我们美国华人不是一个社会，只能说是一个社区。而且是个比较幼年松散的社区。
社区也有Institution, 也有历史，像基督教宗教社区，历史有两千年。道教宗教社区，历史有2500年，可惜远水解不了近渴。
社区也有Institutional memory, 有自己的价值观。
华人在美国的现状，没有本土宗教，也没有可靠的华人社区，也没有法律常识，华人律师团队。 就好像秋天的蚂蚱， 一时半会可以，久而久之天气一变，就不行了。 华人需要重新检查自己的价值观，从深看浅： 哪些是可以建立宗教必须用的，哪些是建立社区必须用的，哪些是适应法制必须用的。 幸运的是华人道教的价值观可以用于美国社区建设。
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第八十一章
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信言①不美，美言不信。善者②不辩③，辩者不善。知者不博④，博者不知。圣人不积⑤，既以为人己愈有⑥，既以与人己愈多⑦。天之道，利而不害⑧。圣人之道⑨，为而不争。
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
THE PREAMBLEhttp://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/0/essays/1/preamble
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《道德经》陈述“天道”，经常用“不”的词汇，如81章的”不害“，”不争“，如其他章的“不仁”，“不尚贤”，“无为”。 这是《道德经》的enduring power。
http://taolaw.blogspot.com/2017/04/ddj-11-speak-truth-to-power.html
《道德经》word cloud: http://tungwaiyip.info/blog/2012/04/25/laozi
宪法Preamble可以称为宪法的Mission Statement. 虽然Preamble是宪法的开篇。其实，Preamble是最后写，是一种Summary。 “The Preamble was placed in the Constitution more or less as an afterthought. It was not proposed or discussed on the floor of the Constitutional Convention. Rather, Gouverneur Morris, a delegate from Pennsylvania who as a member of the Committee of Style actually drafted the near-final text of the Constitution, composed it at the last moment. It was Morris who gave the considered purposes of the Constitution coherent shape, and the Preamble was the capstone of his expository gift. The Preamble did not, in itself, have any substantive legal meaning. The understanding at the time was that preambles are merely declaratory and are not to be read as granting or limiting power—a view sustained by the Supreme Court inJacobson v. Massachusetts (1905).
Nevertheless, the Preamble has considerable potency by virtue of its specification of the purposes for which the Constitution exists. It distills the underlying values that moved the Framers during their long debates in Philadelphia.“
"in Order to form a more perfect Union" refers to a Mission of improvement relative to the Article of Constitution. which the Constitutional Convention set out to improve, but ended up starting all over again.
＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊无知Digress＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwgp3q/inside-milktoberfest-the-mormon-alternative-to-oktoberfest
Survival movies and best survivalists:
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2017/10/6/16434644/best-movie-survivalist-the-mountain-between-us-the-edge
Values like Temperance, Grit and Trust are livable, but very difficult to preach and train (without living it). So too, is a consistent inner world endowed with wonder.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI2MTcxMjI0MQ==&mid=2247490892&idx=2&sn=28b4ee4faf71371354debe125c742985&chksm=ea576d52dd20e444c76eb38a76693930108d04d875b4b0a825f00c74d22dd06169acd298e025&mpshare=1&scene=1&srcid=1010gMbP63nxxByvmrDoKsEu&pass_ticket=Lv2Byb7BYNBp%2FekNd5bWQAUJM7LP7nQFiJIc0GtLPhatRnSAha%2FbA1ebW4mIaIm5#rd
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