Delusion and Disillusioned
Delusion: a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary (Merriam Webster) Disillusion: the condition of being dissatisfied or defeated in expectation or hope (Merriam Webster) Despair Before we proceed with this little venture, we must make some presuppositions upon which this essay will rest. The first of which is the following, our nation is in disrepair that much I believe is obvious. I believe the evidence is all around but we need not look much farther than our declining life expectancy, due to mid-life mortality. A great deal of these are “deaths of despair” A shocking thing to happen in a land where the “streets are paved with gold.” America is no longer that idyllic place, at least not to the extent it used to be. There is something sick with its heart, so much so that people decry its history and seek to burn it down. They seek death rather than reform, transgression rather than reflection. Many people of the world and education want to see America crumble, they want to transgress time, in many different ways. Firstly take us to a time before the West, to a pagan area, secondly, they want to rewrite history, creating a place in time that never truly existed. However, it is true enough to pass off as history, but it would be an unstable axiom on which to rest because it is full of lies! Principium Publishing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Is America Worth Saving? Now we must address the second presupposition, is America worth saving? I believe so, it is a good place and we should endeavor to rescue it from the jaws of death. I think this too is an easy thing to suss out. One must realize that if all of the slander of the history of America is slander, then logically America is not what they have said it is, an obvious leap. Then comes the slightly more difficult problem of what then is America? Well, John Adams gives a pretty concise definition of what America is in a letter he wrote to the Abbé de Mably, he spells out a lot. He gives a brief history of the American revolutions but then hits on (in his mind) the four tenets of American life. “The four Institutions intended are, 1. the Towns. 2. The Churches. 3. The Schools. and 4. the Militia” (Adams, 1783). After spelling that out he goes into depth about each of those four things. He talks about the villages and the towns, and how they are set up and self-containing. He speaks about how they are endowed with privileges and make up a “body politick.” He speaks on the school and what they have to do and what they have to teach reading, writing, arithmetic, and the rudiments of Greek and Latin. He points out that the Churches are “Zealous Friends of Liberty” and that each of the towns will have several parishes that are integral parts of the community. Whether it be through charity or preaching, and above all they are pious men who influence through their virtue. Adams does not say that they are integral parts of the community explicitly, however, if they do what Adams says that they do they have a role in every part of society, without which a large gap would be left in that community. Finally, there is the militia which “comprehends the whole people” but we can address the militia at a later date. Rather, I would like to address the first two things when it comes to what America is, while all four are necessary I believe the 1st two are the most necessary. "Thus, Sir you have a Brief Sketch of the four Principal Sources of that Wisdom in Council, and that skill and Bravery in War, which have produced the American Revolution and which I hope will be Sacredly preserved as the foundations of a free, happy and prosperous People” (Adams, 1783). These are what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they created the government that
