Remember when Jack Nicholson played the part of the Colonel Jessep, as Tom Cruise cross examines him, in the movie "A Few Good Men" and Tom gets Jack heated to a point where the Colonel loses his temper screaming “You can’t handle the truth!” Tom was grilling him over a soldiers apparent accidental death asking the Colonel for the truth stating that we as a society deserve at least that.
A well written piece. Still, a point worth articulating is this; The words in the declaration that spoke of equality were impossible even as they were being uttered. Agrarian capitalism, and mercantilism, had come to predominate and already had set the many against the few. Industrial capitalism, which began its rise in the last 1/2 to 1/3 of the 18th century and was taking root, preceded the establishment of the United States, and rendered the considerations of equality in the declaration impossible. There were other things that acted similarly; slavery, treatment of indigenous populations, women's non-rights, etc. If those latter had been eliminated the framework of industrial capitalism would have, on its own, created an unequal gulf between capitalists and labor.
You Can't Handle the Truth
A well written piece. Still, a point worth articulating is this; The words in the declaration that spoke of equality were impossible even as they were being uttered. Agrarian capitalism, and mercantilism, had come to predominate and already had set the many against the few. Industrial capitalism, which began its rise in the last 1/2 to 1/3 of the 18th century and was taking root, preceded the establishment of the United States, and rendered the considerations of equality in the declaration impossible. There were other things that acted similarly; slavery, treatment of indigenous populations, women's non-rights, etc. If those latter had been eliminated the framework of industrial capitalism would have, on its own, created an unequal gulf between capitalists and labor.