05-01-2021
1- Liberty vs. Tyranny
“The supreme mystery of tyranny, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion [ideology] to cloak this fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.” — Benedict de Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
Fundamentally there are only two alternative systems of government: Liberty or Tyranny.
Democracy is considered the synonym of Liberty, but it usually turns into a system of Tyranny. The Constitutional Republic that the United States is, is designed to elevate Democracy to the system of Liberty.
Tyranny takes place when a society turns against itself, with one part usurping the sovereign power of the people and applying that power to control and exploit the rest.
One common feature of Tyranny is corruption: the misdirection of public deed or good for private gain. The government of Liberty strives to rid itself of corruption, whereas the government of Tyranny must introduce corruption, because it cannot subsist without corruption.
Government through fear is another common feature of Tyranny, since it is through fear that one part of the society can effectively control the rest, by imposing its will upon the rest and inducing it to betray its own rational interests.
Yet, the unacknowledged bitter truth is that the ultimate responsibility for the existence of Tyranny lies not with the tyrants but with the people themselves. Tyranny is the people’s self-betrayal, arising from their misunderstanding and irresponsibility.
Sovereignty always belongs to the people and therefore under a tyrannical government it is the people that are tyrannizing themselves. Tyranny is people’s ultimate psychological racket or self-deception to remain the suffering victims and maintain their victim consciousness and status, collectively.
Therefore, Liberty is for the people who are self-responsible sovereign individuals that understand what it takes to be free, whereas Tyranny is for the people who are the irresponsible victim collective that fail to understand what it takes to be free and sovereign.
Today a historic war is being waged between the insurgent force of Liberty and the intransigent force of Tyranny. What is unprecedented is the reality that the leader of the insurgent force of Liberty is already in the White House, while the intransigent force of Tyranny is transnational and globalist in nature and in political orientation.
Today there is no neutral middle ground. You must choose between Liberty and Tyranny, Freedom and Enslavement, and Sovereignty and Subjugation.
Think for yourself. Inform yourself. And be responsible not only for yourself but for the destiny of your nation and your world. Know that without the Freedom of Thought and of Information, there can be no Sovereignty, no Freedom, no Liberty.
2- Liberty and Quantum Logic
The system of Liberty is the social-political framework in which Freedom of Thought and of Action is maximally and optimally allowed. Therefore, in Liberty multiple paths of sense-making or decision-making are not only allowed but also encouraged. In Tyranny no such freedom is permitted. Both sense-making and decision-making are dictated by the political power structure that monopolizes the political, economic, military, and ideological power-source centers.
If you understand Lupasco’s quantum logic (see “The Logic Behind My Thought”) correctly, his logical framework provides for levels of reality wherein the observed horizontal duality or vectors crosses the vertical observational vector. When applied to the macro-phenomenon, Liberty constitutes the upward vector toward a greater dimensionality, complexity, and degree of freedom, while Tyranny constitutes the downward vector toward a lesser dimensionality, complexity, and degree of freedom.
We can exchange the term ‘liberty’ with ‘evolution’ and the term ‘tyranny’ with ‘devolution’. When you align your consciousness with the Evolutionary Liberty Vector, you tend to choose thoughts, ideas, and actions (sense-making and decision-making included) that are conducive to the movement of individual life and society whose vector is that of increasing freedom.
One of the great values of Lupasco’s quantum logic is its applicability to the macro phenomenal reality, though it originated in the effort to understand and explicate the quantum phenomena. It is a dynamic Logic of Liberty and Freedom in which our thought is no longer confined to one level of reality or a static duality.
When Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty, or give me death,” on March 23, 1775, in his speech to the Second Virginia Convention, he was asserting his total commitment to the Evolutionary Liberty Vector, precisely because the downward devolutionary vectorial alternative, Tyranny, was tantamount to the descent to death.
The Founders and Framers of the United States vigorously argued and rigorously disagreed, and yet they were all aligned with one another in the Evolutionary Liberty Vector. Freedom of thought and expression thereof is essential for a dynamic evolution of society. Liberty is born out of this Freedom, while Tyranny suppresses that Freedom, while unfreedom leads to devolution.
The existence of dualism or duality, of disagreement or difference, is not the issue at all. The real issue is Freedom. The Freedom to allow duality and difference needs to be present in order for society to thrive and for people to pursue happiness, which was and is synonymous with self-realization and the virtues that make happiness or self-realization possible.