My parents had moved back to Florida after several years in New York where I graduated from high school. I had forgotten the ‘rules’ of living down here, but I was reminded.
No one wants to talk about. They want to act like it never happened, like there were never any ‘incidents’. They rewrite the history books, but no one has scrubbed the newspaper archives, and it is all there for anyone who wants to make an effort.
]]>Of course the powers that be couldn’t do any of this if Americans truly cared about their history, but by and large, Americans don’t care about their history, or anything of any intellectual rigor for that matter. After all, there’s a new episode of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” to watch… :(.
]]>Ending with the Seven Years War is a good move. It lasted 9 years, but there was already a Nine Years War, so the scholars cheated, and was actually the first world war, having been fought in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The French and Indian War was really the American campaign. It was such a great success that the American Revolution and the French Revolution are the result of the governments need to pay for it. That pretty much covers the colonial period, and allows the next volume to be used for the Revolution.
]]>American History Stories, Volume I – Mara L. Pratt
“Stories of early exploration and founding of American colonies, conflicts over religion, and troubles with the Indians, culminating in the French and Indian War.”
]]>Freud would be so sad at having one of his (at the time) outrageous theorems proven correct.
Anyone forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still Freud’s argument—that our contemporary civilisation favours this sort of hypocrisy and that there are more civilised hypocrites than truly cultured persons, and it is even a question whether a certain amount of hypocrisy is not indispensable to maintain civilisation. When this travesty of civilisation, this infallible state that has regimented and dragooned its citizens into obedience, goes to war, Freud is pained but not surprised that it makes free use of every injustice, of every act of violence that would dishonour the individual, that it employs not only permissible cunning but conscious lies and intentional deception against the enemy, that it absolves itself from guarantees and treaties by which it was bound to other states and makes unabashed confession of its greed and aspiration to power. For conscience, the idea of right and wrong, in the Freudian sense, is not the inexorable judge that teachers of ethics say it is: it has its origin in nothing but “social fear,” and whereas in times of peace the state forbids the individual to do wrong, not because it wishes to do away with wrongdoing but because it wishes to monopolise it, like salt or tobacco, it suspends its reproach in times of war. The suppression of evil desires also ceases, and men, finding the moral ties loosened between large human units, commit acts of cruelty, treachery, deception and brutality the very possibility of which would have been considered incompatible with their degree of culture.
He was a visionary (even if I don’t agree with everything he proposed. But his primary goal was to make people *think* and *consider* (or to self-reflect), something he had some little success with, but mostly failed to achieve!
]]>As long as the moron in charge of the government keep concentrating on what actions will cost today rather than what inaction will cost in the future, we are in deep kimchi.
]]>Here is a book every American should read (though sadly, few would comprehend):
The Federalist Papers – Alexander Hamilton 1755/1757-1804
Oh.. How about this one also?
History of the United States: The Colonial Period Onwards – Charles Austin Beard 1874-1948
And they have lots of other great works of Fiction also! Like… The original Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Alice in Wonderland… and so on. Not much difference really, just better written! 😆
😈 Yeah… I know. 😛 I couldn’t resist! 😉 😀
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]]>Unfortunately I am sane. Otherwise I would use my skills to get a team together for a *Hunt & Eliminate* mission (something my old team was especially good at) on all deniers, since it’s obvious they are the weakest link in the evolutionary chain. *shrug* Someone has to clean the gene pool occasionally. This is what happens when you don’t. You get nothing but scum! And it always floats to the top.
OT: Anyway, on a much more enjoyable topic… I came across this site looking for an Audiobook. 🙂 They have thousands of free eBooks and Audiobooks, mostly true Classics where the Copyright has expired. 🙂
You all might find something interesting here, I did. Enjoy!
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