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To: ggersh who wrote (169855)	3/23/2021 7:30:17 PM
From: sense	Respond to of 217786

Yep Europe in of itself is a disaster, but then aren't we all mostly descendants of Europeans? I'll discount the genetics as irrelevant... and, beyond the element in isms... communism and fascism being offshoots or derivatives of socialism... and capitalism, as those others, also being an adjunct of materialism... all being tied to same failed thread woven into European ideas... India, clearly, like Canada (and pretty much everyone else it seems) a bit of a muddle... for having been built on British Imperialism hijacked... having failed in being only partially and improperly hijacked... even more than Canada... while suffering the parallel indignity of being overly infused with the European heritage in competing isms, each of which is wholly European, and each of which ends, taken in isolation, in "can't get there from here" as the key deliverable. Things only made worse when pitting them in competition, to see which brand of "can't get there from here" is top dog. The muddle is one with roots both ideological and cultural... the culture, like the language, wandering more in some places than others... What differentiates American's from others... is mostly an almost seamless melding of that British cultural heritage with the local, that largely adopted intact and without question a number of ideas from native tribal societies on the North East coast... easily recognizable in the rebellious spirit in opposition to tyranny both in the American founders... and the in spirit of independence and democratic culture of the piracy, based there, that preyed, without regret, on monarchists trade for a couple of hundred years. The concept of liberty that is uniquely American... that which gives rise to an understanding of a moral basis for governance in economic affairs, that puts the morality of freedom ahead of materialistic concern that dominates the isms... is not uniquely British... In the degree it is British at all... it was developed in British thought as an American import. Overlaps exist, in many cultures that find reason to resist over-weaning tyranny, as was proven to exist in the British in Magna Carta. But the leap made in America is not one direct to "we don't need no stinking king"... that being merely derivative of a culture that demands, first, that individual rights are respected. The random element. in a particular slice of British culture in exile, falling into that fertile ground for that particular melding of British and native cultures to occur... Then, it being allowed to ferment without disruption for a long time... and then, spread across the continent as waves of emigration to the frontier... to escape growing British influence on the coast... finding itself more at home with the risk of invading the lands of bordering tribes than of being judged in a British court... ? Today, you end up with a cultural more than ideological dynamic imposing limits.... A culture which would have John Wayne and Russell Means more than at home with each other, in a New England town meeting... In 1854, Henry David Thoreau said, in a speech entitled "Slavery in Massachusetts": When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town-meeting, to express their opinion on some subject which is vexing the land, that, I think, is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States. [2] than they could ever be in context of national politics based more on isms than on the shared core of the culture. That leaves only the unstated element in a cultural derivative, that is not at all ignorant of the Greeks, but takes what they provided while imposing different, culturally derived, limits on Real Democracy as it is practiced in context of a cultural understanding of individual liberty... Your mileage may vary...