
104: Declaration or Manifesto?
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The Importance of a Manifesto
The Declaration of Independence included both a criticism of the powers that be, but also a statement about what it ought to be more like. In fact, we recognize that there is much more than just the existence of a document and how we evaluate it. There is so much more to a document than its existence. It's really the abstract object, the ideas inside that we evaluate. So when somebody has a manifesto, and we don't read it, we're not aware of what's in that manifesto.
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