PLAIN TRUTH

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  All government is part of society, but not all of society must be dictated by the government. This essay explores the separation between society and government and why conflating the two is dangerous.

What does society owe individuals? And is it meant to provide it via government or other means? This essay blends liberalism and conservatism to suggest that "fend for yourself" philosophies are barbaric while "make the government do it" is rarely the answer.

When it comes to crime, our society has had the same barbaric and ineffective solution for centuries: revenge after the fact.

The reality is the best way to handle crime is before it happens, not via threats, but by making sure everyone's core needs are addressed and they have access to meaningfully interact with society.

For those outliers that truly pose a threat, the aim is prevention of harm and rehabilitation, not punishment. And when a crime has been committed, the aim needs to be restoring a sense of peace to society, not extrapolating the conflict with mandated retribution.

The government is a dedicated tool of societal governance, but it's far from the only one, and centralized authority is far from the only means of implementing governance solutions.

In the security world, one of the first things you learn is that 100% secure is a myth. The aim of security is to ensure that the cost of accessing something you aren't supposed to is greater than the benefit of doing so. The more valuable the object or system that is to be secured, the more deliberate security measures are needed to protect it.

In the case of the wealthiest nations on the planet, there are not security measures sufficient enough to protect centralized governments from corruption. This is just one of the many points made against centralization in this essay.

When it comes to discussing economic policy, discourse almost always dissolves into the generalized misuse of terms like Capitalism and Socialism. The reality is most Americans interpret these terms from an "us vs. them" perspective without regard for any accuracy of sentiment. This essay dispels any cognitive dissonance that may exist in discussing American economics.

Capitalism gets blamed for specific issues that result from both concentration of power and societal dependence on dogma. The reality is that Capitalism fundamentally values decentralization and a balance of parity and specialization. We may not need a totally different system, we may just need to establish better governance over what we already have.

What corrupts capitalism is what corrupts any social power structure: power structures with vertical hierarchies. While we constantly blame individual leaders for their corruption, the reality is that even leaders of pure intent can be misled by overly compliant or outright malicious advisors. Any society based around social structures of permanent, classist separation over dynamic rotation will inevitably fall to corruption.

More has been done to damage overall societal stability in the name of benefitting one's own family than any other more overtly malicious excuse. But  this satellite selfishness must be plainly called for what it is. There is no justification for inheritance in a free and equitable society, and we as common individuals must realize that we will never actually compete with billionaires if we try to play their silly little game. The best way to guarantee stability to our children is via a healthy and abundant society.

The reason I started this site is to take one of the first steps in re-establishing open discourse- deconstructing dogma. We need to accommodate diverse perspectives, but we're unable to do so if we're already certain we have the right answers.

This essay lays out a potential path for restarting public discourse en masse, from challenging and clarifying beliefs instead of relying on "common sense" to mitigating triggers to open the floor to more expressive perspectives.

Where the ignorant and incompetent see challenges, the wise and strong see opportunities. While it may be more difficult to accommodate diverse perspectives and cultures, doing so is a boon to any society that can crack the code for doing so with a sense of genuine unity.

There's no other nation in the world better positioned to benefit from diversity than America. We just need to truly level the playing field and stop giving advantages to those of European descent.

The easiest way to divide a society is in two. Dichotomies are false choices that limit complex, open ended situations to "A or B".

Reality isn't black or white (or grey, for that matter)- it's colorful. The only two reasons to reduce decisions to dichotomies are pedagogy or manipulation. 

While there's some positive use in education environments, dichotomies are most often used as a form of manipulation. They are meant to provide people with an illusion of choice or of complete understanding while still driving them towards a desired outcome. This is essay argues that every time we're presented with "either/or", we must instead look for "both, and" or "neither".

Our society has two dilemmas it is facing. While I'd argue that these are only hard decisions for the ignorant, Americans are apparently so abundantly ignorant that these are major issues.

The Leadership Dilemma refers to whether a leader will take on personal hardship for the benefit of their team if a situation calls for it. I argue that this is what separates leaders from hierarchal superiors and owners.

The Business Dilemma is the choice between doing anything to make money and only seeking the profit needed to complete a specific mission or fill a role within a community.

The fundamental thing that we all need to do to guarantee that America exists as a positive force, not only for a select few of its citizens, but for all of humanity is remain calmly confident in our ability to improve our situation. We don't need to react violently to the uncovering of the truth- the truth is on our side and will reveal the proper path forward in due time.

American society is currently sustained by a global system of exploitation. Our corporations have found a way to obscure liability, but it's ultimately America's consumerism and global leadership that not only allows, but enables and depends on global exploitation. If we were to stop all immoral business today, our society would collapse. We must re-establish meaningful local American economies, not just local brokers of the global exploitation system.

American society is itself a bubble that's about to burst. We're in full control over whether we as individuals burst with it or emerge from the cocoons ready to take flight. We also have a substantial amount of influence over when this transition happens, although there is a possibility that we're forced to act sooner than we'd like.

History is littered with revolutions, which while fought with plenty of heart at the time, always leads to the same things as part of the same cycling. It's right there in the name- nothing is changing. Just revolving.

America stands poised to break the cycle and truly evolve socially. Eons of the same sort of societal pressures have held us back, and we're finally close to being able to take the next steps together as a species.