To the Editor of the INDEPENDENT STATESMAN:

            Following a long and unfruitful search for a platform where I can express ideas that may go so far as reigniting the American tradition, I’ve developed a most harrowing hypothesis, and I’ve begun to inform my family and friends that I was born in the wrong century: forming a new republic through a rising tide of intellectual discourse in the press has been washed over by an undiscerning, disinterested stream of attention-grabbing sound bites and thoughtless half-sentences dispersed at the speed of electronic transmission. Gutenberg is obsolete. That being said, while the internet is filled with a disproportionately large amount of information relative to the wisdom contained therein, upon discovering your website, I concluded that if the Founding Fathers had had access to this technology, they would’ve made the same thing.

            When discussing endeavors as consequential as this one, an explanation to the reader regarding what sparked the beginning of the journey is generally warranted. In short, upon asking myself, “what are the responsibilities of the American citizen?” I looked for an answer in the modern press and I couldn’t find one. Perhaps I shouldn’t read it anymore. If I’m to spend any of the finite time I have in this life reciting in my head the ideas of another immortalized in text, reflecting on it enough to develop my own thoughts, then I must maintain, since there’s too much to read before I depart, and reading one thing is to decide never to read another, that if I can’t find anything written today that inspires men to preserve the Sacred Fire of Liberty through freedom of thought, I may as well write it myself.

            I believe in the American mind, established by the men who created the United States and endowed us with their tradition: to live within a broader community whose fate rests upon the shoulders of those who love their country, and to act in accordance with the fact that since no one is restricted from bearing that burden, it’s necessary for us to treat everyone like the citizens they ought to be. From printing press to keyboard, any instrument that can dictate ideas grants the reader an opportunity to judge a man’s character. It’s through this judgement that I strive to spark a political awakening among the descendants of America’s revolutionary thinkers, so that we may become revolutionaries of our own; and if you continue to grant me a corner of the internet where I can publish content to be discerned by independent statesmen, you can expect to receive more of my letters soon, always in a tone reflecting that the future is ours to create, and that the best time for me to be brought up in this country is right now.

MARCUS TULLIUS