[Platt]
Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
[Arlo]
So spaketh slave owners and protagonists of genocide against the
indigenous peoples. If they wrote "leprechauns exist", I suppose
you'd believe in them.
"And yet, although Jefferson called this doctrine of social equality
"self-evident," it is not at all self-evident. Scientific evidence
and the social evidence of history indicate the opposite is
self-evident. There is no "self-evidence" in European history that
all men are created equal. There's no nation in Europe that doesn't
trace its history to a time when it was "self-evident" that all men
are created unequal. Jean Jacques Rousseau, who is sometimes given
credit for this doctrine, certainly didn't get it from the history of
Europe or Asia or Africa. He got it from the impact of the New World
upon Europe and from contemplation of one particular kind of
individual who lived in the New World, the person he called the
"Noble Savage." (Pirsig)
He got it from CONTEMPLATION. It's an intellectual pattern. And these
derive from culture.
Plain and simple.
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