The Tragedy of Cato

My son likes to ask me the question about what I  would have thought about today's technology back when I was his age. when I was  in the 4th grade, we actually had to do a written assignment where we would try to explain football to a person from a hundred years before. When Ben asked me about the fabulous iPhone 14, I began to realize something. When I was twelve (like him), I would have been insanely jealous of today's tech. It would neither have amazed me or scared me. I would have seen it as the logical extension of things and indeed, as Star Trek coming to life! Which brought me around to another thought: Why is it that we think that the Framers/Founders would have to have our nation explained to them? Isn't it more likely that we do not understand their views and understanding of things? Which is why we are left to wonder what happened in the ensuing centuries. They would have - and did - predict exactly what has happened. The real conversation should be us trying to  understand them, not the other way around. which is why we have no clue what the  anti-federalist Cato and the federalist Cæsar are saying as the debate the  Presidency...