This becomes an underlying theme to the story. The famous investor Warren Buffet says that the United States has the “secret sauce” — what is the secret sauce? Is it our rule of law, which gives legitimacy to our economy, markets, and currency. What about the freedoms outlined in the Bill of Rights? Even with all of that, might there be a time when we should roll the dice on the future of democracy, to do something that places democracy at risk in order to save it?
Reverend Beckman makes the biblical case that America in 2021 had lost its personal and collective responsibility. We had become a nation of victims, a people incapable of denying or even deferring gratification, a self-centered people who lack a national spirit. Do you agree with any or all of these assessments? What can we do to become what the Founders called a more perfect union, a light among nations?
Reverend Beckman makes the biblical case that America in 2021 had lost its personal and collective responsibility. We had become a nation of victims, a people incapable of denying or even deferring gratification, a self-centered people who lack a national spirit. Do you agree with any or all of these assessments? What can we do to become what the Founders called a more perfect union, a light among nations?
Greene asserts that polarization and division are signs of America’s strength, not weakness, because they reflect our Constitutionally-protected right of free expression. Do you agree? Is there a point beyond which free expression and the free exchange of information turns bad?
Vance’s rallying cry. Can might ever be used for right? If so, when? Do you support Vance’s plan to form a One World government, which Einstein supported, to be the global peacekeeper? Could such a government succumb to a Lord Acton problem and decline into totalitarianism, as Gödel feared? Does it make a difference to you that Vance’s plan is a “constitutional transfer of power” and not a pure coup d’état?
Does Liz Heller have an obligation to give the code to the military? If so, what rule defines that duty that would apply to others? Would the rule apply to Elon Musk, who controls the communications system StarLink as well as SpaceX, both services of great interest to the American military? What if Musk withheld these services during a time of war? Finally, what if Liz Heller revealed the code to the media and it was published, much like The Pentagon Papers?
