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Summary

The article discusses the concept of Critical Race Theory, arguing that it is a form of ideolatry that divides people based on race and other factors, rather than promoting unity and integration.

Abstract

The article begins by discussing the decline of religious faith and the rise of ideological intensity, as described in The Atlantic article "America Without God." It suggests that this trend is supported by data sources such as Pew Research and Gallup. The author argues that the internet has facilitated the spread of ideologies, with people forming virtual groups around popular thought leaders. This is described as a form of ideolatry, or the worship of the human intellect. The article goes on to discuss the concept of race, arguing that it is a form of differentiation that is ultimately meaningless, as all humans are linked through their DNA. The author suggests that this differentiation is driven by a desire to justify our existence through belief in a higher power, which we now call "existential threats." The article concludes by discussing the role of politicians in exploiting these ideological divisions for their own gain.

Bullet points

  • The decline of religious faith has led to a rise in ideological intensity, as described in The Atlantic article "America Without God."
  • The internet has facilitated the spread of ideologies, with people forming virtual groups around popular thought leaders.
  • This is a form of ideolatry, or the worship of the human intellect.
  • The concept of race is a form of differentiation that is ultimately meaningless, as all humans are linked through their DNA.
  • This differentiation is driven by a desire to justify our existence through belief in a higher power, which we now call "existential threats."
  • Politicians exploit these ideological divisions for their own gain.

Critical Race Theory — The Reality

The obsession with “Race” is interminable. Are we taking Responsibility?

It is not just “Race” everybody wants to blame any other than themselves for “Race,” “Climate,” or “Crime.” I believe there is a correlation between the radical drop in religion and the rise in “cause-believe.” Articles, like The Atlantic article “America Without God,” specifies:

As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen. Will the quest for secular redemption through politics doom the American idea?

By Shadi Hamid

This article and others are supported by data sources like “Pew Research” and “Gallup.”

Especially now that we all walk the extensive “Virtual Streets” complex called the Internet. This is where “people” have large fan bases, “Virtual” groups that come to the thought “Master” hear the latest observations.

We have outgrown Idolatry. Image by Pearce, Charles Sprague, Artist, Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. North Corridor, Great Hall. Religion mural in lunette from the Family and Education series by Charles Sprague Pearce. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.

The “group” dynamic takes over, points to the master in total agreement, and “spreads the word.” Who needs religion? Well, it turns out there is an old word that describes it “Ideolatry.”

A “Congregation” — image at Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Today, we can redefine it as “The worship of the human intellect.” The need of the “Masses” to believe in “something.” Why not “race, climate, crime, you name it?” This can be interpreted as “believing in a higher power other than ourselves to justify our existence.” We don’t call them religion; we call them “existential threats.” A very sexy word; it sounds intelligent and beyond ourselves.

Regarding “race,” if you want to find differences, go to the beach and differentiate between grains of sand. How many are there? An infinite variety.

A family member who got interested in our genealogy so far has linked 18,000 people from our past. Irish, American, Italian, French, and Peruvian people, and is not finished yet. So, who am I, if not Human?

We carry the DNA of thousands of human combinations before us. A powerful dimension that we cannot begin to describe. It is similar to that explosion of followers you see in the “Congregation” titled image above, except the familial explosion has a time dimension.

Everybody is on that boat, like grains of sand on a beach; somehow, we are all linked. Our mistake is that when we look at a human being, we see “people that need to be differentiated.” Each grain of “sand” has to be accounted for with forethought. Like the Census — “Check the box and be accounted for.” That is intellectual myopia. Classify yourself by the color of your “skin.”

For example — As a matter of policy, when filling out the basic Doctors’ queries for their “Records,” I never fill out the “Race Classification” part. However, a year later, when they ask if “anything has changed,” I can see somebody has filled the “Race” box with “Latin.” If you think about it, somebody “in the system” does not respect my wishes “not to be classified.” Instead, the “System Subjective bigotry” decided what I was. So, everybody loves to differentiate.

One of my brothers was redhead green eyes with white skin, so he was “white,” my father called him “gringo” as an endearment; the other had black hair, green eyes, and “white;” my sister had green eyes, “white” with freckles, but had curly hair, but father called her “samba” as an endearment, was she black(?); I was brown skinned, brown eyes, and curly hair, my father called me “cholo” once in a while, am I “latin (?),” “black(?).”

Can we call it what it is? A belief in anything other than ourselves? It is easier than establishing our own convictions due to researching and learning — the capacity to see the world in a higher dimension — the “Integrated Humanity” dimension.

The Differential equation “derives” many secular “Ideolatry churches” led by someone that becomes VERY popular in these “virtual political churches” of the internet streets, as the “Congregation” image above shows. Everybody in that “church” chants, “I absolutely agree with you, those so and so’s, have it wrong in all these many ways…(throws moral rocks).”

THE NEW CHURCH — DIFFERENTIATORS HAVE VIRTUAL CHURCHES THAT CHANT IN AGREEMENT. DALL-E Rendering by author’s queries; Created by AI — © The author has the provenance and copyright.

There are many virtual churches on all types of beliefs, BUT in each differential, the believers are fervent about it because “it is an existential threat.”

“I SEE humanity and accept that its integration is greater (>) than those who SEES race and, he sees the people differentiation.”

WHY DIFFERENTIATE? WHY NOT INTEGRATE? We are all going through the “Sea Called Life” in one World together. Some drop off, and others get added. The human DNA keeps redefining itself and, by definition, is continually defining all of “US.” The World is exploding, not only in the number of people but by the slow progression of DNA over time.

How does that turn into politics? Politicians are smart, rational animals. They think and self-say, “If I could just pick up all the votes in all those churches I (we) can lock up the government for 100-plus years!

The ignorance factor for us was by design of the U.S. Department of Education.” a Woodrow Wilson 4th branch of government that breeds progressivism within and from within. This was done by design; they do not believe in the Constitution, also by design. They “work” with it for their manipulations.

For integration, we need to know what function we are integrating. Our integration function is “The Constitution and our unique Declaration of Independence.”

We delegate power, LIMITED BY THE CONSTITUTION, to a group of our people that we call “the government.” The twist here is that “we” need to keep their feet to the fire of the Laws they must follow- “The Constitution.”

The stories I wrote previously were for me to finally get some formative reasons for what made me who I am today. A believer in the power of the individual and a natural mistrust of any government. The fact that self-reliance was my bottom line drove all the decisions I made intuitively after moving away from my family at seventeen.

My definition of “Commitment” —

Commitment is making decisions like a pig for breakfast. The Chicken “contributes,” and the Pig is “committed.”

While getting my degree at the University and because my grades had suffered enough (poor English skills), I was put on probation. Knowing the road ahead would be tougher, I applied and worked hard to be allowed in the National Guard (more time to learn English). At the same time, since I was not a citizen yet, I applied for permission through the local consulate to allow me to serve my military service in the USA.

In the middle of all this, Velasco became the dictator, and the Peruvian Congress was shut down, Later, that jerk drafted me, and since I did not show up, they put me in jail, virtually in the middle of the Amazon jungle. Investigators harassed my family about my whereabouts without believing I was “abroad.” Abroad and “serving” in the United States Armed Forces.

Just like I suspect everybody in the world has. The stadium riot was like my “emotional graduation day.” It confirmed the aplomb of my personality (which I did not know I had then).

In part, you can say (and I feel) my life’s “basic training” had two influences. 1. Inside — My Family and the interactional environment in my house, 2. Outside — My interactional environment outside my house. Dictators are despots that get what they want because the Armed Forces support them. Putin (once head of the FSB) is a despot in civilian clothes that has gone “one bridge too far.”

Look what is happening inside Russia; it is imploding. Putin is getting vicious compliance, “I will do exactly what you tell me to do…while you are looking.”

All that to say, there is a balance of the two that every individual from zero to seventeen assesses. For most, including me, the assessment is subconscious, and thus unaware we move forward. Why seventeen? In my case, we graduated from high school at sixteen (we went to school 5.5 days a week). Who you are and who your friends are is settled by then.

Anything that involves outside “people” instructing young children in an “outside the home environment;” regarding an “integration” problem, which involves “brainwashing and remaking,” creates confusion and thus an unsettled conflict that lingers until it comes to the surface. Change is subjective. Teachers can teach all they want. However, people don’t get “taught” people “learn.” Learning something opposite to what you “live” at home creates destructive mental conflict.

Aside from that problem. as I “learned” from Russell Ackoff —

“Most large social systems* are pursuing objectives other than the ones they proclaim, and the ones they pursue are wrong. They try to do the wrong thing righter, and this makes what they do wronger. It is much better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right because when errors are corrected, it makes doing the wrong thing wronger but the right thing righter.”

That perfectly describes what schools are doing today, all the way to the university level. They are doing it with the blessing of the government people. They have lost their way and do NOT follow the Constitution. Just as Woodrow Wilson envisioned.

* — A social system is a set of laws and organizations created by “people;” Teaching at schools based on a curriculum. Organizations with a “what we are about.” For example:

https://www.nea.org/ — “…this includes their mental health and overall wellbeing.” Really? By teachers in a school? Isn’t that the job of Parents?

https://reason.com/2021/07/06/critical-race-theory-nea-taught-in-schools/ — “Is Critical Race Theory Taught in K-12 Schools? The NEA Says Yes, and That It Should Be.”

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/02/1012696188/how-critical-race-theory-went-from-harvard-law-to-fox-news — “How Critical Race Theory Went From Harvard Law To Fox News”

https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/what-critical-race-theory-is-and-what-it-means-for-teachers — “WHAT CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR TEACHERS.”

on this last reference, according to the learned Author Robert Kim, “Critical race theory (or “CRT”) is a school of thought that explores and critiques American history, society, and institutions of power (including government and legal systems) from a race-based perspective.”

The Root Cause

By “root cause,” I mean where the battlefield is. It is NOT in classrooms indoctrinating children about race-only bigotry for two reasons. If there is any, it is learned at home, and second, it assumes that children are inclined to be bigots. It actually “teaches bigotry” by putting way too much emphasis on the “differences in race.” Just like the government is doing.

The sentiment may be correct, but the “root cause” is wrong.

While it is wrong that the government has “institutionalized” bigotry by allowing the 4th branch to institutionalize it into law everywhere, attacking it at the school level is like teaching chickens to be scared of cats; meanwhile, the chicken coop has enough holes that allow cats in.

What is wrong?

● If the cat is a Republican, they will find a way to stave off the teaching.

● It is “Divisive” because it points to a problem that differentiates people.

● we are so self-involved we do not “DO” the human thing of helping our fellow humans anymore — we want that problem to “go away.” we tried that already — take a good look at LBJ’s huge “help” programs. Every one of them IS a failure today.

We, the people, must advocate the elimination of the 4th branch of government and all the begotten laws they created. It was created by a bigot in 1913 and has grown to an insupportable position in our lives, and it is unconstitutional.

It is more than theories, books, definitions, and curriculums. At the end of the day, “people” are involved. All of it becomes a war of “words.”

Were these people born in a separate Universe where “race” does not exist? Are they pure in thought and action? I doubt it.

How will “these people,” with their own baggage, teach young impressionable children that they were born into a “race jungle?” What examples will they use? Theoretical or personal examples?

The National Education Association (NEA), according to their webpage, is — “more than 3 million people — educators, students, activists, workers, parents, neighbors, friends — who believe in opportunity for all students and in the power of public education to transform lives and create a more just and inclusive society.

It is important to note that the last statement (italicized) has taken that responsibility away from the parents and assigned themselves the root cause. They will “transform lives and create a more just and inclusive society.” It is NOT education anymore.

If you try to stop that, you will be arrested like Sherronna Bishop. Her First Amendment Rights were mugged by the FBI.

SAY WHAT??????? The answer to the question below the Title is, NO, we are NOT taking responsibility. If we DID, the GOVERNMENT would NOT be acting that way. Secularly speaking, the ONLY church Americans belong to is “The Constitution AND the Declaration of Independence.”

“ It Is Mine” — Hillsdale College Bumper Sticker — With Permission

Thank you for reading!

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