re: Remember Those Founders that Did Not Fare So Well After We Won

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Later controversies (e.g., The Age of Reason, criticizing organized religion

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Reading Agrarian Justice, his premise for a national dole smacks of Marxist bullshite. The problem with the age of reason/the enlightenment, or generally the idea that you can reach the same moral conclusions christianity gives us by reasoning to those conclusions, is that it takes the moral premise legs out of western morality and leaves our own "reasoning" in its place.

In other words, what the age of reason did was birth nihilism. What nihilism does by having each person be the master of the world is allow each individual to be eternally subjective and justify him or herself by "reason," which quickly just turns out to be one's feelings and preferences. This void of objective morality is filled immediately here in the west by Marxism, which is eternally subjective regarding the things it wants to change and sternly objective for the things it wants to assert as fact.

In sum, give thanks to Payne for his vision of recognizing that the time was right to end the crown in place of an individual-centric constitution (even if he did not understand that individuals are to be preferred with basic universal rights based on universal Christian truths, not mere popular rule chaos), but don't believe that each individual can assert an equally valid moral conclusion, or conversely that the sum of popular whim justifies a particular action.