Today's as good a day as any to reflect on what animated those who laid the masonry for our great Republic. These were eternally optimistic deists basking in the afterglow of the Enlightenment, with a renewed interest in neoclassical forms and the works of people like John Locke providing intellectual rigor and supplying a new vocabulary. Take a moment to read the Declaration of Independence today and spend some time alone with your thots. Or if you're like me, read the Federalist Papers and sharpen your arguments against those who purport to protect the Constitution but don't have two neurons to synapse together--the intellectually and spiritually bankrupt mob who is ignorant by design.
For those of you on the fence, seeing fault with 'both sides,' take a moment to reflect on what it means when one side attacks public education and seeks to inject myths and superstitions into our public schools in lieu of science and knowledge. Or when one party punishes institutions of higher learning for refusing to kowtow to arbitrary displays of power.
Dear Messrs. Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, et al., remember us, if at all, not as lost, violent souls, but only as the Hollow Men.
