Matthew Ehret
When Benjamin Franklin was asked in the closing days of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, what sort of nation had been established, his response was "a republic... if you can keep it." This statement clearly echoes a profound understanding that the republic he led in establishing is not a democracy, nor is it a monarchy, nor tyranny, nor oligarchy… but rather a society ruled by representatives of the people. This society only works if a cultural standard is maintained which itself involves the constant recreation of an informed and morally developing culture with EACH GENERATION where each citizen learns to use their minds and strive to become true philosophers. This conception of philosopher means learning to see with the mind's eye rather than being enslaved to the effects of our five senses while taking responsibility for our nation's wellbeing as a whole. Anything less would involve a society of subjects whose responsibilities are limited to their micro-worlds of immediate self-interest while all higher affairs of the state are reserved only for the hereditary elite and their managers.
As we will come to see throughout this episode of the Great Game, Biden's Democracy Summit which excludes nearly half the nations on the globe is really nothing more than a global feudal tyranny masquerading behind a self-congratulatory democratic veneer. But it is empty and devoid of all actual substance, while the true representatives of the better traditions of humanity are found on the other side of the new iron curtain and labeled "evil authoritarian regimes" by the modern day Pericles' roaming about the Rules Based International Order.
Supplementary reading: Klaus' Great Narrative: Locking The Plebs Into Plato's Cave in the 21st Century
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