A great poem - I can't read it all right now; but I'm going to finish it as I can tonight most likely. I'm also going to suggest it to the men's book club for a future reading.
The more I read about our history in the US, the more fascinating it is. There are high spots, and low spots, just like any. But there's never any talk about how fractious and cantankerous it is outside of the Civil war. They always make it sound like the war just came out of no where, where really it was always coming from the founding as far as I can tell. It was just a matter of where the lines would be drawn, and who the victor would be.
Glad you enjoyed this snippet, & Honoured by the recommendation!
Yes, there is quite a bit in the Early Colonization period (post the Age of Discovery) which people leave out (I suspect for a whole slew of motives). The truth of the matter is that The Puritans viewed the Land as a Pristine, Garden of Eden (with dangers of course!) which was a Testament to the Creative Power of God Almighty... ergo the logical thing to do is to establish Theocratic norms.
After all, why not be Grateful that God Almighty gave you such pristine land, water, fowl, fish, etc.? Anyhow, Theocracy (& the notion of it) has been around since even before America was formally born.
So yes, the conflicts of today did not pop out of nowhere. There are cause-effect chains which gave rise to them, & at the very root you find these Initial tensions regarding this fundamental question of 'How should we Govern?'
Yes. What I find intriguing is that the theocracy seems to have been folded into the mercantilism without anyone seeming to be the wiser. We get an odd, pagan Capitalism for Capitalism’s sake, with a facade of Christian trappings on top to satisfy the plebs that never knew any better.
Boil the frogs slow enough, and they never figure it out. Kill all the French and Spanish that would catch on, and you have what we have today.
It could have gone different any number of ways with a few different choices, but that would have meant rejecting the principles we were founded upon, and lots of pain and suffering in peoples hearts and pocket books.
A great poem - I can't read it all right now; but I'm going to finish it as I can tonight most likely. I'm also going to suggest it to the men's book club for a future reading.
The more I read about our history in the US, the more fascinating it is. There are high spots, and low spots, just like any. But there's never any talk about how fractious and cantankerous it is outside of the Civil war. They always make it sound like the war just came out of no where, where really it was always coming from the founding as far as I can tell. It was just a matter of where the lines would be drawn, and who the victor would be.
Glad you enjoyed this snippet, & Honoured by the recommendation!
Yes, there is quite a bit in the Early Colonization period (post the Age of Discovery) which people leave out (I suspect for a whole slew of motives). The truth of the matter is that The Puritans viewed the Land as a Pristine, Garden of Eden (with dangers of course!) which was a Testament to the Creative Power of God Almighty... ergo the logical thing to do is to establish Theocratic norms.
After all, why not be Grateful that God Almighty gave you such pristine land, water, fowl, fish, etc.? Anyhow, Theocracy (& the notion of it) has been around since even before America was formally born.
So yes, the conflicts of today did not pop out of nowhere. There are cause-effect chains which gave rise to them, & at the very root you find these Initial tensions regarding this fundamental question of 'How should we Govern?'
Yes. What I find intriguing is that the theocracy seems to have been folded into the mercantilism without anyone seeming to be the wiser. We get an odd, pagan Capitalism for Capitalism’s sake, with a facade of Christian trappings on top to satisfy the plebs that never knew any better.
Boil the frogs slow enough, and they never figure it out. Kill all the French and Spanish that would catch on, and you have what we have today.
It could have gone different any number of ways with a few different choices, but that would have meant rejecting the principles we were founded upon, and lots of pain and suffering in peoples hearts and pocket books.