Posted by Maurice on June 09, 2008 at 12:04:25:
In Reply to: Why My Heirs Don't Deserve a Dime posted by Alan Brymer on May 09, 2008 at 08:48:07:
You will find out, if you live long enough, that a human lifetime can be tragically, pitifully short.
There are some things that can only be built up and created over long periods of time.
Look around you. You may take the world we live in for granted but what we know and what we have, was slowly and painfully discovered and built up, over hundreds of years in some cases thousands of years.
And, we owe most of it to dead white men whether you chose to admit it or not.
Go and read the US Constitution. I mean really read it as if it was a political manifesto written by a group of revolutionaries just yesterday. Because that is what it was.
Now think about everything that has flowed from that one document over the last 200 years.
Now think about where we would be, if every generation had to tear up everything that came before and start from scratch.
- Re: If you live long enough... Alan Brymer 10:35:45 07/01/08 (0)