The Spirit of the Virginian

The spirit of the Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, exists today. It is as though he had planted a tree and the fruit of his thought is our garden harvest, to be eaten in communion with his times. Our times call for a return to the garden and agrarian landscapes, wherein the earth and all of us can be restored to a state of mind that is far removed from all that is gross and mean in a consumer and commercially educated society.

The Virginian called for the separation from Great Britain and all the encumbrances and evil embodiments inherent in monarchies. Now we have big business and big government, in which godless, scheming, well-degreed and wealth-seeking misanthropes get together to provide, for themselves, their heirs and assigns, far more than that to which they are entitled by the laws of nature and nature's God.

Americans must now put down on paper something akin to another Declaration of Independence or an Emancipation Proclamation. It should free us from the sheer size of corporate business and corporate government and the disaster area they have made of a nation and the world. They quite literally think of themselves as the sheepherders and the people as the sheep who are to be fleeced in due season year after year.

Are not our congressmen our herders and shearers and are we not their democratic flock? Don’t we pick them to perform the woolgathering that is shipped away to the corporate looms while we are left without a stitch of covering? Aren’t we then obliged to buy back our own wool from a sweatshop in Taiwan, because we are not worthy of our wages?