You have discovered arachnoanarchy

You have discovered arachnoanarchy
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Saturday, August 20, 2005

mmmm.. pondering the times

are they changing??

Over the next few days i want to write about that one little phrase that seems to have been lost on the imaginations and visions of the US populace: THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. Certainly listed by Jefferson as one of the inalienable rights of human beings, yet mysteriously discarded by those in this society who have developed a fiscal fascination for their personal anxieties. If the pursuit of happiness is right up there with life and liberty, and we see these three principles, not in a hierarchical matrix, but rather as a covalent equal trinity--a foundational triangle upon with the US democratic republic was created--then we begin to understand that the responsibilities of leadership and citizenship require all of us to embrace a deep and passionate concern for our pursuit of happiness. At every point, in every way, pursuing happiness has been attacked, denigrated, misconstrued, ignored, abused, violated, and so forth, particularly by conservatives as well as by some neo-liberals and most of all by libertarians. It is imperative that we understand how our failing to live up to protecting this most sacred of rights has destroyed this nation, and threatens in every way to destroy the planet.