You Have The Right
by Our society keeps us under control, not the government. Laws don’t have to control us anymore, because social standards have conditioned us. It’s all because of our foundations of hypocrisy.
Go beyond the textbooks you read in a typical highschool class, and you’ll easily see how certain things get talked around. Students usually hear all about the Pilgrims seeking freedom, but never read anything that elaborates what that meant to them. It meant the freedom to go force their own radical extremes on others. The “Pilgrims” were nothing more than the Puritans with strict fundamental beliefs probably on the scale of today’s Taliban.
They were a violent, unforgiving people. The only difference is they were Christian. High school teachers are typically afraid to elaborate on this, because it cuts into the sacred subject of Christianity. There is nothing, however, that keeps me from doing this as long as it is indeed nothing more than a subject. As long as I’m subjective, ultra-conservative parents can get as angry as they want, but no one can fire me. The first Anglo-Americans were hypocritical extremists who literally believed individuality was the work of Satan. They called it the wilderness of the mind and you had to stay away from it at all costs. The Indians were at peace with the wilderness, beyond saving, and needed to be killed. Got that?
Sure, some of the Indians, like Squanto, befriended the Puritans and helped them establish in their new area. We typically learn about this in elementary school. Then we get into it more during the American Literature of senior year of high school. As soon as the settlers were finished with them and they were no longer useful, BANG! See ya, Squanto! Then Anglo-Americans were able to be fruitful, multiply, and spend the next few hundred years spreading and killing off more Indians and then Mexicans, all the way to other side of the continent. We all know this, but in classrooms teachers never seem to point out the connections to today’s society in the right context.
The Puritans evolved into what the History class down the hall from me calls the Colonials. The extremism had faded some, but the fundamental ideas were still the basis of the belief system (read: hypocrisy) and those still survive today. Britain wanted to maintain power over the colonies, but the Americans won the Revolutionary War and were then completely free – to own slaves, disrespect and keep rights away from women, and of course kill a lot of Mexicans and Indians. We still have a hell of a lot of racism, but things are getting better for black people. Still, today’s America is held firmly in those fundamental roots. Our half-black President is a cool guy, but he has to maintain a bit of a façade to be taken seriously by our inhibiting fundamental values. Also, take a look at the Mexicans and Indians in this country today. How are they doing?
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Post CommentBenyamin Solomon
On January 21, 2010 at 2:15 am
First of all, American textbooks teach anti-American propaganda. it’s seen as accepted fact that Christopher Columbus and the European settlers were mass-murderers and committed a genocide on the Indians, even though scholars [including those on the left] agree that most of the Indians were killed by diseases [anti-American leftists will then say that it was diseases spread by the Europeans]. It’s a myth that the Indians were “in love” with the wilderness. They hunted, though with not as advanced technology prior to the Europeans coming [though the Europeans hunted there as well]. I think that your comparison of the Pilgrims with the Taliban is ridiculous. You claim that America oppresses every religion but Christianity. First off, I’m Jewish myself. The Founding Fathers were pro-Jewish. In those days, there was unfortunately a lot of anti-Semitism in Christian Europe. The place where other religions [besides Islam] are oppressed is in the Arab and Muslim world. At least America doesn’t consider Jews to be “apes and pigs” if you know what I mean. You claim that the Founders fought Britain to keep slaves, keep rights away from women and to kill Mexicans and Indians. Slavery was already in the American colonies even when they were under the British empire. And women [and anyone else] didn’t actually have much rights. Indians were already being killed before the founding of America. Does it make sense for the Founding Fathers to fight for something that already existed? Face it. The Founders did stand for equality and that’s why they fought to form America. Also, America wasn’t killing Mexicans for the heck of it. America and Mexico did have a war very much over territory. It’s more complicated than it simply being big bad America verses innocent Mexico. Plus, America was founded way before Mexico was created. America is imperfect. Everyone agrees there. But it is the land of the free. Everyone has equal rights in America. You’re free to write really whiny anti-American articles and your supporters are free to praise you. Here, a black person CAN be President unlike in the Arab and Muslim world, where Obama would be discriminated against [see what Bari Atwan, author of the book "Secret History of Al Qaeda" said about Obama not even being able to get citizenship in an Arab country]. Yet leftists like Janeane Garofalo have the chutzpah to smear the tea party protesters as racists by falsely claiming that they protest against Obama because he’s a black man in the White House when the truth is that they protest against him because they have legitimate disagreements with his policy and his agenda.
Tron Catalano
On February 2, 2010 at 12:38 am
Dude. I live in Kansas. Believe me. There is some oppression of Jews, Mexicans, Natives, and African Americans going on in this country. It\’s not the government. It\’s the citizens themselves. The citizens are the ones who need the attitude adjustment.
Yes, America is the land of the free. However, it\’s not as free as you or I would like to think. Conservatives often put the government to blame for that. I\’ll say it again. It\’s the citizens. People need to change in this country, but they need to change for the sake of being good people, not because the government forces them.
Benyamin Solomon
On March 22, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Vincent, as I said, I’m Jewish myself. The Founding Fathers were extremely far away from anti-Semitism. You say that there is discrimination against Jews, Mexicans and black people by ordinary citizens. Are there bigots and racists who live in America? Yes. Does that mean that there are anti-Semites living in America, who spread their poison? the answer is obviously a yes. Should we fight the bigotry and racism in America including anti-Semitism? Again, YES!
I’m Jewish and am staunchly pro-American. Not all American citizens are bigots and racists. Some are. But overall, America is still the land of the free. I’m a right-wing Jewish nationalist, who staunchly opposes anti-Semitism.
What Conservatives do is they want people to be less dependent on the government and stand for individual freedom. So we Conservatives want less government control and point out that more government control can [and has] been disastrous.
Benyamin Solomon
On March 22, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Vincent, as I said, I\’m Jewish myself. The Founding Fathers were extremely far away from anti-Semitism. You say that there is discrimination against Jews, Mexicans and black people by ordinary citizens. Are there bigots and racists who live in America? Yes. Does that mean that there are anti-Semites living in America, who spread their poison? the answer is obviously a yes. Should we fight the bigotry and racism in America including anti-Semitism? Again, YES!
I\’m Jewish and am staunchly pro-American. Not all American citizens are bigots and racists. Some are. But overall, America is still the land of the free. I\’m a right-wing Jewish nationalist, who staunchly opposes anti-Semitism.
What Conservatives do is they want people to be less dependent on the government and stand for individual freedom. So we Conservatives want less government control and point out that more government control can [and has] been disastrous.
Benyamin Solomon
On March 22, 2010 at 6:09 pm
When I made that comment, it said there was some error. Feel free to delete the most recent comment.
Tron Catalano
On March 24, 2010 at 12:39 am
Why is it when the government steps in to help the people, the conservative reaction is to say it’s “taking over”? This is the bare-bones of what I don’t understand.
One of my fundamental beliefs is for the individual to prosper. I really do prioritize the individual’s rights. I just don’t see why that has to be seperated from us helping each other. If someone is drowning in a river, I’m not going to turn around and say, “Well. I’m not going to help, because I’m my own individual and so is he. He can help himself get out of that river.”
I really have no opposition to making a sacrifice for someone else’s benefit like that. This is how I see the health care issue. If I have to pay taxes for someone else to live, I feel I am prioritizing that person’s individual right to live and prosper. I feel that’s more important than the 14.50 I would have used to buy a Michael Moore documentary.
Benyamin, I truly am not trying to be offensive. I’m simply trying to understand your point of view and I appreciate this long conversation we’re having over such a long period of time.