Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Each 'aspect' of the triadic 'governmental structure' has 'values' and 'duties'.

Every Government has 'political values' and 'duties'. Of course, the 'governmental duties' have their foundation on the 'political values'. One of the biggest problems of a 'Democratic government' is the 'value system' of the Bottom, viz. the Many People at the Bottom of Government. Of course, the Top also has a 'value system', but its easier to 'perceive' the systematic functioning of the Top and hence, compliance with the Constitution becomes a 'little easier' to perceive and to control. The Judicial Branch also has values and duties; the values are those of 'impartiality'; the duties are also those that require Constitutional objectivity in interpretive practices, but unfortunately, the Court is divided by 'Party Ideology'. Nevertheless, its easy to perceive the ideological divisions in Adjudication. ( The Majority and the Minority) But, the 'values' and 'duties' of the People at the Bottom, involves and includes the 'individual values' of millions of People; hence a great problem in democracies. Individual values have been 'overcome' by economic values( money, possessions and "bigness'.) This is a 'form' of 'quantification' because, the issues within the economy are always 'money or profit issues', how 'much money', how 'many possessions', and how economically 'Big' are you. This has become obvious by the phenomena of the 1%. Of course, all economic issues involve 'quantification' because the economy is 'motored' by profits. On a large scale, one can 'talk' about 'profits', 'possessions', and 'bigness'. Equally obvious is the fact that the 'corporate structure', viz., the 'biggest' Constitutional 'person' that exists in the social, is instrumental in creating these 'huge concentrations' of 'money', and 'bigness', etc.. However, the 'concentration of huge' profits in 'real Individuals' is perceived as 'Greed', a 'moral issue' because its based on a certain kind of 'graspingness' i.e. greedy for wealth. So, what is happening? Well, we create "Constitutional persons" whose function was to increase their 'huge economic grasp', and then we call them "persons", which compete with 'real People', in the economy. We then condone "bigness" in the economy, but we morally condemn 'Greed" in the real individual; while everyone knows that the 'legal person' does not even 'act'; that's why there is always some 'real person' behind the 'corporate veil' of the "legal Fiction". We create a 'social dilemma'; one that undermines the 'value system' of a democracy, based on Freedom and Equality, by substituting a 'devious motor' or 'value' for the real individual at the Bottom. We need to 'control' our "fictions", and the real Individuals need to 'restructure' his/her value system.

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