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Chapter Two: Forming a New Set of Social Contracts

Now that the reader is contemplating a new direction in life, such as managing our fear, controlling those aspects of our lives that we do have control over, placing our understanding of the often confused meaning that is the burden upon the public to gain wisdom for sculpting new forms of Social Interaction, perhaps it is also time to contemplate a new set of contracts with a new set of beliefs within ourselves. Finding that the current Social Contacts were formed by mortal humans with their own set of mistakes and even naivete, all of which we can find our own imperfections as well. All of this is simply yet another situation of “Fear Not.” At some point in time we have to witness the failures and imperfections of the current Social Contracts, identify the specific failures, and begin the debate on how to repair these failures and forge improvements to the contracts - even if we simply draft a rough document to hold out in front of the public, in an attempt to gain their understanding. If we gain the public’s understanding, then we need to seek the public’s agreement so that ratifying steps can then be taken. Perhaps ratifications that through oath, preserves and protects the public and their common wealth rather than the protection of the document alone.

If a nation is holding a document that has crucial errors or loop holes that mask the flaws, and the holders see the document as too sacred to alter, then the nation is stuck in a situation in which the people are limited as to opportunities for progress. Patriots cannot and should not hold the document as too sacred to alter. For which generation after generation produce the evidence that the Common Wealth has eroded to the habits of feeding the statistics of poverty or worse the perception that we are better off than other nations, therefore there is no accommodation for the disability to improve.

While the United States is perceived throughout the world as the world’s best social, economic, and political environment, our citizens need to become actively involved in requiring our government to reexamine our constitution so that the citizens are no longer hampered in their ability to improve. This country needs lower taxes and less government. We need less complicated laws and fewer of them, holding to the limits of what can be enforced. Examining the tax laws and insurance laws alone will very quickly allow one to see that our government has over-complicated our lives, and we need intelligent change.

If some readers find the current Social Contracts to be the perfect documents then let’s seek debate or even argument that there are better alternatives, at least on paper for now, and later forge arguments and debate the scenarios that intellectually counter and encounter the dimensions of measuring a government that has evidently over-stepped the boundaries of the stated contract in agreement that there would be “No Taxation Without Representation.” There is only one way to accomplish Taxation Without Representation, and amazingly it was the very Tax that caused the founders of our nation to be in outrage. For now, hold this thought and store it later for a full explanation. The real question at hand is Representation, and we have to ask, “is the state of affairs in which this nation finds itself - being the deterioration of liberties and the decay of our common wealth.” “Are these conditions the result of, not enough or too much representation?” Personally I find representation to be the main issue, the main focus of this nation’s concerns, and I believe that I can offer solutions that may not perfect representation, but they are solutions that will improve our chances of once again being a Republic of Represented People, at least to a greater margin than “We the People” have witnessed of late.