unironically. yes. demand your government work for you. - eviltoast
    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
      7·
      10 months ago

      I think so.

      That Kennedy quote has always been a puzzler.

      Not in meaning, but why the hell it’s supposed to be some kind of American ideal to aspire to.

      “Take what we give you and beg to serve” seems a more honest phrasing.

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
        51·
        10 months ago

        You rarely see any thing else from that speech. If they’d just show even the part right after the “ask not” part it would help.

        And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.

        My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

        -JFK Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961