Wealth, Women, and War
Wealth, Women, and War explores America's current political climate the future of our nation. In his "plain-truth" expose
style, Dr. Potts examines the effects of globalization, the "rules of life", and America's modern social contract.
The social contract which "comes up for review" every four generations or so, is the unwritten, commonly understood
agreement by which we govern our lives to an acceptable level of success within the civilized community. It is the collection
of social rules by which we live in a given culture. Some attribute these rules to an invisible Supreme Being, God, or
Intelligent Designer who looks over the affairs of humanity.
The Rules of Life, however, when viewed through the lenses of human anthropology, history, and sociology, are whatever a
given group of people have decided the rules will be. They are made by convention and by the consent of the people, from a given
social authority, with the assurance that the rules work to the benefit of the majority of the people as defined by the "ruling class."
Sometimes the rules protect the minority within the population. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes the rules protect the interest of
the top portion of a given society at the expense of all others, and are enforced through barbarous, oppressive, tyrannical means.
Those within a given culture always consider the rules "good" because they are the rules of the culture and the culture does not question
what is "good."
When the rules of life protect the interest of the minority within a given population, even going so far as protecting the minority
from the majority, and protecting them from the potential abuses of the "ruling class" then the society is deemed civilized. When the
minority, as defined by race, creed, philosophy, economic status, ability or disability is not protected, then the society is deemed
primitive (tribal) and oppressive. In either case it is not unheard of to draw inspiration for the rules of life from the classic texts
from human history. However, this does not make these rules into natural law, or the decree of the gods, or God. These rules are what
people collectively decide they shall be, based on their understanding of their culture.
Even tyrants enjoy a certain prosperous longevity when they acutely observe the rules of life as understood within a given culture.
This longevity is often secured through the acquisition of sufficient resources that allow for isolation from the effects of their
tyranny upon the general population. So long as the population as a whole accepts the rules of life as being unalterable, universal,
and relatively constant the rules of life are unalterable. For better or worse, they become the expression of God within a given culture
at a given time.
Nothing has shaped America more than religion. From our Puritan roots to today's diversity of faiths, religion still guides and shapes
our politics. Radicals, Religion, and Revelation examines issues of faith and politics and analyzes alternative views of religion and
spirituality. It explores the cultural commonality of citizens of the United States and builds bridges between unlikely traditions to
show that there is a viable platform for America as a nation of diversity.
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