AJs Blorg

 The values in this blog page are all very conceptual, but also very concrete in there meaning and stance. It is easy to take away a lot of insight from each and every one. They also seem very basic and well-rooted in our culture that every value almost seems obvious. To break everyone down in terms of your morals and your perspective shows how applicable every value is to what we see in our society and our communities The first being Market Place of Ideas. When truth and falsehood are in conflict truth wins out and conflict enforces an even greater truth. This idea is very very human as opposed to just structurally sound. As humans, we are in conflict with our self truths and with each other's truths. After all the conflict, there ends up being a climax and however the truth affects us as humans, it ends up being more influential than any feeling to come before. It's a principle of human nature and it applies to me and it should apply to you. Participation Self-government is m

 I will layout my short opinion on the matter of Anti-War ideals. It's a very very delicate subject because it seems like to renounce actual war, is to denounce our country. They mention that there will always be a war between Republics and Empires and one will eventually or has the goal of eating the other whole. So by condemning war we condemn our country to a fate that seems very hard to even pin down. These people look for the possibility in life and law, and that doesn't mold at all with modern politics and agendas.  It's always a war, between our parties or within our communities. Without it, one side dominates making for a seemingly permanent grey world. It seems like a noble cause, but what is being fought for seems just if not unrealistic.

 These days there is as much a wellspring for examples of constitutional chaos as there was back in the days of the early civil rights protests throughout the late 1900s. There truly is a lot to be contested, or rather our constitution is being contested by those who think they are upholding our most basic of rights as citizens.  There is meant to be freedom of and from the religion, of speech, of the press, of assembly, and to petition. These days people seem to combine them all into one big giant free pass for the chaos the brews in our cities and towns. What people need to realize is that they need to separate the ways they take action, because when the question is what does the first amendment actually protect, the answer is it protects our inaction. Not meaning doing nothing, but our physical inaction. What is protected is what we think and what we believe. In Portland, the protests of the BLM and other groups are constantly at a breaking point. People are scared and angry and loo