October, 2011
There comes a time in the course of history when, through no individual fault beyond those most base elements of human nature, the very institutions and organizations the people have entrusted to help promote and protect their unalienable rights begin to fail. We are at one of those times now. We know this to be true from objective observation, from our own innate understanding of existence and from the many lessons of history. At these times, people have no choice but to act.
However, before the correct course of action can be resolved, a mutual understanding among the people about the consequences of the failure of their institutions and organizations must form the firm foundation of consensus upon which a new future can be built taking into account all the wisdom of our age. At these times, we concern ourselves not with why, only the consequences of failure, having fully accepted the truth. Engaging in fruitless debate about why inevitably leads to questions about whose fault, and to this inquisition justice will never offer a rational answer. Therefore, we endeavor sincerely to create that mutual understanding among the people by examining the causes and consequences of failure with forthright intention.
During these failing times, institutions and organizations will make their case for survival much like the master makes his case to the slave, whom desiring to be free knows not how to achieve it and fears independence. However, we the people shall not be afraid. For when our institutions and organizations endeavor to convince us of their intelligence and superiority, we know from our innate understanding of public that they are failing. We know from our fore fathers that institutions and organizations are created by the people for the people. They are no more or less than we. When they grow too large, they must be changed. When they become too complex, they must be simplified. When they outrun, they must be bridled. If they not heed their master the people, they must be renewed.
The institutional failure of our time is not contained within any single institution or organization. Though many will seek to defend their position and to convince us of their greater value over the other, we must be unwavering in our movement toward renewal. As a result of their efforts to prove their worth, ironically our institutions and organizations only weaken each other in a continuous destructive cycle. They seek approval through division, obfuscation and deceit. In their desperate play for survival, any means to a victorious end is acceptable, no matter the cost to the very public they purport to represent and protect. This hopeless hypocrisy must end so that a healthy and lucid public can again endeavor in the noblest pursuit to create institutions and organizations that truly and wholly represent their best interests.
The choice to act lies now before us. We may choose to defend our failing institutions and organizations, to argue for survival and superiority among each other, to continue the hopeless hypocrisy and to harm the public; or we may choose to form a foundation of consensus based on all the wisdom of our age, upon which we will build a renewed future with the best interest of the public in our hearts and always on our minds.
For those that choose the public, the New Public Party calls you our own.
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