Just about the size of it. Hanging out. Perusing news of the latest farce. Life on the grid. Misinformation and misperceptions. Thanksgiving coming up, you know what the Pilgrims were thankful about? Samoset taught them to put a fish head between maize seeds! That community was different from the Bay Colony, which was Calvinist. They were Evangelical and some held to a doctrine of unlimited atonement; Jesus died for all and all who choose Him are saved. Hence they saw the Natives as humans too and preached to them. They had some success but, after a while, many Natives resented that and it made for hostility and there were colonists who thought differently about said atonement; the heathen could not be counted among the Elect. The Natives were notorious for brutality to enemies; gauntlets, skinning alive, roasting - that sort of thing. The colonists got nervous, the Natives belligerent. Things came to a head subsequently and relations went toxic, the rest is history as formed by Harvard guys, for crying out loud. Life on the grid...them and us.
Regarding revisionism of the permanent revolution, I've got no problem with liberty, equality and fraternity but for hypocrisy. The old models of physical brutality have morphed into intellectual assaults; Yeats said an intellectual hatred is the worst.
At any rate, makes for good reading! Have begun this and it's quite a story. Essentially, what we experience politically reflects the dynamic of the French Revolution. The American one was commercial. It had to do with freedom of trade pursuant to the Navigation Acts passed by a distant and unrepresentative Parliament which taxed the colonists to pay for their protection from, TA-DA... the French and Indians. Capital issues. What we see in the legacy of the French revolutionaries (from which derives Marxism) is a growing 'meritocracy' which thinks it should rule; socialists espousing the greater good but the best for them. A pecking order on the grid dominated by secularized twerps like the Mathers? No thanks.
Regarding revisionism of the permanent revolution, I've got no problem with liberty, equality and fraternity but for hypocrisy. The old models of physical brutality have morphed into intellectual assaults; Yeats said an intellectual hatred is the worst.
At any rate, makes for good reading! Have begun this and it's quite a story. Essentially, what we experience politically reflects the dynamic of the French Revolution. The American one was commercial. It had to do with freedom of trade pursuant to the Navigation Acts passed by a distant and unrepresentative Parliament which taxed the colonists to pay for their protection from, TA-DA... the French and Indians. Capital issues. What we see in the legacy of the French revolutionaries (from which derives Marxism) is a growing 'meritocracy' which thinks it should rule; socialists espousing the greater good but the best for them. A pecking order on the grid dominated by secularized twerps like the Mathers? No thanks.
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