The New World the Rise of American Hypocrisy Essay

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Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" set the tone for the kind of religious liberty that the Protestants/Puritans sought in America: all for them, none for the Catholics or the Native Americans. It was the same hypocritical sense of liberty that dominated Enlightenment thought and the Founders of America: liberty was for them -- the wealthy elitist land owners -- not for the slaves they held. Thus, one sees in both the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening a myopic vision of life, which starts at stops at the end of the "great thinkers'" noses.

This is not to say they didn't value liberty more or less in the limited capacity that they idealized it. They wanted liberty for themselves -- some from sin (many of the Enlightenment thinkers disavowed the very concept of God that those of the Great Awakening upheld), some from government (the American and French Revolutions were wars against monarchical order). As far as Kant (the representative of modern philosophy) was concerned this same Enlightenment was "man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage" -- a clear indication that Kant was as myopic as everyone else.

In short, it was the same then as now. Modern society is still as myopic as ever: liberty is still for "us" and not for "them" -- and PC culture asserts that everyone has the right to voice his or her opinion -- unless it conflicts with PC values, then that person should be silenced (with force used if necessary: see the MoveOn.

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org, Soros-funded protestors in Chicago at a Trump rally). So as much as things change, they still stay the same.

Discussion 2:

Sam Adams and Patrick Henry both believed in the colonists' right to represent themselves -- but they simply did not want to pay taxes to the British royalty anymore, because when you are a believer in "liberty" you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself.

In my view, the colonists were insurrectionists and rebels who laid claim to an authority they did not possess. The mother country obviously had a right to demand taxes from its colonists. However, the idea that Britain could rule the New World as effectively (or ineffectively) as it ruled the island was perhaps just as ridiculous: at the same time, events transpired to ensure that the same power brokers behind the scenes remained in place, i.e., the institution known as finance. Talk of sharing power was lip-service, nothing more.

So while the rebels' argument may have been in favor of no taxation without representation, the colonists in the end got financially bludgeoned by a system of, by and for the bankers (which Jackson killed for a moment). It is called the Fed today -- and the American people more or….....

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