Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[Welfare and other transfer payments are particularly deceptive.
When does getting something for free (one of the ways that the government attains its objectsorganization) sound like an “responsibility”?
Yet, it imposes the unavoidable: The recipient must vote for the Party of Larger Government.
In order to do that, the recipient justifies “himself” through state propaganda.]
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[Laws are written in words. These words impose the unavoidable on others.
Why do legislatures exempt themselves from their own legislation?]
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[The imposition of the sovereign proceeds first, in words, then second, in unavoidable obligations.
Is it hard to see that words convey obligations?
I may use words in order to avoid obligations for me. But does that not amount to imposing the unavoidable on you?
Unlike responsibility, words have winners and losers, just like politics]
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[IF the mirror of the world3a illuminates something2a that belongs to the potential inherent in me1a,
THEN responsibility3a(2a is co-opposed to freedom2a(1a)).]
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
[The co-opposition of responsibility and freedom allows us to appreciate Schoonenberg ‘s text more fully.
Schoonenberg’s key opposition is between bondage and freedom.
Bondage is in co-opposition with words (expressions and impositions of organizationalobjectives and thinkgroup).
Freedom is in co-opposition to responsibility.]
[Modern propaganda asserts that sovereign words (pro-object rhetoric and legislation) do not change incentives’
This assertion underlies the static economic analysis that always fails to predict the cost of central government impositions.]
[Modern propaganda asserts that freedom has no context (responsibility).
This implication underlies the bondage of the welfare state.]
[Modernists habitually manipulate the meaning of words in order to mislead subjects. The objects that bring individuals into organization are presented through misleading oppositions, such as the slogan, “responsibility versus freedom”.
Such is the nature of modern propaganda.]
Summary of text [comment] pages 83 and 84
Schoonenberg wrote that we exercise freedom in serving either God or Satan.
[The previous round of blogs show that “freedom” is defined as the capacity to enter into responsibilities. Greater freedom means greater responsibility.
The modern opposition between “freedom” and “responsibility” conceals pre- and postmodern concepts of the co-opposition of freedom and responsibility.
The true oppositions are between freedom and bondage and between words and responsibilities.]
