A Penitential Pilgrimage For Washington Politicians

We Americans are the only people who ever created instead of one state a union of 50 states. 50 states! Think of it! Fifty! 5 0! 50! We created a politically united society that is a revolutionary economic developmental system. The only reason the system has not gone on roaring towards the future with money coming out our ears is our chickenshit politicians in Washington. They do little with the trillions we send them to support economic development for us Americans. Their laziness, stupidity, cowardice and greed is rooted in the 19th-century idea that only free-enterprise capitalism should be the American way of doing business. This means in practice that the trillions in federal tax money that flows into their hands must not be used to invest in business enterprises. They need to go on a pilgrimage to a holy site as penance for this sinful outdated blasphemy against reality. Let them all get on a ship in Los Angeles and cruise down (at our expense of course) the Pacific to the entrance to the Panama Canal, The canal belongs to us but they (our friends in Washington) decided to own it and run it in a foreign state and give the government of the state an annual share of the profits. Washington maintains foreign states throughout the globe with its billions in aid, its military and its diplomats (and CIA, spies, global technologies etc.etc.) following the spartan rule that 50 states is enough. No more American states! Why create more states for the American union that would give new opportunities to all Americans if instead you can create here and there globally well-run-American-controlled-and-or-influenced states like Panama? And at the same time why not let this foreign policy help out one of our buddy states like China? Well, the holy site for our Washington guys and gals on their penitential cruise (big cabins and 3 lavish meals a day to make it not too penitential) is on the shore just a mile or so inside the Panama Canal (our canal). Our Chinese buddies made a deal with the Panamanian political bigwigs to lease enough land long-term for a monumental gigantic operation for unloading their container cargo ships with several huge cranes rising majestically high into the sky costing many many millions of dollars. And they’re no cheap chickens our pals the Chinese: a $1billion project to build a new deepwater port and another container terminal near the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal has begun. There’s development for you! No fooling around! Invest massively in any state anywhere in the world that our lazy cowardly Washington dudes have made secure politically and economically using our money, our military, our diplomats, our Cia etc.etc.. But would our Washingtonians simply enjoy the cruise and not feel penitential when they view the massive Chinese site already up on the Pacific end of the canal which obviously has nothing to do with free enterprise and is clearly the result of state-run capitalism exploiting the Washington-dominated free-enterprise worldwide capitalistic system? Could they possibly believe that some Chinese individual fought his way up the economic ladder and then urged on by the doctrine of free enterprise ( it worked in the 19th century but doesn’t work now for the general good without some government support) invested the millions he earned by individual effort far across the ocean in Panama? Le doute est permis. When I passed this gigantic Chinese site on our canal, I thought, wow, if only someone in our union of states, the greatest most fabulous wealth-creating economic non-state development system ever created on the globe by humanity in the whole history of the world, wow, if only other Americans could see with their eyes what our pals the Chinese are doing globally to benefit their people, they might, who knows?, begin pestering Washington to get our fantastic state-developing system ( between 1790 and 1959 Congress admitted 37 new states) rolling again by admitting new states. Although, of course, 50 is already a lot of states.The Russians once had 15 and did nothing to develop them. The Europeans have 28 and take in new states whenever they feel like it but they don’t develop them either. Wow did we once take in and develop states! Westering, to move to a new state for more opportunities was once the dream of every true American! Washington killed the dream by not admitting any new states since Hawaii in 1959! Hm. Even just a few new foreign states admitted to our union would mean using again but now  worldwide the greatest most fabulous wealth-creating economic non-state development system ever created on the globe by humanity in the whole history of the world. Hm.

Daniel McNeill

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World Unity 42

     Everyone believes that democracy is the best form of government and that everyone should live in a democratic state. But the terrible disruptions of civil peace going on all over the globe demand more than democratic governments with democratic leaders. We need holy democratic leaders, saintly leaders, men who will not take any action with the power voted to them by their fellow citizens unless it is good, honest, pure, moral and in the best interest of all. Down with all leaders who are merely pragmatic! We need leaders who really believe that every human being has universal rights that must be supported and respected and that humanity possesses a divine purpose for living on earth. It is an illusion to believe that because the bourgeoisie took control of states in the 19th century and used governments exclusively to make laws to support their selfish economic goals that humanity is condemned forever to suffer dominated by greedy and selfish leaders who never consult the grace to do good that God put in their soul. Peoples in the past created communities inspired by their sense of the divine. Ancient Egypt was a divine empire. Ancient philosophers believed the business of governing was a divine vocation. Moses's laws tried to make moral goodness the basis of his community. Saint Augustine in his great book, The City Of God, the Civitas Dei, claims that in world history two states exist side by side, the civitas dei and the civitas terrena, the heavenly city of God composed of the good and the earthly city composed of the unredeemed. Nation-states in our time do have nasty, difficult, practical problems to deal with but that should never be an excuse for leaders acting corruptly and immorally. A government like our government in Washington with its trillions of dollars in revenue and its freedom as a central government from the day-to-day tasks of state governments should never act selfishly and immorally. Washington should become in our 21st century a central world international government of a worldwide union of states with saintly leaders gathered from all over our globe promoting with their great power Saint Augustine’s civitas dei.
Daniel McNeill

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World Unity 41

    In Hegel’s great work, The Philosophy Of History, the German philosopher not only claims that world history has a divine purpose but also that the divine development going on is perfectly rational. Absolute Spirit expresses itself throughout history in a variety of forms. The universal aim of spirit at work in history is human freedom. The oriental world knew only the freedom of one man, as for example the pharaoh in Egypt. The Greek and Roman world knew only the freedom of some men, since slavery was instituted. The Protestant Germanic states of Hegel’s time, the early nineteenth century, finally realize the freedom of all. “The essential being,” Hegel wrote, “is the union of the subjective with the rational will: it is the moral whole, the state, which is that form of reality in which the individual has and enjoys his freedom.” Since Hegel’s time, states in Europe providing a form for the realization of their citizens’ freedom have also been forced tragically to provide armies as a vehicle for their citizens to kill citizens from foreign states in grand battles and two world wars. The history of Europe after Hegel showed clearly that if Absolute Spirit was going to produce human freedom it would have to take some form other than the European nation-state. Hegel  looked beyond the political realities of his time to America. He suggested that the full burden of history’s march towards humanity’s freedom could not be born by Europe alone. “America is therefore the land of the future,” he wrote in The Philosophy Of History, “where in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the world’s history will reveal itself.” American political experience agrees completely with Hegel’s notion that only the state can be the form where freedom can and should be exercised. But American experience also proves that the freedom of all individuals can not be exercised fully in a state that possesses full national sovereignty. A fully sovereign state always puts full power and full freedom in the hands of a minority of its citizens. Such power can be reduced and spread around throughout a population to free all citizens only if the political power of a state is not absolute. A state can be “the moral whole” and “that form of reality in which the individual has and enjoys his freedom” without being a fully sovereign state if it can become a member state of a just union of states with a central government  with the legal power clearly stated in a Constitution to force states to support freedom for all their citizens. The American Federal Government has already lightened history’s burden by assuming some of the sovereign power of 50 states but it has not lessened their sovereign power to govern themselves democratically and provide for their citizens a moral whole where they can live freely.
Daniel McNeill 

The Theater of the Impossible, The End of All Beginnings, The United States of the World, books by Daniel McNeill, are for sale at: amazon.com/author/graceisall