Attending a Cape Cod League Baseball Game last night in Brewster, Massachusetts, a game between the Brewster White Caps (who, by the way, wore dark blue caps) and the Harwich Mariners, Marash Girl overheard an old gent calling over to his friend:
"Got the results back from my brain scan; the doc said there was nothing there . . .
I coulda told him that!"
dad always said, 'in order to get ahead in life, you have to be born with one'.
ReplyDeleteOr, as they told us at Plimoth Plantation, in order to get land in England, you had to be a first born son.
DeleteNot only England, but throughout Europe, whose civilization was aristocratic, whose chosen few controlled the agricultural economy, bequeathed to America the second, third, and fourth born sons, those of whom prized liberty and its adventure and risks to the dullness and certain impoverishment of serfdom. The wilderness was colonized by Europeans who lived on a subsist enhance level. The danger of Indian attack was preferable to the degradation and hopelessness of a peasants life, whose very life was lived by the permission of the aristocratic landowner. The Native American tribes displaced by those brave men, women, and children, were faced with the same struggle, to survive. The colonists used the land more efficiently, and because of that and a plethora of other reasons, they prevailed over the natives.
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