Baruch Menache — Author and Philosopher

  Children, Citizenship, and the Limits of State Intervention Don’t ask permission to have children. The state comes in after the fact. It is an organization, a political organization, that deals with citizens. How the citizen effectuates himself or herself in the manner of their private affairs and the multiplicity of themselves onward is irrelevant as far as the individual is concerned. It is either a single citizen or a multiplicity of citizens. There is never a reaching from the state into the individual. For that prerogative, we may be accustomed to this through the interference of traditional perceptions of domestic life. That is only a failure of domestic life in which we need state intervention. In fact, the entire constitution can be based on the idea that privatization is a realm that can never be entered by the state, and in whatever way it acts, its citizen multiplicity does not even get the glance of the state. The same is true of economic responsibility, or responsibi...

Socialization, individuality, and the attempt to stabilize a system built on unlimited expanse and moral tension Let us find sympathy for these extreme measures to which most of America subscribes. Because the individual lies in a path that provides them with the supposition that whatever is an obstacle either does not exist or can be trudged through. This creates a lack of a safety net when a contrary interaction occurs, which would have one de-exist individuals or trudge through them. Immediately, individual and communal murder is possible, as there is nothing to hinder the perspective which presumes to be more expansive than that which the social body assumes. This social body is nonexistent, or is of less significance than this philosophy. It reprimands individuals as part of a social structure but does not teach them to remove the importance that is given to one’s presumed expansion. In partiality, socialization becomes paramount to this primary philosophy, which removes any rec...