid. A little light clicked in my head, and voila! A post is born.

But what is a principle and or concept? Are they the same? I had to do a little thinking on that one, and it might not be the dictionary definition. Let's call it a working definition for the purposes of this post. A "scam" is dishonest, so there's another working definition. The police and court system of that town was scamming people in order to increase their revenues. They were growing their government with the enhanced revenues, and becoming BIGGER all the time. Does any of this sound like a familiar concept?

Monkey-see-monkey-do might be called a principle as opposed to a mere scam. If the monkey sees that it can get a reward by doing something, the monkey does it; by golly-by-gosh. The trouble is that the monkey might be smart enough to assess the concept, by not smart enough to think ahead about the principles involved. The principles are the hard, cold facts of reality. If the monkey sees he can eat some delicious viper eggs, and messes around with the wrong snake nest, the monkey becomes a meal for a viper, you see. The monkey might want to bone up on its principles, and don't mess with vipers.

I may not be making my point here very well. So let's try this: if you go around pissing off motorists who haven't done anything wrong, and you start ROBBING them by accusing them of things that they didn't do; then you might have a profitable scam that could last for awhile. But in doing so, you will arouse a great many people who may want to take action against these scoundrels masquerading as public servants, you see. The "monkey" may be messing around the wrong viper nest here...

There are very broad applications of this, which may be called a principle in itself. The principle is called ETHICS. Or it can be called INTEGRITY. In order to have these qualities, one doesn't go around doing DISHONEST things. The police and courts were acting like CRIMINALS, not public servants. They have learned that there is no accountability for acting like CRIMINALS because all accountability has been done away with. Does any of this seem like a familiar concept or principle?

Let me go a little further with this: For the last five or six years, the political left has been making endless charges against Donald Trump. These have been proven to have been false time and time again. More than likely, their latest project on the January 6th riot at the Capitol in DC may be EXACTLY the same thing. This is why I branded it a false flag the moment I heard about it. It all has a FAMILIAR ring to it, wouldn't you say? Sort of like claiming that the common cold or flu was going to wipe us all out if we don't shut down everything and inject some experimental "vaccine" into our bodies.

The political left does not observe ETHICS because its only ethics are power. Lots of people fall for this like the unthinking monkeys mentioned above. Eventually it will all collapse, because the principles involved does not allow for people to become abject slaves. Freedom is born within us, and eventually slavery must fail as it goes against the laws of human nature. There are those who claim otherwise, but I pretty much guarantee that all societies that fall upon this method of organization are DOOMED to failure.

We are headed that way. That's why I decided to post this little ditty about the crooked government near Birhimgham, Alabama. The government has gotten out of control and is on its way to extinction unless there is something to stop it from taking that course, and that something must happen soon.

Know what I mean, Vern?