Patent Nonsense of men being equal

Patent Nonsense of men being equal! The Declaration of Independence begins with a statement which never has been self evident to any human being who has lived life in the day to day real world- ‘All men are equal’ And we have seen as both our learned authors deeply puzzled by what they encounter on travelling to American are worrying about the eternal fate of an empire built upon this myth of equality and what will happen when reality catches up. With the highly prophetic Chastellux looking forward and working out that only as long as USA has an endless frontier so that any aspiring person can by their own efforts experience success of finding and developing land and business- find some measure of equality with those who have obtained the wealth and land at an earlier time. Then our current author painfully is watching the bloody fighting and violence of a Racist South of USA in 1964 and the march of Dr King and his people to Washington- while for our French Aristocrat it is the reality that because there will be poor white Americans the slavery situation which utterly mocks equality will not easily go away. Thus the question which these prophets are quietly raising and which I joining them raise for you in the context of the largest and most bloody battle fought for one week in the streets of New York in the American Civil War –is when will this inevitable break down of the myth of equality break down ending the absurdity of the untrue foundation of the un wise Declaration of 13 rebelling colonial states against the wise rulership of King George and his beautiful German wife. ‘The original idea that bore America did contain certain fastidious and aristocratic undertones. But it also implied a sort of working egalitarianism (This big word means –equality) And this egalitarianism as the English tradition weakened has grown to be one of the accepted principals of American life. It is sought more passionately than in Russia (where their 1917 revolution was so that people would receive equal reward for their work) It is more often broken than observed, since it appears to be, like most ideals humanly unobtainable. It is not applied to economics. But it is this reaching out towards equality which first meets Europeans at the docks and makes America seem genuinely foreign. It has a myriad of ways of expressing itself. There is the elaborate camaraderie of the politician which has reduced indiscriminate friendliness to an almost 18th century formality, the first name (shortened to a single syllable) the arm on the shoulder, the warm handclasp and the mock humble announcement of his own name. There are waitresses being so carefully insolent to customers that the social roles are almost reversed. There are bus drivers being surly and impatient, taxi drivers didactic, telephone girls intimate, and the whole pedestrian population of New York apparently dedicated to conveying the impression that you are unwelcome and who are you anyway? All this hostility expresses the idea that ‘I’m at least as good as you are’…. And you remember that you are in an alien country that pays a great deal more than lip service to its towering ideals; Men born equal- but are they?’ p14 P O’Donovan last words added.