Mother Liberty is upset. For those who have seen her lately I am sure you’ve noticed how depressed she seems. I am not sure what’s going on, but I am told by friends of hers she is growing discouraged with her great experiment, the United States, and how it seems to be going.
I have it only on hearsay, but her friends inform me Mother Liberty cannot understand why Americans today have lost sight of the grand experiment of their “evolving union.” She has always seen her American experiment as the best hope of humankind to evolve to a genuine democracy.
Mother Liberty took a great deal of criticism from her friends when she began the “American experiment.” Her closest advisors were convinced that humans could never get past their pettiness and animal need for power. She was told her dream of a real democracy would implode with the selfish and self serving exercise of freedom that Mother Liberty sought for the world.
“To expect people to willing except sacrifice to build a better world when they can simply take care of themselves first is beyond anything humans have ever done before. There is no reason to believe human nature has in any way changed. ” so said her closest friends.
In the beginning Mother Liberty refused to believe this. She remained convinced the young Republic would evolve and grow slowly to maturity. Now I am told, she is no longer sure this is true. For the moment, she sits alone with her thoughts wondering what went wrong.
Submitted by Brother Giovanni, Worldonian Bureau Chief, Pizzaonian News Service. (PNS) portalized to Pizzaonia PNS wire service 5:PM Worldonian time.4/20/2011
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