Lainesblog Thinking Out Loud

According to the great mythologist, Joseph Campbell,

  "…we cancelled the Declaration of Independence," when we entered the First World War

and re-joined the chaos of Europe.

He believed that it was a turning point in American politics that has led us away from idealism

and onto the slippery slope of greed, "the principal passion in politics".

There are a great many freedoms in America and more on the horizon,

and we are still part of the Great Experiment of Democracy,

and there is still time to get it right.

Happy 4th of July!

From The Power Of Myth, a PBS series with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, transcripted into a book of the same name.