but if a nation’s legacy is exclusively the sum of blood spilled, I ask you to show me one that is not utterly drenched in evil.
You forgot to answer that, again!
I think that “The war was fought for tax reasons” is a wildly reductive, surface level stoner psuedointellectual interpretation of the American Revolution. It’s like claiming Jan 6 was just tourists going for a walk, or WW2 was just some disagreements about borders; it was much, much bigger than that, you can’t just reduce something so complex into a snappy one-liner.
I’m not confusing soil and seed, you’re confusing inspiration with creation. Once again, should we discount Isaac Newton’s contributions to mathematics because someone would have done it eventually, or because someone did math before him? Should Americans take direct credit for the French Revolution? We violently opposed kings first, after all.
You really should learn more about the American Revolution, gice the doc a watch! Fascists want people hopeless and ignorant that this country was founded upon some of the most wonderful ideals humanity ever had, ideals worth fighting for and aspiring to.
I find Langston Hughes’ America a great poem about this exact issue, and that’s the right context for the discussion.
As for the the true causes of war, I think it’s you who have simplified things with your teary-eyed flag waving. Sure, things are complex, but mythology and propaganda should not be swallowed whole.
He is an excellent poet, and “And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!” is exactly that realization of the ideals this country was founded on.
It’s not “teary eyed flag-waving” to celebrate the death of authoritarianism, the birth of modern democracy, and the deeply idealistic legacy of the American Revolution, ideals all people of the world, not just Americans, should fight for.
You forgot to answer that, again!
I think that “The war was fought for tax reasons” is a wildly reductive, surface level stoner psuedointellectual interpretation of the American Revolution. It’s like claiming Jan 6 was just tourists going for a walk, or WW2 was just some disagreements about borders; it was much, much bigger than that, you can’t just reduce something so complex into a snappy one-liner.
I’m not confusing soil and seed, you’re confusing inspiration with creation. Once again, should we discount Isaac Newton’s contributions to mathematics because someone would have done it eventually, or because someone did math before him? Should Americans take direct credit for the French Revolution? We violently opposed kings first, after all.
You really should learn more about the American Revolution, gice the doc a watch! Fascists want people hopeless and ignorant that this country was founded upon some of the most wonderful ideals humanity ever had, ideals worth fighting for and aspiring to.
I find Langston Hughes’ America a great poem about this exact issue, and that’s the right context for the discussion.
As for the the true causes of war, I think it’s you who have simplified things with your teary-eyed flag waving. Sure, things are complex, but mythology and propaganda should not be swallowed whole.
He is an excellent poet, and “And yet I swear this oath— America will be!” is exactly that realization of the ideals this country was founded on.
It’s not “teary eyed flag-waving” to celebrate the death of authoritarianism, the birth of modern democracy, and the deeply idealistic legacy of the American Revolution, ideals all people of the world, not just Americans, should fight for.