Enough winter already.

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“With the invention of the printing press and the spread of literacy, sophisticated writers at the time converged on two premises crucial to the understanding of their own craft. The first is that the public is inherently limited in its ability to understand things. The second is that this ignorance is the basis of all persecution: persecution not just of writers, but of the public itself. From these premises it follows that the point of writing is not just to slip a coded truth past the authorities but to adjust it to the limitations of the public understanding. "

Excerpt From: Stewart, Matthew. “Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic."

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Here we are talkiing about the intellectuals behind the American Revolution—Ethan Allen, Tom Paine, Ben Franklin, and most of all, Tom Jefferson. These guys were trying to build a democratic republic, but they knew the ignorant masses had to be handled carefully.