The current question for debate seems to be how to pull out of Iraq. With the Democrats poised to take control of the Senate, all parties race to be most innovative in their planning of what to do about state of affairs at home in the United States.
When the Democrats fail, a new question will arise. Poised in a tremulous state, querilous cries will rise in the face of the future, as people wonder what to do next and where to turn.
Now is the future. Once the old system crumbles, we’ll need to project new models and systems of reality. We need to reanalyze our form of government – but most will try to look at the current state of affairs to project the future, rather than looking again to the past and seeing where our own model deviated from the ideal.
As the Greek Sophist Gorgias said, “If everyone had recollection of the past, knowledge of the present, and foreknowledge of the future, the power of speech would not be so great.
“But as it is, when men can neither remember the past nor observe the present nor prophesy the future, deception is easy; so that most men offer opinion as advice to the soul. But opinion, being unreliable, involves those who accept it in qually uncertain fortunes.”
Originally posted 2007-01-07 09:21:51. Republished by Old Post Promoter
