in regards to justice and security…
As I have noted before, a liberal desires justice
and a conservative desires security…
they seem to be two separate and distinct concepts…
security is one concept and justice is another distinct concept…
yet we have worked out before with good and evil, perhaps
the two distinct and separate concepts are really just two sides
of the same coin and then later they are one and the same…
thesis + antithesis… equal synthesis…
thesis: justice… antithesis: security…
synthesis: a combination of the two…
for if you think about it…
you cannot be secure if you are unable to have justice…
for the concept of security to work, you need justice…
for part of security is justice…
and part of justice is security…
one needs the other…
the liberal wants justice and by gaining justice, we gain freedom
the conservative want security and by gaining security, we gain freedom…
but what is the connection between justice, security and freedom?
how we approach this problem is in part by the ism’s and ideologies
and paradigms that we use to approach justice, security and freedom…
we have certain ism’s, ideologies and paradigms and it is through the lens
of those ism’s, ideologies and paradigms that we understand such
concepts like justice and security and freedom…
we are raised with certain ism’s and ideologies and paradigms
and we never really shake those ism’s and ideologies and paradigms
unless we follow Nietzsche and reevaluate values…
for those isms’ and ideologies and paradigms are values taking
form…we are born into a certain value set… given to us by our
parents, our church, our society, the media… all of which spends
its time, parents, church, media, society, in indoctrinating us into
certain values highly held by the parents, church, media and society…
This is the point of education… indoctrinating the children into
values acceptable by the parents, church, media and the society…
and we approach such idea’s like justice and security and freedom
with the values we are indoctrinated with from birth…
to escape this indoctrination, we must reevaluate our values in light
of our experiences as human beings… someone once called a conservative:
a liberal who has been mugged…
we might change our isms, our ideologies, our paradigms
because of experiences we have gone through…or
by experiences we see others going through…
the conservative rails against welfare based on the idea
of the “welfare queen” (an idea that has been discredited BTW)
but the conservative has actually never seen a “welfare queen”
because they don’t exists but the conservative is convinced of the existence
of the “welfare queen” even though they don’t actually exists…
in other words, the conservative is programmed to see “welfare queens”
even if they don’t exists… now this programming might be from
birth, this particular ism and ideology and paradigm from parents, the church,
the media and society…but how do we escape this programming from birth?
we must reevaluate our values…
we must re see our world, we must understand our ism’s and ideologies
and paradigms in light of a new look at those isms’ and ideologies and paradigms…
we must see the world with fresh eyes and without the impact of those
old ism’s, ideologies and paradigms that influence our understanding of the world…
so what if… security and justice and freedom are all sides of the same coin
and then what if… they are the same thing…
just like good and evil becoming the same thing, we now
see that justice and security and freedom are one and the same…
to be secure in the world, we must have justice and to have justice, we
must have security and to have justice and security, we must have freedom…
to attack one is to attack all three for the three, justice, security and freedom
are one and the same…what is the demarcation line between justice and freedom
and security? how do we tell where justice ends and security begins and where
is the line between justice and freedom? or the line between or security and freedom?
this demarcation line that is so important in science is also important in other aspects
of our life… so tell me, where is the line between justice and security?
Kropotkin