Obviously,
this brings us to the Founding Fathers.
They wanted
people to bounce off their shoulders. They argued about how to pack that punch,
and spawn that bounce. And spawn they did, with over three hundred million great-great-great
grandchildren bouncing around. Even if they were not all that great. Some turned out really great! Some didn’t! But the
whole enterprise still bounces like crazy.
It didn’t
have to. It wasn’t guaranteed. We could have been like Brazil for the past
three centuries. Nothing against Brazil, but as far as an idea with some bounce
in the political realm, well, the United States has been as bouncy as it gets these
past coupla centuries
The Founding
Fathers’ idea was not ultimately an idea. It was an impulse, and the quest was
how to fashion an idea to support the impulse to spawn max bounce.
And here is
the kernel of our miraculous national inception: The rich guys gave their power
away. That’s what happened. The rich guys who could have formed an oligarchy
club, they gave their power away. Never happened before, not in any history I’ve
ever read.