A Deconstruction of the “Rescue Vespucci 11 Point Plan”
Did you know that if you run out of the paper money in a game of Monopoly, the banker is permitted to create more to continue the game? So it is in real life, that the Federal Gov’t can print cash and mint coins as it needs, and can borrow its own money to spend, just as easily as the banker in Monopoly. It’s quite a shift in mindset, because we are led to believe by politicians and corporate news…
Lucretius outlined in “De Rerum Natura” the nature of the Universe, as prescribed to by Thomas Jefferson with the phrase, “the pursuit of happiness” found in the Declaration of Independence. Our unhappiness comes from our misunderstanding of the natural world and from the religious dogma that misleads us. The following tenets of Epicureanism are paraphrased from “The Swerve” by Stephen Greenblatt (link to the book at the end). I’m amazed by their prescience: The physical world is made up of…
Skimming through the 11 points presented by to “Rescue Vespucci”, we should be alarmed. It is a blueprint to introduce an authoritarian theocracy run by a select few. I wish to deconstruct each of the 11 points to highlight how the solutions proposed are anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, and despite claims otherwise, anti-libertarian. I wish to show that there is absolutely nothing new in the “11-Point Plan to Rescue Vespucci”, and that this plan is essentially a rehash of traditionally conservative values…