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Sunday 14 March 2010

Human beings don’t digest complex ideas readily - that people, cultures, countries, have both good and bad elements. It takes real intellectual depth and penetration to come to grips with that complexity. The founders were great, but their ideas - our leaders - needed to evolve. And that was only possible because the country and our culture evolved. Think we’re fully evolved? There are still presidential candidates (like Mitt Romney) who campaign on passing a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. That won’t happen and, in our lifetimes - quite soon in fact - most people will consider people benighted who think that homosexuals don’t have the same rights as heterosexuals. It is impossible for us to fathom how different the country - the world - were in the Colonial era, when the Constitution was written, from how we are now. What Intelligence Means

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