2571 No founding fathers to continue the conversation.

The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution report together by mostly self-selected men who wanted to create an alternative to dependency on the British monarchy. They did a terrific job and spent hours studying and I’m debating what could be learned from the history of republics and other forms of government.

The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution Were put together by mostly self-selected men who wanted to create an alternative to dependency on the British monarchy. They did a terrific job and spent hours studying and I’m debating what could be learned from the history of republics and other forms of government.

But, when that government proves inadequate to our challenges we have nobody who can say “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary…“ We are trying to titrate the current system And we have no idea how to craft a new one just as it is being a swamped by catastrophes. It looks to me as those smart people going to college for the last five decades or so did not study history or poetry or literature. Berthold Brecht wrote in the mouth of Galileo, “As a scientist I set a bad example. Now the best we can hope for is a race of inventive dwarfs for hire by anybody.”

‘The ”anybody” turns out to be a coterie of billionaires seemingly prepared to declare their sovereignty over the earth. For us It is a little like the New York Times crosswords which start simple on Monday and end very difficult by the Weeknd. The Past of our political economy we have squandered its early days and are s kidding around on the difficult clues from Saturday’s puzzle. But there are clues and if we work hard we can figure this out.