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      Take your pick: in public schools they don’t teach The Great Seal to students, social media ignores it in favor of blind faith in “left vs. right” street gang philosophy, universities don’t seem to do it, so-called churches don’t read right, TV news doesn’t, newspapers don’t.

      I live in a nation where Donald Trump walks around waving a Bible in his hand and not one (supposedly education) person can say “verse Matthew 6:5”. They clearly have no reading comprehension when it comes to any media. They just chase signals of media, blindly.

      The verses are numbered, you can say an exact quote in the Bible by line number, and they still can’t do it (Trump is there waving The Bible around for a camera, it’s right here in the book). Something very wrong with their reading comprehension here.

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          it’s what they could agree on at the time. The Great Seal was the master plan to last thousands of years. The Constitutions was made to be rewritten, revised, a rolling release that goes along with The Enlightenment (science). It’s a lot of hard work to keep it current and on-course in basic prose true to the era, and that work has largely been forgotten and abandoned.

          The Great Seal is written in art symbolism, way beyond the Constitution and laws.

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              People like short sound bites. People don’t resist advertising. Why wasn’t every preacher in the USA sharing verse Matthew 6:5 when Trump was holding his Bible up for a photo opportunity?

              Reacting to media is not understanding media. They do not demonstrate reading comprehension at all. They should be grossly offended, not chanting like blind sheep.

              People all around me in the USA are praising fascism ideas and don’t have any self-awareness that they are blindly following media signals. They can’t even catch up to 1940’s symbolism problems, their education has not prepared them for this media-filled electronic world.

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                I would hazard that this is the point of USA. The Constitution didn’t provide voting rights to non-land owners originally. That’s pretty telling about what the Great Seal is supposed to mean to me.

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                  The Great Seal means science, anti-superstition. It means “keep learning”, and they stopped learning.

                  A paradox of democracy is that you have to actually understand it and have faith in it. All The People must be educated. Instead, people here are now clamoring for a King, they want a Strong Man as a leader. They have abandoned understanding and education in favor of entertainment. Trump was a Realty TV star, how much more symbolic can you be than that?

                  They walk around with a Dollar Bill in their pocket and not one of them can explain why there is a Pyramid in Africa on it. Or why it is so critical to have an education that can interpret such things. The dollar bills are everywhere, so you know the effort was made, but it doesn’t bother anybody that they have no clue why a Pyramid on the Nile River was put there. They don’t even know that it is a reference to a Climate Change event 12,000 years ago.

                  Ignorance land, Brave New World.

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                    You seem very focused on symbolism. I’m more interested in material reality, stuff like that poor people purposely were excluded from representation in the Constitution from the beginning. That tells me a lot more than a pyramid.