ティージェーグレェ「teajaygrey」 on Nostr: firefly Well, in the 1700s there was still the conceit, "towards a more perfect ...
firefly (npub16a3…hqv6) Well, in the 1700s there was still the conceit, "towards a more perfect union".
Which:
A. Acknowledged that the Founding Fathers were far from perfect.
B. Provided a framework that perhaps better might be possible.
I know better is possible.
Yet, I am not a politician.
I am not an attorney.
Today, like many days, I spent some of my time and energy looking into code and improving it, even suggesting typo corrections and PRs to others' code.
I am not alone in that.
But, we don't seem to be in a world that acknowledges that code is more widely used and more quickly adapted and improved upon than legislation and laws, even if more people, every day, whether they know it or not, depend upon such technologies.
Instead, those clinging to older systems, be they of finance, or governance, and their lust for greed and power and false ideas of wealth, seem to hinder us.
I'm in California which is supposedly "progressive" yet there is still a Death Penalty here, legally.
The 13th Amendment, did not outlaw slavery, it made it conditional, hence why the USA has one of the largest prison populations in the world and why many who are incarcerated never actually experience due process and jury trials.
In other words, I see a lot: who want to cling to old ways of abuse, that are known to be abusive, but what more can I do about it personally other than continually raise awareness and fix the things I can fix and stay alive to hopefully improve things in the future?
I don't know.
Still, I think that the USA was and maybe still is (especially post Brexit) better than the colonial UK was in the 1700s? Same for France and Spain in the 1700s.
A lot of the horrific atrocities caused on this continent's soils were committed by the forefathers of other nation states which do not seem to have done much in the way of reparations in the ensuing centuries either.
Sure France had their Revolution too. Yet, the Statue of Liberty feels as if it is a consolation prize.
Which:
A. Acknowledged that the Founding Fathers were far from perfect.
B. Provided a framework that perhaps better might be possible.
I know better is possible.
Yet, I am not a politician.
I am not an attorney.
Today, like many days, I spent some of my time and energy looking into code and improving it, even suggesting typo corrections and PRs to others' code.
I am not alone in that.
But, we don't seem to be in a world that acknowledges that code is more widely used and more quickly adapted and improved upon than legislation and laws, even if more people, every day, whether they know it or not, depend upon such technologies.
Instead, those clinging to older systems, be they of finance, or governance, and their lust for greed and power and false ideas of wealth, seem to hinder us.
I'm in California which is supposedly "progressive" yet there is still a Death Penalty here, legally.
The 13th Amendment, did not outlaw slavery, it made it conditional, hence why the USA has one of the largest prison populations in the world and why many who are incarcerated never actually experience due process and jury trials.
In other words, I see a lot: who want to cling to old ways of abuse, that are known to be abusive, but what more can I do about it personally other than continually raise awareness and fix the things I can fix and stay alive to hopefully improve things in the future?
I don't know.
Still, I think that the USA was and maybe still is (especially post Brexit) better than the colonial UK was in the 1700s? Same for France and Spain in the 1700s.
A lot of the horrific atrocities caused on this continent's soils were committed by the forefathers of other nation states which do not seem to have done much in the way of reparations in the ensuing centuries either.
Sure France had their Revolution too. Yet, the Statue of Liberty feels as if it is a consolation prize.