09-12-2010, 06:37 PM
ClassicalLib17 Wrote:No, Danno, Jefferson didn't know because you weren't there to tell him how to think. Imagine what America would be like today if you, Jacques, and Peter had been the ones who wrote our governing document? Praise the lord for individuality, and common sense.If Jacques, Peter and I had created the "governing document" 240 some years ago it most likely would be the same as it is now. This is because we are at the forefront of creating a better way for humans to live just as the founding fathers were in their time.
I think what you fail to understand is that there is an evolution process involved. I don't fault the founding fathers for not doing a better job. They were a product of their times and a product of their environment just like those before and after them are. Hench their view that slaves were not people endowed with rights but were merely property. To expect them to have had the ability to create a better form of government than they did would be like expecting a caveman to make a Zippo lighter before the invention of the flint or fire drill. The same way that the flint or fire drill were part of a chain of predeceeding inventions which led up to the eventual invention of the Zippo lighter so too will the ideas and form of government that the founding fathers gave us lead to something better someday. Humans are emergent beings. We build on the accomplishments of the past. There is always advancement. When you start to view some form of government, or any technological advancement for that matter, as a "be all and end all", such as you have expressed here many times, is when you are disconnected with the reality of how we humans live and operate here on Planet Earth.
Do you understand this concept?