Ethel Kennedy

 

Kennedy survivor and social justice activist, Ethel Kennedy passed away on October 10, 2024, at the ripe old age of 96.

 

The article about her death online pointed out that she gave much back to society, and she took justified pride in regarding it as her duty—diligently practiced by her—that when one is  rich, powerful, elite, and privileged, then one in such a status is obligated to give back to society, and that seems right. The reporter noted that she had stated her mission as something like : “. . . To whom much is given, much will be required.”

 

By now the reader should realize that serendipity and flashes of new ideas come to me when I read chance statements like this. It occurred to me that each human adult is meant to self-realize as a living angel in service to good deities, that each human is someone to who much is given, so much of them will be required.

 

We average people cannot and should not wait around for guidance and largesse from privileged activists like Ethical Kennedy was.

 

The law of moderation, as a first principle to guide human behavior and decision-making, does require a political arrangement in society, under which every citizen, an individuating supercitizen, is a hybrid creature, part self-actualizer of elite talent developed, a most focused, non-distractable,  willful inserter of personal preference and policy stances into the public arena to guide the government operation, while living as a common person, a farmer, a housewife, a teacher, a chemist, a lawyer, a professor.

 

An upper middle-class phalanx of 160 million individuating supercitizens would make irrelevant or insignificant the financial and intellectual lobbying required or invited from elite activists of any stripe. God requires the little people to run things from the bottom up, because the gift of life and the power to reason is the property of each existent, granted them at birth from God, so God requires them to run things and give back a lot, a whole bunch. God imposes the highest standards upon each agent as an individuator-in-the-self-constructing process of becoming an original brilliant performer—simultaneously—as a parent, a worker, an artist, an intellectual, as a moral person, and as a citizen running the country.

 

In the ethical realm, as a moral requirement for each adult, Jordan Peterson seems to anticipate something like this divine requirement from God for each person to be as truthfully and ethically good as one can be, and to push hard, real hard, to make a difference in the world.

 

I agree with Peterson, but extend this ethical and religious obligation imposed on each human by God to each person self-realizing, to be personally achieved in one’s life to a reasonable but near maximum extent of personal accomplishment, and to be hyper-involved in running the government and all standing institutions to keep all of these institutions humane, freedom, tolerant, ruled, regulated and kept limited and ruled by the masses.

 

Peterson in effect believes people should self-realize ethically. That is right. Peterson can be snobbish, and has stated emphatically that only the few elite people of genius level intelligence are capable of high end performance, excellence, creativity and intellectual profundity; only these elite few are capable of existing and performing as singular individualists of brilliant talent.

 

I refute that. All people, the common people, are blessed with high-end potential and are ordered by God to develop these gifts and share them with the world. God orders these people to pursue this self-interest so beneficial to the common good. The high standard of assigned by God to everyone is doable: existing and developing as extremely talented, singular individualists and individuators.

 

When these exceptional common people assume the role of self-actualizing their natural gifts and assume the role of ethical genius prescribed to each person by Peterson, I add the third role to for each adult to assume, that of being a talented, engaged supercitizen, commoner, activist, and rule--all rolled into one.

 

All people are blessed with astounding gifts, so in exchange God and the good deities and the Good Spirits expect very much from them in return.