Laws are great. Laws teach us how to effectively adapt to our environment. Adaptation leads us to freedom. Failure to adapt leads to the loss of freedom. Laws truly are that simple. These laws condition people to endure their existence.
It's the first rule of survival: learn fast or get left behind real quick. You need to gain an understanding of the environment around you, and assess the fundamental principles of your habitat.
So now, for example, I'm an American living Northeast Pennsylvania. With that being said, I can safely scratch ‘red-light district’ and ‘hemp shops’ off the list of ideas for new tourist attractions likely to arrive here in Scranton.
*sighing*
Adjusting our judgment and behavior according to the laws of our environment ensures survival.
But first thing's first.
Before we can adjust, we must be able to identify where the hell we are. So... what is this place?
Where do we all really live?
It's completely asinine to consider arbitrary things, like geopolitical lines or street names, as being reasonable addresses.
All of those names and numbers only serve as props on mother nature's grand stage.
Yes, I said nature.
I repeat, nature.
We all seem to forget our universal address.
Nature is more ubiquitous than religious intolerance AND Hannah Montana. Seriously.So...since nature is our said environment, wouldn't it make sense to adjust our behavior according to natural law?
Webster's Dictionary defines natural as:
marked by easy simplicity and freedom from artificiality, affectation, or constraint (adj.)
one born without the usual powers of reason and understanding (n.)
History has bestowed us with several different theories of natural law, and I'm willingly providing an additional thought to the list.
The knowledge of a philosopher or even a lawyer, doctor, or scientist, for that matter, is not required to grasp this concept. The idea is self-explanatory; picking up a dictionary to brush up on your vocabulary works just fine.
For instance, criminal law identifies crimes and punishments, and by the same token, contract law deals with exchanging and keeping promises. Natural law, in turn, defines the uncivilized, unaffected, and uncultivated elements of the world.
It refers to the simple state of life that remains totally void of our modern distractions.
We live in an incredibly unnatural world, and we are paying a huge fucking price for it. Just stop and think for a couple seconds, and ask yourself:
“What happens if I live against nature?”
Well, what happens if you decide to live against the United States?
These are universal questions with universal answers.
Sounds pretty straight forward, right? It's the easiest concept in the world, yet we all suck at truly comprehending it.
For example, after a presentation on contraceptives, our guest speaker, an esteemed college professor, shared a few theories behind why some women choose not to take birth control. She said that one of the main reasons some women opt not to take the pill is because it’s not natural. She immediately followed that statement with, “…but it all depends on what your definition of natural is.”
According to ol' Ms. Prophylactic, there are several interpretations of what could be considered natural. Ingesting pills today may be something normal, but to say that it could be considered natural is just fucking stupid.
Sorry, it’s NOT natural, and there’s only ONE definition of it.
In case you're still confused, stoned, or both, I’m only trying to use the definition of nature in order to draw rational conclusions. Not only will these conclusions help to identify and explain problems, but they will also help resolve them.
This shit is important.
If we're not living our lives naturally, we're not living at all. I think we are actually devolving, straying further and further away from nature. To the point where watching a television show or movie is almost impossible without seeing a dream sequence where someone imagines what the world will look like in 30 years, and, of course, it usually involves some Star Trek or Blade Runner-esque vision. A vision usually void of green, where the old, blue sky of the past falls behind an infinitely black or red planetary canopy that hangs over some synthetic, urban society.
So, yeah, television and brilliant role models, such as the aforementioned professor, do not make things easy for us.
With that being said, marching in to society's postmodern courtroom with a Stoic approach is no psychological stroll through the fucking park. I believe that the monumental task at hand coincides with the major problems facing our world today.
Using common sense as precedent, I’ll address these problems in order to convince you, the jury, to rule on restoring the balance.
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