Ideas are dangerous
by Jack GrantPerhaps this has been written of before, but my first encounter of this concept was with Josh Neuhouser at The Descent of Wonder, and I have delayed far too long in posting upon it:
Ideas are dangerous, and not because of the reasons people usually cite. It’s not because they have the chance of making people think and question their assumptions about the world, but because the more an idea gets propagated throughout society, the simpler it becomes, eventually losing all nuance and possibly (usually?) have nothing to do with the original intent/meaning.
At times, I feel we have lost the ideas that were the foundation of our country, the ideals that guided those who wrote our Constitution, with all its compromises and conditions and imperfections.
At one time I had far more to write about this, but at the moment, all I can do is point you to the original post and ask that you consider carefully what is written. The arresting first paragraph in of itself is worth taking quite a lot of time to ponder.
More on this topic later.
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