From The Cradle To The Grave EP33 : Monologue
If you are going to build anything, from a bird house to a space station you're probably going to rely on a few foundational principles. Whether it being how to measure the hole in the birdhouse to make the feed easy to reach, or making sure the windows in the space station fit the holes made for them, you have to accept that the measurements taken and practices of doing those tasks are correct. But what if you didn't? What if you just left the measurements up to your interpretation based on your lived experiences or your gender or your race? And what if you took that method and applied it to mass production?
I think we all know what would happen. Things wouldn't work or fall apart. Now when we see government use those methods to solve any issue, we should look at them the same way as an angry Cardinal would after not being able to get any feed out of the birdhouse, and hopefully not the same way an astronaut would after being sucked into the vacuum of space.
I bring this up because this week we are going to discuss how the government, primarily in Democratic cities around the country, are handling violence.
Violence is a problem as old as finding food or making any structure, knowing how to control or prevent violence rests upon some foundational principles. If those principles are not adhered to properly, things start to fail and break down, resulting in victimization and death.
Its not an exact science of course but there is undeniably a foundation of principles handed down from generation to generation as to how to deal with violence and violent people. At least until the modern era where things have become so subjective and experimental that our teachers have started telling students that they are justified in using violence, the news agrees, and so does our own government.
We ask the government, who commits murder, to define murder and to try its citizens and itself based on that definition. Instead of stopping the moral wrong though, it creates a web of jargon and bureaucracy to shield it from the consequences of its failures. And those of you that have been listening for awhile already know, we are big fans of consequences here at The New Prisoners.
The government makes Joe Pesci's characters in movies like Casino and Goodfellas look like Russell Brand. The reason for that being instead of the government using its resources to produce something like a pencil it instead produces solutions to pencils being dropped on the floor. If government decided the proper moral framework to solve that issue we would all have pencils glued to our hands.
Government is the the famous example of I, Pencil in reverse. Instead of many systems solving a problem or serving a need it instead finds a problem or need and continues to build systems that perpetuate that problem or need. It does so rather because the intention was never there to solve the problem or meet the need in the first place or the eventual corruption of entities like government caused the mission to fail. Because the racket ends when The People would get what they want, so therefore if you are in the government you never let The People have whatever that is or else you are no longer of any use and you will lose the money and power granted to you to solve the problem.
If the current U.S. Government were a classroom and the lesson was about morality, a look around the room would reveal Biden hitting one of his arteries with the safety scissors and Kamala showing everyone how much of the Elmer's glue she can swallow.
We don't need these people to show us how to behave. If anything we should be monitoring their behavior in fucking prison. The moral framework is already there for us to adhere to. Its right there in our history and in our faith. We just have to acknowledge it and implement it as a culture. All of us.
Just as we wouldn't believe a government official telling us that wheels don't roll or fire isn't hot we should never accept that the government is the answer to our problems. We, are the answer to our problems. Or at least we can be when we treat our fellow brothers and sisters as we would like to be treated. Let us care for ourselves and one another like we would the most precious gift we've ever been given. Let's treat life like the miracle that it is, and teach that to our children, so that they may carry that knowledge further down the line to sustain many generations after us.
Think of all the beautiful structures that can be built with that framework.