America is the richest nation in the history of nations. We have the largest portion of millionaires and
billionaires. Our currency is the reserve for the global economy. We have the most inclusive and liberal founding
documents as our rule of law (Constitution and Bill of Rights) - in Western civilization. Though, collectively, we don’t act like it often times – we are the leaders of the free world. Nations across the globe mirror our stance on controversy and policy alike. People all over the world look up to the U.S. to lead by example and set a modern course for humanity and scientific research – so the right, wise and just actions to take in contemporary times are not so cut & dry; or even like a puzzle, with pre-ordained jigs and fits.
So what is right? The opposite of left; the antithesis of wrong; is it correctness; is it propriety; etiquette; order?
It is often difficult to discern what is right (for context) when the framework of decision- making is absent of wisdom. The cold and calculating machinations of men may portray an array of actions as right while remaining willfully ignorant to all that is wrong in the marginalized purview. It is said that wisdom is in knowing the difference between right and wrong – so wisdom must shine when the conceptual nature of events are unclear.
When the difference between wisdom and folly are unclear, it is pertinent for one to show your faith by your
works. What faith; the ambitious, inspiring and motivating kind. If actions speak louder than words, and the louder
an argument gets – the more drowned out wisdom becomes, what will happen to the admirable battle fought with
the pen? History will not write itself.
When history is written the wrongs & rights become cemented in memoriam. No amount of fake news or
propaganda can defeat a strong inference or credible reference – but there are two sides to every story, right?
“Every day people condemn and admire Alexander the murderer of Clitus, but the avenger of Greece, the
conqueror of the Persians, and the founder of Alexandria;
Cæsar the debauchee, who robs the public treasury of Rome to reduce his country to dependence; but whose clemency equals his valour, and whose intelligence equals his courage;
Mohammed, impostor, brigand; but the sole religious legislator who had courage, and who founded a great empire;
Cromwell the enthusiast, a rogue in his fanaticism even, judicial assassin of his king, but as profound politician as brave warrior.
A thousand contrasts frequently crowd together, and these contrasts are in nature; they are no more astonishing than a fine day followed by storm. Men are equally mad everywhere; they have made the laws little by little, as gaps are repaired in a wall. Here, eldest sons have taken all they could from younger sons, there younger sons share equally. Sometimes the Church has commanded the duel, sometimes she has anathematized it. The partisans and the enemies of Aristotle have each been excommunicated in their turn, as have those who wore long hair and those who wore short.
In this world we have perfect law only to rule a species of madness called gaming. The rules of gaming are the only ones which admit neither exception, relaxation, variety nor tyranny. A man who has been a lackey, if he play at lansquenet with kings, is paid without difficulty if he win; everywhere else the law is a sword with which the stronger cut the weaker in pieces.
Nevertheless, this world exists as if everything were well ordered; the irregularity is of our nature; our political world is like our globe, a misshapen thing which always preserves itself. It would be mad to wish that the mountains, the seas, the rivers, were traced in beautiful regular forms; it would be still more mad to ask perfect wisdom of men; it would be wishing to give wings to dogs or horns to eagles.”
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary / Contradictions
An array of truly just actions in contemporary economic conditions would be even more controversially
contradictory than the prior quote from Voltaire. How could one tell when and where – at what point - justice is achieved? In short, when do the ends justify the means? It would be a lofty ideal to treat each person as ends towards their own means; not as means towards your own ends. However the biopower that is inherent in modern politicking has mixed with the industrial revolution and communism; turning large swaths of the less fortunate into human capital for transnational corporations. The benefit of lower wages juxtaposed with their country-men and women, as well as domestic inflation makes off-shoring a no-brainer if you are an amoral profit-seeking entity.
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