Monday, January 21, 2013
Dear Founding Fathers,
You are the creators of one of the most powerful nations in the history of humanity. You laid the foundation on which we would build and this is the constitution/bill of rights. You stood strong through those first, hard years that every young nation has to survive through. You even gave your lives and wealth for the commonwealth of a nation. But why couldn't you guys have left us with some instructions with how to deal with all of the shit that could go wrong in the future?
Mr. Franklin, you could write with both hands in different languages, you discovered electricity for god's sake! How could you not have set some better precedent or expectations for education and how it should proceed. You could see that we would argue over everything in the way that we argued over everything for all of our government's existence. You totally could have just scribbled down a little "Maketh all of our youth capable of solving poly variable equations." Or something like "Never at a time should this land of ours lag behind those of europe in the academic realm." A simple little statement like that in the form of a law of some sorts would really have cleared things up here and now.
Next I come to you Mr. Hamilton, you master of the banks. We've seen some shit. We know that the economy dictates the lives of our people so how in the hell could you have left the direct well being of this country to chance? You may have fought for a national bank, nationalized currency and some other stuff, but sweet baby Jesus, you could have made us socialist or something and leave party politics out of the decisions that decide the state of this union. Hell, you guys could have just left the government in control of everything. You guys could have just flubbed some numbers here and there and made us the economically fit nation in the world! Now we are left to interpret all the vague, contradictory shit you guys said and all we end up doing is arguing our own points.
Finally, Mr. Jefferson, you said once that "The tree of liberty must be refreshed by the blood of martyrs." Us here in the 21st century have gotten pretty good at that. If I'm being honest, that one specific idea that you created has led us to some wars, and some of our citizens have followed your advice, but in rather ignorant ways. So I would like to ask you to maybe reshape your argument? Maybe specify the situation that it is appropriate for such refreshings are appropriate? Or maybe just taking it back would be wondrous as well. Or maybe, make sure that this sort of refreshing would be a ritual like thing. Like arm every citizen and just make 'em kill each other every couple of months to keep things interesting. That would probably make all these sort of killings now seem relatively small.
In summation, I would just like you guys to scrutinize what you say, because there will be some hooligans who will take those words a titch too seriously. You guys could also just maybe leave a little instruction guide on how to lead this country, or like a list of what is most important or just something to know that we are all right because all of us current Americans know that you guys were absolutely correct all of the time. Thus we absolutely love to quote you fellows. Again, if you guys could just make sure we are doing things right later on, that would be wonderful.
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