tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post8307106809157679631..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: On the Fourth of JulyDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-81118714015242428002020-07-06T01:19:47.830-04:002020-07-06T01:19:47.830-04:00Energyflow - thanks for sucking the air out of the...Energyflow - thanks for sucking the air out of the holiday weekend. I don't know your history, but I know that you're reading a bunch of nonsensical twaddle from this Gary North dude, which you don't have to dump on us mainstream types. I visited North's distorted sense of American history, and I looked at biographical notes about him and his works. A paleolibertarian - that's a helluva description, who puts a Biblical twist on our American history... hmmm. No thanks, Energyflow. Thanks for playing.<br /><br />I'll go back to the point-of-view I came here for, from David Kaiser, a trained and experienced historian. <br /><br />I spent the weekend bemoaning the current resident of the White House and how he kowtows to his rabid followers with the Garden of Heroes proposal, mixed in with lie after lie of more campaign speeches wrapped in the dressing of honoring the Nation's Fourth of July. <br /><br />I didn't celebrate the Mount Rushmore or Capitol Fourth evenings. Between the coronavirus, the daily racial unrest and protests against the blind eyes turned on the nation's ills, and the deep political divide with four months to go to Election Day, it felt hard to be celebratory.<br /><br />But, one can also appreciate the steadfastness of believing we can overcome all of this, if we rest on the foundations that have brought us here. And for that, I thank Professor Kaiser for his writing this holiday weekend.Wes Volkenanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03716986671259176775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-27551164725145331442020-07-05T09:15:48.625-04:002020-07-05T09:15:48.625-04:00Thank you, David.
From Patricia MathewsThank you, David.<br /><br />From Patricia MathewsPmathews1939https://www.blogger.com/profile/11875439585157447036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-22209015959070711992020-07-05T02:38:54.060-04:002020-07-05T02:38:54.060-04:00https://dailyreckoning.com/was-the-american-revolu...https://dailyreckoning.com/was-the-american-revolution-a-mistake-2/<br />you might want to read this and the book he mentions. Certainly revises my view of the revolution.Energyflowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476915209268786507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-3691105842058654352020-07-04T21:01:16.874-04:002020-07-04T21:01:16.874-04:00Professor
While I disagree with much here, much e...Professor<br /><br />While I disagree with much here, much else also, I agree, has now come to pass, both here and now unfortunately also in global discourse. <br /><br />Unfortunately, it will not be a large, cultural, civilizational, topic on which the West will, in general, be able to see or to prove itself, by continuing to grapple with it globally, as having been somehow vindicated.<br /><br />Thank you for putting so synoptic, alarming, disturbing, hopeful, and arresting an account together today.<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-12528750537404609892020-07-04T17:20:10.237-04:002020-07-04T17:20:10.237-04:00It seems that our cultural basis is running out of...It seems that our cultural basis is running out of steam. Decline has set in predictably enough and our belief in linear progress does not fit natural reality. To survive we must likely come to some level of consumption and population size which is sustainable as well as erecting a system which will permanetly fix these limits, like feudalism or caste system. Along with that an autarch isolationist country is likely, similar to Japan, China or Russia earlier. The constitutuion was a fantasy. Industrialization enabled growth in US population from several million 250 years ago and per capita consumption at a similar rate meaning total resource consumption of 10,000 times. Since per capita consumption slowed down and broke the gold standard in '71 we have lived off ever more debt. Now the system is breaking. Population will decline and consumption as the people go insane insisting on more and more rights. They are just following in the Founder's footsteps. A decadent culture lets us focus on our wants, desires like a small spoiled child. Nature is not required to fulfill those needs. A descent into madness and civil war seems preprogrammed due to lack of perspective on historical, ecological realities. If everyone demanding something were able to simply see another cultural perspective for a while, extreme poverty in 3rd world, desperation of endangered species living on the edge or by a tome machine another historical era they would awake from their dream before they continue with their madness driving off the cliff to certain death. I have little hope for that. We must just await the outcome. In 5 years perhaps the boomer prophets will be gone and the young hero generation will have torn down the statues, wasted their youth in hatred and bloodshed and be exhausted and wiser. If my generation in typical manner can attempt to maneuver the whole crisis successfully out of madness to a safe landing we may hope for least damage to ship of state. Energyflowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476915209268786507noreply@blogger.com