Re The Stone article Thought on a Declaration here For Fellow Citizens On Bastille Day
Americans don't always see it as such, but all political spectrums of Americans, from so called liberals, communists, moderates, to so called conservatives, to republicans, to tea, or what not, all are heirs, really, spiritually, even though the American colonists' rebellion occurred first,
of the late 18th Century upheavals, in many fields at once, that produced also the French Revolution.
Unfortunately, in important ways, the issues that were joined by those struggles, the search for meaning and purpose,
for nation states, the dynastic states which continued to lumber on,
for civilizations, individuals, families, communities,
after the fall of the old regime, still haunt us.
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