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Re: The American Ideology (4.00 / 5)

There is also the problem that the American governmental system was set up as an Enlightenment project, and most of the current population would not agree with Enlightenment philosophy if they were challenged on it. The wholesale involvement in Christianity, in direct opposition to Reason, is perhaps the most obvious example.

by asdf on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 08:13:00 PM EST

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What's more, probably most of the then population would not have agreed with it, had it a chance of popular vote on details. The American government system was also a project by the then elite.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Dec 7th, 2006 at 10:05:03 AM EST
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Very true (none / 0)

Which is why I admire the "Founding Fathers" as much for their wily and, I think, subversive compromises as much as for the few truly progressive things they got through.

by Matt in NYC on Thu Dec 7th, 2006 at 12:31:57 PM EST
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