Plain, clean, old… a picture of wisdom in 1758, but how about now?
Today we tend to discount the same qualities that in times past we honored and revered. We praise complexity as progress, denigrate clean simplicity as unsophisticated, and deride inevitable
advanced age as if it were a disease to avoid.
Today, as in 1758, people look to those with experience and wisdom for advice and counsel. The difference between 1758 and today is that current America has mistakenly clothed the Behemoths
with the mantel of both knowledge and wisdom--big government, including its most incompetent branch, the US Congress, large corporations, oversized labor unions, idealogical lobbyists like AARP disguised as advocatres, and bloated bureaucracies have unjustifyably become the voices heard loudest.
Worse, we allow their wet-behind-the-ears minions with little or no life experience to delude us with the recital of shibboleths that are meaningless but persuasive.
“Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we ever be able to pay them? What would you advise us to do?”
B. FRanklin
Are you amazed that the questions of 1758 are so similar to the questions Americans ask today? When ‘We the People’ answer these questions, you hear us disagreeing with the meaningless but
persuasive conventional wisdom spewed by the Behemoths.
What a concept — ‘We the People...’
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