Reognize that guy, pondering the apple? If you don't, you can click right here for some biographical information about Sir Isaac Newton. If you click on this link, you'll be directed to an article from the Encyclopedia Britannica on Newton's law of gravitation.
That law, to cut to the chase, is expressed this way, using words:
Any particle of matter in the universe attracts any other with a force varying directly as the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. In symbols, the magnitude of the attractive force F is equal to G (the gravitational constant, a number the size of which depends on the system of units used and which is a universal constant) multiplied by the product of the masses (m1 and m2) and divided by the square of the distance.
Here's what the Law of Gravity looks like, expressed mathematically:
F = G(m1m2)/R2
I am a lawyer, and I am used to dealing with "Law." I am not, however, all that good at math, and as I started thinking about things, about fifteen years ago, I realized that our "human" laws (the laws that govern our human interactions, and the kind of laws that I am familiar with as a lawyer), are completely different from the laws (like the law of gravity) that govern our physical universe. In other words, THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF LAW, and we live, in fact, in two different worlds!
Biggest single difference? The laws that govern the physical universe are laws that can't be broken. They can't be broken, and they can't be changed. Once some scientist (like Newton) has "discovered" one of the laws that govern our physical reality, that's it! The laws that govern our physical universe tell us what must and will happen. Here's another famous law of that kind, from Albert Einstein, this time. You probably know its significance:
E = MC2
"Human" laws are completely different from those laws that science has defined. Human laws don't tell us what must and will happen. They inform us of what we have decided we would like to happen. Unlike the laws that govern the physical universe, human laws can be both changed and disobeyed. Human laws can be "broken."
I came up with my "Two Worlds Hypothesis" based on my realization that we really do live in two different realities, simultaneously. Ultimately, we live in a physical universe that is governed by laws that we did not create ourselves, and that absolutely determine what must and will happen in the physical universe.
Most immediately, though, we live in a world defined by laws we ourselves create (we often call them "rules"), and these laws not only can but almost certainly will be changed, from time to time. I have my own "equation" to outline how human-created laws fit into the realities with which we most immediately have to deal:
Politics > Law > Government
My "equation," of course, isn't really "math." As I said before, I'm not really that good at math. However, while this little formula does explain how our government works, it is not a genuine "equation." Those human laws that most immediately govern our lives DO determine what happens in that "political" world we most immediately inhabit. However, unlike the laws that govern the "physical," or "natural" world, the laws that end up "governing" what we do can be changed. Our human laws are, ultimately, "political," which is why "Politics" comes before "Law" in my little "equation." It is also why I title this daily blog of mine, "We Live In A Political World."
Taking a look around at the political realities that are defining that "political world" of ours right now, it is clear that an effort is being made to change the "rules" and "laws" by which we have been governing ourselves. Nothing prevents this from happening. We can't decide to neutralize the law of gravity, but there is nothing that makes it impossible for the laws governing our political world to be changed. So-called "democracy" is not required. We can create a human world in which only the rich count, and everyone else had better do what they're told.
If you don't want to change the laws which have governed this nation since 1789, then you had better get involved in "politics," which I often call "self-government." If you DO want them changed - and they can be changed any way we want them to be changed - that will also happen only if people get involved in politics and make those changes happen. Here is one kind of possibility.
So.... for those who like my list of proposed changes, viewed when you click that link I just provided, and for those who have other and different ideas of what changes could look like, here is my question:
What are we waiting for?
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