A Most Eloquent Intelligent Deduction & Reasoning... of Our Current Times & Reality!~ I would like to put down... These Words... That Are From The Founding of The Republic... They Are Still Timeless & The Most Important of Them All... And I Quote! " That to Secure These Rights, Governments are Instituted among Men, Deriving Their Just Powers from The Consent of The Governed, ->That Whenever any Form of Government Becomes Destructive of These Ends, it is the 'Right of the People to Alter or Abolish It,' <- and to Institute A New Government, Laying its Foundation on such Principles, and Organizing its Powers in such form, as to Them shall seem Most Likely to Effect Their Safety & Happiness." and I Quote!... Those Words Were Written Down as a Guide to The Republic's Future Citizenry... for Such a Time that Our Nation Finds Itself NOW! Though Much of It Needs To Be Shed & Cast Aside!... Certain Things Can Be Taken from Our Nations Past in a Learning Sense!... That Still Hold Intelligent Knowledge, Positive Assertion & Reflective Affirmations. That IMHO... Could & Would Help To Create a Better Form of Governance & A Safe Secure Future for The People.
So question, how do we contend with the progressive Christians or just progressives in general when they contend that we are justly re-assessing our history and the legitimacy of it? Because they seem to be at least partially correct about historical misdeed and lack of equitable treatment of human beings.
I can't disagree with the facts, but I don't agree with their conclusion or interpretation and I can't figure out how to cogently argue with it.
I guess one of the sub-questions here that I am wrestling with myself is if I agree that our past is mired in misdeed, how do do I, and the less "edgy" trad reactionary types more broadly justify our reverence for older modes of thought, their originators and practitioners and traditional value structures they operated off of?
After reading all of this I'm looking for razor blades. Well written, thought provoking but a bit too fatalist for me. If smug legislators did not exploit the Constitution for their own political, narcissistic lust for power and control. I pray the Convention of States project succeeds otherwise the vision of our founders could be lost. When our government is reinterpreted through Progressive glasses, we have what you see now. God alone can help us!
Rallying around new symbols would mean it's much harder to claim conservatives are solely responsible for the atrocities produced by the old system. Considering how effective progressives have been using their cartoons of history as a cudgel, it seems stupid to keep letting them use it. At the same time, the founders, whatever their personal flaws, and the apparent failure of the system they created to survive the forces that arose against it, were truly great men. Society is so cancerous I'm not sure where comparable, much less superior leaders could come from today.
Have you read the Sotonye interview with Balaji Srinivasan? https://sotonye.substack.com/p/if-einstein-had-the-internet-an-interview It's mostly about his vision of how new developments in technology will allow people to create new societies online that can then develop into real world societies. It would be really interesting to hear your thoughts about it.
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A Most Eloquent Intelligent Deduction & Reasoning... of Our Current Times & Reality!~ I would like to put down... These Words... That Are From The Founding of The Republic... They Are Still Timeless & The Most Important of Them All... And I Quote! " That to Secure These Rights, Governments are Instituted among Men, Deriving Their Just Powers from The Consent of The Governed, ->That Whenever any Form of Government Becomes Destructive of These Ends, it is the 'Right of the People to Alter or Abolish It,' <- and to Institute A New Government, Laying its Foundation on such Principles, and Organizing its Powers in such form, as to Them shall seem Most Likely to Effect Their Safety & Happiness." and I Quote!... Those Words Were Written Down as a Guide to The Republic's Future Citizenry... for Such a Time that Our Nation Finds Itself NOW! Though Much of It Needs To Be Shed & Cast Aside!... Certain Things Can Be Taken from Our Nations Past in a Learning Sense!... That Still Hold Intelligent Knowledge, Positive Assertion & Reflective Affirmations. That IMHO... Could & Would Help To Create a Better Form of Governance & A Safe Secure Future for The People.
So question, how do we contend with the progressive Christians or just progressives in general when they contend that we are justly re-assessing our history and the legitimacy of it? Because they seem to be at least partially correct about historical misdeed and lack of equitable treatment of human beings.
I can't disagree with the facts, but I don't agree with their conclusion or interpretation and I can't figure out how to cogently argue with it.
I guess one of the sub-questions here that I am wrestling with myself is if I agree that our past is mired in misdeed, how do do I, and the less "edgy" trad reactionary types more broadly justify our reverence for older modes of thought, their originators and practitioners and traditional value structures they operated off of?
After reading all of this I'm looking for razor blades. Well written, thought provoking but a bit too fatalist for me. If smug legislators did not exploit the Constitution for their own political, narcissistic lust for power and control. I pray the Convention of States project succeeds otherwise the vision of our founders could be lost. When our government is reinterpreted through Progressive glasses, we have what you see now. God alone can help us!
Your article would be a great introduction to a book about secession. My whole substack is about secession. https://secession.substack.com/p/poll-66-of-texas-voters-want-to-secede
Rallying around new symbols would mean it's much harder to claim conservatives are solely responsible for the atrocities produced by the old system. Considering how effective progressives have been using their cartoons of history as a cudgel, it seems stupid to keep letting them use it. At the same time, the founders, whatever their personal flaws, and the apparent failure of the system they created to survive the forces that arose against it, were truly great men. Society is so cancerous I'm not sure where comparable, much less superior leaders could come from today.
Have you read the Sotonye interview with Balaji Srinivasan? https://sotonye.substack.com/p/if-einstein-had-the-internet-an-interview It's mostly about his vision of how new developments in technology will allow people to create new societies online that can then develop into real world societies. It would be really interesting to hear your thoughts about it.