Terrific post. But it just amazes me how modern American culture has become so separated from the vibrant and rough-hewn individualism of its history, and common contexts that were the norm just a few short generations ago have become so foreign to the present. It exposes how weak and wan this country has gotten.
The people that have some weird problem with this Palin dust-up are not people I recognize as my countrymen, nor people I’d want to ally myself on anything.
But it just amazes me how modern American culture has become so separated from the vibrant and rough-hewn individualism of its history, and common contexts that were the norm just a few short generations ago have become so foreign to the present. I just voiced a similar sentiment in my previous post. Great minds think alike! :)
The people that have some weird problem with this Palin dust-up are not people I recognize as my countrymen, nor people I’d want to ally myself on anything.
And that reminds me of this:
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”