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Stunned Chinese workers had few comments.. except to say that they heard a loud whirring noise, the earth trembled a bit, and then the coffins emerged..
The general consensus was that all that whirling in their graves finally came to a conclusion.
If one believes in the "afterlife", they would have to wonder about the conversations that must have gone on.
The ones who wanted specifics laid out in the constitution, probably won those arguments.
The vague language put in to allow for intelligent changes and interpretations as the society lumbered along, were sorely "generous" when they imagined our acquired intelligence.
We are a society that simply MUST have everything put into the simplest, black-white, up-down, front-back descriptions. As a society we evolved into a group of people who can seemingly NEVER give anyone the benefit of the doubt, and to whom true compromise is as lost an art as papyrus paper-making.
Instead of focusing on the things that we all COULD agree on and on issues that affect us all, we are caught in an endless vortex of arguments and vengeful dialogue about issues that can NEVER be agreed upon.
There were three things that our founders wanted us spared from:
religion-run government
political parties
foreign entanglements
Fast forward to present-day politicis and it's not hard to see why we are in the difficult circumstances of today.
Politicians are more inclined to govern via deprivation for the many, in order to secure largesse for the few. They continually get away with it by "words of mass distraction".
Every election cycle, the real issues we all have in common, get shunted to the side, and in their place, we always get hammered with insoluble issues such as race, religion.
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