Machiavellian

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

James Madison

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

James Madison

One of the most pressing issues of today, and if you had bothered to read history, any day that involved the existence of humans, is prevarication.  We all engage in the activity.  In some fashion, because of certain occultic and draconian silent rules of being a social herd animal, we don’t necessarily have a choice.  The little white lie is of less importance, it’s only arena is the singular of interpersonal communication.

What about that big, bad, nasty tosser?  The political lie, the corporate lie, the military lie.  Nothing much is my answer.  A lie is only as good as the story that is used to build it’s framework; which requires a good storyteller.  It should be rather simple to tell, mostly because anyone educated in the rudiments of their language would understand proper use of imagery, literary devices, solid word choice, required structure, etc.  It should also be rather simple to tell when someone’s story is just piss poor.

Notice that in both instances I used the terms, “should be”.

If James Madison’s words were ever heeded, it hasn’t been at any time in the last century.  There’s no point pulling punches, our prostiticians are morons, of the licentious variety; and yet, the populace seems to be none the wiser.  The flat-lined plebes of America still buy into the fallacy of bifurcation that is the left/right political spectrum.  It wouldn’t hold up as evidence under an adjudicatory hearing, but it is enough if you happen to ever part the pages of one of those dirty, better for cleaning windshields, factless periodicals known as a newspaper.  Or if you happen to have an IQ greater than a speed limit sign.

Are you groaning from the negativity yet?  I would be remiss for not reveling in the reader’s agony.

As I’m back in University, I have been forced into taking a “professional business writing” class.  I’ll digress on the overarching stupidity of the class and the nature of business writing I’ve encountered through the years, none of which succeeds in proving “professionalism”, in any sense.  But, I have learned one interesting tidbit from the class, via a rather harsh critique from the instructor.  It appears, according to his missive, that my writing fails to meet requisite standards of both the Fog Index and the Flesch Kincaid scale.

These are used everywhere in the news media, business and a mass of other publishing?  Read what the links explain plainly: both are setup to calculate whether or not you are writing at the “acceptable” level of 7th or 8th graders.  Don’t argue with me, it’s all there for you to read for yourself.

Modern writing is setup to the default standard of children, because regardless of where one finds oneself in this society, what magnanimous station you feel you’ve attained; the actuality is that your world is setup for the morons, the uneducated, the idiots, the cerebrally uncaring, however you choose to label them.

Fortunately, Mr. Madison has long since left this world and can no longer see the depraved indifference shown towards borderline illiteracy and lack of education.  There is no need to wonder why our government can rape, sodomise, pillage and loot the public; while still being defended by masses of individuals who watch the evening news.

Change the sign and the song: Amurika, home of the uneducated, land of the 7th grade reading level.  This country is beautiful, magnificent; Amurikans make me ill.

Sorry Mr. Madison, the experiment is ending as an abject failure, but on the positive side, none of the subjects will even be capable of reading the abstract.