In teaching my classes, it takes me the better part of one 50-minute period to lay out, with examples, Smith's theory of capitalism, and another half-hour to explain communism.
The last couple of generations would more likely respond to a visual exhortation in any case. Even so, it would likely take a mini-series to get even a basic understanding of what America was.
BTW, have you seen this: NORMAN ROCKWELL'S O, AMERICA?
You're maybe a fan of his work?
Pamphlet, no. Liberty and Tyranny is pretty short, and so is “The 5000 Year Leap.” Part of the problem is that like anything, truly great ideas are not always simply expressed. What exactly does “natural rights” mean? Why is “health care” not a “human right?”
In teaching my classes, it takes me the better part of one 50-minute period to lay out, with examples, Smith’s theory of capitalism, and another half-hour to explain communism.
You are right of course, although I suggested a YouTube type video and sound bite commercials, that is really such a shallow solution. It is just so frustrating because so few have been trained to really think logically through things and possibly few would actually read through entire books like the 5000 Year Leap. So my suggestion I guess is a bandaid approach. The level of both literacy and morality was so high at the time of the Revolution that even common people could understand very deep complicated concepts. So the spiritual, moral and educational degradation that Yurii Besmenov talked about has certainly achieved its intended goal.