Thoughts on Liberal Minutia – Freedom to Think Like a Bean Counter

Thoughts on Liberal Minutia – Freedom to Think Like a Bean Counter
Conservative thinking is what it is. It isn’t really thinking at all. Rather, it is a way of coping with life. It can even be idealistic when life doesn’t seem all that conservative. It doesn’t take a genius to be a conservative. It is a simple way of doing. It doesn’t pay attention to whether or not something makes sense. It is riddled with contradictions. The answer is, of course it makes sense, it is what it is and there is no argument that could prove conservative thought wrong.
Thinking is a thing that humans do inside themselves. Sometimes it is constrained, but not always. If a person has no other freedom, then at least he or she has his or her mind to be free inside. This might be why the Orwellian idea of thought crime is so powerful. Jesus also conceived of the idea of thought crime. If a person can’t be free inside his or her own head, when can he or she be free? Conservatives tend to believe that conservatives are more morally correct, and as a result being conservative and religion go hand in hand.
Liberals usually attend church, or at least believe in God, like conservatives. However, conservatives tend to rely on a preacher or authority figure for ideas on what they should believe. If a preacher says, “This is what the Bible says,” then conservatives will say, “If the Bible says it, then I believe it.” Really, what most conservatives believe is not actually the Bible, but what the preacher says is in the Bible. Usually, preachers get ideas about what the Bible says from people with “big names.” Common thought is usually much more important than accuracy. That is not to say that all liberals like to be accurate. Many liberals rebel against accuracy. Some count every bean, like me.
Here this divergence in liberal thinking is very important. Some liberals simply want to rebel against accuracy. Usually, this type is merely the opposite of a conservative. I don’t really care much for these types. Other liberals are intellectuals, and get a kick out of making everything really complicated. I get a kick out of making everything really complicated. However, it saddens me that not all share with this way of thinking. It’s not that I intend to leave people out, yet it is addictive to try to perfect ones way of thinking.
In my world, there is a lifetime to study. There is a lifetime to improve on ideals. There is a lifetime to become the best person I can be in deed. I need not take the conservative quick route by letting someone else do the thinking for me. I am competent. In the thirty years of my life, I have constantly been improving my ideas. This means walking through some mental gateways that are bad decisions.
That is, if one is the captain of his or her own ship, then he or she is bound to make mistakes. Conservatives don’t back up and change their mind. For example, conservatives go to church. If all the churches are bad, then they still go to church. If the ship is sinking, then they sink with it. I, however, hop off any mental ship that is sinking and swim for shore. Conservative ways offers protection. It is a way tried and true. Being liberal generally offers no protection, so socialist liberals come up with ways to protect, such as social security. That is another can of worms. I won’t open it now.
I will say that I have no problem with social security though. It may be a big part of the national debt, but the last time I looked at the shelves of any store, there was plenty to go around. Enough to go around to me means that there is a problem if a nation doesn’t all have some. Aside from that, I accompany my liberal thinking with a liberal or anarchist ideal for government. I equate capitalism with big government, as big businesses need law enforcement to keep people from stealing. That is, if you get rid of the government, then the goods will really go around, as there will be no law or more importantly, law enforcement to stop that from happening. Anarchy is really the simplest way of life, as without government there can be no modernity, such as cell phones and television, which I see as things that take away from the family more than they add to it. There should be no need for these things to go around, but I don’t see them as evil, such that they need to be destroyed.
The leftist Amish are proof that leftists can have family values. As far as I know it, the Amish don’t pay attention to electing Presidents, but this group has a greater sense of family than conservatives high on the big business of capitalism. So there you have it, leftist can be associated with a strong sense of family. However, I am in favor of letting children run wild with minimalist behavior adjustments, rather than the totalitarian parentage of the Amish. That is, as a liberal and a right winger for government, I simply want the right to be a bean counting thinker, but I don’t expect other people to do the same. To each: his or her own. I am not into being the pilot of other people’s ships.
Minorities will gather round those that gain prominence in liberal thought. Liberal bean counters tend to be inclusive. That is, to a liberal that is willing to consider everything for the sake of accuracy, the bean counters, there are minorities to be considered. The true liberal thinkers are very few. Most people vote merely as followers. Most of these followers would call me a mixed bag, as I am a liberal with anarchist and libertarian values. For example, I don’t pay attention to actually supporting gay rights though I believe in them. I’ll write for fun about it, but beyond that sexuality is something entirely personal. If gay people don’t trumpet it, then there never was a problem, except for people in the spotlight, but usually that’s often because somebody else thought it was important to think about what somebody was doing behind closed doors without hurting anybody or animal.
Anarchy is okay, but if there is a government I don’t see any reason to overturn it, as this would result in instability. It wouldn’t really be humane for the greatest amount of people. Being humane is important to me. Anarchy is not necessarily humane. In fact, most anarchies have been inhumane, such that inhumane pops into mind to the common Joe. I look at my Bible for what humane is and isn’t, and Abraham comes to mind. He is the example of mercy among Cabbalists. He is the quintessential extrovert, so liberal that he nearly sins by slaughtering his own son Isaac. He is the proof to me that it is more important to be humane than it is to be liberal. God chose Abraham to be the founder of a nation of truth. Thus, I am a liberal with values highly centered on family ideals. Really, I believe I am what conservatives hoped to accomplish, but just simply can’t because they are entrenched in tradition. Conservative values are created not to change. My values are very modernist, but highly centered on sound family values, and I support small government because government already exists. Mainstream conservatives will write me off as a liberal though, not sensing the elegance of my thought.
I also look to the Bible for inhumane thought. Such thoughts as bigotry, especially against the children of Noah are in the Bible. Sell children of Noah, gentiles, that dead thing that you won’t eat yourself and don’t set them free if they are slaves. All ye conservatives; that is what your Bible really says! All ye conservatives, that law on homosexuality that you trumpet is technically just for the nation of Abraham! Read your Bible, it’s not for you gentiles, ha!
I do believe that the Bible says homosexuality is unacceptable. There is no way around it. The Bible doesn’t like gay people. Sorry, but um I no longer use the word homosexual, unless I am talking about a bigot’s point of view! It’s just that the Bible isn’t perfect. It’s the issue of the baby and the bathwater. Save the baby and throw out the bathwater, as the saying goes. The same is true of the Bible. It’s not all good, but it is a great starting ground for formulating an opinion, such as the very idea of what mercy is! Imagine a book that fails to be merciful, but it still contains the best idea of mercy, and you have the Bible!