Imagine the future where America has become a legend, a myth, a land that people dream about, like Camelot, or Atlantis, or even Rome when it was a great republic and people were free. If the idea of America is meaningful to you and you deeply feel….
“please do not let it be my generation that allows the reality of America to become but a legend, a memory to pine over”
…. then it is time to put a stake in the ground, draw a line in the sand, take a stand and act. But to do what? What can be done… for what is really wrong? What’s the answer… for who really knows that can speak for all Americans?
Yet, for many generations millions of people understood America. Today, a new generation of Americans does not know America as it once was understood. Do you maybe disagree? Well, here is the proof:
Read these timeless words that were the foundation of America and ask yourself these 2 questions:
- Are our founding ideas still valid and constitutional?
- What do these words (in BOLD) actually mean?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
If you say, hmmmmm. These ideas are right, I believe in them, but… they are NOT accepted as the “self-evident truths” they once were. You are right. (Proof 1)
On the other hand, if you have had a solid classical education, then it is likely you know that these ideas have lost their philosophical justification in today’s empirically based and relativistic culture. (Proof 2)
However, since most of us have had a “progressive” public education, then it is likely obvious to you that these ideas are dated and irrelevent because you can not TEACH that it is SELF-EVIDENT that we are CREATED beings. If so, then you believe, or will come to believe, our founding ideas are inherently unconstitutional due to their religious implications. This then means to you, whether you know it or not, the only self-evident highest power… is government, or yourself… which is exactly the situation that America, and the world, is in today (QED: proof demonstrated).
If you say whoa, hold on, I do not agree with the last statement because our founding ideas are not irrelevent… they justify a free society. Our founding ideas are not religious… they are philosophical and self-evident. Most important, when our society comes to believe that the highest power is government or self… the idea of America, and America itself… is lost.
Then you need to read on to understand America, what made America great, and what must be done to regain America… and civilization itself…
Power versus Liberty (Note Quotes Below)
Quotes to Ruminate About
“Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.”
On Milford’s History of Greece – 3,000 years ago
“As soon as government management begins, it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.”
Adam Smith – 300 years ago
Polite Version: “The 1st lesson of economics is scarcity. There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The 1st lesson of politics is to disregard the 1st lesson of economics.”
Thomas Sowell – 30 years ago
Impolite Version: “When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
P. J. O’Rourke
Accurate Version: “To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.”
Sallust
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato – 4,000 years ago
