An interesting fact I just read (burried in the latest issue of the NY Review of Books) is that when asked if "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is in the US constitution, fifty percent of people said yes. The article then went on to make another relevant point that more than eighty percent of Americans believe the bible is either the literal or inspired word of God (at least thats what they say to these guys), but that percent of americans has not read the Bible.
What is this tendency to make out texts that we don't even read to be sacred? Why are people so attached to the ideal of a nation? After all a nation is just a convenient legal fiction, why attach so much emotive importance?
What is this tendency to make out texts that we don't even read to be sacred? Why are people so attached to the ideal of a nation? After all a nation is just a convenient legal fiction, why attach so much emotive importance?
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