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[Here is an example:
Recently, a 50 year old acquaintance said, “Look at my hands. I can’t do work. I am entitled to Social Security Disability.”
Then, she got into her SUV to drive to a party to play bridge.]
[Obligations3(2 put ‘the potentials inherent in me1’ into context.
It makes a difference whether those obligations3(2 are responsibilities3(2 or words3(2.]
[In the language of modernism, there is no difference between responsibility and words. Both create obligations.
In the language of postmodern scholasticism, they are mutually exclusive.]
[The American language is on the verge. It will soon turn, upending not just modernism’s false dichotomy of ‘responsibility’ and ‘freedom’, but the whole system of differences.]
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[The elixir of postmodern alchemy dissolves crystalline modernity.
Uncertainty replaces certainty.]
[Consider the thoughts that this piece of legislation has engendered.
Corporate media spew Progressive thinkpro-object while regulations remove freedom and responsibility from both providers and recipients.
Another name for a system without choice is a single payer system.]
[What is the meaning of each word?
Affordability is not determined by the consumer, but by a federal bureaucracy.
Care is not defined by the consumer, but by a faceless bureaucracy.
No one else is to be held responsible. No one else is to exercise freedom.
Our federal bureaucracy, who art in Washington, hallowed be thy name.]
[The term “words” points to a new plane of awareness.
Post-religious (enlightenment) religions alchemically fuse words to sin and thoughts to law.
Consider the misleading title of a purely Progressive law: The Affordable Care Act.
Each word misleads.]
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[Ah, savor the postmodern alchemy of words.
Words stand in contrast to responsibilities. Yet, both are obligations.]
[But, aren’t obligations identical to responsibilities?
Yes and no.
Yes, responsibilities are obligations.
No, obligations are also identical to empty promises.]
