[Micah]
> When did they hold the vote on whether people needed
> to be ruled?
Excellent!!!! It is this rulingness that
permeates not just political sectors, but culture, and
thus, as a whole - how are we going to think, what is
moral? Who defines all of this? What we know now
provides the best possible solution, but in hindsight
we see other problems that were present in the past
and still need addressed. Yet, is this a
one-long-now, a change in progress? Could not the
changes be presently active, yet small, but
influential, so, in hindsight again, we may pin-point
when the pivotal moment was?
For example, for a long time historians, and what
was regularly taught in schools, was the pivotal
moment for U.S. independence was taxation and then the
Boston Tea Party was an event that declared
rebelliousness. Yet currently historians are moving
the pivotal U.S. independence event back to what in
the U.S. is called the French and Indian War,
especially at a battle that occurred in Western PA
where General Braddock marched with seasoned British
troops with an arrogance that smelled from the
organization that forced Philadelphia to do his
bidding all the way across the state. G. Braddock
didn't listen to the locals. He thought he knew what
was best, and with the usual historical British snub
at local thoughts tried to fight a British battle in a
non-British, more freely woodsy region where
Amerindians hide behind trees (how dare they the
British would think), and the American colonists would
do the same (hide behind trees, but this was the lay
of the land. It was guerrilla warfare that led rise
to Roger's Rangers during this war, which was the
foundation for all future U.S. Special Forces. G.
Braddock was killed, and the British way of fighting
in the 'backwoods' was seen as foolish. The Americans
gained confidence that they really did understand this
land more than the British. The Americans began to
notice that a true British - colonial disconnect had
evolved. Much is currently written by historians
about this seed of independence, more than I am
capable of going into presently. This battle was more
than a battle, it involved organization, local
support, British dictates, confidence, perception that
what the British thought was something far away and
what local necessities/thought noticed was a gap that
needed to be filled by local minds, a local society
that needed to adjust more quickly using the know-how
that the British just didn't understand.
So, is it history, woods (geography), the types
of cultures involved (how different this War was
fought between the French and British in Europe, for
Europe had NO Amerindians), cultural knowledge, and/or
the demands of the moment that force outcomes?
woods,
SA
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