There is a clearer, shorter, and more functional title for Max
Boot’s profound ‘opinion piece’ “US politics is awful- but our science and
technology offer hope for the future” Jan 19, 2003). ‘Our nation’s future requires policy-making based
on reality, not ideology.’ Successes in science,
engineering, and technology depend on words that have specific meanings and rely on fundamental principles with highly predictable outcomes in the real world (except
in software engineering based mostly on hard-to-test human creations - see Southwestern
and Boeing airline failures).
US policymaking is primarily based on partisan, religious, or economic ideologies that use words with variable meanings in different minds. This lax word meaning may be the greatest killer on earth. Wars, terrorism, genocides, starvation, and most poverty-related infectious diseases could be nearly eliminated globally if our laws abided by its foundational principles. Principles based on a set of laws offered in the words within the first paragraph of our Declaration of Independence - “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God”. Ideologies almost always have other priorities with protecting mother nature and safeguarding inalienable human rights rarely chosen. Our American experiment will fail if we allow ideology to continue to trump reality. Why is it so hard for us to grasp the succinctly American patriotic ideological words of President Abraham Lincoln when he wrote that our “Declaration of Independence” is our “Apple of Gold” and the “Constitution” its “Frame of Silver”?
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