Posted on 06/03/2008 1:30:32 PM PDT by forkinsocket
Blame the libs. . . they’ve ruined this just as they ruined the Smithsonian Institution. We can have truth or political correctness. . . you guess which the lefties select.
Well, how nice to see that major museums are now teaching Politically Correct history.
Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But when worlds collide, said George Pal to his bride
I’m gonna give you some terrible thrills, like a:
Science Fiction - Double Feature
USHER: Let’s go pal.
GEORGE: They’re killing independent George! And they’re, all in on it! World’s are colliding!
Bump To The Top.
To put it plainly, libs don’t believe in the concept of “truth”,
so representation of the past is simply a matter of interpretation.
I used to live “right around the corner” from the Field. It was fun to go and poke around on a lazy day. No longer.
Gotta love P.J. O’Rourke, and this is one is priceless. Puts me in mind of the implied message of Mel Gibson’s film Apocalypto; it’s often the case that when a culture becomes morally nonviable, it destroys itself or weakens itself sufficiently to be destroyed and replaced by another. It would be a lesson of value to the peoples of Europe and the United States as we all brush up our Arabic and Chinese - but it’s clear no one wants to heed the fixed and unbendable lessons of history. Santayana take note.
PJ bump for later. Don’t always agree with him, but always enjoy the reading.
PJ sure has mellowed over the years, but still has some of the old defiance. Thanks for posting.
The guide's - former military men - faces lit up and they directed me to the second floor where there is a life-size figure - seemingly of bronze - of the great conquistador on his mount.
The Aztecs were cannibals - as were many tribes, including the vaunted Iriquois - who deserved to be felled.
Here is something to think about. How could liberals feel guilty about the European invasion if it wasn’t for these great institutions brought about by European (western) culture. Ever hear of massed produced stone tablets? Libraries? No?
BUMP!
I visited the Field last year. If someone has never been there, it is still worth seeing. Enjoy the exhibits and draw whatever interpretations you please.
“...it’s often the case that when a culture becomes morally nonviable, it destroys itself or weakens itself sufficiently to be destroyed and replaced by another.”
Precisely.
Now wait a damn minute, you infidel apes of social science. Shut your brie holes and listen up. God, the God, the God who didn't make me an Eskimo, does not require human sacrifice, he suffers it: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
That is the difference--perhaps the only difference--between civilization and savagery. And it's not just us Christians who say so. From the time of Abraham no monotheist has practiced human sacrifice; no Buddhist ever has, and no Hindu since the days of suttee and the Thugs. No Taoist, no Confucian, no Zoroastrian, Baha'ist, or Sikh includes murder in his "spiritual practices."
Vintage PJ. If at some point you stretch your toleration to include the intolerable you've forfeited all claims to intellectual honesty. A BTT for a powerful point.
It is ironic that there are only traces of a North American war that must have been impressive. It happened in Kentucky.
To explain, from ancient times through the US Civil War, what is now the state of Kentucky was the most important piece of turf East of the Mississippi. This is because it was not only by far the easiest route from East to West in middle America, but the easiest route from North to South as well.
It was the strategic key to military dominance through the Civil War.
Anyway, when the colonists first arrived, they had to contend with the Indians, northern nations and southern nations. Some pretty powerful tribes that about stopped western expansion.
But just at that time, the English decided to export one of their feistiest problems: the Scots Borderers.
To explain, people who live on the well traveled but hostile borders between two nations tend to be very tough individuals. And the Scots Borderers were about as tough as they came. People with last names like Bowie, Crockett, Bridger, Boone, Houston and Oliver.
Not the sort of folks you want to mess with. The English had enough of them, so sent them as a group to America.
Well, the colonists wanted nothing to do with such ruffians, so they told them to head West. Unfortunately, again, the Indians had other ideas.
But there was *one* place where the Scots Borderers could go: Kentucky.
The reason was an odd one. Almost the entire state of what is now Kentucky was unoccupied! This was because the northern tribes and southern tribes had declared almost the entire state to be a “neutral zone”.
Both the northern tribes and southern tribes could send hunting parties into Kentucky, but they were strictly forbidden to set up camps there. To do so would be a major act of war.
Because at some time in the unwritten past, Kentucky had been the site of a war, so horrible, so brutal, between the northern and southern tribes, that it must have made the 30 Years’ War look like a picnic.
So the Scots Borderers went to Kentucky and built forts.
And before the northern and southern tribes realized they had done this, and tried to stop it, it was too late. Because once the Scots Borderers had set up shop, they were close to impossible to dislodge.
And from Kentucky, these unlike brutes controlled movement North and South and East and West, East of the Mississippi.
Which was all the opening that was needed for westward expansion. It opened the floodgates West. And there was nothing the northern and southern tribes could do to stop it.
But today, if you go to Kentucky, you should ask yourself about that forgotten war. A war so horrible that the entire state was off limits. A giant neutral zone to keep the peace.
Yet little remains to show that once upon a time...
It speaks volumes that Islam didn't make it onto this list of peaceful world religions.
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