Can You Handle the Truth
Posted By Alan Partis on March 24, 2018
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
These are the words of Abraham Lincoln early in his brief “Gettysburg Address.” Prophetic. Timeless.
I have long said that I believe the natural state of man is to be free. Given our culture today, I find myself thinking about Honest Abe’s words with new respect. Long I have considered these words just “throw-away” lines simply providing some context with only slightly more worth than the famous intro: “Four score and seven years ago …”
Can this nation, “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” long endure? Can man, whose nature I have long said is to be free, really handle freedom?
The history of humanity is filled with examples, to such a degree as to suggest it’s a universal truth, where man refuses to be free; where societies, and religions, make the free choice to implement, and ruthlessly enforce, rules and virtual tyranny.
Just a boy from small-town western New York (Batavia) with strong convictions and a desire to express my opinions. I'm married and have a daughter with whom I am taking great pains to brainwash into my way of thinking (so far with great success).
Though I am a software engineer by day, I read a great deal about current events, history, and economics and philosophy. I'm certain that many of my former teachers will be pleasantly surprised to hear this. I've grown very interested in trying to help educate others about the liberty guaranteed to us in the United States Constitution and the economic theories on which this Country was founded.
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