Einstein: A Further Look At Free Expreession And Non-Conformity

April 16, 2010 - PRLog -- EINSTEIN: GOD, RELIGION & SCIENCE


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Greetings Brethren,


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Every year, Lord & Taylor department stores gave an award that, especially in the early 1950s, might have seemed unusual. It honored independent thinking, and Einstein, fittingly, won it in 1953 for his “nonconformity” in scientific matters.
   
Einstein took pride in that trait, which he knew had served him well over the years. “It gives me great pleasure to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed,” he said in his radio talk accepting the award.

Even though he was being honored for his nonconformity in the field of science, Einstein used the occasion to turn attention to the McCarthy-style investigations. For him, freedom in the realm of thought was linked to freedom in the realm of politics. “To be sure, we are concerned here with nonconformist in a remote field of endeavor,” he said, meaning physics. “No Senatorial committee has as yet felt compelled to tackle the task of combating in this field the dangers that threaten the inner security of the uncritical or intimidated citizen.”   (“Einstein His Life and Universe,” Walter Isaacson, p. 527).

When the great Black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois was indicted on charges stemming from helping to circulate a petition initiated by the World Peace Council, Einstein volunteered to testify as a character witness on his behalf. It represented a union of Einstein’s sentiments on behalf of civil rights and of free speech. When Du Bois’ lawyer informed the court that Einstein would appear, the judge rather quickly decided to dismiss the case.   (p. 531)

During the time in which Einstein lived and worked there were different challenges to Free Expression. Where is Lord and Taylor today? If they still render this prize I wonder who would receive it today. Very few media sources exert any real independence. We have also very few among the writers we have become acquainted with that also reek of any independent flavor. Most run in fear of the FreedomJournal and wish very little or nothing to do with us. However to the few that are wise nonconformity is a right not a privilege.

Free Expression All Levels Of Thought

A man closed in his room sought to be free
as he hollered to the Wind. This was his space
and to him he owned it. Thus he could cry
out loud as he might.

There was a time when many of God’s subjects hollered and cried however there were no tears among the righteous. There were crevices in the body and man did sweat in summer and fall.  But the righteous can see all as the heart has great vision. (Prose and Verse excerpts taken from “Those That Expectorate and Squat On Free Speech,” Carl A. Patton, FreedomJournal Press).

There was also a forgotten and unheard of man.
He was closed off from the marketplace as his
goods were good but not sanctioned as there
was a main distributor who was also free.

The man stood full of lost world
morbid fatalistic sentiments as he transfixed
on things of no value to principles, honesty
and what God has ordered.

Who are these people? The earth
was a place that saw nothing as it’s
subjects thought they saw all. Just
how much could you degrade the law?

His expressions of freedom were heard less
and often soft as the birds did fly. Meanwhile
his voice was seldom heard and his pocketbook
was filled even less as his bank was closed.

The hogs wallowed in the hog pen
with the elusive pigs. The hog’s trough
never stayed full as the gluttons wanted it
all and were never satisfied with, I am full but
my belly is empty.

I saw the cow’s the horses at peace
grazing upon the land. They grazed in
the grass. I wanted and dreamed of shaking, a
look to the divine, farmer’s hand for staying on
the land.

Did the famous ever need any intervention to
insure Free Expression? What of the muted and
those silenced by under nourishment and thirst
from carrying buckets with holes in them?

The birds of the field squatted from the sky. The soil
was turned annually and the cows ate year-round so
did the hogs as they passed waste,

Upon already man-made dung piles
as this was heaped as fertilizer on
those of less numbers, fame or fortune
that sought the freedom to talk.


Meanwhile as the muted man who was not deaf,
dumb or blind grew he realized that his Father
had granted him Free Expression at birth. He
also knew that this freedom to talk also extended,

I knew none of the
great masters the philosophers that did
not know of the great Creation. They
also rode an independent horse as they
tended to peace among the cows.

To the church however he had to be a nonconformist
as the true church hid as the one of man came to
the forefront. He then sung sad songs of protest
but multitudes bristled and did not listen.

Meanwhile I saw transparent
reality. Could man look through Truth?
Did he see Free Speech along the way?
Many wore crystalline eyes as lucid were,

The eyes but they saw nothing. Somehow
though as the looking glass was reversed
there were living shadows of fake friends.
They came as zombies from all directions.

Cont. Part 28: Einstein: The Challenges To Free Expression & Independent Thinking

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