“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
— from the preamble to the U.S. Declaration of Independence
OK. So we’re created equal. After our birth into this world, what then? Some of us choose to become wise, some fools. And what is wisdom? What is foolishness? How do these qualities manifest in terms of attitude and behavior? Who is the arbiter over such matters? Don’t we, the people, kind of need to agree? How do we come to agreement?
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I think our founding fathers gave us way too much credit: when there is precious little self-awareness, how can anything be self-evident? They could not have foreseen that their ideals would one day devolve into a society--an idiocracy--in which fools beget fools snd wisdom is scorned as elitism.
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