⚖️🇺🇸 Under the realist tradition of Natural Law Constitutionalism, there exists an ontological Natural Law Barrier, limiting power. This barrier dictates that because reality is not the government’s (or corporation’s) creation, it is strictly beyond the government’s jurisdiction to redefine. Contrast this with the intellectual Constructivism of legal positivism. When (as with constructivism) the requirement that law answer to reality is removed, the hierarchy is inverted; law governing reality, rather than reality governing law. Once this inversion occurs, institutions claim the power to ‘construct’ the social order by decree. Whether it is marriage, sex, or identity, the question is no longer whether the claim is true, but whether the regulatory authority has approved it. We have witnessed the subversion of legal language, where the term ‘Rule of Law’ is invoked to defend its exact opposite; ‘Rule through Law’. The Rule of Law is a restraint. It is the principle that law stands above office holders, serving as a shield that protects citizens by binding the government to fixed, objective principles. Rule through Law is an instrument. It is the subversive use of legal forms; courts, regulations and statutes, as a sword to impose the will of office holders (and who/what funds them) upon the citizenry. 
Rule through Law is particularly insidious because it maintains the aesthetic of the Rule of Law. It uses the same mahogany courtrooms, the same complex legal jargon and the same procedural formalities. However, while the forms remain, the function is inverted. Instead of the law acting as a limit on power, it becomes the primary vehicle for exercising raw, unchecked power under the illegitimate guise of ‘valid’ procedure. The American Founders were not naive to these trends; they explicitly recognized and rejected them, which is why they specifically encoded Natural Law into the Declaration of Independence precisely to ensure that the constitutional structure never lost its coherence. Founder Justice James Wilson, a primary architect of the American legal tradition, insisted that before a judge could ‘ascend to the task of Judging’, they must first reject the ‘skeptical and illiberal philosophy’ then prevailing in Europe. The very philosophical lineage which spawned; Constructivism, Positivism, Idealism and all ideological variants of Collectivism. The Constitutional Republic is predicated upon the Rule of Law, not the instrumental subversion of rule through law. This is a matter of urgency for Education and Professional Training to address, to comprehend and to remedy at the causal level.

Ha ha! There they are - Screwtape & Wormwood! Of course!

Final instalment in ‘The Sovereign Individual’ series out now: open.substack.com/pub/thepal…

'Progressive Education' has progressively purged the Western Mind of its history & literature. But lost in the distractions of rising illiteracy rates and falling test scores and calls for more 'education reform!', is the reality that without the natural defenses those lessons provided, we've become less able to identify, let alone confront, the ongoing insurrection that the enemies of the Greco/Roman-Judeo/Christian West have been executing against us all. blogodidact.blogspot.com/202…

The Hydra is less interested in telling you what to believe, than it is in provoking you to ignore the treasury of the West, from Homer, to Virgil, to The Bible, and its meaningful lessons & truths which reveal the solidity of those foundations which our Founders built upon in their era. From C.S. Lewis's "The Screwtape Letters":

The emerging pattern of: Distraction, Reaction, Action, is less the footprints of, than the mating call of the Hydra, and 'somehow' the pattern mirrors how we think about and approach the issues of the day. How? By Magic. Seriously. But less like Merlin the Magician, than the skilled stagecraft of a philosophical Houdini.

Through learning lessons from stories like Hercules & the Hydra, kids learn that just 'taking action!' is what the monster wants you to do, or as Saul Alinsky put it when radicalizing students into Leftist activism: "Their reaction is your action!" , and learning to first consider what is wise and right to do, is a lesson that no monster wants its prey to learn!

🧵Five years ago I began this series of posts on 'The Critical Insurrection', by noting that the real & ongoing insurrection against America wasn't about Jan 6th, but about the insurrectional ideologies that've beset America & The West with over a century of attacks from within, upon every aspect of who we are, and so masked, it advances. To stop it, we've 1st got to unmask it. @thepalmerworm @CourtenayTurner @educatedandfree @louette111 @UnmitigatedAss @RaffertyRao @ChrisLoesch @Dloesch

The emerging pattern of: Distraction, Reaction, Action, is less the footprints of, than the mating call of the Hydra, and 'somehow' the pattern mirrors how we think about and approach the issues of the day. How? By Magic. Seriously. But less like Merlin the Magician, than the skilled stagecraft of a philosophical Houdini.

To those saying we don't need to understand stories of swords & monsters, we need STEM skills!' - I say stop being so naive: a STEM skill centric people is what remains after all of the tall poppies have been cut down to size.

'Progressive Education' has progressively purged the Western Mind of its history & literature. But lost in the distractions of rising illiteracy rates and falling test scores and calls for more 'education reform!', is the reality that without the natural defenses those lessons provided, we've become less able to identify, let alone confront, the ongoing insurrection that the enemies of the Greco/Roman-Judeo/Christian West have been executing against us all. blogodidact.blogspot.com/202…