7 Jul
2001
7 Jul
'01
11:44 p.m.
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
Some day there will be new frontiers on other planets
but until then,
I don't see such an easy escape from the existing governments. Any
future revolutions we have in the US will have all the same problems
of revolutions in older established countries, say, France or Russia;
that of trying to cast off the old ways and being unable to really
completely start over, because the past is always there to haunt you.
The problem is even with the intended ideals that the founders put in
place, our political system still ended up becoming corrupt, with
seemingly no way of correcting it short of Armageddon (although it did
take 200 years for it to happen).
Does this mean every couple of centuries we'll have to re-invent the
United States on some other distant expanse of immaculate territory?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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