way OT:
T. Paine was great at tearing down the existing Order. But people like him are incapable of creating the post-revolution New Order. If societies let his kind stay in authority, you end up with chaos. Look at Russia today. Thousands of children are dying from easily preventable childhood diseases like diptheria, because the system for immunizing children has broken down. Chaos, violence, poverty. That's what idealists (like you) and revolutionaries bring. Tear down all the old dams, and don't replace them with new dams, and that's what you get. It takes people like Jefferson and Washington (and, even more so, Hamilton) to build and create.
You said: "I'm just one of the few ... to "see" and "get" this stuff". You are an elitist, as well as an idealist.
re: "Isn't ALL "work" SERVICE to others?" No. For 99.8% of us, work is what we do to put food on the table. That has been true for the last 10,000 years, and I don't expect it to change. Being "useful" or "fulfilled" is an extra, a luxury, that very, very few can afford (mostly people like Jefferson, who are born rich and live off the sweat of slaves).
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