Washington of the Potomac (circa 1776) is credited with creating several famous paradoxes, but by far the best known, is the paradox of the Liberal and The Conservative. (The Conservative being the greatest document ever written, the American Constitution, the Liberal representing the forces of obfuscation) The Conservative has inspired many great writers and thinkers through the ages, but it has also been hated by the Liberal, who are purely emotional in their actions.
The original goes like this:
The Liberal challenged The Conservative to a race, claiming that he would win as long as the Conservative gave him a small head start.
The Conservative circa 1965 laughed at this, for of course he represented the vast majority of voters, whereas the Liberal was basically unheard of.
How big a head start do you need?” he asked the Liberal with a smile.“The voteing rights act of 1965, and a major change to the immigration act along with eight Liberal judges that will work with us to misrepresent you, the Constitution,” the latter replied.
The Conservative laughed louder than ever. “You will surely lose, my friend, in that case, as I am represented by hundreds of Judges that are strict constitutionalist” he told the Liberal, “but let us race, if you wish it.”
“On the contrary,” said the Liberal after the deal was struck, “I will win, and I can prove it to you by a simple argument.”
“Go on then,” The Conservative replied, with less confidence than he felt before. He knew he was the superior philosphy, but he also knew the Liberal was sharper when it came to deciet, trickery, and palatable lies.
“So,” began the Liberal, “you have given me ten distortions of you as a head start. Would you say that you could work around and not be defeated by those ten laws, very quickly?”
“Very quickly,” The conservative affirmed.
“And in that time, how many more misrepresentations of you will I be able to achieve, do you think?”
“Perhaps a single additional misrepresentation of me– no more,” said the Conservative after a moment’s thought.
“Very well,” replied the Liberal, “so now there are eleven law’s between us. And you would catch up and work around that also very quickly?”
“Very quickly indeed!”
“And yet, in that time I shall have gone a little way farther and added a new misreprsented constitutional law, so that now you must catch up to that also, yes?”
“Ye-es,” said the Conservative slowly.
“And while you are doing so, I shall have misrepresented even further, so that you must then catch up to even more,” the Liberal continued smoothly.
The conservative said nothing.
“And so you see, in each moment you must be catching up, I – at the same time – will be adding a new distortion, however small, for you to catch up to again. Eventally there will be nothing left of you”
“Indeed, it must be so,” said the Consevative wearily.
“And so you can never catch up, you are defeated” the Liberal concluded smugly.
“You have tricked me again, as always. Your deceit wins,” said the Conservative sadly – and conceded the race.
Of course this is a paradox, that is not a paradox as the Liberal thru treachery and deceit is hiding the fact that eventually there will be a tie, at which time the Conservative would easily repair the damage done by the Liberal.
When will the people realise that they are the victom of a sham? A sham perpetuated by a Liberal judicial system. A system that hates the first three , and the biggest words of the constitution. We the People, we the intellectual and moral majority (good bye Jerry Falwell) of these United Sates of America.
What we face these days is actually a reverse of Washington’s paradox. Misled by liberal treachery the Constitution runs unknowingly, backwards to fullfill the predictions of the Liberal. How easily could we escape this cesspool of multiculturism, but for the trickery of the Liberal and their control of the judiciary. More cries the Liberal. More laws and taxes and we will legislate away all of societies ill’s. An emotional philosophy that is making things much worse. How easy it would be to demand strict interpretation of the constitution. Only that will solve the vast majority of societies ills.
Few realize, how close we are to the crossroad of Liberal victory. A victory based solely on deception and lies. A victory that will, eventually and irrovocalbly, throw the USA into a downward spiral that will forever snuff out that greatest of all documents, The American Constitution. No person, group, culture, or race should be above, excluded from, or allowed to circumvent, this greatest of all concepts. Will we concede the race? Will we be fooled by Liberal trickery into giving up before there is even a fight?
We must fight and then,” We the people“, will win. But be complacent, keep believing the lies of the Liberal, and we will all lose, and the real paradox will be that it is the Liberal who will lose the most.
It took me quite a while to follow your train of thought, but it helped me to compare your paradox to the one that inspired it, namely Xeno’s Paradox (which I wasn’t familiar with before):
http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/zeno_tort/index.asp
I’m still a little perplexed by your reference to the “voteing right [sic] act of 1965.” This act gave more blacks the vote, especially in the South, but wasn’t the end result a shift of the entire region from primarily Democrat to primarily Republican?
I hope you’re not saying that it’s a bad thing for blacks to be able to vote. Surely not, because you go on to say about the Constitution: No person, group, culture, or race should be above, or excluded from, this greatest of all concepts.[Emphasis added.]
I do agree with you that many liberal advances have been the result of judicial decisions based on deceit. The greatest example of this are the two lynchpins of the so-called “woman’s right-to-choose”: Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.
In 1988, Norma McCorvey (Jane Doe) finally admitted that she had lied in her testimony when she said she had been gang raped. In the case of Sandra Cano (Jane Doe), her attorney deceived her into being the plaintiff in Doe v. Bolton, even though she was only seeking to regain custody of her children and never wanted to have an abortion (she was pregnant at the time). It’s the cruelest of ironies that by 1996, both women joined the pro-life movement.
One last suggestion: At the risk of repeating myself, could you proofread your posts a little more closely? I noticed this one was posted at 1:00 a.m., and I know I’d have a hard time even keeping my eyes open at that hour. If you could save the post and then come back to it after a good night’s sleep to see how it reads (misspellings, typos, sequence, coherence, etc), it would probably be a lot easier to read.
Yeah you got it, I did add the tortoise and Achilles in the title to make it obvious.
Blacks were not excluded from voting at any time after the 14th and 15th amendment that I am aware of. Yeah there were poll taxes etc that made it more difficult for the poor etc. but whites faced that also. I remember waiting in line with my father and some of his friends. They kept all but cussing about having to pay a poll tax. But if your aware of any law that made it illegal for blacks to vote I would like to see it. What the act did do, and what I oppose, was to force gerrymandered districts to ensure blacks won an election this all goes back to my Balkanization post. This and the immigration act really were the geneses of multiculturalism.
In no way am I saying any group should be excluded from voting. Only those who refuse to accept and abide by the constitution as written should be excluded. If everyone would drop color from politics, and be forced to abide verbatim by the constitution as written, I believe the vast majority of societies ills would be solved.
For those who don’t like this document they are free to go somewhere else.
Those who legislate rather than judge should, in my opinion, be removed from the bench. Those in political office who facilitate the nomination of these judges should be removed also. this is clearly laid out in my minds eye in the 14th amendment sec. 3.
I seek a color, ethnic, cultural, sexual, or whatever, blind society. I want one word to describe people here, American And the constitution, if followed would ensure that.
I was actually sleeping thru parts of this last night kept waking up and typing some more. The screen was blurred and I really didn’t think I would make it thru but did not want to stop. The old inspiration thing. But I will go back look for what your speaking of and edit it.
You really had never heard of Zeno and the Paradox of Motion? You really should get into the study of early Greek Philosophy. It is the basis for essentially all Western thought, and government.
One last suggestion: At the risk of repeating myself, could you proofread your posts a little more closely? I noticed this one was posted at 1:00 a.m., and I know I’d have a hard time even keeping my eyes open at that hour. If you could save the post and then come back to it after a good night’s sleep to see how it reads (misspellings, typos, sequence, coherence, etc), it would probably be a lot easier to read.
I just went back and I remember now. The spell checker was not working, and for what ever computer geek code reason, it won’t allow me to use my normal right click spell check. I really don’t see a sequence issue. It is how I wanted it, but then again as I told you before I am a 9th grade drop out, so grammar isn’t my big suit. As far as coherence, that probably has more to do with where your thinking starts. As you said, you wasn’t aware of this paradox but eventually caught on.
I did have that link early in the post but see its not working now. I can’t even get to in my bookmark, so don’t know what happened there. It worked last night.