Greetings good citizen! Had one of those 'oops' moments when I forgot to pay off on a promise made the previous day because I had her majesty's boot up my backside to get moving.
Inexcusable but my fellow married men will sympathize.
What was it that I promised you the answer to yesterday and forgot about until much later?
Who was it that signed both the Declaration of the Independence and the Constitution?
While I was taught the answer was zero, our friend the net proves otherwise...good thing I took a moment to double check.
Which brings us to Constitutional trivia part II: How many of you are aware that the drafting of the Constitution was an 'invitation only' event?
Insert 'uninvited' for elsewhere and you'll be much closer to the truth.
Pretty short list but those who 'funded' the revolution weren't the same ones who fought in it. One list highlights those who laid it on the line, the other list favored a more 'behind the scenes' approach. Which is NOT to disparage those who didn't take up arms. Just because Franklin didn't tote a musket across frozen wastelands like Washington in no way diminishes his contributions to the cause [without the French we would have lost, decisively!]
What might chafe us just a tiny bit is WHO recieved an invitation to the 'founding convention' and WHY they and not more, er, storied individuals weren't invited. We've heard the lame excuses, that those who are brave in battle aren't necessarily the 'deepest thinkers' yet the filter we commonly confuse with intelligence [wealth and by extention, education] provides us with no more a reliable measure.
Which is to say wealth DOES NOT equal Brains any more than Bravery is 'proof' of a lack of intelligence', despite what the cowards say.
I leave it to you good citizen to evaluate the truth behind the 'success' of the [monied] 'founders'. Some will discount 'inertia' [people have adapted to the cruelest conditions 'the legendary' can dish out and still chug along happily enough to keep the species growing, not shrinking.
I point to the 'gun to your head' as opposed to the 'land of opportunity' this nations cheerleaders tout as the reason for our, er, 'longevity'. It is inertia and the lack of the Bigger, Better Deal that keeps this crazy train moving down the tracks.
If there were something to revolt for, we'd be there in a heartbeat!
But there isn't. [Or is there?]
The ideological battle over who owns what (Capitalism vs. Communism) totally misses the point that this is our one and only home/planet, if we fail to share it, none of us will survive!
Sometimes being able to recognize what's important is enough to catalyze change...
Why do they keep trying to distract you? Could it be they don't want you thinking about important stuff like this?
With that I leave you to ponder the future, good citizen.
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Inexcusable but my fellow married men will sympathize.
What was it that I promised you the answer to yesterday and forgot about until much later?
Who was it that signed both the Declaration of the Independence and the Constitution?
While I was taught the answer was zero, our friend the net proves otherwise...good thing I took a moment to double check.
Only six individuals signed both of these two founding documents. They were George Clymer, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, George Read, Roger Sherman, and James Wilson.* Some of the famous signers of the Declaration were elsewhere when the Constitution was being written.
Which brings us to Constitutional trivia part II: How many of you are aware that the drafting of the Constitution was an 'invitation only' event?
Insert 'uninvited' for elsewhere and you'll be much closer to the truth.
Pretty short list but those who 'funded' the revolution weren't the same ones who fought in it. One list highlights those who laid it on the line, the other list favored a more 'behind the scenes' approach. Which is NOT to disparage those who didn't take up arms. Just because Franklin didn't tote a musket across frozen wastelands like Washington in no way diminishes his contributions to the cause [without the French we would have lost, decisively!]
What might chafe us just a tiny bit is WHO recieved an invitation to the 'founding convention' and WHY they and not more, er, storied individuals weren't invited. We've heard the lame excuses, that those who are brave in battle aren't necessarily the 'deepest thinkers' yet the filter we commonly confuse with intelligence [wealth and by extention, education] provides us with no more a reliable measure.
Which is to say wealth DOES NOT equal Brains any more than Bravery is 'proof' of a lack of intelligence', despite what the cowards say.
I leave it to you good citizen to evaluate the truth behind the 'success' of the [monied] 'founders'. Some will discount 'inertia' [people have adapted to the cruelest conditions 'the legendary' can dish out and still chug along happily enough to keep the species growing, not shrinking.
I point to the 'gun to your head' as opposed to the 'land of opportunity' this nations cheerleaders tout as the reason for our, er, 'longevity'. It is inertia and the lack of the Bigger, Better Deal that keeps this crazy train moving down the tracks.
If there were something to revolt for, we'd be there in a heartbeat!
But there isn't. [Or is there?]
The ideological battle over who owns what (Capitalism vs. Communism) totally misses the point that this is our one and only home/planet, if we fail to share it, none of us will survive!
Sometimes being able to recognize what's important is enough to catalyze change...
Why do they keep trying to distract you? Could it be they don't want you thinking about important stuff like this?
With that I leave you to ponder the future, good citizen.
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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