Lamentably, experience reveals that Man, in his constitutional hubris and obduracy, learns only glacially gradually, if at all, from experience.

"Without liberty, law loses its nature and its
name, and becomes oppression.
Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."

~ James Wilson

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness."

~ George Washington

Well did the Founders understand that Fallen Man is a study in incapacitation
in the sphere of his being consistently able to reasonably, rationally, possess power, and exercise authority.

It can reasonably be contended that the will to possess power is a psychopathological ambition, in itself.

Lamentably, the character of fallen human character is such that supposed cooperation will commonly, if not characteristically, assume the form of conspiracy.

To what extent is the dignity of the individuality of the individual actually honored, within the family or society.

Historically, a signal hindrance to human progress has been the pride and fear based cultural premium that has been placed on conformity, in most settings.

As George Orwell expressed it:

" The more people chant about their freedom and how free they are, the more loudly I hear their chains rattling."

Ultimately, Freedom is a state of Mind.

Everything has its genesis at home, since the original order of government in society is the family.

Wholesome socialization occurs most sublimely within the construct of a rightly conceived, rightly constituted, nuclear family - the bedrock of civilization.

As the Puritan Divine Thomas Manton expressed it:

" The home is the seminary of the Church and of the State."

Ultimately, in the absence of rightly constituted moral authority, tyranny cannot not exist.

The evolution of tyranny in America has been a readily discernible concomitant of its cataclysmic moral and sociocultural declension.

As Stalin expressed it:

" America is like a healthy body - and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within. "

" The limits of my language are the limits of my world."

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Political thought control by any other name would be as odious.

The essence of true education is revealed in the etymology of the word itself.

Ultimately, the word education is derived from the Latin educare:

to lead out, to draw forth from within, as in educe.

Accordingly, the worthiest objectives of education are the cultivation of character and the liberation of ideational processes, particularly of creativity.

The inculcation of knowledge and its characteristic concomitant, indoctrination, which commonly are devices of arbitrary totalitarian and authoritarian control, do not constitute true education.

I truly value your unfailingly astute, insightful commentary, E Archer.

Thank you for your contributions.

Readily demonstrably untrue.

An overwhelming plurality of the population of the planet act reflexly under the tutelage of compulsions endogenously generated or exogenously conditioned.

It was ordained that knowledge be Man's servant, not his master.

Knowledge, uninformed by Understanding, unconstrained by Principle, has been the taskmaster of Man since the time of the Fall.

Truth and Love are corollaries of each other.

Necessarily, a love of the Truth cannot exist in the absence of at least a vestige of the influence of Love.

" But seek ye first the Kindom of God, and His righteousness; and all the things shall
be added unto you."

~ Matthew 6:33

Foremost among which Love, and a love of the Truth.

" A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks."
~ Luke 6:45

If a people's possessing a right understanding of history is that unimportant, why is it, particularly,
that the totalitarians among us are
as intent as they are upon commandeering the narrative of it?

In the Garden, our progenitors were indoctrinated, by Beelzebub himself, in the martial exploitation of the faculty of the usage of language.

In all of its guises, signal among which the Communist's communication of "revolutionary truth" and dezinformatsya, and the Islamist's device of taqiyah, such exploitation is ineffably contemptible.

"One of the least well understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly torward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order."

K.M. Heaton - The Educator

The nihilism of those who nurture
psychotic notions of the perfectibility of the civilization of Fallen Man by means of his liberation from morality is boundless.

In the Garden, liberation from moral constraint was Beelzebub's siren song.

The effusions of a true believing One Worlder.

Beelzebub himself could not have stated it better.

The will of a man exists in a state of subjugation to that with which he most profoundly identifies, either freely or under duress.

Since human beings are entities of faith and belief, the constitutions of their belief systems delimit their perceptions of Reality/reality.

The presence or absence of discernment makes the defining difference.

In I Corinthians 2:14, the Apostle Paul trenchantly reflects upon the dualistic character of the human mind.
In doing so, he does not fail to observe:

"But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

Lamentably, the faculty of the natural man for the denial of Reality is a virtually illimitable one.

Gullible and idolatrous.

Originally, in this nation, it was understood, rightly, that the provision of education is a ministerial pursuit.

To the extent to which the provision of education has ceased to be a ministerial pursuit, having devolved into an industrial enterprise, children have been pragmatically rendered commodities, their humanity and individuality minimized.

The perfection, perhaps, of the corruption of pragmatism, and of power.

Man's characteristic subjectivity to knowledge, ideology and religion are legacy of the Fall.

Man is ordained to live for the Truth.

Nobly, he can die for it.