Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Green Corn Moon<\/p>\n
Rigel and Vega have returned home, a bit foggy and uncertain.\u00a0 Spayed now, they have to be on home rest for the next 10 days.\u00a0 Somehow I don’t think we’ll make that.<\/p>\n
Kate and I saw a cute poster on the bulletin board posted in the airlock going out of the Festival Grocery.\u00a0 Done in crayon it said, “Free kittens.\u00a0 Spaded.”<\/p>\n
These lectures on the cycles of American political thought I’m listening to right now have prompted a considerable amount of noodling, most of\u00a0 it focused right now on the central paradox of our democracy.\u00a0 A solution borne of the Enlightenment, our government and in particular our Constitution and Bill of Rights makes a lot effort to protect the individual and that crucial virtue which ensures individualism, liberty.<\/p>\n
The paradox at the core of our nation is this:\u00a0 government exists to co-ordinate and organize a community, yet its chief underlying value is individualism.\u00a0 Thus, the purpose of government, focused on community, stands over against the individual it exists to preserve.\u00a0 This paradox, unresolvable, lies at the fulcrum of so many of our political disagreements.\u00a0 I’m not any further along with this right now, but its on my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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