Comments on: A Bigger Asshole http://www.brianmpalmer.com/blog/2006/12/19/a-bigger-asshole/ The Not-So-Exciting Life of Brian Palmer Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:33:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: bambito http://www.brianmpalmer.com/blog/2006/12/19/a-bigger-asshole/#comment-13891 Tue, 22 May 2007 14:29:11 +0000 http://www.brianmpalmer.com/blog/2006/12/19/a-bigger-asshole/#comment-13891 Have you ever read any of Jefferson's letters? Jefferson specifically referred to American style democracy as a beacon of light to the world. He didn't intend for the idea to be bound by our natural borders. I think you're being a little disingenuous about the 200 to 300 years comment. I knew exactly what Dreyfuss was talking about. Democracy, in any form all the way back to Greece, only lasts that long in each instance until the populace becomes complacent and "demand" a ruler or king to decide for them. It's one of the reasons Jefferson felt their should be a "revolution" in our country every twenty years or so. The majority of human history has been in "darkness" to rulers natural and/or supernatural. Jefferson quotes: "Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it is to be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right." "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure." "The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. We ought, for so dear a state to sacrifice every attachment and every enmity." Have you ever read any of Jefferson’s letters? Jefferson specifically referred to American style democracy as a beacon of light to the world. He didn’t intend for the idea to be bound by our natural borders.

I think you’re being a little disingenuous about the 200 to 300 years comment. I knew exactly what Dreyfuss was talking about. Democracy, in any form all the way back to Greece, only lasts that long in each instance until the populace becomes complacent and “demand” a ruler or king to decide for them. It’s one of the reasons Jefferson felt their should be a “revolution” in our country every twenty years or so. The majority of human history has been in “darkness” to rulers natural and/or supernatural.

Jefferson quotes:

“Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it is to be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.”

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”

“The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. We ought, for so dear a state to sacrifice every attachment and every enmity.”

]]> by: brianmpalmer http://www.brianmpalmer.com/blog/2006/12/19/a-bigger-asshole/#comment-3246 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:29:11 +0000 http://www.brianmpalmer.com/blog/2006/12/19/a-bigger-asshole/#comment-3246 I did too, and I hazily remember enjoying him staking out homes with Charlie Sheen's bro, but this new side of him is entirely unlikable. I did too, and I hazily remember enjoying him staking out homes with Charlie Sheen’s bro, but this new side of him is entirely unlikable.

]]> by: Jenny http://www.brianmpalmer.com/blog/2006/12/19/a-bigger-asshole/#comment-3239 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:47:00 +0000 http://www.brianmpalmer.com/blog/2006/12/19/a-bigger-asshole/#comment-3239 thought ya meant Christopher Hitchens. Aw man, I liked him in Jaws! thought ya meant Christopher Hitchens. Aw man, I liked him in Jaws!

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