my exhibit #A "Flowery words in documents centuries old mean little in a world where truth itself has lost value" If they have lost value it is because people like you do not value them.
I have too many things to do right now to write more
my exhibit #A "Flowery words in documents centuries old mean little in a world where truth itself has lost value" If they have lost value it is because people like you do not value them.
I have too many things to do right now to write more
Not sure what you mean by "they" in "if they have lost value"; I said truth has lost value, and that would be singular. I am going to presume that you're referring to the Constitution and the DoI.
The DoI was a statement ending the country's role as a colony of England and I am not sure why you brought it up at all.
The Constitution comes from a world so unlike the present that it might as well be from some eastern European medieval dukedom. It comes from a time as close to the Middle Ages as to the present, written by slaveholders in a world without nuclear weapons, satellite surveillance, electronic communication, television, machine guns, or automobiles,; a world where greenhouse gases were still at ancient levels and most of the country was forested.
So why do you regard it as so authoritative for our present?
It was so flawed that it was immediately amended with ten overlooked principles, including some like the Third Amendment that are cartoonishly irrelevant in 2022.
The Constitution is ... quaint. Yes we still abide by its basic prescriptions for the separation of powers and a few other broad principles.
But.
We live in a time when about 40% of adult citizens would likely fail a psychiatric exam, where the vital principles in the BoR are largely overlooked and ignored. From my perspective these documents serve more as impediments than as guidance. In case you're not keeping up with current events, a Supreme Court populated with religious nutters just ruled that we cannot regulate the power plant emissions that are going to soon render most of the world uninhabitable and put the land inhabited by half the world's population underwater.
In a country with more guns than people and with near daily mass shootings, we can't do anything about the Second Amendment which was rendered obsolete in 1903, if not in 1865.
I believe in the principles the country was founded on and care about them a lot more than some mawkishly revered bit of parchment. I used to be a believer; in grade school I stood on the spot where Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech and recited it passionately from memory.
Democracy is dying in America, the world is dying, and we can't respond because of the Constitution.
my exhibit #A "Flowery words in documents centuries old mean little in a world where truth itself has lost value" If they have lost value it is because people like you do not value them.
I have too many things to do right now to write more
Not sure what you mean by "they" in "if they have lost value"; I said truth has lost value, and that would be singular. I am going to presume that you're referring to the Constitution and the DoI.
The DoI was a statement ending the country's role as a colony of England and I am not sure why you brought it up at all.
The Constitution comes from a world so unlike the present that it might as well be from some eastern European medieval dukedom. It comes from a time as close to the Middle Ages as to the present, written by slaveholders in a world without nuclear weapons, satellite surveillance, electronic communication, television, machine guns, or automobiles,; a world where greenhouse gases were still at ancient levels and most of the country was forested.
So why do you regard it as so authoritative for our present?
It was so flawed that it was immediately amended with ten overlooked principles, including some like the Third Amendment that are cartoonishly irrelevant in 2022.
The Constitution is ... quaint. Yes we still abide by its basic prescriptions for the separation of powers and a few other broad principles.
But.
We live in a time when about 40% of adult citizens would likely fail a psychiatric exam, where the vital principles in the BoR are largely overlooked and ignored. From my perspective these documents serve more as impediments than as guidance. In case you're not keeping up with current events, a Supreme Court populated with religious nutters just ruled that we cannot regulate the power plant emissions that are going to soon render most of the world uninhabitable and put the land inhabited by half the world's population underwater.
In a country with more guns than people and with near daily mass shootings, we can't do anything about the Second Amendment which was rendered obsolete in 1903, if not in 1865.
I believe in the principles the country was founded on and care about them a lot more than some mawkishly revered bit of parchment. I used to be a believer; in grade school I stood on the spot where Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech and recited it passionately from memory.
Democracy is dying in America, the world is dying, and we can't respond because of the Constitution.
It's not I who spoke 30,000 lies to the American public in four years.
Call me whatever you like but I value principles and kindness over anthems, flags, and old parchment.
This seems like a non sequitur