Many nations have helped their people flourish. But only America has been constructed from the ground up as an *engine* of human flourishing, a nation with an *imperative* to enact a better becoming. I look forward to living it out another 250 years - at least.
I love the optimism, but so many of the achievements you listed came before my lifetime (I'm 72). I keep striving, as obviously do you, for that renaissance in philosophical thinking in this country. Perhaps with a few more young intellectuals like you we can slowly turn this ship run by the likes of Donald Trump and Barack Obama into one worthy of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson again.
Many nations have helped their people flourish. But only America has been constructed from the ground up as an *engine* of human flourishing, a nation with an *imperative* to enact a better becoming. I look forward to living it out another 250 years - at least.
Thanks for that. Happy Independence Day!
What a lovely tribute to the American spirit! Happy Independence Day.
I love the optimism, but so many of the achievements you listed came before my lifetime (I'm 72). I keep striving, as obviously do you, for that renaissance in philosophical thinking in this country. Perhaps with a few more young intellectuals like you we can slowly turn this ship run by the likes of Donald Trump and Barack Obama into one worthy of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson again.