Counts can drag America backward by awakening crude attitudes that have no place in today’s world. Wielding extreme money, Counts push outdated and dying attitudes on all Americans.
And this violates
fundamental
American values.
All Americans have the Constitutional right to think and say what we believe. But no lone person has the right to force all Americans to keep dealing with extreme crude attitudes.
Extreme money can turn any regular problem in America into an extreme threat. Elite, entitled Counts endanger America by wielding extreme E8, E9, E10, E11 Money Counts to:
- Prop up crude attitudes. Americans all know we have ugly ideas in our past, like racial discrimination and the subordination of women. And we can work to make racism and sexism dying attitudes. But a racist or sexist Count has the extreme money to prop up crude attitudes.
- Make crude attitudes seem widespread. Counts have unlimited money to use on elected officials, social media, AI, foundations, interest groups, PR firms, news media. Counts wield extreme money to sponsor the illusion that crude attitudes are more widely held than they really are.
- Demand Americans pay attention to crude attitudes. A Count may be isolated in a remote compound, out of touch with real American neighbors. But if he forms a personal belief in some crude attitude, he can still use extreme money to demand Americans pay attention.
- Push harmful backward attitudes:
- Race makes one person superior or inferior to another
- Women and girls are objects to collect and control
- Children may be abused by adults
- Physical and mental abilities determine human worth
- Science is no different than superstition
- Nature can be damaged without consequences
- Force and fraud are OK ways to take what you want
- Violence is OK against people you dislike
- Hold America back. Counts want to claim they are the ones who drive America’s future. But really, Counts hold America back and keep us all in the grip of the dead hand of the past. A Count holding a crude attitude can wield extreme money to push it on all Americans. Then we use more time and energy fighting the same battles.
On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Big Woods Declaration (BWD) renews the call for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, free from the corruption of extreme money.
The BWD is a First Amendment petition to the American people and our government. It is not limited to any political party or group.
The BWD is a total of 60 pages: the Core Declaration (4 pages), the 13 Notes, the 27 Dangers to America, and the 16 Solutions for America.
The BWD may be shared and reused under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. View a copy of this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
The BWD was created without the use of any AI, opinion polling, or focus groups. The BWD draws on many core American ideas as well as the work of Thorstein Veblen, America’s visionary from the Big Woods of Minnesota.
All photos in the BWD were taken in the Big Woods. The BWD was framed by Erik Christopher Sahlin with Alyssa Beth Wulf.
