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Renaissance America – A Light for the 21st Century

April 11th, 2010

A Vision for the 21^st Century

1. Sparked by a creative renewal, the USA triumphs over all the recent historical and institutional challenges to creative civilization (atavistic, faux-modern and postmodern) that have targeted America as their main obstacle;
2. A political renaissance arises within American conservatism, embracing and incorporating human creativity, and within American liberalism, embracing and incorporating  the morality of limits;
3. A vital, creative conservative-liberal dialogic emerges, founded in a common set affirmations rooted in the American Enlightenment, leading in turn to robust, self-consciously creative nodes civilization within the USA;
4. The USA’s creative renewal sparks a world renaissance; The robust emergence of the American Experiment becomes the world’s first, truly vital creative civilization;
5. The malign view that Western civilization is founded on “just” the cultural mumblings of “dead white men” is finally discredited and rejected;
6. Freedom, ordered liberty and a life affirming moral order (as the foundations of creative accomplishment) are recognized as discovered universal truths, promoted and exemplified by the Great American Experiment, but beyond national and tribal ownership, in the same way that we moderns can credit the Neanderthals with the “invention” of fire without disparaging the universal utility of their early discovery;
7. The USA becomes the archetype of anti-imperialism, the model of a practical crucible of liberty and the creative engine of civilization, Athens without slavery, royalty or the impulse for territorial conquest.
8. America, once again, becomes the vanguard of a benign world revolution.

Copyright 2010 by Jay B Gaskill.  For all permissions, contact Mr. Gaskill via email at law@jaygaskill.com

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