after reading the first few pages from the article i started thinking about the bible and wondering if the same things have been done to that as they were done to the other important documents in american history. i was always a firm believer in questioning things that are brought to you, especially if you werent there to witness it happen. as far as the original aritcles of the declaration of independence being changed i wondered why it wouldnt be possible to change such a thing as the bible. as it said in the text that we read the documents we see now are now in their original texts, but revised texts.
i also questioned as to why the caliigraphy was used instead of the typography or the orignal texts that were presented at the time because with the calligraphy texts, it was illegible and hard for the people (of common wealth, or ordinary citizens) to understand what it meant in the first place. the same thing was done with the bill of rights. i feel if there is a document that pertains to the people they should be able to at least read what they are, if anyone else were reading it to them, they could be told anything and thats not cool. besides taking the texts and changing them to calligraphy was an old tradition during monarchy times to make the papers look more legit and important, i feel like its only important or good if it served its use, and that was providing the people with adequate information about their rights and so forth.
to me changing things (at least in that fashion) reminds me a lot of the fact that the gov't tries to keep things from us and hide a lot of things that they do. its just like when you lok at CIA papers, some of the info is darkened out so you cannot read it, and they have these secret societies, and a lot of things that are done in code and symbol so that only the poel who made it knows what it means. that scares me. a democrarcy is a government for the people by the people and if things have to be censored and changed from their original context then its not meant for the 'people', but more so the ones in charge. get it?
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It's good to question things, Bree, even our most venerated historical documents. The lack of faith in "official" government stories and documents is becoming quite common. We'll be talking about conspiracy theory and rhetoric later in the course.
ReplyDeleteAlso, good point in that a document "of the people" and "for the people" ought to be something the people can actually read!