Imagine that the ideals and assumptions of the Founding Fathers could somehow take bodily form and visit America. How might this entity feel seeing the Republic collapsing from greed-driven special interest politics?
I doubt the entity would be shocked. After all, the Founding Fathers had anticipated (and tried to prevent) just such a thing. [...]
Full Disclosure: I think something deep and primal has changed in our cognitive depths, but it will take some time for the dramatic consequences of this change to work their way to the surface.
Something is happening in our collective mind-space, but what is it? Is it a mass awakening…or merely the [...]
“Change we can believe in” is a wonderful and effective phrase. In the giddy days before and after the election, the phrase seemed to promise that an Obama administration would bring needed change, steering our nation off the rutted road of corruption and driving it onto an environmentally friendly superhighway of wisdom. It all felt [...]
Someone has to say it.
We deserve a better class of people to be our upper class.
Everything in nature has a purpose—so much so that things that do not serve a purpose do not last. So what is the purpose of the upper class?
There was a time when it [...]
Surely every progressive knows someone who spouts out odious and hateful political ideas but who is warm, friendly, and engaging in personal life.
Of course, there are also ornery people with enlightened politics. This raises the question of whether foul progressives and amiable regressives are two versions of the same thing…or whether the similarity between [...]
Just like a character in a Greek tragedy, we have been marching blindly towards our doom. And a lot like Oedipus, we have been blind to the steps we could be taking to save ourselves from doom–like putting common need above personal greed.
Of course, it takes a lot of idealism to do that, [...]
