Recalling 'Thanksgiving', turkey day, puritans on a boat, Plymouth rock, and however, the landing occurred. All about finding freedom from persecution, and a sort of new holy land, but unfortunately, the old brother of authoritarianism having re arisen, and all to this extent the reality of exodus. At least one should claim there are fewer holy lands these days, or even fewer spots of virgin earth that couldn't also be characterized by the notion of wasteland, or likely if one were in the guise of seeking exodus in Lincoln town car, and dropping through a fictitious wormhole, the form and privilege of these new world seeking mishaps, the new white hopes having brought more likely plague and social woes likely, or to the misgivings of alien life, something that destruction and cultural assimilation should be likely. Not merely in the much often too long stares, strange beady eyes, or seemingly too aggressive 'demonic fury' like nature. as attested in grand jury trials. For new world onlookers, the mystery of savages in a hostile romantic landscape, or at least at this, more likely one should imagine, fantasies abounded if it weren't in having a new found purpose to martyrdom, conquest driven conversions, or merely that what sold by Amerigo in such an age, were likely the tales of beastly heathenism, irrespective of truth, and so often the many worlds upon worlds in finding, often times, a narrative such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness were given in so many words as confining beyond male counterparts that is, given to idyllic and pristine row of plantation, all nature brought into divine accordance by white masters only later, as related to the women of such society. While at times the more often idyllic push, if it weren't in war of 're written text books', the teaching of alternative histories, could likewise work as a counter point of Elliot's 'wasteland', the same sort of insidious record of western decay, cultural decadence, here in so many words without something of clearer ramification, failure of 'new deal' policies, if not through the short lived writ science education, or for that matter grade and high school social studies textbooks, given to the distinction of holding power, as opposed to dangerous ideologue. Then as to those in frontiers, Wilson's station in life were likely done as has been claimed. Who couldn't relate to a holy warrior such as this where a form of beastly heathenism seemingly should have arisen?
None of this is about 'civil rights' the simpler charge is given, all the while planting 'new seeds' for the civilization that yearns for its calling as a 'beacon on a hill'. Mindful of the poetic, at least to avoid sounding too poetic...
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