This description grabbed me more than any of HCR's previous writings:
"Once you have replaced the principle of equality with the idea that humans are unequal, you have granted your approval to the idea of rulers and servants. At that point, all you can do is to hope that no one in power decides that you belong in one of the lesser groups."
This description grabbed me more than any of HCR's previous writings:
"Once you have replaced the principle of equality with the idea that humans are unequal, you have granted your approval to the idea of rulers and servants. At that point, all you can do is to hope that no one in power decides that you belong in one of the lesser groups."
A system of rulers and servants contradicts what many of us in this community have stated before: We the people -- this time, all of us.
HCR has talked about the American Paradox, that the Founding Fathers created a government of representation with checks and balances that intentionally stood in opposition to the ruler-servant mode of government that prevailed throughout the rest of the European world, but they failed to extend their conception of equality to those outside their white male landed gentry.
As we have seen, it has taken time and argument to expand from the ruler-servant model to the white male landed gentry model to the white male only model to the equality of all before the law. We are still wrestling with it as Republicans appear to want to walk it back.
This description grabbed me more than any of HCR's previous writings:
"Once you have replaced the principle of equality with the idea that humans are unequal, you have granted your approval to the idea of rulers and servants. At that point, all you can do is to hope that no one in power decides that you belong in one of the lesser groups."
A system of rulers and servants contradicts what many of us in this community have stated before: We the people -- this time, all of us.
HCR has talked about the American Paradox, that the Founding Fathers created a government of representation with checks and balances that intentionally stood in opposition to the ruler-servant mode of government that prevailed throughout the rest of the European world, but they failed to extend their conception of equality to those outside their white male landed gentry.
As we have seen, it has taken time and argument to expand from the ruler-servant model to the white male landed gentry model to the white male only model to the equality of all before the law. We are still wrestling with it as Republicans appear to want to walk it back.
I love the trajectory you describe, Claudia. Let's go farther, much farther, to encompass all people within rights equally, and for nature too.
Yes