The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Case in point; the following is an excerpt from BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, a book I am finding is difficult for me to read. At the start of each chapter, there are historical highlights of what occured during the period covered:
1864-...Secretary of the Treasury Chase resigns; charges speculators are plotting to prolong [civil] war for monetary gain. Legislator and historian Robert C. Winthrop says: " Professed patriotism may be made the cover for a multitude of sins."...December 8, in Rome, Pius IX issues SYLLABUS ERRORUM, condemning Liberalism, Socialism, and Rationalism...
So, just remember, when the craziness starts boring into your brain, we've been through some shit before, and we'll get through it again; and hopefully be a better nation for it.
BTW, 1864 was also the year Lincoln was assassinated.
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Nevermind345
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May 21, 2018
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I'll check it out.
The Game's the same, the players change.
Nothing new under the sun as they say.
Slappy_Longarms
Level 7
May 20, 2018
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The site of that massacre that my father(he is french/canadian/indian) and i visited long ago, gave some weird feelings into ones soul. i can't explain it but will also never forget it. we paid our respects that day silently and it has stuck in my mind/heart ever since.... a sad day for this country imo
blueskies
Level 7
May 20, 2018
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I can only imagine...
That is one of the hardest books I have ever read.
I cried so many times.
Don't even bother with the movie, though.
I wish a worthy Ken Burns documentary would be made.
BufftonBeotch
Level 8
May 20, 2018
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that would be honorable, but will never happen as enough ppl didn't die to make a documentary profitable . . . sad but true
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Those who don't study history are always convinced that everything
their society is going through is somehow "new and different" than anything
that came before.
Also proves that the "good old days" never actually existed anywhere except
in people's imaginations.
KKGator
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May 20, 2018
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We seem to get to a certain point in our country and then it slides backwards. Greed seems greedier and hate is on the rise. We are a young country compared to European countries so we don't have the hundreds of years to look back on and gauge our progress.
AmelieMatisse
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May 20, 2018
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I think not having hundreds of years and also never having been the subject of many major wars except those we fought with each other - we don't have the same collective wisdom as some of the European countries.
People in Europe can be just as freaking naive as Americans but the wisdom of past tribulations takes some of the edge off of it I think. Though Italy and Greece don't come across particularly well on 2nd thought....
Just wondering out loud. I think I've convinced myself of the opposite of my original point while typing this...
@marmot84 I guess I'm thinking of England, France, Germany and internal strifes between popes and kings and emperors and another instance such as the War of the Roses. And even how Germany came back after an era of Nazism. I think we have always thought we were invincible and that has led us down dangerous paths And poor choices. We are young and we are missing a lot of the wisdom that comes with age.
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