Galt's Gulch

Hyperdemocracy

Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 1 month ago to Philosophy
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This is an essay written long ago by John W. Cambell. He's the "mentor" of most of the great science fiction writers of the Golden Age of science fiction.

In it, he explains the possibility that all men are not, in fact, created equal...
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 12 years, 1 month ago
    The notion that all men are created equal, is of course nonsense. The sense, the spirit, of all men being created equal was a rhetorical device used by our founders, badly perhaps, expressing the notion as they understood it that all men were created equal in the eyes of their creator (God) and that the laws should also reflect the basic tenet that men should all be treated equally under the law. Any other interpretation is obviously flawed...
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  • Posted by $ johnrobert2 12 years, 1 month ago
    Hasn't this been posted before?
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    • Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 1 month ago
      Might have been. I was looking to post Heinlein's Pragmatics of Patriotism speech and (due to lack of sleep, I'll rationalize) became confused as to which one of these two I had posted and which I wanted to post, so I posted both of them. I tend to associate them mentally because they're among my most favorite essays.
      I'd like to post Cambell's "Barbarian, Tribesman, Citizen" and "The Barbarians Among Us" but I can't find either online and I'm (currently) too lazy to type either of them in.
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