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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
