the Promethean foundation was created to
encourage critical and analytical
thinking freedom of thought and entrance
into the marketplace of ideas
it was Supreme Court justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes in a famous dissent who
said society's ultimate good is better
reached by free trade and ideas that the
best test of truth is the power of the
thought to get itself accepted in the
competition of the market representative
democracy needs citizens who discuss and
evaluate issues and vote with an
educated opinion we believe democracy
demands discussion discourse and debate
I like to thank Franklin would have said
that but today he might be disappointed
unfortunately today's climate of
political discussion is prohibitive
often degenerating into name-calling not
listening to the reasoning of the
opposing view but instead accusing those
who hold it of bad intentions discourse
has become coarse perhaps it was in
Franklin's time as well the political
correctness now holds us back not
allowing the expression of free thought
and reason because someone may get
offended
certainly standards we hold today would
have been considered distasteful to some
in the past while we do not encourage
people to be offensive we do encourage
freedom of thought whatever that might
entail it's okay to have passion and a
different opinion it's okay to disagree
without disagreement you don't have a
marketplace of ideas all ideas of any
import need to be scrutinized and put
through the fire a robust marketplace is
that fire the Promethean foundation's
mission is to foster debate discussion
and the free exchange of ideas to put
civility back into civil discourse but
more importantly to put thought and
reason back into it to learn more about
our mission please visit promethium
foundation org