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"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." —Margaret Thatcher
Commentators often suggest that Americans have no political philosophy. The standard line is that Americans are doers, not thinkers; pragmatists, not philosophers. On first glance, this seems insightful; however, close examination of the corpus of American political thought makes clear that this thought-action dichotomy is illusory. Born of English parents and developed in changing and increasingly heterogeneous contexts, American political thought has cycled around an essentially liberal core for nearly 400 years.
Although Americans tend not to think explicitly in terms of abstract theory, our very institutions are informed by theory. In fact, as Garry Wills has noted, America is an “invented” country, the construct of men who consciously built political structures to govern a nation. The traditional concerns of political philosophy guided them: the nature of humans, the sources of legitimate social and political authority, the nature of, the role of the individual citizen, and the proper ends of social and governmental order. Thus, instead of being theory-poor, American institutions are rooted in, and have developed from, explicitly philosophical origins. Wittingly or not, this conditions American citizens: Our thought and actions are theory bound and guided.
source credit Joseph F. Kobylka, professor of political science
Philosophy only creates speculation of what else is possible besides only evolving forward now in plain sight. Without philosophy there is no psychological class warfare between generation gaps and within each generation corrupting last generation to comply with ideas by the previous 4 as the universal constant pattern of behavior within this species native to this universal location, location, location.
Power of suggesting now isn't the common denominator of life is eternally separated by the working biological results in plain sight of all the numerating ideas typecasting ancestries into stereo typical behavior recorded throughout history of people never accepting life in real time by choices of common behavioral patterns pretending to be exceptions to the natural process of genetics eternally separating reproductions left evolving forward now every franchise of reality uses same methodology to ways and means keeping everyone confused cradle to grave where 1% collect all the benefits of pitting everyone else against each other intellectually training each great great grandchild to follow their specific previous 4 generations gaps saving humanities.
Humanities are socially engineered outcomes promising factually better days tomorrow than actual reproductions are living so far conceived to decomposed now.
Every brain born has a lifetime conflict with ancestral displacement and intellectual social position within the population present. Why, life is a compounding connection between inception, conception, death, extinction life doesn't exceed what exists now.
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