This is finished copy #2 of my Eight Legged Chinese Essay

The People's Civil Purpose

by Fd. Uncle Emanuel Watkins

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Informal Wretch

Formal King

A Message Given 
In the Form of a Chinese

 Eight Legged Essay

The Wretch  <   Moderate Middle   >   The King

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     We should all reduce our focus mindfully towards a lone dichotomy which has been enduring forever. This dichotomy is expressed as a metaphoric conflict between a formal king, one can find his character depicted on the far right hand side of the above political spectrum, and an informal wretch, her character found depicted on the far left hand side of it.

     In the model above, as the king would represent the greatest of rulers, the wretch, being his exact inverse, or perverse, would represent the very least among the slaves.  Being the stronger of the two, the king is rational in his thinking knowing all things; meanwhile, the irrational wretch is distracted inwardly by a burden.  As the king owns every property and all things on that property, the wretch owns nothing as she is deemed by him to be an illegal trespasser and, thus, owned by him.  As he is sovereign in all civil matters and, thus, is exempt and immune from the law, she is judged criminal in her existence and, so, is powerless.  As she will have to learn how to prostitute herself in order to survive, so the king was well trained, when he was a young prince, how to thrive by the prostitution of others.

     Being opposing forces, while the nature of the king's authority would always be growing and expanding, the nature of the wretch's authority would always be withering and shrinking.  When they each were younger, he was sent to school to be trained how to control his authority.  Meanwhile, in order for her to survive, she had to learn how to manipulate his authority.  
     After growing into adults, the king would become an important knower while the wretch would be deemed to know nothing of importance.  Pertaining to all those who would be serving under the important king and would be ruling over the worthless wretch, there are three types of knowers.  Indeed, okay, while the king might know more than just these three types of knowers, the wretch would be too busy surviving to even care one way or the other.
     What ever the case might be concerning the total number of knowers, the three known types are the sophists, the philosophers, and the alphas.  The eloquent sophist (literally wisdomer) is skilled in the art of debate.  He or she is an orator who entertains audiences with a conclusion that truth cannot exist as a virtue.  He or she substantiates their point by arguing on both sides of a topic spending half of their performance presenting one point and then, perhaps after taking a break, the second half of it presenting the opposing counterpoint. Granted, as the ultimate Truth is an infinite measure of what is all of eternity, these sophists do have a point as such a place would be unapproachable to us.
     The second type of knowers are the philosophers (lovers of wisdom).  While they do acknowledge that the sophist argument has some validity, they venture further by the utilization of truth engines.  Indeed, these knowers develop processes in which quantities of raw data are inputted for the purpose of reducing large amounts of content to that of smaller outputs of quality truths.  So, while it is not possible to arrive at the Truth, one can find certain formal, best-principled paths leading towards that ultimate virtue.
     The third type of knowers are the alphas.  They are deemed to be knowers by the position of their births.  To put it simply, the alphas are sovereign by inheritance.  Society either will choose to respected the alphas above all the other knowers or else.  The alphas operate by utilizing a bully rationale which means they overpower anyone who might disagree with them.
     Of the three types of knowers depicted above, the alphas have always remained somewhat of a mystery in society.  Indeed, in past ancient writings, their cruel and brutal methods have managed to keep their characters hidden in world history.  Oh, sure, they have been called tyrants, but those  accusations of the world press have always focused abstractly on such anti-alpha rulers as Adolph Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Fidel Castro.  These animated anti-alpha leaders serve a purpose as they help paint a pretty picture made up of alpha knowers and good characters.
     Without giving the pretty picture much thought, the fearful people will tend to accept their alpha rulers as rational.  However, the paradoxical fact is, people do not rule over themselves in a rational fashion, but they tend to operate instead under a system of bullies.  Indeed, in the end, the method of choice is to rule by force of action.  The alpha is rational by overpowering others.  This Machiavellian / organized crime type of government has been long accepted as a necessary evil by sophist and philosopher knowers alike.  In contempt of the ultimate power which is the Truth, these knowers have to accept a fate of being abused by false powers of manipulation.  Through the self deceptive use of disinformation, the alphas confuse their lessors into following after them down the wrong paths.  They increase their power and maintain it by utilizing a willing media to spread both their deceit of misinformation and disinformation.  To understand the difference between these two deceits, while misinformation are lies perpetuated by the state for reasons that are in the best interest of the people, disinformation are the justifications for utilizing those lies.  In other words, disinformation deals more with the deceiving of oneself.  While misinformation is deceit caused by the deliberate propagation of untruths, disinformation is self deception caused by the spreading of the fraudulent dichotomies.  The fraudulent dichotomies are poison.  They work to intoxicate both the alpha knowers and those serving under them.  Indeed, so the alphas are drunkards.
    Such fraudulent dichotomies are most often expressed as a conflict between male against female.  Understand, in the formal dichotomy expressed in the model above between that of a king and a wretch, the ongoing conflict is not male against female.  Indeed, a man can be wretched just as a woman can be royal.  Other than male against female, other fraudulent dichotomies pit white against black, the young against the old, the poor against the rich, and so on.  Simply put, the drunken alphas manufacture their deceit on a counterfeit foundation of false dichotomies.  While they feel they are justified in spreading lies, a deception of disinformation has worked to convince those in power that they will one day be blameless while standing under the Light of Truth.  Yet, these false powers of manipulation cheat the people by distracting their focus away from the formal dichotomy.  Again, the model dichotomy above is the formal one as it depicts what has long been an eternal conflict ongoing between a king of the highest rank, and that of a wretch of the lowest.
     Today, we should honor those philosopher kings and sages of the past not for just what they were allowed to write and say, but also for what they were not allowed to write and say about the alpha knowers born over them.  Such notable individuals as Tao Te Ching, Confucius, Socrates, and Plato could not write or speak directly about such alpha knowers, but had to lower their eyes submissively when both addressing them in rational conversation or in written prose.  So, while one won't read much about these alpha knowers in ancient texts, realize their menacing stares were always ever present focussed threateningly over everyone in society.  

     Much to their benefit, as the alpha knowers have always managed to avoid having his or her roles defined in society, so has the character of the lowly wretch also remained a mystery.  This is because society has always been thought to be divided into only the two classifications of a master-class and a slave-class.  However, upon closer examination, the subtle workings of society will reveal the existence of a third class.  These three classes as a whole are a master class, a slave class, and an outcaste class.  While the master class has long exploited the slave class, they together as a majority society made up of both master and slave classes, in turn, exploit by total rejection those who make up another class of minority outcaste.      

     As the king is the master, so the wretch is the outcaste.  Metaphorically, she is the very least rated among three types of prostitutes.  The highest rated prostitute would be a wife.  She is a woman who has been deemed worthy enough to sleep in the king's bed.  The second highest rated is the commoner (serfdom) woman.  While she is not deemed worthy enough to sleep with the king, her life may be spared by him as long as she is willing to kneel in his presence.  Finally, the lowest rated is the wretch.  She has been outcaste from the king and his society even to the extent that she will be killed on sight.
     Compared to the wretch, the king is divided into two types of sons. One type is the Son of God.  He is a renowned as he is intimately known with a namesake being as he was born the offspring of a king. The fearful people will honor a princely Son of God as greater in worth than even his own father the king. In contrast, a Son of man is a stranger as he is the offspring of the wretch, with her being a metaphor for the very least. In contrast to how they will praise a Son of God, the fearful people will show disdain towards a Son of man rating him to be worth less than even his nameless and faceless parents. A paradox is expressed in the above description for, just as the term "God" has an intimate meaning, the term "mankind" has just the opposite impersonal classification. So, the one who is blessed as a Son of God will tend to be exalted by the fearful masses as they will rate such a person as greater than even the very greatest; meanwhile, in stark contrast, the one who is a cursed Son of man(kind) will be rejected by those same fearful masses as they will tend to degrade such a lowly person rating them as even more worthless than the very least from which he was born.

     Indeed, a Son of God is empowered by the praises of the people -- from the consent of the governed.  For example, the Buddha received his empowerment from wise men who sought him out.  In order to find him, they were born gifted with abilities to read the stars which guided them.  When finally pinpointing his residence, they found the Buddha inside was not yet born and still within his pregnant mother's womb.  So, they picked him up by carrying the whole bed and his mother with her still laying upon it.  Unfortunately, during the time of his birth, his mother died.  As he grew up, the people would then teach the Buddha about ideal perfection for, being Hindus, they believed, because he was reincarnated into a human being not from an animal, but from another human being, he was the very manifestation of God.       

     Problem is, someone left the door of the palace wide open which allowed the Buddha to venture out into the real world.  Here he would become traumatized after witnessing for the first time the harsh realities of sickness, hunger, poverty, crime, and old age.  Quite offended at being so misled, the Buddha would then demand that he be further taught everything pertaining to the reality of the outside world.  So, as they believed he was the very manifestation of God, the people had to teach him about reality also.  The point here being that the people were the ones who were responsible for empowering the Buddha.  In the beginning, the Buddha was taught about ideal life within a palace apart from the world and what it was like to live as a king.   Later, he then learned about real life outside in the world and what it was like to have to live as a wretch.

     Similarly, Saul of Tarsus had to live the life of the worst human being to ever live.  Indeed, he was the one who offended the Holy Spirit by hunting down and persecuting Christian believers.  Indeed, during His torture and crucifixion, Jesus in the flesh did not ask king Herod or the preface Pontius Pilate the question of why they were persecuting Him.  No, that question was reserved for Saul, the true one responsible for His persecution.  In other words, Saul of Tarsus was the greatest among the very worst.  These worst I speak of here were the ones responsible for empowering the drunken and wayward emperors -- those who would declare themselves to be living gods and would demand to be worshipped as such.  So, the judgement of the Holy Spirit was preserved to fall upon Saul as the one responsible.  As a consequence, the very worst person of Saul was put to death spiritually, indeed, he could never be forgiven, so that he could then be reborn again and transformed into the Apostle Paul, the highest Apostle as God's chosen vessel. 

     To elaborate even further, it wasn't a king of England who later pronounced himself, by way of proclamation, to possess absolute power. No, it was one of his subjects under him named Sir Robert Filmer.  Robert Filmer wrote a book of political philosophy called "The Partriarcha" which favored empowering the king.  Of course, in writing such a book, Robert Filmer was finding favor in the king concerning his own advancement and increased empowerment within British society.  In contrast, John Locke had to write a challenge to Sir Robert Filmer in secret to the extent that he could only reveal his true identity after his death in his last will and testament. 

      Similar to the Buddha, Moses had to first be raised up as a king.  Along the way though, he was exposed to the fact that his true family were actually the Hebrew slaves in bondage to the Egyptians.  So, after understanding this, Moses lowered himself to become a slave.  In this way, Moses could understand the plight of the most wretched from the point of view of a king.  But when Moses returned to confront Pharaoh, he was wise enough to know to use his brother as a strong mouthpiece in order not to offend the lion with his weakness of stuttering.           

     As the worthless wretch would say, do not speak against the king out of fear or threat or you will find yourself beaten on every level of society.  Indeed, the king is a metaphorical lion that devours both what he fears and is a threat to his domain.  Like the wretch, except for our inborn natural rights, the people possess no power.  Like our Founders, we should remain submissive to the king's authority, but willing to both disobey any violation committed against both our natural rights of free will, and, of our own free will, to be enslaved to the duty of fighting for those rights.      

     In order to establish a justified ordainment for our nation, our Founder's reduced towards a natural law.  Their enactment of this natural law was in opposition to the past way of ordainment which, based on legal precedence, required one to bless and crown a new king.  Indeed, our Founders could have bettered themselves establishing a king's authority under which they could have then acted as conquering officials over us.  Instead, they chose to perform intimately of, by, and for the people, as Abraham Lincoln once said, doing so in order to address all future tyrants and tyrannies that might rise up to threaten our new nation.  Indeed, as they themselves stood upon a solid foundation constructed of their own ancestors, and as they were mindful of His possible divine providence having signed their own names of free will to a declaration under penalty of judgement, they took a thoughtful step forward by a declaration that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
     As all our ancestors on this earth have faced bravely the same great darkness and perished into it for our sake, so too should we all be standing in faith waiting with the supreme Truth, patient with the full realization that the worst tyranny threatening our Union today is being perpetuated by the very best mannered, the most pleasant, and the very kindest.  Indeed, we are being deceived today by words spoken in the most eloquent of speeches.  We are being tempted to sell our souls for a counterfeits boxes of goods adorned with pretty outer wrappings.  And, finally, we are being stumbled up with false promises of hope and by quick changes implemented for the sake of change.   Such chaos has divided the people against themselves to the extent of atrocity, blinding white fathers to fight against their own black sons, forcing motherhood to abandon her children for political causes, and confusing the people against the unbreakable natural laws, the very powers given to them from God Almighty, they possess within them.
     But the wretch will one day stand in faith and walk in faith.  Indeed, when reducing towards what we treasure most of our inheritance, as the same would be true among all the multitude of the earth, we too should never amend beyond making the most precious alterations to the scripture left to us by our ancestral Founders.  As already stated, our Founders once acted out a little masterpiece on our behalf, daring to perish with us during its enactment (indeed, even to sit among us as common members of the congregation), willing during the process to throw off their rightful social statuses as empowered Gentlemen.  They did forfeit those empowered titles in order to divorce us through a painful process of cutting our new nation's economy off from Old World tyranny.  As our Founders thoughtfully and carefully narrowed to what they most treasured as an inheritance, so do we the people today narrow towards a king and a wretch.
     We the people of these united States do declare this king and wretch to have been born equal, in some mysterious way, in both their power and in the endowment provided to them by their Creator, possessing within them, as our Founders once declared, the same exact business agenda for Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.