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The Magna Carta turned 800 years old on June the 15th of this year. One of the most important
clauses of the 63 clauses which still speaks to us in the modern era is:
No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed
or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against
him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the
land.
To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.
These individual rights were hard won over many generations through the force of arms and
bravery of the men behind the bow. A positive idea usually must endure many decades of
negativity before it can come to light. Unfortunately, conflict or a force of arms has to occur to
bring forward a positive idea.
Could modern America revert to a Feudal system or master/slave relationship? What if, the
next financial crisis hits the US again as in 2008. The private banking system decides to nationalize
all the debts to include mortgages, personal notes, state, county, and city liabilities.
Private property lines evaporate. Debtor’s private property turns into leased property. Very
much like property is not privately owned but leased in other countries. Isn’t property and possessions
the very thing the Magna Carta and our Constitution tried to address? What would be
the enforcement mechanism in such a state? Micro Chips? Or would the amount of your check
from the government be dependent on your participation in society? Could the new Longbow
be 3D printers? Technology is changing faster than the government can regulate. But could
America turn back to local authority system? The government may not be able to enforce its
will, much like it has abdicated its authority in Colorado over marijuana and the Cliven Bundy
Ranch incident. Technology may be the mechanism that ends the master/slave relationship. But
it may be the mechanism that makes it possible. It is up to “the Spirit of our Age” to decide.
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William Butler Yeats 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an
Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century
literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary
establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for
Swift’s Epitaph
two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary
Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and
Swift has sailed into his rest;
others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief
Savage indignation there
during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Cannot lacerate his breast.
Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel
Imitate him if you dare,
Committee described as “inspired poetry, which in a highly
World-besotted traveller; he
artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.”
Served human liberty.
Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who
completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel
Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Wining Stair
and Other Poems (1929). Yeats was a very good friend of
American expatriate poet and Bollingen Prize laureate Ezra
Pound. Yeats wrote the introduction for Rabindranath Tagore’s
Picture and Biography Sources: Wikipedia
Gitanjali, which was published by the India Society.
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