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2. Our culture of exegesis, with its faith in the unquestioned authority of certain foundational documents (above all, the Bible and the U.S. Constitution), whereas human beings have yet to discover what their "foundations" are, and therefore no foundational texts of any kind are yet available to us -- for example, the reverence of many Americans for the Constitution keeps otherwise skeptical and intelligent people from examining that document with anything like conscientious detachment; an examination that might demonstrate how our excessive regard for it has led to a government and society that encourage many of the worst aspects of democracy, oligarchy, and monarchy, the three types of polity on which the Constitution was founded, while insufficiently supporting their better sides; 
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3. Our culture of corporate capitalism, which, combining the aggressive form of individualism described above, our practical contempt for all social organizations except the corporation and all traditions except our own political and economic ones, and our culture of exegesis (rather than of a creativity we are in very serious need of), has had the nation- and world- destroying results that today threaten in a not-too-distant future the existence of life as we know it. We at Caveat Lector would like to help transform these values in the name of a society whose goal is the following: social solidarity through a combination of meri-tocracy and social democracy, called in some countries "social individualism," where the fulfillment of the  |
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