This is among the most profound messages you have ever written and so necessary at this time in our History! We all need to SHARE this! Thanks Marrianne.
Marianne! How refreshingly true your words are. These words irrigate my heart and mind filling it with waters of strength and courage. I am on the list for the scheduled book review. 🕊️
Knowing you in Michigan since the late 90’s, your work has inspired me. Look forward to joining you reviewing Healing the Soul of America. Ironically I brought original book for your signature to the Detroit debate.
This is profound and a great continuation of the conversation you had with Brooke. It IS a great responsibility and privilege to stand for democracy and Love.
And Lincoln's Gettysburg address - "a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ... a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
"Man is by nature a political animal" (or "social animal")."Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good"."We must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions"."Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to... is either a beast or a god"."The greatest crimes are caused by excess and not by necessity"."Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism". -here few more Aristotle on politics may be illuminating. These days it’s hard to say anything helpful, but I’m still trying!
I think it’s that ‘egotism’ that works out of separateness drives tyrants. Those needing the simple things in life and work wish live the common good and ethical community don’t become tyrants.
Perhaps it’s a statement like Jesus’s “Man does not live by bread alone.” These days we may say ‘Man does not live by money alone!’ An inner life of ethical world imagination and healthy community needed too.
Marianne. I'm a huge fan and agree wholeheartedly about the crisis that is Trump. But our country was created on the idea "all men are created equal"?? Our country was built on the genocide of the native Americans and slavery. And we call ourselves the land of the free. It's almost funny if it weren't so tragic. There are alot of great things about America but let's not sugarcoat our history - and what this country was built on. At the same time I hope (and think) the country is waking up to the disaster having Trump as our president is. I'm neither Democrat nor Republican so i hope I can see this with some neutrality. But I still can't comprehend how there are still people who support Trump. Sure the tech companies and billionaires purely out of financial self interest. But can any average person stand behind him ideologically? It seems hard to fathom. His interest is so clearly and blatantly about enriching himself.
We can talk about this without sugarcoating this country's history.
The framework proposed by the Founders is consequential and enduring. From John Hancock to Thomas Jefferson, they were slave-owning men of their times, but they could see past the days of slavery. Remember that, until Eli Whitney came up with the cotton gin, slavery was becoming more of an economic liability than a profitable "boon". None of the Founders could foresee the coming of Whitney, when they wrote the Constitution. Some of them could foresee a day when land ownership would spread across the populace, and it was, in my assessment, this which brought about the best and most enduring language in this grand document.
This is among the most profound messages you have ever written and so necessary at this time in our History! We all need to SHARE this! Thanks Marrianne.
Thank you
Marianne! How refreshingly true your words are. These words irrigate my heart and mind filling it with waters of strength and courage. I am on the list for the scheduled book review. 🕊️
~ from a gurl living in the city of angels
Knowing you in Michigan since the late 90’s, your work has inspired me. Look forward to joining you reviewing Healing the Soul of America. Ironically I brought original book for your signature to the Detroit debate.
HI, Cynthia...yes we do go way back! Sending much love.
Marianne-what a brilliant articulation of truth. Your words brilliantly captured the pulse of America.
This is profound and a great continuation of the conversation you had with Brooke. It IS a great responsibility and privilege to stand for democracy and Love.
You provide a voice of saneness in an insane world. Thank you for being here :)
And Lincoln's Gettysburg address - "a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ... a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Let's hope the midterms will be our Gettysburg. It turned things around.
Yeah. Let's hope and trust that we are ready to stand like the heroes at Cemetery Ridge and Little Round Top that Lincoln honored.
Thanks again!
Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.
Aristotle, Politics
I don't understand that quote?
"Man is by nature a political animal" (or "social animal")."Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good"."We must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions"."Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to... is either a beast or a god"."The greatest crimes are caused by excess and not by necessity"."Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism". -here few more Aristotle on politics may be illuminating. These days it’s hard to say anything helpful, but I’m still trying!
I think it’s that ‘egotism’ that works out of separateness drives tyrants. Those needing the simple things in life and work wish live the common good and ethical community don’t become tyrants.
Perhaps it’s a statement like Jesus’s “Man does not live by bread alone.” These days we may say ‘Man does not live by money alone!’ An inner life of ethical world imagination and healthy community needed too.
Marianne. I'm a huge fan and agree wholeheartedly about the crisis that is Trump. But our country was created on the idea "all men are created equal"?? Our country was built on the genocide of the native Americans and slavery. And we call ourselves the land of the free. It's almost funny if it weren't so tragic. There are alot of great things about America but let's not sugarcoat our history - and what this country was built on. At the same time I hope (and think) the country is waking up to the disaster having Trump as our president is. I'm neither Democrat nor Republican so i hope I can see this with some neutrality. But I still can't comprehend how there are still people who support Trump. Sure the tech companies and billionaires purely out of financial self interest. But can any average person stand behind him ideologically? It seems hard to fathom. His interest is so clearly and blatantly about enriching himself.
We can talk about this without sugarcoating this country's history.
The last thing I've ever done is sugar-coated our history.
Bless you.
Bravo, very well-articulated.
The framework proposed by the Founders is consequential and enduring. From John Hancock to Thomas Jefferson, they were slave-owning men of their times, but they could see past the days of slavery. Remember that, until Eli Whitney came up with the cotton gin, slavery was becoming more of an economic liability than a profitable "boon". None of the Founders could foresee the coming of Whitney, when they wrote the Constitution. Some of them could foresee a day when land ownership would spread across the populace, and it was, in my assessment, this which brought about the best and most enduring language in this grand document.
41 of the 56 signers were slave-owners. John Adams for instance was not.
Wasn’t “and women” added to all men are created equal in the 1880’s or something?
not officially, but we get it