"We People" —we Americans — need to reconnect withthe secret to our success. We are sticking to regression.
No,1619 is not our origin story. Slavery is an Old World heritage and is certainly the highest sin, but not the only sin.
Our treatment of Native Americans was also not our best time. It started before 1619, and continued even after slavery was abolished in 1865.
Italian sage Machiavelli said that the origins of all nations involve some "power and fraud".
What should still have the ability to surprise (and inspire) educated people is how the old world has changed course and become a new world.
This new era order press release was the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It took more than a decade to create that IPO, the United States Constitution provided to the United States. In Ben Franklin's words, the world of people and surveillance is a "republic, if it can be maintained", an "experiment" of autonomy.
What are the achievements of self-government experiments? Looking at the measure of human prosperity, we see a significant deviation (upward) in human history around the time of our initial public offering. Look at human economic history. Before the 1760s, prosperity was a flat zero-sum game. Then bend like a hockey stick.
What is the recipe for success today, the secret source? It's not a difficult formula to wrap your head. This may explain that it can be scaled very quickly. Nothing is more practical than a good theory. In the modern world, it says, "All human beings are made equal." These five words created a new order of the times and raised mankind from subject matter to citizenship.
Materials used when conducting experiments .. "Created equality" means the following: Homo sapiens was born politically and personally for autonomy. Equality extends the franchise of political freedom and its pursuit to the human family.
That's all. And there are many.
The principle of equality in our Declaration overturns the pre-modern exchange table that evaluated and implemented human inequality. The Declaration of Independence called the Old World obsolete and changed the course of human history. It's something to be proud of.
But that's just part of the recipe. America's outstanding success was brought about by constitutionalizing the pursuit of equality. Both the French and American revolutions were based on equality. But while prosperity and political freedom were the result of American experiments, France's contribution was the path to the guillotine and democratic Caesar. So what did we do right and what did the similarly inspiring fellow revolutionaries do wrong? We stipulated the pursuit of equality in the Constitution, but it was not.
Lincoln captured the composition of American exceptionalism: he said the Declaration was a golden apple and the Constitution was a silver frame.
It is the duty of citizens of all generations to understand, support and strengthen our heritage. Unfortunately, we are currently doing the exact opposite.
The equality I have described is no longer a universally shared citizen's value. Our idea of equality is far from the original idea. Equality is justification for redistribution in support of those who have historically suffered and been left behind. Our modern understanding of egalitarianism is about egalitarianism — it is a redistributionist and divisive. The connection between equality and freedom, and political autonomy, individual autonomy, and the power of freedom is consciously sneaky and separated.
Identity politics is not Yunam, who can put together an American pull-river. Unless identity is rejected at the seed, root, and branch levels, the American autonomy is over. The logic of identity leads to a war in Yugoslavia or Rwanda against all.
We, the people, need to support identity and major tyranny and oppose the rejection of equality — that is the wrong path. But we are not unaware of the unfinished business of our country. I say this to people involved in identity politics. Let's return to equality, which is properly understood and respected for constitutionalism, and let us end the unfinished business of our country together.
Guy Shepherd is the publisher of PlannedMan.
