February 14, 2011
Esau, is that you?
We have some political spin-doctors in our community who try to avoid detection by having others do their bidding. A letter to the editor is signed by Jane Doe, but in reality the words and thoughts of the letter are composed by stealth activist John Doe. I’m reminded of Jacob disguising himself to be Esau in order to get Isaac’s blessing. Even though their father Isaac was old and his eye sight weak he was suspicious. “Who is it? Are you really my son Esau? Come here my son and kiss me. Ah, the smell of my son…” (Gen 27 NIV) Ah, the smell of political deception…
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Gail;
-----It would be nice if everyone thought with the same discernment you use. Names are important in the worlds of philosophy, science, politics, and religion. The reason is simple and realistic. Everyone must deal with reality according to the issues effecting themselves. So everyone is an expert only in those matters directly effecting his own situation, for those are the matters he will have personally studied. All of life’s matters are far too abundant for any one soul to personally study each. Therefore, on matters not touching our lives directly, we must rely upon the expertise of others. Names become tags for the reliability (or unreliability) of thinking we must accept without having the opportunity to personally verify.
-----This nature of the individual’s partial knowledge is both a problem and an opportunity for the left-wing. Their ambition for a complex society is to have all the unknowing underlings witlessly following a few all knowing superiors. The biggest of their problems is that there is no one even approaching the condition of being all knowing. Their opportunity is that the most of the underlings are unknowing that the superiors are likewise witless to everything outside their personal expertise. Therefore, deceit is the easiest (and maybe only) means by which their opportunity to superiority can be seized. They are quick to attach their names to propaganda while their names remain unspoiled. But when the true witlessness behind a name becomes massively discovered, they will slip their thinking into a name more popularly accepted. Thus we see movie stars testifying before Congress on complicated issues, these letters to the editor which you note, and the many “gospels” and “epistles” written in the first few centuries purporting to have been written by the apostles. They are all attempts of some superior-minded soul hoodwinking the masses into a coalesced following.
-----A complicated society benefits the most from everyone minding their own areas of expertise, speaking certainly from those areas, attaching true names to the ideas they pass, and admitting that anything they say beyond their own expertise is either a guess or an unverified reliance upon someone else’s thinking. This is being truthful and honest towards one another, and it lovingly allows everyone to be as much a piece of the social thought as he is capable, yet no more than he is capable.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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