Not long ago I re-watched Novas show on Saving The Founding Documents. Funny how seeing the same thing again after your experiences have changed makes for a new lens for seeing the same thing in a different sometimes more powerful way. Seems Im not the first person to attempt to re-brand America... Lincoln already did it by re-seeing The Declaration of Independence and The Declaration of Equality in a different more powerful way. Lincolns second look at this Founding Document gave Americans a new lens for re-seeing their Better American Self. Seems he couldnt find what he was looking for in the United States Constitution or the Bill of Rights so he kept on looking. He was looking for the moral solution to Why We Fight The Good Fight and why we stay together. And Lincoln found his solution in The Declaration of Independence and so did Martin Luther King... And so will we. I thought about these two great men and how they were men who became great... because they understood a great truth about mankind and used a single great idea to create Americas moral solutions when America needed great leaders to get US off the destructive path we were on. I also thought about America needing great leaders today as we try and re-build our economy and win the war on terror... but our leaders arent even trying to be great or win anything but the next election. Their only course for America is charted by the Science of Words and their guiding Purpose is Power... and time after time they prove the only solutions they care enough to seek are to the problems of financing their next campaign. And the people who have all the answers to those problems are the ones who have enough money to fill campaign coffers and Think Tanks... which have become One Stop shopping for Candidates to shop for money and words. Amazingly its now more fashionable to join a think tank and advance a well-financed and pre-conceived objective than to discover the truth that you might be in part wrong or that someone with a different orientation might be needed in part to make you... completely right. Just ask those who conceived the Iraqi war plan whether they might have given more thought to the armoring of vehicles if they intended to take the ride after the invasion. If you dont believe them capable of giving you a truthful answer then ask the newlywed widow what truth means to her and if other opinions at the planning table might have made for a more complete right course of action for her version of The American Dream. The simple Truth was and always has been The Whole of US... represents the better and lasting promise of US all. This is the binding principle that Lincoln and King died trying to defend. Remember This: The Civil War and The Civil Rights Movement... were think tanks of a different sort.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:23:15 +0000
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