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To: central_va
This guy is not just uninformed, he is a product of Marx, Sandburg, and Eric Foner.

He has no idea about life, or the working system, of the time.

It seems as if it is all about the bad people taking advantage of the good people to him.

Can you imagine the limits of knowledge of the person. Like has been said, some do not know what they do not know.
And this guy hasn't a clue.

58 posted on 07/10/2012 1:41:58 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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To: PeaRidge; rockrr
This guy is not just uninformed, he is a product of Marx, Sandburg, and Eric Foner. He has no idea about life, or the working system, of the time.

It seems as if it is all about the bad people taking advantage of the good people to him.

Can you imagine the limits of knowledge of the person. Like has been said, some do not know what they do not know. And this guy hasn't a clue.

If you think somebody named Cynthia is a guy you've got major problems yourself.

And why is everybody a Marxist all of a sudden? It was Mark Twain who -- half tongue in cheek -- blamed Sir Walter Scott for the Civil War. I thought everybody knew that. And Twain certainly was familiar with the antebellum South.

It doesn't look to me like they're talking about good and bad people, but about romanticism, flowery languages and florid sentiment. Whether he was right or wrong about Walter Scott, Twain was talking about the evolution of very different cultures in the North and the South. He was right about that, though nineteenth century options were pretty confining: it was a hard life for many people, whether you dressed it up with pretty language or talked about its harshness in brutal language.

59 posted on 07/10/2012 1:59:39 PM PDT by x
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To: PeaRidge

It’s like the South has/had two groups, blacks(slaves) and rich white guys(plantation owners). Everyone else that existed then, and now for that matter, are invisible.


69 posted on 07/11/2012 4:36:11 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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