On the Health of Society - toward a more equal view

By Tim "Timothy" Fitzgerald

'The Unexamined Life is not worth Living' - Socrates

By Tim K. Fitzgerald

We have followed, as a civilization, a path leading away from the Empire of Rome, toward the goal of Universal democratic Principles for over 2000 years. And that path has determined, in large measure our attitudes and beliefs, our goals and aspirations - both as a people, and as a sovereign nation.

But much of that path, hewn from the imagination and insight of certain Western thinkers who contributed major sections of the blue print for our way of life, and standard of living. And it is to those leading intellects that I want to devote my final word, and possibly the last public statement I shall make in this campaign.

I am first off though, going to cite my authorities, and my sources as any good scholar of Western thought would or should. I have we will note three book length manuscripts available in the San Jose Martin Luther King Library - in their 'Special Collections section.' And this should pretty well settle my own views on the notorious 'Sixties' my none to slight or considerable contribution to that Counter Culture and some more detail in one of the Manuscripts ('the Cut of the Diamond') that goes a good way past early movement history to establish unequivocally my role in the community, my hopes, early ambitions and goals.

And I have been, for almost continuously for 14 years, under contract with a New York Literary Agent(s) what have tried to place one book length manuscript or another way major publishing houses. The Memoir, 'Cut of the Diamond' being the first to find its way to a publishing house - for which there are at this moment, negotiations for terms and conditions to sell that work.

These 'other works,' not available at this moment to the general public, but from which I have developed and carved my views on policy, procedure and protocol for this election; include: "Essays in New Capitalism (350 pages), 'Prospects for a New World Order' (275 pages) and more recently, 'StateCraft and War' 175 pages. And I share with you the hope these scholarly if somewhat academic works may soon see print.

Lastly, I have published a book of 100 poems under the imprint of 'Authorhouse' and which are available on http://www.amazon.com under Books (Timothy K. Fitzgerald). In all respects, these works sum up a life time of study and research, none to often challenging our present course, and mode of thinking, while pointing toward a 'path less traveled by (Robert Frost - Two paths parting in the woods). And that, as Frost suggest 'would make all the difference.'

Time does not permit an exhaustive re-counting of the way I cam to embrace 'born again Christianity' while rejected the Christian Coalition and its agenda, nor my conscious support of lesser celebrated thinkers like Rousseau, and Nietzsche. But I believe, taken to the market place of ideas, they would stand a better test of time, than say, Machiavelli of the 16th century, and English intellects like Thomas Hobbs and Adam Smith, all of which we have, in effect sold our souls for a 'pot of porridge' to keep from the more difficult task of seeks right action, rather than accept unquestionably the status quo. These last thinkers having become, in my own view, inadequate to the task of shaping a world community, and a global market for all nations on the planet - not just the G8 and a few friends of ours who are consuming the bulk of the worlds resources while being one tenth of the world population