I wasn’t criticizing, just adding from personal experience.
We are living in a golden age.
I say it started about the same time as the American revolution.
Some would claim it started about 1500....
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About Golden Age -
I am as much for border security as anyone
BUT
just imagine if the Mayflower had been greeted with a mined beach, and machine gun fire with air strikes etc..
Also ‘good’ thing the original landing wasn’t around the Ocean City MD area.....
After trekking for a few days they would have ended up at the Chesapeake Bay and may have figured that was all there was to the ‘New World’.
Really have to ‘admire’ ALL the original pioneers that set out by sea - especially when it was common knowledge that the earth ended at the point where one stopped seeing. And those that left and came back were probably ‘accused’ of getting to the end and turning around(which is almost what they did)..((see my tag line))
Took a few dreamers and a lot of ‘Shanghaied Drunks’ hmm when CC took off what did they call HIS ‘forced volunteers’