Ah, yes. The way I see it something that was founded out of the dynamic
advancement of the intellectual level can very quickly be turned into just
another social-level fortress. As with the US. Oh, there is no doubt in my
mind that the founding guys were operating in the service of the
intellectual level mainly and mostly when they tried out their little
experiment, but history showed us how the strongest social level pattern
there is - the Giant indeed - soon took hold of it all: capitalism. People
say that intellectual patterns can use the capitalist system - be in control
of it so to speak, but the way I see it there is very few occasions when
that actually is the case, and even fewer on the other side of the Atlantic.
I'd just like to add one tiny note about human rights and the concept of
freedom. Human rights is a product of the intellectual level as I'm sure
most of us will agree, but it has since become a social level patterns -
I.e. people call upon these principles and defend them and so forth; most of
them never reflecting over where these principles came from or why they are
the way they are - it is a given pattern, widely accepted, and socially it
is of high value to respect them. Freedom is even more seldom something that
people reflect over, negative and positive freedom etc - and in america it
seems to be of very low social value to do so. I got the following line from
a young republican when I pointed out to him that freedom was a complicated
concept that can be defined differently "No, freedom is what is written in
the constitution" .. well, I suppose that kind of "thinking" is to be
expected from a country in the grasp of social level patterns to that
extent.
In conclusion I would like to say that I can't think of any place on earth
where intellectual patterns is really in control - in the sense that social
level patterns never are allowed to subjugate or override intellectual ones.
But, there are places where reason maintains a higher status then on other
places, and it is typically not places where people hold texts in Divine
veneration, weather those texts be the Quoran or the Constitution, and it is
typically not places where diffuse dreams and ideals of honour or of
"making it on ones own" is allowed to strangle reason.
But, as you might suspect: this is only my (in truth not very) humble
opinion.
Regards
Chris
Maybe I would naturally feel more patriotic if the country was being lead
by
men and women of the sort that framed the Bill of Rights and Constitution
instead of the mental midgets that occupy the White House and Congress
today. As the one who decided (The Decider) to go to war in Iraq, Bush is
as responsible for as many deaths as Husseins. For the moment, the
Intellectuals in this country have lost their minds. That is why I, too,
am
happy with the Supreme Courts recent decision.
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