Blog Trilogy

Once you start a blog, it takes on a life of its own -- and if one is a writer, it then takes a deliberate and premeditated act of murder to kill it, and that is the reason this blog, started for the purpose of supporting my campaign for elected district representative, has just become a representative viewpoint that one would not ordinarily see in Hawaii, and in fact, would be suppressed, repressed and oppressed, in their misguided notion of “Democracy.”

This is the kind of “democracy” Plato warned about in his “Republic,” in which the case against democracy is that it devolves quite easily into demagoguery -- or the manipulation of the masses instead of its representation in a republic.

In such “democracies,” full expression and examination is suppressed, so of course, when voting, the people do not have a full range of alternatives but only the “right” to vote yes or no on one option. And if another is allowed to be presented, the proponents of the one, will claim that the presentation of any other, is unfair, unjust, or illegal -- and make all attempts to ban it.

That’s what they know of “democracy,” and rely on this confusion of the word for the act itself -- of letting the many speak (for themselves). Many mindless pawns in this way (many are paid), are convinced and proud to proclaim themselves “Democrats,” as though the words themselves, were enough to make them true “democrats.” They will even try to convince everybody else, that they own a copyright on such usage.

Nowhere is this more true than in Hawaii -- which has become the poster child for such abuses and distortions of the concept of “democracy” -- of which the party leaders will try to convince everyone, exists far worse everywhere else in the world.

However, everywhere else, we do not see the complete disintegration and disrespect for social order as is not imploding before our eyes -- and world view, now that such other paragons of governmental abuses as the Taliban and Saddam Hussein are gone. So now there is Hawaii, along with a few other “tropical” places like Zimbabwe and the Sudan, that people have even less intention of touring and experiencing in their lifetimes -- where dying culturally and societally, seems to be their way of life.

This perspective is even more valuable to cultivate and maintain than just to have a vote -- in a legislative body with no real, significant choices, and why I decided it was important to maintain this blog, and with my other two, Thinking Differently and Thinking Hawaii, are my Blog Trilogy.