I saw this slogan on Alex Jones’ Facebook page a couple days ago and it’s just been sitting strangely with me ever since.

I’ve never understood the mentality of wanting to resurrect the past, because we as a species are constantly learning. Think of how many things that are possible now that weren’t possible in 1776. Shouldn’t we look towards the future instead of the past?

There is a lot of amazing insight in the US Constitution, and 1776 was a great triumph of freedom over all kinds of unruly controls, but maybe a small part of the reason that the US, Canada, the world, is in this position is because we all rely on these immutable documents, like constitutions, which then become enforced by laws. My point being that one immutable document is NEVER going to be able to lay down the rulebook of a perfect society. By saying we should go back to 1776 is to say that we should go back to what got us into this mess in the first place.

A lot has changed since 1776, when they said “All men are created equal” they meant all white males. We now understand that statement should read “All human people are to have equal rights and freedoms”, or something similar, since even the language “are created” assumes a religious pretense that may not be all inclusive. And if you take the non-religious meaning of creation we know we weren’t all created equally [doggy, missionary,etc]. sorry.). We’ve updated our understandings, and that’s why a constitution, any constitution, will eventually create a failed state.

Here in Canada, until 1913 (which interestingly, but maybe only coincidentally, coincides with the establishment of the US’s Federal Reserve bank) the Federal Government had the authority and the responsibility, to control and issue our money. They were given an unlimited supply of debt-free money with which to operate the country, thus eliminating the need for direct federal income tax. All they had to do was print it. And that’s what they did it for the first 46 years of our country. But, in 1913, our parliament passed an amendment to the Bank Act, without referendum, giving to the banking system the sole right to create money. And they charge interest. Since then our national debt has grown from being 463 million dollars to over 1 trillion dollars in 2009. In this case, our constitutional rights were subverted by underhanded legislation, but that happens all the time, in every country that operates a monetary based democracy the democratic principals will always be undermined by greed. That’s another understanding of ours that has been updated since 1776.

So I’m just asking people to keep in mind that if things get bad enough that there is some sort of armed revolution, like the one of 1776, (and I sincerely hope they don’t, but if they do get that bad… ) an answer isn’t going to be found in old constitutions and old documents. Dogmatic doctrines like constitutions and religious commandments never stand the test of time, this is why society after society fails, because they all think they have the answer. There is no one ANSWER, there is only a constant stream of possibilities from which we can pluck only some, but an ever growing amount, of answers.