On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:50:34 -0500, vincent p. norris
wrote:

,,,, Lakoff refering to "an elaborate
mythology" inherent in the Conservative worldview. That worldview
would seems to be rooted in pioneering and the myths of the
Revolution.

It is most heavily based on the Newtonian worldview, as "translated"
into political and social thought by John Locke and later, Adam
Smith,Thomas Jefferson, et. al.

It also has some roots in the Protestant Reformation.

vince

It all flows to where it is today. Whig thought was Lockian.
Jeffersonian thought was Lockian, etc. etc. It was the English
exception to absolutism expressed in America. And so on.

Problem is, too few people know this **** . . .

Read a website the other day that claimed that America was the world's
first democracy. I'm sure the Athenians would be pleased to know this
little chestnut. Especially considering that the original
constitution was designed to forstall both the tyranny of the despot
as well as the tyranny of the majority. As one American loyalist so
aptly summed up the mood of the times, "I'd rather be ruled by one
tyrant three thousand miles away than three thousand tyrants one mile
away." The original framers of the US constitution did not disagree
with him in any fundamental way.

Peter

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