seine rambling -- Today, concern for individual rights is disappearing at an alarming rate in our western world, while only taken hold sporadically in the rest of the world
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men were created equal … that all men were created equal. Those immortal words, written by Thomas Jefferson are from the second paragraph of the American Declaration of Independence . They were an ultimatum to a tyrannical English king and they mark a turning point in the history of mankind. They are in fact, the basis of the standard of living we take for granted today. And that message is particularly relevant today, with our world overwhelmingly populated with intellectual experts whose main claim to fame consists of holding a profound capacity to ignore context in all their thinking. Tragically, the message they send out vilifies the very people who did so much to move our society from despotism toward freedom. Hence, this effort to put meat on the dry bones of history. … to elaborate my point. The Egyptian civilization, beginning some 5 thousand years ago, is among the earliest from which we have a written r...