You go, Wraith! Yay! Oh, I would've loved to watch a video of this one. It reminds me of your great Revver rant 'n' grr on the Constitution.

Your supposed dig at the Left sounded more like a positive to me. Mindless patriotism is not my idea of a good citizen.

The thought experiment called the United States Constitution, and similar styled governments is not so much radical departure from convention, but is instead evolutionary progress. As the plebes become more educated, the divinity of another human is called into question. Nowadays the degree of holiness bestowed on any one group, or individual, is determined more by the size of their armory.

Greetings Dark Wraith and his readers,

Good one Trog..I like how you explain our beloved country. Yes, I do still love it, in one sense or another. Only because it is all I have...therefore, I hope it will come around again to having more of a positive nature than a warmongering one.

We can hope can't we? ;p

Good afternoon, trog.

Evolution is not an arrow; it is merely a complex system of probative roots that experiment with environmental conditions.

The United States republic organized in accord with the Constitution is merely a temporary experiment that reasonably comported with a transitory environment. It will pass, although future structures may retain some of its features, particularly those that give the common people a sense of voice and power in a world where they would like both but actually possess neither.

But this experiment will pass. I wrote about this in "The 21st Century, Epilogue."

As a teacher, my job is not to save the republic; it is, instead, to ensure that, in its death throes, among the young will be a few who mourn its passing even as they remember stories about its false promises.

The Dark Wraith considers his work quite noble, if entirely worthless to the world that will move on to a more perfect union in the comforting shelter of the persistent fist of authoritarianism, which never dies.

good evening dark wraith:

very well said sir. as i said in my email, i try to provoke deeper thought in my students, however, since it's intermediate strings i am content to merely instill better technique and better practice habits.

I remember learning about government "by the people and for the people." That stuck in my head. As I've watched basic human rights being blatantly disregarded in the past 3o years particularly, I can't help but become indignant and insist that the government turn the hell around and act in accordance with the will of the people. Of course, I don't think they will ever go back to the way it was in the first 20 years of my life where I had more of a feeling that we had "god given" rights which were to be respected.

But that was a great rant, DW.