Blog Post Three: Founding Fathers Article

Before reading the article, I see the founding fathers as people to be respected. They were brilliant, scholarly innovators who were able to incredible things that had never been done before. They moved to a country that had never been colonized before, with a vision to make incredible things happen. They were able to have the audacity and the courage to break away from their mother country when it was abusing its power, something that was never thought of at the time. They were able to take a group  and transform them into soldiers fit for battle, taking them up against the trained army of Great Britain. And somehow, they were able to win. These founders were able to create an entirely new system of government for the country, after the Articles of Confederation, based upon equality and the right for an equal voice in government. This government and nation is their legacy, and the basic core principles of it still hold true today. These founders must have obviously known what they were doing. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to achieve the great things that they achieved. The large legacy that they left could only have existed in the first place and could not have happened by accident. This legacy, this country that we enjoy and love today, was built by a group of genius, passionate people who cared about what they were doing and had a plan in their head of where they were going and where they wanted to go.

After reading the article, I see the founders in a different light. These founders, though they were revolutionaries, weren't smart. They weren't thinking about the things that they were doing. They rushed into it without a plan. They weren't brave. The founding fathers didn't know what would become of their actions, and really only did the things that they did because luck was on their side.

The founding fathers of America had lots of questions. They were constantly wondering about the world, and explored a lot. They got a lot of things wrong, but the values that led them to pursue their curiosity and their dreams is what led them to break away from Great Britain. This sense of audacity led them to do things that they might not have thought the best things to do if they were in their right minds. Flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and many other experiments, adventures, and discoveries are all great examples of this. The founding fathers were blinded by their want for adventure, of their need to find and experience the new. And this led them to do both great things and not so great things.