America is guilty of a crime and you, you my friend
are also guilty of that same crime………
America and you, are guilty of dishonesty and fraud
and being sanctimonious and engaging in hypocrisy…
The actual crime being committed is bad faith……
You proclaim your allegiance to certain values,
values that represent America… or so you say……
and yet you either engage in actions that are not representative
of what it means to be an American or you commit the equally grave
crime of inaction…
Perhaps this is what is mean by “modern”…
to engage in hypocrisy by action or inaction…
The American lie that all life is sacred is put to
the test when the budget, which is a moral document,
reduces the social net that keeps people alive. When
you reduce benefits to seniors, like my mother who monthly
faces the choice of either eating or getting life saving medicine…
or the parent who is face with feeding their children or paying medical bills…
As long as we practice the American nihilism of putting money before lives,
we are engaging in hypocrisy when we proclaim ourselves a “Christian” nation
and we don’t practice what we preach…
When we seprate children from their families for the “crime” of being illegal,
that is not “Christian” nor does it fall under the declaration of independence
where
“All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator
with certain inalienable Rights, that among these rights are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness”
We failed to practice our basic principles if we pick and choose who
we are going support or who we attack…….
Holding certain beliefs mean we must engage in those beliefs
both in practice and in theory…
I have accused you of grave crimes and most of you will simply pretend
it doesn’t mean you… because hay, we always assume ourselves to be innocent
of any crimes because we are perfect, we are certain, we are American’s…….
How can we commit a crime if we are Christians because Christians
are always saved and doesn’t being saved mean you are not longer guilty of
any crime. You can’t accuse American’s of engaging in hypocrisy because
we have the documents we profess our allegiance to, the declaration
and the constitution… we are saved because we profess our belief in
those documents… but we practice bad faith because we don’t act upon
those documents, act upon them as if they are real, functional truths,
about what is our principles………At best, we offer lip service to the American
ideals of “truth, justice and the American way of life” or the concept that
“all men are created equal”…………………….
If you are silent about the hypocrisy of America and if you are silent
about the crimes committed against American’s because they hold different
beliefs, then you are guilty……
But no, most people reading this won’t take this seriously……
but why? because we think of ourselves as incapably of
committing crimes and yet, we do so all the time……
Hypocrite… your crimes of hypocrisy and bad faith is
clear as day… and yet, you refuse to see, refuse to engage
with your bad faith… what me? Nah, I am as clear as a window
in my engagement with my principles…
liar… liar… liar…….
You can no longer sit on the sidelines and pretend you are innocent,
pure as snow…… your silence convicts you of crimes against humanity…
crimes of bad faith… crimes of complicity with the forces that negate
human beings and their values… you are guilty of practicing nihilism when
you negate human beings and their values………
Nah, I am innocent of any crimes… because I have never given it a minute
thought if I am guilty of hypocrisy and bad faith……. and that is your only
defense… I have never given it a moments thought…
don’t treat your principles and beliefs like you do philosophy…
as if it doesn’t engage with or have anything to do with yourself…
my philosophy is simply an engagement with sterile and abstract
thought that doesn’t commit me to anything in the real world…
it is simply mental masturbation… and that is how people here
on ILP engage with philosophy… not with any real intent to practice
what they engage with in their interest in philosophy……
philosophy is simply something someone does to pass the time,
not really to engage with or practice as a real thing……
bad faith is about the false engagement with philosophy with
no intention to actually change one’s beliefs or actions……
Kropotkin