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The Paine Returns…
But it’s Samuel Paine, Thomas’s great great grandson’s friend…
Calls out the bull shit of politics and economy and all that stuff. Paine offers an analysis of the present conditions, the state of society, and the rulers who rule us and he doesn’t think they should anymore…
Yes, we are still ruled. Do you agree, fellow citizen? We are ruled in the workplace, we are ruled in our homes by the ones to whom we are in debt for our homes, and we are ruled by a far too powerful federal government of 545 legislators and 9 supreme judges and 1 high president and of course all the big-moneyed interested that fund them.
They have way too much power, and we know they are only there because they are from a rich and powerful legacy family, and/or paid by major corporations and other super-wealthy individuals to do their bidding.
We do not live in the “democracy” the founding fathers intended. Wait, the founding fathers didn’t actually intend for us to live in a “democracy.” Nor a government of "the people." Just because they put that in their founding document doesn’t make it true. 1/3rd of the population were legally enslaved at the time that was written.
Common Sense 2 is not about Thomas Paine, it is about the pain of here and now. And it is not a call to armed revolt. You can’t uhh just do that. It is a note that we are still ruled.
And it is a reminder, for those who ever knew — that this American “project” was never about the freedom of most of us at all.
And perhaps, Paine suggests, it is time for an egalitarian reckoning . . .
But it’s Samuel Paine, Thomas’s great great grandson’s friend…
Calls out the bull shit of politics and economy and all that stuff. Paine offers an analysis of the present conditions, the state of society, and the rulers who rule us and he doesn’t think they should anymore…
Yes, we are still ruled. Do you agree, fellow citizen? We are ruled in the workplace, we are ruled in our homes by the ones to whom we are in debt for our homes, and we are ruled by a far too powerful federal government of 545 legislators and 9 supreme judges and 1 high president and of course all the big-moneyed interested that fund them.
They have way too much power, and we know they are only there because they are from a rich and powerful legacy family, and/or paid by major corporations and other super-wealthy individuals to do their bidding.
We do not live in the “democracy” the founding fathers intended. Wait, the founding fathers didn’t actually intend for us to live in a “democracy.” Nor a government of "the people." Just because they put that in their founding document doesn’t make it true. 1/3rd of the population were legally enslaved at the time that was written.
Common Sense 2 is not about Thomas Paine, it is about the pain of here and now. And it is not a call to armed revolt. You can’t uhh just do that. It is a note that we are still ruled.
And it is a reminder, for those who ever knew — that this American “project” was never about the freedom of most of us at all.
And perhaps, Paine suggests, it is time for an egalitarian reckoning . . .
Caractéristiques et détails
- Catégorie principale: Beaux livres
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Format choisi: 13×20 cm
# de pages: 104 -
ISBN
- Couverture souple: 9798211716278
- Date de publication: déc 11, 2022
- Langue English
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