{"id":1187,"date":"2013-11-04T13:44:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2015-10-27T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T21:45:32","slug":"poem-treatment-like-sewage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/poem-treatment-like-sewage\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Treatment…Like…Sewage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Treatment…Like…Sewage<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I lived in Libertarianville<\/span>
\nThey said<\/span>
\n“If you want sewage treatment,<\/span>
\nJust go to some place that has it.”<\/span>
\nSo I did<\/span>
\nMany don’t live there long<\/span><\/p>\n

I find discussing politics with self-professed Libertarians a vexing experience.\u00a0 Typically, we cannot converse for more than a few minutes before getting to some brutal logical endpoint, where I am requested to trump my heart with some rudimentary portion of a brain.\u00a0 To the most fanatical, there is a “let them die” conclusion, met with way-to-comfortable stoicism.\u00a0 To the less fanatical, it is usually some corollary of this, masquerading more humanely.<\/p>\n

In this short poem, I take sewage treatment as an example of a common good escaping the grasp of Libertarians.\u00a0 And dealing with sewage and the slippery slopes of shitty logic can be perilous.\u00a0 I draw this example from my training and experience in public health.\u00a0 The control of communicable diseases is the greatest public health accomplishment in the last century of humankind.\u00a0 Only human unkind would create a political philosophy and practice that would wholesale-endanger such life-promoting accomplishments with a proverbial flush down the toilet of ideology.\u00a0 This poem mocks the ridiculous notion that complex common goods can be manufactured and marketed like widgets in some free market. After all, few can afford the free market!\u00a0 After the Libertarians’ wet dream, the remaining reality would not have such complex common goods even available for one to exercise their precious choice regarding.\u00a0 The tough choices and hard-fought gains from balancing individual liberty with the common good, in my judgment, would leave us with a world where there is much less freedom, fewer choices, and a less robust life.\u00a0 Choosing one particular thing over another particular thing, when done wisely, while destroying the possibility of the previous choice, thereby “limiting” our freedom, creates new realities with better choices, a more robust freedom.\u00a0 Libertarians sometimes strike me as emotionally stunted, almost infantile, in their inability to sacrifice a present freedom to build a greater future.\u00a0 Perhaps ironically, Libertarianism may actually manifest itself as some form of attachment disorder.<\/p>\n

My typical experience of so-called Libertarianism<\/a> strikes me as some dangerous addiction to some notion of absolute human freedom that routinely erodes every other value doomed to its presence, including public health. Now, I am not saying that Libertarians are necessarily stupid or do not hold values deeply.\u00a0 I am saying that a steely brain is no substitute for wholehearted living, and Libertarianism seems to run freely, if not roughshod, over a myriad of insights and the wisdom of the heart, as well as everyday experience (such as the benefits of public health).\u00a0 I am saying that Libertarians routinely hamstring all other values in favor of leaving all options open in the far-flung field of dreams called absolute human freedom.<\/p>\n

I see the absolute part of the equation, the fundamental ideology or worldview, as corrosive, ironically, to any good fruits of good choices that freedom allows.\u00a0 That said, Libertarians have it right, very right, that freedom is foundational, a first-order good, the fount of will.\u00a0 The trouble necessarily follows when any freedom, or all freedom, must level anything built on that foundation, for lack of any ascendant, successfully competing, value.\u00a0 Allowing any other value to rise either above or equally with freedom is necessarily a threat to the sacrosanct value of freedom.\u00a0 The ultimate irony is that by not allowing any other value as great or greater than freedom, Libertarianism routinely finds itself standing dumb, unable to speak with authority, in a disabling self-censorship, for fear of undercutting its worship of freedom.\u00a0 I find this worship of freedom idolatrous.\u00a0 Libertarianism is the opposite of Authoritarianism.\u00a0 In this sense, Libertarianism must fight any authority, refusing to acknowledge any legitimacy, except, of course, its own.\u00a0 This may be the best definition of idolatry.\u00a0 Perhaps somewhat mysteriously, this reveals an even deeper irony: Libertarianism and Authoritarianism share this truth of refusing to acknowledge any legitimacy, except, of course, their own.\u00a0 As Friedrich Nietzsche said, “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.”\u00a0 A common sentiment among Libertarians and Anarchists is “question authority.”\u00a0 I find much resonance with this sentiment.\u00a0 Of course, this implied imperative raises the deeply ironic question, “By what authority do you question authority?”\u00a0 A recursive reality oft leading to cycles of swearing. Some would seemingly put this to rest by claiming “I question all authority!”\u00a0 Yet, in the shadow persists another question: Is questioning authority equivalent to not questioning authority?\u00a0 Some would answer no, resigning any discernment in a moral flatland. Still, some would retort that the discernment lies in the questioning: the important thing is to question everything, including oneself.\u00a0 I would agree.\u00a0 Nonetheless, the rabbit hole goes still deeper in at least two additional tiers.\u00a0 First, questioning<\/em> everything implies an absolute skepticism, or, put perhaps even more provocatively, a faith in skepticism.\u00a0 Second, questioning everything, including oneself<\/em> implies tentativeness at the heart of reality.\u00a0 The Buddhists would call this the doctrine of impermanence, that everything arises and falls in relationship to everything else, or “impermanence is an undeniable and inescapable fact of human existence from which nothing that belongs to this earth is ever free.”<\/a>\u00a0 The Buddhist concept of impermanence is closely related to the concept of tentativeness or momentariness.\u00a0 The Buddhist worldview is anathema to rigid ideology or fundamentalism of any unkind.\u00a0 Amidst the flux of impermanence and the state of momentariness, arises the experience of compassion.\u00a0 Rather than dissolving or devolving into nihilism and inescapable confusion, Buddhists have found that the experience of compassion is at the heart of reality, knitting together lives worth living.\u00a0 I would love to infuse a healthy dose of Buddhism into Libertarianism.\u00a0 Perhaps meditating on the highest ideal of bringing compassion to all living beings would moderate the sharp edges of Libertarianism in America.<\/p>\n

There is truth in Libertarianism, and we should not throw out the baby with the bath water.\u00a0 Nevertheless, Libertarianism needs to live more fully into the heart of humanity, embodying compassion.\u00a0 Such a maturation process is good for all of us and each of us, whatever our ideologies of the day might be.\u00a0 There are a host of fallacies founded on mistaking a part for the whole.\u00a0 The process of integrating our experiences and understanding into an ever-larger whole, strikes me as the most fundamental developmental task of humanity, a transcendent task for those who have not yet anchored their skepticism in certainty.\u00a0 In this journey, may we embrace one another with compassion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Treatment…Like…Sewage I lived in Libertarianville They said “If you want sewage treatment, Just go to some place that has it.” So I did Many don’t live there long I find discussing politics with self-professed Libertarians a vexing experience.\u00a0 Typically, we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,9,15],"tags":[405,563,434,400,358,554,613,336,607,339,341,476,123,538,393,428,432,462,150,115,474,635,431,305,473,127,562,267,408,118,359,475,273,418,155,467,477,658,94,17,215,424,491,43,68,601,333,321,186,299,547,421,478,389,550,383],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-addiction","tag-america","tag-authority","tag-balance","tag-buddhism","tag-buddhist","tag-censorship","tag-choices","tag-common-good","tag-compassion","tag-control","tag-disease","tag-doctrine","tag-dream","tag-dreams","tag-experience","tag-faith","tag-fear","tag-free-market","tag-freedom","tag-fundamentalism","tag-future","tag-heart","tag-humanity","tag-ideology","tag-idolatry","tag-ironic","tag-irony","tag-journey","tag-libertarian","tag-life","tag-logic","tag-love","tag-market","tag-moral","tag-nihilism","tag-philosophy","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-political","tag-politics","tag-possibility","tag-present","tag-public-health","tag-questioning","tag-reality","tag-sacrifice","tag-skepticism","tag-state","tag-stupid","tag-transcendent","tag-truth","tag-values","tag-wisdom","tag-worldview","tag-worship"],"yoast_head":"\nPOEM: Treatment...Like...Sewage | Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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