Reply To: SOPA, PIPA, Mega, and JoCo
Just a brief aside here, there are presumably Americans in the room here and I’ve been wondering for ages… Why does anyone give a damn what the “founding fathers” wanted? How could it possibly matter? They have been dead for 200 years, their right to govern has kind of expired. The governance of a nation must be based on the realities of the present, not hypothetical discussions of what a bunch of dead guys would want. Especially since a good proportion of them would probably want slavery re-legalized. I mean, eugenics were sort of a thing in their time.
In Denmark we’ve rewritten our constitution four times since it was framed in 1849 because it was full of archaic nonsense. I guess it’s because America is such a young nation, and it HAS founders? Maybe if we had the same kind of… bizarre mythology around elder statesmen we’d be doing the same thing.
Anyway, I might be too much of a child of the Old Country to understand, but it really does boggle my mind sometimes.