The Articles of Confederation Was A Wonderful Instrument – Part 2

➡ The text suggests that many people today prefer immediate results and lack patience, leading to a shift towards tyranny rather than liberty. The author believes that to restore balance, individuals need to be more self-regulating and accountable, similar to the stoic beginnings of nations. However, the author feels that the current trend is towards hedonism, with people expecting the government to solve their problems, which he sees as a moral decline.

Yeah, and so we’re going to want more tyrannical people in those positions than we would liberty-minded people, and if the pendulum was liberty-minded people and we could get back to the Constitution, then this question that has been asked, I think we could do something about it, but because the pendulum is so far over to the tyranny, and the people are, the majority, 51% at least, are tyrannical themself, because they live, that’s, they wanted, you know, liberty is like teaching people how to, how to be accountable and responsible. And it takes, it’s like a garden, you know, you have to take, it takes a time for the plant to, to grow. And that’s what liberty is, is you’ve got to give it patience. And I think today, more people are full of, of, you know, narcissism and whatnot. And they cannot, they don’t have that patience. And so they demand things happen on a quicker level. And I think, again, 51% of the people in the nation is more, more apt to like, I want it done, and I want it done now. And therefore, I don’t care if I’m a Republican or Democrat, I want to pass a law to do that.

And in order to unwind all of this stuff, we’ve got to get back to that, that we’ve got to self-regulate our, our own selves. We’ve got to become, I almost say that, you know, we’ve got to become kind of stoic. There’s a, there’s a great quote that says that nations, I think it’s Will Durand, I think says that nations start out as stoic and they end up hedonistic. They destroy themselves because of their hedonistic tendencies. And that’s where we’re at. I mean, the majority of people in today’s world are more hedonistic. Again, I’m going to say 51%. You know, I mean, it could, could be worse. I hope not. But unfortunately, I think that, and when our nation was started, it was the morality, the discipline was the individual, the individual was the answer, you know, it starts with the individual and it ends with the individual. Now today, it’s, it’s, oh, well, it’s not my problem, let the government take care of it, you know, right. So, again, I don’t, you know, we, because we don’t have the morality, there’s no way that that would be enforced. You know, unfortunately, I wish, I wish, I wish I could say yes, but it’s, it just can’t because yeah. [tr:trw].